Proof: The North Is Friendlier Than The South

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...Especially if you want a kebab bought for you;

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Yorkshire Evening Post wrote:When asked the question, 'Would you prefer to spend time with your friends over your partner?' 42% of northern respondents claimed that they would, compared to just 13% of southerners.
Then again, it could be that people oop noorth are bored of their partners and would rather spend time getting lary with their mates.

On an unrelated note, there used to be an old fella selling papers on the Headrow up by the St John's Centre who would call out "Evening Pots!" - anyone know if he's still there? After almost 20 years I can still his mournful cry through the gathering gloom of a winter's evening.
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I think they all shout "Evening Pots" these days :lol:
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The bloke in question shouts "Eeee Po", whilst sounding like he is being strangled.

He has been there since time began.
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I've always thought so.
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Norman Hunter wrote:The bloke in question shouts "Eeee Po", whilst sounding like he is being strangled.

He has been there since time began.
he was there in 1982. raincoat and flat cap usaully somewhere dortmund square area. first encountered him when i first moved to leeds.
i wonder if he has heritage status......
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nigel d wrote:
Norman Hunter wrote:The bloke in question shouts "Eeee Po", whilst sounding like he is being strangled.

He has been there since time began.
he was there in 1982. raincoat and flat cap usaully somewhere dortmund square area. first encountered him when i first moved to leeds.
i wonder if he has heritage status......
He regenerates like a Time Lord, apparently.
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Norman Hunter wrote:
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Norman Hunter wrote:The bloke in question shouts "Eeee Po", whilst sounding like he is being strangled.

He has been there since time began.
he was there in 1982. raincoat and flat cap usaully somewhere dortmund square area. first encountered him when i first moved to leeds.
i wonder if he has heritage status......
He regenerates like a Time Lord, apparently.
its just the voice that stays the same....or maybe he died years ago and there is just this disembodied voice echoing off the walls of the st johns centre and the statue of the fat bloke holding a barrel.....
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Can't comment for the UK, but globally the South are usually friendlier than the North! :P
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MadameButterfly wrote:Can't comment for the UK, but globally the South are usually friendlier than the North! :P
Well, this does not count for Germany ... :roll: ...
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Being645 wrote:
MadameButterfly wrote:Can't comment for the UK, but globally the South are usually friendlier than the North! :P
Well, this does not count for Germany ... :roll: ...
But Germany is in the North so they are NOT as friendly as people from the South, I'm talking hemispheres! :roll: :roll:
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one cannot argue very well with a whole hemisphere.
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MadameButterfly wrote:Can't comment for the UK, but globally the South are usually friendlier than the North! :P
More of a East West divide over here...
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emilystrange wrote:one cannot argue very well with a whole hemisphere.


well you know i do try!!! with both actually.
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MadameButterfly wrote:
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MadameButterfly wrote:Can't comment for the UK, but globally the South are usually friendlier than the North! :P
Well, this does not count for Germany ... :roll: ...
But Germany is in the North so they are NOT as friendly as people from the South, I'm talking hemispheres! :roll: :roll:
Mere excuses ... :lol: ...
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As a Southerner living in the North, I'll agree they're friendlier. Although being called "love" by checkout staff did puzzle my foreign-born girlfriend somewhat ("So they love me just for buying a loaf of bread??"). Mind you, she's been a font of amusement since she came to England. Especially the expression on peoples faces when after being asked "How are you?" she'd actually tell them in detail.I didn't have a sensible answer when after telling her you're not supposed to actually reply she said "Well why do they ask then?!".
On the other hand, a lot of the people up here seem to confuse bluntness with pig-ignorance. And I haven't heard such sexist or racist language, well, ever. Oh and the women here bring up their children by screaming obscenities at them!
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:lol: :lol: :lol: ... like everywhere in the suburbs ...
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DeWinter wrote:Oh and the women here bring up their children by screaming obscenities at them!
Not all of them. I was brought - not dragged - up :)
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MadameButterfly wrote:Can't comment for the UK, but globally the South are usually friendlier than the North! :P
Thinking of Korea? ;D
You can take a tiger out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the tiger... on the other hand, the tiger can't step into the same river twice because other waters are always flowing on to it. Yeah.
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They are friendlier because they don't work. And those that do work for the government. Which isn't really work.
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Oh man - wish I'd never started this topic...
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the_inescapable_truth wrote:They are friendlier because they don't work. And those that do work for the government. Which isn't really work.
Just what you'd expect a southern ponce to say! ;D
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Down South they make pigs smoke. They feed beef burgers to swans. Theyhave big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds they have 20ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because they don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?" and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small.
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Hom_Corleone wrote:Down South they make pigs smoke. They feed beef burgers to swans. Theyhave big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds they have 20ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because they don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?" and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small.
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