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[East Coast Hustle]

I mean, if I were Romney that's who I'd go with, but that's putting alot of faith in the GOP to act rationally.

[AFK]

A debate between Christie and Biden would be interesting to watch.  A lot more interesting than the debate between Romney and Obama. 

[East Coast Hustle]

Oh, no doubt. Any debate where one of the participants is named "Joe Biden" is likely to be worth watching.

[BadBeast]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Yorkshire

People from Yorkshire, traditionally, have very low tolerance for bullshit.  Combine with the stubborness of a mule, and the sort of down-to-earthness that would look like a parody coming from anywhere else, they're the kind of people that take no prisoners in a high-bullshit environment (like politics).

My English half of the family are from Yorkshire, so I may be a bit biased.

Plus flatcaps and whippets are awesome.  In my ideal world, all of England would be like Yorkshire (especially when it comes to the food, ferret-legging and sword dancing).

So, basically it's England's Maine?

Very much so.  Also a bit like Texas or New York, in that people from Yorkshire tend to identify with Yorkshire well before they identify as being English or whatever.  Of course, that is a sentiment I can get behind anyway, not being keen to identify as English myself.

Yorkshire's secret weapon is it's accent. It's the most sensible sounding accent we've got really. It's different in that when you hear it, you don't immediately want to

A/ Mock it for sounding regional. It transcends region.
B/ Check your pockets,
C/ Loose the Mastiffs.
It's Sensible. Matter of fact. Reeking of Olde Worlde Honesty, and Yorkshire Pudding.
No Bullshit from Yorkshire, it's all sheep country up there. (And honest broadband)
Shame it's no longer suitable for Miners.

[Cain]

True.  My grandfather was a Yorkshire miner, in fact.  Long retired by the time of Scargill and all, he worked in West Africa instead, showing them how to set charges properly and berating them for not being able to make a proper cup of tea whatsoever.

[Triple Zero]

The English truly are a strange people. I didn't understand any of that other than something about insects, dogs and hats.

I get exactly the same when I see you speaking in acronyms

[Nephew Twiddleton]

What do you want us to do, have one word thats 25 letters long and begins with ge and ends with er like what all you other germanic languages do? Nah. Our way is quicker and looks less scary.

[BadBeast]

What do you want us to do, have one word thats 25 letters long and begins with ge and ends with er like what all you other germanic languages do? Nah. Our way is quicker and looks less scary.

Then you'd need nearly a whole alphabet per word, and that's just showing off. Or Welsh.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

The difference being that dutch unlike welsh has too many vowels isnt that right triijppel zeeroo?

[BadBeast]

The difference being that dutch unlike welsh has too many vowels isnt that right triijppel zeeroo?

Welsh only has one vowel. Y.

[BadBeast]

And half an "E".

[Nephew Twiddleton]

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Only the welsh could take the sound of stiffling a cough because you might also puke -gwlch- into something meaningful to them.

[BadBeast]

We didn't tell them about vowels when we civilised 'em. Just for the crack.

[BadBeast]

Back on topic, I think Gop is actually a Welsh verb. Or a noun. As in "Dai, I saw your sister Myfynwy's mate, Dylwynnch at the Bunch of Leeks Saturday night, and she was gopping"

No idea what it means though.