[Phang]

Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson

What a really shit thing they had on the news this morning. Apparently there's a new TV programme about the North-South divide.

So guess who they've got to represent the South? Londoners with plums in their mouths, doubtless living on many thousands a week, and (by their appearences.) spending too long in the Savoy. Oh, and Micheal Winner. And what a contemptible piece of human shite he is.

WELL OF COURSE THEY'RE GOING TO THINK THE NORTH IS INFERIOR BY COMPARISON, YOU MONGCHOPS. HOW ABOUT SOME REAL SOUTHERNERS?

These people are not representing the South. They're representing London - pretty much the only redeeming feature of the south of England. Because, let's face it, the South has no other cities of note, really. Few important cultural centres. We manage to combine both the smaller, more picturesque city - Durham, York, etc - with the more developed, vibrant types. We've got practically all other the large conurbations; It has too much countryside, and the countryside it has is much too bland. We have the North York Moors. We have the Lake District. We have Northumberland. We have the Highlands. We have the Peak District.

You have, umm, bales of hay in Buckinghamshire.

London is one of, if not the best city in the world. But it is not the south. The South as a whole is largely bland and irrelevant and sparsely populated. We had an industrial revolution up here. The South had widespread inbreeding in Cornwall and Norfolk.

That is all.

**** you.