wellyman Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 I shagged a girl from yorkshire on a pedalo of the coast of benidorm some years ago - so no complaints from me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86glebestreet Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 I shagged a girl from yorkshire on a pedalo of the coast of benidorm some years ago - so no complaints from me Are you the one on YouTube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnyTJS Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 (edited) There seems to be a few people struggling under a couple of misapprehensions in this thread. For a start, Leeds is totally atypical of Yorkshire. The place is a giant, aberrant, genetic and geographical mishap, akin to the rarely seen Khlamydia Kardashian whose morbidly obese hooligan antics are so unlike those of her fragrant sisters. But what I really don't get is this bizarre suggestion that the Lancastrian character trait of relentless up-for-it chirpiness is something to aspire to rather than condemn. Have we morphed into some parallel universe where Ken Dodd and his tickling stick are socially acceptable? The trans-Pennine dichotomy was embodied for me in my early TV viewing years: Jimmy Clitheroe, the high-pitched, cheeky Lancs midget filling the nation's living rooms with vacuous pap versus the mordant Yorkshireman Harry Worth inventing alternative comedy avant la lettre. So-irrepressibly-cheerful-as-to-be-completely-badgerÃng-annoying characterizes the whole Scouse / 'Madchester' / Accrington scene - thank God that while they had the Happy bleeding Mondays, we had Pulp - sums it up really: Edited November 29, 2014 by DonnyTJS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hovis fae Sunderland Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Since leaving Glasgow , I have not driven a car , no need as Skipton has everything within a 5 minute walk away and the friendly Yorkshire people gave me a Bus Pass Skipton is a great place, you are lucky to live there. I'm from nearby Keighley which, as you'll be aware, has its issues. As a general rule, everything in Yorkshire is brilliant and everything in Lancashire is $hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoltanBuchan Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 We lived in Yorkshire for a few years in the early 80s. On my mum's first day at her new Primary school, two of the other teachers told her - to her face - that she shouldn't have got the job because she wasn't from Yorkshire. Lovely folk. Maybe times have changed though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitre Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Must be the nonce capital of England going by the news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave the bankie Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Skipton is a great place, you are lucky to live there. I'm from nearby Keighley which, as you'll be aware, has its issues. As a general rule, everything in Yorkshire is brilliant and everything in Lancashire is $hit. Yes I got lucky , Skipton according to The Times at the beginning of the year was the best place to live in the UK , Keighley only a short distance away but still in The Dark Ages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewolf_1980 Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 I have a project in Manvers near Rotherham which is the arsehole of the universe. One particular guy always precedes any discussion by confirming that he is a "straight talking Yorkshireman" which he seems strangely proud of and which I just find a bit irritating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellyman Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Are you the one on YouTube Don't think so it was 1978 , don't think youtube was invented then, she was a tidy boiler by the way !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted November 30, 2014 Author Share Posted November 30, 2014 There seems to be a few people struggling under a couple of misapprehensions in this thread. For a start, Leeds is totally atypical of Yorkshire. The place is a giant, aberrant, genetic and geographical mishap, akin to the rarely seen Khlamydia Kardashian whose morbidly obese hooligan antics are so unlike those of her fragrant sisters. But what I really don't get is this bizarre suggestion that the Lancastrian character trait of relentless up-for-it chirpiness is something to aspire to rather than condemn. Have we morphed into some parallel universe where Ken Dodd and his tickling stick are socially acceptable? The trans-Pennine dichotomy was embodied for me in my early TV viewing years: Jimmy Clitheroe, the high-pitched, cheeky Lancs midget filling the nation's living rooms with vacuous pap versus the mordant Yorkshireman Harry Worth inventing alternative comedy avant la lettre. So-irrepressibly-cheerful-as-to-be-completely-badgerÃng-annoying characterizes the whole Scouse / 'Madchester' / Accrington scene - thank God that while they had the Happy bleeding Mondays, we had Pulp - sums it up really: Superb .Pulp are still pish though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cove_Sheep Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I have a project in Manvers near Rotherham which is the arsehole of the universe. One particular guy always precedes any discussion by confirming that he is a "straight talking Yorkshireman" which he seems strangely proud of and which I just find a bit irritating. That's because you don't care much for folk who describe themselves that way though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnie x Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 That's because you don't care much for folk who describe themselves that way though! Do they tend to have big hands...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock strap Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Yorkshire has some lovely areas and decent people. Like any place, it has some dumps and "characters" for use of a better word. Got to say though, some of them are tighter than cramp when it comes to getting the rounds in. Nice place and people overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock strap Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 As a general rule, everything in Yorkshire is brilliant and everything in Lancashire is $hit. Garbage. Some stunning areas and places to visit in Lancs. People are spot on in general aswell. Since when was Sunderland in Yorks anyway ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnyTJS Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 We lived in Yorkshire for a few years in the early 80s. On my mum's first day at her new Primary school, two of the other teachers told her - to her face - that she shouldn't have got the job because she wasn't from Yorkshire. Lovely folk. Maybe times have changed though... I'd hope they have. It reminds me of my first day in a new class in infants, aged 7 or 8, where the teacher told anyone not born in Yorkshire to put their hands up and proceeded to tell 'em how unlucky they were. Times have changed, I think - he also flung chalk and wooden blackboard rubbers at any kids who talked. I have a project in Manvers near Rotherham which is the arsehole of the universe. One particular guy always precedes any discussion by confirming that he is a "straight talking Yorkshireman" which he seems strangely proud of and which I just find a bit irritating. The professional Yorkshireman act is cringeworthy. We're just better than the rest - no need to tell every bugger. And Manvers is indeed a hole, but that whole area was once pits and coking plants. It was eviscerated and then landscaped into the characterless, lobotomized blank you see today. Hate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YORKIE PAM Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Yorkshire has some lovely areas and decent people. Like any place, it has some dumps and "characters" for use of a better word. Got to say though, some of them are tighter than cramp when it comes to getting the rounds in. Nice place and people overall. Oh nice one Del & very true, hope I get my share of rounds in though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YORKIE PAM Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Yes I got lucky , Skipton according to The Times at the beginning of the year was the best place to live in the UK , Keighley only a short distance away but still in The Dark Ages This too is very true even some of the Keighley people themselves refer to it as cavetown! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I have a project in Manvers near Rotherham which is the arsehole of the universe. Would I be right in guessing that you were just passing through? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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