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.

There is nothing sexier to me than a man reading Harry Potter.

What, one that reads Nuts magazine instead of Harry Potter and plays Grand Theft Auto instead of the "Little Girl" game? Perhaps one that listens to Odd Future instead of Lady Gaga? Go for it.

I wouldn't bother with East Midlanders.

They are all stunted, have webbed feet, and are inbred share one of 5 variants on a surname.

This thread is one of those that just keeps on giving. Loving the comments. I am seriously considering looking up one of those farmer dating sites though. Anyone got a link?

edam i will show that comment t all my farming friends down here

DH is for Kent and can give anyone a run for their money.

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Sorry Facebook. I've tried most of em. Lots of lorry drivers on them. :(

YADNBUAA!!!

My dad warned me against men;

1. who use umbrellas
2. dont drink

I met a Yorkshireman in London - 23 years later he still won't buy me a bunch of flowers from the corner shop "because it's a bit wet to be seen walking along 'street wi flowers". Pink shirt - nooooooooooo. Going out without a coat - in the snow - yes! After 20 years in the same house, he's starting to talk to the neighbours - now he's getting used to them

He sounds perfect to me, I don't talk to my neighbours either, and flowers make me sneeze.

Southern men arnt "poncey"

If this was a "I'm going south to find a real man" thread, all the northerners would be up in arms.

I expect that those men are very upset to find out that you don't want to date them. They'd weep every night!

Yes, FlyingFish, there'd be uproar!

Incidentally, I once had a Muslim work colleague, who used to always get out a book called, "how to fly a plane" on the bus. He generally got a seat to himself on a very crowded, popular route. Strategic thinking, eh?

TheFlyingFishFinger and TheBigJessie again... this is just a light-hearted thread. Not meant to be taken seriously.

sorry I didn't mean to copy your name into that TheBigJessie

We live in the South, but neither of us are from here. My northern-born-and-bred (County Durham) Guardian-reading feminist DH is a real man who isn't interested in football, never wears sports clothes, but isn't put off by cold wind or rain. He wouldn't read Harry Potter, but wouldn't think twice about writing a note in a Winnie-the-Pooh notebook if that was what's available.

fivegonemad, I'm sure farmers in the SW are real men too, but they don't have that gorgeous Yorkshire accent and dry sense of humour...

Married, does your dh push the pram? Back in the 80s when I was growing up in Yorkshire, there were plenty of grown men who would never push a pram because it was unmanly. That's woman's work, apparently. Don't think there's quite as much fuss about it these days, thankfully.

OK so no Yorkshire accent but the dry sense of humour is definitely alive and kicking down here.

edam it took a bit of persuading but once he knew jit was made in Guiseley he gave it a go but he would only push the it if he went out on his own with the baby. .

marriedinwhite what is with the only if its Northern thing? My dad went out and bought a shedload of Terrys Chocolate Oranges so he could be sure that they were made in York. Now they have moved the factory and he's run his stockpile out he sits with a grumpy grumpiER face every christmas, chocolate orangeless

Facebook I love the you copied TheBigJessies name into that, like she wasn't being lighthearted about the "how to fly a plane"

I have a 'thing' for NI men. I have a theory that there's an unwritten rule between northern Irish boys and Glaswegian girls.

If I ever meet him again, I bet he'll have Twilight on the bus. Twilight would be more disturbing in a neighbouring traveller's hands. I mean, when even a die-hard racist stops to think about it, no aspiring terrorist would be reading a flight manual in public! But a Twilight reader could genuinely love the books.