To think that this is really outdated?

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I was amazing to see this card today in a shop! Could you imagine the uproar if this was any other social group!

Yeah it's lazy and not funny.

@RockinHippy I agree on the poverty in the NE. We live in NE moved after living in London for several years. Of course not everyone is deprived. But there are huge issues with poverty and few opportunities to get out of it. In my job I work with communities and have to be aware of statistical data on deprivation. The county I work in has seen a significant rise in areas which are in the most deprived.

I find it insulting tbh.

Imagine replacing ‘people up North’ with black people or disabled people. Would that sound funny then?

Build I do think the rich poor divide is visibly much wider, much more easily up there too. I wouldn't say my family are rolling in it, here in the south they wouldn't be able to afford the properties & lifestyles that they have now with the incomes they have, but on the surface they all have huge houses with land & plenty of spare income for holidays etc, which is a huge contrast to the poorer areas

I'm a Northerner abd I found it funny. But then us northerners are tough, unlike you southern softies :P

@BuildBuildings what county is that? NE concerned resident 🙋🏻‍♀️

Surely the joke is on Southerners who think that Oop North is all coal in the bath and dripping butties?!

I fancy a dripping butty now!

I find it insulting tbh.

Imagine replacing ‘people up North’ with black people or disabled people. Would that sound funny then?

I hope you're not being serious.

Oh FFS.

You can turn just about anything offensive if you choose to.

Imagine replacing ‘people up North’ with black people or disabled people. Would that sound funny then?

Of course not, don't be ridiculous. Do you really need that to be spelt out for you? How can you even think they're comparable is ludicrous.

I’m Scottish. I’m not offended. I just don’t find it funny.

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Yawn. It’s not terribly funny for a card that’s supposed to be!

I find it funny but then you couldn’t pay me to live in the south tbh

It's not offensive to me personally, but eye-rollingly boring. The north/south divide banter is so tedious and repetitive listening to it.

To be fair, if you live in Bury St Edmunds you need a laugh. If we allow the PC brigade to destroy all humour like this we're stuffed, and before anyone mounts their high horse I'm from the North, where the M6 is cobbled, but I live near Bury, not the black pudding one, the one in Suffolk.

I don't find it particularly funny, I'm from the far north (Inverness is doon sooth) but live in a pocket of extreme affluence in the English NE. But my experience is that it's the southerners in the family who live in poverty with their tiny flats and no cars.

but I live near Bury, not the black pudding one, the one in Suffolk

And what a very nice place that is too:)

@foodiefil Northumberland. Its where I work, I live in different NE County. There is a link to the report summary here:
www.northumberland.gov.uk/Northumberland-Knowledge-and-JSNA/Our-Community-and-Place/Classifications.aspx

I'm a Northerner and I laughed.

I think it's more making fun of Southern Socialites and their snobbery TBH!