Is there such a thing as a Northernist?, maybe you are a one?

[Bobbisox]

Forget about racists - what about northernist? Or does no one care if we poke fun at half the country, portraying those north of Watford as poor unhealthy and thick? Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse aren’t the only ones taking a pop at them oop north, advertisers are doing it too. Bovvered? Should we be?


This was one of the topics on the Matthew Wright Show this morning, I always find the subject hiarious but a good one to debate.
Apparently a Dublin based travel company has a Ski Brochure with the advert , even Geordies can do it...LOL

[kinell]

treena

come on now please dont generalise about northern folk...

they dont all have ferrets



i once met one who had a whippet

[Bobbisox]

Treena don't be daft..ha-ha
do I look like a Nora Batty????
I invite you up here to take a look around...if ya dare..LOL

[dotty.]

lol treena just moved Cornwall 150 miles north lol

[Bobbisox]

ha-ha I agree dotty

[poodicat]

Hilarious even lol...

[Bobbisox]

Hello poodie, just call me Nora..lol

[boxtops]

Blimey. I've lived all over the country, Glasgow, Birmingham, Surrey - I have family in Bristol (yes, where they do talk like tharrt), Northants (different sort of tharrt), Wirral, Scotland - and to be honest I really don't notice take any notice of accents any longer, it's all one to me. I love the sounds of some of the accents and dialects (although some are still hard to decipher!). I've never lived in the North of England but I know lots of people who do, and none of them have a ferret - any more than any of my friends and family down here in the south-east are chinless wonders. Viva la difference, I say - otherwise travelling would be very boring!

[poodicat]

Hi bobbix

[Bobbisox]

ha-ha boxy, wheres Treens gawn :=)

[dotty.]

don't be in such a chicken curry china plate, get your bacon and eggs darn the battle cruiser in your best bag of fruit with a deep sea diver and have a bubble bath with yer horse and cart.

(only southerners could lengthen their conversation, they like the sound of their own voice they do)

[campbellking]

I trained at university in Sheffield, and always remember the careers lady coming to talk to us about job applications and very sadly informing us that 'some of you will have to go down South'. Didn't seem to occur to her that some of us were from 'the South'

[Bobbisox]

bloody hell dotty, cockney rhymning slang, well done you ;-)

[TheOtherHalf]

No offence taken, Steve. I do have a sense of humour otherwise I wouldnt be on here

[alexanderd]

I have lived in the north, south, east and west of the country and find people the same all over ie good and bad. Ps I am a northerner but you knew that didnt you Bobbi?

[McMouse]

dotty don't be a berk, you've got the rhyming slang wrong.

[Bobbisox]

I certainly did alex