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 will be nice to you when you explain wtf Little Roy is all about, Ireland. It’s a cartoon live action mockumentary superhero preschooler show? What?

(thanks for the rain stuff though)

And yes, as another poster pointed out, the North East is a specific and recognised region of England, so it's perfectly acceptable to refer to it as such and expect people in the UK to know what you're talking about.

Rte is terrible. So bad. But we have a tiny budget!

Still it's so strange, I know rationally it's the BBC and U.K. Funded so I know logical reasons for not showing Ireland. I know!

But every time the BBC weather I think, oh, wonder what what it'll be here... oh! Ireland is not there... grrrr! It's kind of funny.

Donegal is not in the north east!

joke

But you know what the weather is going to be like. It'll piss it down, sun will come out, drizzle will fall, repeat x20 until nightfall. 😁

My favourite thing about Ireland is Taytos. HELL YEAH!!!!!

You must have worked your way through a long list of complaints about English people to get to this one.

^^ This

But honestly this London/south focus so many people go on about is incredibly tiresome. Is it never to be mentioned in case it upsets someone who doesn't live there?

A cheese and onion Tayto sandwich using that sliced bread that comes in red and yellow wrapping.

the North East is a specific and recognised region of England

Yes! It is! But. Other countries have North Easts too. So other people in the UK might well not know which one you mean, if you just say “the North East” without specifying further.

Sorry but Antrim is never considered to be the North East. (howling with laughter)

The North East is a specific area in the United Kingdom.

I'm never, ever going to get these 3 minutes back, am I?

But honestly this London/south focus so many people go on about is incredibly tiresome. Is it never to be mentioned in case it upsets someone who doesn't live there?

It's not as stupid as starting up a whole anti-English thread on the basis that they use the name of a region to refer to that region.

Tayto is cheese and onion and should always be eaten with Veda bread.

I fucking love Tayto.

Boards.ie does have a board "The Ladies Lounge" and another "Family" (with sub-topics on Adoption, Pregnancy, Teens etc). It's also got the very popular "After Hours" which is a bit like AIBU and _Chat combined. And there is "Sunshine, Rainbows and Lollipops" for when you need cheering

How is it “anti-English”? God, people are ridiculously prickly about this. Nobody’s suggesting that Plaid Cymru break into your house at night and steal all your sofas, FFS - they’re just pointing out that not everyone shares the same frame of reference you do.

elendon oops yes just realized my mistake! Dublin would be worse, all the Irish people I know here hate people in Dublin more than the English. And any other northerners...

On a serious note I do wish people would stop being so serious! We are more united than divided, and a lot of my close Irish friends do get really annoyed when anyone has a go at me just for being English.

It's really easy to English bash, but it's as racist as any other stereotype.

Little Roy is bonkers. Enjoyably bonkers (would rather watch 10 hours straight of Little Roy than 10 minutes of the fucking Regular Show, the biggest pile of crap ever made, with the worst and most annoying voices in the entire universe), but still, bonkers.

Guess what. Most English people actually like other parts of the Uk (and N Ireland) anf its peoples and don't intentionally offend. We get fed up with English bashing though.

In England we commonly refer to areas such as: The South/ The North/ The Midlands etc... there are great big bloody signs saying "Welcome To The North" when you drive up there.
It's just what the areas are called.

If I said The North in Ireland you'd probably find it odd because it's commonly known as Northern Ireland. - no?

Then of course there's us Londoners who just mean North or South of the river

I'm just jizzing myself with excitement that not only has the midlands been acknowledged as being an actual thing on this thread but that it been acknowledged as being split into East Midlands and West Midlands. I'm off to appreciate the wonder and majesty of this lovely city that i call home, a city that is neither North, South or West, but proudly occupying a space in England in the middle to the right a bit.

Well the Eire/ROI question has been resolved for me so I'm happy (and better informed ).

Although I hate Taytos.

Which is very anti Irish. I clearly don't belong.

I could swear I've heard the north- east referred to meaning Humberside on the BBC.