"I'm from Yorkshire" : anyone else notice this?

[Odilla]

Why do people from Yorkshire feel the need to tell you that? It is fairly unremarkable given that the collective Yorkshire counties form a large part of England so lots of people are from there.

Yet still they do. Repeatedly. And will shoe-horn this revelation into any given conversation. Eg "I'm from Yorkshire so I don't like spending money on heating". Well yes I'm sure this is true; nevertheless this is not a special circumstance given that most people do not enjoy spending money on heating. Or they take something that is particular to them and still gas on about Yorkshire eg "I'm from Yorkshire so I don't wear blue shoes".

Never have I met a crowd of people so keen to assert common identity yet so unaware as to how common identity actually works. Although ironically that's an identity of sorts.

@TheHoptimist York is a city....

[quote Puzzledandpissedoff]Brilliant thread

Surprised nobody's linked this yet though ... [/quote]
I'm from Yorkshire and I'd never seen this until now, what a gem!!

@Thisbastardcomputer

I'm from Yorkshire and I don't remember ever telling anyone that, but they probably pick it up from my accent.

Many Yorkshire people's accents getting stronger the further from Yorkshire they get! There was a famous cricketer who became a TV personality, he was the epitome of the Ee Bah Gum Yorkshireman on TV, almost needed subtitles. We were in a restaurant on the next table to him, in Yorkshire, and his accent when was almost unrecognisable.

@isthatanotherbastardgrey

Yup, DH does it.

Usually followed by why he'd rather be living in hole in't road eating cold gravel for tea in Yorkshire, than his comfy house in rural Sussex, and gazing wistfully at the sausage dogs wishing they were whippets... all whilst sipping a caramel macchiato and considering a jolly over to Tunbridge Wells.

He's a swirl of contradictions, god love him.

I find people like to tell you how great the place they were born is. How better in every way it is from where they are living But none them actually go back to live there.

Someone I know who used to say how fantastic his home city was and London was a shit hole and he was only in London because the money was good and would one day return to where his heart was
When the company he worked for moved out of London back to his home city and offered a full relocation package and current London salary for those who wanted to go. He took redundancy rather than move.
I don’t think he ever lived it down.

@Fizbosshoes I disagree. I'm from Yorkshire, living in lincolnshire and the farmers in particular are always very keen to tell me that they are "proud yellowbellies" which appears to be their version of "I'm from Lincolnshire".

In Norfolk people are desperate to tell you that they are from Norfolk before you assume they are a tourist - it's really not exclusive to Yorkshire.

I'm sorry to all of those people who are embarrassed about where they are from 😜

Wait till you meet a Cornishman

I love Yorkshire and visit regularly as we have relatives up there. But yes anyone from Yorkshire does usually like to announce it 🤣

It’s nice they’re proud of where they’re from. I definitely don’t go around shouting I’m from Surrey

I was on holiday years ago and was talking to a Yorkshire man. He was telling me that he had just been to the chippy up the road for tea. Without thinking I said 'Why, did they have a sale on?'. He just laughed and said he knew I was from Lancashire.

Just leaving this here.....😂

Hale and Pace Yorkshire Air

If you had said that a few times where I used to work, in Salford, you would have got a sympathetic ear and something like Don't worry, we all have ours crosses to bear!
Just make sure your passport's up to date.

😂 That's another thing I learned when I moved here, people from Salford don't like to be classed as from Manchester, could be why I announced my Yorkshireness 😂

Nowt s' queer as folk....ah seh, theer's nowt s' queer as folk, tha noz. 🤭

What a load of old bollocks. Never said it in my life & Im from Yorkshire

I know a few people from Yorkshire and they do talk of it as if it's the centre of the universe and implying anyone NOT from there is deprived.

Gets on my wick - and as for that Godawful Yorkshire tea advert, with shrieking Sean Bean.

Ah this reminds me of Miranda pretending to be Amanda Barnes “I’m from the general Yorkshire area”

I’m from Cheshire and therefore very posh.

@mumda

Which thing would a vegan from Yorkshire tell you about first?

I've never heard it brought up the way you say, OP.
I did hear someone say, in a conversation, that they would never vote Tory as they were from an ex-ming community in Yorkshire and their dad/grandad would turn in their graves, but that was relevant to the conversation at the time.

Its because they are proud of Yorkshire, good on them! It's also because Yorkshire people are straightforward and not snooty or trendy like people in the south east. So if they live in the south east they might need to say "no I don't eat sourdough because I'm from Yorkshire, I eat white sliced". Or "oh I don't wear hunter wellies because I'm from Yorkshire, my wellies are from the farm supplies shop".

Nope. I’m from Yorkshire and, tbh, if anyone needed to ask me where I’m from I’d think them a bit dim. The Yorkshire accent is very distinctive.....

I live in Yorkshire, but am a secret southerner.
I do notice Yorkshire 'branded ' stuff quire a lot, people do talk about being from Yorkshire, and the supposed qualities they possess (tightness, resilience, resistance to cold etc ha)
A man in the pub on Friday tried to get me and DP (who has very broad distinctive Midlands accent) to agree we'd only trust people from Yorkshire , no one else was 'worth talking to"....
I think its quite lighthearted tho. Maybe that's cos I've lived in Yorkshire so long....

@WeasilyPleased, steady on, Sheffield is not proper Yorkshire! how very dare you,

😁🤣

I'm going to be a bore now - my guess is it's an identity thing as far back as the Red and White Rose wars. There are influences in society that go back thousands of years - we just can't always see it.

Nope I'm no historian. Just like a bit of Phillipa Gregory. The White Queen etc - and an overthinker

Plus everyone knows Derbyshire is better anyway

True enough, thefootballcoacheswife - and after all we got the second best county award, only pipped by Devon

And they only beat us because they have a coastline

Any banging on about where one comes from is always tedious.

[quote Foolsrule]@WashedupTroll - hmm, just like a bit of ‘banter’ Imagine if ‘Yorkshireperson’ were replaced with a certain ethnic group of those of a certain religion. Everyone would be crying ‘thinly veiled racism’. It’s not funny, it’s othering and I’m surprised the thread has lasted so long. I thought MN was more enlightened than this.[/quote]
Oh stop it.

FGS it’s absolutely fine. People like you are part of the problem today, not the solution.

If you’re so upset by this gentle ribbing and the happy banter you can take yourself out the door can’t you!