Southerners vs Northerners
Southerners vs Northerners
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Urban Sports

Original Poster:

11,321 posts

234 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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I am lucky enough to come from a Family of Northerners and unlucky wink to have many relatives that are Southerners.

Seriously there does seem to be a huge amount of "banter" on PH over this!

The media coverage of the divide is no doubt to blame! Or is it?

smile


ZOLLAR

19,920 posts

204 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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Always confuses me, i live in Swansea, south wales but i saw a graph on the BBC a few months back that showed all of wales being classed as "the north" i think it was refering to the financial divided rather than a geographic divided.
Makes me laugh as i too have relatives who geographically are north of me but classed financially as the south!, TBH north south thing has never had an impact on me so im not sure what all the fuss is about biggrin .

Davi

17,153 posts

251 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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Urban Sports said:
I am lucky enough to come from a Family of Northerners
Everybody from up north comes from a family of Northerners. All the same family. You share the gene pool. Actually by gene pool I mean gene singular. wink

Urban Sports

Original Poster:

11,321 posts

234 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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Davi said:
Urban Sports said:
I am lucky enough to come from a Family of Northerners
Everybody from up north comes from a family of Northerners. All the same family. You share the gene pool. Actually by gene pool I mean gene singular. wink
I'm sure somebody finds that funny wink

Sheets Tabuer

21,517 posts

246 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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I don't trust people from the north, south, east or west.

working class

8,999 posts

218 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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So where do southerners class north from?

The Lukas

2,773 posts

225 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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working class said:
So where do southerners class north from?
Northampton?

The Nur

9,168 posts

216 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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ZOLLAR said:
Always confuses me, i live in Swansea, south wales but i saw a graph on the BBC a few months back that showed all of wales being classed as "the north" i think it was refering to the financial divided rather than a geographic divided.
Makes me laugh as i too have relatives who geographically are north of me but classed financially as the south!, TBH north south thing has never had an impact on me so im not sure what all the fuss is about biggrin .
+1 Apart from the graph on the BBC thing, I didnt see that

Big_Dog

996 posts

216 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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Peoples ideas vary but I always see Watford as a dividing line.

Hammer67

6,465 posts

215 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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The Lukas said:
working class said:
So where do southerners class north from?
Northampton?
Maidstone.

Sheets Tabuer

21,517 posts

246 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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Big_Dog said:
Peoples ideas vary but I always see Watford as a dividing line.
Why watford? it isn't even close to being 50% up the country.

I live smack bang in the middle so for me just past Oxford it the start of the south and Nottingham the start of the north.

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

242 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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Sheets Tabuer said:
Big_Dog said:
Peoples ideas vary but I always see Watford as a dividing line.
Why watford? it isn't even close to being 50% up the country.

I live smack bang in the middle so for me just past Oxford it the start of the south and Nottingham the start of the north.
I kinda go with Watford as well. There's something so well... how do you put it? So primitive about life forms north of that line.

edit. I mean, it's not that they are not nice, it's just that you wouldn't use your best china when they came around for tea, now would you? I mean come on..

Edited by drivin_me_nuts on Friday 27th August 01:04

AV12

5,346 posts

239 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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drivin_me_nuts said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
Big_Dog said:
Peoples ideas vary but I always see Watford as a dividing line.
Why watford? it isn't even close to being 50% up the country.

I live smack bang in the middle so for me just past Oxford it the start of the south and Nottingham the start of the north.
I kinda go with Watford as well. There's something so well... how do you put it? So primitive about life forms north of that line.

edit. I mean, it's not that they are not nice, it's just that you wouldn't use your best china when they came around for tea, now would you? I mean come on..

Edited by drivin_me_nuts on Friday 27th August 01:04
The classic: "I'm not northernist at all...I don't mind you.. it's your mates I don't like," hehe

lankybob

2,186 posts

221 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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working class said:
So where do southerners class north from?
Bristol

anonymous-user

85 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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once less than 25 % of people in your local supermarket are buying rocket salad you are up north.

also once you see a morrisons.

Acehood

1,326 posts

205 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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Anything above Leicester is Northern

Rach*

8,824 posts

247 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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The people at work consider Watford the start of the North, I've had some bizarre things said to me down 'ere.

Patient "So Rachael, how're you settling in?"
Me "Great thanks, just takes a little time"
Patient "Well you are from the North"
Me "???"


Receptionist yesterday "we were going to go to Yorkshire for the Bank Holiday but we've heard it's too cold at night to stay in our caravan"
Me "???"


Patient "Where's your accent from? Wales?"
Me: "Yorkshire"

Lucas CAV

3,068 posts

250 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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DangerousMike said:
once less than 25 % of people in your local supermarket are buying rocket salad you are up north.

also once you see a morrisons.
There is a Morrisons in Portsmouth

??

andy_s

19,857 posts

290 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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Is this a weekly thread now?

Mazda Baiter

37,069 posts

219 months

Friday 27th August 2010
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andy_s said:
Is this a weekly thread now?
Didn't you say that in last week's thread? wink