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To think that saying 'I don't like northern people' to my dh is a bit dim...

17 replies

Theonlyexception · 02/03/2011 10:56

When he is from Yorkshire! The woman in question,who he works closely with every day did add 'no offence' at the end of it, which of course means you can say whatever you want to anyone!

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Hammy02 · 02/03/2011 10:58

Silly ignorant woman. Change 'Northern' to 'Black'.

BeerTricksPotter · 02/03/2011 11:02

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fedupofnamechanging · 02/03/2011 11:06

Has she met all of them then? cos she'd need to, in order to be accurate.

Wouldn't take it too seriously tbh. Southerners say negative things about the north and vice versa. Don't think anyone really means it.

Theonlyexception · 02/03/2011 11:14

Exactly Hammmy. She wouldn't dare say that about a minority group but for some reason thinks it ok to make huge generalisations about a huge chunk of the people on this country! Fwiw she is quite snobbish. I think she is of the opinion that we are all 'common as muck'!

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Cappster · 02/03/2011 11:14

I have never met her

what did I Do?

Theonlyexception · 02/03/2011 11:18

You lived further up than the Watford Gap,Cappster, that's what Grin

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RunforFun · 02/03/2011 11:20

I'm not keen on southerners tbh

Wink
kreecherlivesupstairs · 02/03/2011 11:24

I don't like Northerners and I married one. I am going to live up Northish in July.
OP, what a strange commment, she was being very very rude indeed.

TeacupTempest · 02/03/2011 11:27

YANBU

Someone on here the other day seemed to imply that the further north you got the more lower class people were and the further south the more middle class........also implying lower class = bad and middle = good

makes me gind my teeth

TeacupTempest · 02/03/2011 11:27

grind rather

pinkmoomin · 02/03/2011 11:34

Perhaps it's them flat caps and whippets she dunt like chuck.

Takeresponsibility · 02/03/2011 11:34

My family are from the Isle of Wight and DPs are from Cumbria. We use Northerner and Southerner as insults to each other all the time, pretend not to understand each others' accents as a tease to get the other one to make tea/a brew etc. Equally I have good friends that tease me about my (imagined) accent, my colour, my age, my hair colour, my sexuality etc and I reciprocate. All find it perfectly acceptable- in fact a friend at work has instructed me to find her a boyfriend exactly like DP - only Muslim.

If a stranger or aquaintance said even an eighth of the things we say to each other there would be hell to pay.

It's about understanding and respecting each others boundaries, if your husband is offended by this colleage then she is offensive as well as dim, if he's fine with it and you are unilaterally taking offence on his behalf then YABU.

Violet5 · 02/03/2011 11:36

Oh, i'd have said 'none taken,you must know i don't like northerners either, thats obviously why i married one' and smiled sweetly at the ignorant woman.

I hate people who are passively aggresive like that, only way to successfully deal with them in a work situation is to give them the same back i think.

I'm a northerner btw Grin from Stockton on Tees but i've lived in Wiltshire for the past 14 years now and i'm married to a southerner.

I haven't found to much difference in people up north and down south (accents aside), as that lady proved ignorance can just as easily be found in a southerner as it can in a northerner. You come accross good and bad people in all walks of life it's not their place of birth that makes them that way Smile

HecateQueenOfWitches · 02/03/2011 12:18

I'd have said, "Really? Why is that?"

And carried on questioning and picking apart each thing she said, asking for examples and evidence, until she was begging for mercy [evil]

LessNarkyPuffin · 02/03/2011 12:32

What a muppet. If she'd have said I don't like Yorkshire people, wrong side of the Pennines ...

Violet5 · 02/03/2011 13:47

HecateQueenOfWitches

That is exactly what my husband does if ever i make a sweeping statement about anything...it drives me nuts...so it is obviously very effective in detering me Smile

HecateQueenOfWitches · 02/03/2011 14:09

Yes. I learned it from my husband.

It used to drive me up the wall.

Until I thought, right y'bugger.

And I got better than him at it.

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