The Real North Of England Vs The Stereotypes | Brennan Reece's Life Lesson

Brennan Reece rectifies out-of-date stereotypes about northerners in a poem.
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[@CrazyMonkey679]

I feel like us Irish would get along well with northerners, seeing a lot of similarities between us

[@Christos-Anesti255]

Yep aha

[@kidkannibas6081]

And fields lots of grass

[@theSFCchannel]

HAHAH Serena ya bampot! (Morley Leeds btw) but yes terms are borrowed and as far as borrowing from Irish-well Belfast anyway.similar sense of humour too.

[@theo1856]

nah

[@ragingtoastnextgen1458]

Yep 😂😂

[@ellenlouise5551]

His accent keeps switching between various Northern cities with the occasional Southern inflection.

[@matteo-cu8uv]

No

[@ThepPixel]

I dont hear the southern inflection

[@kerryholland4822]

As a Northerner I’ve always said ‘we’re friendly… but violent’ 😂

[@ashleyogden680]

this was definitely made by a tory

[@spsppspsspsp8348]

Ashley Ogden 100% smh

[@bl1tz533]

Norf fc luv Labour Norf fc ate Tories

[@user-ys5yv2nz6w]

@@bl1tz533 Simple as

[@Bumblebee12323]

The north of England is underrated. people only think of London when the word England is mentioned. 🤷‍♂️

[@a44489]

towns

[@zarashazad3710]

Yorkshire....Gods Own County North England is amazing and I am proud to be from here. 😄👌

[@hannahgibson8837]

YES

[@charlesedwards4160]

Ergh, yuck !!!!!

[@fkl770]

being half Yorkshire my self i can say that Yorkshire is some heavy county tbh there mate

[@bigtex4058]

Scotland was invented to make Yorkshire feel better.

[@elicia2155]

I'm in Korea now Can't wait to get to back and have a nice chipppyy

[@dangerousd9775]

Lancashire born and bread give us a chip barm cake lol

[@ilooklikeatoe6596]

lmao me too gimme some scran and a brew

[@judithkelly2556]

Chip butty tha noz

[@nathanielleack4842]

Lancashire top county. Should become an independent nation state la

[@xxmiadalyxx5489]

‘Bangor’s in wales’. I laughed out load ahaha 😂😂😂😂😂😭😭

[@illiteratethug3305]

They do have a Louis Vuitton shop in Leeds now, but I went in and they only sold pasties and sausage rolls. Cornish pasties though, so that's quite exotic.

[@Wolfie66]

I love pasties! Here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan USA, they are very popular. I grew up eating pasties. Funny how not too many people from other parts of the US never heard of them.

[@mohammadfahadmansuri9956]

greeting from Sunderland

[@Floral_Green]

“..if you’re Polish or gay..” You repeat yourself, my good man.

[@flickiow24]

Everyone I meet says northerners are friendlier.

[@themightyme2330]

Everyone I meet says were mad XD

[@benainsworth6995]

Everyone I meet says we’re weird

[@charlesedwards4160]

More racist more like. Southern people are more accepting of different cultures etc.

[@benainsworth6995]

@@charlesedwards4160 that because most people who come to the UK don’t want to live in a land of hilly terrain and constant aim, more than the south!

[@kiah9085]

They’re both. It’s like New Jersey kind of but if New Jersey was in the south county area if that makes sense? Much more of that kind of person who sees your car broken down and shoos your away saying “oh my god you’re going to make it worse move out of the way ILL fix your car” like. They’re nice in a very aggressive way. But they also got that county middle of nowhere thing going on of like of course you help everyone you can, there’s only so many people around here.

[@munestones6949]

I would love to go up to The North one day...

[@simplycaren375]

He speaks so well my my😂

[@tallulahcoulthard3675]

Filmed in Ashton my town !!!

[@freyacatherine7438]

I'm from Newcastle

[@themightyme2330]

So he left some things out for sure but everything in this is accurate. I find it weird how I don't know anyone who doesn't leave their backdoor open (unless its night of course)

[@oldworldorder5126]

Love it

[@glengraham7080]

Bradford the North? - Newcastle laughs.

[@loko8187]

Laughs in Berwick upon tweed

[@loko8187]

Jk im from Middlesbrough

[@tristanthomas5006]

The narrator sounds like he's 70. Can't believe he's actually younger than Star Wars!

[@angelataylor3822]

Love this ..lol..my ancestors are from England northwestern Europe

[@DoggowithaBloggo]

American here, I've been to Stockton-on-Tees a few times, and I've always thought the people were fantastic. I get thoroughly drunk under the table at every outing - and it's not even like they are trying. The accents are amazing; by the time I leave, I can almost understand about 30 percent of what people are saying.

[@momentviral6472]

Football match: North England vs South England

[@007Chakochi]

If it aint the stark boys 😂

[@philmkraken150]

"Bangor's in Wales" "What?" na i cant hack it

[@lockandloadlikehell]

How do Cumbrians and the Northeast get along?

[@garraz-bf3ui]

lockandloadlikehell We dont like each other but we have alot in common.

[@Christos-Anesti255]

I’m Cumbrian but also hav a house up in the northeast so I’m in the middle aha

[@loko8187]

Idk Middlesbrough we don’t like many people us

[@holldolldee7582]

@@garraz-bf3ui Yes we both despise southern England.

[@benainsworth6995]

United in a fear of Scots🤣 Seriously though we have more in common than most people

[@danburc3776]

I’m from the north

[@charliegillespie-_-7379]

Ahhahahh this is Ashton aka where I’m frommmmmmm🤪🤪🤪

[@juchevibes7488]

Same

[@InnesT06]

0:51 guy in the car literally had a southerner accent but ok

[@mustafahussain2069]

Ahaha I’m called Mustafa

[@kiNgToMoDo]

We in Stavanger are honored to be your lost brothers and sisters.

[@tiddleypom04]

Stavanger, Norge?

[@dono6126]

@@tiddleypom04 viking days mate

[@quirkypurple]

I know a good meatball when I see one.

[@jameslongstaff2762]

I'm American, but my grandad is from Northumberland. He's the proudest Englishmen I've ever met. Although I've never been to the north, I feel a connection to it.

[@hermioneirving7977]

James Longstaff if you said this to a northerner (anyone in my family) you’d be punched for being American and thinking you were northern

[@sldmn9657]

Us northerners are genuinely more patriotic than the southerners:)

[@penninewayne1967]

You should come over and visit us James 👍

[@holldolldee7582]

@@hermioneirving7977 Interesting,where is it that you’re from up North?🤔

[@hermioneirving7977]

@@holldolldee7582 Leeds

[@drrd4127]

It's strange being the only Scottish kid at a Yorkshire School (20 years ago) and all the other kids are calling themselves "northerners", you think to yourself "I swear we had to travel SOUTH to get here". I think what they mean is Northern England. That's why I always say "The Highlands of Scotland" or "Scottish Highlands" and not just "the highlands" which is confusing for people who come from other Highland areas around the world. Imagine saying to a Scottish person "I am a Northerner" 😂😅🤣

[@kerryholland4822]

Cos we mean ‘north of England’ not UK 😂🤦🏼‍♀️ most Scots don’t even say their British cos they don’t want to be associated with the English 😂

[@mychannel5576]

From the north, live in Scotland. Literally noone misunderstands when people say the north.

[@SoupMagoosh]

If you think Yorkshire is in the south then you’re a bit simple

[@buisnessbandit]

​@@kerryholland4822im from the north and dont say British I saw a map the other day the only place in the UK where most people identify as British is London

[@kerryholland4822]

@@buisnessbandit I'm a Northerner and I've heard us say 'British' all my life

[@jamielittlewood1897]

Cool

[@MarcRitzMD]

How do lScotsmen feel about you referring to Northern England as "The Norff"

[@ThatTallGuy0]

What’s Scotland

[@ogazm1865]

It wasn't the Home of the Industrial Revolution. That was Coalbrookdale and the West Midlands.

[@Baboonfromdatoon]

He sounds like he's from Manchester or somewhere...that's down South

[@chargeriderepeat7024]

The stereotype vs the real north. Shows full stereotype...video ends. The bbc dont you just love it.

[@thesadshrek6284]

Cumbrian lads🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@benainsworth6995]

Yes I’m from Penrith

[@chloegb2682]

Anyone from North Yorkshire

[@oddsocks8183]

Reet then

[@nunyabusiness7858]

Bradford? Northern? Hahaha!

[@saltlife5322]

Nunya Business iiI'm

[@davidthewhale7556]

Nunya Business you’ve obviously never been

[@rowangrace_p]

It's just a load of shit here in County Durham.

[@benfisher1376]

Love England, north or south, its my country

[@Topnomad]

What the actual fuck was that?

[@jackw7545]

Not proper north 😅

[@stevennicholson3891]

There’s about 200 miles, north of Yorkshire 😂😂😂😂

[@Prettyredflames]

Welcome to the norf 😂

[@hipen5965]

Southern spie

[@ghostofreagan3181]

Is north England, Scotland?

[@aragornthebrave]

No.

[@ghostofreagan3181]

@@aragornthebrave so, what cities are in the north of England, my good man. If you would be so kind

[@aragornthebrave]

@@ghostofreagan3181 Newcastle, Carlisle, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, York, Durham and many more ;)

[@Venezolano410]

For some reason he reminds me of a modern day version of Theon Greyjoy.

[@stevennicholson3891]

Yorkshire are southerners to Newcastle 😂😂

[@drey8]

Geordies are southerners to Scots, your point is?

[@holldolldee7582]

Yh no.

[@Lee12238]

@@drey8 Point is, Scotland is not England.

[@thischannelisdead3809]

Oh god I'm moving to Yorkshire I'm from the South East. Rip me xD

[@thischannelisdead3809]

SatsumaPal I'm going to Leeds. (Oh no I have really bad social anxiety and I'm very sensitive ;-;)

[@tomwilson5108]

Sweetheart no one will take the Mick out of you. Especially in Leeds. Leeds has people from all over so you will fit in fine. I moved to Leeds from the south and its great

[@thischannelisdead3809]

Tom Wilson Ah okie thanks ^^

[@acefire2514]

Yeah it’s true we do take the micky out of southerners, but yeah Leeds has people from everywhere so you should be fine. As long as you’re not rude that is XD

[@randomchaos69]

If you think those places will take the mick out a ya go to North Yorkshire Specially Scarborough Actually it’s less taking the mick here and more “this is the one thing I will hurt you with if you make the wrong move, so much so you’ll be depressed” kinda thing I know this cuz me friends a southerner

[@torim3090]

Why tf was Burnley one of the best places... it’s a shit hole. Even Blackburn’s better and it’s like biggest corona hotspot rn

[@joymattches8644]

Wanna make a documentary about us northerners, hand the camera to a bunch of comp kids

[@royalmarine1285]

I don't mind northerners as long as they aren't scouse.

[@whynofox1622]

Royal Marine Liverpool isn't in the north of England anyway

[@royalmarine1285]

Why No Fox it's in the north West. Near Manchester.

[@domestosbleach6905]

@@whynofox1622 yes it is

[@jemimat-h9619]

Okay well I’m Scouse so where are you from exactly???

[@holldolldee7582]

@@Lord_Reeves I hope that’s satire.

[@EliteXtasy]

Do Northerners call us Southerners?

[@randomchaos69]

Yeah I straight up call my bff that cuz she is one

[@Christos-Anesti255]

Yeh

[@bt3743]

Yes. Usually followed by intense vomiting at the mention of you lot

[@beachbum4691]

Sad., Incredibly stupid and Incredibly destructive of the intence respect the south feels for the North. /// John (Ex-Uk) Now living in Perth Au

[@benainsworth6995]

Really, then why is the life expectancy of a northerner is 18 years younger than the south. If you lot really had respect for us Westminster would do something about that. Like putting government managed jobs up here.

[@beachbum4691]

@@benainsworth6995 Let's start with a couple of basic points, the South Of England has no more honourable duty to create jobs in the North than the North has the honourable duty to create jobs for the South. How many jobs have you personally created for people living in the south?. The bottom line is "It isn't always somebody else's fault" get off your arse and look for greener pastures?... A little quote that precedes the welfare state and the age of parasites, I write of the 1850s here in Western Australia > Quote > "While some hardy prospectors "carried their supplies on their backs", - "those who could afford it" - "Wow", used forms of wheeled transport including bicycles, horses and carts, and innovations such as the barrel and unicycle. The image of a man pushing his belongings in a long-handled wheelbarrow has become synonymous with Western Australias gold rush"..... this relates to men, "Men", men, joining the gold rush here in Western Australia in the 1850s it took about 110 hours of walking time to get From Perth to Coolgardie pushing their wheelbarrows., They didn't get the dole.................Here at age 40 (that was1983 for me) I thought it a waste of time to go looking for other jobs despite my experience as an accountant as a contracts manager and as state admin manager with a company called Wormald (prior to the Chubb takeover), in consequence: not being greatly surprised that at 40 (it comes fairly predictably after 39) it would be difficult?; I created an online job, or more correctly a small online company. That was my best option. Remember it was and remains the business of younger people to learn enough to secure an income in their middle and later years during which: in many cases they cannot compete with the smarts and physical ability of younger people, Enough to say I came across a company that had a price-list running to 2,500 lines in Excel, acknowledging some duplications and white space it came down to about 2100 lines. This I developed as a "34-page-webpage" - It took a good week including sorting out a very messy price list, creating the 34 pages (In Excel which I didn't understand, but simply had to learn in that time-frame ) with headings, disclaimers, the Matrix of sizes and prices, the storm of photographs from the company's brochures, and other related details, and adding 34 pages of meta-text", and put the whole thing online. "All-Done" > So the telephone rings at 5-30 in the morning, because the manager in the East having decided there was no better answer wants the order placed and off his desk, by the third ring my end, I've woken up and swung my feet onto the floor and answered the phone, I commute across the front hall from the bedroom to the office and take the order. That's pretty much it. Follows; > lots of $35-$50,000 turnover months, In its' best month, it just topped $60,000 Australian turnover, after expenses of about $1300 Au$ for AdWords and the 1800 telephone numbers, the gross profit for that month was about $28,500+ (Note I was working from home).. Working from home is the easiest way to create a business that is > "either making a profit" or "not making a loss". You will no doubt remember that the classic definition of "the ideal business" is a business having "no staff", "no premises", and "no stock"., to me that's a bit like sailing with no wind, but the trick is how close can you get?. The factory whose products I sold had warehouses in five Australian cities and did free deliveries in their regions. And there are vastly more companies of this type in the UK?. "The UK is an exceptionally nuggety country".. 65 million people, crammed onto a very small space with too few roads, lots of traffic jams; but it still works and oh boy it's good for manufacturing, sales, and distribution. And not one 2500 mile highway anywhere in the country, (So efficient it's no small wonder it is the fifth or sixth-largest global economy?."wow'.) .. So that's me, I must both acknowledge and reject your comments as offered, Born in the UK I arrived in Western Australia at age 30.(Now=78-years-old) do try to stop Blxxdy complaining .. Here in Western Australia, I'm a "five-hour flight" from the East Coast: which is our principal population and sales base which makes sales and everything else extremely difficult for us locally: with a two or three-hour time difference. Remember you are central to every time zone from Reykjavík to Marrakesh and you have the Internet, time to stop making excuses..Invention is the key to your future............ very best wishes - John - Perth - Western Australia

[@benainsworth6995]

Sorry if I’m prolonging this argument but this is a very heart felt issue, my family were cotton weavers and when global and southern industrialisation closed all the business in the north west and cheap labour in China and India created a new crisis it shut our family down. Until we took up medicine we were in a rough patch, I realise your frustration at me for ‘sitting like piffy on a rock bun’ and not wanting to give and inch but it’s because if we lose an inch we’re afraid of losing a mile. It happened before and will happen again. Unless we study and prevent it. We will have a repeat of with 80s if we don’t change now, unless we all evolve to our new situations we hill stunt and as you put it ‘just sit on you are see all day complaining about ten shade of the sky’ Best wishes B.Ainsworth

[@beachbum4691]

@@benainsworth6995 they have??? my understanding is that parts of the government welfare departments including age pensions have been relocated north?

[@benainsworth6995]

Yes recently, like in the last few months because of the age of a new path the, NIP or Northern Independence Party. Increased pressure over their handling of the pandemic, for example the the vaccine station that have been posted around Britain are predominately based in the south E.G London and only two vaccination centres in the north, one in Manchester and one in Newcastle. So how is two main vaccination bases meant to cater to 15 million people. Also near the begging of the pandemic when cases started to rise in the north the furlow scheme was not increased even though northern mayors such as Andy Burnham called out Rishi Sunak to increase them but he did not listen ignoring the fact that the most jobs come from services in the north and that was underpaid even before the pandemic! It was only when cases rose nationally that he listened and raised the furlow scheme.

[@prf7237]

Bullshit.

[@Boone440]

This is absolute dishwater. Sad echo of an echo of an idea mangled through a stereotype painted by numbers in spoke word.

[@hannahdyson5603]

Is this supposed to be funny ?!

[@Tom-uv7ry]

Hannah Dyson why are that dim you can't decide you either find it funny or you don't

[@hannahdyson6580]

@@Tom-uv7ry I dont find it funny . If yhis was supppsed to be funny it failed . Big time.

[@Tom-uv7ry]

@@hannahdyson6580 it wasn't funny

[@kadykady4002]

If ur poshish or gay-..?

[@aysha5488]

polish not poshish

[@danielfloyd.]

what the fuck is "poshish"? He said polish.

[@user-ow8gh5hc1e]

i had a stroke reading "poshish"

[@novaldi3028]

Sounds like noel gollagher