Roady Etiquette

McBain_v1 said:

Arthur Clune said:

You want to move oop north 🙂

Ahh yes, "oop north" where people are friendlier by s-
miles 😉

One lass I got close to a Birmingham University during my
first student days was from Reading and thought that B'ham
was "oop North".

Coming from the North East I could hardly stop laughing!

Southerners, you gotta laugh at 'em 😄

I was a North Easterner at Reading University, I might as
well have been from Mars as far as some of the other
students were concerned.

McBain_v1 said:

One lass I got close to a Birmingham University during my
first student days was from Reading and thought that B'ham
was "oop North".

Quoted message said:

Coming from the North East I could hardly stop laughing!

It took me a while after I moved here (Dundee) to get used
to the fact that what was usually refered to as 'the North'
in newspapers and tv was actually South of me...

Roos

Quoted message said:

It took me a while after I moved here (Dundee) to get used
to the fact that what was usually refered to as 'the
North' in newspapers and tv was actually South of me...

Oh yes. 'The North' officially ends at the border, at which
point 'The South' begins again.

Interesting nation.

MSeries said:

McBain_v1 said:

Arthur Clune said:

You want to move oop north 🙂

Ahh yes, "oop north" where people are friendlier by s-
miles 😉

One lass I got close to a Birmingham University during my
first student days was from Reading and thought that
B'ham was "oop North".

Coming from the North East I could hardly stop laughing!

Southerners, you gotta laugh at 'em 😄

I was a North Easterner at Reading University, I might as
well have been from Mars as far as some of the other
students were concerned.

Don't know if you heard the Today programme on Saturday but
it was broadcast with a live audience in Oxford. One of the
audience was asked where he came from.

Audience: Reading.

Broadcaster: Sorry?

Audience: I said I was from Reading.

Broadcaster: Yes, and I said I felt sorry for you.

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Quoted post said:

Originally posted by Michael Macclan
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:09:20 GMT, McBain_v1 wrote:

Northerners, you have to feel sorry for them, poor people.

:-)

Southerners... okay yaah?! Pooftah's the lot of 'em 😉

As for "[censored] heaps" - isn't that the collective term for a lot of Essex Girls 😄

I heard you won't go out on your bikes if it looks like it might rain?

Simonb <[email hidden]> wrote:

: Oh yes. 'The North' officially ends at the border, at
: which point 'The South' begins again.

Yeah. Always confused me when I lived in Edinburgh.
Especially annoying when trying to work out the radio
weather forecast.

Arthur

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On 14/4/04 11:22 am, in article [email hidden],

Roos Eisma said:

McBain_v1 said:

One lass I got close to a Birmingham University during my
first student days was from Reading and thought that
B'ham was "oop North".

Quoted message said:

Coming from the North East I could hardly stop laughing!

It took me a while after I moved here (Dundee) to get used
to the fact that what was usually refered to as 'the
North' in newspapers and tv was actually South of me...

And it took people a while before they realised, on asking
about the lack of light in the winter, that when I said I
enjoyed the longer days I meant it, having moved somewhat
south to get to Dundee..

..d

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Quoted message said:

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:19:28 +0100, "Spencer Bullen"
<[email hidden]> wrote in message <4hsec.65662$Id.30667@news-
binary.blueyonder.co.uk>:

Quoted message said:

Since I'm in the same clothing, most of which is MTB
stuff (peaked helmet and baggy MTB tops to contain my
large gut!) I can only assume that drop bars are the
cycling equivalent of a Masonic hand shake.

Drop bars say "cyclist" not "bloke on bike" :-)

Quoted message said:

Drop bars also say "racing cyclist" not "bloke on bike",
You get a lot of respect from the older roadmen, along
with comments like "if you do 400's you should think about
doing a 24" (yeah right!, think I would be missing about
280 miles if I did)

read the blurb on the Halfords road bikes about re-creating
Lance's exploits etc.

"Simonb" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It took me a while after I moved here (Dundee) to get
used to the fact that what was usually refered to as
'the North' in newspapers and tv was actually South
of me...

Oh yes. 'The North' officially ends at the border, at
which point 'The South' begins again.

Interesting nation.

I haven't quite gotten used to it when people say they're
going 'down' to London when they live south of it.

Quoted message said:

The biggest change, however, that I've noticed is the
change in attitude from people on road bikes. Whereas
before I could at most expect to be ignored on an MTB,
I've now been readmitted to a club reserved for those with
drop handlebars. Stops at lights now have chats and kit
comparisons, and even passing in opposite directions at
least a nod or a wave is the norm.

Last year I did quite a lot of cycling with a MTB - but on-
road, covering up to 85 miles on some days, I used to get
polite nods from most other cyclists, even if they were in
full kit with drop bars - perhaps this was because I was
often miles from civilisation? I'll have to see whether this
improves now that I've managed to get a better bike.

Sam said:

"Simonb" <[email hidden]>
wrote in message
news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It took me a while after I moved here (Dundee) to get
used to the fact that what was usually refered to as 'the
North' in newspapers and tv was actually South of me...

Oh yes. 'The North' officially ends at the border, at
which point 'The South' begins again.

Interesting nation.

I haven't quite gotten used to it when people say they're
going 'down' to London when they live south of it.

I find that odd too. I live south of london, yet I go 'up'
to london. Up in the sense that if a map of the UK is pinned
to the wall, heading north IS going up.

So it's up to london/yorkshire/scotland/cambridge, and down
to brighton/dorset etc.

Velvet

Quoted message said:

So it's up to london/yorkshire/scotland/cambridge, and
down to brighton/dorset etc.

But you go up to Cambridge regardless of direction.

Richard Bullock said:

Quoted message said:

So it's up to london/yorkshire/scotland/cambridge, and
down to brighton/dorset etc.

But you go up to Cambridge regardless of direction.

Nope. We were in the lakes/peaks at the weekend and it was
back down to cambridge...

Velvet

Velvet said:

Richard Bullock said:

Quoted message said:

So it's up to london/yorkshire/scotland/cambridge, and
down to brighton/dorset etc.

But you go up to Cambridge regardless of direction.

Nope. We were in the lakes/peaks at the weekend and it was
back down to cambridge...

Velvet

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Quoted message said:

Nope. We were in the lakes/peaks at the weekend and it was
back down to cambridge...

Velvet

No, Richard's right. One goes up to Cambridge. Unless one is
a Roman Catholic.

Going down to Cambridge sounds unspeakably common. 😉

d.

davek said:

Quoted message said:

Nope. We were in the lakes/peaks at the weekend and it
was back down to cambridge...

Velvet

No, Richard's right. One goes up to Cambridge. Unless one
is a Roman Catholic.

Going down to Cambridge sounds unspeakably common. 😉

d.

What do Roman Catholics do? And why?
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Michael MacClancy said:

What do Roman Catholics do? And why?

They are sent down from Oxford? Can't remember all the
details, but read up on your Evelyn Waugh for more
insight...

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davek said:

No, Richard's right. One goes up to Cambridge. Unless one
is a Roman Catholic.

Quoted message said:

Going down to Cambridge sounds unspeakably common. 😉

And being sent down from Cambridge is surely the mark of
a bounder.

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Quoted message said:

What do Roman Catholics do? And why?

I expect it's all different these days, but it used to be
that RCs were not allowed to go up.

d.

davek said:

Quoted message said:

What do Roman Catholics do? And why?

I expect it's all different these days, but it used to be
that RCs were not allowed to go up.

d.

I'd never heard that before but it brings my Cambridge
admissions interview back to mind. I was given a
particularly hard grilling about the hypocrisy of RCs who
abstain from meat on Fridays but eat salmon instead. I
thought it was rude and irrelevant (I wanted to study
physics) and it really threw
me. Your comments may have revealed the admission tutor's
motivations.
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