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blazey 09-01-2008 10:18
Being a northern lass :p
 
The only mild form of patriotism type behaviour I conform with is being proud of being from the north rather than the south. Being at uni with alot of southerners who have never heard of oswaldtwistle, I always give a little talk about the place, and I mention the pear drop every time, like I'm really very proud of the mouldy big lump of sugar. Its quite depressing but I enjoy metioning it at the same time.

Well anyway, what do you think about being from the north, and if anyone has a picture of the giant pear drop I'd love to see it so I can show my friends my fabulous towns landmark :)

MikeSz 09-01-2008 12:11
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I dont think there is anything wrong with a bit of patriotism when it is employed in the right spirit - its when patriotism goes to extremes that you have the problems. Nonetheless, I always try to have a bit of light banter with a few friends of mine who hail from the south. The North has plenty to be proud of.

blazey 09-01-2008 12:13
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Originally Posted by MikeSz (Post 514725)
I dont think there is anything wrong with a bit of patriotism when it is employed in the right spirit - its when patriotism goes to extremes that you have the problems. Nonetheless, I always try to have a bit of light banter with a few friends of mine who hail from the south. The North has plenty to be proud of.
I live next door to lads from Yorkshire aswell, they go on about how better they are than lancashire because of the roses and rugby and all that rubbish.

MikeSz 09-01-2008 12:20
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Hang on a minute....the House of Lancaster emerged victorious over the House of York, meaning Lancaster became the Royal house? (or so I remember from those history lessons long ago!)

So are you never tempted to have a childish moment with your Yorkshire neighbours along the lines of yelling "we won, we won, ner ner ner ner ner!"

blazey 09-01-2008 12:21
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Originally Posted by MikeSz (Post 514730)
Hang on a minute....the House of Lancaster emerged victorious over the House of York, meaning Lancaster became the Royal house? (or so I remember from those history lessons long ago!)

So are you never tempted to have a childish moment with your Yorkshire neighbours along the lines of yelling "we won, we won, ner ner ner ner ner!"
They're living in Lancaster, why? Because Yorkshire is inferior and they know it. Thats enough satisfaction for me :p

I'm going home now to cook my mince and apple!

WillowTheWhisp 09-01-2008 12:44
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I don't think you're allowed to photograph that peardrop.

panther 09-01-2008 16:47
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i went in ossy mills the other week and it was free to go in the sweet factory, but they wernt making out, it was all closed, but i did managed to see this pear drop and i could have easily took a photo:rolleyes: there was nobody about.

katex 09-01-2008 18:00
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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 514735)
I don't think you're allowed to photograph that peardrop.
Will ask tomorrow Willow and take my new digi with me, even though haven't sorted how to get photos on file as yet ! Ok, know I'm a bit thick. Sure there are some photos somewhere in their Marketing Department. Will revert.

Would be nonsense not to allow it to be put on a website like this .. good publicity and all that.

MikeSz 09-01-2008 22:38
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sounds like a solution to me. I dont even know what this peardrop is....will have to wait for the photos!!

Bonnyboy 09-01-2008 22:42
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Originally Posted by MikeSz (Post 514987)
sounds like a solution to me. I dont even know what this peardrop is....will have to wait for the photos!!
You are not on your own, I have been wondering what the peardrop thing was myself:D

nikkival 09-01-2008 23:05
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Found a pic on on the internet of the peardrop

MikeSz 10-01-2008 00:26
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thank you very much!! Thought I was missing a major monument or something, whilst I always walk round with my eyes open, thought I might have been missing something obvious there!

andrewb 10-01-2008 03:31
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The only banter we have is how I say poor and coke. I don't pronounce them properly. Or corpse. I think I have trouble with o's :p

WillowTheWhisp 10-01-2008 06:47
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Originally Posted by katex (Post 514805)
Will ask tomorrow Willow and take my new digi with me, even though haven't sorted how to get photos on file as yet ! Ok, know I'm a bit thick. Sure there are some photos somewhere in their Marketing Department. Will revert.

Would be nonsense not to allow it to be put on a website like this .. good publicity and all that.
It was quite a few years ago when I wanted to photograph it and was told I couldn't because then people wouldn't pay to go in to see it. Maybe the novelty has worn off now. I think there was only an 'artist's impression' in the publicity material at the time.

Last time I saw it it looked a bit manky as if it had been slowly dissolving.

entwisi 10-01-2008 06:55
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Originally Posted by Cyfr (Post 515044)
The only banter we have is how I say poor and coke. I don't pronounce them properly. Or corpse. I think I have trouble with o's :p
You don't speak proper anyhow, :D

katex 10-01-2008 18:00
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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 515058)


Last time I saw it it looked a bit manky as if it had been slowly dissolving.
No reason now why you can't take a photo.

You correct Willow is now getting 'slimey' .. they are talking of getting rid.
Perhaps they will replace with the world's largest humbug ..(I await sarcastic comments :D)

Didn't take a photo, as Nikkival found one.

MargaretR 10-01-2008 18:01
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It could be being eroded by all those nasty petrochemical perfumes you say your fellow workers use :D

katex 10-01-2008 18:05
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Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 515262)
It could be being eroded by all those nasty petrochemical perfumes you say your fellow workers use :D
Not a chemist Margaret .. sure there is a scientific explanation, not petrochemicals I suspect, probably to do with sugar and oxygen or summat :confused:

pipinfort 10-01-2008 18:12
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Originally Posted by panther (Post 514780)
i went in ossy mills the other week and it was free to go in the sweet factory, but they wernt making out, it was all closed, but i did managed to see this pear drop and i could have easily took a photo:rolleyes: there was nobody about.
same here, although i never thought to take a snap, which i could`ve done. i would`nt pay to see it so i`m glad it was free. (its a let down anyway)

pipinfort 10-01-2008 18:13
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apparently its `glazed `and not `sugared` so it will not rot.well the bumff says so anyway.

katex 10-01-2008 18:23
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Originally Posted by pipinfort (Post 515273)
apparently its `glazed `and not `sugared` so it will not rot.well the bumff says so anyway.
Meant the sugar in the pear drop pipinfort .. not the outer coating. LOL . yes pear drops are sugared on the outside too, aren't they .. they fit into the roof of your mouth and nearly take the skin off if you suck too hard.

pipinfort 10-01-2008 18:34
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Originally Posted by katex (Post 515280)
Meant the sugar in the pear drop pipinfort .. not the outer coating. LOL . yes pear drops are sugared on the outside too, aren't they .. they fit into the roof of your mouth and nearly take the skin off if you suck too hard.

oh sorry, sugar in or sugar on ......it still looked like it was bloody rotting to me!!!!LOL:D. i would`nt like that one stuck in the roof of my mouth!

panther 10-01-2008 19:03
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Originally Posted by nikkival (Post 515003)
Found a pic on on the internet of the peardrop
where did you find that?:confused:
i looked everywhere, and still cant find the ruddy thing:mad:

blazey 10-01-2008 19:11
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Originally Posted by nikkival (Post 515003)
Found a pic on on the internet of the peardrop
Thankyou very much :D you have actually made my day!

nikkival 10-01-2008 22:16
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Originally Posted by panther (Post 515308)
where did you find that?:confused:
i looked everywhere, and still cant find the ruddy thing:mad:
Typed in "stockley's sweets peardrop" on Google and went through a few pages and found a photo on someone's blog - Two Slugs Kissing

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Originally Posted by blazey (Post 515314)
Thankyou very much :D you have actually made my day!
You're Welcome! ;)

cath 11-01-2008 17:27
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Maybe everyone would be a bit more patriotic if they were Welsh and had been downtrodden by the english for the last 1600 years!

garinda 11-01-2008 17:46
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Originally Posted by cath (Post 515658)
Maybe everyone would be a bit more patriotic if they were Welsh and had been downtrodden by the english for the last 1600 years!

Yeah, it's such a shame for poor lasses like Dame Shirley Bassey, Katherine Jenkins, Bonnie Tyler, Kerry Katona, Charlotte Church, and Catherine Zeta Jones.

Being oppressed, and downtodden by the nasty English, has really held their careers back.

blazey 13-01-2008 14:02
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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 515664)
Yeah, it's such a shame for poor lasses like Dame Shirley Bassey, Katherine Jenkins, Bonnie Tyler, Kerry Katona, Charlotte Church, and Catherine Zeta Jones.

Being oppressed, and downtodden by the nasty English, has really held their careers back.
Have you watched Charlotte Churchs chat show? She goes on and on about being welsh! Personally I dont see what the fuss is about.

harwood red 13-01-2008 21:07
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Originally Posted by Cyfr (Post 515044)
The only banter we have is how I say poor and coke. I don't pronounce them properly. Or corpse. I think I have trouble with o's :p
I have to agree with you there, I get the Mickey taken out of me for my 'O's too... Words like Tesco, coat, coke. I say them completely different to anyone round here!! :o:rolleyes:

MargaretR 13-01-2008 21:12
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Why do people from Yorkshire pronounce it 'Yarkshire'?

harwood red 13-01-2008 21:35
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Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 516600)
Why do people from Yorkshire pronounce it 'Yarkshire'?
I don't :D but yes many do!

mallard 13-01-2008 21:43
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Hey there,s now,t up with a pair drop,they was right good, but up here in ossy we use,t to like jam butty,s and i still eat them.

katex 13-01-2008 22:20
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Originally Posted by harwood red (Post 516594)
I have to agree with you there, I get the Mickey taken out of me for my 'O's too... Words like Tesco, coat, coke. I say them completely different to anyone round here!! :o:rolleyes:
Well HR .. :D the thing is us Lancashire folk are not very good at diphthongs ya' see .. our dialect is made up of very flat vowels.

Coat should not be pronounced as .. cawt, but as cohut .. not quite correct, but no pronunciation symbols available, words like day turn into daaa not dayi .. oh hek, so difficult in text :D Sure you understand. Worst culprit is words like 'like'. Have noticed that you have very strong verbal diphthongs in your accent and can understand the confusion, but hell, as long as we all understand each other what does it matter... :D

Sure the ref. understands exactly what you mean when you shout Dumbo or summat .. LOL

katex 13-01-2008 22:21
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Originally Posted by mallard (Post 516620)
Hey there,s now,t up with a pair drop,they was right good, but up here in ossy we use,t to like jam butty,s and i still eat them.
Me too mallard , like a bit of cheese on them too.

harwood red 13-01-2008 22:23
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Originally Posted by katex (Post 516632)
Well HR .. :D the thing is us Lancashire folk are not very good at diphthongs ya' see .. our dialect is made up of very flat vowels.

Coat should not be pronounced as .. cawt, but as cohut .. not quite correct, but no pronunciation symbols available, words like day turn into daaa not dayi .. oh hek, so difficult in text :D Sure you understand. Worst culprit is words like 'like'. Have noticed that you have very strong verbal diphthongs in your accent and can understand the confusion, but hell, as long as we all understand each other what does it matter... :D

Sure the ref. understands exactly what you mean when you shout Dumbo or summat .. LOL
Ha ha ha, dumbo I think not!!! Think stronger gal :D

Yes you have hit the nail on the head with the coat and people love to pick up on the way I say it...but what's a girl to do eh? :rolleyes:


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