Yorkshire people, in general?

Thoughts please?

I’m ace.

I love me and so does my wife…

Strong in’t th’arm, thick in’t ‘ead.

Effusive, generous, fun loving with a devil-may-care attitude.

Some of the nicest people that I have ever met were from Yorkshire.
One of them married a Russian,she was also very nice.

Can’t speak for the majority as I’m Porkshire (posh yorkshire) but we seem rather pleasant and reasonable with an entirely justified fear of the south.

We also have the best entertainment at motorway services in the country (as spied last week at Hartshead Moor)

Welcoming, effusive, amusing, generous.

Prone to plagiarism

i think this about sums up yorkshire an there folk 😉

generous.

*splutters coffee over keyboard*

Honest, sometimes painfully so.
Welcoming as long as you aren’t a pillock.
Dry sense of humour generally.

Love ’em, but I am one so may be biased.

Live by the mantra: ‘ear all, see all, spend nowt. (Unless it’s a bike of course, or gadgets, or…)

I’m a grumpy bugger

But thats probably because I grew up in Wakefield.

But thats probably because I grew up in Wakefield.

My deepest sympathies…

Live by the mantra: ‘ear all, see all, spend nowt.

Actually ‘ear all see all say nowt. Eat all sup all pay nowt.

Except when those splendid French and Dutch people invade visit for the TdF.

Prone to plagiarism

*Like. 🙂

As a wise man once said:

“never ask a man if he’s from Yorkshire; if he is from Yorkshire, he will already have told you”

Actually ‘ear all see all say nowt. Eat all sup all pay nowt.

And if ever tha does owt for nowt always do it for yoursen !

North – great

West – rough

South – pitied

South don’t exist – I think you mean east.

Anyways, I came here intending to stay two or three years. That was 1992.

I have moved from west to north though.

South don’t exist – I think you mean east.

Sorry, it’s so insignificant to me that I didn’t know 😉

You can always tell a Yorkshire man but not very much.

I say freedom for Yorkshire, the time has come for our independence from the slavery imposed on us by the English, Welsh and the Scottish moaning tight gits. Our county has been held back to long by the rest of the UK (what a joke), we have subsidised for to long. We need a vote now for independence.

their vowels are too long but apart from that i have no issue with them

A bit like the Scotish with the generosity removed. 😆

Every Yorkshireman in Yorkshire is lovely. It’s the ones who escape… 😀

I’m rather a nice person…

But then again so are most of us in East Yorkshire

dour, surly, grumpy, loud, rude, ignorant, boorish, tight fisted (very).

But then again so are most of us in East Yorkshire

Until someone says you’re from Humberside. 😀
My Grandma insists we call it the East Riding of Yorkshire. Who am I to argue?

slowoldman – I knew I’d miss something out. Saw too many mugs (vessels for tea, not the other type) bearing various versions whilst working at the Scarborough Spa shops in my youth.

ton – We’re not tight, just very careful who we spend our hard earned on 😀

whats that joke about a bump on the back of a Yorkshireman’s head? something about dropping a coin?

My experience living and working there, friendly enough people, as long as you were white and straight. It was a little bit like travelling back in time.

(For those about to question/rebuke, it was living in York and working in Wakefield.)

What do you mean South does not exist. Bloody well does but you have the East Riding of Yorkshire now as well.

West Yarkshire la la la..

I used to get a lot of stick* for being a cockney (i’m originally from Leicester 🙄 ).

But i’ve been here long enough now most of my southern accent has gone so no one questions where i’m from any more.

*Most of it in jest and this was when i lived in Halifax, i’ve been in Leeds for the last 14 years though. Halifax is a nice place but slightly less cosmopolitan than Leeds!!

Generally Yorkshire folk are decent, some people just don’t like/can’t understand their tell it like it is mentality. I quite like it.

englishman by birth
yorkshireman by the grace of god…….. 8)

friendly enough people, as long as you were white and straight

This.

whats that joke about a bump on the back of a Yorkshireman’s head? something about dropping a coin?

That’s the one about the Yorkshire window cleaner. He was up the ladder when he dropped a two bob piece. He ran down the ladder and bent down to look for it, then it hit him on the back of the head.

I am from Yorkshire (Ossett) when I was a kid we had our own accent and perhaps a town/county personality. I think it is less so now and more homogenous, but I have lived in Leeds the last 15 years .

In general my more Yorkshire friends and colleagues will “tell it to thee straight” go without, and drop what they are doing to help you out, but remember it is your round even when you last drank with them two years ago.

friendly enough people, as long as you were white and straight

Nope you’re thinking of Aussies there!!

It’s a pretty diverse range of people in Yorkshire though, from malnourished poorly educated poor white working class, to cricket-loving affluent Pakistanis, Alan Bennet, David Hockney and Jeremy Clarkson. Nothing really outstanding about them in general though, so pretty much like anyone else.

I do find it quie amusing that the few Yorkshire folk I know drone on about how much better things are back in Yorkshire, yet seem to have no desire to return.

I do find it quie amusing that the few Yorkshire folk I know drone on about how much better things are back in Yorkshire, yet seem to have no desire to return.

SPLITTERS!!!