"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.

At least the fish doesn't have skin on ...

Now that's something else that's always confused me, @99point6 - at the risk of sounding like Hannibal Lecter I've had it skin on and skin off in various places throughout Lancs and Yorkshire and there doesn't seem to be any one local way of doing it
So is it purely coincidence or are there local nuances I'm somehow missing with this?

I'm from Yorkshire but I have never felt the need to announce it.......

@WeeOrcadian

I'm from Yorkshire but I have never felt the need to announce it.......

🤣🤣🤣

People can tell when someone is from Yorkshire by their accent. I've never known anyone announce they are from Yorkshire unless someone's asks where they are from. What a strange post

at the risk of sounding like Hannibal Lecter I've had it skin on and skin off in various places throughout Lancs and Yorkshire and there doesn't seem to be any one local way of doing it

:o at Hannibal Lecter

I HATE skin-on fish & chips - yeuch. Not ever had it in Yorkshire but I have encountered this abomination in Cumbria.

@ReacherMargrave

People can tell when someone is from Yorkshire by their accent. I've never known anyone announce they are from Yorkshire unless someone's asks where they are from. What a strange post

Not everyone can place an accent. I've been accused of coming from Bolton.

@WeeOrcadian

I'm from Yorkshire but I have never felt the need to announce it.......

Nice one WeeOrcadian.

@toomanytwinkies it's because the Vikings invaded and settled. There's a high % of Scandinavian DNA in Yorkshire and half of our accent is Dane-influenced from the words to the flat vowels. The Vikings are both invaders of Yorkshire and because of that they're our ancestors (in part).

@bubblesbubbles11 I've never known any aggression from Yorkshire folk to none Yorkshire folk (bar the Lancastrians grr). I don't even live there anymore. My partners from London and he's alright 😂 I even went to uni in Lancashire - and even that rivalry is good natured.

@Chikapu funny how people are different isn't it?

[quote Calandor]@bubblesbubbles11 I've never known any aggression from Yorkshire folk to none Yorkshire folk (bar the Lancastrians grr). I don't even live there anymore. My partners from London and he's alright 😂 I even went to uni in Lancashire - and even that rivalry is good natured. [/quote]
I agree, no aggression.
Just some gentle piss taking and sympathy

I love this thread! I've lived in Yorkshire near all my adult life (from down south) and noticed that this is very much a thing. I find it very endearing as I love Yorkshire but sadly I'll never be able to fully experience the joy of being from Yorkshire.

Ian MacMillan wrote a book all about he secretly worries that because his dad was Scottish he'll never truly be 'Yorkshire enough'. It's very funny:
Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In search of the meaning of Yorkshire https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0091959969/ref=cmswwrcppapiii_YH07TEH5PMYW6RN8NBB2

I did make up Yorkshire bingo once, to be played whilst watching local news (Calendar/Look North - all of these have been spotted over the years, most on multiple occasions):

First to spot 6 wins a Geoffrey Boycott calendar...

• Farming feature
• Favourable mention of Yorkshire over world famous non-equivalent (e.g. "did you know that Aysgarth Falls is more [insert obscure geological factor] than Niagara, making it 20 times better!")
• Use of phrase 'God's own county'
• Yorkshire produce
• Feature on something mainstream/popular which has "come to Yorkshire" (e.g. a West End musical)
• Stupid Yorkshire-based competition
• Local resident with deeply Yorkshire accent doing a sound bite
• Steam trains
• Claiming something non-Yorkshire as our own (e.g. pretending that the Cornish pasty was invented in Yorkshire)
• Ignorance/bigotry
• Jibes about Manchester/Lancashire
• Child-grooming
• Islamophobia
• Women MPs with big earrings
• Gurning old people
• Biscuits
• Flat caps
• A simpleton
• The 'best' of anything being from Yorkshire (e.g. "now, we all know that Yorkshire sausages are the best..."
• Unnecessary addition of word Yorkshire before any random item (e.g. sausages)*
• Aerial shot of rugged coastline
• Aerial shot of Dales/Moors
• Mention of 'famous son/daughter' (e.g. Alan Bennett, a Bronte)
• Selfishness
• Sheer bloody-mindedness
• Cricket
• House fire in Bradford

*This can also be spotted in many eating establishments in Yorkshire, so a separate sweepstake game can be played whilst dining out.

There are certain types of people who go on about being from Yorkshire. It is a bit tedious. I actually think Northumberland, the Lake District, Pembrokeshire and Devon/Cornwall are more beautiful, and the nicest people are in the North East of England. I would happily go and live in Northumberland, the scenery is amazing and the people are ace.
North Yorkshire is pretty but very smug and pleased wi' itsen...

agree, no aggression.
Just some gentle piss taking and sympathy

Its piss taking and passive aggressiveness though.
No one cares that they are from Yorkshire though and the sympathy is really snide.

@VenusClapTrap

I can’t buy rhubarb without asking “Is that Yorkshire rhubarb?” either. And then announcing that I’m from the Rhubarb Triangle.

I have a crown of ancestral rhubarb in my garden.

I'm from the rhubarb triangle too! 😊

@MrsClarkandPercy
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

You've reminded me that when I lived in London, my cats refused to drink tap water. When I took them up to Yorkshire to visit my parents, they couldn't get enough of it. They were very discerning cats.

@olympicsrock

Pangolin - if people tell me they are form Yorkshire if reply “oh the WRONG side of the Pennines”. I’m from Lancashire. When we went to visit Granny in Yorkshire my dad taught us to shout as we went over the border “Look at all the slag heaps you know you’re in Yorkshire” 🤣😂😂

Going the other way to visit my auntie it was a standing joke that it was always raining as soon as you crossed the border!

I find it similar with Scousers and having a great sense of humour. My manager always says this (he's a Scouser) and is not at all funny.

😬

Apologies if someone has already posted this, but there's more love for Bridlington/Bondi here, along with the rest of Yorkshire!

Its piss taking and passive aggressiveness though.
No one cares that they are from Yorkshire though and the sympathy is really snide.

This kind of illustrates the whole point. To me it's funny and warm, there's a kind of self piss-take going on. It's far from aggressive or snide ... but I get that if you don't get it, you don't see that and you think it's genuinely about being smug and superior.

But because the Yorkshire person's experience is that other people don't get it, that just adds to the Yorkshire camaraderie.

munchbunch12 I just LMAO at that!

@MoodySky

I find it similar with Scousers and having a great sense of humour. My manager always says this (he's a Scouser) and is not at all funny.

I'm from Liverpool, and the famous "Scouse humour" is usually some racist, sexist old git spouting Les Dawson quips ad nauseam. Yawn.

@MoonOnASpoon

*Its piss taking and passive aggressiveness though. No one cares that they are from Yorkshire though and the sympathy is really snide.*

This kind of illustrates the whole point. To me it's funny and warm, there's a kind of self piss-take going on. It's far from aggressive or snide ... but I get that if you don't get it, you don't see that and you think it's genuinely about being smug and superior.

But because the Yorkshire person's experience is that other people don't get it, that just adds to the Yorkshire camaraderie.

Exactly We take the piss out of ourselves as much as or even more than out of non Yorkies, even between the different Ridings in fact. We don’t actually think Yorkshire is better than everywhere else or that anyone deserves sympathy for not living here, it’s just playing to a stereotype. Takin tha sen too seriously or gettin above tha station is just not done here and we use (mostly) gentle teasing to make the point

😂 Oh OP. It's said for fun and usually ony to people we know. Yorkshire is a pretty big place and we're notoriously proud of our roots. I'm quite flummoxed and sad that some people feel this way.