People from Yorkshire

[_Leg_]

Pommygranite said:

Well it appears the Yorkshire folk are a little sensitive.

I'm from Southern England but I wouldn't get all upset if I thought someone was calling us all soft or 'poofs'

The question wasn't 'why is it everyone from Yorkshire is rude and tight' the question was summarily 'are they proud to be rude and tight?' - Its that quite occassionally I see reference to someone being tight or straight talking it's followed 'but I'm from Yorkshire' - I just wondered if it's a pride thing.

My family are from Wakefield, Mirfield, Leeds and Sheffield and having spent time over the years visiting these places rather a lot it just seems to be quite prevalent.

Edited by Pommygranite on Sunday 14th June 23:56

We're not sensitive. I think any generalisation like you're making is something we think society has (or tries to) grown out of these days and people generally don't expect it anymore.

The world isn't split geographically, nor religiously, nor ethnically, nor any other generalisation when it comes to being polite, rude, tight, generous, nice or horrible (or most traits).

It's split by people from all over our little blue and green rock who are polite, rude, tight, generous, nice or horrible. What accent, or language, they are those things in is incidental.

Ive met some right prats in Yorkshire and some great people down South, both of them.

Edited by _Leg_ on Monday 15th June 00:46

Edited by _Leg_ on Monday 15th June 00:46

[mybrainhurts]

One is slightly miffed with southern woofdahs herein, and looks forward to them struggling to get through 2mm of snow once again...

[Pommygranite]

_Leg_ said:

Pommygranite said:

Well it appears the Yorkshire folk are a little sensitive.

I'm from Southern England but I wouldn't get all upset if I thought someone was calling us all soft or 'poofs'

The question wasn't 'why is it everyone from Yorkshire is rude and tight' the question was summarily 'are they proud to be rude and tight?' - Its that quite occassionally I see reference to someone being tight or straight talking it's followed 'but I'm from Yorkshire' - I just wondered if it's a pride thing.

My family are from Wakefield, Mirfield, Leeds and Sheffield and having spent time over the years visiting these places rather a lot it just seems to be quite prevalent.

Edited by Pommygranite on Sunday 14th June 23:56

We're not sensitive. I think any generalisation like you're making is something we think society has (or tries to) grown out of these days and people generally don't expect it anymore.

The world isn't split geographically, nor religiously, nor ethnically, nor any other generalisation when it comes to being polite, rude, tight, generous, nice or horrible (or most traits).

It's split by people from all over our little blue and green rock who are polite, rude, tight, generous, nice or horrible. What accent, or language, they are those things in is incidental.

Ive met some right prats in Yorkshire and some great people down South, both of them.

Edited by _Leg_ on Monday 15th June 00:46

Edited by _Leg_ on Monday 15th June 00:46

[Never you mind]

Ah the Yorkshire war cry "How much"

It's a well known fact that those of us from North Yorkshire are better than people from West/South Yorkshire and all of us don't mention those that live in <Shudder> East Riding </Shudder> Splitters!

Mind you, could be worse, we could be in that their London.

[Talkwrench]

mybrainhurts said:

One is slightly miffed with southern woofdahs herein, and looks forward to them struggling to get through 2mm of snow once again...

Don't get me started on that one! Have you never seen Leeds/Bradford/the whole of Yorkshire become gridlocked and grind to a halt, not to mention the closure of every school, on the first winters morning to have a light dusting of snow?

Having lived in the South, Yorkshire and Scotland I can say that people are just delightfully different, depending on where they are. People in the South West are definitely more relaxed and gentle, though in no way at all soft. They have a proper old school British spirit of 'just get on with it'. People in the South East are generally too far up their own backsides to care much about anyone else. People in Yorkshire are 'grittier'. They probably have a bit of a chip on their shoulder but its usually left over from the stonking night out they're recovering from. People in Scotland are generally warm and generous but with an even bigger chip - maybe because their night out was that bit more stonking

In terms of 'hardness', noone comes close to the Scots. They are properly 'risilient' in every respect. Snow? Pah! Stick a shovel and an old sack in the back and get on with it. In fact, just walk. Its only -19 for gods sake. Put a jacket on if you're cold.

[Wills2]

You can tell Yorkshireman.............but not much.

I've spent the last 5 years split between Yorkshire and Hertfordshire/Essex and to be honest there is no difference in terms of who is rude and who is friendly, some are some aren't.

It's not a trait you can ascribe to an area.

Myself I'm Yorkshire born and bred, I was actually born on Ilkley moor and probably wasn't wearing a hat.

[bigfatnick]

justanother5tar said:

Are you a ginger chap?

I think I've seen you around and i think one of my mates shared your for sale link on Facebook.

Yep, that's me. I'm assuming you know Ryan? I don't remember too many people in the immediate area sharing the ad aside from him.

_Leg_ said:

He is. Not sure he's connected my profile here to who I am though. Nick?

Hi rich, yep, I know your username, I've been stalking the st out of your garage build. Ain't seen you in ages. Though oddly your 500 was on my driveway fairly recently! Haha

benjj said:

I live in the Dales but I'm not a Yorkshireman.

The thing I don't get is the seemingly all consuming need for everything to have to have the word 'Yorkshire' inserted into it.

Every gallery or museum seems to have to focus on Yorkshire rather than whatever it is they're showing.

Every independent food or drink place screams that their food is sourced or produced in Yorkshire.

It has a disproportionately large number of roadsigns featuring the word Yorkshire.

Shops will randomly insert the word Yorkshire into their names and pretty much every papershop has a spooky little glass cabinet selling Yorkshire oddities like eggcups, teatowels and figurines of sheep and stuff.

It's the only place in the world I've ever seen this. It strikes me as very weird. The Yorkshire people I've asked about this just put it down to being proud of their county but it's still fking weird.

This is something I've never noticed until this thread. I've lived in various countries and spend most of my work life in Scotland. I've noticed on the whole that we englanders are very cautious to do any flag waving, the scots and Welsh won't shut up about where they are from, nor will the Americans, kiwis, Aussies or Irish of either flavour.. But to be proud of being English (or even the UK) seems to be something to be ashamed of. Maybe because Yorkshire is so big, and has such an identity of its own, people can get away with being proud of the place, the Cornish do it as well, Londoners too. Maybe it's something to do with places that do a bit of tourism?

Edited by bigfatnick on Monday 15th June 19:22

Edited by bigfatnick on Monday 15th June 19:46

[Wills2]

I think it's very prevalent in the dales (where Ben lives IIRC) it's tourist hot spot people come to visit Yorkshire hence all the Yorkshire stuff same in Cornwall/Devon/lake district etc.....

[justanother5tar]

bigfatnick said:

justanother5tar said:

Are you a ginger chap?

I think I've seen you around and i think one of my mates shared your for sale link on Facebook.

Yep, that's me. I'm assuming you know Ryan? I don't remember too many people in the immediate area sharing the ad aside from him.

Haven't seen him in a long time though.

[bigfatnick]

justanother5tar said:

bigfatnick said:

justanother5tar said:

Are you a ginger chap?

I think I've seen you around and i think one of my mates shared your for sale link on Facebook.

Yep, that's me. I'm assuming you know Ryan? I don't remember too many people in the immediate area sharing the ad aside from him.

Haven't seen him in a long time though.

Me neither, all I know is that his partner is about to poo out a baby. All the best to him for it.

[bigfatnick]

justanother5tar said:

bigfatnick said:

justanother5tar said:

Are you a ginger chap?

I think I've seen you around and i think one of my mates shared your for sale link on Facebook.

Yep, that's me. I'm assuming you know Ryan? I don't remember too many people in the immediate area sharing the ad aside from him.

Haven't seen him in a long time though.

Me neither, all I know is that his partner is about to poo out a baby. All the best to him for it.

[justanother5tar]

bigfatnick said:

justanother5tar said:

bigfatnick said:

justanother5tar said:

Are you a ginger chap?

I think I've seen you around and i think one of my mates shared your for sale link on Facebook.

Yep, that's me. I'm assuming you know Ryan? I don't remember too many people in the immediate area sharing the ad aside from him.

Haven't seen him in a long time though.

Me neither, all I know is that his partner is about to poo out a baby. All the best to him for it.

Yeah, I see their scan photos pop up every now and then.

[marksx]

bigfatnick said:

Me neither, all I know is that his partner is about to poo out a baby. All the best to him for it.

I would have shared your ad Nick, but I wanted it for myself and hoped I would come into money!

[Deano_BMW]

I'm a south Londoner who recently moved to Yorkshire (kippax in fact) and to say people from Yorkshire are rude is a strange one for me. Compared to the ignorant ttish c**ty air theifs that generally inhabit the south east of England they are charm and grace personified.

[GrumpyTwig]

Deano_BMW said:

I'm a south Londoner who recently moved to Yorkshire (kippax in fact) and to say people from Yorkshire are rude is a strange one for me. Compared to the ignorant ttish c**ty air theifs that generally inhabit the south east of England they are charm and grace personified.

And that's in Kippax, imagine if you moved to a nice area!!


Disclaimer: this post is entirely in jest, just you know.... because those Yorkshire folk are a sensitive bunch

[Deano_BMW]

I'm on the last road before the mill not the leisure centre end

[bigfatnick]

Deano_BMW said:

I'm on the last road before the mill not the leisure centre end

Sounds like you live about four doors from me!

[Deano_BMW]

You're not the fella at the top of my road with the F355 are you? :lol:

[bigfatnick]

Deano_BMW said:

You're not the fella at the top of my road with the F355 are you? :lol:

That (admittedly quite good) replica? Bloke has a filthy white corsa van? Not me. That guy gives me the evils! Maybe he didn't like All my cars having more engine than his 'ferrari'.

I live in the street on the left (won't give too many details on a public forum, haha). I have a silver Lexus ls460, and don't look like I should be driving it. my brother has a black BMW 730d. I'm rarely seen as I'm a lorry driver though. Ha.

So I'm currently parked up in Scotland meeting my neighbours. Weird.


You see OP, everyone knows everyone in Yorkshire, sort of. Ha

Edited by bigfatnick on Monday 15th June 21:23

[Deano_BMW]

I can see your brothers 7 series if I look out of my window. Didn't realise the 355 was a replica but it makes sense now I suppose. I think I've seen your 460 about actually.