RE: as a nine bob note. Michelle Gayle. Subject of many a teenage TM tangle. FACT served with a spoff jus.
RE: as a nine bob note. The one just gone or the one approaching ? Yes to both btw.</p> Meeting some other Southerners too. Oh joy.</p>
RE: as a nine bob note. Prompt cards.</p> Getting ready for being asked about keeping coal in the bath etc.</p>
Guaranteed conversation: "So where are you from then"</p> "Barnsley"</p> "Baaaaarn-sley?"</p> Why do people make a ******* ridiculous sheep noise when you tell them you're from Barnsley? Why? It's not even like that's how we pronounce it!!</p>
RE: Guaranteed conversation: Used to have that a lot when I worked in that there London. </p> "Barnsley ? That's near Manchester isn't it ?"</p> "Fvck off"</p>
RE: Guaranteed conversation: I had that when I worked down south as well There was a guy at work from Liverpool and somebody just lumped us both in with having "northern accents" saying we sounded the same!
RE: Guaranteed conversation: Within one day of starting my new job I was imaginatively nicknamed 'Whippet'. Suprisingly, it has stuck and I've been called it ever since. They mean well....honest.
RE: Guaranteed conversation: I think it was an ironic name, because you're a bit slow and that. In the head, mainly.