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Post by Repat Van on Dec 12, 2021 13:06:56 GMT
To be clear though “unfriendly” is probably imprecise.
I would say more “sneery and snobby” is more accurate.
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Post by Repat Van on Dec 12, 2021 13:08:28 GMT
I’m not a Londoner. I noticed it always being friendly when it needed to be, unlike northerners who’re often chippy and angry by default. And because London’s friendliness is different to what they’re used to, the Northerners think it’s unfriendly. They’re chippy northerners who don’t understand that friendly might be different in different places, and are upset things are not exactly like they are in Leeds or Manchester or Newcastle. London is deffo a better city than Manchester but it’s laughable to proclaim Londoners friendlier than Mancs. Laughable in the extreme. I spent 4 years in Manchester. Great place. Although you have kind of proven my point “friendly is different in different places”. Yeah. Parisians insist they are friendly too. As do Muscovites…
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Post by perrykneeham on Dec 12, 2021 14:17:09 GMT
People from Devon. Right nasty, pinched, gits. Especially South Devon.
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Post by ootlg on Dec 12, 2021 14:50:19 GMT
I've never been to any country or town where 'the people' are generally more unfriendly.
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Post by ootlg on Dec 12, 2021 15:12:54 GMT
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Post by voice on Dec 12, 2021 18:19:19 GMT
As a northerners who lived in London I've got yo admit Fandy is pretty spot on, I was always struck be how fecking grim people where I went home, hard faced and bitter.
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Post by mids on Dec 12, 2021 18:41:51 GMT
But enough about your family...
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Dec 12, 2021 19:37:27 GMT
People from Devon. Right nasty, pinched, gits. Especially South Devon. I used to live in Devon and I'm still bloody lovely.
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Post by mids on Dec 12, 2021 19:48:27 GMT
I've never been to any country or town where 'the people' are generally more unfriendly. This. People are pretty much the same everywhere.
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Post by perrykneeham on Dec 12, 2021 20:12:44 GMT
People from Devon. Right nasty, pinched, gits. Especially South Devon. I used to live in Devon and I'm still bloody lovely. North Devon TBF.
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Post by mids on Dec 12, 2021 20:49:13 GMT
Somerset's where it's at. North East Somerset.
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Post by perrykneeham on Dec 13, 2021 6:18:06 GMT
Oh, I don't know. I enjoyed South West Somerset. The locals were pretty friendly. Very laid back.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Dec 13, 2021 8:47:10 GMT
I like Wiltshire.
As a general rule though I find, if you're a miserable snidey c*nt people will treat you in a miserable snidey way, if you're bloody lovely like me, people will be bloody lovely to you.
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Post by flatandy on Dec 13, 2021 12:18:58 GMT
That would explain why pissy northerners think London is unfriendly.
Although I think mostly they think it’s unfriendly because they’re tourists going to places like Leicester Square and Madame Tussauds, where everyone is also from out of town and has no idea how to be cope with the Big City and are scared shitless that everyone is going to mug them or sue them or sell them bitcoin.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Dec 13, 2021 12:23:40 GMT
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Post by happyhammerhead on Dec 13, 2021 15:51:52 GMT
I’m not a Londoner. I noticed it always being friendly when it needed to be, unlike northerners who’re often chippy and angry by default. And because London’s friendliness is different to what they’re used to, the Northerners think it’s unfriendly. They’re chippy northerners who don’t understand that friendly might be different in different places, and are upset things are not exactly like they are in Leeds or Manchester or Newcastle. True, but it definitely goes both ways.
As a teen, training in the RAF, there was a whole load of us lumped together from all parts of Britain. Initially there was some chippiness but after many conversations over many beers, we agreed that southerners found the way northerners expressed friendship seemed fake and contrived, same as how northerners found southerners.
Ended up agreeing and friends. Happy ending, yay!
Having subsequently lived in London (near Catford of all places), always got on well with the locals. Found some of the city folk demeaning of my accent but hey-ho, there's always some.
Oh please... Heck, I live in rural Norfolk and know a fair few who are scared to go to the 'Big City' and even proud they never have. Oh and by that I mean Norwich.
If you seriously think people from Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, etc... Would even think of London as the 'Big City', then you belong in the 19th century.
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Post by flatandy on Dec 13, 2021 16:42:58 GMT
If everyone from out of London has been taught that London is really unfriendly, and therefore tries to not make eye-contact and so on, and then when they go to London only go to places that are full of non-Londoners (no Londoner ever goes to Leicester Square or Madame Tussauds or Buckingham Palace or the Tower of London or Piccadilly Circus or Harrods) they're going to find that everyone is acting like they are.
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Post by ootlg on Dec 13, 2021 16:51:37 GMT
Thing to do is not walk around iPhone in hand your mouth open staring at everything. Oh, the clothes as well.. and definitely no pitchforks.
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Post by happyhammerhead on Dec 13, 2021 17:11:08 GMT
If everyone from out of London has been taught that London is really unfriendly... I stopped at 'If' - no more reading required.
Oh and ootlg, I don't think you're allowed to carry a pitchfork on the stagecoach or canal boat anymore.
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Post by flatandy on Dec 13, 2021 17:34:04 GMT
If everyone from out of London has been taught that London is really unfriendly... I stopped at 'If' - no more reading required. Oh and ootlg, I don't think you're allowed to carry a pitchfork on the stagecoach or canal boat anymore.
What if you have to shovel hay off or on to your canal boat?
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