i was at a garden party last night
and got chatting to a lawyer from todmorden and a lawyer from burnley. made me reet homesick, our kid! there was talk about how you could go to dances in the town hall in tod and be in yorkshire one second and lancashire the next. this was disbelieved by the ignorant southerners.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:05, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

disbelieved ignored ignorant debonair
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:06, Reply)

I lived in Yorkshire from being a kid until I moved to the land of Mancs.
Yorkshire is a bit of a toilet.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:08, Reply)

Proof, if it were needed, that the internet is a little more than a means of spreading vile lies and cancer related terrorism.
Shut it down, I say.
(Cave Duck, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:13, Reply)

The real problem with the North of England
is that you have to drive through the Midlands to get there.
( Kroney, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:13, Reply)

i read somewhere that queen victoria
insisted on having all curtains drawn on the royal carriage when she passed through birmingham as she couldn't bear to look at it. has it improved in the last 100 years do we think?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:20, Reply)

Probably not
But on my sojourn to Manchester a few years back, it was Coventry that really offended my eyes.
( Kroney, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:23, Reply)

I like Yorkshire.

( girlinthehole, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:29, Reply)

I've spoken to Northerners before
I always get distracted by the gaggle of whippets at their heels and the collection of ferrets in their trousers.

What you experienced was probably some form of culture shock because of the above. After all, I drove down the A25 the other day and once I got to the county boundary, one moment I was in Surrey and the next I was in West Sussex. It was mad, I tell you!
( Kroney, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:09, Reply)

oh dear,
I have a whippet and I'm currently looking after my sister's ferret.

I, however, am still a southerner at heart.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:17, Reply)

Going native.
It's a slippery slope.
( Kroney, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:19, Reply)

It's true
when I visit family down south they mock my northern accent hybrid, whilst my northern friends call me posh. It's lose-lose. I also get into arguments with people over what the circles of bread are called that go around bacon on a sammich.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:21, Reply)

There shall be quite a few ignorant southerners up here shortly.
I shall endeavour to spread the word.
( girlinthehole, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:10, Reply)

Southeners or Midlanders.
Lolvote on their ignorance. The one good thing you can say about Yorkshire is that it isn't Wolverhampton. Or Essex.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:20, Reply)