GOGSoc Episode VII: Game of Moans

I concur. My best friend lives there and I just love the place!

Lol. Yorkshire: The only place where calling someone c*ck is a term of endearment

...Although I'd never heard someone use that until I moved to Barnsley, so maybe it's unique to there.

Lol. Yorkshire: The only place where calling someone c*ck is a term of endearment

...Although I'd never heard someone use that until I moved to Barnsley, so maybe it's unique to there.

The longer I spend in London, the more I hate the place… I was hoping the feeling would go away, but I don't think it ever will. Meh.

Also KCL wants to rebrand themselves as King's London. Wtf, why waste £300k on advertisement when you could use that money to make the university less **** than it is…

/megagrump

It's, in part, down to tone and delivery. Like "sitha" - can mean anything from "hello" to "how are you?" to "pay attention to me" to "bye" to "**** you dickhead"

No, it isn't. It's the same in Sheffield as well, where men call other men 'duck' without getting punched in the face.

Where I grew up "love" and "flower" can be used for either gender without fear of violence.

No, it isn't. It's the same in Sheffield as well, where men call other men 'duck' without getting punched in the face.

Where I grew up "love" and "flower" can be used for either gender without fear of violence.

Ha and in London you'd last about 10 seconds...

Lol. We have frequent conversations at work about Yorkshire phrases and what things are called. Is it a bread roll, a breadcake, a bap? I'd never heard of a ginnel (sp?), and I was completely confused when someone asked me if I was 'mashing'. When I looked puzzled he asked again, and when I still looked blankly, he asked if I was making a cup of tea. Then there's 'lunch' which you call 'dinner' and 'dinner' which you call 'tea'.

I was given a book of 'Yorkshire wit and humour'... I don't get most of them.

Hopeless case.

Not sure about that. We're also quite violent.

And then there are snickets, which are different to ginnels. And becks which are different to streams and rivers.

To be fair the county is so diverse that when I went to uni in Hull I had to train myself not to speak in dialect (helpful for later life as it turned out) because the Hull locals didn't understand me. First bus I got on I asked the driver "esta bahn a Cottingham?" and he went "eh?" so I said "dusta bahn a Cottingham?" so then he went "what?" so then I sighed and said "weersta bahn e bus?!" and he went "I'm not deaf son, I just don't know what the **** you're asking me". Taught me quickly what the clue is in Dales dialect - if you're not in the Dales don't speak it!

Lol. We have frequent conversations at work about Yorkshire phrases and what things are called. Is it a bread roll, a breadcake, a bap? I'd never heard of a ginnel (sp?), and I was completely confused when someone asked me if I was 'mashing'. When I looked puzzled he asked again, and when I still looked blankly, he asked if I was making a cup of tea. Then there's 'lunch' which you call 'dinner' and 'dinner' which you call 'tea'.

I was given a book of 'Yorkshire wit and humour'... I don't get most of them.

Hopeless case.

It's a wonderful county. Sounds like you and I are from the same neck of the woods.

It's probably more that a Londoner would punch you if you called them that (these people have no manners! ), not that they'd do better than a Yorkshire countryman in a fight .

Mayhap!

It's a breadcake. When I crossed the Pennines into enemy territory it became a barmcake... In Sheffield a ginnel is a jennel.

Asta mashed?

My parents would have whipped me severely if I had ever actually said any of these things for real. They were pretty keen on elocution.