Stupid questions about the North

[Maggot]

oh and wasn't it Prescott who mistook mushy peas for guacamole?

No it was Mandelson, Prescott is from Hull IIRC and wouldn't make that sort of mistake.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It was a actually a scurrilous story started and spread by Kinnock

 

[chio]

best way of travelling 'oop north':

yorkshire airlines

it's funny because it's true

sort of

 

[Maidmarian]

No it was Mandelson, Prescott is from Hull IIRC and wouldn't make that sort of mistake.

No , Prescott is from North Wales , but he represents Hull.

 

[Lisarocket]

As a Yorkshireman stranded in London, the warmth is one of the things I dislike. In this summer's heatwave I was looking enviously at the temperature around Hull compared to London, and I doubt it gets properly cold in winter here either.

As a Yorkshire lass in London, i prefer the warmer temperatures. It's bloody freezing when i go back home to visit the folks in Scarborough. They call me a soft southerner nowadays and say that i speak like a cockney

I took a Kibbutz lad from Israel to stay in Scarborough for 8 months. He thought it was hilarious that people on holiday insisted they were still going to enjoy the beach in sub zero temperatures with jumpers on Just before he left someone in a pub asked him what part of Yorkshire he was from. He was aparently speaking hebrew with a yorkshire twang for years after

 

[northernhord]

Everyone who I have told about moving up North soon, says, 'brr, going to be chilly up there and rains a lot'. I am moving to lancaster, not the outer hebrides, a distance of around 300-400 miles. Will that really make so much of a difference? tis hardly palm trees and bikinis right now down south...
Oh, and am I going to have my accent mimicked all the time?

Lancaster is OK, quite an expensive, like a Northern version of Baaaath
Yoo wont get your accent mimicked in Lancaster there are many Southern folk living there.
It is a little colder up here than down there, I lived in Bristol for 4 years and the weather was noticebly different when i went up to Bolton to visit my family.
It is very lovely where you are moving, and I reckon you wll be Ok, besta luck cyber

 

[cyberfairy]

Lancaster is OK, quite an expensive, like a Northern version of Baaaath
Yoo wont get your accent mimicked in Lancaster there are many Southern folk living there.
It is a little colder up here than down there, I lived in Bristol for 4 years and the weather was noticebly different when i went up to Bolton to visit my family.
It is very lovely where you are moving, and I reckon you wll be Ok, besta luck cyber

Cheers Just been wandering round house aghast at how much crap I have to move or get rid of
Looking so forward to moving but gonna put nasty details like how to move a house's worth of stuff and cat across country when don't drive or have vehicle and how to find house and job out of my mind till after christmas

 

[northernhord]

Cheers Just been wandering round house aghast at how much crap I have to move or get rid of
Looking so forward to moving but gonna put nasty details like how to move a house's worth of stuff and cat across country when don't drive or have vehicle and how to find house and job out of my mind till after christmas

You should be able to find work easy enough, there is a lot of it about up North at the Mo, and Ganja is cheaper up here

 

[tangerinedream]

Cheers Just been wandering round house aghast at how much crap I have to move or get rid of
Looking so forward to moving but gonna put nasty details like how to move a house's worth of stuff and cat across country when don't drive or have vehicle and how to find house and job out of my mind till after christmas

make the cat tow the stuff on a gypsy style caravan

 

[tangerinedream]

No it was Mandelson, Prescott is from Hull IIRC and wouldn't make that sort of mistake.

Mandelson organised for TOny Blair to be interviewed by Alan Partridge in a circa 96, 'grab anyone famous' attempt at popularity - When Steve Coogan turned up to do the gig, Mandelson asked 'Where's Alan Partridge?' and Armando Ianucci had to explain to him that Partridge was a joke!