Things that annoy me about the North....

[KidKruger]

The ONLY annoying thing about Northerners (which I have very rarely every experienced in London or elsewhere in UK) is their consistent blatant use of IMO derogatory terms for non-whites. Paki, Nigger, Darkie.

Both my parents are from Yorkshire and thankfully they don't do the same, but my extended family and everyone I meet up there through them are inexcusable in their use of such language. Weird thing is they are not saying it out of hatred - more like a habit of usage. One of my cousins dated a Pakistani chap for 2 years but still used aforementioned terminology, even when Jabba was there !

Down here they'd be lynched for that !

I wonder if the 'Huddersfield Forum' has a thread about most annoying traits of SOUTHERNERS....

[Bluerevolution]

That's just the idiots tbh. I, obviuosly, know loads of Mancunians and don't know one that would utter any of those words

[Evie]

It's grim up North alright was up there this weekend, it was wet, grey and cold, that's annoying, but that's why the countyside is so much greener and more beautiful. Had a delicious lunch in the country, there are some top restaurants, had an excellent evening in Manchester in the bars in the Northern quarter, as good as anywhere in London. Went to an excellent family party in the most beautiful house up the Lakes, met folks from all classes and had a reet laff. I'm Northern and proud of it.

[Annasfield]

That it takes so blinkin' long to get there.

[DJKillaQueen]

Nope ..two hours by train and that's way quicker than I can get to many places in or around London lol.....

[SteveT]

Alan Sillitoe

Alan Bennett

Keith Waterhouse.

J.B.Priestley

Peter Tinniswood

All substantial scribes from t' north by 'eck 'appen, teks many a mickle to meck a muckle................

They are more straightforward to deal with, and they call a spade a fookin shovel.

[SteveT]

On Ilkley moor bar t'at, you may have heard the song bar t'at means without a hat.

[jrussel]

I have to say, every time I see "Northerners" rattling on about "The North" I can't help to laugh at their delusions.

Look at a map for god's sake - Manchester is in the North is it? Of course it's not you plonkers. Caithness - that's North.

Put some "Northerners" somewhere that is actually "North" and they'd die from exposure within minutes, with their poncey Southern clothes and pretentious ways.

[Jah Lush]

4/10.

Caithness? We're talking northern England not bloody Scotland.

[jrussel]

Why don't you say "Northern England" then?

[Alec John Moore]

Because the dominant use of language in these discourses id England-centric. There is a "north/south" divide in Scotland, too. The word "sassenach" was used by Highlanders - northerners in Scotland - to refer to people from the south of Scotland, Lowlanders.

[????]

I was actually referring to Haringey, Barnet and the northern parts of Islington

[SteveT]

It seems there is a great divide between jrussell and the rest of humankind too.

[Michael Palaeologus]

[Alec John Moore]

Some seem to think that both jrussell and Ligaturiosity (sp) are beyond the pale.

[????]

..at last some proper research on this

[louisiana]

Is there anything worse than the Hairy Bikers? All that faux-Geordie from Simon King (just listen to how the accent changes over the course of a programme) gets on my tits.

[Annette Curtain]

As you can see in my hand drawn illustration ( I'm good at colouring in aren't I ) , the Caribbean plate is rapidly shifting right/east.

In due course this will crush the North to a pulp.

( in about a million/kurtillion years )

Job done !

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Plates_tect2_en.svg/800px-Plates_tect2_en.svg.png

Next ?

Nette.:)

[louisiana]

Nette, I think nobody on the internet realises you're "a dog". :)

[Brendan]

I had lunch in St Albans on Saturday. Shit it was.

[louisiana]

'North' is of course anywhere north of Elephant, except where the river runs more southerly.

But for a more philosophical discourse, do check out Glenn Gould's 'The Idea of North'.

[Annette Curtain]

http://www.corbisimages.com/images/U1031482INP.jpg?size=67&uid=e03fecbd-7415-4239-ac8f-dca948ef078b&uniqID=88367d35-96f8-42ec-9c4d-c5a9e86a1278 "Look, there's that dog "

"Oh THAT dog, forget about him louisiana, he's DEAD "

[louisiana]

Oh, Nette, I was thinking of *the other* dog B)

[louisiana]

Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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> Ignore the mauve suited Southern @#$%& at the

> beginning

Where did he get that f**ing jacket? It's kack.

[louisiana]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> http://www.corbisimages.com/images/U1031482INP.jpg

> ?size=67&uid=e03fecbd-7415-4239-ac8f-dca948ef078b&

> uniqID=88367d35-96f8-42ec-9c4d-c5a9e86a1278 "Look,

> there's that dog "

>

> "Oh THAT dog, forget about him louisiana, he's

> DEAD "

"Dead" dogs tell no tales, uh?