Englandshire at a standstill???

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Up in MacScotland, we have had snow since at least 18th December.
We get 5 minutes air time on the local news.

Englandshire gets some snow (20 cms is NOT extreme) and the BBC knock all the usual progs off BBC1 and have a NEWS SPECIAL !!!!

Whats all that about? It is inconvenient, agreed. It is definitely NOT a state of National emergency.

Are we so used to everything being easy and straight forward these days?

EDIT: Sorry - this was meant to stir the up in the LOUNGE...... I'm in the wrong bar!
 
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puddock said:
Up in MacScotland, we have had snow since at least 18th December.
We get 5 minutes air time on the local news.

Englandshire gets some snow (20 cms is NOT extreme) and the BBC knock all the usual progs off BBC1 and have a NEWS SPECIAL !!!!

Whats all that about? It is inconvenient, agreed. It is definitely NOT a state of National emergency.

Are we so used to everything being easy and straight forward these days?
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20cm might not be extreme up in the frozen north but it is down here - I do not expect snow for more than a day and then only a cm or so. But still nobody had declared a national emergency as far as I am aware

And lets face it, down here or rather in the south east, is where everything that matters in the UK mostly happens. Scotland grinds to a halt and no one notices. London stops and the economy goes tit* up.

Not surprising really. There are half as many people in Scotland as in London and only the same as there is in Yorkshire - which makes Scotland as important as Yorkshire and as likely to be headlines on the news.

P.S. Wrong board - should be in the Lounge.
 
Nicely put Bosun and bound to make you a popular chap in the land of the sweaties. Are you planning on holidaying there this year? if so I'm sure someone here can recommend a couple of pubs in Glasgow where your comments would be eagerly listened to debated.

Oh and I'd be really interested to hear your opinion of (other) ethnic minorities.

And Puddock, when you chose to live in Aberdeenshire, you were EXPECTING snow whereas us soft suvvern softies not only don't expect it to snow more than one day in five years, we don't even like it colder than 15 degrees.
 
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Bosun Higgs said:
20cm might not be extreme up in the frozen north but it is down here - I do not expect snow for more than a day and then only a cm or so. But still nobody had declared a national emergency as far as I am aware

And lets face it, down here or rather in the south east, is where everything that matters in the UK mostly happens. Scotland grinds to a halt and no one notices. London stops and the economy goes tit* up.

Not surprising really. There are half as many people in Scotland as in London and only the same as there is in Yorkshire - which makes Scotland as important as Yorkshire and as likely to be headlines on the news.

P.S. Wrong board - should be in the Lounge.
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Not being a smartarse but QUOTE: EDIT: Sorry - this was meant to stir the up in the LOUNGE...... I'm in the wrong bar!
 
coliholic said:
Nicely put Bosun and bound to make you a popular chap in the land of the sweaties. Are you planning on holidaying there this year? if so I'm sure someone here can recommend a couple of pubs in Glasgow where your comments would be eagerly listened to debated.

Oh and I'd be really interested to hear your opinion of (other) ethnic minorities.
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I suppose if telling the blunt truth is provocative, my post was provocative. But it is the truth - for all the noise, Scotland is as important to the UK as one of the big counties and since the days of decline of manufacturing industry, it's London where the money is made.

And the Scots are no more an ethnic minority than the Yorkies are - we're the same people ethnically.
 
Bosun Higgs said:
I suppose if telling the blunt truth is provocative, my post was provocative. But it is the truth - for all the noise, Scotland is as important to the UK as one of the big counties and since the days of decline of manufacturing industry, it's London where the money is made.

And the Scots are no more an ethnic minority than the Yorkies are - we're the same people ethnically.
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Mind you since the demise of manufacturing much of the back office customer contact aspects of the City bonus makers has been carried out up here, perhaps bevcause we don't go tits up at the first sign of the white stuff.

There may be little ethnic difference but thankfully we are different from the culture point of view.
 
Plenty of news on the BBC for some time now about snow in Scotland. Just watched a piece from the Scottish Borders in the last 5 minutes on the subject, so the joke falls flat. Lots on here wouldn't take this posting as a joke. Some of the happiest days I have had were when living in Kent and London, so may I disassociate myself from the English bashing commentators on here.
CJ
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Ceejay said:
Plenty of news on the BBC for some time now about snow in Scotland. Just watched a piece from the Scottish Borders in the last 5 minutes on the subject, so the joke falls flat. Lots on here wouldn't take this posting as a joke. Some of the happiest days I have had were when living in Kent and London, so may I disassociate myself from the English bashing commentators on here.
CJ
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One of the coldest winters I spent was in Kent, Chatham Dockyard to be precise. And one only bashes the English who deserve it, as you point out many are perfectly nice people, especially the Yorkies and Geordies.

Mind you my 10 years in Royal Berks made me quite certain ten years was about 9 too many.
 
puddock said:
I heard Becks and Posh had had a fartectomy, so they don't fart anymore.

Anyway, I posted in the wrong forum (2 windows open - nothing to do with the condensation thread!). Don't want to start any Loungeish behaviour in here, it was a leg pull.
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Has Mrs Puddock forgotten the last leg pull yet?:D I bet you didnt let her read it. :eek: I wouldn't have dared.

Yes the London centric bit of the Beeb irritates me too. But you don't really watch Bargain Hunt do you?
 
Bosun Higgs said:
Has Mrs Puddock forgotten the last leg pull yet?:D I bet you didnt let her read it. :eek: I wouldn't have dared.

Yes the London centric bit of the Beeb irritates me too. But you don't really watch Bargain Hunt do you?
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"Has Mrs Puddock forgotten the last leg pull yet?:D I bet you didnt let her read it. :eek: I wouldn't have dared." - You'll have to refresh my memory there?

"Yes the London centric bit of the Beeb irritates me too. But you don't really watch Bargain Hunt do you"
- As I said earlier, it was light hearted banter, Smile in the face of adversity sort of thing. Some on here (I don't include you, as you are usually game for a laugh) seem to have taken it as a personal insult directed at them personally and their immediate families.
I have also stated on other threads that I have NO anti-English sentiment at all. I work all over the place and used to work in Drill crews where at least a few of the guys were English - it was constant slagging and banter. The difference being that we could have a laugh about it without taking it personally.

Ceejay - Dry yer eyes ye gype !
 
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