[Closed] Gods County

Because we still haven't forgiven you for the dirty tricks at Towton... 👿

Ahhh. The old myth that the Wars of the Roses was between Lancashire and Yorkshire. I'm a Lancastrian and I'm on the side of the Yorkists, me. Who were from the Midlands, BTW.

And most Lancastrians were actually from (what is now) Yorkshire (and what was then Northumberland)...I do know my history, I just like antagonising grumpy Yorkshiremen...

Yorkshire has potential. In a couple of million years hopefully continental drift will have improved the climate and killed off the grumpy locals who have an inflated sense of their own importance.

I thought this was going to be about Kent *leaves in disgust*

Gods County = Hampshire.

I see no Hampshire in that vid.

The single most exciting thing to happen in British Cycling for at least 7 months... 😀

Can't bloody wait - OH is a Yorkie and the in laws live in Knaresbourogh!

God's Own Country is Sussex.

It's colder than the south. Good enough reason not to live there, TBH. 😉

Hampshire.? That'd sure make for some majestic shots from the helicopter.... as the riders brace themselves, psychologically preparing themselves... summoning up those months of gruelling training.... and there it is.... the slight incline on the way into the car park. There's a particularly tricky speed bump at the top that's easy to get wrong 😆

Kryton57 - Member

I thought this was going to be about Kent *leaves in disgust*

Nope I believe thats known as "The Garden of England" anyways you dont live there Essex Boy

bikebouy - Member

Gods County = Hampshire.

I see no Hampshire in that vid.

Sorry But I dont think a Video of Hampshire would somehow make the grade 😛

Dear disillusioned Southerns.

[url= http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&gs_rn=7&gs_ri=psy-ab&cp=15&gs_id=bb&xhr=t&q=god%27s+own+county&es_nrs=true&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Gods+own+county&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44158598,d.ZWU&fp=ae45fed07a420aa5&biw=1440&bih=626 ]Google Gods Own County[/url]

[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2006/jun/02/travelnews.shortbreaks.unitedkingdom ]Just in case you are not sure[/url]

Wait a minute there sonny..

We have hills, we have the South Downs, thems hills by any other name them is. I'll grant you they have a max hill'idge of about 400mtrs above that Sea Level thingy and they don't go on longer than say 15mins at an ave of say 20mph, but hills they is.

They make your lungs burst a bit and yer legs.

I'm pretty sure I saw God one day down this way, he was riding a Recumbent and pushing a big gear with a grin like a Maxed Gnnnnar to the power 11 pyjama wearing ewok. So in conclusion, God rides out in Hampshire, fact.

Hold on.

God is omnipresent, therefore every county is God's own county. Including Essex and even Yorkshire. FACT.

Was it God that stripped the trees off the hills up there?

Dales_rider - Member

Kryton57 - Member
I thought this was going to be about Kent *leaves in disgust*

Nope I believe thats known as "The Garden of England" anyways you dont live there Essex Boy

I don't live in Essex either.

Why would you want to live anywhere else ?

This is why: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/ne/print.html

Cold, wet, and full of northern types.

whats tke knobbly hill at the end with the cairn on top?

johnellison - how were most Lancastrians from Northumberland/Yorkshire then? I thought i knew my history, too.

I reckon the government took away Manchester and Liverpool because they thought we were too powerful, BTW. Lancashire was the engine of the country. Plus, the home of most of the best comedians. Name a funny Yorkshireman? William Haig?

Oh dear, there's a few people on here who are a smidgen bitter about not being born in the paradise on earth that is t'Yorkshire.

It's all right, we're not judging you, it's just that you aren't as good as us.

God can keep it 🙂

It's all right, we're not judging you, it's just that you aren't as good as us.

That's very big of you 😉

We're a kind and generous folk.

Actually it all makes sense. God made yorkshire first and put all his effort into it. Then he looked at the rest of the country and thought "how can I make it fair for the people who live anywhere else". And Lo! God created the yorkshireman.

generous folk.

Erm....

cranberry - Member
We're a kind and generous folk.

I'm not sure that sarcasm is welcome on the is thread.

And Lo! God created the yorkshireman.

Indeed he did, fine folk like Brian Robinson:

[i]Brian Robinson (born 3 November 1930[1] Huddersfield, Yorkshire[2]) is an English former road bicycle racer of the 1950s and early 1960s.
He was the first Briton to finish the Tour de France and the first to win a Tour stage.
His success as a professional cyclist in mainland Europe paved the way for other Britons such as Tom Simpson and Barry Hoban[/i].

EDIT: See also 1:20 in on this clip

anyone who thinks their county is 'gods own' and superior to any other is obviously trying to make up for other failings like having a city called Hull or a jingoistic self aggrandising population with an overinflated sense of self worth.

Hull is actually great. People that haven't been just assume it is shit because the internet told them that.

I will be moving to God's Own county in the next few months (from Lancashire 😳 ), will probably have a house about 5 mins walk from the route of the tour, can't wait!

Yes the south has slightly better weather, but it's still hardly great is it. Southerners boasting about their weather is a bit like boasting about eating a cow shit sandwich instead of a dog shit sandwich.

Sorry to hear about your exile Grum. What was it you did to deserve that? Been caught in flagrante with the local nobleman's mistress?

Anyway... can we put our tents up in your garden next summer then grum? We'll bring black puddings and other delicacies you'll be craving by way of payment

Southerners boasting about their weather

Instead of warm summers, wet autumns and snowy winters, he's had warm summers, wetter autumns and even wetter and windier winters.

He moves back 'home' next month.

Sorry to hear about your exile Grum. What was it you did to deserve that? Been caught in flagrante with the local nobleman's mistress?

Some of the locals here found out I had a bike made by On-One - the pitchforks and flaming torches came out pretty quickly as you can imagine.

Anyway... can we put our tents up in your garden next summer then grum? We'll bring black puddings and other delicacies you'll be craving by way of payment

If the grounds of my mansion are big enough then yes certainly.

Hull is actually great

Close, but I think it's actually Grimsby that's great.

But Grimsby is in Lincolnshire isn't it?

Santorini is great but that isn't in Yorkshire so it doesn't count either. 😆

It is across the border, but I raised it because it's near Hull and it's official name, as included on the city signs etc, is Great Grimsby. Without apparent irony.

Great Grimsby. Without apparent irony.

I actually found myself in Withernsea last summer.

😯 is all I can say.

Yorkshire, earlier today.

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beefheart- you lie, that can't be yarkshire, thars a woman outside n not int kitchen where she belongs tha knows!

Eye, true enuf.

Ekky thump,
Flat caps,
Whippets,
Mushy peas,
"Honest Yarkshire Men"
Coal,
Range Rover Sports,
Audi Allroads,
Mud,
Chips n Greyvey,
Black Sheep Beer,
Hand knitted jumpers with cattle on them,
Posh totty in Joddies,

IIRC Hull is in East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire is "Gods Own County" so for those Geographicaly challenged, stick to the trail centres

Meant to add leave the sh1t wilderness to us with flat caps andt'whppets

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"Listen to me, lad. I might be omnipresent but to live anywhere other than Yorkshire's just daft. Bring t'whippets in, it's a bit cold out there for 'em"

Oh dear:

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The northerns think Last of the Summer wine was a comic parody, where in reality it was a fly on the wall documentary that southerns couldn't help pointing and laughing at.

[i]North Yorkshire is "Gods Own County"[/i]

I knew that cos I live in Boroughbridge.

Thats true, mind you did tell me that you only watched it for the W**kfest that was Norah Batty

Yorkshire; just a flatter,less healthy Scotland isn't it?

Yorkshire; just a flatter,less healthy Scotland isn't it?

yeh, but the locals have less of an attitude than the jocks 😀

Kryton57 - Member
The northerns made Last of the Summer wine which was a comic parody, the southerns thought it was real.Oh, how we laughed at them.

FTFY

But evryone knows that God's own country is Cymru.

toxicsoks - Member
Kryton57 - Member
The northerns made Last of the Summer wine which was a comic parody, the southerns thought it was real.Oh, how we laughed at them.
FTFY

You keep believing that, it'll keep you happy twixt t'pit and t'whippets.

God would never reside amidst Barnsley, Catleford, Hull & Scarboough.

Pit shut darn nah thar nose, whippets died 🙁
Mind still got flat cap and blac pudding to keep me company,

Why would you want to live anywhere else ?

Let me see, because elsewhere you can find;

Better weather, hills, riding, beer, coast, standards of living, food, any many many other things.

But mainly, because you won't be surrounded by folk on an ego trip about where they live.

It's ok Yorkshire, but in all honesty. It's nowt amazing.

True Pieman, dont have any of them you mentioned, may have to move after all.

I don't have a flat cap. Does a cat flap count?

But mainly, because you won't be surrounded by folk on an ego trip about where they live.

😀

[i]Better weather, hills, riding, beer, coast, standards of living, food, any many many other things.[/i]

Your'e only right about the weather (& that's only sometimes)

& Harrogate is the happiest place in the country to live.

Ant & Dec just said so therefore it must be true.

Does anyone know where the closing shot is from???

I'd heard it was Carlisle, probably a few years ago now.

That said, I'd heard Powys was the happiest in the UK as a whole.

Given the choice, I'd live in Rural Wales if anywhere south of Hadrians wall. On paper the North West of England (not that hideous Manchester conurbation bit) appeals far more than East of the Pennines. But I quite like rain.

That said again, really given a choice I'd be in the Pyrenees.

Who knows what's so special about some low hills covered in tussocks and sheep shit. But you boys seem to love it.

Essel you're wrong I've just read about the Halifax 2013 Quality of life survey, in the Times.
Just 3 places from the North figure in top 50 harrogate is'nt one of Em.
They do ad a caveat
"If we had measured ares of outstanding natural beauty, clean air and access to green space the result would have been different"
Tell you what Scotland and Wales dont even get a shout, sh1tholes I guess 😉

Terrible places, in fact. Everyone from Yorkshire would do well to stay within its borders for fear of missing out on Yorkshireness

B.A.Nana - Member
Does anyone know where the closing shot is from???

Usually some stud muffin's ball bag.

Boom tish

2012 Olympics - what were the stats again... Oh that were it if Yorkshire was a nation, we'd have come 3rd. Beat that yer ****s 😯

3rd? Second Loser.

[i]Essel you're wrong[/i]

Nope, can't be. Ant & Dec said so & if they said so it must be true, cos they're from God's other county.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18966729

Or maybe Carlisle after all

http://www.channel4.com/news/where-do-the-happiest-people-in-the-uk-live

Kryton57 - Member
I thought this was going to be about Kent *leaves in disgust*

Nope I believe thats known as "The Garden of England" anyways you dont live there Essex Boy

Lincolnshire apparently

http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/03/15/where-is-the-best-place-to-live-in-the-uk-and-why/

No Piemonster. I do and it's not great for riding, to put it midly. Otherwise fine admitedly, but it's riding that counts.

So, Scotland it is then..... 😀

Yup. Lived in St. A and loved it. Will be back one day!

Faulty link edit, crikey loads of places blagging to be "gods own"
Ahem