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What do southerners think of Northerners?

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I think you mean south of Watford Gap(service station on M1 commonly conceived by us southerners as the marker of ventuing up north), watford is a town definitely in the south , deep into it infact in north Greater London but definitely too low to signify the south by your reckoning cambridge wouldn't be in the south

My apologies, I did indeed mean everything north of Watford.

Cambridge is full of northeners.

"Its grim up north"

As a Southerner I think that Northerners are filthy, uncouth and common.

Reply 43

Psyk

Original post by Helenia

The fact that they think that anything south of Nottingham is the South is quite endearingly naive. The Midlands is a very different sort of area from the South East, which is what most people think of when they think of stereotypical Southerners.

Northerners consider the Midlands to be the south and southerners consider it to be the north. Only midlanders consider the midlands to exist :tongue:

Reply 44

Drewski

Original post by Psyk

Northerners consider the Midlands to be the south and southerners consider it to be the north. Only midlanders consider the midlands to exist :tongue:

Midlands = No Mans Land.

But for me, everything below the M62 is the south of the country, everything above the north. Look on a map of England, that's the real middle.

Reply 45

geetar

They prefer rugby league to rugby union, which is silly.

Reply 46

A_Howells

Original post by OU Student

Northerners talk funny. :tongue:

Seriously, I don't really have an opinion on them. But to me, anything above Ivybridge is north.

Agree

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I get scared when people mention more North than Ivybridge :smile:

Reply 47

EllaBella<3

I live on the South East coast of England. I went to the midlands for a university interview, obviously, as a Southerner, considered it to be the North :wink:

Everybody was really friendly, to be honest. I got called a "duck" quite a few times .. :tongue:

Reply 48

Tiger Rag

Original post by Psyk

Northerners consider the Midlands to be the south and southerners consider it to be the north. Only midlanders consider the midlands to exist :tongue:

A friend lives in the Midlands. I remember her moaning about how left out she feels. If she goes anywhere down south, she's a northerner and if she goes anywhere north, she's considered a southerner.

When I lived in London, I was taken to a football match between Brighton and Charlton. The Brighton fans were calling the Charlton fans northerners. I don't think my friend was too happy that I agreed with them. :tongue:

And he was taking the piss out of them for not talking properly. Apparently, they say "Bwighton" and not "Brighton".

Reply 49

nicatre

That they're from the north XD

Reply 50

Alex360

Original post by Archimonkey

What do Southerners think of Northerners? Eg, accent etc. What kind of impression do you have? Let's say Southern as in South of Nottingham.....

The odd joke about Northerners being a few years behind the South, the accents, our History teacher (Mancurian) jokes about the poor diet consisting of only pies etc. But nothing personal or actually offensive

Reply 51

Tiger Rag

Original post by A_Howells

Agree

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I get scared when people mention more North than Ivybridge :smile:

Do you find that your northern friends say things like "you live on the edge of nowhere"? I also think the words "a billion miles from civilisation" came up. As has being now known as Almost French, because I'm closer to France than I am them.

Reply 52

the mezzil

Original post by CaptainDudeson

As a Southerner I think that Northerners are filthy, uncouth and common.

Southerners are just poncy, illiterate parasites with no personal hygiene.

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 53

roh

Original post by Drewski

Midlands = No Mans Land.

But for me, everything below the M62 is the south of the country, everything above the north. Look on a map of England, that's the real middle.

Ah ****, Southern by 2 miles :frown:

Original post by geetar

They prefer rugby league to rugby union, which is silly.

This isn't even a Northern thing, more just a narrow corridor pretty much exactly aligned with the M62 and mainly consisting of smaller towns (only Leeds has a team of the big cities).

Reply 54

Colroyd

Well I went up north for a few uni days and they seemed much nicer than most at London :smile:

Reply 55

a729

Original post by Archimonkey

I understand, the same could be said of the lack of distinction of clumping Lancashire people with Yorkshire people, they're quite different types, but in the wider picture they're more similar than say the general south. Would it not be the same with regards to comparing south of Notts with the general south-east. how are they different? just interested.

London is like a different country-

England splits into 5 bits:

London and South East

South West

MIDLANDS

North East

North West

Reply 56

a729

I think they tend to be labour supporters, tend to dislike Maggie!

Quite friendly and much better at queuing than Londoners who are almost always in a rush!

Reply 57

Mockery

Original post by TobaccoSmoke

I find that Northerners can be a bit grating with their belief that Southerners are soft and weak because our climate is marginally warmer than theirs.