Do your traits fit the stereotypes of your area ?

[dark_castle1]

I am Scottish born and bred and to a certain extent yes mine do.

Dour - yes I am

Mean / tightfisted - yes to a certain extent because I hate extravagance for extravagance sake.

Drinking - nope because I only usually have a drink at Hogmanay

Patriotic - yes fiercely patriotic and proud to be Scottish.

Hard working - I believe so.

Do your traits fit into the stereotype for your country or area ?

[ed_blackadder_1]

Dont really know what the stereotypes of my area are, country bumpkin? yes and proud of it. Someone will have to say what they say about my area. Devon !

[cookiecookuk]

the saying in norfolk is norfolk born and norfolk bred strong in the arm and thick in the head .very me and i am proud to be a norfolkian.

[leoleoleo123]

😂

I don't have 'an area'

[bankhaunter]

I had to look mine up, apparently I'm posh and upper middle class coming from Surrey so they got that wrong, although when I met my first wife she lived in a house with a croquet lawn in the garden but there again she did live in Berkshire.

[captainbovine]

well I'm half Welsh and half English so I have Celtic traits...fly off the handle quick but let it go just as quickly...typical Celt! Stiff upper lip like the English...yup. Can't think of any others, oh, the Welsh will talk to anyone....yup guilty of that too!

you are by no means tightfisted DC ....are you really dour?

[malacandran]

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@cookiecookuk wrote:

the saying in norfolk is norfolk born and norfolk bred strong in the arm and thick in the head .very me and i am proud to be a norfolkian.

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I thought the saying was that Norfolk folk are inbred, but is that a calumny?

[chickengrandma-2008]

That's probably put about by their dreadful Suffolk neighbours.  Norfolk people have 6 fingers on each hand but they don't know because they can't count.  

Will I need cream??

[cookiecookuk]

like that cg....

[vamo48]

No, I no longer own any white stilettos and am not orange-skinned!

[cke786]

Well, I like me pasties, and me pies, so that's quite Manc, though I don't swear and find it extremely hard to tell a lie...or do I? No, I do find it etremely hard to lie, so not sure if that means I'm less Manc than my peers! I'm always up for a laugh, so that's in keeping with the Madchester fing! I also love to visit and holiday in Wales and Scotland... does that make me weird?

I wouldn't say I was a typical Manc bloke, but I luvz da place tons!

[ilove2patch]

I don't have an area either as I have lived all over the south of England. My great grandparents came from Yorkshire, Ireland, Germany & London! I am just me.:)

[malacandran]

Manchester is one of the great cities of the UK.  As such it must deserve our respect. It contributed greatly to the Industrial Revolution.

Therefore, we ought to admire Manchester's products,  for example, its football teams. Such as United and City. These have won many trophies.  But in recent years, the teams don't seem have many actual Mancunians in them.  Aren't the players mostly foreigners, from Spain, Italy, and other countries.

What have they got to do with Manchester?

[katcrazy03]

I am related to James Brindley of said industrial revolution but was born in the Wirral Cheshire which then became Mersey side and back to Cheshire  again and no I dont sound like Paul o Grady

[katcrazy03]

gawd yawn 

[malacandran]

The trouble with this thread, is that it's potentially dangerous.  From a "politically correct" viewpoint.  It could lead to respondents getting arrested.

That's why no-one posts answers. Any truthful answers might result in the police coming round.  So we're all too scared to post.

[dark_castle1]

I am sorry malacandran but I would not admire any city just because as an example its football teams. I would be more inclined to admire a city if someone from that city invented something for the improvement of something for mankind or admire even more those mining villages of Scotland, Wales and England where men shed blood, sweat and tears for a pittance to try and keep their families fed and where community meant community, long gone now but sorely missed and needed in this day and age.

Those are the men and woman I admire ! miners and their long suffering wives.

[malacandran]

Are you taking the pass, dark?

[katcrazy03]

well I would have thought where I come from would have ticked a few of the boxes for you dark castle,

 Cammell Lairds the  Port of Liverpool   the tannery  oh and the Beatles

and yes my great grandad worked in the lead mines in Wales  and died at 49 to keep food on the table for his family