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I'll be blunt here, because I know you all appreciate the old 'I'm Straight John Bull me, I'm just being honest' type malarkey:
What on Earth is your problem?
Another thread today, another pop at London/the South from a resident of 'God's Own County'. If Yorkshire is so great, why this constant need to belittle those nearer the Watford Gap? Mancs, Geordies, Scousers all have digs, but nothing like the relentless abuse spouted by Yorkshire folk. Even the advertising slogans of the local companies ('Good, honest broadband - from Yorkshire'; 'Let's have a proper brew') are couched in sneering, self-congratulatory fashion.
And as for the legendary 'friendliness' - if you're lucky, your average Geoffrey Boycott-worshipping Yorkshireman will just be downright rude and call it 'speaking their mind'. Unlucky, and you'll have to spend a night out in Doncaster or Sheffield, the former being where Jeremy Clarkson famously said that NOT having a fight after the pub was a clear sign of homosexuality. Which you'd get beaten up for.
So it is pride? Jealousy? A desperate need to be obnoxious for no good reason? Tell us abaht it. Fer nowt, if tha can bear to...
What on Earth is your problem?
Another thread today, another pop at London/the South from a resident of 'God's Own County'. If Yorkshire is so great, why this constant need to belittle those nearer the Watford Gap? Mancs, Geordies, Scousers all have digs, but nothing like the relentless abuse spouted by Yorkshire folk. Even the advertising slogans of the local companies ('Good, honest broadband - from Yorkshire'; 'Let's have a proper brew') are couched in sneering, self-congratulatory fashion.
And as for the legendary 'friendliness' - if you're lucky, your average Geoffrey Boycott-worshipping Yorkshireman will just be downright rude and call it 'speaking their mind'. Unlucky, and you'll have to spend a night out in Doncaster or Sheffield, the former being where Jeremy Clarkson famously said that NOT having a fight after the pub was a clear sign of homosexuality. Which you'd get beaten up for.
So it is pride? Jealousy? A desperate need to be obnoxious for no good reason? Tell us abaht it. Fer nowt, if tha can bear to...
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Very intelligent.
Yorkshire folk have it hard you know....
http://static.advicenow.org.uk/files/lt-wills-2010-72.pdf
Jeremy Clarkson hasn't lived in Yorkshire for a long time if his accent is anything to go by.
He was almost slipping in to RP
I am loathed to admit it, but I do find a lot of people from the north to be friendlier and more vocal than those of us down south. Geordies in particular seem like great people with a good sense of humour.
Saying that I'm off there for a few days at Easter as it's a bloody lovely place with lovely people
I haven't, but it sounds funny
Screw you, I'm lovely ^_^
They do good Yorkshire Puddings though
We also gave em most of their gold medals at t'Olympics, didn't we?
Equally pointless, probably.
It's either/both - I've only ever heard it referred to as 'county', but Wikipedia says they've co-opted 'country' as well. Figures.
Not as intelligent as you, clearly. By skating over the myriad refrains of 'Bloody Southerners/Londoners' that emanate from Yorkshire on a regular basis, and instead focusing on MY bigotry, you have shown us all (I hope) that we are not so different after all.
I feel a chorus of 'Kumbayah' coming on.
I'm Yorkshire right back to the first page of this parish register and a few others round ere. I can't make Yorkshire pudding to save me life. My husband (Southerner, some sort of weird cross between a cockney and a yokel, from Bedforshire) makes the best Yorkshire puddings ever.:)
Jessica Ennis and Nicola Adams are from Yorkshire.
What are of Yorkshire are you referring to? I'm from South Yorkshire and I've never heard this.
It's those bloody French we hate round these parts >:(