Being used to settle a bet...
I grew up in the Midlands (factories, faggots and peas, mild ale, strong accents, you get the picture...)

I work down in that there London, with mostly posh types (especially senior management).

Once, when I was quite junior, I was standing waiting to get something off the printer when the head of department's door opened and he shouted to me:

'Snowy - come here a moment'

So I scurried over into his office, where another senior management type was sitting...

'Snowy - you're from the North right?'
Me: 'Well, the Midlands, which isn't quite...'
'Yeah, yeah, whatever... Important question: what do you have on chips?'
Me: 'Er, salt and vinegar?'
'Anything else?'
Me: Erm, I might have a bit of curry sauce, maybe some gravy if there's some going'
'Ha!'

...and he turned to the other guy...

'That's a tenner you owe me, I told you the poor have gravy on their chips. You can go now Snowy - I imagine you've got lots to be getting on with....'

Fucking. Hell.

This was the same guy who was sent on a Diversity Training Course and asked the trainer 'What you're supposed to call poofs nowadays', so I suppose laughing at me for having gravy on chips was quite mild, really...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 14:52, 7 replies)

Im poor.
What are you supposed to call poofs nowadays?
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 15:02, closed)

I don't think...
...he got an answer.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 15:17, closed)

not a very good
diversity trainer then ... :P
(zenmeban thinks the weather could be better, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 15:26, closed)

Or very good...
...as I suppose you don't really need to call them anything.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 17:53, closed)

that really
depends what their name is I suppose.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 23:48, closed)

Ha! Nice one!
Being a child of the Midlands living in London myself I know what its like to be treated like a thicko. (Ok, I am a thicko, but thats besides the point). Click.
( SpankyHanky, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 17:28, closed)

He sounds awesome!
I'd love to meet this blokey if only to see what his reaction would be upon seeing my hairy visage.
(RVD420 has his world coming down on, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 16:40, closed)