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Let us not forget that The South begins at Gretna Green and gets softer the further south you go
Thus, Carlisle is only mildly soft. by Manchester you are in chewy toffee softness, by Birmingham its a bit like jelly and then, when you reach London, it is fully fledged blancmange
The worst, of course, is the area around Oxford which has not benefited as much as London from an influx of Northern firmness
Let us not forget that The South begins at Gretna Green and gets softer the further south you go
Thus, Carlisle is only mildly soft. by Manchester you are in chewy toffee softness, by Birmingham its a bit like jelly and then, when you reach London, it is fully fledged blancmange
The worst, of course, is the area around Oxford which has not benefited as much as London from an influx of Northern firmness
Let us not forget that The South begins at Gretna Green and gets softer the further south you go
Thus, Carlisle is only mildly soft. by Manchester you are in chewy toffee softness, by Birmingham its a bit like jelly and then, when you reach London, it is fully fledged blancmange
The worst, of course, is the area around Oxford which has not benefited as much as London from an influx of Northern firmness
Nah, plenty of Northerners ( And Scots, the ultimate Northerners) down here. The plague has spread Darling ! You can't move for Northerners !
One of Oxford's College "Queen's" was even founded so the precious little Darlings would not feel too lonely among the soft sissies of the South...
You are more likely to hear a Yorkshire or Scottish accent in those hallowed halls nowadays than a cut glass "posh" accent it seems. Oxford has changed a hell of a lot since the days of Bertie Wooster.
I spent a lot of time "up North" in the last 23 years due to Hubby and his Yorkshire roots and both of us find this navel gazing obsession with being a Northerner really bizarre and a little ridiculous.
We have started this game when we start counting the "Yorkshire"/"Liverpool" references in conversations and the "The North is better" allusions( including on local radio/tv programmes).
It goes on and on and on, and on. The posh southerners don't seem to have the stamina or desire to compete in those regionally obsessed discourses. Too soft again see, no staying power those poshos....
Reverse snobbism truly is alive in my experience and just as ugly as the original form.
I've got a feeling that the North is more friendly overall, although I do find it funny when norhterners come to the south and talk loudly about how rude everyone here is...
The South is really boring.. once you leave London there's nothing interesting to see except endless villages, then you get those hideous towns like Milton Keynes and Slough and Southampton.
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Originally Posted by Jaggy001
Let us not forget that The South begins at Gretna Green and gets softer the further south you go
Thus, Carlisle is only mildly soft. by Manchester you are in chewy toffee softness, by Birmingham its a bit like jelly and then, when you reach London, it is fully fledged blancmange
The worst, of course, is the area around Oxford which has not benefited as much as London from an influx of Northern firmness
You do realise we're talking about northern and southern England, not Scotland .
Nah, plenty of Northerners ( And Scots, the ultimate Northerners) down here. The plague has spread Darling ! You can't move for Northerners !
One of Oxford's College "Queen's" was even founded so the precious little Darlings would not feel too lonely among the soft sissies of the South...
You are more likely to hear a Yorkshire or Scottish accent in those hallowed halls nowadays than a cut glass "posh" accent it seems. Oxford has changed a hell of a lot since the days of Bertie Wooster.
I spent a lot of time "up North" in the last 23 years due to Hubby and his Yorkshire roots and both of us find this navel gazing obsession with being a Northerner really bizarre and a little ridiculous.
We have started this game when we start counting the "Yorkshire"/"Liverpool" references in conversations and the "The North is better" allusions( including on local radio/tv programmes).
It goes on and on and on, and on. The posh southerners don't seem to have the stamina or desire to compete in those regionally obsessed discourses. Too soft again see, no staying power those poshos....
Reverse snobbism truly is alive in my experience and just as ugly as the original form.
I feel your pain. I get that all the time, what being posh and somehow aristocratic.
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