to wonder why it seems to be acceptable to be so negative about people from the North?

[TeacupTempest]

Every day on here I see references to people from the North being less educated, less literate, less fashionable and so on.

How is that acceptable?

There are so many sweeping generalisations going on.

It's ignorant and it winds me up

North of? Lands End? Or London?

It's usually when people are trying to be tongue in cheek and 'a bit controversial', I find. You're right though, it is a bit ignorant.

I'll answer when you can tell me why it's ok for those in the North to be so down on those in the South :)

Doesn't everyone who posts on MN live in London?

You would think it sometimes

anyway I live in the Midlands ,so I have an identity crisis

In folk ballads and stories, all the Bad Things come from the North.
It's tradition.

There are some comments on the "I am Sitting Here" thread nearby: "Grim up North" etc.

Yes and the whole, entire South of England is a bed of pretty, lightly scented roses.

These sort of comments do happen quite a lot. Possibly these comments are from people who have only ever been to Chapetown in Leeds. It is a bit grim there I'll grant you.

That's weird. If anything I would have said it's the other way round.

Have you been reading the supermarket thread.

That should be Chapeltown sorry.

PS - I used to live in Leeds, but am now "down't South!".

I don't want to link as I don't want this to be a personal attack on anyone. It just seems that there are often comments about the "North" that are less than complimentary in very stereotypical way.

It happens the other way too. My ex boxfriend who had a slight North London accent got called a "cockney wanker" when we were out in Manchester (where I'm from).

It's about 50:50 in my opinion, which is much better than being ignored if you are neither from the North or London [Sigh].

I don't take it too seriously tbh, though I'm a Northerner and fiercely proud of it. I live in the most beautiful part of the world, but I'm fully aware that some people think it must look like Corrie, with pigeons and whippet shit everywhere, in a house valued at £12.50

or nor

before the grammar police come and get me for that appalling misuse of the English language.

Was he a cockney wanker Insomnia11?

would you like to come to my secret supper club?

So is southerner bashing ok then strandedbear? because i've seen a LOT of that going on!

Really? I think its seems far more acceptable to go on about people from the South being soft/wankers/rich/snobby/ignorant etc.

I am a southerner and am hard/nonwankerish/poor/liberal and very clever.

So of course I just laugh those comments off ha ha ha ha

It's because everyone's jealous of us. Northerners rule :)

Chapeltown isn't that bad any more. Now, Gipton... That's rough.

Jenni... - I learned to drive on the streets of Gipton. Someone tried to smash the car windscreen when I was stopped at a T-junction.

EvenLessNarkyPuffin

Not a cockney anyway.

Read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Or better still watch the DVD with Richard Armitage swoon. Explains a lot. I did the opposite to the heroine and left the "dark satanic mills" for the leafy rural south.

This is going to degenerate into a North/South slanging match, isn't it? I don't think I've seen any of these comments either way on MN. Unless the OP can give concrete examples then I think it's a non argument.

Well, as a neutral Scot I think it's a bit 50/50 but I see it as more lighthearted than anything else.
I've had family in Sussex and Yorkshire btw and used to go down and visit often and liked both places as much as the other.