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I'm 5% Northern which is probably quite enough, tbh.

Absolutely, we don't want anymore of your type up here. 😉


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:39 pm
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100% down here in Portsmouth 😀


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:39 pm
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I moved south to the 'civilized world' at 18 (about 12years ago), but I'm still 90% Northern!


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:41 pm
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90%

All's well, except I was brought up to say 'dinner', not 'tea'. That let me down. 🙁


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:41 pm
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Yet another 0% here. 😆


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:42 pm
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82% near York...
Born Leeds, grew up Manchester so pretty much spot on...


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:44 pm
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All's well, except I was brought up to say 'dinner', not 'tea'. That let me down.

+1


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:44 pm
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90%

"somewhere around Middlesbrough"

Yes, Eston.

did you rob my mate's bike when we were up the hills?

No.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:47 pm
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Can you get a Donner Kebab barm for t'ea up north?

Or do you not have pitta in the first place? Call it a donna ke'barm instead.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:49 pm
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3% and I feel like I need to scrub myself clean 😉


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:51 pm
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phew! ca. Bournemouth! 😉


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:52 pm
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Lots and Lots of very proud Northerns and Southerners on here and happy to let each of us know where they want to known by too..

Excellent.

😀


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 2:56 pm
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85% im reet wi'that
born stratford (on avon) not the other one(on thames)
now near wakefield via sheffield & N wales you want grim? try holywell 😯
all daughters are yorkies mrs G lancs!


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:01 pm
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12% thank god

Gravy on Chips??? Really?


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:02 pm
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"12% northern
That's somewhere around Bournemouth"

Well yes, 50 miles from Bournemouth to be precise.
I supported Leeds Utd. as a kid, so that must be where the 12% comes from.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:06 pm
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100%. 🙂


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:06 pm
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Another 12%?

* fist bumps DezB*


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:07 pm
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65% here, which is odd as I consider "The North" to be anywhere north of Whitstable 🙂


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:09 pm
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you want grim? try holywell
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holywell,_Cambridgeshire ]Holywell?[/url]? I've found it to be rather a nice, pleasant village.

Cheers,
Jamie


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:10 pm
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100%, Lancashire born and bred 😀


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:10 pm
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100% northern is accurate, but I'll batter the coder who reckons I live in Newcastle...

A lot of the "Northern" things had a north west bias.

We divent 'ave barms over 'ere, we 'ave buns.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:19 pm
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10%

(Think it's for being a Bitter drinker...but it's usually Harvey's Sussex Best, London Pride or Doom Bar. I do wish they'd be more specific!) 🙂


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:20 pm
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Gravy on Chips??? Really?

[Despairs of emsz]

Gravy infused chips = one of life's unchanging pleasures. 🙂

[/Despairs of emsz]


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:20 pm
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Yet another 0% here.

Would you like some Northern in you? 😉


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:33 pm
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95%, Smoggielandish.
Born and bred Northumbrian. I blame marrying a southerner on the missing 5% 🙄


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:40 pm
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50% which makes perfect sense, my dad is from Bradford and my mum is from Bristol!


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:43 pm
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I am wiping the sweat from my brow, coming in at 0%. My 2.5 years up in Salford seem to have had no effect. 8)


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:48 pm
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12% thank god

Gravy on Chips??? Really?

Actually, they do that in Quebec, but add cheese curds and call it 'Poutine'. It's delicious.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:51 pm
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0%
Get it!!
(I mean, spiffing...)

DrP


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 3:57 pm
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By birth, I score 90%.

The contemporary, enlightened, Southern livin' me scores 20%, mainly as bitter, (or ale as I prefer to call it) is simply tip-top ace.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 4:03 pm
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A colleague has just explained that pie barm is a pie in a sandwich!! WTF!!!

just wait until you experience "pie in soup" 😉

a pork pie. in a bowl of soup. srsly


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 4:29 pm
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[quote=john_drummer ]
a pork pie. in a bowl of soup. srsly

Hmmm. I remember "chip soup" being banned when I was at school as the headmaster thought that tipping a plate of chips into a bowl of soups was not good behaviour, but I've never heard of pie soup.

I have heard of the "meat pie floater" though

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Meat pie floating in (mushy) peas, covered in ketchip


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 4:32 pm
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100% thank goodness


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 4:58 pm
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I am craving a pie now. Can't get proper pies here in Germany, something to do with the demarcation of master bakers and master butchers.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 5:01 pm
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85%.
Surprised by that as I'm not a 'real' northerner, but the indoctrination must have worked 😉


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 5:06 pm
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100% which is no shock even though I've not had chips and gravy since I was 16.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 5:07 pm
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75% around Hull, latitude pretty good, longitude a bit off by about 60miles.
S Yorks and proud,


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 5:27 pm
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100% natch. Despite a southern mother. Never lived anywhere south of derby, even went to Scotlandshire for a bit.

'arrogate

H'arogate

Stupid bloody southerners...

After me. 'Arrog't.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 5:42 pm
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0%

Time for dinner.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 5:55 pm
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100%!! Which isn't surprising as I'm from Durham (but now living in Boroughbridge, which isn't far from Arrog't) 😛


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 5:59 pm
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Uncannily accurate, who says the internet isn't full of really useful stuff


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 6:00 pm
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95%, phew!!


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 6:29 pm
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57%.

I feel sullied.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 6:36 pm
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55%. 😯

I'm away more southern than that.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 6:37 pm
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MrsBouy scored 60% and that equates to Doncaster, it's about right that since she comes from H'rogate... 😆


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 6:38 pm
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Sorry, DP


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 7:15 pm
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100%.
Born in Nottingham, live in Lincolnshire.
Have lived in both Fife and Reading,I was expecting these to cancel each other out and leave me back in the midlands.
Still, better north than south


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 7:15 pm
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90% so not bad as i,m from the Peaks and so not "proper" north. Anyway don't talk to me about the north not being sophisticated I've BEEN to Leeds.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 8:01 pm
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Anyway don't talk to me about the north not being sophisticated I've BEEN to Leeds.

😆


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 8:05 pm
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Somewhere near Bournemouth apparently at 12%, reasonably accurate seeing as I am a Londoner

Reckon it was the Bitter question that messed my total up, bit daft when we have Fullers and Youngs in London


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 8:25 pm
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62%.
But with a cockney dad and a leicestershire mum, living in nw leics i'm surprised i'm THAT northern.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 8:34 pm
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10% -born in Oxford most of life in Cornwall makes sense! Even though i'm now Mids


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 8:38 pm
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Disappointed with 5% but then I realised it was because there wasn't 'none of the above' as an option and I probably pressed the button with some colloquial affectation that had little meaning outside a grim northern town.

It struck me that only a person from the northern badlands would come up with such a tool as an affirmation of belonging to something that is hardly desirable so as to somehow make themselves feel better about drawing the short straw.
But then they are a funny lot up there, theses grown men wandering around wearing teenage clothes and hairstyles?? What's all that about? I'm mean seriously? Jeans with superfluous pockets and hair gel for the over 40's?? And white trainers? You aren't telling me you partake in 'sport' only that waistline suggests sumo.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 8:41 pm
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Disappointed [s]with 5% but then I realised it was because there wasn't 'none of the above' as an option and I probably pressed the button with some colloquial affectation that had little meaning outside a grim northern town.

It struck me that only a person from the northern badlands would come up with such a tool as an affirmation of belonging to something that is hardly desirable so as to somehow make themselves feel better about drawing the short straw.
But then they are a funny lot up there, theses grown men wandering around wearing teenage clothes and hairstyles?? What's all that about? I'm mean seriously? Jeans with superfluous pockets and hair gel for the over 40's?? And white trainers? You aren't telling me you partake in 'sport' only that waistline suggests sumo[/s] that I'm from Norfolk.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 8:49 pm
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12% for me. My paternal grandmother comes from the northeast, so probably about right.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 8:49 pm
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'somewhere around Jersey'

that's rather close for a jokey quiz - I come from the Isle of Wight.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 8:53 pm
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85% and proud


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 8:54 pm
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Disappointed with 5%... blah blah... grim northern town... blah blah

it's that JW Meyers flat cap you're wearing Gary


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 9:00 pm
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65% apparently, a bit put out being from within spittin' distance of the Scottish Border, bah...


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 9:05 pm
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it's that JW Meyers flat cap you're wearing Gary

No it's a Harris Tweed one made by Failsworths actually.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 9:05 pm
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"85% northern - somewhere near York."
Which is quite bizarre as that's exactly where I am. I also had chips and gravy yesterday.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 9:58 pm
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97%


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 10:06 pm
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How northern am I?

I can drive south for 8 hours and still be in what Englanders call the north.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 10:11 pm
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58% apparently, somewhere near Nottingham, which born, bred and living in Leicester isn't far off the mark 😀


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 10:25 pm
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I am so far north its a 'peh in a roll' none of this barm nonsense, crispy morning roll at that.


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 10:32 pm
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0%, quite surprised as I lived in Chester for a while - not really a Northern City I suppose.


 
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20% but the arrow was pointed pretty much exactly where I great up / live currently, mid to south Surrey... So how this constitutes 20% is beyond me. But I suppose anything a few yards up so getting your feet wet in the channel is 'North' is the most literal sense if not geographically accurate 🙄


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 10:43 pm
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Somewhere quite close to Jersey:-)


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 10:56 pm
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We must meet up fogliettaz as im apparently also in jersey with 7%. I did once go to the Lake District so it must be that


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 11:04 pm
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[i]The results are in! We reckon you're
80% northern

That's somewhere around York.[/i]

North Leeds, old cock. 🙂


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 11:06 pm
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80% that's what living in Essex does to you! It's the pear cider wot done it..
I only tried it once and all...


 
Posted : 08/11/2013 11:12 pm
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100% and living in flat Suffolk. I suppose the 3 years in Tadcaster as a nipper had an effect.


 
Posted : 09/11/2013 12:09 am
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95% Baby...


 
Posted : 09/11/2013 12:19 am
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100% - result


 
Posted : 09/11/2013 12:34 am
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0%, quite surprised as I lived in Chester for a while - not really a Northern City I suppose.

<footie chant> you're Welsh and you know you are </footie chant> as aimed at Michael Owen 😉


 
Posted : 09/11/2013 12:36 am
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It's broke, it doesn't do north of the wall


 
Posted : 09/11/2013 1:05 am
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It's broke, it doesn't do north of the wall

That's not North it's foreign, just vote Yes 😀


 
Posted : 09/11/2013 1:08 am
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95% Middlesbrough apparently
Odd considering I was born in Nottingham did most of my growing up in Bristol & the Cotswold's & now live in the north midlands home county of Cheshire 😉

I blame my mother who was from Huddersfield


 
Posted : 09/11/2013 1:20 am
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67 and i am Danish


 
Posted : 09/11/2013 9:03 am
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A Philippino friend got 57% without ever being there, of course as a Southerner I explained to him what it was all about.


 
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