Johnny Canuck3
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Yorkshire is 6000 square miles. Doesn't seem fair somehow, comparing it with Texas.
Yorkshire, third best region in the world!
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Johnny Canuck3
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Didn't American Werewolf in London start out in Yorkshire?
Or was that Wales?
Or was that Wales?
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Wales definitely still existed in 1981 so it must have been there.
Bears
Flash company
They also say 'tin tin tin.' That's my favourite thing about Yorkshire.What they actually say is "there's nowt as queer as folk"
Johnny Canuck3
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If there's no Yorkshire, does that mean there's no Yorkshire men?
wut?
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Tragically, a decision not to commit genocide in the region was taken when the county was abolished, meaning they all survived.
Bears
Flash company
reminded me of when a friend's grandad wanted to chuck something away, asked 'where's the bin?', and got a puzzled reply of 'i've been nowhere'..
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Northumberland is ok but it's not Yorkshire
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Exactly, that's why it so much nicer, simply because it isn't Yorkshire.
Fez909
toilet expert
There's a lot of jealous non-Yorkshire people on this thread. 
You're right. Seeing as Yorkshire beat Texas then maybe Texas should be allowed to include California or something as well.
Lancashire: beaten by a place which doesn't exist, and its virtues being extolled by an ex-pat on the internet
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
In fact, Fez dedicated his afternoon to a celebration of Lancastrian culture today as well. We watched a film all about the North-West together. He told us all that he really enjoyed it. I wouldn't trust him if I was you. He's not even from Yorkshire and he's liable to switch sides at any moment. He's an out-and-out rose-whore.
does he take payment in pies and whippets?
Do you not watch the news?! They dug their psycho hunchbacked King up last year and as soon as he's regenerated he's getting medieval on your Lancastrian asses.
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
When the Yorkshire half of him is winning he demands cash or a banker's draft , often resorting to menaces. When it's the Lancashire half you can just pay him whenever you like and he lets you keep a bit of the money.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
only 3rd best? Must be some mistake.
Fez909
toilet expert
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Lancashire half? I'm less Lancastrian than you are Spanish! I like Manchester and I even like Blackpool, but that doesn't mean I have a half of me devoted to the county that those places happen to be in! Plus the rest of the county is a bit grim. Look on the grimmest place in the North thread and I bet there's more nominations for Lancs than there is Yorkshire
.The only North-West I have an affinity to is North West Ireland where my [Dad's side of the] family come from Oh, and I enjoyed that film today in the same way I enjoy EastEnders: It is misery porn to make us Yorkshire folk feel grateful that we don't have such depressing lives
They could declare independence again. But then Yorkshire could invite another Norseman to be King again and we'd be in the same situation.
*nominates self as king of yorkshire*
Johnny Canuck3
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farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Lancashire half? I'm less Lancastrian than you are Spanish! I like Manchester and I even like Blackpool, but that doesn't mean I have a half of me devoted to the county that those places happen to be in! Plus the rest of the county is a bit grim. Look on the grimmest place in the North thread and I bet there's more nominations for Lancs than there is Yorkshire
Oh, and I enjoyed that film today in the same way I enjoy EastEnders: It is misery porn to make us Yorkshire folk feel grateful that we don't have such depressing lives
You're a Yorkie aren't you? Born in the Boro, therefore over the Border into the Dragonlands of Yorkshire.
Whereas I was born in the majestic County Durham, which cocks a snook at poor old Yorkshire. All the surrounding counties in Northland look down on our poor benighted Yorkshire brethren, and when we hear what they're up to sigh, and mutter 'they can't help it, they're from Yorkshire'.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
The same report also claims Antarctica is the second best country in the world
Ey oop! That can't be right. Antartica is down south!
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
So here's what I don't understand: if Yorkshire's so great, why don't more people choose to live there and have businesses there?
Wikipedia tells me that only 5.2 million people live somewhere which is 2.9 million acres in size. That's 1.79 per acre.
Compared to greater London, where you have 8.2 million people in only 388,449acres, meaning 21 people per acre.
Popularity. Yorkshire does not have it.
Wikipedia tells me that only 5.2 million people live somewhere which is 2.9 million acres in size. That's 1.79 per acre.
Compared to greater London, where you have 8.2 million people in only 388,449acres, meaning 21 people per acre.
Popularity. Yorkshire does not have it.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Edit. Gee thanks Wikipedia, for presenting the size of Yorkshire in acres, and the size of everything else in square miles and square kilometres. Cunts.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
To be fair, the county includes a large amount of rural land. On top of that you've got extensive moorland and parts of the uplands of the Pennines, along with the North York Moors. So it'll never be as densely populated as London or the south east.
Quite simply, large areas of the North aren't suitable for habitation due the nature of the land and the weather. For example, when they built the trans-Pennine section of the M62 it took something like a year to construct each mile of motorway as the peat moorland is so difficult to build on.
But you can stand at a point somewhere in the south Pennines I think and in a radius of so many miles there are more people than if you did the same measurement stood in Trafalgar Square.
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