Whenever Asked "Where You From?"

[hamster]

I always answer that question "Southampton"

 

Here in Austria, I usually get a frown, or a "where", so I follow-up with "Where the Titanitc sailed from"

 

 

Just mention Rupert Lowe next time. They like their dictators in Austria.

[hamster]

I say Southampton, despite never having lived there in my life.

 

Where ARE you from then norwaysaint?

[hamster]

damn right, i too was unfortunately born in Basingstoke. Although having lived in Cheltenham for almost 8 years i am now "from" Cheltenham.

Bit selective on your part there.

I would say that you are most definitely from Basingstoke, based on the fact that you happen to be from Baingstoke. hth

[hamster]

Nowadays I say "Southampton it's in the South of England"..ahh Oui is usual reply..

 

 

"You remember, we were good at football way back in the eighties. that's him yes, Kevin Keegan" Always works for me, hth.

[hamster]

I told some Americans I met on holiday that I came from the place that the Mayflower sailed from and they said "Oh, Plymouth." (except they pronounced it Pliemouth).

 

Next time just say "it is where the Spitfire came from, that's the one yes, the ****ing Spitfire you ignorant ****er" Then stick the nut on him.

[hamster]

I lived, as a child, for many years in North Stoneham, on the Bird Aviary. Our address was always given out as North Stoneham, Eastleigh. Our local (about 400 yards from home) was The Cricketers. The Echo now consistently tries to tell us that North Stoneham has disappeared and that the Cricketers is actually in Chandlers Ford!

 

So much for it being a 'local' newspaper.

 

Oh you so need to read this. This is gonna be a very big year for local history, locally (eh?). Read on:

 

http://www.northstoneham.org.uk/warshrine/events/index.html

[hamster]

The Echo now consistently tries to tell us that North Stoneham has disappeared and that the Cricketers is actually in Chandlers Ford!

 

So much for it being a 'local' newspaper.

 

Spot on, even the driving range is called "Chandlers Ford". Change it fellas, be proud of where you are. Whoever owns it should check out

their local history.

 

They are actually on what was once part of the massive Flening Estate. The land that that they are on, was desigend as a garden by none other tha Capability Brown. Never mind courses designed be Nick Faldo, we are talking Capability ****ing Brown.

[hamster]

LOL. ...Fareham ..... nobody outside Hampshire has heard of it (thank god).

 

A small town near Portsmouth if ever there was. Good on you though, how did you come to support Saints? If only my Skate brother would see sense.

[hamster]

...I am one of the ruffians from the flower estate

 

....'where were you born?", then of course it is the Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton.

 

Therfore NOT from the Flower Gardens. You is from (I think) Newtown. We should lobby the council to put all the old local sigs up, like South Stoneham".

[hamster]

Stand prepared to be corrected by Docker-P when he comes out to play .

 

You know that feeling you get when you know that you are right about something? That is the feeling I have. Docker-P, Docker-Who? See what I did there?

[hamster]

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I'm quite familiar with South Stoneham though, as I was in hall of residence there many years ago.

 

Did you manage to **** any local lads? It is excellent source of DNA Sue.

[hamster]

Italians always then say 'Dover?', and it's only then I get more specific...

 

What? You mean specific as in:

"Southampton, where the ****ing Spitfire comes from, thats right the one that won that war. Yes, you were on our side. E****ingventually"

[hamster]

You're an honorary Eastleigh Girl then!

 

Mods infraction please

 

Grooming

[SaintRobbie]

Just posting so that Hamster doesnt get the somewhat dodgy record of a whole page of posts!

[Gingeletiss]

When asked, I tell them 'The Isle of Vectis'.......but have live in Southampton 38 of my 55 years.

[norwaysaint]

Where ARE you from then norwaysaint?

 

Los Angeles, I don't talk about it much though.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

Mods infraction please

 

Grooming

 

That's a lot classier than the "I've never known an Eastleigh girl with honour" riposte which I was expecting!

[badgerx16]

Therfore NOT from the Flower Gardens. You is from (I think) Newtown. We should lobby the council to put all the old local sigs up, like South Stoneham".

My mother always said it was Basset Green , despite being between Glen Eyre School and the Uni.

[EFM]

A small town near Portsmouth if ever there was. Good on you though, how did you come to support Saints? If only my Skate brother would see sense.

 

Luckily my elder brother, dad and all 5 uncles supported Saints and went to every home game and so I was indoctrinated from a very young age.

 

Couldn't wait to leave Fareham though! Far too many skates and one of the most non-descript towns in the country. One of my nephews there has sadly fallen into the blue side but I managed to rescue his brother from a similar fate by taking him to see us stuff Liverpool.

[Secret Site Agent]

I always say Saffampton. My Nan brought me up good a proper the respect the area I am from, which is in the centre of town, near the docks. And I even admitted it on a cold dark night in the Pyramids night club, in Portsmouth, when I walked into a door, and then five other doors kicked the **** out of me.

 

And I have a proper Hampshire accent which has been likened to Bristol, Wiltshire, Devon and Norfolk. Working all over the country peoples first reactions are one of the following:

 

‘So you’re a summer’

‘What are you doing working here?’

‘You don’t sound like you’re from Southampton’.

 

I like to annoy my fellow brethren who have got quite posh cut accents by asking them why, when it is spelt ‘Southampton’ are they so illiterate that they pronounce it ‘South-Hampton’. I see no second ‘H’?

 

And finally, talking about Pikeys. I work with a good mate who I have known for many years and we work in the same company, who is from Poole. I sent out a jokey e-mail to him about pikeys from Portsmouth, and he sent me back an e-mail telling me how wrong I am in using the word ‘Pikey’ and that it is an insult and that is should know better. This ‘telling-off’ went on for a whole page and then he finally finished off with the following sentences.

‘We are from the South Coast, they are not ‘Pikeys’, as that is a London term. Please in future refer to them as ‘Cacker’ or ‘Didicoi’s’, as you were taught to call them.’