Leo (Canadian Ryan) Appreciation Thread

[Mrs Butterface]

He doesn't sound exactly like me, but he sounds Canadian. I didn't assume he was specifically from the west. Point is, his accent is normal. Not sure why people assume Canadians sound like the stereotype - that's the maritime folk, and even the younger generation doesn't exactly have that accent as much anymore. Personally, I sound like the typical Southern Californian and I'm from Toronto. North Americans have regional accents.

His accent's definitely normal although I can tell it's flattened because I hear it with mine when I listen to home vids from years ago. And that's even with spending 6 months a year in Canada/6 in the US every year from birth to 18 so the Canadian accent I had was never as sharp as I assume yours would be. I mean any Canadian would be able to pick he's Canadian. Even an American would. But @Tahan was wondering why he didn't sound like the stereotype often portrayed and to be fair, that's what is often shown so it makes sense why someone would assume every Canadian sounds like that despite Aussies having regional accents as well.

 

[penelopepitstop]

This is dumb of me to comment without reading the thread but um it looked boring. I just think it should be an aussie. A normal maladjusted westie like vesna. the last thing this dying franchaise needs is a Canadian undie model with the most groundbreaking bullshit intro in bb history ww.

 

[Mrs Butterface]

This is dumb of me to comment without reading the thread but um it looked boring. I just think it should be an aussie. A normal maladjusted westie like vesna. the last thing this dying franchaise needs is a Canadian undie model with the most groundbreaking bullshit intro in bb history ww.

That's fair enough. I'm sure some North Americans and Brits would love if Aussies steered clear of their reality shows too. Just curious though - do you feel the same way about Aisha, Priya, Nathan, and Layla? If I'm not mistaken, he's been living here longer than any of them.

 

[penelopepitstop]

That's fair enough. I'm sure some North Americans and Brits would love if Aussies steered clear of their reality shows too. Just curious though - do you feel the same way about Aisha, Priya, Nathan, and Layla? If I'm not mistaken, he's been living here longer than any of them.

That's fair enough. I'm sure some North Americans and Brits would love if Aussies steered clear of their reality shows too. Just curious though - do you feel the same way about Aisha, Priya, Nathan, and Layla? If I'm not mistaken, he's been living here longer than any of them.

oh no not at all. I think you misunderstand my stance (hey) I mean to mix a country's demograph within the country. its rare we get a genuine westy or a super bogun this/that or any Tasmanians love ya reggie so to bring a blow in and the model thing puleeese
I think its the selection I have the most drama with

 

[Mrs Butterface]

oh no not at all. I think you misunderstand my stance (hey) I mean to mix a country's demograph within the country. its rare we get a genuine westy or a super bogun this/that or any Tasmanians love ya reggie so to bring a blow in and the model thing puleeese
I think its the selection I have the most drama with

Ah ok, I understand now. Because you said "Canadian" I was like wait a minute... there's currently a Kiwi and an Indian in the house so where he was born shouldn't be a thing although sadly for some it seems to be with him and not with the other HMs who weren't born here and sound differently to Aussies.

I do wish they'd include more real mixes of demos in the house. Even just moving from south of the river in Melbourne (where Travis is from) to north of it has shown me such a big cultural shift. And in a good way for not only me but my family. But I think those days of BB are long gone everywhere. People are too media savvy now and producers throw people in simply for shock value or with a specific purpose. I remember my dad saying day 1, season 1 of BBUS that the only way this would ever truly be a social experiment is if they gave every person who auditioned a #, threw them all in a barrel and the first 16 picked were the people who went in because the selection bias was there from the beginning. Now it's just more obvious and with the advent of the Internet and social media, you have to be a certain type to even want to subject yourself and your family to that scrutiny. Only certain types dig that shit or worse hope to parlay it into a half assed media career after. Unfortunately that means it'll be the same types who continue to audition and the ones who know how to work the audition process and/or fill a part will be the ones who get in.

 

[Veronica2005]

Some of the things the HM's said, plus photos
http://www.jump-in.com.au/show/bigbrother/2014/latest/day-26/gallery/leo-loses/

Suffice to say, Ryan’s not impressed. “He would have a, ‘Leave me alone, I just want to be by myself!’ side for sure.” And as for Leo’s workout regime? Well, that’s not impressive either. “I’ve never been one for gym. I don’t reckon it’d make me anymore fit to be honest,” Ryan told Jake

29-year-old Lisa, who was the first to meet Leo during a private dinner date in The Sanctuary, told Big Brother she’s “not buying what Leo is selling

David managed to squeeze out that Leo’s “nice enough”: “He likes to talk… Is it a novelty that’s going to wear off?” Sam said he’s “seen his type before”. Enough said

You won’t believe what Leo had the nerve to do. “He pours a whole can [of soft drink] and just drinks some of it!” Sam observed with disdain.

Sandra questions his “authenticity and rawness”: “I don’t know whether he’s got that… Basically he does have to be a salesperson; he has to win us over. We know that, for him to stay, we have to sacrifice one of us.

Aisha mocked with her best stab at a Canadian accent. “Anybody want to talk about me some more?

Lisa observed that “his legs are small too”. “He forgot leg day,” Aisha suggested.

The shine’s even started to wear off for Skye: “He’s got a really short attention span,” she remarked

“He has tried to observe the cliques and the groups, but I don’t think he’s found his place yet,” Priya told Big Brother, noting that Leo “likes to talk a lot”

Like Lisa, Sam isn’t buying the whole “spirituality thing”: “He’s a nice guy… He’s definitely an interesting guy… But he needs to drop all the motivational weighty shit. Every question that he answers is something deep and meaningful.

“He doesn’t have a strong core anyway,” Lawson remarked as the “original” boys conducted their own workout away from Leo

Priya prides herself on her ability to read people, and reckons Leo might have come in too hard too fast: “He’s a strong player from the looks of it, though I think he may have started on a very overwhelming foot.

Of course Captain Positivity only has nice things to say: “You’re always going to have people throwing judgemental comments around… but that’s always going to happen to people that are going to feel that he’s a bit of a threat to them

Leo’s feeling the judgement. “I think a little bit of the novelty’s wearing off,” he confided in Jason. “The first 24hrs I got tonnes of leeway just cause I was new and interesting, but now it’s like, ‘Okay, you’re not new and interesting anymore’.

 

[somebimbo]

i recall all comment re:leo he is dedecent.

 

[LoveBB]

oh no not at all. I think you misunderstand my stance (hey) I mean to mix a country's demograph within the country. its rare we get a genuine westy or a super bogun this/that or any Tasmanians love ya reggie so to bring a blow in and the model thing puleeese
I think its the selection I have the most drama with

I think the selection process would be so tricky.... They obviously want a broad selection of HM's but they also need people who have what it takes to be interviewed/scrutinised over and over.... People who have the stamina to endure the crap that would come with this show... I think Travi is about as 'super bogan' as we'll see on BB!

 

[Columbo]

Aisha is pretty bogan.

 

[doy]

His accent's definitely normal although I can tell it's flattened because I hear it with mine when I listen to home vids from years ago. And that's even with spending 6 months a year in Canada/6 in the US every year from birth to 18 so the Canadian accent I had was never as sharp as I assume yours would be. I mean any Canadian would be able to pick he's Canadian. Even an American would. But @Tahan was wondering why he didn't sound like the stereotype often portrayed and to be fair, that's what is often shown so it makes sense why someone would assume every Canadian sounds like that despite Aussies having regional accents as well.

I've been living in America(Los Angeles and for university San Francisco) since I was 9, I'm 24 now. I wouldn't be able to pick up that he is Canadian from his accent. Americans and Canadians sound almost identical (except for sorry and about). Like someone else mentioned, there are more regional differences of English in North America than there are American vs Canadian as a whole.

 

[penelopepitstop]

I think the selection process would be so tricky.... They obviously want a broad selection of HM's but they also need people who have what it takes to be interviewed/scrutinised over and over.... People who have the stamina to endure the crap that would come with this show... I think Travi is about as 'super bogan' as we'll see on BB!

wow you make absolutely perfect sense but that avvie nup. kept thinking I was trying to explain lamingtons to an atlantian

 

[Mrs Butterface]

I've been living in America(Los Angeles and for university San Francisco) since I was 9, I'm 24 now. I wouldn't be able to pick up that he is Canadian from his accent. Americans and Canadians sound almost identical (except for sorry and about). Like someone else mentioned, there are more regional differences of English in North America than there are American vs Canadian as a whole.

I actually had "or at least I'd think they would" in my initial response but then took it out so I didn't offend. But Americans and Canadians don't sound almost identical. His accent has flattened from living in Australia but no way does he sound American. Canadians can easily mimic some US accents but he's not doing that. Hell, Americans on here and on social media are complaining about what he sounds like!

 

[lafirenze]

Aisha's into him. Just wait for it.

And it's so funny how threatened a lot of them are. He'll tone it down in the coming days, but for now, it's amusing to see how so many of the boys are brushing him off. I wonder what Travis thinks of him so far?

And the more I see Leo on screen, the more he reminds me of my boyfriend. Of course the only Canadian ever has to remind me of him hahah.

I actually had "or at least I'd think they would" in my initial response but then took it out so I didn't offend. But Americans and Canadians don't sound almost identical. His accent has flattened from living in Australia but no way does he sound American. Canadians can easily mimic some US accents but he's not doing that. Hell, Americans on here and on social media are complaining about what he sounds like!

The general American accent definitely has more of a drawl to it, but he could fit into certain places in the US, just not the major big cities (NYC, LA, Chicago, D.C.). He has the small-town non-maritime accent. Americans just love to complain about random shit, though, don't they? It's funny how whenever I meet an American, they guess I'm from somewhere in SoCal, but once I correct them, all the "OMG YOUR ACCENT!!" jokes start coming. Yet, they wouldn't otherwise...

 

[tanique]

I actually had "or at least I'd think they would" in my initial response but then took it out so I didn't offend. But Americans and Canadians don't sound almost identical. His accent has flattened from living in Australia but no way does he sound American. Canadians can easily mimic some US accents but he's not doing that. Hell, Americans on here and on social media are complaining about what he sounds like!

I can't cosign on that. As an American, I've never felt American accents are that far off from Canadian ones. Surely, there are obvious vowel sounds that differentiate the two. Whenever I've been in Canada the O sound was all the stood out. Leo doesn't sound that different. His accent is closer to mine than someone in the south, or Midwest. I'm from New York.

 

[marsha brady]

I've been living in America(Los Angeles and for university San Francisco) since I was 9, I'm 24 now. I wouldn't be able to pick up that he is Canadian from his accent. Americans and Canadians sound almost identical (except for sorry and about). Like someone else mentioned, there are more regional differences of English in North America than there are American vs Canadian as a whole.

i spent quite a bit of time in the portland/seattle area, and his canadian accent is clear as day to me. there are some archetypical canadian vowel sounds, and he hits every single one of them.
is it super different to the standard yank accent? not really. i wouldnt expect an aussie to catch it any more than i would expect an american to hear the difference between a kiwi and an aussie. but a canadian or an american, or somebody that has spent a few years in that part of the world should definitely hear it.

 

[Mrs Butterface]

I can't cosign on that. As an American, I've never felt American accents are that far off from Canadian ones. Surely, there are obvious vowel sounds that differentiate the two. Whenever I've been in Canada the O sound was all the stood out. Leo doesn't sound that different. His accent is closer to mine than someone in the south, or Midwest. I'm from New York.

My accent is wacked as it is because I spent from 0-18 living six months in Canada, six in the US. Every damn year. However you said he "doesn't sound that different".... I can hear that difference. I can hear it between different parts of Canada and I sure as hell can hear it between the US and Canada. It's not like it's a big deal. And I'm hoping every bloody N. American votes for him when it comes time that he's up. The differences though should be expected considering Canada is the second largest country in the world (first until the USSR split). If you from NY sound different from someone from Boston from someone from California from someone from Georgia... why should it be astonishing that there are differentials in such a large country like Canada? Especially when some places are closer to the US border than others? I was just pointing out that I can definitely tell that he's Canadian and I had tried to pinpoint where he was from (although I was wrong but at least within a province haha!).

 

[Mrs Butterface]

i spent quite a bit of time in the portland/seattle area, and his canadian accent is clear as day to me. there are some archetypical canadian vowel sounds, and he hits every single one of them.
is it super different to the standard yank accent? not really. i wouldnt expect an aussie to catch it any more than i would expect an american to hear the difference between a kiwi and an aussie. but a canadian or an american, or somebody that has spent a few years in that part of the world should definitely hear it.

Exactly. Someone might not hear it as an immigrant but as a native born person?! And that's a perfect example re Aussie vs Kiwi. Funnily enough when I first moved to Australia I came with a crew of Americans and Kiwis and to me the Kiwi and Aussie accents were exactly the same. My boyfriend at the time was a Kiwi and even if you offered me $1k I wouldn't have been able to distinguish his accent from any Aussies here. Too many words were floating together that sounded the same. Now of course I can hear the difference and it's beyond noticeable. It's one of the things that almost makes me feel Aussie-fied... I can spot that Kiwi accent right away. It's the vowels and in the case of the Canadians, also the intonation.

 

[LoveBB]

I can't cosign on that. As an American, I've never felt American accents are that far off from Canadian ones. Surely, there are obvious vowel sounds that differentiate the two. Whenever I've been in Canada the O sound was all the stood out. Leo doesn't sound that different. His accent is closer to mine than someone in the south, or Midwest. I'm from New York.

Are you from Nu Yoik or Newww Yarrrk? Do you say, "cwoop a cworfie" or "carp a carrffie"? I love accents!

I'm a born and bred Nth Qlder but when I went to the Northern Territory, they thought I was a Kiwi (cuz... Sweet as brew) ... NT have the TRUE Aussie accent... "Ow ya goin maaate"!!!

 

[tanique]

My accent is wacked as it is because I spent from 0-18 living six months in Canada, six in the US. Every damn year. However you said he "doesn't sound that different".... I can hear that difference. I can hear it between different parts of Canada and I sure as hell can hear it between the US and Canada. It's not like it's a big deal. And I'm hoping every bloody N. American votes for him when it comes time that he's up. The differences though should be expected considering Canada is the second largest country in the world (first until the USSR split). If you from NY sound different from someone from Boston from someone from California from someone from Georgia... why should it be astonishing that there are differentials in such a large country like Canada? Especially when some places are closer to the US border than others? I was just pointing out that I can definitely tell that he's Canadian and I had tried to pinpoint where he was from (although I was wrong but at least within a province haha!).

Lol. Did my point get missed? I said nothing about there not being different accents across Canada. Why wouldn't there be? Furthermore, why would I be astonished? I was simply pointing to you saying as an American, I don't think Leo's accent is too different from mine. Just like I can spot an American accent, I'd assume Canadians can spot their own as well, as well as any other country. If other Americans are complaining about his accent, as you've aid, I can't relate. I don't hear anything too alarming.

 

[lafirenze]

I can tell the difference between Aisha's accent and the rest. Kiwis to me sound very different to Aussies, but I pick up on differences normally. You can't really say too much about that re: American and Canadian accents though because we have so many regional accents that cross over with an accent from the other country. I know Aussies vary a bit too, but there maybe isn't as much of that? The US has so many accents within itself, and Canada has a few, too.