Northeners...

[????]

I have been reading a thread on a far more intellectual part of the WWW than this place, which asks the question "Northeners, why do they hate us* (*southerners/Londoners) so much?

To quote a genius on that thread :

"We nick their best rat, earn more bunce and look boatier than them."

Discuss

[StraferJack]

Quids. Dulwichvillagelady has hacked your account

[Jacqui5254]

Exactly. Don't go there.

[Jacqui5254]

And, by the way, its Northerners.

[Loz]

You've been hanging around the West Ham Online forum, quids? I hope you washed you hands afterwards.

[LadyDeliah]

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 :-)

[maxxi]

Us Midlanders have always treated Northerners and Southerners with equal suspicion - having been regarded as Southerners by Northerners and Northerners by Southerners.

We blame the Welsh.

[Salsaboy]

I blame the French.

[Jeremy]

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.

[dbboy]

Nothing wrong with northerners I have had dealings with, worked up there for a short period and fell in love with the place. The North east Cost Tynemouth going north, otherwise known as "the undiscovered country" full of wonderful countryside and views into the horizon.

[Otta]

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.

[Otta]

I've always found that northern lasses were much more... erm... friendly.

[Jeremy]

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.

[Earl Aelfheah]

London has people from all over, not only the country, but the world. With a population the size of London, it's ridiculous to think that there is a general character that can be applied to 'Londoners'.

[Otta]

Yeah exactly that I reckon. They were having their livlihoods closed down when we were kids, so it's not a big surprise.

Not that we were exactly rolling in it.

[Otta]

LadyDeliah Wrote:

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> living on a half empty, hard to let

> estate.

That's cos it was full of bloody northerners!

[Earl Aelfheah]

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.

[MrBen]

2/10 Quids.

And a rehash of several threads you've done before.

[????]

Jacqui5254 Wrote:

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> And, by the way, its Northerners.

And, by the way, it's "it's"

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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"

[MrBen]

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??

[Otta]

???? Wrote:

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> Jacqui5254 Wrote:

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> > And, by the way, its Northerners.

>

>

> And, by the way, it's "it's"

Haha, touch?.

[Captain Marvel]

Is northlondoner a Northerner?

[Millhaven]

I once saw a bloke take a piss on the dance floor of a club in Hull. Never seen a dance floor empty nor handbags grabbed up so quickly again.

[red devil]

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! :)