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..

[GlitzAndGiggles]

Jason Manford always takes the piss out of us southerners and I laugh at it. Life's too short to get worked up over it!

[HaroldLloyd]

Yes yes welsh here too.

Whose coat is that jacket. And sheep.

[HaroldLloyd]

Sorry beer

Give them absinthe?

[WestieMamma]

YABU
My northern relatives send me presents wrapped in ManU wrapping paper. That is offensive.

[MsVestibule]

FFS beer it's obviously path. Don't be giving your poor mixed up children any of them fancy London ways.

[southeastastra]

it must be hard to people to live up north and it must be so boring of them, so humouring them is the kindest reaction

[Binkyridesagain]

The only way to have a decent pint down south is to have it with lemonade.

Learn how to pour a beer properly and us northerners might reconsider the insults.

[MsVestibule]

I understand, beer, these mixed culture relationships can be a bit tricky. I live in a NE ex pit village. Everyone round here thinks I speak like the queen (although I do pronounce flat 'a's). My DH has a Geordie accent. My DS sounds like Little Lord Fauntleroy. My DD speaks like a Geordie fishwife.

[lolaisafuckertoo]

Fair enough. I shall give them the v's next time we are in town...which might well be the last. if I have my way. we shall tool off back down to the south where the weather is better too..

[Piscivorus]

We have a mixed marriage as I am a scouser and DH is a woollyback. Grew up about half an hour away from each other but families speak with totally different accents and act like we've both married foreigners

[morethanpotatoprints]

Does the cap fit?
Well, if not perhaps laugh it off with the good sense of humour us northern folk have, with our flat caps and clogs.

[morethanpotatoprints]

BonesandSkully

Sweaty Betty, Going down Blackpool for a fight, OMG had forgotten the mac Lads.

[BrianTheMole]

I can drink my northern monkey relatives under the table. No shandy round here. The lightweights.

[colleysmill]

This thread reminded me of the film "It's nice up North" with John Shuttleworth about his efforts to show well, it's nice up north and the corresponding sequel "It's soft down South"

[MadAsFish]

Tell them to get off phone, take whippet out and feed pigeons.

This cracked me up.

[TheGinLushMinion]

I call my lovely friend from Kent a 'shandy drinking southerner' It is said in jest as I hold her very dear.
OP, take yourself to the grip shop & purchase one, taking it far to personally & no I wouldn't advise you to use the term 'northern monkey' it's NEVER a good idea & certainly not an affectionate term...

[SaucyJack]

Aren't you contradicting yourself a bit there GinLush?

They're either both terms of endearment or both offensive. One isn't worse than the other.

[SaucyJack]

(Should that be t'other?)

[TheGinLushMinion]

Where am I contradicting myself?
Say both things out loud-do they both sound like terms of endearment?
No I thought not.
My shandy drinking southerner wouldn't dream of calling me a fucking monkey, nor her DH.

[Wallison]

Oh God so it's 'offensive' now? Ffs.

[TheGinLushMinion]

Amazingly all northerners aren't from Yorkshire either
Though granted that may be a soh fail from over the Watford gap...