Same Here

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Readers may recall a piece about the USA link-up site which features adultery and other salacious events.

Well, it seems that England can do it too. See HERE.

We who are not in the South, or South-East, may feel slightly superior, if only because we don't often need a bloody computer to find another partner.

 

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We who are not in the South, or South-East, may feel slightly superior, if only because we don't often need a bloody computer to find another partner.

They rain down from the soggy skies like manna? They're staked-out in fields like turkeys grazing? They sprout from cow patties like psilocybe mushrooms? They scurry when you whistle? Or does the sound of currency rustling draw them?

 

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They rain down from the soggy skies like manna? They're staked-out in fields like turkeys grazing? They sprout from cow patties like psilocybe mushrooms? They scurry when you whistle? Or does the sound of currency rustling draw them?

Britain is a funny place, with a clearly defined North/South divide as divisive and as meaningless as the rednecks (like my family) who still believe the Mason-Dixon line is somehow where the two America's clash; the South, with the civilized and cultured people who've been squatting on the same hog-farm for 7 generations, and the North, where the rabble come from. Northerners believe pretty much the same thing, only exactly the other way round.

In the UK, anything North of Watford is generally considered by Southerners to be mostly mythical, a howling barbarian wasteland full of savages draped in knock-off Burberry and swigging Newcastle Brown Ale (for the uninitiated, Newkie Brown is happy brain-death in a bottle; I tasted it once, I'd rather lick a dumpster than try it again; you drink it at your peril...), and the women are all as rough as a badger's backside.

Northerners, however, believe all southerners (anyone south of the Pennine hills) are pansies who doesn't know what hard work is, and spend their time chasing insipid women who lick wine out of thimbles, instead of guzzling ale out of a pint pot like a real woman should and have no understanding of the offside rule.

Southerners think all Northerners live on chips, mushy peas, pork pies, deep-fried Mars bars, and intravenous cholesterol, they're fat, unhealthy, marry ugly women, have terrible teeth, and spend 23.5 hours a day watching TV.

Northerners believe all Southerners are faddy, limp-wristed vegetarians who don't eat meat because they're too weak to pick it up; Southern beer tastes like cabbage-scented maiden's water, sushi's for queers and cats, and any soccer team from anywhere in the south is automatically assumed to be composed of mommy's boys, poofs and pansies.

All this is 'true', for a given value of 'true', and are real opinions I've had expressed to me by my patients and their parents/guardians from both sides of the divide.

We live in Oxfordshire, which sort of straddles the divide, so is regarded with deep suspicion by both sides; Londoners and others from the South-East think of Oxfordshire as 'somewhere up that way, but they're a Home County, right?'
Northerners seem to believe we're in the Midlands, so almost Northern enough to be worth bothering about, but they still look sideways at me when they come for their appointments.

My husband is no help; he comes from the West Country, and revels in being neither a Northerner or a Southerner, instead he feels the North and South should club together and save up all the malice for the French...

Only the English can make such a small country such hard work.

 

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Only the English can make such a small country such hard work.

Guatemala, even Greater Cultural Guatemala (Chiapas, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo) occupies less space than Britain and has much greater ethnic-linguistic diversity. The many revolutions in the last couple centuries show that putting it together is hard work. But it costs less than UK.