Ey oop, is it April t'first? Degree in Northern-ness

[UnquietDad]

Article here

I imagine this will atttract all sorts of people wanting to come and "study" the funny northern folk. "But there will be no place for northern cliches on the course." Hmm. I wonder if Stuart Maconie's "Pies & Prejudice" will be on the reading list.

what a load of crap.

fuckin 'ell

Can you imagine a degree in "Southern-ness"?... No, me neither.

bizarre idea

yes i can - essays on how to be soft as shyte

pmsl

Will they offer a degree in Southerness with soft bastard things like running away from a fight and such like?

x posted uqd, sorry, repeated you

I am a Southerner living in the north. Maconie points out in his book that whenever you get a BBC radio play, for example, set in the "provinces", it always has to be somehow about the characters' Scousity or Tykeism or Geordietude or Welshness, as if it needs a reason for being set beyond the M25. As he puts it "the fact that most of the country lives there seemingly isn't enough".

deliberate over use of coriander

for the northern transient population " how to eat chips without gravy"

Chips and gravy really bemused me when I first came up here. I was picturing runny Oxo-type gravy making the chips soggy, not rich dark stuff for dipping. Love it now.

..few more subjects for southerners to study...

you are not mad if you pass time of day with people at bus stops..

how to stop saying adding silent 'g' to words

special field trip ...to discover life north of watford

stop referring to UK as England...

Why do "David Hockney, Tony Harrison, Henry Moore, the Beatles" have to be pigeon-holed as "Northern" and studied on a special "Northern" course? Bizarre idea.

would the degree on southerness have a module on shandy drinking?

Eh 'up miduck, can I 'ave a first class honours then????

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think is fab idea

will join up and myther about how they're getting it all wrong

which is part of my West Yorkshire culture

there should be a degree in southerness as well,what about equality?

they could teach northern people that there really are working class and unemployed people in the south,and not every southerner speaks either cockney or RP.

i remember being asked if i wanted a meat+potato pie for my dinner when i first moved up here.i asked 'what meat is it?' and was looked at like i was mad.

10 years on,i reckon its a mixture of dog and seagull.

oh god yes diva we are so thick and misinformed

it is a good job we have a 100% southern national press to keep us abridged of the diversity you enjoy

Well cappucino I do get ever so slightly miffed that 'southern' is usually interchangeable with London and the Home Counties. Some of us 'southerners' are from different bits of the south.

Of course as my granny was born in Ilkely I could pretend to northern status I suppose

Orm I do think you're right it is Londoncentric attitudes that are annoying

very very annoying

Gravy for dipping? ROFL, the whole idea is to get chips in a tray with gravy over the top, they're supposed to be soggy, yer daft ha'p'orth (or however you spell it)

ay, lad, tha knows thee is in Yorkshire..the M1 is cobbled.

In Morrisons in Guiseley there used to be a big sign hanging over the fruit an d veg section that said "Good Brown Gravy Onions".

You don't get that in Waitrose in St Ives...