An Irish person would never say this

[yodelehoho]

"I'm thinking of moving to the north east, where can you recommend"

Neither would a Scottish person, not a Welsh person.

Why do English people seem to think that everything revolves around England? I see this time and time again on Mumsnet. People assuming that "North East" is flipping England.

I live in the North, OP.

My OH went out earlier as he said he had meeting in Halifax this afternoon.

I'm now wondering whether he'll be back in time for Sunday lunch as his parents are coming over.

He'd better not have forgotten!

ShellyBoobsIs Jon Snow your husband?

Does anyone think the Maastricht Treaty could sort out crisp packet colours as well as it did regions?

www.rareirishstuff.com/blog/tayto-crisps.5303.html maybe I was wrong but I don't remember this

Green salt and vinegar is more wrong.
I think they are equally wrong. My wrong is just as valid as yours. I also think that, in these troubled times, TizzyDongue is taking the right approach...

Splendid:

“What's confusing about it? So someone writes "me and DP live in the South" and you're like "OMG I thought this poster meant Kilkenny, this changes my WHOLE opinion of the OP and everything I ever thought has turned out to be a lie"?”

No. More like the example the OP gave, asking for recommendations in the North East. The region I’d default to thinking of as “the North East” is Aberdeenshire and round there - so not much help to the OP if she’s looking at Newcastle!

Honestly, it is not a massive national-grievance English-are-bastards thing, it’s just a minor annoyance. Telling people that they have massive chips on their shoulder for pointing it out is weird, though. Why wouldn’t you want to know if you’re inadvertently confusing people? Why take it so personally as a slight against England? Weird.

Also Salt’N’Shake were Smiths. You could sill get them a couple of years ago but they’re rubbish now, I remember them as much more exciting. Boooo.

Huh?

Hope he's on the m62 shelly and not that dreary passage through the valley.

ShellyBoobs
I live in the North, OP.

That could technically be anywhere on the whole planet unless you were standing on the South Pole. Even then there would be room for debate depending on whether you were on the magnetic or geographic South Pole.

There's no point comparing it to American websites. The UK is more than one country but all stuck with each other is a fairly unique relationship (I don't actually know if there's other groups of countries like us).

@splendidisolation the yellow and red bread would be a Brennans pan

Now Nutty crust, where do we stand on bread for crisp sandwiches? I kind of sway on this, it depends on my mood.

"I'm thinking of moving to the north east, where can you recommend"

Well they would, but the'd mean Louth or whatever!

You have a good point but this wasn't a very good way to make it. Yes, posters on this site tend to forget it is international and phrase lots of things as if we should all know that they are living in England and what they mean by various english things.
And they can be very rude when its pointed out as well.

FRAZZLES!!

That is all.

The North West (Manchester etc), the North East (Newcastle etc), the South East (Kent etc) and so on are used as proper nouns to describes a specific region in England.

If someone says they are moving to the North West, I know where they mean. If they say they are moving to the north west, I'll ask 'north west of where?'.

Even my phone is trying to capitalise North West as a phrase. It lets 'north' be 'north', but as soon as you tag 'west' onto it (which in itself is not autocapitalised), it becomes North West.

FRAZZLES!! yes your so right! No I’m starving

Spirals too

I live in Northern Ireland. I read NE and think of England automatically.

I suppose the onus is on the poster to.clarify where .... and in the.absence of clarification, the answer is NE England (in my head anyway..)

Honestly, it is not a massive national-grievance English-are-bastards thing, it’s just a minor annoyance. Telling people that they have massive chips on their shoulder for pointing it out is weird, though.

The thing is though, the OP was, well, a bit rude. Why do English people seem to think that everything revolves around England? and What I'm saying is that a Welsh person or a Scottish or Irish person would not be so presumptious as to think that everything evolves around their country. and then she accused us of dribbling, I think. She probably does have a chip on her shoulder.
I'm disappointed if the salt and shake are not as glorious as once they were. Do you think they've changed or are we looking through rose-tinted taste buds?
I stand by my assertion that blue cheese and onion are the most wrong.

I was always taught in school (Ireland) you only use Éire if you continue the rest of the sentence in Irish.

rightnowimpissed - no, he's not quite that grey yet.

oldlaundbooth he probably will have gone on the 62. My worry is that he's actually headed to a Manchester for a flight to Nova Scotia.

I never thought to ask which Halifax; I assumed he meant the one that's 15 miles away!

I do believe the crisps have been ruined by new recipes for example monster munch, I mean the yellow one is pretty similar but the purple one used to be red and it’s terrible now.

You see my apologies ShellyBoobs you see another example of when you don’t qualify a description I meant like king of the north you know nothing Jon snow and you read it as read the news Jon snow.

I haven't RTFT but I've read quite a bit and I cannot believe how many people don't understand the OP.

Her issue is, if someone from Scotland who lived in Glasgow wanted recommendations for something in Aberdeen, if they decided to post on mumsnet, they'd say Aberdeen or the North of Scotland or some such. I too have noticed that in posts where a country isn't specified, it always seems to be someone English. It's that disregard for the neighbouring nationals in the UK. Its true that this also happens a lot on TV etc and I suppose it does get annoying at times. We're meant to all be part of the United Kingdom but since we have smaller populations, it feels like we aren't even a consideration half the time, lucky to even be an afterthought.

My bet is that it's a crisp sandwich.