Woman shock as date claims she ‘sounded poor’ because of accent

A single woman who endured one of the “worst” dates after moving to a new city has had the last laugh.

A Scottish woman has revealed the shocking thing a man said during her “worst” ever date - and it’s so bad, it inspired a comedy sketch.

Isla Fairfield entered the online dating world when she left her small coastal hometown, just outside of the city of Edinburgh to move to London in 2022.

But the writer’s search for romance was far from easy thanks to the rude people she met along the way - including one man who declared her Scottish accent “sounded poor”.

Her experiences were so weird, that Ms Fairfield has written a one-woman play for the Edinburgh Fringe festival, partly based on her own experiences, The Sun reports.

Isla Fairfield was told by a date her Scottish accent made her ‘sound poor’. Picture: Supplied

“I’ll be honest, it genuinely is hard to decipher which of my dates has been the worst because I’ve had so many bad ones,” she told Edinburgh Live.

“I would say one of the worst was when I went out with this guy who was a bit of a finance bro from London. It didn’t take him long to tell me that I gave him ‘poor vibes’.

“I asked him to expand, and he told me that I just sounded poor. I was like ‘ah, because I’m Scottish’.

“My reaction was like ‘what the hell?’. I didn’t really know what to do, so I went to the toilet in the bar and told some random girl in the toilet.

“Then I pretended I had a sore head and left. I wish I’d given him a piece of my mind, but I didn’t - I just went home.”

The awful date inspired her new comedy show about to start in the UK. Picture: Supplied

Isla’s Hot Girl Summer show is on at Edinburgh’s Symposium Hall from August 19.

The show is dubbed as the story of a single in her mid-twenties who, post-break-up, jets off on a girls’ trip to Barcelona and impulsively lands a job in London.

Like Isla, the main character leaves behind her small-town in Scotland, and dives into her new life, and begins the treacherous journey of navigating The Big Smoke.

It been described as being “hilariously tragic and amusingly relatable”.

She’s not the only singleton who has been struggling on the dating scene, with one woman revealing dating has become harder since she transformed her physique and lost over 68 kgs.

Sophia Roses, from New York City, has almost 31,000 subscribers on YouTube, where she shares her love of beauty and wellness.

After undergoing Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery (VSG), she said the weight loss procedure has done wonders for her, but has negatively impacted her love life.

Sophia Roses, from New York City, recently lost 68kg. Picture: Supplied

But she said the weight loss has had a negative impact on her love life. Picture: Supplied

She claimed that dating with a slender figure is hard because men act on their “best behaviour” and are reluctant to reveal their intentions early on.

She said they “immediately” put in effort but as things progress it lessens, whereas when she was bigger they would show minimum effort from the beginning.

“I’ve also noticed that some men’s insecurities are pretty evident,” she told The U.S. Sun.

“I dated a guy for about 10 months and thought everything was going great.

“But, as I kept losing weight, getting more attention and opportunities because of my new-found confidence, he said ‘I should find someone better off in life.’

“Those were his exact words to me: ‘But we can continue to hang out.’ That was a first for me.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission