Andy Capp is from the North East.
Homosexuality doesn't exist in Yorkshire.
(Cave Duck, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 13:35, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Tell that to all the lesbians in my town.

( girlinthehole, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 13:37, Reply)

OK, male homosexuality, then.
Could you imagine two bluff Yorkshiremen attempting to chat each other up?
It's illegal to even admit a slight degree of admiration for another bloke (unless it's Geoffrey Boycott.
(Cave Duck, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 13:41, Reply)

It always confused me that Boycott was charged with assaulting his wife
they said he hit her 15-20 times, but that can't be true. That would have taken him all day

/old ones are the best.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 13:43, Reply)

It's a classic.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 13:52, Reply)

That's well and good, m'lud
but as the case for the defence, I offer up simply this:

Hebden Bridge

Defence rests.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 13:39, Reply)

That is near where I live.

( girlinthehole, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 13:43, Reply)

Is "visiting Hebden Bridge" used as a euphemism for those are minded to try "a different kind of love"?

(Cave Duck, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 13:48, Reply)

It was sort of a posh hippy community for a while
it's now so massively lesbian that it has its own bean-flicking competition.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 13:49, Reply)

"Pies and Prejdice", Stuart Maconies book about the north has interesting bit about Hebden Bridge detailing this.

(Cave Duck, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 14:00, Reply)