Roundabout or Island
My missus is from the West Midlands (oop north as far as I am concerned) and she constantly refers to a roundabout as an island. Causes much confusion when she is trying to give directions to a Southener.
(Tom Jones's Mojo Hasn't had any since, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 12:55, 12 replies)

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Aah, in East Anglia 'island' is used extensively.
(mersault, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 13:29, closed)

take her to a playground
"would you like a ride on that island"

this may not work as a way of fixing her mistake.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 13:36, closed)

In Dundee
roundabouts (the traffic kind) are referred to as 'circles'.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 13:38, closed)

Like it
Very Ronseal
(Tom Jones's Mojo Hasn't had any since, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:14, closed)

In America too

(Smale is stuffed, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:15, closed)

you're wrong on pretty much every count
The "midlands" are not "oop north" - even a cretinous southerner like yourself must have spotted the clue in the name: "mid-lands", as in "the lands that are in the middle". Not in the north, not in the south, but in the middle.

You fucking southern fairy cunt.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:21, closed)

You Northeners
are very angry people. Is it the cold weather?
(Tom Jones's Mojo Hasn't had any since, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:25, closed)

:p
it's all these years of living in the south, innit bruv. warped my fragile little mind.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:28, closed)

To be fair (a phrase that probably features very highly in this QOTW)
I don't really see the Midlands as up north. It just winds my Missus up, so I naturally pretend I do a lot.

Although, I do come from South Devon so almost everywhere in the UK is up north.
(Tom Jones's Mojo Hasn't had any since, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:31, closed)

Of course you do, it's the best way to wind up a midlander :)
and some of my best friends are Plymothians...it amuses me no end when they sing "dirty northern bastards" at Argyle matches, no matter who they're playing because every other team's north of Plymouth.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:34, closed)

johnny sorrow
Someone told me I look like that little bloke off lord of the rings, but I look nothing like orlando bloom, and anyway I'm from the middle-lands not middle earth.
(Dangerous Disco Trev Isn't my real name, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 12:57, closed)

Trying to find my new flat in Kidderminster 18 years ago...
... driving around the ring road, I would stop and ask for directions to be told "go past the first island, then at the next island turn right".

I went round the fucking ring road 5 times looking for a fucking lake before I realise what they meant.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 13:45, closed)