Are Northern folk generally thick?

[tinfoilhat]

Ime thick about things i dont know anything about, but i am clever with the things i do know about.

Londoners (in particular) can rabbit on for hours, and not tell you anything. There clever at that.

 

You aren't helping our cause.

[kidley]

You aren't helping our cause.

 

I have ask my geordie friend and he says it should be/ "They are" my spellchecker doesnt know the difference.

[*_ash_*]

Omg North Korea Alert

 

Searching my threads and posting must mean that things are very quiet on here at night these days! :hihi:

 

(I wouldn't discuss NK though, they're watching! )

 

How's that for paranoia?

 

[pattricia]

I don't mean everyone of course, just the majority.

 

I believe it's our accent which makes us appear thick. My American brother in Law could never understand why we say " Shut door " leaving the word " the" out.

[*_ash_*]

I believe it's our accent which makes us appear thick. My American brother in Law could never understand why we say " Shut door " leaving the word " the" out.

 

Show him

[runningman1]

Northerners are generally less well educated than southern folk. This doesn't make them thick though, just less academically inclined.

 

You need both the educated and the non-educated to make a society function. Northerners are more happy to do the lower skilled jobs, like mining and steel working, that a southerner would be ashamed to do.

 

Horses for courses.

[davyboy]

I have ask my geordie friend and he says it should be/ "They are" .

Evidently IQ increases as you go past Sheffield:hihi:

 

Edit: In either direction.

Edited June 5, 2016 by davyboy
removed question marks

[purple]

Northerners are generally less well educated than southern folk. This doesn't make them thick though, just less academically inclined.

 

You need both the educated and the non-educated to make a society function. Northerners are more happy to do the lower skilled jobs, like mining and steel working, that a southerner would be ashamed to do.

 

Horses for courses.

 

 

So what do we do now the coal and steel industry has been decimated?

[Revel]

I'd say there are more intelligent people IN the south, as the majority of high-intelligence jobs are there. But a lot of those workers are also bound to have come from the north. So no, I wouldn't say southerners are any smarter than northerners. Our accents are what make us sound stupid. Am goin' t'town, it's int' car, etc.

 

PS. Where does the north start? I wouldn't class Chesterfield/Derbyshire as north, so is Sheffield (only ten miles further) really the north?

[The Joker]

Our accents are what make us sound stupid. Am goin' t'town, it's int' car, etc.

 

And the shrill, high-pitched screeches that emanate from the gobs of the cast of Eastenders are a sign of intelligence?