# Shut up lady **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347 "2015-08-20T13:35:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/21 "2015-08-20T18:08:22Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > 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…) The Huntsville airport should obviously be an Intergalactic Airport. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/22 "2015-08-20T18:47:39Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > Des Moines has an _international_ airport? > > One flight per week to Saskatoon? > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > 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…) It has _ **19 non-stop connections** _ outside of the state, all to other state-based airports. Perhaps leaving the cornfields make it seem _so international_. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/23 "2015-08-20T19:39:47Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Neither Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, or Charlton Heston speak with a British accent. > [@TriPolar](#): > > You forgot George Burns. But there is evidence that [God does sometimes speak with a British accent](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18604388&postcount=25), and a woman’s voice as well. You all forgot Rex Ingram, he didn’t speak with a British accent either. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/24 "2015-08-20T20:13:07Z")
Oh, stop groveling! ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/25 "2015-08-20T20:38:16Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > It has _ **19 non-stop connections** _ outside of the state, all to other state-based airports. Perhaps leaving the cornfields make it seem _so international_. The Des Moines airport has an International _Cargo_ Terminal. That is why it is an International Airport. It also made it the largest drug distribution point in the Midwest. Take that, Chicago. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/26 "2015-08-20T21:46:37Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > The Des Moines airport has an International _Cargo_ Terminal. That is why it is an International Airport. > > It also made it the largest drug distribution point in the Midwest. Take that, Chicago. 😃 If I know Chicago, they’ll take that as a\* challenge. \* ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/27 "2015-08-20T23:19:45Z")
> [@birdbrain](#): > > 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. Tut, tut, sounds loike you’re in a spot o’ bother. Just you sit down, pet, and I’ll boil the kettle. A nice cuppa, a digestive biscuit, and Bob’s yer uncle! Roight as rain! ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/28 "2015-08-21T03:07:26Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Neither Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, or Charlton Heston speak with a British accent. True, but at the Birmingham AL airport the voice is that of Morgan Freeman. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/29 "2015-08-21T03:10:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > 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. I dated a British guy for several years. I can ignore those accents just fine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/30 "2015-08-21T03:19:11Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Hmm. I thought the definition of an “international” airport was that it had customs and immigration services available. Des Moines does have customs and immigration services available (although no scheduled international passenger flights), but “international” is just branding and has no definition other than what the operator of the airport says. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/31 "2015-08-21T05:13:58Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sbaitso)? 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. Did you miss the part where the OP is sitting in an airport in the middle of Iowa, listening to a voice he can’t escape? > [@](#): > > How about Ben Stein. He’d be perfect. > [@](#): > > “Des Moines…Des Moines…Des Moines…Des Moines… .” Great. Now I’m going to hear this whenever Des Moines is mentioned. And now Des Moines is starting to look funny to me…Des Moines…Des Moines… ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/32 "2015-08-21T07:34:14Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Neither Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, or Charlton Heston speak with a British accent. No, not God, the _Voice_ of God. [Alan Rickman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnyo5T32LKk). The English language audio guide on the Topless Bus tour of Tallinn, in Estonia, is done by a South African woman, which was amusing. Not generally the first English accent I’d have used. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/33 "2015-08-21T07:55:56Z")
I guess we cannot have a thread complaining about English (or a variety of English) without a slew of misspellings. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/34 "2015-08-21T12:17:11Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > you don’t think people from England could be living in Des Moines? I dunno 'bout any Englishmen living in Des Moines, but I know one famous Des Moines native who lives in England : Bill Bryson. My favo[del]u[/del]rite humo[del]u[/del]r author, who made this important observation about the city : “I’m from Des Moines. Somebody had to be.” As for the OP, I emphathize with your troubles…Not that I give a damn about the accent coming from the speakers in the ceiling…I just feel sorry for you that you’re in Iowa. 🙂 A state whose highest point is marked by a public park, with such [wonderful scenery](https://www.google.co.il/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=666&q=hawkeye+point+iowa&oq=hawkeye+point+i&gs_l=img.1.0.0j0i24.1147.10473.0.13214.27.20.2.3.3.0.277.2904.0j8j6.14.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..10.17.2567.g2pHVKOhSSc) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/35 "2015-08-21T12:19:37Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I guess we cannot have a thread complaining about English (or a variety of English) without a slew of misspellings. I know. It’s like how almost any time someone complains about a burnt English muffin, they use English words, even when they aren’t from England. So ironic. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/36 "2015-08-21T16:42:12Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > SSR (home airport is Huntsville, Alabama International Airport…) \ Hey, **SSR** , next time you’re up the mountain, stop in and say **HI** to my kin. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/37 "2015-08-21T18:35:56Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I guess we cannot have a thread complaining about English (or a variety of English) without a slew of misspellings. Indeed: > [@George Bernard Shaw](#): > > It is impossible for an SDMB poster to post about the English language without making some other SDMB poster hate or despise his spelling, grammar, or composition. ---
**Author:** ![AuGratin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@AuGratin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuGratin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/38 "2015-08-22T06:48:41Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Neither Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, or Charlton Heston speak with a British accent. [Ralph Richardson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724732/?ref_=tt_cl_t7). “Don’t lose any of that stuff. That’s concentrated evil. One drop of that could turn you all into hermit crabs.” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/39 "2015-08-23T14:48:50Z")
> [@birdbrain](#): > > …wondering who’s idea it was to make all overhead announcements be made by a lady with a British accent. Airport management, in the belief that a British accent makes the place seem ever so cosmopolitan and cultured, heightening the illusion of an _international_ airport. The same thinking underlies overuse of Brit accents in advertising. This isn’t a sleazy piece of crap we’re selling, because Sir Rodney is hawking it. What would be really bizarre is if the Des Moines Disembodied Voice had a florid Southern accent. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347/40 "2015-08-23T15:45:56Z")
> [@birdbrain](#): > > Here I am again, sitting in Des Moines International Airport My condolences. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-lady/728347.md?page=3)