AIBU for wanting to move up north to find a real man

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I live in London and travel on the tube each day. Today I was sat next to a guy writing notes in a Winnie the Pooh diary, complete with Eeyore on the corner of each page. On the other side to me was a guy reading Twilight. Not only do I see grown men reading Harry Potter, there was one guy playing the "Little Girl App" on his iPad the other day. Really fed up with sitting next to men with Lady Gaga blasting out of their headphones...

All I want to know is, where are the real men at? AIBU for thinking you wouldn't get this up north.

That is so so so weird weird weirdy weird like a weird thing!

Oops, wrong thread.

LMFAO. I think you could mix it up in AIBU by writing "That is so so so weird weird weirdy weird like a weird thing!"

OP - don't bother. We all like pastel shades and read Kierkegaard over breakfast.

hth.

I've got a Geordie DH who is impartial to a bit of football but does wear tshirts every single day. Even for work.

In my old estate they just walk around topless in a 'look at me' way

@ pan.

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oh i absoloutely believe you pan. coming from you it could only be the truth.

Right I'm off to bed to dream about my rain soaked, t-shirt wearing, beard combing, poetry burning, Yorkie Bar eating, football loving, beer drinking, non calorie counting, kilt wearing hunk of a northern man.

If you know anyone that fits my criteria let me know.

havent read all

i was with a northener for 3yrs,a real alpha male he over time mentaly abused me,then beat the crap out of me,tried to get rid of my friends etc etc

maybe i was unlucky and i know a few northeners and know they are not all the same but the males i meet seem very traditional and controlling,

have now learnt my lesson and will stick to southern softies,me thinks

Aye, love. Get yerself up norf and find yerself a reet good proper Bradford boy.
Eh, right grand it be too.

Just go find a farmer, north, south, east or west it's hard to be poncy when up to your eyebrows in mud and shit. You'll need to look like you'd feed him a square meal while carrying a calf on each hip mind.

I'm yorkshire farming stock but married an Asian Welshman, twas the only way to be absolutely sure he wasn't a relative, so yeah come round our way we could do with the gene pool diluting

Would agree wholeheartedly about farmers.

:)

I'm in London but DP is from the north. He was born in Dublin, grew up in Birmingham, joined the army at 16 and settled in the north after he left the army. He worked in London so much that it was easier to live here. We joke about the North/South divide but usually it's the language that divides us. Almost every week he uses an expression I've never heard before. He regularly wears a coat, wears after shave daily and is indifferent to football so I guess he might as well be a southerner.

"i was with a northener for 3yrs,a real alpha male he over time mentaly abused me,then beat the crap out of me,tried to get rid of my friends etc etc"

Sadly this is my experience also.

Also all this "real men" stuff irks me, sorry.

I'd rather be with someone genuine, intelligent, caring and loving. Whether that's an "alpha male" type dripping with testosterone or a sensitive, "pink jumper wearing" (seriously? ) non-football loving person.

This thread is like we've gone back 40 years! Really depressing.

And "poetry burning?" are you for real?

....he won't have a job though.

Totally agree with OP. DP is a poncey Southerner - known to come out with things like "I met someone today who had never eaten ciabatta - can you imagine?" Wish I was exaggerating

A couple of weeks ago I got off the train in my Midlands homeland and was greeted by a load of men in football shirts with beer bellies and shaven heads. I thought to myself, these are REAL men. I love DP but sometimes I think I'd rather go out with someone who makes us late because he's checking the football scores, not trying to straighten his fringe just right

threeleftfeet This is just a light-hearted post.

PMSL @ flibbertigibbert. The Ciabatta thing is hilarious.

My schoolfriend from back up North got back in touch after about a decade. Turned out she'd married the fat, blonde, choirboy looking lad who said behind us in geography and used to pull our pigtails. I was amazed. Until I went to visit them - he was now working her family farm, was 6'3", huge muscles, drop dead ruddy gorgeous hunk of manhood. I was soooo jealous. Much as I love soft Southern dh and all that I can't see him dealing efficiently with a herd of cows or picking up a pig in each arm.

Sadly the farm went west - was losing money hand over first - so her dh has retrained as an undertaker. But he's still flipping gorgeous and they still live on the farm (land rented out to other farmers).

YABU.
If there are any decent single Northern men available they're MINE!

Dh is very much an alpha male but is also kind, loving and nice.

Forget the stereotypes because it was my well to do weedy ex that was a complete bastard.

DH is a northener
he wouldn't be seen dead wearing pink or reading twilight or harry potter or listening to lady gaga or take that
he can deal with spiders and has just rodded the drains