Humberside went years ago. Its just used by the lazy media hacks. We are East Riding of Yorkshire ffs. Correct. A very good read overall. It wont get any better than that i would suggest ??
So having had your arse slapped on all the other angles, you're reduced to posting a link that disproves your own case? Unless of course you think a site showing several instances of a now defunct iron mongers in Barton and one column in the HDM using it means something. As others have pointed out, the fact they're reduced to using it is funny enough in itself as it shows they've been forced to admit we're streets ahead in terms of quality and using a term they know gets up peoples noses is all they had left.
Leeds got a footballing lesson on Humberside. FACT. Don't be afraid to ask for assistance on how to use that search engine....
...and the needle returns to the start of the track... Different year, same thick poster. keep walking until you reach the sign.
I must say you always manage to introduce such strong factual arguments into the discussion, I'm surprised Radio Humberside haven't had you on to argue your case.
Ah, the station that describes itself on its own broadcast as covering East Yorkshire, North and North East Lincolnshire, you lost that bit of your silly argument before.
Seems Hull was a little late when it comes to printing a local newspaper , it also seems Newcastle was there before us by some 80-90 years . I cant remember exactly but printing was (and copyright) was controlled by government and it wasnt till the 1700s that laws changed in ownership, use of and who rights with printing . - My memory is a bit fuzzy on this as it was hard work reading on British history of copyright , as it kicked off during the Decades surrounding the Cromwell shizzle
I think it covers the Humberside geographic region. If I'm not mistaken, the clue is in the title. (Perhaps you ought to make a New Year's resolution to learn the difference between geographic terms and actual county names ? Post number 7 on this thread explains this quite clearly. This would save us all from having to go through this dreary discussion each time you get baffled by it.)
it can't cover a geographic region that doesn't exist, that's why they go to the bother of adding the geographic region to their advert. It existed as a station name before the short lived boundary change. As for post number 7. I've no idea where you got it from, but it's wrong in its definition. it gives examples of organisation names that could be called anything as they each have to add the geographic terms when explaining where they cover, ie Humberside Plod and BBC Humber cover East Yorkshire, north and North East Lincolnshire. Both are reviewing the name as both accept it's meaningless, unpopular and unrepresentative. Unless you've set out to look a clueless pillock or to prove with reverse logic that humberside doesn't exist, you really are rubbish at this aren't you.
I've asked that very question of the BBC management, they said that they sat and discussed it as a panel and chose a name that wasn't already in use to avoid confusion.
'United's trip to Thameside/Merseyside/Tyneside/Wearside/Teesside'... any of those could have been used and no local would have been offended. Why not just take the complimentary article from the Leeds-oriented YEP in good spirit? Humberside = by the side of the Humber, which is where Hull and the Circle are roughly. Good journalism to mix it up a bit and not just use the boring 'trip to Hull'.
Well said. According to some though, there is no such thing as Thameside/Merseyside/Tyneside/Wearside/Teesside.....
Pure ignorant nonsense and as wrong as you usually are. There are differences between all of those, one of the main ones being that they don't mind the name as it separates and distinguishes them within their areas from areas they feel no real bond to. The Humberside term links areas with no historic connection and arrogantly removes our historic name of East Yorkshire. It's a big part of why it was scrapped. The 'by the side of the Humber' argument shows how little you understand the issue, given the bulk of the region isn't by the side of it at all. In fact Leeds could equally fall into the same argument as some bits of the region.
The article was fairly complimentary, the reference to Humberside was just unnecessary. Until 1974, Humberside was a term used to refer to the area either side of the Humber and nobody had any issue with it. From 1974 to 1996, we had a county inflicted on us, one that the vast majority simply didn't accept, since that time it's been considered a derogatory term, largely used by people who wanted to irritate us. It was found so objectionable, that all Humberside signs were destroyed as soon as they appeared and many Hull based businesses refused to accept post with a Humberside address on them. In fact, i still do.
