People from Yorkshire

[Pommygranite]

Do people from Yorkshire take pride in being rude and tight?

Its like a badge of honour to be proud to 'call a spade a spade' and 'you spent how much?!'

All my family are from, and live in, Yorkshire for some reason it strikes me as some form of geographical trait.

[Pommygranite]

bobbo89 said:

Pommygranite said:

All my family are from, and live in, Yorkshire for some reason it strikes me as some form of geographical trait.

Surely that makes you a Yorkshireman?

I wasn't born there, didn't grow up there and have never lived there so not really.

[Pommygranite]

burriana said:

Pommygranite said:

Do people from Yorkshire take pride in being rude and tight?

Its like a badge of honour to be proud to 'call a spade a spade' and 'you spent how much?!'

All my family are from, and live in, Yorkshire for some reason it strikes me as some form of geographical trait.

Apart from to be insulting, your point is?

Oh I'm just calling a spade a spade, it's not rude remember, it's called being a straight talker..

It's not a point being made, it's a question.

So, do people from Yorkshire take pride in it?

We see it at numerous times on here where there's a self reference to Yorkshire and I am unsure why a reference to thoughts on cash or being a straight talker in a negative way is slanted as a positive - hence asking if there's a pride factor in it.

If it's not true then why be offended?...

[Pommygranite]

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

[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