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?!

There's a woman on my local community FB group who goes on about being from Leeds whenever anyone asks about which local fish and chips shop is the best. She says she is best qualified to answer as she's from Leeds!

That’s because she’s right

I went to Oxford, and to be honest, no one who didn’t also go there is going to recognise a college name name-dropped.

I get a different version. People from the same part of England as me seem to want to own me as part of their clan. I haven't lived there for 40 years, I haven't got the accent, I don't like it there and I never go back.

I mean, if someone is banging on about ‘my Oxford college’, that’s pretty tiresome, but is anyone going to be saying, ‘When I was at New/Pembroke/Blackfriars...’?

@OpusAnglicanum

Yes, I know those, and also the people who go on and on about being either working class or middle class.

Usually with Get Us We’re So Middle Class thing it’s people who haven’t been middle class that long and don’t realise yet that they aren’t supposed to talk about it.

Oh god yes.

Working class = “I’m just salt of the earth, me”
Middle class (but aspirational, rather than proper) = “oh and then oliver asked for a brioche!! Is there anything more middle class! Maybe if his sister Olivia asked for some olives on the side ha ha ha ha!”

Brioche, olives, and the names oliver and Olivia are all perfectly bloody normal average things

@Wabe

I mean, if someone is banging on about ‘my Oxford college’, that’s pretty tiresome, but is anyone going to be saying, ‘When I was at New/Pembroke/Blackfriars...’?

How about “when I went to Oxford, brookes college”?

My dad's from a town in the south Wales valleys and he never shuts up about it. My nan and grandad were the same. I'm used to it as I grew up with it, but it drives my Mum insane. It's gotten to the point that my Mum now hates the Welsh. All because she's sick of having Wales and Welsh culture rammed down her throat for the past 30yrs! I personally think it's a bit harsh to take it out on the entire country of Wales but I can see how it's irritating over such a long period of time.

@SmiledWithTheRisingSun
This isn't a great line.

That’s always a classic, @ShirleyPhallus.

Noblegreenk, tell your mum sorry on behalf of the Valleys and Wales

What I find slightly annoying is people that claim to be from somewhere they aren’t, just because their grandparents lived there for a short time

For example, where i am from ALOT of young people 20-30 have a fascination with claiming they’re from Ireland, when they aren’t. They were born here, so were their parents. But because their grandparents lived there as children and came to England when they were young they think they’re full fledged Irish.

Be proud of your heritage of course but I just find it very odd when there people claim to not be English at all when they were born and bred here and haven’t stepped foot in Ireland

Oh watch out there's a joke overhead! @1Morewineplease & @Neonprint

I try not to draw attention to the fact I’m from Croydon.

@ViciousJackdaw : Liverpool by any chance?😉

LBXXX I wonder if that's similar to people saying they are Italian-American even though their family had been in America for centuries and most have never stepped foot in Italy.

@SmiledWithTheRisingSun

Speaking as a Londoner, I've never even heard of any of these places 🤷‍♀️

Shut up!!!! 😁

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 >>>> 🥱

I get this too, I’m from the North East but live in the South, I hated it there, couldn’t get out fast enough and haven’t been back in over a decade yet I used to have one colleague who was from Liverpool (so not even close to where I’m from) who would constantly talk about how “The North” was the best place on earth, Gods country etc etc and expect me to agree. Nah, if it was that great I wouldn’t be here, would I?

So are we supposed to be ashamed of being Welsh or from The Valleys?

I suppose that people of the other UK countries never mention it

I once worked with quite a few people from Manchester, at a company based in East Anglia. They were massively Professionally Northern and Professionally Mancunian and really did go on about it a lot, often insinuating that as 'southerners' we must be some sort of rivals. I've never met a single person from East Anglia who is militantly southern

Sorry. That was to the whose coat is that jacket... hanging on the floor.

A very good friend had a few of these. I miss him and his Wenglish.

I have come across several people who go on and on about how great their home country/town etc is compared with where they live. It’s so great but none of them will go back even if they get the chance to. They make every excuse under the sun about why they can’t return.

Ha ha yes, some people will always let you know where they are from (it’s usually Yorkshire, Wales or Cornwall)

Also in my time on the planet I have never heard someone say WHOSE COAT IS THAT JACKET.