UK: Yorkshire: Cradle of Civilization?
Jan 8th, 2007, 08:59 AM
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UK: Yorkshire: Cradle of Civilization?
Last night on BBC World Service some British bloke was bloviating about Yorkshire being the 'Cradle of Civilization'! I didn't hear much of the following substantiation but isn't this pure drivel?
Jan 8th, 2007, 12:08 PM
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What can I possibly say that Xenos hasn't already?
Except that there's a serious case to be made for why the modern world was invented in Lancashire, on the basis of intellectual advances made in Scotland, which were possible because Ireland and Northumbria had protected Western civilisation a thousand years earlier.
Yorkshire's major contribution to any of that was Harry Ramsden's chip shop.
Except that there's a serious case to be made for why the modern world was invented in Lancashire, on the basis of intellectual advances made in Scotland, which were possible because Ireland and Northumbria had protected Western civilisation a thousand years earlier.
Yorkshire's major contribution to any of that was Harry Ramsden's chip shop.
Jan 8th, 2007, 12:38 PM
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Well the Beep guy gave some convincing arguments to this but can't remember them after the Trader Joe's Beaujolas Nouveau...something to do with the Viking invasion..Jorvik Centre...
Jan 9th, 2007, 06:13 AM
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Well if Lancastshire were the Cradle of Civilization then it would cast great redoubt about the meaning of the word 'civilization,' casting it from something generally positive, i.e. a civilized society is generally a positive thing to have, to something not to emulate or have desired in your community.
Jan 9th, 2007, 06:22 AM
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I've seen Yorkshire on the telly. It's either old blokes falling off their bicycles and waving their legs in the air, Geoff Boycott attacking grass with car keys or someone strangling kestrels.
It is, indeed, grim up north.
It is, indeed, grim up north.
Jan 9th, 2007, 11:36 AM
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Pity you stopped in time. Bouncing off the bonnet of a car would have been about the only funny thing he ever did.
I regularly walk through Southampton cemetery , and think maybe there should be more lines o scantily clad young women chasing and slapping small bald Scotsmen. It's what he would have wanted.
I regularly walk through Southampton cemetery , and think maybe there should be more lines o scantily clad young women chasing and slapping small bald Scotsmen. It's what he would have wanted.
Jan 9th, 2007, 01:56 PM
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Was York area considered civilized before or after the Vikings came to try to beat some sense into the inhabitants? More seriously, will York serve well as my first long distance daytrip out of London?
Jan 9th, 2007, 03:47 PM
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As an American, I visited some good friends once who live in Leeds; their kids spoke with such a 'brogue', I could hardly understand them. When I said "Timmy, I can't understand you," the kid switched to perfect English!! I was told that it was a 'fad' to speak in the 'old' dialect. Remember in My Fair Lady "Hear a Yorkshire man converse....I'd rather hear a choir singing flat!" Do they still talk like that?
