AIBU in finding comments such as "soft shandy drinking southern bastard"

[lolaisafuckertoo]

from my husbands Northern family, beyond insulting. Card from FIL with usual sentiment on it for DH for birthday. Similar comments from the fleet of twats during Xmas day Skype (we are abroad for the moment). given that the grand daughter is southern i.e. born here. I am also born in the south east. I want to tell them all to just fuck off northern fucking monkeys.
I don't think it is funny. DH doesn't seem to think so....but then his dad is always less funny than he really is..

[Custardo]

dont be such a southern fairy tight arse po face OP

is just a thing

we call southerners shandy driniing fairies

and you call us knuckle dragging cave men and such

if you can't give as much as you get - its cos you drink too much shandy

[LittleBabyPigsus]

What about us Midlanders? We always get left out

[PumpkinPositive]

Wonder what people in say, south Sudan, think of those poor oppressed northerners

Maybe OP should emigrate there then. No "northern fucking monkeys" to have to make pleasantries with.

[bellablot]

Oh god get yourself a sense of humour. It's not you they are saying it too anyway it's your DH, who clearly finds it funny. And I'm not sure throwing insults at northerners whilst protesting to be insulted by southerner comments is such a good idea!

[BloominNora]

I used to know a bloke from Doncaster who referred to anyone who came from south of Sheffield as a 'Soft Southerner'

I used to tell him he was a northern numpty amongst other things

[ComposHat]

In the interest of full disclosure, I am originally from the English Midlands and now live in Scotland so get to hate you soft southern tory bastards and your rickets infested northern in laws equally.

[TondelayoSchwarzkopf]

What about us Midlanders? We always get left out

Nah, when in Yorkshire we get put with Southerners, in London, they think we're 'northern'. It's the best worst of both worlds.

[hugoagogo]

This will not end well.

As a 'southener' I know that the south is not a dreamland where everyone is rich and happy and somehow priviliged.

As someone who has lived in the north for over 20 years, I also know that it is not universally grim and deprived (I have been to bettys )

These sort of comments (and I mean yours as well as your bil's) are unhelpful divisive and insulting and reflect badly on the person doling them out. I wish people would get over it.

[Blu]

The thing about us softy southern shandy drinkers is that we can endure a bit of teasing without having to reach for a packet of tissues.

Isn't it?

(but then I am a Midlander, now living the SE dream rolling in wealth etc, oooh, yes).

also, op, have you considered that the issue here is not the N-S divide, but the fact that they are men, and men will take the piss out of each other for preferring Smoky Bacon to Cheese and onion?

Tissue?

[SaucyJack]

I can see the Sussex sea from my lounge window...... and I'd still drink any of you Northern monkeys under any amount of tables.

North?south banter doesn't really bother me (as you can probably tell)

[ChippingInWadesIn]

BTP -

Bones - just off to youtube it

OP - stop being such a twat or something else beginning with T... let me think... that's it twonk or something.

[NinjaPenguin]

My exDP is a tough old northerner. He lived in a really, really posh area with private schools and so on, my area has a high rate of poverty, deprivation and unemployment, and is the opposite of posh!

[HaroldLloyd]

Next time you visit why not mainline three bottles of absinthe and call them all cunts?

That would solve it, I think.

[harriet247]

Well im welsh.

[aderynlas]

Taffies or sheep shaggers is what we get. Cant say it bothers me.

[meganorks]

Its just age old north/south banter. It has been going on for all time. Most of unit was spent mocking the other group. No harm meant. No one takes it seriously. Lighten up.

[nauticant]

I'm terrible sorry to hear that harriet247.

[GlitzAndGiggles]

My northern family always call me a southern softy and I call them northern monkeys. I'd never take offence to it it's just banter to me

[Joysmum]

You give us southern softies a bad name. FFS, develop a sense of humour

[harriet247]

And ive got too english an accent to fit in :(