Reply to: North/South devide

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Crikey, such vitriol.

I aim to please

[Moscow Mule]

I am extremely glad not to be counted as one of them. The are very welcome to their stinking fetid tuliphole of a city, and all the tourists they love so much, and their rubbish derivative stand up comedy about which part of it you are from - as if anyone cares.

Crikey, such vitriol.

[Bagpuss]

and you have Plastic Scousers

[Diver]

The problem with Wales is!

We have Northerners and Southerners for neighbours

[Peoplesoft bloke]

And that's why people get so annoyed at Lunneners. Even people barely 25 miles away are counted as 'not us'

I am extremely glad not to be counted as one of them. The are very welcome to their stinking fetid tuliphole of a city, and all the tourists they love so much, and their rubbish derivative stand up comedy about which part of it you are from - as if anyone cares.

[DaveB]

It's grim up north

I live in the Midlands. Cheap houses, no whippets

[Bagpuss]

And that's why people get so annoyed at Lunneners. Even people barely 25 miles away are counted as 'not us'

The North starts 25 miles from London, it be lands end. After that the rest of the UK is Marsh and Swamp land. Best live ye life within 25 sq miles of the UK. You go elsewhere at your peril.

(Helps keep the southerners out ;-) )

[TheBigYinJames]

That may be true, but when someone asks me what I think of the South East, I wouldn't be thinking of Suffolk, I'd be thinking Home Counties and Greater London.

And that's why people get so annoyed at Lunneners. Even people barely 25 miles away are counted as 'not us'

[Bagpuss]

I'm not talking about regional names, I'm talking about cardinal points. Divide the map of the Uk into 4 quarters, and Suffolk is in the south east. What regional govt chooses to call istelf is irrelevant.

That may be true, but when someone asks me what I think of the South East, I wouldn't be thinking of Suffolk, I'd be thinking Home Counties and Greater London.

[TheBigYinJames]

It may be South East on a Map but it is not considered to be 'the' South East, that ends somewhere in Essex or possibly Herts.
Suffolk is in East Anglia.

I'm not talking about regional names, I'm talking about cardinal points. Divide the map of the Uk into 4 quarters, and Suffolk is in the south east. What regional govt chooses to call istelf is irrelevant.

[Bagpuss]

It's amazing what difference one definite article can make to a pedantic thread.

Correction: but geographically, it's the south east of the UK.

It may be South East on a Map but it is not considered to be 'the' South East, that ends somewhere in Essex or possibly Herts.
Suffolk is in East Anglia.

[TheBigYinJames]

that'd be belgium then?

It's amazing what difference one definite article can make to a pedantic thread.

Correction: but geographically, it's the south east of the UK.

[DS23]

that'd be belgium then?

[TheBigYinJames]

I though Suffolk was classified as East?

Yeh i think it is in terms of London-centric BBC news programmes who think that Northamptonshire is 'the north' , but geographically, it's south east of the UK.

[shelby68]

Spot on, having lived, both North and South and Midlands (they always get forgotten), I'd have to say it's more grim down south, with a few exceptions.
I much prefer countryside to concrete.

The middlands don't get forgotten they just get overlooked as theres nothing there other than the motorway joining the North to the South....



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