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hugopal

bosstrabs Brummie food, not Northern

Birmingham is north of the Watford Gap, and a shithole - ergo, Northern.

bosstrabs

Hugo, no-one in Birmingham considers it the north, everyone considers it the Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics considers it the Midlands.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/eurostat

This Watford Gap nonsense is just idiocy spouted by southerners.

hugopal

bosstrabs The Office for National Statistics considers it the Midlands.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/eurostat

The ONS also counts ‘Yorkshire and The Humber’ as its own category; doesn’t mean it’s not still a part of the North.

Maybe some people in Birmingham would rather think of themselves as being better than that, but far from it. At the end of the day, the country has a North/South divide - there’s not a North/South divide plus a bit that’s kind of a mix of the two; ultimately Brum is just another northern shithole.

Hursty

bosstrabs yeah that Watford gap line has been overused for decades

bosstrabs

hugopal If there is a north-south divide, most Northerners say it’s anywhere south of Stoke.

So fuck off with your Watford Gap nonsense, we both disown the Midlands.

Ask a Yorkshireman what he thinks of Nottinghamshire. He’ll spit on the floor if he’s of a certain age.

hugopal

bosstrabs we both disown the Midlands

Grim post-industrial hellscape + dodgy accent = North.

Sorry Dave, I don’t make the rules.

Amps

bosstrabs anywhere south of Stoke

Crewe is also stated as a border. Nowhere south of Crewe use ‘luv’ as a term of endearment.

SM001

No cinemas as to preserve the flourishing weed reserves.

bosstrabs

Let’s not do accents, because chavvy Hampshire (especially Portsmouth) knocks almost anything in the North into a cocked hat.

hugopal

bosstrabs Portsmouth+Southampton chavs do sound like utter melts, but they’re still southern-accent imitating melts; it’s considered “mockney” for a reason.

Brummie is one of the patchwork of more distinct, regional northern monstrosities.

bosstrabs

Liverpool and Manchester have some coolness and credibility. Have done ever since the days when Liverpool (60s) and Manchester (80s) were the coolest cities in the country. Geordie sounds pleasant on the ears.

Hampshire is some bizarre combination of agricultural yokel and Southern council estate.

Brummie and Coventry are horrific accents. They belong to you.

hugopal

bosstrabs Brummie and Coventry are horrific accents. They belong to you.

Amps Crewe is also stated as a border. Nowhere south of Crewe use ‘luv’ as a term of endearment.

More pertinently, the Watford Gap is the line at which the split between the short ‘a’ and long ‘a’ in ‘bath’ occurs.

Birmingham is clearly in the short ‘a’ pronunciation territory, therefore it’s a northern accent…

bosstrabs

The Church of England split it this way… (we can do this all day, Hugo, you boring twit)

hugopal

bosstrabs The Church of England split it this way…

Who cares about the CofE? Outdated.

Football > The Church

bosstrabs

So Oxford and Kings Lynn are ‘oop north’ now?

OK.

Along_the_Wire

Fuck me, by entering the weeds from the deep end, Dave has let himself down big time here

LT42

THE WATFORD GAP IN THE SOUTH JUST BELOW THE NORTH WHEN YOU HAVE A CERTAIN ACCENT WEEDS

LT42

I’ve flown a beautiful Lancaster bomber into East Midlands airport which is NORTH of Birmingham.
On a side note, I also flew a Spitfire head first into the sheds at RAF Waddington after the cat knocked out the USB cable to my new Thrustmaster yoke. Fuckin prick.

Along_the_Wire

LT42 any Hercules at RAF Lyneham?

hugopal

LT42 I’ve flown a beautiful Lancaster bomber into East Midlands airport

Crikey LT, hasn’t the region already suffered enough?!

LT42

Along_the_Wire there’s not any good models of the Hercules unfortunately. There are some mods and an effort by serial conmen CaptainSim but nothing of note. I’m gonna splash out on the Vulcan soon, a bonafide cold war classic out of RAF Scampton. Tally Ho!

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