Happy Northerners

cjcp

Nickel wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Chester, Huddersfield and, best of all, Derby. DERBY!!!

No. The Telegraph is having a wind-up.

I actually couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Derby in the top ten.

Amen to that!

Kieran Burns, where are you? Come on, Burns...

Jez mon

Nickel wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Chester, Huddersfield and, best of all, Derby. DERBY!!!

No. The Telegraph is having a wind-up.

I actually couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Derby in the top ten.

Lived there for a year last year and have to say, I think Derby does have a slightly undeserved reputation as a s***hole. Between four placement students, we were able to rent a large 4 bed house, in a reasonably posh part (Mickleover don't think the neighbours were impressed with 4 students moving in at all!)

Having said that, top ten would be pushing it.

Lists like this are difficult to take seriously though.

walkingbootweather

Nickel wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Chester, Huddersfield and, best of all, Derby. DERBY!!!

No. The Telegraph is having a wind-up.

I actually couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Derby in the top ten.

When I was a kid a Brown Derby would have made my top ten desserts.

Hell, even as a sophisticated grown-up, it probably would

shouldbeinbed

clarkey cat wrote:

The North has some very pretty countyside, some nice castles and things too.

But the people... oh my god. "Can I be your friend?" "We're friends arent we?" "Bezzy friends forever!!!???"
And thats just popping into Morrisons. A bit overbearing...

Ah bezzy mates, thats a special area not generally recognised by the rest of us Northern Miserablists. A bit like defining all you southern lot as 'lor lav a dack, jellied eels & weren't the Krays laverley to their dear old dutchess' cockernees :-D

shouldbeinbed

clarkey cat wrote:

The North has some very pretty countyside, some nice castles and things too.

But the people... oh my god. "Can I be your friend?" "We're friends arent we?" "Bezzy friends forever!!!???"
And thats just popping into Morrisons. A bit overbearing...

Ah bezzy mates, thats a special area not generally recognised by the rest of us Northern Miserablists. A bit like defining all you southern lot as 'lor lav a dack, jellied eels & weren't the Krays laverley to their dear old dutchess' cockernees :-D

clarkey cat

cockneys are those poor souls that are born within the hearing range of Bow church bells.

I'm from the golden shores of Dorset - imagine Benidorm, but warmer and fitter birds. Thats where Im from.

cjcp

clarkey cat wrote:

cockneys are those poor souls that are born within the hearing range of Bow church bells.

I'm from the golden shores of Dorset - imagine Benidorm, but warmer and fitter birds. Thats where Im from.

And tractors. You've got lots of tractors down there.

asprilla

cjcp wrote:

clarkey cat wrote:

cockneys are those poor souls that are born within the hearing range of Bow church bells.

I'm from the golden shores of Dorset - imagine Benidorm, but warmer and fitter birds. Thats where Im from.

And tractors. You've got lots of tractors down there.

Biggest steam fair in the world, apparently. 200,000 visitors every year to look at the tractors.

clarkey cat

Dorset Steam Fair. In Blandford.

Blandford also has the highest per capita levels of heroin addiction in the UK.

mtb-idle

you do know that all these surveys are just pointless page fillers right?

notsoblue

MTB-Idle wrote:

you do know that all these surveys are just pointless page fillers right?

Page 3!

daviesee

notsoblue wrote:

MTB-Idle wrote:

you do know that all these surveys are just pointless page fillers right?

Page 3!

Page 3 usually has at least 2 points

mudcow007

clarkey cat wrote:

Dorset Steam Fair. In Blandford.

Blandford also has the highest per capita levels of heroin addiction in the UK.

ooh i likes Blandford, well blandford forum - royal tollard it's ultra posh i know this because everyone use cutlery to eat with

asprilla

clarkey cat wrote:

Blandford also has the highest per capita levels of heroin addiction in the UK.

All too aware; Mrs A's mum is a JP there.

rick_chasey

Since when was Norwich in the South of England?

asprilla

Rick Chasey wrote:

Since when was Norwich in the South of England?

Since always.

As far as I'm concerned Yorkshire is in the South. Mind, I'm really only interested in bits South of the Thames and North of the Tyne. Everything in between is dull.

Greg T

Rick Chasey wrote:

Since when was Norwich in the South of England?

Cultural topography does not match geographic position. Harrogate for instance is somewhere in Lanarkshire or Ireland yet to all intents and purposes is on the south coast.

Portsmouth whilst being on the south coast is actually part of the holy trinity of northern sh1t places by the sea, Liverpool, Glasgow and Portsmouth. Is Glasgow by the sea?

rjsterry

Greg T wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Since when was Norwich in the South of England?

Cultural topography does not match geographic position. Harrogate for instance is somewhere in Lanarkshire or Ireland yet to all intents and purposes is on the south coast.

Portsmouth whilst being on the south coast is actually part of the holy trinity of northern sh1t places by the sea, Liverpool, Glasgow and Portsmouth. Is Glasgow by the sea?

:shock: Remin me never to ask you for directions, not that I would need to ask for directions of course.

mudcow007

Greg T wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Since when was Norwich in the South of England?

Cultural topography does not match geographic position. Harrogate for instance is somewhere in Lanarkshire or Ireland yet to all intents and purposes is on the south coast.

Portsmouth whilst being on the south coast is actually part of the holy trinity of northern sh1t places by the sea, Liverpool, Glasgow and Portsmouth. Is Glasgow by the sea?

Greg, where are you from then? Uranus? *giggles*

clarkey cat

BBC Breakfast this morning did a piece on what areas know their neighbours most / least well.

Northern Oireland came out as only 17% of people not knowing their neighbours (i.e. a 'friendly' place)
With Scotland just behind.

The least friendly places (where 41% of people do not know their neighbours) were London and Yorkshire.



Not surprising though considering Londoners are all too busy commuting and working and Yorkshiremen are too busy bleating on about how friendly Yorkshire is for anyone to get to know their neighbours.

meanredspider

clarkey cat wrote:

I'm from the golden shores of Dorset - imagine Benidorm, but warmer beer and fatter birds. Thats where Im from.

FTFY

Ben6899

clarkey cat wrote:

I'm from the golden shores of Dorset...

Do you still have the daft accent? Or are you now the proud owner of that godawful RP?

veronese68

clarkey cat wrote:

BBC Breakfast this morning did a piece on what areas know their neighbours most / least well.

Northern Oireland came out as only 17% of people not knowing their neighbours (i.e. a 'friendly' place)
With Scotland just behind.

The least friendly places (where 41% of people do not know their neighbours) were London and Yorkshire.



Not surprising though considering Londoners are all too busy commuting and working and Yorkshiremen are too busy bleating on about how friendly Yorkshire is for anyone to get to know their neighbours.

I know nearly all of my neighbours, and we often go to the pub for beers en masse. Boys one night, girls another.
A woman moved up from Cornwall and then moved back a while later because she didn't like the people. She had some car trouble one day and her neighbour was trying to help, I was walking passed and stopped to help. We fixed it for her and she said thank you. Two days later I walk passed her and say hello, she completely blanked me. Miserable cow.

rick_chasey

Isn't knowing your neighbour more to do with living in a city than, say, in the country?

City residences tend to be a bit more liquid so there's less incentive and less time to get to know your neighbours.

clarkey cat

clarkey cat wrote:
I'm from the golden shores of Dorset...

Do you still have the daft accent? Or are you now the proud owner of that godawful RP?

well it appears I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.

asprilla

Rick Chasey wrote:

Isn't knowing your neighbour more to do with living in a city than, say, in the country?

City residences tend to be a bit more liquid so there's less incentive and less time to get to know your neighbours.

Your city neighbours are also more likely to stab you in the face as soon as look at you.

Ben6899

clarkey cat wrote:

well it appears I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.

Which is it?

clarkey cat

Probably somewhere in between...

I sound more like Wurzle Gummage than Boris Johnson though.

rick_chasey

Asprilla wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Isn't knowing your neighbour more to do with living in a city than, say, in the country?

City residences tend to be a bit more liquid so there's less incentive and less time to get to know your neighbours.

Your city neighbours are also more likely to stab you in the face as soon as look at you.

Really? You've never been to Chatteris then.

asprilla

Rick Chasey wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Isn't knowing your neighbour more to do with living in a city than, say, in the country?

City residences tend to be a bit more liquid so there's less incentive and less time to get to know your neighbours.

Your city neighbours are also more likely to stab you in the face as soon as look at you.

Really? You've never been to Chatteris then.

No, but I have been to King's Lynne and that's banjo country in my eyes. I admit there are exceptions, but on the balance of probability......