http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=lancashire The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 04:03:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6868 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:31:33 +0000 Des Custard 6868@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Grüß Gott! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6817 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:00:47 +0000 Ostsee 6817@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If you think England has an issue with Yorkshire, just think of the poor Germans, they have Bavaria. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6808 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:50:52 +0000 rickwestwell 6808@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote> you're like a drunk struggling to put a cover on a kingsize duvet.<br /> From your viewpoint it's a valiant fight but from the outside it's hard to see what the fuss is about.</blockquote></p> <p>Nicely put, sir. I'll try to remember to credit you when I steal that line. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6789 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:10:28 +0000 Des Custard 6789@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sid, you're like a drunk struggling to put a cover on a kingsize duvet. From your viewpoint it's a valiant fight but from the outside it's hard to see what the fuss is about.</p> <p>As Mary demonstrates so eloquently, it's the effete southern middle classes that get it in the neck most often round here. Me, I have mixed-rose origins and find the whole 'old enemy' thing a bit sad (and, as you say, historically inaccurate) but I'm flattered that you appear to take me for a southern toff. </p> <p>I was at such a wedding some years ago and the Yorkshire tribe, while remaining resolutely cheerful, lived the stereotype right up to the brim as usual. The service took place in a catholic church, but the opportunity for some religious strife was missed. Mrs C was breast feeding at the time, and the only private place to go for a feed during the service was the confessional. Still not sure if that was a mortal sin or not.</p> <p>Keep smiling Sid. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6752 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:19:10 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 6752@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>|Proud to be part of history|&gt;&gt; rather fun to snap their braces by reminding 'em they were on the wrong side, when the good fight was fought.</p> <p>Well done. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6749 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:04:38 +0000 ramblesid 6749@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If you're not on the FP with this in the next day or two, my little ray of southern sunshine, I'll go to the foot of our apples. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6738 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:23:22 +0000 Dickens or Shakespeare 6738@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Eeee. Nice work, lad.<br /> Have 5. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6697 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:05:59 +0000 ramblesid 6697@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well Smyke, you're not Smudge again are you? Only it's difficult to tell with his many disguises. You seem to have been reading about a strange race called Northerners. I do hope it's given you nightmares and made you wet the bed.<br /> Does it say somewhere that if someone has a swipe at you one is not allowed a swipe back? Better speak to Westwell, He knows what is and isn't allowed on here. I can't classify myself as a Yorkshireman or whatever the people of Lancashire call themselves, I just feel protective for those shy and retiring thin skinned sub-humans you pity so. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6694 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:40:17 +0000 Mary Evans 6694@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well I think to caricature regional stereotypes is offensive and absurd. I'd expound, but I'm meeting the gals for a mung-bean salad and glass of Pinot Grigio outside a trendy Surrey bistro before heading to Waitrose to buy some organic pomegrantes for the kids' tea and prepare my bouillabaisse for my dinner party. Oh, and better get the car valeted in case we get lucky in the car-key swap tonight. So mortifying when you drive to a neighbour's house for illicit swinger sex and there are Wotsits mashed into the back seat.<br /> Ciao dahlings.</p> <p>Great sub btw Des, of course. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6691 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:46:50 +0000 smyke 6691@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I read somewhere that Northeners can be a bit chippy and thin-skinned. Lighten up, Sid. It's a piss-take based on caricatures and stereotypes. Sounds a bit like a Newsbiscuit sub to me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6679 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:09:24 +0000 ramblesid 6679@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Umpire-the one thing you really do well is stupid.</p> <p>I don't feel I'm superior enough to mock, Desi lad, it must be nice for you.<br /> There's no doubt some of those Yorkshire folk are smug, arrogant and ignorant, but people like that can be found everywhere. Can't they Des?<br /> I'll give you a free punch if you want. This is what I imagine dead sheep baiting must be like. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6677 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:59:11 +0000 theumpire 6677@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well, once. The stars won't let me vote twice! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6676 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:57:39 +0000 theumpire 6676@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well Des, my ignorance may be "astonishing", but I don't care about the historical inaccuracies. I laughed, and that's what mattered to me. So have a five, twice. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6640 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:24:47 +0000 Des Custard 6640@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice potted history sid, which points out the absurdity of the residents of the two counties "perpetuating an ancient rivalry between two branches of the Plantagenet royal family". Good job some of us are better informed and can mock such astonishingly ignorant behaviour. For further reading, I recommend Desmond Seward's excellent book. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6547 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:45:13 +0000 ramblesid 6547@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I find an Englishman's ignorance of his own history astonishing. The Wars of the Roses involved the House of York against that of Lancaster and was nothing to do with the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Duke of York had very little land in Yorkshire, his main power base being the Welsh Marches and his "home" castle was Ludlow. The city of York was predominantly Lancastrian for most of the period and the Skipton, of which you mention, was the home of the Clifford family. Staunch Lancastrians, father and son, until they were killed by the Yorkists. The conflict involved most of the country, at one time or another, even Sandwich in Kent, but Lancashire had virtually nothing to do with it.<br /> Read Ed's book. It's a good potted history of where you live. Don't tell him I said so, but you have to be a bit careful on some of the detail. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6527 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:36:49 +0000 simonjmr 6527@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fine fettle, Marra. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6526 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:33:25 +0000 smyke 6526@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Champion. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6486 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:25:47 +0000 allmyownstunts 6486@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'Yarrarrye?'<br /> Walking along the canal path near my in-laws' Yorkshire home, that's what people say in response to my, admittedly Scottish, 'hello'.<br /> I think it means 'are you all right?' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6480 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:09:38 +0000 Des Custard 6480@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Aye, reet Messi businss that wa' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6464 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:49:11 +0000 Oxbridge 6464@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>By 'eck lad, if tha' does not make t'front page wi' this, I'll eat my cloth cap.</p> <p>(Shame about the Arse, though. Bwahahahahahahaha.) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6456 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:13:17 +0000 Scroat 6456@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A topic close to my heart. Nice one. Even got beer in. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6453 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:07:41 +0000 MightyBlair 6453@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant stuff. If you could undertake Geordie vs Mackam for your next venture, that would be spiffing. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6447 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:01:50 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 6447@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Five stars from me despite it reminding me that t' wife is dragging me up to God's own county this weekend. Once when we stayed at a hotel in Yorkshire, I took a look at the Guest Book. It had entries for Name,Country, and Comments. The Canadians, for example, had put Canada as the country. Some scots had put Scotland, others had put Britain. The English had put England or Britain. But there were several entries from Yorkshire people which put Yorkshire as the country. One even put "Yorkie and proud of it".<br /> And there is a particularly pink faced example in my office who keeps blathering on about some football team or other. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6444 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:43:23 +0000 jp1885 6444@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ee by gum, that be a reet good sub - etc.<br /> Have 5 stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2185#post-6439 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:27:51 +0000 Des Custard 6439@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fears of confrontation at a cross-Pennine wedding on Saturday were averted when the groom’s family and friends failed to brag about Yorkshire or ‘Yorkshireness’ at all. The service and reception at the prestigious Blackburn House Hotel passed uneventfully, apart from some good-natured joshing as supplies of beer were suspended when two barrels had to be changed at the same time. </p> <p>Conspicuously absent topics of conversation during the festivities included ability at cricket, strength of tea, thrift, honesty (including speaking as I find and calling a spade a spade) and the relative importance of birth place and upbringing.</p> <p>‘To be honest, when our Maggie said she was marrying a Yorkshireman from Skipton, my heart sank,’ said the bride’s father John, ‘but Richard has been delightful from the word go. Nonetheless, the thought of a contingent of Yorkshire’s finest on the wedding day did give me some sleepless nights.’</p> <p>Maggie’s mother Catherine described her disbelief when the Yorkshire guests all arrived wearing red roses, the symbol of Lancashire. ‘Richard's parents said the white roses hadn’t been up to much, and anyway the thought of perpetuating an ancient rivalry between two branches of the Plantagenet royal family hadn’t even crossed their minds.’ </p> <p>Things continued to go smoothly when the guests didn’t insist on sitting on Yorkshire-only tables but happily accepted the seating plan. The majority opted to order beer from the bar instead of the wine, but all who did commented favourably on the quality of the local Thwaites brew. </p> <p>‘I was so delighted with the way the day went,’ said John, ‘that I didn’t even react when Richard’s father said at the end that while his opinion of Blackburn had improved, he still preferred Burnley. I’m sure he meant nothing by it.’</p> <p>Asked to say what he had meant by that comment, Richard’s father said from his home: ‘I thought that would get right up his nose. Quite subtle for a Tyke, don’t you think? Aye, we had a grand day and didn’t pay a penny towards it. Lancashire? Wankashire, more like.’ </p>