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rodlox

Not Going Out...wait a minute!

Jul 10, 2008 15:22

Why did they get rid of Kate??

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kate, scotland, bbc america, question, questions, bbc, lee, england, meta, midlands, bbc_america, not going out

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danniisupernova July 10 2008, 19:28:53 UTC

Heee WE GET TO WRITE DEXTER PORN! :D

rodlox July 10 2008, 20:04:41 UTC

err, yes.

(its an interesting idea...Kate leaves Lee, and ends up as Dexter's neighbor) ;D

deinonychus_1 July 10 2008, 19:31:43 UTC

Usually 'northerner' is used to refer to someone from the north of England - Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland or Cumbria. Tends not to get used when refering to Scotland.

lil_shepherd July 10 2008, 19:34:01 UTC

It depends on where you are in the UK. If you are in London then North is north of Watford Gap (i.e. Midlands northwards.) If you are in the Midlands then North is Yorkshire and Lancashire. Then it switches. Yorkshire and Lancashire people think they are in the North. On the other hand, people in Newcastle, Durham and the Lake District think they are the North, and Yorkshire and Lancashire are South. The Scots take no notice - they know that only they are the North.

Reminds me of a favourite piece of dialogue from The Professionals when a villain explains that the even worse villains are from "the North".

"Where?" Cowley demands. "Norway? Sweden?"

To which the response is, "Not North Pole North, North of England North!"

deinonychus_1 July 10 2008, 19:41:53 UTC

True, there is some degree of perspective involved in what classes as 'the north'. I'm from Yorkshire, and I have endless arguments on this subject with a friend from Newcastle.

The Midlands is the slightly woolly area in the middle that no-one can agree in whether it's the south or the north, and Midlanders usually respond to this question with, "neither!" (I now live in the Midlands, and this is the usual outcome of me calling them southerners.)

rodlox July 10 2008, 20:49:51 UTC

Which begs the question - why do England and Wales have the Marches between them...while England and Scotland have the Midlands between them?

(and what's it called where the Marches meet the Midlands?)

sorry for such questions.

safcooper July 10 2008, 21:18:33 UTC

The Midlands aren't between England and Scotland, it refers to the middle bit of England. The Midlands are far south of the England/Scotland border.

The Marches aren't between England and Wales, it's just a term for an area that consists of bits of both.

Which all sounds horribly negative for what are reasonable questions, sorry!

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