Here I am again, sitting in Des Moines International Airport and wondering who’s idea it was to make all overhead announcements be made by a lady with a British accent. It’s ridiculous and it annoys the shit out of me every time I’m here. No offense is meant to those with British accents. I border on Anglophilia and normally would find it pleasant. But not in an airport in the middle of Iowa. I don’t know why I can’t let it go. I suppose the theory us that it will make the experience feel more Cosmopolitan but it just comes off as contrived. So shut up lady, losing my mind here.
It might be the voice of God.
But were you keeping an eye on your belongings at all times?
Mind the gap.
British-accented lady voices are the hottest and I don’t care if it’s in goddamn Colombia, so I’d rather you shut up and let me listen to that soothing, mellifluous vocal ambrosia in peace. 
Neither Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, or Charlton Heston speak with a British accent.
Some people have voice that for whatever just grate on you in particular. I have a vendor where I work and he’s gay and I HATE is voice. It has nothing to do with his being gay. People say, “That’s because he’s gay.” I know people with a stereotypical gay voice, for lack of a better phrase, and they don’t bother me in the least, it is THIS MAN’S VOICE.
And I have nothing against the man. He is quite charming and efficient. It’s just something in his voice that is like running nails on a chalkboard to me.
You forgot George Burns. But there is evidence that God does sometimes speak with a British accent, and a woman’s voice as well.
There’s Anthony Hopkins, but last I checked, he wasn’t a lady.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
How about Ben Stein. He’d be perfect.
“Des Moines…Des Moines…Des Moines…Des Moines… .”
What, you don’t think people from England could be living en Des Moines? And maybe needing an announcement gig? Surely, even an expatriate Brit should be allowed to work, right?
I guess I have to ask, what wouldn’t have set off this odd seething rage? A male voice with a German accent? 1990’s voice synthesis? Klingon? No announcements at all?
Or is this just misplaced because you were actually upset at something else entirely? Because if it was, that is a damn weird thing to fixate your ire on.
Des Moines has an international airport?
One flight per week to Saskatoon?
This lady must moonlight for Sprint’s automated phone calls. That lady also has a British accent.
I suspect that, like the recent spate of Brit- or Aussie-accented commercials and TV talking heads, there’s an assumption that these accents cut through the clutter of noise we’ve all trained ourselves so carefully to ignore.
It’s an arms race where the advertisers are trying ever harder to defeat your advertising shields.
There’s an Otis elevator I ride regularly where the automated floor announcements are recorded in a Brit accent. There is nothing British about the elevator, the elevator company, the building, or the building’s occupants.
Anymore these days, if you’re airport has a direct connection to overseas, you get to call yourself an International Airport.
And since you can fly direct to Dallas-Ft Worth or Chicago from Iowa and thence to places all over the world, they are an “International” Airport.
Damn silly, but there it is.
SSR (home airport is Huntsville, Alabama International Airport…)
Geeze, they are outsourcing everything nowadays.
Hmm. I thought the definition of an “international” airport was that it had customs and immigration services available.
Actually, I agree with the Op- the* overuse *of that accent (which often sounds fake) is ear-grating.