tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post6522777267652154939..comments2024-03-27T07:37:20.144+00:00Comments on electrichalibut.co.uk: Bernard Manning finally makes me laughelectrichalibuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365477143816746297noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post-36527259510284105852007-06-24T22:10:00.000+01:002007-06-24T22:10:00.000+01:00Yes, that occurred to me as I was writing. But I l...Yes, that occurred to me as I was writing. But I left it in because I think the sentence reads better with it there. <BR/><BR/>It's also true that there's a particular breed of bone-headed arrogance peculiar to Yorkshire and the North, the "say what I like, and like what I bloody well say" mentality Harry Enfield's George Integrity Whitebread satirised, and Fred Trueman rendered beyond satire while he was alive. <BR/><BR/>I'm not a sociologist, but I would guess it's related to being (the odd Viking apart) that much further away from the obvious route (i.e. across the English channel) for immigrants to arrive.<BR/><BR/>You manky Scots git.electrichalibuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14365477143816746297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post-32641518771352832272007-06-23T08:00:00.000+01:002007-06-23T08:00:00.000+01:00Agree with you whole-heartedly.But there's no need...Agree with you whole-heartedly.<BR/><B>But</B> there's no need to add <I>northern</I> to "bigot".<BR/><BR/>Northern bigot? As opposed to what?<BR/>A <I>southern</I> bigot?!<BR/>I'm not sure if you'd ever put <I>southern</I> alongside "bigot". Be honest.<BR/><BR/>Bigots are bigots wherever they are, and they <B>are</B> everywhere, even in the "cosmopolitan, metropolitan south..."<BR/><BR/>Now I <I>know</I> you obviously know that - your fingers must have run uncontrolled over your keyboard I expect, in your haste to vent your rant.The Black Rabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10041328339344144512noreply@blogger.com