"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.

Although tbh I only ever really state I'm from there because people constantly bang on about my accent. Every time I meet someone for the first time they ask where I'm from, mimic my accent or go on about how they can tell. It's fairly obvious from my voice...

[quote BlimeyOReilley]@Pixiedust1234 that's incorrect. The historical county of Yorkshire is divided into four counties. The article you linked states that East Riding is a county in the first sentence [/quote]
I was just about to say that 😂

And the Yorkshire language (well dialect nobody can understand) is called Tyke.

@Calandor

Because we identify very strongly with our county more than our country 🤷‍♀️ We're raised with a huge sense of pride in where we come from. Can't really help it. Soz it bothers you so much it's just integral to our identity.

Being from Yorkshire isn't integral to my identity and I certainly wasn't raised to have a huge sense of pride about it. How bizarre.

Have you ever heard Mark Steel's in Town? In this one he visits Matlock and Matlock Bath and jokes about the 'seaside'

Nope, I'd never heard of that but am loving it already

Apparently the maniacs on the town council did once consider having a "temporary beach" thing on the river gardens, but happily the idea was scrapped ... would have confused some tourists rotten!!

I’m proper laughing my way through this thread, I love it. We’re a very proud county!

I spent a long time in my career hating being from Yorkshire - I was relentlessly mocked for my Yorkshire accent. It’s very strong and very distinctive. If you’re from Yorkshire you could probably pick out where I’m from within a few miles. I was told I lacked ‘gravitas’ and one very senior leader said I needed elocution lessons if I wanted to progress.

I moved careers so that I now work with a lot of international colleagues - they don’t take the piss out of my accent because it’s just “English”, even if some of my idioms and phrases are very Yorkshire.

@mizzo

I think most people who've moved away but feel a strong connection to their birthplace do this. BIL is Irish and SIL was born in Liverpool and they do this all the time.

It's so brilliant and amazing that they had to live hundreds of miles away

@schroeder

See Yorkshire people are horrible even to other yorshire people for somehow not being yorkshire enough. There's a village on the yorkshire Lincolnshire border where people get the piss taken out of them for being from lincs. How very friendly

Why would you waste a good insult on someone you don't like.

Too hilly, crap beer, chips cooked in lard! Bleugh

Never mind the rest - just try asking for cod in a small town chippy
Apparently it's 'addock and nowt else, and only pansy southerners ask for cod

Somehow I'd never thought that being from Derbyshire counts as southern, but he said it with a twinkle so it was all taken in good part

Another nice one for anyone who's unfamiliar with it - Stanley Holloway this time: www.monologues.co.uk/Stanley-Holloway/Yorkshire-Pudden.htm

"Another nice one for anyone who's unfamiliar with it - Stanley Holloway this time:"

It's a long time since I heard "gollup"!

I never get this 'pride in where you come from' thing. It's purely an accident of birth, surely? Not something you've achieved?

Re the 'friendly northerner' thing, TBH I don't find Yorkshire folk to be particularly friendly to anyone not also from Yorkshire. The friendliest people I've found since being in York are the ones from somewhere else!

@BooSouls

I’m proper laughing my way through this thread, I love it. We’re a very proud county!

I spent a long time in my career hating being from Yorkshire - I was relentlessly mocked for my Yorkshire accent. It’s very strong and very distinctive. If you’re from Yorkshire you could probably pick out where I’m from within a few miles. I was told I lacked ‘gravitas’ and one very senior leader said I needed elocution lessons if I wanted to progress.

I moved careers so that I now work with a lot of international colleagues - they don’t take the piss out of my accent because it’s just “English”, even if some of my idioms and phrases are very Yorkshire.

Barnsley is my guess, without even hearing you.

"Because we identify very strongly with our county more than our country 🤷‍♀️ We're raised with a huge sense of pride in where we come from. Can't really help it. Soz it bothers you so much it's just integral to our identity."

but it is not just a huge sense of pride is it?
very often it is downright aggression and sometimes intolerance of people who are not from Yorkshire?

@herbaceous

I never get this 'pride in where you come from' thing. It's purely an accident of birth, surely? Not something you've achieved?

Re the 'friendly northerner' thing, TBH I don't find Yorkshire folk to be particularly friendly to anyone not also from Yorkshire. The friendliest people I've found since being in York are the ones from somewhere else!

York is full of incomers so not proper

@Calandor

Although tbh I only ever really state I'm from there because people constantly bang on about my accent. Every time I meet someone for the first time they ask where I'm from, mimic my accent or go on about how they can tell. It's fairly obvious from my voice...

I'm with you, @Calandor.

I'm afraid I too @Chikapu was raised with a deep love of Yorkshire, and although it has taken me years to understand this properly, I realised in the end that yes, it is an integral part of my personality, too.

My father told me that I'd come back to drinking tap water in the end. And he was right. The only bit he missed out was that it had to be Yorkshire water (because in some places down South - eg, the Thames Valley - the water has been through people 11 times already, and is laced with cocaine 🤦‍♀️) (that would account for the obscenely high house prices, then?!! 😀).

Yorkshire water tastes better than Evian. And no cocaine required up here as the Yorkshire air, sunshine, beauty and energy is a natural opiate 😉

@Calandor

Because we identify very strongly with our county more than our country 🤷‍♀️ We're raised with a huge sense of pride in where we come from. Can't really help it. Soz it bothers you so much it's just integral to our identity.

Sorry I meant with you on this, @Calandor !

intolerance of people who are not from Yorkshire

It's not so much an intolerance, I think we generally just feel very sorry for them. Especially people from undefinable places like Bucks or Berks, which I suspect even those poor souls from Bucks and Berks might get mixed up occasionally.

The one exception is Lancashire obviously. Then we don't even hide our intolerance. If we ever have the misfortune of driving over the m62 summit, we're genetically coded to shout things like "there be dragons" or "we're in Mordor now" to the kids, so they know and understand from a young age that all on the west of the hill are wronguns.

@herbaceous

I never get this 'pride in where you come from' thing. It's purely an accident of birth, surely? Not something you've achieved?

Re the 'friendly northerner' thing, TBH I don't find Yorkshire folk to be particularly friendly to anyone not also from Yorkshire. The friendliest people I've found since being in York are the ones from somewhere else!

Exactly - because York is posh, snd there is nothing quite like a Yorkshire snob! They are scary!

They don't say bucket in true Yorkshire style. Or even in non-Yorkshire style.

They say backet. So there's no chance whatsoever of anyone thinking they're a thick Northener.

Because, let's face it - the prejudice is real. Look at some of the comments on here 🤦‍♀️

Also everyone is very rich in York. They don't need to talk to strangers in n the street. (!! 😅)

very often it is downright aggression and sometimes intolerance of people who are not from Yorkshire?

Very often? Not sure there would be light hearted thread if Yorkshire people were know to be often aggressive.

Pretty sure Yorkshire people aren't more aggressive that any other counties.

So true. I’m from Lancashire and I married one of the buggers and just imagine how often I hear it

@Puzzledandpissedoff what? I’ve lived in South Yorkshire my entire life and I’ve never not seen cod 😂😂😂

I'm from South Yorkshire but don't think Ive ever mentioned it unless someone asks

[quote RussianSpy101]@Puzzledandpissedoff what? I’ve lived in South Yorkshire my entire life and I’ve never not seen cod 😂😂😂[/quote]
Me neither! At least as much cod as haddock

I’ve lived in South Yorkshire my entire life and I’ve never not seen cod

I was surprised myself; it was a little place in Strensall and admittedly a while ago, so maybe it was a purely local thing?