Reply to: Northern chavs riot at cheap electronics sale

[DodgyAgent]

Why are many from the SE so hung up on cultural stereotypes, yet ignorant of Geographical boudaries within the UK.

Birmingham takes an hour by train to London. East Kent takes 1hr 30 mins

Yet southerners would assume Kent and London are similar yet the midlands is closer by train and assumed to be different.

Southerners also assume all of "The North" (wrongfully including the midlands) is close together and homogenous.

I live in the NW and via road I can get to Buckinghamshire quicker than say Newcastle. The area I live more resembles Surrey than Tyneside, but assumptions of the geogrphically illiterate are otherwise.

I never expected the South to be full of Pearly Kings and Queens eating Jellied eels as stereotypes would lead me to believe. In my experience
hetrogeneity in the south is just as strong as it is between many areas of "The North" and likewise within "The North"

I waste my breath

oooooo touchy touchy

[darmstadt]

thats also happened here in Germany at a consumer electronics store, funnily enough it was in the north of Germany

[Bagpuss]

I know you don't get out much, shame really, the Uk has some lovely countryside, and I'm not talking about the flat unexciting bits

[swamp]

Maybe not, but another example could be cheshire is as near to cornwall as East Herts is mileage wise.

Cornwall is West Wales.

You could say Dublin is the same distance from Manchester as it is from London: it may well be but we don't care.

[Bagpuss]

I don't think time by train is in any way related to similarity, not since the chunnel opened anyway!

Maybe not, but another example could be cheshire is as near to cornwall as East Herts is mileage wise.

[swamp]

I waste my breath

Quite.

[Advocate]

Why are many from the SE so hung up on cultural stereotypes, yet ignorant of Geographical boudaries within the UK.

Birmingham takes an hour by train to London. East Kent takes 1hr 30 mins

Yet southerners would assume Kent and London are similar yet the midlands is closer by train and assumed to be different.

Southerners also assume all of "The North" (wrongfully including the midlands) is close together and homogenous.

I live in the NW and via road I can get to Buckinghamshire quicker than say Newcastle. The area I live more resembles Surrey than Tyneside, but assumptions of the geogrphically illiterate are otherwise.

I never expected the South to be full of Pearly Kings and Queens eating Jellied eels as stereotypes would lead me to believe. In my experience
hetrogeneity in the south is just as strong as it is between many areas of "The North" and likewise within "The North"

I waste my breath

I don't think time by train is in any way related to similarity, not since the chunnel opened anyway!

[Bagpuss]

Why are many from the SE so hung up on cultural stereotypes, yet ignorant of Geographical boudaries within the UK.

Birmingham takes an hour by train to London. East Kent takes 1hr 30 mins

Yet southerners would assume Kent and London are similar yet the midlands is closer by train and assumed to be different.

Southerners also assume all of "The North" (wrongfully including the midlands) is close together and homogenous.

I live in the NW and via road I can get to Buckinghamshire quicker than say Newcastle. The area I live more resembles Surrey than Tyneside, but assumptions of the geogrphically illiterate are otherwise.

I never expected the South to be full of Pearly Kings and Queens eating Jellied eels as stereotypes would lead me to believe. In my experience
hetrogeneity in the south is just as strong as it is between many areas of "The North" and likewise within "The North"

I waste my breath

[Alf W]

Wednesbury is "Down South".

Why would Northerners want a television? We can't get a signal up here and the electric's only on for an hour a day.

[The Lone Gunman]

Could you really be @rsed to queue for that long to save £100 off a PS3 or a £300 laptop.

My hourly rate says no!

[BoredBloke]

Could you really be @rsed to queue for that long to save £100 off a PS3 or a £300 laptop.

[DimPrawn]

Burn them all. Chavs.

Hard working Labour voters.

[Mike Hunt]

Its time everyone hugged a hoodie

We all need to be loved

[Mich the Tester]

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/content/images/2007_4623.jpg

Bloody well is! The North starts at Bristol and goes diagonally up to Grimsby:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART51629.html

How dare they use a picture of my grandad like that.

[swamp]

West Mids is not in the North.

Bloody well is! The North starts at Bristol and goes diagonally up to Grimsby:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART51629.html