FTAO Northerners

[Simon]

So, I'm back from Northland now, so can someone please explain to me why people drive less like arseholes up there? Sure, lorry drivers still elephant race with the best of 'em, but, with only a couple of exceptions, the driving up there is 20 times better than the average encounter on the M25 at rush hour...

[NotoriousREV]

We’re just a better class of people.

[duncs500]

We’re just a better class of people.

Like aristocrats that have fallen on hard times and now live somewhere unsavory?

[NotoriousREV]

We’re just a better class of people.

Like aristocrats that have fallen on hard times and now live somewhere unsavory?

But we don’t live near Birmingham

[ilmostro]

So, I'm back from Northland now, so can someone please explain to me why people drive less like arseholes up there? Sure, lorry drivers still elephant race with the best of 'em, but, with only a couple of exceptions, the driving up there is 20 times better than the average encounter on the M25 at rush hour...

We don't live in a fucking rat race, so everyone actually has time to not be a twat.

[McSwede]

So, I'm back from Northland now, so can someone please explain to me why people drive less like arseholes up there? Sure, lorry drivers still elephant race with the best of 'em, but, with only a couple of exceptions, the driving up there is 20 times better than the average encounter on the M25 at rush hour...

We don't live in a fucking rat race, so everyone actually has time to not be a twat.

What he said!

Where about are you? Hopefully not the wrong side of the Pennines like Ravi

[ilmostro]

Where about are you? Hopefully not the wrong side of the Pennines like Ravi

But everyone knows the best thing to come out of Yorkshire is the road to Lancashire! (And yeah - When I was born, Barrow was in Lancs)

[Gavin]

Where about are you? Hopefully not the wrong side of the Pennines like Ravi

But everyone knows the best thing to come out of Yorkshire is the road to Lancashire! (And yeah - When I was born, Barrow was in Lancs)

Oi! I am half Yorkshireman! Explains why I am so blooming tight with money anyway!

And yes, I noticed the driving within the M25 and in the deep south was by some margin worse than oop North.

[ilmostro]

I lived down south for 20 + years. I always let people out of junctions, etc, and they just sit there like lemons, as the fact that someone is being polite is simply too confusing to them.

So I eventually gave up and became a cunt as well.

[unzippy]

Northerners as in Beany?

[Jobbo]

Northerners as in Beany?

That’s not northern, that’s alien.

[Sundayjumper]

My wife recently said "up north" in relation to Milton Keynes. Without joking.

[Beany]

Northerners as in Beany?

That’s not northern, that’s alien.

Quite.

Now that I regularly hammer up and down the A1M, you can definitely see a demarcation around Peterborough where people seem to be rather more self-important and cunty about their driving.

Once you start hitting Herts, all hell breaks loose. It's a warzone, bodies everywhere, the burnt out skeletons of Picassos littering the sides of the roads, marauding gangs of leather clad hooligans staking their claim on the wasteland that is Stevenage.

I rush through there, at speed, flashing people out of the way before peeling off to the gentler climes that are WGC, where the worst that happens is people are too fucking stupid to understand why doubleparking is a bad thing.

[nuttinnew]

Now that I regularly hammer up and down the A1M...to be rather more self-important and cunty about driving.

I rush through there, at speed, flashing people out of the way.

[JLv3.0]

I guess Northerners aren't in a rush to get to their shitty underpaid jobs, probably down coal mines or something.

[Beany]

Now that I regularly hammer up and down the A1M...to be rather more self-important and cunty about driving.

I rush through there, at speed, flashing people out of the way.

[nuttinnew]

You're not joking though.
Btw, I went oop t'A1 t'other day and the road was still there, it wasn't just a dusty trail. Tit X hammers insufficiently.

[Beany]

Once you start hitting Herts, all hell breaks loose. It's a warzone, bodies everywhere, the burnt out skeletons of Picassos littering the sides of the roads, marauding gangs of leather clad hooligans staking their claim on the wasteland that is Stevenage.

Yes, I was obviously being utterly, deadly serious in every respect in that post.

[ilmostro]

I guess Northerners aren't in a rush to get to their shitty underpaid jobs, probably down coal mines or something.

It's funny - in the North if you finish work a 5pm, you'll be out the door within 30 secs. Whereas down south people just keep working, hoping their boss fucks off home before they call it a day.

[JLv3.0]

Yes, that occurs in literally 100% of all work situations without question or exception.