So here's the deal. My husband works for a college here. One of his co-workers met another employee of the college today who happens to be from London. My husband's co-worker told him about my husband being from England too. The Londoner says he's heard of my husband because some of the students told him there was another Brit working at the college. Then the Londoner goes on to say that he doesn't want to meet my husband! Said that since he is from Barnsley he is likely to be "butch".
What the heck is that supposed to mean? I've heard before that the southerners don't like the northerners and vice versa but I have never had anyone actually act so snobby! Especially here in the states. It seems like anyone I have met from England has been excited to talk to another Brit no matter what part of the country they are originally from.
Anyway...just thought I would throw that out at ya! Anyone else run into this? Not that it is really that big of a deal....
Sounds like this bloke is a bit of a southern jessie.
/northern monkey regards
Snotty southerner doesn't want to be outdone by one ofus northerners.
Better off not to know him if that's his attitude.
He was probably taking the mickey. roll
Aye it's true, we northerners have no regard for those southern jessies due to their inability to drink copius amounts of alcohol. We tek off our clogs and throw em at em. Big girls blouses the lot of em.
No seriously, he was possibly joking, and you'd be surprised at how pissed off we get at being expected to know every other Brit in America.
you'd be surprised at how pissed off we get at being expected to know every other Brit in America.
and at being taken so seriously all the time.
you'd be surprised at how pissed off we get at being expected to know every other Brit in America.
and at being taken so seriously all the time.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten, they don't hear the words, or the intonation, just the accent. :roll:
You know, we do try hard, but we can only pretend that do many peasants are our equal and then it comes up like acid reflux and we have to take break from it. lol lol lol
Dry humour sounds serious to anyone not used hearing it. He may just not want to be pushy, but maybe not. I might be tempted to invite him for a beer, and see what happens.
More than likely a joke I think.
I would think so. Dry humour is so tough for the septics to get, especially when disguised by a foreign accent. Their brain is using so much CPU to process the different vowels that it shuts down the "humour" part, which has a pretty low allocation anyway...
Compare My wife loves our humour. But she also loves and understands (and mimics very well) our accent. So no such bottleneck upstairs.
I'd vote for it being a dry joke.
I used to join in with the north vs south stuff as much as the next person when I grew up and lived in southern England but it was a two-way street and my best mate before I moved here was from near Louth (we pitied him).
I've met a few nothern Brits here and generally the teasing is much less but you can still have a laugh about it.
my best mate before I moved here was from near Louth (we pitied him).
I bet he had webbed feet right?
/one of the few Lincolnshire people to not have webbed feet
//my father has webbed feet though
///f'real