That goes both ways. I worked for several months on a project in Manchester that was staffed by Yanks and both northerners and southerners from our UK group. The northerners were merciless to one lady from London, razzing her about her posh accent. In retort she called them "beasts, like all northerners." This was all about half joking.


>We have a similar North-South rivalry going on in England. I'm from up north but live on the south coast. Every day I have to put up with their appaling accents. We have jokes like:
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>"The only good thing to come out of the south is the M1 motorway going north"
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>Tore, the Swedes CAN BE a bit anal, though, can't they - what with their liquor quotas and sqeaky-clean, holier than thou image.
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>>Tore that looks just like Portuguese and Spanish.
>>You know what you should do if you see a Spanish drawing?
>>Throw him his family. :-)
>>He also have a saying that goes more or less like this.
>>From Spain neither good wind, neither good marriage.
>>meaning that from Spain nothing good comes. :-)
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>>>No matter how stupid people are, it's amazing what thay can accomplish. (duck) We have the never-ending jokes between Norwegians and Swedes, you know. The Swedes only have one thing which is better in Sweden than in Norway, namely neighbours. :-)
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>>>Around 1970 Sweden shifted from driving on the left side of the road, to the right side. A very big operation, and the joke of course was that they should do the change gradually. and start with the buses and trucks a few days before the private cars .....
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>>>NB! Do you know what they say about driving in England? "Right is wrong, and left is correct." :-))