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What do you dislike about northeners?ALT: what do you dislike about southerners?
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:16,
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You mean the smell of unemployment, empty mines, pigeon food and whippet shit or just the overall stink of despair?
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:24,
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I dislike nothing about northernersI dislike the "London is the centre of the Universe" attitude of some Southerners. Some of London is great, some (more?) is a fucking shithole
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:23,
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That's just blatantly wrong. I would let Southern shitholes take the Pepsi challenge with Northern shitholes any day of the week.
We have superior shitholes.
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Yeah, considerably more shit than up northThe point I was trying to make is that London is portrayed as being paved with gold, when dog-shit and kebab would be nearer the mark
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:25,
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Don't forget fried chicken bones. South London looks like a Khmer Rouge burial site.
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Haha!Imagery of the day
/polpots
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:28,
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^ typical Northerner,thinks 'a nice coop'a Tetleh' is the cure to all of life's problems.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:00,
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Nothing for eitherPeople generally find ways to make me dislike them on their own I don't have to base it on where they grew up.
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Primarily it's the forced bonhomie and 'ee, we're not stook oop' bullshit.It's a complete fucking lie - as big a lie as 'de Oirish lov de craic'.
I put it to you that any region who claims to be really cheerful all the time and that everyone has a great sense of humour there is populated by charlatans and mountebanks.
And cunts.
Alt: Southampton and Portsmouth
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:24,
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I honestly have never experienced that "oop north"(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:24,
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You forget Wiltshire. The shittiest county in the south.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:25,
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Apparently, "Swindon" is a contraction of "Swine Don""Don" being Olde Englishe for "hill."
I move that we modernise the name by calling the place "Piggin Hill."
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Spoken like a true Hampshonian. People from Yorkshire are as miserable as fucking sin.
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I disagree with thisMrs Cow's dad is as jolly a person as I've ever met. He is fucking tight though
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:26,
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In a true display of "northism" he used to be a miner(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:28,
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Are you seeing double?He does enjoy a Stella or 12
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:29,
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Maybe you shouldn't be fucking your father-in-lawthen you wouldn't know
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:30,
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They're all at it up there.See also: Dorking
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:42,
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Why would you dislike someone or judge them purely because of where they come from?I think that's unfair on the stinky weird accented thieving miserable tiresome chip on shoulder unhappy jealous povvo backwards dolescum north.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:26,
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Isn't he now claiming he made that up?What a fucked up thing to make up. Which he probably didn't anyway.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:28,
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It's clearly not madeupas evidenced by the gleeful tone. I find the 'I like em fresh' line the most disturbing. Some of his other posts are weird as well.
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:29,
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My mangling of English didn't help make it clear,But yeah, I agree that it's not made up. I like the fact that he is now moaning about being bullied. I'd suggest the way to deal with that is not be a paedo.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:31,
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Waitaminute, I thought that these days the Glitterbrigade were trying to claim that they're born that way.So that they can say it's not their fault that they're nonces.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:42,
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That's bollocks,there is a correlation between abusers having been abused as a child. Which is very sad obviously but it does mean that it's not genetic but a learned behaviour.
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it's clearly bothsome people who were abused go on to abuse. some people who have never been abused will abuse. it's a combination of genetic predisposition and social conditioning.
both ways it's horrendous.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:47,
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This doesn't explain if he is northern or southern(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:31,
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Must be from YorkshireYou see, they're actually discussing their offspring when they say things like
"Aye, I used to spend 14 hours a day downt' mine"
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up mine, surely?oh wait. that's wales.
carry on.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:43,
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I've never tried to translate the nuances and specificsI just presumed they'd be good enough to go down on said child first, before rogering them in a brusque Yorkshire fashion and promising that Santa will be very good to them for keeping "our little secret."
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you should never ever presume that anyone is good enoughjust to go down.
not everyone is that polite.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:48,
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Having lived in both the north, south and midlands for numerous years apieceaside from the fact that the general populace are cunts regardless, there's nothing wrong per se with anyone based on where they're from, it's the attitude people have to one another on learning that you're 'not from round here' that's unpleasant.
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Unless you are being unfriendly to gyppos. Let them stop on your village green for the night. Next thing you know - Gherkin!
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Well, quitewe all take the piss a little in our own special ways - speeding, or consuming large quantites of MDs, but building on greenbelt land without planning permission is clearly only ever going to hugely piss people off. If you're going to break the law, at least have a little common sense and break it in a way that only affects you so you're less likely to get caught.
Don't do something intensely stupid and then whine about your human rights when you get slapped down for doing it. Don't fucking do it in the first place, retards.
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*pint stops halfway to lips**eyes narrow*
'aven't seen you round 'ere before...
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I have been in pubs exactly like thatthe kind where everyone turns and stares at you when you walk in, and you can almost hear banjos in the distance...
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Last time I went into one like thatI'd only travelled as far as North London. I don't think they'd ever seen a man with long hair in that particular establishment before.
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Rural Wales is an excellent place to not enjoy pubs, from experience.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:44,
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Least they all speak their own languageand don't have to listen to their inane dribblings.
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No, you just have to feel itAs the spittle flies all over the pub from trying to get their inebriated tongues round words which have seven consonants and a 'Y' where the vowel ought to be.
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I'm having a bad flashback.Not for the first time in my life.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:10,
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Once you get your head around the phonetics, Welsh is actually quite logical.(
Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:12,
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That sounds like our local,which is why I've been in once in 6 years. Plus they think a G&T is a cocktail.
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I don't mind themBlousie puts it perfectly.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:36,
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Everything.Alt: Everything.
'Ning autisms.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:40,
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there's a certain delicious irony to thisalso.... i don't think DING is ever coming back. maybe it's time to move on? just a bit?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:43,
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Irony? You've been biting your leg caliper again?Also: HUN DAN! bow your head in SHAME you lowly DOGEYES. Ding WILL return. Oh yes.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:53,
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'Ning The LOVELY Amberl.*Panders*
I'm good ta. Got a nice easy day today. How's things?
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:57,
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Good cheersI'm trying to pysche myself up to go out and do some trampolining while the weather is nice. What've you been up to? Any good gigs?
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:02,
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Nah, I've had nothing since Bloodstock, just been working, Gary Numan this weekend though. :DThere's a few coming up in the next month or so too, Monster Magnet, Evanescence and Arch Enemy. Might be a couple of others that I've booked but I can't remember right now.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:27,
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I am jealous of Gary Numanand Monster Magnet :) Evanescence not so much haha
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:30,
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I hate northerners for thinking I am a southerner.I hate southerners for thinking I am a northerner.
/Midlander
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:40,
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A LOL of the office variety.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:46,
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And I hate ever-shifting county borders making this city part of the West MidlandsWhen clearly we should be the principal city in Warwickshire.
*drinks bovril* OW WORRA GIVAWOIY
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:46,
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I'm not terribly fond of England full stopbeing, as it is, full of people. People are cunts. Their accent is often the least offensive thing about them. Apart from Dudley. Fuck me, that's offensive.
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Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:48,
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I know, right? I am surprised they even have a birth rate.
You just wouldn't.
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You should set some rulesabout your In- Un- De-... then you could complain when we have it wrong. At the moment it's just guessing and "my father and teacher told me it was like that"; which is not useful when your father or theacher didn't speak any English.
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Sorry, it's usually due to which language the root word came from.There's no real rule to it other than that.
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Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:00,
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Like in the rest of your languageYou're missing rules every where. And an Academy of the Language to tell you what's acceptable and what isn't. Barbarians!
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It's a bastard, mongrel language, to be sure.That's why I think it's important to follow the grammar and spelling we have got. Save making the whole mess any worse than it already is.
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Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:06,
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She's just being lazyIf she could bother her arse to learn Latin, Ancient Greek, German, Norse, Old-English, etc. she wouldn't have any problems knowing which word or prefix to use.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:08,
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Even like thatI think you probably will find thousand of exceptions and I'd end up even more confused.
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Just remember: the exception proves the ruleOr something.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:11,
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Yes, I know.I've learnt a lot about English watching QI. It seems that a lot of the rules you learn at school have more exceptions than not, which means they are not rules anymore. The "magic E" is the only one that I can remember that still applies.
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They no longer teach "magic E" in primary schools.It is all split-vowel digraphs now.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:19,
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I've been thinking about home schooling my kid for the first 5-6 yearsbut I'll have to pay someone to do the English, because otherwise he's going to learn nothing.
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I agreeBut you don't have any grammar rules for those "negative words"; so I can't follow any. I have to guess. Usually I check, but I thought unpolite was right. I was wrong, clearly oxforddictionaries.com/noresults?dictionaryVersion=region-uk&isWritersAndEditors=true&noresults=true&page=1&pageSize=20&q=unpolite&searchUri=All&sort=alpha&type=dictionarysearch
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Weird but niceI love accents, although I have problems to understand them, they sound lovely and different.
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Is that for Spain or Britain?What are the north/south prejudices in Spain?
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:55,
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That's a good point, actually...I know the Northern French look down on the Southern French because they speak funny.
I also have two German colleagues, from opposite ends of the country, who once admitted they find it easier to converse in English because their German accents are so different.
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There certainly is "Good Moaning" on here most days(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:06,
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In my experience all French people look down on all others. But isn't France as a unified country a relatively new thing? I think it consists of 5 or 6 regions each with their own language and customs. The French language only became standard about a couple of hundred years ago.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:03,
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From what I knowAll French people are very happy with each other, apart from Parisians. Everybody hates them and they hate everybody.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:09,
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You're thinking of 'Pakistanis'.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:17,
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I meant all the other LondonersNot you Stunnso
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:27,
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Yeah, modern French is basically Parisian.They, not unlike the UK have about 7 other languages/dialects floating around.
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Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:09,
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In Spain is the other way roundSoutheners speak funny, are lazy and only want to party and nap. Northeners work hard, are too serious and sometimes rude.
Having family in both sides, I can tell you that's not true, although Northeners are a bit more shy and harsh; but very nice people when they know you.
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The occasional tendency to over-egg the pudding in respect of hardships endured.Case in point - there's a Mackem fellow who's a regular at one of my several locals. A few times a week, we'll get the "When I was down't'pit ... " routine, usually directed at a not-so-regular (we know not to set him off).
What he fails to mention is that he was a sparky, not a sodding miner. Alright, still difficult and dangerous being underground and all that, but one of these days I'm going to make some remark concerning subterranean light-bulb changing, and I have a feeling that it may be poorly received in certain quarters ...
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Something along the lines of "How many Yorkshiremen does it take to change a light bulb?", perhaps...I'm sure a punchline exists for that somewhere.
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"15. One to change the bulb, and 14 to tell him what a good batsman Geoffrey Boycott was."...Well, that was shit.
^^ I'd like to point out, I stole that from Google.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:02,
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I think he's secretly frustrated that he's not a Yorkshireman.He's got the right attitude, but had the misfortune to get spawned in Sunderland somewhere.
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Maybe herewww.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22How+many+Yorkshiremen+does+it+take+to+change+a+light+bulb%3F%22&meta=
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None, because they don't have lighbulbs because they are poor and enjoy their gay noncing in the dark.(, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:04, Reply)
Ah'm no' forkin' out brass ferra ligh' bolb. Gorra candle righ' 'ere.(
Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:04,
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Is that written in McScouse?(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:08,
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I'm imagining the way one of our engineers talks. He's from "Donneh"(
Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:10,
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How old is he?Wearmouth Pit was closed in 1991
Also, well done for not calling him a Geordie. That would result in a punchline
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:04,
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He's late fifties I reckon ... ... and we've had the Mackem/Geordie debating performance once or twice as well. Always good to watch.
From the other end of the bar, that is.
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Good planMy mate's Dad was a 'leccy down Wearmouth Pit too. Fucking hard cunt too
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:09,
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Ahhh, but what about the CO2?(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:20,
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A Northerner would have you believe that they breathe nails and shit bullets.(
Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:23,
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This is something you can't understandHow I can just kill a man (by farting bullets)
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:25,
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I don't understand how that's possible unless you have a firing pin up your anus.(
Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:27,
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Just to get this out of the way.I'm not from the North... or South.
Stick that up your shitpipe!
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Neither mate, English through and throughBut East Anglia doesn't count as Midlands... I think.
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According to the internet, East Anglia counts as the South.Much to the embarrassment of the South.
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Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:39,
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Amazing really, in the one part of the country most famed for siblings fuckinghe still remains untouched by a womans jubbly bits.
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Really fatshe could easily outrun him
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:49,
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"Stop [pant] Running [puff] Away""I Just [pant] Want To [puff] Show You [pant] Mine!"
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Truethey speak the funniest of the lot. Even scouse or west country is better than a thick Dudloi accent. *shudders*
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Spending the evening with Kroney and his "art collection" is better than a Dudley accent.But only just.
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Not a lot, they mostly seem OK.Alt: Most things.
It's occurred to me that this is probably because I don't have to deal with Northerners on a daily basis where as I do southerners.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:17,
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Dealing with both sides of the divide on a regular basisI can confirm that they're all people and therefore all as bad as each other.
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Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:18,
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I think this sums it up perfectly(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:19,
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Soft southern shandy drinking, fixie riding, gaybo(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:21,
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Oi!I do quite like a shandy, but I do not ride a fucking fixie.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:52,
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Northerners constant requirement to remind you where they are from, I don't fucking care.Southerners make sweeping generalisations.
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Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:27,
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Fuck off Bobby!You're a northerner from where I'm sitting.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:53,
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