Southerners-friendly bunch, aren't they...
td1983
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I have always found Southerners in general to be quite cold and distant. As a Northerner myself, I always find people from up north to be warm, pleasant and funny, but Southerners tend to be so insular and wrapped up in themselves that they lack this compassion. A Northerner will enjoy meeting his mates down the pub, a Southerner will obsess over his latest new gadget. Southerners have this intellectual superiority about them, like they honestly beleive they're the cleverest people on Earth, the kind of people who proudly proclaim themselves to be eco-warriors and always analyse everything with their overly logical minds. I have alway held the belief that, the cleverer someone is, the less friendly they are as a person. This is perhaps why Northerners are more friendly-they may not be as intellectual as their Southern counterparts, but they make up for that in charm.
Southerners CAN be friendly, but it's these little things that I have always found unsettling about them in my dealings with them.
What do you think? Cue the smug, pseudo-intellectual posturing from our Southern friends, no doubt...;)
Southerners CAN be friendly, but it's these little things that I have always found unsettling about them in my dealings with them.
What do you think? Cue the smug, pseudo-intellectual posturing from our Southern friends, no doubt...;)
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But I actually agree to a certain extent. And I am south/east, I do think Northerners are probably nicer people in general. Bit more chilled out?
That said, can anyone actually tell me where Watford Gap is?
Generalise much?
I'm a northener and I am in a relationship with an "intellectual southener" who lives in London. I don't recognise any of what you say. I know some very miserable and nasty northeners while just this weekend I was in a pub in London and got chatting to some lovely locals.
As for us not being as intellectual as them "down south". speak for yourself, I have straight A GCSE and A Levels and a degree together with an IQ of 137. :rolleyes:
Complete generalisation, not founded in truth.
Northerners are thick but nice and southeners are intelligent but nasty.
OK then.
Sounds about right to me!
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Wake me up when it's over.
But just to add my tuppence worth - why is it ALWAYS northerners who start these threads? Why the desperation try and prove you're nicer?
Heheh.. So not true. I have yet to meet the Southerner with my brains (or modesty).
Nah, truth is people are same - idiots and nice people everywhere. I was born and brought up in the north but lived for years in the Midlands. I'll admit to finding Midlanders rude and ignorant, generally - but as individuals, fine.
What I mean is, out and about, in shops etc Northerners chat to you, are friendly etc, Midlanders tend to walk right past you, without making eye contact. I lived in the West Mids for 19 years and never once had anyone strike up a friendly conversation in a bus queue or the supermarket etc.
Struck us noticeably when we returned North that you might need to allow twice as long just to get your shopping cos everyone will want to chat!
I had some cockney inlaws in the past and they were gorgeous lovely, warm friendly people. No different to Northerners cept the accent.
So no, I'm going to say Southerners are more reserved and defensive maybe but fine on a one-to-one level. Norhterners are obviously wonderful. Midlanders on the other hand are evil swine.:D
Nah, but some Southern Comfort would be nice! Oh sure, there are plenty of Northerners who are unpleasant too, but it just always feels this way to me. I don't hate Southerners, but plenty of people have said similar about them over the years. Cockneys can be among the worst.
I actually agree with this...obviously it's generalisation, and not every southerner is like this, but I've met a lot who are exaclty as you describe. (before I get jumped on, I've also met plenty of nice southerners). I do however tend to warm to Northerners more, they have a certain charm about them as you say, anb a dry sense of humour which I like.
I'm European btw, so it's just an observation from the "outside".
Personaly I think the more populous an area is the less likely people are to socialise with strangers.
Northerners and Southerners equally have strong roots and cultural identities - you with your eels and liquor and your pie n mash and pearly queens or yokels, further South - us with our cobbles and decent fish n chips etc. Poor Midlanders have no real identity or rather not got one the rest of the UK recognise. When you see drama on TV set in the East Mids, for example, they always give them brummie accents because the rest of England wouldn;t know an East Mids accent if they fell over one with a giant neon sign sticking out of it. Saying EAST MIDS ACCENT! Whereas everyone knows a Yorkshire, or Liverpool, or Manchester, or a Bristol, or London, or Yokel accent...
I suppose one has to take the rough with the smooth. I am just delighted that anyone thinks I am intelligent. :cool:
Which southerner exactly do you think is going to be friendly with you now, when you've already made your opinion up on them, that they're smug and unfriendly? Maybe it's you they aren't friendly to, just you?
Twazzock, haven't heard that word in years.