FTAO Northerners

[NotoriousREV]

I’ll stick with being “underpaid” and living in a 4 bed detached house with double garage and gardens all round for <£250k rather than living in a £500k ex-council flat in a stabbing zone, ta.

[JLv3.0]

I seriously cannot believe I got a bite off that one.

[NotoriousREV]

I just like to never miss an opportunity to put on a really thick northern accent and cluck about property prices in the south east

[Rich B]

Has anyone mentioned the hilarious names they have for bread rolls?

[Jobbo]

Apparently they have one called a bagel!

[JLv3.0]

Oh god they sound AWFUL.





Northerners, that is. Bagels are great.

[GG.]

It amuses me to think that "Northerners" in JLs part of the world are technically and geographically speaking, the Ayatollahs - I'd say his dislike is pretty justified

[JLv3.0]

Hey Aussies identify as Westerners, what of it

[NotoriousREV]

JL’s from Gloucester, his webbed digits and poor quality DNA cloud his judgement.

[nuttinnew]

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

Cruise control set to (too) many leptons


Anyhow, any M25 type road is poop no matter where it is.
I did have a Liverpudlian cut across me in traffic, call me a cunt, and then drive through a no entry sign to go the wrong way down the street, but those sort of drivers are all over (especially Belgium).

[Beany]

Won't argue about the M25, never been on it and not found it full of pricks.

(cruise control set to 75, bring it up to 100 to pass clumps of traffic every so often - without flashing )

[JLv3.0]

JL’s from Gloucester, his webbed digits and poor quality DNA cloud his judgement.

Born there, never lived there thankfully (sorry Jimmy) but yeah. Still valid.

[NotoriousREV]

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

Cruise control set to (too) many leptons


Anyhow, any M25 type road is poop no matter where it is.
I did have a Liverpudlian cut across me in traffic, call me a cunt, and then drive through a no entry sign to go the wrong way down the street, but those sort of drivers are all over (especially Belgium).

I reckon Belgians are the worst drivers in Europe. When I lived in Amsterdam most drivers were chilled. If you ever saw a car being driven like a cock, it was on Belgian plates.

[JLv3.0]

Fucking TRUTH. The only nation (in Europe) that goes faster, the worse the conditions are.

[PreacherCain]

You gentlemen are correct. Belgium is the only place I’ve driven in Europe where every other person on the road definitely wants me dead.

[Mito Man]

Yep they seem to enjoy changing lane at the last possible moment usually without indicating. It seems like they’ve all been trained by Senna in terms of, “If you no longer go for a gap which exists you are no longer a racing driver.”

All of my motorway driving is on the M20, M25 and M2 so it’s very much drive like a cunt or get fucked over here.

[ilmostro]

Belgium is a special case.

Nearly everyone there gets a company car.

The entire country is wall to wall motorways, but they still don't have enough. Belgium has one of the densest road networks in the world.

But don't worry about driving at night, they make sure the roads are well lit.



Brussels and Antwerp, the two largest cities in Belgium, are the two most congested cities in Europe and North America.

It is estimated that drivers in Brussels waste 83 hours a year in traffic.

Belgium is a small country, but every Belgian probably knows somebody who commutes more than 100km every day. That’s because jobs are concentrated in the large cities, but most people won’t move there.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014 ... congestion