To be irritated by people who bang on about where they’re from

[Notfromthevalleys]

Couple of women where I work will NOT stop talking about how they’re from The Valleys (south Wales)
“Haha it’s the valley girl in me”
“Haha you can tell I’m from the valleys”
“You can take the girl out of the valley but you can’t take the valley out of the girl”

There is nothing remotely different or valley-esque about them as far as I can see, other than the fact that they keep harping on about the valleys as though being from there is some sort of pedigree.

There’s also a bloke who will not shut up about being a “Swansea lad”.

Is it a south walian thing?

I am from mid Wales and we all work in mid Wales so not like they’re a million miles away from home.

It’s like the Oxbridge people who name drop their college all the time. That’s annoying too, but I at least it’s a genuine achievement to go to Oxbridge.

I understand that people’s community and identity is important to them, but there’s just no need to bring it into everything.

Anyone else come across this and AIBU to let it grate on me so much?!

@Killergigglebunnies

I worked in London and had my fill of ‘I’m a northerner, blah, blah, blah!’ Well, if it’s so fucking great, back you go >>>> 🥱

Bloody well would if I could. Slight issue that my husbands job is specifically in a certain southern place that I've been trying to like for years but just don't as the people are pretty rude! I keep looking for the positives but the ridiculous house prices/rude and arrogant people/ boring flat countryside/lack of decent shops just doesn't cut it for me!!!

Not quite the same but I have a massive internal eyeball roll when people talk about the house they used to live in by name: "When we lived at The Vicarage, The Hawthorns", et al.

[quote EarthSight]@1Morewineplease That's not just a place thing though. There's always some twat in every workplace or social group which prides themselves on 'telling it how it is'. It's often a justification for blabbing anything inappropriate or hurtful thing that comes to their mind whilst refusing to take responsibility for it.[/quote]
I agree, but in my case, it wasn't 'some twat,' it was my whole team that took the mick out of me .
Similarly, most of my former brummie colleagues felt that it was ok to rub my nose in the fact that I had 'become' this overnight southerner . I can accept jolly japes but this was persistent, in both cases.

I loathe it when people pick on others by dint of where they were born or where they live.

@1Morewineplease Oh no :( We share experiences then. People like that are mostly insecure simpletons and attention seekers.

I was born in the north. Moved to London for about 5 years in my 20s. No one batted an eyelid. Then I moved to about 30 minutes south of Birmingham and was called a dirty southerner and every name under the sun. Apparently all southerners were dirty.
It seemed to escape their notice that I had a thick northern accent and in regards to me they were the southerners.

The downplaying thing - last century when I was travelling around Australia as a tourist/backpacker, I met a few "Canadians" who turned out to be actually American, but they told me they had the Canadian flag all over their luggage/backpacks, because they were treated better if they were thought to be Canadian than if they were known to be American.

I have copped the rudeness to southerners from people in Yorkshire - I used to jokingly say I had "dual nationaity" as my Dad is from Yorkshire and my Mum from around London. Whenever we would go up to visit Dad's family, some people would pick on Mum's voice in particular, as I would change mine to be more Yorkshire to fit in. "Soft southerners" is still something I remember well - just for being cold in a house with no central heating, in sub zero temps with ice on the inside of the windows!

@RedRec

Not quite the same but I have a massive internal eyeball roll when people talk about the house they used to live in by name: "When we lived at The Vicarage, The Hawthorns", et al.

The last house I lived in was apparently one the local GP lived in for decades before us. When speaking to people on the village they'd say "You live in Dr Reed's house!" No I live in my house. I think they thought I should be excited or something. 5 years this went on for, like I was an imposter. No big deal but the urge to eye roll each time was overwhelming

Grew up in Meath, born in the UK. Parents from the west of ireland living in London now

@Novelusername

There's nothing worse than Americans asking you if you're from London because that's the only place in the UK they've heard of, then attempting to do a British accent (ie. Cockney) by imitating Dick Van Dyck and expecting you to find it even vaguely original or funny. I would retaliate by asking them if they're from Alabama, (especially if they're clearly from New York) and then doing a redneck impression "now wait just a cotton-picking minute there, Billy-Bob!" And do it over and over again and see how hilarious they find it.

We had a excruciating encounter with a young man working at a hotel in Vancouver. Once he knew I was a Brit and DH was Irish and we lived in London he regaled us with all his wonderful accents - East Enders, Irish (just vague 'Irish' no county mentioned), Scottish, Liverpool etc. Every single one sounded Canadian to me!

Speaking of Canadians, there are a number of people in an online group that I'm in whose parents emigrated during the clearances

They live to advise us actual Scots on how to be Scottish

Plus they pronounce Gaelic the wrong way

Not parents

Ancestors.