It's grim oop north

[woohoo]

Artificial counties that mostly don't even have an administrative purpose any more. The Mersey is the boundary between Lancashire and Cheshire, the Duddon is the border with Cumberland, Windermere the border with Westmorland.

Thanks that was very interesting, though I've lost all interest in living now.

[minestrone]

What are they meant to retire from? Lying on the street in an alcoholic stupour, shouting at someone in an effort to start a fight, with the words obscured by the deep-fried pizza shoved in their gob, outside the dole office?

I think I covered all of the bases there, let me know if I missed one.

Everyone loved Hemmingway when lived like that.

[nomadd]

Dude. I live in Lancashire.

Nobody in Lancs says "Dude".

[Zero Liability]

Cheshire and south Manchester are pretty swanky, as are Harrogate and some areas of York. Beyond that...

[lilelvis2000]

Nobody in Lancs says "Dude".

I'm a transplant.

[Dactylion]

Nobody in Lancs says "Dude".

Nobody but a total twunt says "Dude"!

[d000hg]

And Holly from Red Dwarf.

[Freaki Li Cuatre]

Well it is damn wet and miserable in the NW. No surprise people are unhealthy when it rains sideways 150days a year and its tulipe the rest of the time.

Well f**k going up there then.

I've never been to Manchester in all my 40 years and nothing I read about it makes me feel that that is a statistic about my life that is ever likely to change.

[scooterscot]

Well f**k going up there then.

I've never been to Manchester in all my 40 years and nothing I read about it makes me feel that that is a statistic about my life that is ever likely to change.

I don't understand Manchester either. Been a few times, mostly to use the airport. But goodness chav central.

[Freaki Li Cuatre]

I don't understand Manchester either. Been a few times, mostly to use the airport. But goodness chav central.

A mate of mine went up to Old Trafford recently to see a match. He parked in a street not too far from the ground and said he was immediately surrounded by scruffy teen scallies in tracksuits wanting protection money.

He parks in the street near the Emirates most weeks and never a single problem.

Who'd want to go somewhere like that?