North-South divide

A London lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a Glasgow copper.

He thinks that he is smarter than the cop because he is a lawyer from LONDON and is certain that he has a better education then any Jock cop. He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the Glasgow cops expense!!

Glasgow cop says, ' Licence and registration, please.'

London Lawyer says, 'What for?'

Glasgow cop says, 'Ye didnae come te a complete stop at the stop sign..'

London Lawyer says, 'I slowed down, and no one was coming.'

Glasgow cop says, 'Ye still didnae come te a complete stop. Licence and registration, please.'

London Lawyer says, 'What's the difference?'

Glasgow cop says, 'The difference is, ye huv te come te a complete stop, that's the law, Licence and registration, please!'

London Lawyer says, 'If you can show me the legal difference between slow down and stop, I'll give you my licence and registration; and you give me the ticket. If not, you let me go and don't give me the ticket.'

Glasgow cop says, 'Sounds fair. Come oot o your vehicle, sir.'

The London Lawyer exits his vehicle.

The Glasgow cop takes out his baton and starts beating the {zb} out of the lawyer and says 'Dae ye want me te stop, or just slow doon?

Originally posted by tack'ho Sorry Merlin...only proper grown ups are allowed to talk here!!

 

Sorry Tacky, i thought not sailing a Cherub, Having a 4 year old daughter and another one on the way, owning my own house and having a job with more then a reasonable amount of responsibility qualified me as a grown up!  If you post a topic like North Vs South in the banter section expect some piss take responses! 

OFFS.... I just heard that Ben A was born in Macclesfield....darn it.

This whole thing started with me as we were discussing a meeting earlier this year where one of my colleagues (over from Canada) was ammused to hear that one of the guys we were meeting had taken the afternoon off on the previous day as it was "a chance to walk on the beach with my kids in the snow, they could be in their 30's before that happens again!" - then I saw the north/south thing on the RS100 site....

however, now I've realised our numero uno single-handed dinghy genius is just masquerading as a genius from Lymington and not actually a born southener.... let's just say bugger it, there goes the sheen from my veneer (or should that be sneer) of southern greatness over them up north


... still least we can hang on to the fact it's a m-ar-st not a m-aa-st and our boats are f-ar-st not f-aa-st........ it's bl%^dy tenuous I know but....

Tricky one on the best sailors. The midlands is NORTH.
Therefore, you could put into the northern catagory a LOT of top sailors.

Forgetting olympic sailors for a moment, the north has produced (off the
top of my head), Estaugh, Pinnel, Jim Hunt, Neil Marsden, and more
recently people like Matt Mee, Andy Davis, Tom Jeffcoate, Andy Couch.
I can actually think of a lot more but can't be bothered.

Not actually sure where carveth, gilbert and craig hail from......??

I think the southies are falling behind a bit.

Still, I know where I want to be sailing and that is most definitely south!
We can win the best venue competition with just one entry, Rock!

Originally posted by turnturtle   If you live further than hour from the sea, then you're a midlander... there's nothing wrong with that, but don't try to pretend there's anything right with it either.

Can I just stop you there?   It takes me 1hr 15mins to get to Southampton from Reading.  I am definitely not a Midlander and will take great exception to that!