great list of games from our real local rivals and we now are told by Londoners that our local rivals are in Lincolnshire!!!!!
1977 31/Dec Hull City 2 (Bannister, Dobson) Sheffield United 3 (Stainrod 2, Edwards) What a miserable NYE that was....
We're told by Londoners that we're all in Humberside. (incidentally, using Firefox I've just noticed Humberside comes up as an incorrect spelling, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire don't)
Hmmmm.... Do all Londoners 'tell us' this? We live on Humberside rather than in it, of course. As people from Liverpool live on Merseyside, Sunderland people live on Wearside, Newcastle people live on Tyneside and so on. I can recommend Google Earth if anyone out there still has any concerns about this worrying matter.
On and in are different words as you say, which renders it moot doesn't it? It's good that you picked the second post using Londoners though.
Londiners = BBC Decision Makers (on case you didnt get my drift)...oh that should have said 'in'. they do have different meanings don't they?
That's just silly. You can't live in or on a non-existent place, which is why the merseyside, tyneside etc comparison is equally silly. I'm guessing you're trying to say that you live by the side of the Humber? If so, you may well do, but most people don't. The debate's been done too many times before, and those trolling with the humberside call always end up looking stupid.
Have you quoted the wrong post now? BTW, completely seperate to mussie's post, but seeing mine quoted in it I've just realised how bad the winking smiley is on here, looks more like a big happy face.
What happens in your house when on MOTD they say 'The Merseyside Derby'? Do you ring the BBC to complain and point out their error?
As I said, the pro-humbersiders look dafter by the post. Unlike humberside, merseyside exists. Let's hope you're not sad enough to post a link to some ****ed up newspaper headline like the other sadsacks had to resort to.
Try this from the Unison website: "UNISON is Britain's biggest and brightest trade union with a membership of over 1.3 million. Yorkshire & Humberside region alone has over 145,000 members. Our members are people working in the public services, for private contractors providing public services and in the essential utilities. They include frontline staff and managers working full or part time in local authorities, the NHS, the police service, colleges and schools, the electricity, gas and water industries, transport and the voluntary sector."
I'm not sure why it's such an issue to you. It's gone, scrapped, get over it. Posting links to show there's someone else as clueless as you is hardly proof of anything, especially given the original topic before you spilled your bowels on it.
I didn't invent the term. It's been around many decades- in sport, commerce, weather, economics, trade, geography, local government etc You may not like it but blocking your ears, stamping your feet and yelling "It doesn't exist! It doesn't exist!" only affects you not the wider world, which continues to refer to it on a daily basis.
I was born in East Yorkshire and live in East Yorkshire. That pretty much makes me a Yorkshireman and for years I thoroughly despised the whole Humberside name tag. I'd kick off if someone said I was from Humberside. As I've got older and more important things have happened in my life I really can't be arsed anymore. There are more pressing concerns in my life. Someone wants to call me a Humbersider, let 'em. I could not give a flying ****. Just my slant on it.
Erm, this maybe a shock, but it really doesn't exist. You can blub all you like, but honestly, they scrapped it lsat century because it was expensive, inefficient and unpopular. If you doubt me, keep walking until you come to the official sign for the region you mention. The people that use it don't bother me, I just feel sorry for their ignorance.
