FabSwingers.com forum: You know you are a Northerner when

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

You turn the big light on . Afternoon everybody .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hahaha ,spot on

Afternoon x

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By *aptain VMan
over a year ago

Birstall, Leicester

You call it a cob and not a roll

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By *rFoxAndXenoCouple
over a year ago

Weymouth

Omg this must have infiltrated my south east upbringing somehow lol x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Breakfast dinner tea

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"Hahaha ,spot on

Afternoon x"
Hi my friend xx

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

You dry your clothes on a maiden and you fettle things.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You fucking dont put the big light on thats a clip round the lug ole

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

You got trouble at Mill..

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"You fucking dont put the big light on thats a clip round the lug ole"
had a few of them in my youth

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By *issMBWoman
over a year ago

North

You can cut your gravy with a knife, and you have it on your Sunday dinner not your Sunday lunch

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By *arcteggMan
over a year ago

grays

Surly It’s that bizarre deep frying a Mars bar - or is that a northern myth? .. as a southerner I find this misuse of a Mars car scandalous .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You call it a cob and not a roll"

Nah I call it a bread bun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hahaha ,spot on

Afternoon xHi my friend xx"

Hiya xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you have more flat cap's than coats and a whippet and a pigeon sat waiting to go fo walks

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By *nvincible ButterflyWoman
over a year ago

LEEDS

You go on Ilkla Moor Baht 'at

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By *ryandseeMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire

You chat with the old man or lady at the bus stop and s/he is not wondering what you are after.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You call it a cob and not a roll

Nah I call it a bread bun

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all wrong it's a cake

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By *ak777Man
over a year ago

shaw

Whippets Ferrets and Flat Caps.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You call it a cob and not a roll

Nah I call it a bread bun

all wrong it's a cake "

Nooooo a cakes a cake

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Mum is down pit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You still call your only kitchen the back kitchen

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gravy on ya chips

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By *nvincible ButterflyWoman
over a year ago

LEEDS

Sunday dinner starts with a plate of Yorkshires and onion gravy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You still call your only kitchen the back kitchen"

This is so true

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By *nvincible ButterflyWoman
over a year ago

LEEDS

"Gravy on ya chips "

Yummy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sunday dinner starts with a plate of Yorkshires and onion gravy"
you're making me hungry

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You still call your only kitchen the back kitchen

This is so true

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My nana used to say the sculry/scullary?

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

You greet someone with “ Ay up”.

The mr

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

Can only agree with the gravy lovers! Gotta be thick and gotta be in huge quantities

I rarely use the big light and it’s breakfast lunch and dinner; I’m an imposter

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By *ull English with teaMan
over a year ago

London

Instigating s conversation with a stranger doesn’t mean you are insane (like it does in London!)…

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You still call your only kitchen the back kitchen

This is so true

My nana used to say the sculry/scullary?"

As did my Granny

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Instigating s conversation with a stranger doesn’t mean you are insane (like it does in London!)…"

Na it ain’t like that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you reach for the Hendos before the ketchup

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When they say pants they don’t mean pants when they say bun they don’t mean bun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You think 12.C is summer time temps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do southerners use the slang word skrikin? I'm sure all northerners will know what this means

P. S. I dont really know if you spell it like that

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By *ixieAndHerKingCouple
over a year ago

Debauchery

I've only been here 3 months and I've started asking for a brew int afternoon... the change is upon me

Cherry x

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Wow I understand almost nothing that's being said here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Haha the temperature drops to minus 40, there are blizzards and you decide it's time to start wearing a cardy over your string vest when you take t'whippet for a walk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Will ya just put wood int oyl

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Haha the temperature drops to minus 40, there are blizzards and you decide it's time to start wearing a cardy over your string vest when you take t'whippet for a walk

Minus 40? Pffft bloody southerner!

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By *issy_sub_rTV/TS
over a year ago

Near Thatcham

"Sunday dinner starts with a plate of Yorkshires and onion gravy"

Oh, damned right!

And you only put your big coat on when it gets to 10 below freezing and there's 2 foot of snow!

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By *weetiepie99Woman
over a year ago

cardiff

You live in the North

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do southerners use the slang word skrikin? I'm sure all northerners will know what this means

P. S. I dont really know if you spell it like that"

Been skrikin my eyes out. (I'm not sure how to spell it either)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You call it a cob and not a roll

Nah I call it a bread bun

all wrong it's a cake

Nooooo a cakes a cake"

Wtf it's a barm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do southerners use the slang word skrikin? I'm sure all northerners will know what this means

P. S. I dont really know if you spell it like that

Been skrikin my eyes out. (I'm not sure how to spell it either)"

Yeahhhh proper northern lass

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You do the Christmas shopping in the local drug dens living room

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It'll be reet

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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago

Near Wells

When you ask for mushy peas with every meal.

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By *rincipessaWoman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,

"You still call your only kitchen the back kitchen

This is so true

My nana used to say the sculry/scullary?"

Haha yep I was gonna say back scullery too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You're never more then 10 minutes from a Greggs

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By *lder funCouple
over a year ago

tottenham

What are they talking about ?

Any interpreters here ?

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By *uitednbooted2Man
over a year ago

Berkshire

When you “ smuuurk tabs and drink beer”!

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

You know you are a Northerner when you tell someone to put wood in t’ole.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When referring to relatives, putting the word "our" in front of their names...."Our David". "Our Rita"...

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By *orksguy1965Man
over a year ago

Howden

How much, when someone tells you the price

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

turn them bloody lights off,, who do you think i am rocker fella

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a northerner and I've never heard half of these?

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

When someone asks what brand of trainers would you like for yer birthday and you say clogs.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Chip butties!

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By *olex99Man
over a year ago

Hull

"You call it a cob and not a roll

Nah I call it a bread bun

Nah it's a breadcake in Hull

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By *heGateKeeperMan
over a year ago

Stratford

You have gravy with everything and everything is t’ and not to the

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When referring to relatives, putting the word "our" in front of their names...."Our David". "Our Rita"..."

Yes! This exactly!!!

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

You can drink water from corporation.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When the phone goes, and the door goes, then the phone goes again or something else. “Fuckin ‘ell, it’s like Crewe station in ‘ere today!” (Other stations can be applied.)

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

When you walk out of a chip shop looking confused at a cone of chips, after asking for a chip butty with gravy (actually happened to me in Colchester)......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's like Blackpool illuminations in here

Was you born in a Barn

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You have dinner at 12 & tea in the evening

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you ask for a fish and a bag (chips)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In Wigan, you ask for Chips and a 'slap'.

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By *lcoupleneCouple
over a year ago

morpeth

When the frosted car window is your signal to get your big coat out and not a moment earlier!

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By *lcoupleneCouple
over a year ago

morpeth

When you have more greggs than bus stops.

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By *lcoupleneCouple
over a year ago

morpeth

"It's like Blackpool illuminations in here

Was you born in a Barn "

Or ‘are you heating the whole damn street’ :’)

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By *arboyMan
over a year ago

Raunds

You know what council pop is

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You don't leave the door open unless you were born in a field!

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By *KG12Couple
over a year ago

Burnley

"You don't leave the door open unless you were born in a field! "

Can also be said born in a barn.

Also say close the door, what you trying to do, warm the street up.

We have tea-cakes not rolls, baps, barms or cobs.

Wearing shorts 12 months out of the year, unless your out out

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Geddup woodn 'ill

I was born a northerner and have spent all of my adult life in the south.

I have become soft and I prefer Pret to Greggs. Any deviation from glarrrrss and my son thinks I've been infected!

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

*deviation from pronouncing glass "glaarrss"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How much, when someone tells you the price "
nah that's just a Yorkshire thing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You can drink water from corporation. "
council pop

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

"Gravy on ya chips "

With mushy peas

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

"Do southerners use the slang word skrikin? I'm sure all northerners will know what this means

P. S. I dont really know if you spell it like that"

Will give you something skrike about in a minute

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you know what a tenfoot is.

If you love your pies with plenty of gravy.

When you have the compulsion to greet and thank the bus driver whenever you board and get off the bus!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How much, when someone tells you the price "

"Hi can I have a pint of Guinness please."

"Sure, it'll be £5.65 please."

"... How MUCH?!"

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By *obby9incherMan
over a year ago

harbury leamington spa

Your reet theer lass. Dinner n some left f supper !

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

"You don't leave the door open unless you were born in a field! "

Put wood in t’hole lass…….

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