Yorkshire People

[Turkish]

I have the pleasure of having in laws from this area, but aren't Yorkshire people the most self righteous breed in Britain?

 

Yorkshire Tea

Yorkshire Bitter

Yorkshire puddings

 

Calling their country "gods country" and a general air of arrogance about a county which contains places like Bradford, Hull, Grimsby and S****horpe. Granted Leeds is a great city, Harrogate & York are nice places but is it really as good as they make out? For every Leeds there are 5 towns like Rotherham, for every inch of dales and moors there are sprawling council estates like Seacroft and Morely in Leeds. Hardly "gods country"*

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive

Edited 1 November, 2010 by Turkish

[dubai_phil]

I have the pleasure of having in laws from this area, but aren't Yorkshire people the most self righteous breed in Britain?

 

Yorkshire Tea

Yorkshire Bitter

Yorkshire puddings

 

Calling their country "gods country" and a general air of arrogance about a county which contains places like Bradford, Hull, Grimsby and S****horpe. Granted Leeds is a great city, Harrogate & York are nice places but is it really as good as they make out? For every Leeds there are 5 towns like Rotherham, for every inch of dales and moors there are sprawling council estates like Seacroft and Morely in Leeds. Hardly "gods country"

 

France is God's country.

 

Just a damned shame he had a sense of humour and filled it with French people.

 

Yorkshire, yeah right

[Smirking_Saint]

France is God's country.

 

Just a damned shame he had a sense of humour and filled it with French people.

 

Yorkshire, yeah right

 

I thought new zealand was gods country ?

[doubleonothing]

My Mrs and her famliy are from Yorkshire. They all seem to think it is great up there (even though the Mrs now lives down south.)

 

They harp on about it being God's country etc until I point out that everytime I go there it rains and that I can't wait to get back south to the "English Riviera". Shuts them up for a while until someone makes "a brew"

[Saint in Paradise]

I like to remind them that there is a better "white rose" county than Yorkshire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the "simples" people that is of course Hampshire

[dubai_phil]

I thought new zealand was gods country ?

 

Nope, as we have seen this week, it is Peter Jackson's country, not God's

[bridge too far]

Yeah - but Yorkshire Tea is the best. You have to give them that one.

[Turkish]

Yeah - but Yorkshire Tea is the best. You have to give them that one.

 

jog on!* Darjeling & Earl Grey are head and shoulders above Yorkshire tea.

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive.

Edited 1 November, 2010 by Turkish

[Turkish]

France is God's country.

 

Just a damned shame he had a sense of humour and filled it with French people.

 

Yorkshire, yeah right

 

Personally for me it's Italy. Beautiful country, beautiful food, fantastic cities and the people have an air of class and arrogance about them which i love.*

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive

Edited 1 November, 2010 by Turkish

[bridge too far]

jog on!* Darjeling & Earl Grey are head and shoulders above Yorkshire tea.

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive.

 

Depends on your taste. I like good strong 'builders' tea' myself.

[Smirking_Saint]

Depends on your taste. I like good strong 'builders' tea' myself.

 

Strong tea at work.

 

I also like fruit and green every now and again though.

[swannymere]

S****horpe isn't in Yorkshire.

[Turkish]

S****horpe isn't in Yorkshire.

 

well if you're going to be pedantic and it not being the point of the OP, then swap S****horpe for Doncaster. FFS. *

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive

Edited 1 November, 2010 by Turkish

[Robsk II]

I guess if you're a god-squadder in the first place, ALL countries are god's. Maybe in yorkshire, it's more that to live in half of those places, you have to have a lot of faith. Have you BEEN to bradford? Genuinely the worst place I think I've ever been.*

 

* I hope you are not offended by that comment, i dont want to offend people. **

 

** I hope you are not offended bymy plagiarism, i dont want to offend people.

[Sheaf Saint]

well I've lived in Yorkshire for 6 and a half years now, and I couldn't disagree with you more Turkish, sorry. Yes, there are a small percentage (mostly the older generation) who believe that Yorkshire is the centre of the universe, but then again there are plenty of folk down south who think that them northern types are 'a bit strange' so it balances out really.

 

Granted, Rotherham is a chav-infested hell-hole (a workmate who lives there once asserted that if you can't pull on a night out in Rotherham then you must be gay, and having seen the local nightlife for myself, I think I would rather be!), but it's no worse than the likes of Basingstoke. On the flip-side though, there are great cities like Leeds, York and Sheffield, which although all very different, each has a unique set of characteristics which marks it out from the rest of the concrete jungles in Britain. Then you've got the North Yorkshire moors which really is an area of truly outstanding natural beauty, and there is a definite charm about the seaside towns of Whitby, Scarborough and Bridlington.

 

Where you see self-righteousness, I see pride in their community. Yorkshire really is a little bit different from the rest of the UK; it used to have its own dialect before the nationalisation of school curricula after all. But it has so much going its favour (with the exception of the weather I admit). Some of the local breweries up here, of which there are so may, make some of the best beer you can find anywhere in the world.

 

Now all I need to do is teach them all to say the word 'bath' properly and we're sorted ;-)

[SuperMikey]

My Grandad was from Bradford. True story that.

[scotty]

 

Granted, Rotherham is a chav-infested hell-hole (a workmate who lives there once asserted that if you can't pull on a night out in Rotherham then you must be gay, and having seen the local nightlife for myself, I think I would rather be!), but it's no worse than the likes of Basingstoke.

 

 

 

Rotherham could use that in their tourist brochures.

 

"We are no worse than Basingstoke"......

 

 

 

ps- * I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive

[Turkish]

well I've lived in Yorkshire for 6 and a half years now, and I couldn't disagree with you more Turkish, sorry. Yes, there are a small percentage (mostly the older generation) who believe that Yorkshire is the centre of the universe, but then again there are plenty of folk down south who think that them northern types are 'a bit strange' so it balances out really.

 

Granted, Rotherham is a chav-infested hell-hole (a workmate who lives there once asserted that if you can't pull on a night out in Rotherham then you must be gay, and having seen the local nightlife for myself, I think I would rather be!), but it's no worse than the likes of Basingstoke. On the flip-side though, there are great cities like Leeds, York and Sheffield, which although all very different, each has a unique set of characteristics which marks it out from the rest of the concrete jungles in Britain. Then you've got the North Yorkshire moors which really is an area of truly outstanding natural beauty, and there is a definite charm about the seaside towns of Whitby, Scarborough and Bridlington.

 

Where you see self-righteousness, I see pride in their community. Yorkshire really is a little bit different from the rest of the UK; it used to have its own dialect before the nationalisation of school curricula after all. But it has so much going its favour (with the exception of the weather I admit). Some of the local breweries up here, of which there are so may, make some of the best beer you can find anywhere in the world.

 

Now all I need to do is teach them all to say the word 'bath' properly and we're sorted ;-)

 

You make some good points and i agree, the dales are nice, and i said Leeds and York are great cities but honestly i have never met people like it. You say old people, but i lived in Harrogate for a year or so when i first met the bird and my landlord who was 26 at the time could not stop talking about how great Yorkshire was, when he went away how glad he was to be back in God country. Are the Dales better than say the Cotswolds, the New Forest or Cornwall and Devon? Every country has its unique features and beauty, but i find the arrogance of yorkshire people unreal. It has its nice parts yes, but it also has it's REALLY sh*t parts, having lived there and gone up there every month for a weekend for the last 10 years i dont consider it any better than anywhere else in the country*

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive

[Turkish]

I guess if you're a god-squadder in the first place, ALL countries are god's. Maybe in yorkshire, it's more that to live in half of those places, you have to have a lot of faith. Have you BEEN to bradford? Genuinely the worst place I think I've ever been.*

 

* I hope you are not offended by that comment, i dont want to offend people. **

 

** I hope you are not offended bymy plagiarism, i dont want to offend people.

 

at your plagiarism, i could be offended and report you but i am bigger than that.

[Whitey Grandad]

Yorkshire? Pah! They're welcome to it.

 

Not enough trees.

[Whitey Grandad]

Personally for me it's Italy. Beautiful country, beautiful food, fantastic cities and the people have an air of class and arrogance about them which I love.

A parisian colleague of mine once said: "I like italians. They're like a frenchman but with a sense of humour".

[hamster]

Are these Isles not the Pagan's country anyway?

 

mrs h has been educating me recently on the religious festival confusions thatwe celebrate and last night informed me that Hallowe'en was originally known as samhain (sp) (end of summer or something like that). The carving of pumpkins was borne of the ritual of carving turnips symbolising the scaring off of evil spirits.

 

I may read a bit about it unless someone more clever than I can enlighten me on here, concisely please?

[Colinjb]

I had the missfortune of having a yorkshire girl as a live in girlfriend for about a year or so.

 

In her mind everywhere else on the planet was a poor relation to the wonder of yorkshire, she could happily discuss it's virtues all day long and always find fault with something that was not yorkshire in origin. It had the best countryside, the best towns the best cities and of course the best people and beer. It's not a bad place but it certainly isn't THAT good.

 

Wales has better countryside.

The cities are (Leeds apart) utter hell holes

The people are self righteous and arrogant

Kent, Herefordshire and Warwickshire have better Beer

 

Thankfully I got shot of her and then began to live in peace.

 

If that horribly insular county ever applied for independance I would be happy to cast them adrift. And as for plusnet broadband.... it's origin is reason for me not to buy it.

Edited 1 November, 2010 by Colinjb

[Spudders]

at your plagiarism, i could be offended and report you but i am bigger than that.

 

I find this post offensive, why no message stating that you don't want to offend people. Shocking.

[buctootim]

Ive been all over mainland Europe, Scotland and Wales but have honestly never been to Yorkshire. In England hardly ever been north of Birmingham at all. Im sure it got good parts but tbh, when considering where to go for a few days: option 1 £80 flight to Genoa, Carcassone or Stockholm or option 2: 4 hours plus on the M1 to Harrogate to get rained on, somehow it never makes the cut.

[hamster]

My Mum's a Yorkshire Lass ergo I find all the above posts offensive.

[Lets B Avenue]

I have the pleasure of having in laws from this area, but aren't Yorkshire people the most self righteous breed in Britain?

 

Yorkshire Tea

Yorkshire Bitter

Yorkshire puddings

 

Calling their country "gods country" and a general air of arrogance about a county which contains places like Bradford, Hull, Grimsby and S****horpe. Granted Leeds is a great city, Harrogate & York are nice places but is it really as good as they make out? For every Leeds there are 5 towns like Rotherham, for every inch of dales and moors there are sprawling council estates like Seacroft and Morely in Leeds. Hardly "gods country"*

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive

 

S****horpe isn't in Yorkshire.

 

well if you're going to be pedantic and it not being the point of the OP, then swap S****horpe for Doncaster. FFS. *

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive

 

Grimsby isn't in Yorkshire either. (Please dont offend me.)

[Whitey Grandad]

Are these Isles not the Pagan's country anyway?

 

mrs h has been educating me recently on the religious festival confusions thatwe celebrate and last night informed me that Hallowe'en was originally known as samhain (sp) (end of summer or something like that). The carving of pumpkins was borne of the ritual of carving turnips symbolising the scaring off of evil spirits.

 

I may read a bit about it unless someone more clever than I can enlighten me on here, concisely please?

 

Samhain seems right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween Apparently it's a celtic thing and the name is from Old Irish and means 'summers end'. Most of these festivals seem to be christian conversions of old pagan festivities. e.g Easter for Eostre, (or Astarte/Ishtar which go back to the Babylonians), and Christ was almost certainly not born on the 25th December. Historically there have been periods of 11 days or so of feasting at the end of the year. http://romanology.blogspot.com/

[Whitey Grandad]

Grimsby isn't in Yorkshire either. (Please dont offend me.)

 

Doesn't 'Grimsby' originate from 'devil's village'? (no offence meant)

[hamster]

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cheers for that, looking forward to yuletide; only 7 weeks from today.

[Lets B Avenue]

Doesn't 'Grimsby' originate from 'devil's village'? (no offence meant)

 

Not according to "Wiki". Grim was a Danish fisherman who founded the town and "by" means "Village" in Danish. Apparently.

 

(Offence not taken. But your post could have been misconstrued as "Sarcastic and Pointless." But not by me.)

[ericofarabia]

I have the pleasure of having in laws from this area, but aren't Yorkshire people the most self righteous breed in Britain?

 

 

Aye .... but don't forget they had tough.

 

You try telling the youth of today ... they won't believe ya

 

[badgerx16]

God created the Pennines to keep the Yorkies out of His county - Red Rose Rules.

 

( Who won the battle of Bosworth ? )

Edited 2 November, 2010 by badgerx16

[Wes Tender]

Quite ironic when there is a thread about Yorkshire and naming places as being the pits when they aren't even in that county. It wasn't pedantry that picked up on it, as it was just poor geographic knowledge that undermines the entire point of the thread. And I love Yorkshire Tea. Taylor's of Harrogate must be doing something right if their product is being discussed on a football forum down South.

[South Londoner]

The scariest place in the World that I've ever been to is Armthorpe. FACT.

[Whitey Grandad]

Not according to "Wiki". Grim was a Danish fisherman who founded the town and "by" means "Village" in Danish. Apparently.

Yes, I saw that. It struck me as an early example of spin doctoring, and who can blame them?. There are lots of place names ending in 'by' and they all tend to be in the northern 'Danelaw' part of England, such as Rugby, Whitby. We in the south have the saxon 'burgh's.

 

(Grimsby is, of course, in Lincolnshire and not Yorkshire but is far enough oop north to count as being virtually the same thing)

(This offering is intended solely to stimulate discussion and no offence is meant either by accident or otherwise)

[Turkish]

Quite ironic when there is a thread about Yorkshire and naming places as being the pits when they aren't even in that county. It wasn't pedantry that picked up on it, as it was just poor geographic knowledge that undermines the entire point of the thread. And I love Yorkshire Tea. Taylor's of Harrogate must be doing something right if their product is being discussed on a football forum down South.

 

Grimsby might be in Humberside but did this not used to be called East Yorkshire? As usual with this forum people quick to nit pick. If you want to be like this then swap Grimsby for Skipton, Selby, Rotherham, Barnsley, Keighley etc The point being it has a high % of sh*t holes given how much people from there bang on about it being god country. It doesn't undermine the point of the thread as this was about the arrogance of the people which is unfounded, not from there are you?

Edited 2 November, 2010 by Turkish

[Lets B Avenue]

Grimsby might be in Humberside but did this not used to be called East Yorkshire? As usual with this forum people quick to nit pick. If you want to be like this then swap Grimsby for Skipton, Selby, Rotherham, Barnsley, Keighley etc The point of that being it has a high % of sh*t holes given how much people from there bang on about it being god country. It doesn't undermine the point of the thread as this was about the arrogance of the people which is unfounded, not from there are you?

 

East Riding was North of the Humber. ie Hull. Grimsby was in Lincolnshire along with S****horpe. This is not nit-picking. I dont know about you, but I would be pretty pis sed if some Northern monkey accused me of being from Sussex.

 

However, no offence has been taken.

[Whitey Grandad]

East Riding was North of the Humber. ie Hull. Grimsby was in Lincolnshire along with S****horpe. This is not nit-picking. I dont know about you, but I would be pretty pis sed if some Northern monkey accused me of being from Sussex.

 

However, no offence has been taken.

 

Has it moved?

[Lets B Avenue]

Has it moved?

 

Well it is a Unitary Authority FFS.

 

I was quoting from my 1963 Collins Graphic Atlas. Hence my use of the past tense. (Offence still not taken. But pride dented.)

[for_heaven's_Saint]

jog on!* Darjeling & Earl Grey are head and shoulders above Yorkshire tea.

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive.

 

Did you know that Earle Gray helped abolish slavery?

[moonraker]

Grimsby and S****horpe are in Lincolnshire, always have been. As to Yorkshire it really is a strange county full of strange people however the North Yorks Moors Vale of York and Dales are are wonderful and the locals are very freindly. There is an old Yorkshire saying that sums up the county, "if tha's going to do owt for any one do it for thee sen"

[Turkish]

East Riding was North of the Humber. ie Hull. Grimsby was in Lincolnshire along with S****horpe. This is not nit-picking. I dont know about you, but I would be pretty pis sed if some Northern monkey accused me of being from Sussex.

 

However, no offence has been taken.

 

They do, my head office is in Cheshire and they think everywhere is 10 minutes from London, doesn't bother me in the slightest. But them i am not the sort of person that goes into the most intricate demographic and geographic details of an area when posting on an internet forum*

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive

[Sheaf Saint]

Grimsby might be in Humberside but did this not used to be called East Yorkshire? As usual with this forum people quick to nit pick. If you want to be like this then swap Grimsby for Skipton, Selby, Rotherham, Barnsley, Keighley etc The point being it has a high % of sh*t holes

 

Yeah OK, but when you consider the size of Yorkshire (South, North and West altogether) it' fekkin' huge, so it stands to reason that there are more sh*tholes because there are more towns and cities, sh*tholes or otehrwise, in Yorkshire than in any other county in the UK.

[moonraker]

They do, my head office is in Cheshire and they think everywhere is 10 minutes from London, doesn't bother me in the slightest. But them i am not the sort of person that goes into the most intricate demographic and geographic details of an area when posting on an internet forum*

 

* I hope that didn't offend you, i dont want to upset people and get more infraction points as apparantly this might be considered offensive

In this instance I think intricate demographic and geographic accuracy was central to your post as your title defines a Geographically bounded area.

[SFKA South Woodford]

well I've lived in Yorkshire for 6 and a half years now, and I couldn't disagree with you more Turkish, sorry. Yes, there are a small percentage (mostly the older generation) who believe that Yorkshire is the centre of the universe, but then again there are plenty of folk down south who think that them northern types are 'a bit strange' so it balances out really.

 

Granted, Rotherham is a chav-infested hell-hole (a workmate who lives there once asserted that if you can't pull on a night out in Rotherham then you must be gay, and having seen the local nightlife for myself, I think I would rather be!), but it's no worse than the likes of Basingstoke. On the flip-side though, there are great cities like Leeds, York and Sheffield, which although all very different, each has a unique set of characteristics which marks it out from the rest of the concrete jungles in Britain. Then you've got the North Yorkshire moors which really is an area of truly outstanding natural beauty, and there is a definite charm about the seaside towns of Whitby, Scarborough and Bridlington.

 

Where you see self-righteousness, I see pride in their community. Yorkshire really is a little bit different from the rest of the UK; it used to have its own dialect before the nationalisation of school curricula after all. But it has so much going its favour (with the exception of the weather I admit). Some of the local breweries up here, of which there are so may, make some of the best beer you can find anywhere in the world.

 

Now all I need to do is teach them all to say the word 'bath' properly and we're sorted ;-)

 

I and a couple of the guys from the same company worked in Dewsbury for a while and made some friends there. We arranged to meet up with our firends for a night out on a stop over after a Saints game at Old Trafford a few years ago. Before we could head off on the night out, we had to go to our friends brother in laws birthday party in a pub in Wakefield. Our friend told us that everything had been arranged and we were welcome to go along. However we got a shock when we got there to find that the place had been decorated with confederate flags and that the birthday boy was wearing a state troopers uniform from one of the southern states, and a few of his mates were wearing confederate uniforms.

I got the distinct impression that Southerners were not welcome unless they were of the gap toothed, ye-haa, family member sexual loving variety from the US of A. I was expecting the birthday cake to come out with burning crosses on it instead of candles. Things got more frosty from there and we eventually made our exit when our friends sister said it would be better if we left, I certainly wasn't going to argue with her.

 

That's not the only bad experience i've had with the so called friendly Yorkshire people either, so do not agree that they are nice and friendly people at all.

 

As for places on a par with the worst Yorkshire has to offer such as Wakefield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Batley, you need look no further than Portsmouth. By the way Basingstoke is a great place to live, as it offers so many things to do and has lots of well maintained public parks. I lived in East London for 15 years and can honestly say that Basingstoke is a fantastic place to live in comparison.

[Turkish]

In this instance I think intricate demographic and geographic accuracy was central to your post as your title defines a Geographically bounded area.

 

Not really, if you read the OP and the tile, it's the attitude of the people in this boundry, not the locations inside it.

Edited 2 November, 2010 by Turkish

[Turkish]

Yeah OK, but when you consider the size of Yorkshire (South, North and West altogether) it' fekkin' huge, so it stands to reason that there are more sh*tholes because there are more towns and cities, sh*tholes or otehrwise, in Yorkshire than in any other county in the UK.

 

What about Cornwall then? Hardly any sh*tholes, mile upon mile of countryside and cute little villages plus a stunning coastline, dont here to cornish arrogantly claiming how wonderful it and they are.

Edited 2 November, 2010 by Turkish

[Turkish]

I and a couple of the guys from the same company worked in Dewsbury for a while and made some friends there. We arranged to meet up with our firends for a night out on a stop over after a Saints game at Old Trafford a few years ago. Before we could head off on the night out, we had to go to our friends brother in laws birthday party in a pub in Wakefield. Our friend told us that everything had been arranged and we were welcome to go along. However we got a shock when we got there to find that the place had been decorated with confederate flags and that the birthday boy was wearing a state troopers uniform from one of the southern states, and a few of his mates were wearing confederate uniforms.

I got the distinct impression that Southerners were not welcome unless they were of the gap toothed, ye-haa, family member sexual loving variety from the US of A. I was expecting the birthday cake to come out with burning crosses on it instead of candles. Things got more frosty from there and we eventually made our exit when our friends sister said it would be better if we left, I certainly wasn't going to argue with her.

 

That's not the only bad experience i've had with the so called friendly Yorkshire people either, so do not agree that they are nice and friendly people at all.

 

As for places on a par with the worst Yorkshire has to offer such as Wakefield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Batley, you need look no further than Portsmouth. By the way Basingstoke is a great place to live, as it offers so many things to do and has lots of well maintained public parks. I lived in East London for 15 years and can honestly say that Basingstoke is a fantastic place to live in comparison.

 

I happen to agree with you on Basingstoke, i've worked there in the past and whilst it's quite a dull town, it's in a great location being pretty much bang in the middle of the M3 (although i am sure some on here will point out it is actually only 0.4628 of the way up) with great road and rail links to London and the south coast, good for work and property is still relatively reasonable compared to towns only 10 miles closer to London, although again i am sure some will compare unemployment rates and property prices for every town in the commuter belt to prove me wrong.

[Jillyanne]

I happen to agree with you on Basingstoke, i've worked there in the past and whilst it's quite a dull town, it's in a great location being pretty much bang in the middle of the M3 (although i am sure some on here will point out it is actually only 0.4628 of the way up) with great road and rail links to London and the south coast, good for work and property is still relatively reasonable compared to towns only 10 miles closer to London, although again i am sure some will compare unemployment rates and property prices for every town in the commuter belt to prove me wrong.

 

Basingstoke is roundabout city isn't it?