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When I came down here I thought southerners were thick because I had to speak really slowly for them to understand me. I hated how flash they acted and how they were into money more than they seemed to be interested in people.


I hated being told jokes about scousers stealing hubcaps and being asked to tell a joke (I think there must have been a lot of Scouse comics or something in the 80's).


I wasn't keen on being told I shouldn't be in London cos I was taking Southerners homes and jobs, despite most of them not appearing to want one and living on a half empty, hard to let estate.


I don't like people who beat about the bush and hide what they really mean behind smarm and I encountered many more of those types down here than up North where people tend to be more direct.


But I don't like to generalise :-)

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I remember meeting plenty of people in my student days who would claim in all seriousness that they didn't like London and they did not like Southerners. Many of them had never been to the south, and their opinions usually resulted purely from football and rugby.


But it also struck me how they often seemed to hate each other too. Mancs and scousers seem to hate each other more than Londoners. And people from Hull (wherever that is) seemed to have a real dislike of Leeds.

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> I remember meeting plenty of people in my student

> days who would claim in all seriousness that they

> didn't like London and they did not like

> Southerners.



I had a friend at uni from Yorkshire who asked me if I'd been "raised to hate northerners". I said that to be honest I hadn't really given them a lot of thought, and certainly hadn't been actively encouraged to hate them. He said that he'd been told as a child that southerners were bad and that he should hate them.


Fortunately he wasn't that thick, but it was a conversation that stuck with me.

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Otta Wrote:

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> I had a friend at uni from Yorkshire who asked me

> if I'd been "raised to hate northerners". I said

> that to be honest I hadn't really given them a lot

> of thought, and certainly hadn't been actively

> encouraged to hate them. He said that he'd been

> told as a child that southerners were bad and that

> he should hate them.


Maybe it was a Thatcher thing... they thought the south was all in cahoots with Thatcher, scheming against the North.


Meanwhile in London we so rarely heard anything about the north (apart from Arthur Scargill and The Smiths), so we were kind of oblivious to it.

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I remember being at school and news of Thatcher having stepped down 'hitting the playground'. People were running around cheering. We were far too young to really understand the politics of the time, but we had the sense that she was a bad woman and that that her departure was significant. This was in Surrey.
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MrBen Wrote:

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> 2/10 Quids.

>

> And a rehash of several threads you've done

> before.



"Things I hate about the North/East/wales/etc" is not the same as this, nor did they get in the splendid Essex vernacular - "rat", "bunce" or "boatier"

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What have they ever done to you? At least it's not about us "sweaties" this time round.


I know the office is a bit quiet at this time of year but you can and must do better....some of the old fire? the fury?


Isn't there a new pizza place opening? Or some dog shit on Fellbrigg to talk about?


ARE WE NOW IN SILLY SEASON??

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MrBen Wrote:

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> What have they ever done to you? At least it's not

> about us "sweaties" this time round.

>

> I know the office is a bit quiet at this time of

> year but you can and must do better....some of the

> old fire? the fury?

>

> Isn't there a new pizza place opening? Or some dog

> shit on Fellbrigg to talk about?

>

> ARE WE NOW IN SILLY SEASON??



Don't worry MrB, Quidsie is just narked that Northern Soul has more cred than it's southern counterpart...Keep The Faith Quidsie! :)

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