North and South BCG divide Page 4

Quote: Aaron @ August 22 2009, 12:35 AM BST

So northerners have inflated, bloated ideas of their own self-importance, and all of the clever people are in the south?

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that's my point, surely being able to spell accurately doesn't make anyone particularly clever. Most of my inaccuracies are due to carelessness rather than me not knowing the correct spelling. Also my reference to my 'insightful brilliance' was written with self depricating irony, which the clever bottled water drinking southerner failed to spot.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 22 2009, 12:18 AM BST

So in future, perhaps the Mods can say something like 'Ey up chucky egg, tha spelling like a ruddy t'barmpot, you daft hayper, our kid in gravy.'

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Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 22 2009, 12:43 AM BST

bottled water drinking

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Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 22 2009, 12:43 AM BST

Also my reference to my 'insightful brilliance' was written with self depricating irony, which the clever bottled water drinking southerner failed to spot.

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*deprecating

Oh, shit! He thinks I'm in t'south now.

no I don't because like renegade you responded with northern charm and not southern smugness. Also, you have a brilliant northern name.

Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 22 2009, 12:58 AM BST

northern charm

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Are you sure you're not southern?

Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 22 2009, 12:58 AM BST

no I don't because like renegade you responded with northern charm and not southern smugness. Also, you have a brilliant northern name.

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There ain't nothin' charming about northerners and all of y'all have funny names like Geoff and Clive and Jeeves. I reckon there ain't a Bubba or Billy Bob among y'all.

I'm beginning to think I've missed the joke in this thread.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 22 2009, 12:18 AM BST

So in future, perhaps the Mods can say something like 'Ey up chucky egg, tha spelling like a ruddy t'barmpot, you daft hayper, our kid in gravy.'

Either that or offer him out for a scrap.

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This was the best bit.

Quote: Kevin Murphy @ August 22 2009, 1:12 AM BST

I'm beginning to think I've missed the joke in this thread.

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You and I both.

Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 22 2009, 12:58 AM BST

Also, you have a brilliant northern name.

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Geoff Mutton may well be a brilliant northern name. Sebastian Orange-News on the other hand, is a bit upper-class-twit-hyphenated-son-of-a-Fleet Street-editor-southern-sounding name (without prejudice).

I'm a Northerner. Brought up in Middlesbrough near the NE coast, it's a town proven on national TV to be the shittiest town in the entire UK. Poverty, drugs, terrible health, alcoholism, homelessness, violent crime, you name it we got it in spades.

But Paul Daniels was born here, which makes it all worthwhile.

I thought Billingham was the place to avoid. Still, who'd want to argue about being the shitiest place in Britain. It's a no-win situation.

Quote: Lee Henman @ August 22 2009, 2:06 AM BST

I'm a Northerner. Brought up in Middlesbrough near the NE coast, it's a town proven on national TV to be the shittiest town in the entire UK. Poverty, drugs, terrible health, alcoholism, homelessness, violent crime, you name it we got it in spades.

But Paul Daniels was born here, which makes it all worthwhile.

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Yeah, but what about your spelling mistakes?

Quote: Geoff Mutton @ August 22 2009, 1:33 AM BST

Geoff Mutton may well be a brilliant northern name. Sebastian Orange-News on the other hand, is a bit upper-class-twit-hyphenated-son-of-a-Fleet Street-editor-southern-sounding name (without prejudice).

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Yes, I take your point.

I think the assumptions you make (about organic food, bottled water, etc) mean that you see people who live in the south as all middle-class. This is very far from the truth. Not everyone in the north is working-class either.