Grockles, emmets or what?

[Devondoggydaycare]

I've been muttering darkly about the grockles who think it's OK to park their Range Rover in a passing place on single track roads just because the sun has come out and they're down for the weekend. Weekend surfers in their VW sports vans are just as bad and need lessons in reversing. Non locals and tourists are grockles or emmets to us, but what do you call them if you live in the Lake District, New Forest or Norfolk?

I'm in Derbyshire but they'll always be grockles to me as I'm originally from down that way. I think they're called townfolk round here.

DFLs here. Sometimes pronounced deffles.

Or DFLGAD. Defflegad. I hope my ds invented that one.

Live near Weston-super-Mare, we call them Brummies. Every year without fail someone has to be rescued because they didn't think warning signs were for them, or they park on the beach and ignore the tides.

When I lived very close to Lake District they me were called offcomers

Grockles here too

We also have Yachties

Grockles is Dorset. Emmets is further west.

Don't even get me started Devondoggydaycare! I'll just say that I wish they'd stick to their side of the road and leave it there. Bloody emmets!

(Ps. Thank you for bringing money into Cornwall though you lovely emmets!)

Bertrand I assume DFL is down from London but GAD? "Go Away...D?"

Cornish DH calls them emmets or CFRs. Can't fucking reverse.

DownFromLondonGotADog.-

Goose I live in Weston and I think Birmingham must've been empty on Bank Holiday Monday because they were all on the seafront here.

Grockles in Cotswolds too. You can spot the really clean 4WDs and the horror at the mud and poo that constitute the reality of country life.

Took me a minute to work out the Deffles, but they all think we're a bit slow anyway!

"Welcome to Cornwall: Buy our fudge then sod off!"

“Welcome to Whitstable. Eat an oyster, buy a mouse in a frock. Bugger off”

What on earth is the mouse in a frock about?

Sorry- we call those shops that sell crafty stuff “mice in frocks shops” because for a while they used to sell a lot of them.....

Devon - Grockles

I’ve never heard “emmets” used with the prefix “bloody”

*without

Dorset = grockles

Emmets (means ants). It's the driving round narrow country lanes and blind corners at 60mph and in the middle of the road that does my head in. And at the moment it's the retirees with huge SUVs they can't drive - move the fuck over! And buy a smaller car!

Or it's the braking at every corner or roadside drain or just cos they feel like it. Gaaaah!

Emmits here in this part of Cornwall. Worst thing is constantly using their brakes while on a fairly clear road - because something is coming along on the opposite side of the carriageway!!

I think you were right the first time Ellisandra, it should be bleddy!

'Bloody Emmets' (however you want to spell it) in this part of Cornwall too.

Basically anyone from over the border is an Emmet! They are the ones who follow the sat nav down any back lane because it says too, even though they have no idea how to drive on one. Had great fun following a giant camper through back lanes once - they got completely panicked in how to pass the tractor coming the other way.

Still, it is nice to send them to Port Emmet beach. It is lovely this time of year.