What's up with Yorkshire?

tek81 said:
We tend not to go around stabbing people up. So that's a bonus.
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https://www.plumplot.co.uk/Yorkshire-violent-crime-statistics.html
Annual crime rate in Yorkshire region is 41, i.e. 41 crimes committed per annum per 1000 workday people. Compared to the national crime rate, Yorkshire's crime rate is at 128%. Violent crime makes up 30.4% of all crimes committed in the region. The total number of "violent crime" is 214k, and this number has increased by 21.8% when compared year-over-year in the period of July 2018 - June 2019.
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Just saying.
 
dowie said:
That's true... and the some of the best police forces for covering it up/ignoring it.

Also hold the UK record for incompetent handling of crowd control at football stadiums... South Yorkshire Plod is "best" at that.

See they're the "best" at everything... including being literally terrible at some things.
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1, Harsh, I've read police reports post-Rotherham of the police having an absolute headache of an investigation, because the victim is groomed and not aiding their enquiries.

2. Again, pretty harsh, it was a **** up but that was an accident waiting to happen in British football with many crushes and near over the years. They don't want to blame any fans but there was always people showing up and going in without tickets
 
Suicidal Ferret said:
Straight talking friendly people. Some wonderful countryside/scenery.

Very few southerners thank god
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Probably due to the fact that those of us who mistakenly went there,
spread the word when we got back to civilisation.

wordy said:
No it’s rubbish, you’d hate it. Stay down in London, please.
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We all know he’s saying that because he’d prefer that we didn’t go there, works for me, I’ll stay,
having been there once or twice, we live in Paradise down here, compared to Yorkshire.

billysielu said:
In Yorkshire people say good morning instead of blanking you when you pass in the street.
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That’s unnatural, an excellent reason for us to give the place a wide berth.

zophiel said:
So yorkshire would be a nice place if it didnt have people from yorkshire in it ;) :p ??
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He’s got it, by Jove I think he’s got it :D
 
neckbeardthethird said:
Most unfortunate accent ever, you could be the smartest man in the world with an IQ in the 200's but as soon as you start to speak everyone just assumes you're thick regardless.
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As opposed to what, the Essex accent? Birmingham? People who associate strong regional accents with being thick are actually thick themselves
 
Roar87 said:
As opposed to what, the Essex accent? Birmingham? People who associate strong regional accents with being thick are actually thick themselves
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There are plenty of unfortunate accents but in terms of making someone sound a bit 'simple' the Yorkshire accent wins by an absolute landslide, it's always had the rep for being the accent which makes people sound thick.

That doesn't mean the people are thick, that would be ridiculous... accent plays no part in intelligence whatsoever.
 
ANDREW GREEN said:
2. Again, pretty harsh, it was a **** up but that was an accident waiting to happen in British football with many crushes and near over the years. They don't want to blame any fans but there was always people showing up and going in without tickets
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Sounds like it was a bit more than a **** up. Some incompetence and attempts to cover that up by South Yorkshire police.
 
Diddums said:
Genuine question, the fillthy jerb stealing immigrant just doesn't get it.
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You'll love it :p

neckbeardthethird said:
There are plenty of unfortunate accents but in terms of making someone sound a bit 'simple' the Yorkshire accent wins by an absolute landslide, it's always had the rep for being the accent which makes people sound thick.

That doesn't mean the people are thick, that would be ridiculous... accent plays no part in intelligence whatsoever.
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I always thought it made people (with genuine knowledge) sound sure and dependable...
 
neckbeardthethird said:
There are plenty of unfortunate accents but in terms of making someone sound a bit 'simple' the Yorkshire accent wins by an absolute landslide, it's always had the rep for being the accent which makes people sound thick.

That doesn't mean the people are thick, that would be ridiculous... accent plays no part in intelligence whatsoever.
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There's no such thing as a Yorkshire accent. Someone from Barnsley sounds nothing like someone from York, someone from Leeds sound nothing like someone from Doncaster.

They actually used Sean Bean to advertise for 02 because the accent is associated with being trustworthy as someone above mentioned.

But yes the Doncaster accent is horrendous, and people from Barnsley sound a bit slow even if they aren't.
 
Roar87 said:
There's no such thing as a Yorkshire accent. Someone from Barnsley sounds nothing like someone from York, someone from Leeds sound nothing like someone from Doncaster.

They actually used Sean Bean to advertise from 02 because the accent is associated with being trustworthy as someone above mentioned.

But yes the Doncaster accent is horrendous, and people from Barnsley sound a bit slow even if they aren't.
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You're well nuanced on the accents though because you're from Leeds, to the uncultured masses like myself when we say 'Yorkshire' accent we basically mean Geoffrey Boycott.
 
neckbeardthethird said:
You're well nuanced on the accents though because you're from Leeds, to the uncultured masses like myself when we say 'Yorkshire' accent we basically mean Geoffrey Boycott.
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Yeah but I wouldn't suggest there's a "London accent" either, because even if I don't know them all I bet there's about 12 different distinct accents in London depending which area you're from. The same is true for any area in the world.
 
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