View Full Version : The North Beats the South
http://www.football365.com/You_Say_We_say/Jon_Nicholson/story_66811.shtml
courtesy of John Nicholson...
Albion + England
08 May 2003, 02:18 PM
Yeah i get his point but from a neutral point of view, the fact he's written that off his own back with no goading, he must have some complex about the south, 'the north got this and that' 'the north is better at this' .......to do that he MUST feel jealousy towards the south east otherwise why write it? I'm not really ************ed about the north, south except for that London gets everything, thats all.
Clan
08 May 2003, 04:11 PM
Sounds like a bitter man pissed off because his big break in the London media circle hasn't come of age yet.
Mac_Howard
08 May 2003, 09:37 PM
Just a bit of northern "tongue-in-cheek" stuff guys ;)
Maczebus
08 May 2003, 11:12 PM
Yeah they just don't like it when someone says what everyone knows already, for some reason.
Take it on the chin guys - any of them.
I do like his version of 'North' though. I like not being lumped in with Birmingham.
Hell, I live in Southampton now, anywhere north of London gets called 'the North' round here.
Clan
09 May 2003, 02:09 AM
Originally posted by maczebus
Yeah they just don't like it when someone says what everyone knows already, for some reason.
Take it on the chin guys - any of them.
I do like his version of 'North' though. I like not being lumped in with Birmingham.
Hell, I live in Southampton now, anywhere north of London gets called 'the North' round here.
Says the man with QPR in his team list ;)
Maczebus
09 May 2003, 01:34 PM
Yeah, that IS my team.
Preston I support as it's my home club.
But the mighty R's get my undiluted love.
But don't blame me, it's my Dad's fault for trying to make me more cosmopolitan than my roots would potentially allow.
Article's still true though :)
Devil_78
11 May 2003, 09:55 AM
I don't think he has a chip on his shoulder, but a willingness to voice what we have all known since the year dot.
That the North is a helluva a better place to be than the South. I mean, visited London, got crushed on the Tube, no-one ever smiled, and had a coronary at the beer prices. OK, London has lots of big impressive buildings, a bouncy bridge, and a very big hub cap on the banks of the Thames.
But who cares? You can't see the buildings from the insides of a pub.
chien
13 May 2003, 03:29 AM
So you wouldn't swap your Northern slum for an international , cosmo, metropolis on a par with New York Paris and Rome?
Stick your head back up your 'Aristotle' you misguided , lying jealous fool
Captain Splarg
13 May 2003, 07:20 AM
I spend about 5 days a week in London. I always look froward to going north.
I think it is much nicer there. Better prices for everything, and much nicer people.
Newcastle was the culture capital of Europe, and is a wonderful city.... but i guess to some, it is just another northern slum.
Rambler
13 May 2003, 07:26 AM
Home is where most people want to be. I admit London can be a bit cold and unfriendly, but I prefer that to the "look at me I am so funny and everyone wants to be my mate" Northern character.
lanman
13 May 2003, 08:09 AM
Originally posted by Captain Splarg
Newcastle was the culture capital of Europe, and is a wonderful city.... but i guess to some, it is just another northern slum.
It is both, just like any major city it has it's good and bad areas.
Devil_78
13 May 2003, 10:06 AM
Originally posted by chien
So you wouldn't swap your Northern slum for an international , cosmo, metropolis on a par with New York Paris and Rome?
Stick your head back up your 'Aristotle' you misguided , lying jealous fool
Rome- Expensive, full of bad drivers.
Paris- Full of French
NY- Great to visit, could live there, if I won the lottery. I thought London was expensive!
I am perfecly happy in my 'Northern slum,' on the grounds that to live in the best bits of NY would be to win a rather large wodge of cash on the Lottery.
London is full of cold, unfeeling career driven freaks.
I'd rather be a Northern monkey, than a Southern fairy.
Devil_78
13 May 2003, 10:08 AM
Originally posted by Rambler
Home is where most people want to be. I admit London can be a bit cold and unfriendly, but I prefer that to the "look at me I am so funny and everyone wants to be my mate" Northern character.
Your just jealous Peter Kay and Johny Vegas are northerners.
Come on. Admit it.
You are jealous. Really.
Rambler
13 May 2003, 10:19 AM
Not at all. Most of the best comics are from the South. Dry wit is the best form of comedy and I am afraid that is something Northerners don't do.
chien
13 May 2003, 11:55 AM
Originally posted by Devil_78
Your just jealous Peter Kay and Johny Vegas are northerners.
Come on. Admit it.
You are jealous. Really.
You lot are jealous of London full stop!
Probably got more chance of bumping into 'em down here anyway, like the Gallagher brothers, they've seen the light.
(Just popping out for a shandy with me northern mate Noel).
Everytime you go on crap holidays to crap places you meet loads of Northerners, degrading themselves and their nationality- they don't know how to behave in company...They're also obsessed with London and love to slag her off..Go and read Aesop's Fables....The Fox and the Sour Grapes - sums you lot up.
Clan
13 May 2003, 03:48 PM
When we used to go on the specials up to any of the Northern--above Brummie land--grounds there was always this fella that would shout out at the top of his lungs..
.."Right then lads..we're up North now..time to get the braces out and the wellies on"..
Roars of laughter greeted this every time.
Maczebus
13 May 2003, 03:53 PM
Originally posted by Clanblue
When we used to go on the specials up to any of the Northern--above Brummie land--grounds there was always this fella that would shout out at the top of his lungs..
.."Right then lads..we're up North now..time to get the braces out and the wellies on"..
Roars of laughter greeted this every time.
There's that famous "dry wit" Rambler was referring to.
Originally posted by Devil_78
You can't see the buildings from the insides of a pub.
Heh. Do they print that on t-shirts in Manchester?
Devil_78
14 May 2003, 04:47 AM
Originally posted by Rambler
Not at all. Most of the best comics are from the South. Dry wit is the best form of comedy and I am afraid that is something Northerners don't do.
Just dont hold up Jim Davidson as a fine example of southern wit. If you did, I would be forced to hunt you down, and give you a funny bone transplant.
New report came out today. Yorkshire and Cheshire are the best places to live in the UK.
Please note. Not London.
More millionnaires per square mile in Cheshire than London, too.