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N O R T H E R N L I F E
{C{9
BY WATTS/DUAL FORMAT
{A{5
After reading the article "It's Grim
Up North", a good laff at us
Lancashire and Yorkshire folk, which I
must admit tickled me, the article
stated things like we still have gas
lamps, or good old door stoppers
(Hovis).
Well I can tell you it's true, we do
still have gas lamps and a lump of
coal for our tea. But there is one
thing we have upgraded on, we use
wooden logs for our open fires instead
of coal. (it's cheaper) and most of
us wear a flat cap and a donkey (woo)
jacket and wi still tok like dat ee by
ecky thump... There is one thing that
is really funny. When our local
television station puts new adverts on
to our screens they talk really posh
and stuck up, (a bit southern if ya
like,ONLY JOKING). Then a few weeks
later you will hear the same advert
again but wey hey hang on a minute,
there's something not right here.
Yep, the cheeky bastards at our local
t.v station have dubbed the advert and
replaced it with good old Lancashire
laughing geer.
So what is it with these companiess
who advertise on television, you can
just imagine the twats at a meeting,
"I think we should change the adverts
so that lancashure can understand what
we're trying to sell them". For
{ta{A{5example the chocalate drifter advert,
the one with the old chap and the
young lad in the workshop. The fist
time I heard this advert, the young
lad was Scottish. Then suddenly they
changed the speech in this ad as the
Scottish lad speaks good old fashioned
English. Is this because the old chap
says "speak English boy". Another
example, nice piano music, attractive
lady, Bold washing powder, the posh
version "it cleans thru and thru" eh
eh then they changed it to suit us up
north, same piano, same lady, same
powder but "Bold does a cracking job.
It's reet good stuff is that". Also
I'm not into politics but most of us
or me should I say, can't understand
what Mr Major is papping about half
the time. I mean what was he saying
on national television. "BACK TO
BASICS", his answer was "GET YOUR COAT
ON AND GET ON THE FRONT DOOR". Can
this geezer be serious or what. What
does he mean? Is my local television
station going to dub this and convert
to some form of phrase we would
understand? Also, the goverment did
another one of their great surveys yeh
yeh yeh and they reckon the national
average wage was eighteen thousands
per annum. Please, please point me in
that direction and that's just an
average. Did they step outside of
London or did they just take a vote on
the first figure that came into their
heads. If we took London and the
surounding areas off the map, I bet
the national average wage would be
half the figure they have come up
with.
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