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ORIGINAL: JonnieBoy

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
As far as the Welsh are concerned, we're Midlanders

I live in Wales ... that's not the popular term here !

Pirate

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
seriously though, the idea of Midlander is even variable; we use similar terms here in the west to descrbe the Black Country and Brummie contingent that swamp us every weekend through the summer, as I'm sure you use to describe "us"

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ORIGINAL: brandi1379

Im def a Southerner, my dad was in the military so we moved around alot but being from Texas i always thought of my self as Southern. Ive lived all over the U.S. and seen the differences between the southern folks and the northern folks. Not trying to talk shit about the north but the south seems more friendly to me. We say "yes ma'am and no ma'am, yes sir and no sir" we dont mind talking to strangers, we dont take things so sirously. But thats just how I see things. No hard feelings yall.

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ORIGINAL: stella41b

Do you identify as a Northerner or someone from the North or a Southerner or someone from the South? Or do you identify as being from somewhere other than North or South? What makes it so? And how does your culture differ from that in other regions? How do you perceive those from the North and/or those from the South?

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

tiffed over the Chunnel? one would surely have to rail against it?

except its a most amazing thing, even if the southeast didnt fall down the hole as we'd been hoping up here. In the end even that was a good thing though, as someone pointed out, without the southeast being there, we'd be the southeast.

E

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ORIGINAL: brandi1379

Im def a Southerner, my dad was in the military so we moved around alot but being from Texas i always thought of my self as Southern. Ive lived all over the U.S. and seen the differences between the southern folks and the northern folks. Not trying to talk shit about the north but the south seems more friendly to me. We say "yes ma'am and no ma'am, yes sir and no sir" we dont mind talking to strangers, we dont take things so sirously. But thats just how I see things. No hard feelings yall.

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

Interesting.   Like all of a sudden we no longer heard of that.  Something that Britain (sp?) was an Island.  Part of Europe but not really part of Europe.  I sure stuck my foot in my mouth in early conversation with the buddy from Ireland.  :-)   But it was my ignorance.  Not intentional.   We had quite the long distance phone bills there for a while. I hadnt heard from him in a while.   I dropped my cell phone. SO I cant text.   only email.  And phone calls are outragious.

I almost don't want to ask.   But is there any reason why the French and the English seem at odds?     The two seem to be on tension alot of the time.   We went thru a period here where there was hard feelings???, tiffs.  So I gather it is jsut an age old thing- that simply is?

Do the French do anything right.  *ducks*    Lady E., is whom I address this too- when you feel like rendering a reply.  Or maybe not. Too intense?

On this side of the pond- we have no clue on many idisyncracies. and the media is of no help reducing any item down to a sound bite.     *turns red- hoping I did not ask the wrong question*

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

Interesting.   Like all of a sudden we no longer heard of that.  Something that Britain (sp?) was an Island.  Part of Europe but not really part of Europe.  I sure stuck my foot in my mouth in early conversation with the buddy from Ireland.  :-)   But it was my ignorance.  Not intentional.   We had quite the long distance phone bills there for a while. I hadnt heard from him in a while.   I dropped my cell phone. SO I cant text.   only email.  And phone calls are outragious.

I almost don't want to ask.   But is there any reason why the French and the English seem at odds?     The two seem to be on tension alot of the time.   We went thru a period here where there was hard feelings???, tiffs.  So I gather it is jsut an age old thing- that simply is?

Do the French do anything right.  *ducks*    Lady E., is whom I address this too- when you feel like rendering a reply.  Or maybe not. Too intense?

On this side of the pond- we have no clue on many idisyncracies. and the media is of no help reducing any item down to a sound bite.     *turns red- hoping I did not ask the wrong question*

well, you do know where we insisted the rail connection through the tunnel from Paris should arrive dont you? Waterloo station!

we and the French have been at it for centuries, right up to the detente in the early 20th century when we allied against the Germans; even then, after WWI, some British troops said they'd go back over, just to fight the damned French.

although in reality, the whole thing goes back to 1066 in more than one way; those Normans are the cause of so many problems - it was them (the landowning aristos of England post 1066) who caused all the problems with the Welsh, the Cornish, the Scots and the Irish, dragging us along as their footsoldiers - just like they did in their wars in France (Agincourt, Crecy and all that) where they were trying to retain their ancestral lands against the French. so as usual, its the poor what gets the blame. the descendants of those Norman invaders of 1066 by the way still own 1/5 of England - with much of the rest owned by the Church of England and the Queen (a German).

all in all though, its something of a toss up as to whether we dislike the French or the Germans more these days - but its more of a rivalry (not friendly) than ouright antipathy these days

E

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ORIGINAL: Irishknight

I am definately a southerner.  I was born in Arkansas, raised for most of my life in Arkansas, swore I never wanted to come back here and now I don't ever want to leave again.  I live among the friendliest people (imo) in the world and I wouldn't want to leave this community for anything.

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ORIGINAL: stella41b

Do you identify as a Northerner or someone from the North or a Southerner or someone from the South? Or do you identify as being from somewhere other than North or South? What makes it so? And how does your culture differ from that in other regions? How do you perceive those from the North and/or those from the South?