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reasons why north is better than south

Posted by: user39236 | Thu 28th Feb 2008 18:58 | Last Reply

add one reason to the list as to why we're better, and keep the ball rolling. also why we hate southerners,lol   but keep it relatively clean as many a fight seems to have broke out in history.

Feel free to add some pictures to emphasise the fact that we have the sheer natural beauty, and they have... a couple of bridges and that complete waste of a hospital, the dome

re: reasons why north is better than south
user52922
Reply : Thu 28th Feb 2008 19:29

You are certainly deluded if the you think the North is the only place that has scenery worth mentioning.

Having traveled the length and breadth of this Island of ours in a truck, given a choice of where I would want to live, I'm afraid the South wins hands down. My eldest son lives in the Peak district, a supposed area of natural beauty, but every time I visit, it just depresses me.

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user39425
Reply : Thu 28th Feb 2008 20:13

Scotland home of GOLF. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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user23840
Reply : Thu 28th Feb 2008 21:56

The beers in the west country far outclass any up north, with the exception of timothy taylors lanlord.

the dome is awsome now. 

re: reasons why north is better than south
user52922
Reply : Thu 28th Feb 2008 23:18

That is one monstrosity, for sure, David, but The city is very nice these days. The countryside is so depressing though.

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user50354
Reply : Fri 29th Feb 2008 08:33

Northern girls - yummy...

Accent of the mackem and tackems - great stuff   "give ya heed a shack ya eyes a stack." - Tackem fan to the ref one match..

Parsnips - much harder frost on the tough Northern veg...

NWOT..........

 

re: reasons why north is better than south
user39425
Reply : Fri 29th Feb 2008 08:50

Obviously the North is full of ########, well one of them is anyway.

 David, why r u getting' personal, chill out it only a bit of fun.

re: reasons why north is better than south
user33026 [FORUM MODERATOR]
Reply : Fri 29th Feb 2008 10:04

I can sum it up in one word

 

Yorkshire

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user39425
Reply : Fri 29th Feb 2008 11:05

Enjoy the weekend boys, wayne take some of that northern weather with you, that should softhern the S S up a little bit. Bi the way John  nice h'cap!

re: reasons why north is better than south
user33026 [FORUM MODERATOR]
Reply : Fri 29th Feb 2008 12:56

Same with me.  Thinking about the Empress Open though as that is on a Saturday.  Only problem is we go on holiday the following day so I may need to do some grovelling before hand. 

re: reasons why north is better than south
user23840
Reply : Fri 29th Feb 2008 19:01

My Nans from Sunderland, so its not all bad up north.

re: reasons why north is better than south
user24800
Reply : Fri 29th Feb 2008 19:35

Luke has mentioned to me that a weekend event may well be being planned for early Summer, so we will watch that space!

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user52922
Reply : Sat 1st Mar 2008 09:34

I agree with that, the further away from the North the better.

David, perhaps we could have Golfshake on Tour to the Hebrides. Seems like the perfect spot, with 22 hours of daylight in the summer.

http://golfhebrides.com/quirks/

re: reasons why north is better than south
user24437
Reply : Sat 1st Mar 2008 12:04

Reasons I like 'the North':

Courses within 20 miles of my house?  57

Course within 50 miles of my house?  332

I rest my case m'lud

re: reasons why north is better than south
user52922
Reply : Sat 1st Mar 2008 12:30

Courses within 20 miles = 100

Courses within 50 miles = 516

Sorry Tim, My area is far superior in numbers and most definitely more superior in Quality. You are forgetting that Surrey and Berkshire is the home to nothing but high quality courses, not forgetting the weather to be able to play them all year round. No winter tee mats and definitely no winter greens.

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user23840
Reply : Sat 1st Mar 2008 12:50

I'm in prime position 

Courses within 5 miles. 10

Courses within 10 miles. 38 

Courses within 15 miles. 105 

Courses within 20 miles.192

Courses within 50 miles. 564 

re: reasons why north is better than south
user52922
Reply : Sat 1st Mar 2008 13:01

London is bound to have more, Danny when you consider the home counties. They are deluding themselves up North.

re: reasons why north is better than south
user23840
Reply : Sat 1st Mar 2008 13:35

I suppose they have tp dream eh John. It's what gets them through the long dark cold nights, looking into there nasty brown beer, eating there deep fried food.

re: reasons why north is better than south
user52922
Reply : Sat 1st Mar 2008 14:46

It is a shame that such lovely people have to live in such depressing areas, Danny. Still, if they have never had it, then they never miss it.

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user50843
Reply : Sun 2nd Mar 2008 01:02

Having spent 15 years living and working in Hertfordshire (or Watford if you're not posh) and Middlesex I can see both sides of this argument.

My partner, a wonderful lady from Hertfordshire, now resides in the north with me and it was her choice to move up here, she convinced me, and women are never wrong are they? 

re: reasons why north is better than south
user23840
Reply : Sun 2nd Mar 2008 07:51

She must feel like the lady of the manor up there.

re: reasons why north is better than south
user50843
Reply : Sun 2nd Mar 2008 21:00

She sure does Danny, and we treat the servants very well..

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user39425
Reply : Mon 3rd Mar 2008 22:52

me and all my lot love it in t north, but in the end we love BETIN U SUTHAN LOT AT ANY THIN.   C U IN T NvS. FULL STOP.

re: reasons why north is better than south
user50843
Reply : Tue 4th Mar 2008 20:49

Dear me Danny what did Birmingham ever do to deserve you and your kids, poor brummies.

re: reasons why north is better than south
user33026 [FORUM MODERATOR]
Reply : Wed 5th Mar 2008 09:32

Has she got very heavy thumbs?

re: reasons why north is better than south
user33026 [FORUM MODERATOR]
Reply : Wed 5th Mar 2008 11:52

I find a baseball cap or beanie hat is both fashionable and functional in these cases. 

re: reasons why north is better than south
user50843
Reply : Wed 5th Mar 2008 21:43

Anthony you've got to get out of there as soon as possible or you will start talking like them, innit 

re: reasons why north is better than south
user50354
Reply : Thu 6th Mar 2008 08:31

Divant na wat ya talkin aboot hen

Only the toon tark propa

gan up ere n yall see man it's tra

NWOT........

re: reasons why north is better than south
user50843
Reply : Thu 6th Mar 2008 23:38

 eh?

re: reasons why north is better than south
user50354
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 08:23

Your not the first to suggest that David...

NWOT....


Last edit : Fri 7th Mar 2008 08:23
re: reasons why north is better than south
user48641
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 13:34

ok just where on the map do we draw the line to divide north and south ? just to make sure before i start with the quotes lol 

re: reasons why north is better than south
user33026 [FORUM MODERATOR]
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 14:27
re: reasons why north is better than south
user48641
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 14:30

Really chris !!  LOL

re: reasons why north is better than south
user33026 [FORUM MODERATOR]
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 14:35

Hmmm, I was trying to say……

Meriden is traditionally the middle of the country.  However, the BBC worked with ordanance survey and found that the theoretical centre, including all islands, is just outside Fenny Drayton in Warwickshire, about 11 miles North.  The grid reference is 36373.66 96143.05.  For the engineers out there, this would be the centre of gravity of the country.  Perhaps this should be taken as the measure.  

In this case, if an east-west line was drawn from there then Birmingham is just in the south with Lowestoft and Aberystwyth and Wolverhampton just in the north, along with Peterborough and Norwich. 

However, I firmly believe it's where you are born, not where you live.  I also know that I'm a bit of a geek and quite sad. 


Last edit : Fri 7th Mar 2008 15:01
re: reasons why north is better than south
user77921
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 14:46

Im sure I speak for all of us when I say that we appreciate the time and effort put into that explanation Chris!!!! An easier and slightly more contraversial way is simply to put a foreign exchange student in the room, anyone she can understand is from the south, anyone she cant is from the north!

re: reasons why north is better than south
user24437
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 15:03

Chris - only a bit of a geek on the geek scale.  Fenny Drayton won't be the centre of gravity of the country, all those hills in Wales will be heavy and East Anglia being as flat as a nuns t*t means it will be lighter etc:  Excluding Scotland I reckon the CoG would be in Macclesfield.

re: reasons why north is better than south
user48641
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 15:09

LOL blimey chris !! id hate to have been your teacher back at school marking your homework !! lol

ok best things about the north - teh birds and the food without a doubt !!

I live in leicester but back in the day used to live up north in Bolton !! might be a good time now to also mention that im playing for the south team !!  lol

ok lads fire away !!! 

re: reasons why north is better than south
user33026 [FORUM MODERATOR]
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 15:09

Thanks Tim.  I feel better for you saying I'm only a low level geek.  Obviously I wasn't taking terrain into account and only considering the country as a two dimensional mass (that means I was imagining it was flat for all you southerners). 

Do you agree that it should be decided on birth rather than habitation?  Unless of course your granny is Irish which means you have the choice.....

re: reasons why north is better than south
user33026 [FORUM MODERATOR]
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 15:16

Hey, you asked Alps!!!

Living in Bolton or Leicester you're just in the North mate.  Unless you actually live in Hinckley, and then you're in the South.  How would you feel about being a Northern spy?

Place of birth is what matters IMO.  I might live in Solihull, but I'm a Yorkshireman through and through. 

re: reasons why north is better than south
user48641
Reply : Fri 7th Mar 2008 16:01

LOL some chap called Wayne keeps emailing me offering me loads of cash to drop a few shots here and there at the north v south event!! lol

One main prob about northeners though !!  wht the heck can you not say the word INTERNET properly !!  most call in TINTERNET !!  im not kidding !!


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