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Title: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Leon on 08 November 2013, 09:41:14 PM
 :D :D :D

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/north-o-meter/ (http://toys.usvsth3m.com/north-o-meter/)

I scored 85%, which was slightly disappointing, but it did place me at York when I was born in Harrogate.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: get2grips on 08 November 2013, 09:44:35 PM
100%  Oh yes :D

Leon...you clearly let "soft clone" answer for you ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Bernie on 08 November 2013, 09:51:09 PM
Down to 80% - been a poncy southerner far too long - mind you don't miss the shell suits, saying errmm and seeing so many tanning salons, bookies and loan shops
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 08 November 2013, 09:53:52 PM
57% Nottingham.
Well, that's where the grandparents were from, pretty good.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Sandinista on 08 November 2013, 10:07:06 PM
90% - Middlesbrough  :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Shedman on 08 November 2013, 11:59:40 PM
48% northern - That's somewhere around Wolverhampton.

Which isn't a bad guess as I'm originally from Worcester
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Ferb on 09 November 2013, 12:02:37 AM
98% around Middlesbrough not bad as I was born in the British Protectorate of West Hartlepool.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Maenoferren on 09 November 2013, 12:17:10 AM
100% here  ;D
not sure how as I dont drink  bitter but it says I am 100% so 100% I am  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Ithoriel on 09 November 2013, 12:37:18 AM
65% - Born in Dunfermline, living in Edinburgh.

65% of the way from Southampton to John O' Groats maybe :)
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Orcs on 09 November 2013, 12:39:01 AM
I am 7% Northern -  Jersey. Thst very dissapointing

Being from East London I believe that there is nothing North of Watford Gap an South of the Thames the map is blank with "There be dragons"
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: sunjester on 09 November 2013, 01:58:09 AM
27% equals London. Fairly true, Aylesbury is actually slightly to the north of London, but it's close enough! ;D
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: O Dinas Powys on 09 November 2013, 05:36:01 AM
65% - Doncaster! Must be the rugby leage, mild and chips and gravy!  ;)

Oh - and talking to people on buses!  :D

In a similar vein, have you seen this one: http://usvsth3m.com/post/65623530326/18-things-only-northerners-living-down-south-will

Cheers,

Meirion
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Kiwidave on 09 November 2013, 07:57:39 AM
23% - not bad for an Antipodean! :D

Mind you, my mum's dad grew up in Yorkshire (born in Kent and moved when he was 6) - so that sort of counts .... :-\
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Steve J on 09 November 2013, 08:37:32 AM
Feck me I'm from Wolverhampton accoring to this :(. Quite easy to 'rig' some of the answers though ;).
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Techno on 09 November 2013, 08:43:13 AM
55%...around Nottingham apparently.
Pretty accurate as I lived there for quite a while.
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Zippee on 09 November 2013, 08:55:52 AM
Hmm 75% Hull - chips n gravy and being a veggie did for me score though  :D
should've been Middleborough (born) or Northallerton (home)
sadly it's currently London (work)
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: get2grips on 09 November 2013, 09:01:26 AM
Quote from: Zippee on 09 November 2013, 08:55:52 AM
Hmm 75% Hull - chips n gravy and being a veggie did for me score though  :D
should've been Middleborough (born) or Northallerton (home)
sadly it's currently London (work)

As a veggie, are you allowed past Watford Gap?  :)
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Zippee on 09 November 2013, 09:07:46 AM
Quote from: get2grips on 09 November 2013, 09:01:26 AM
As a veggie, are you allowed past Watford Gap?  :)

Well I've been that way 35 years, and lived south of the gap for the last 15 so I guess it took at least 20 years for the southern ponces to let me in but yes apparently.

Oh did you mean t'other way about?  :-\
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Fenton on 09 November 2013, 09:08:14 AM
I got 80%
Title: Re:
Post by: Russell Phillips on 09 November 2013, 09:10:34 AM
100% I was born and raised in a mining village in Yorkshire :-)

I did think it was going to mark me down because I don't like chips & gravy.

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Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Luddite on 09 November 2013, 09:18:36 AM
10% Bournemouth.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Fenton on 09 November 2013, 09:21:51 AM
I didnt know what a pie barm was
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: capthugeca on 09 November 2013, 09:32:39 AM
60% which places me around Doncaster too.

I spent three very formative years in Sheffield which could explain it.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Hertsblue on 09 November 2013, 10:24:01 AM
As you might expect - 0%. Which put me somewhere near Jersey. Actually born in Exeter.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: kustenjaeger on 09 November 2013, 10:26:08 AM
Greetings

28% so around London which isn't far out as I work there and live west and a bit south of it.

Regards

Edward
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Techno on 09 November 2013, 12:36:24 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 09 November 2013, 09:21:51 AM
I didnt know what a pie barm was

Neither did I.
What is it then ?
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Fenton on 09 November 2013, 12:38:55 PM
Apparently is a pie in a bap
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Ithoriel on 09 November 2013, 12:54:11 PM
Had a rummage on the site and found "How Geeky Are You?"

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/how-geeky-are-you/

I may only be 65% northern but I'm 93% geeky!
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: get2grips on 09 November 2013, 01:54:42 PM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 09 November 2013, 12:54:11 PM
Had a rummage on the site and found "How Geeky Are You?"

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/how-geeky-are-you/

I may only be 65% northern but I'm 93% geeky!

100% Northern...39% geeky.  I think the correlation is obvious ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: howayman on 09 November 2013, 02:02:57 PM
100% Northern, around Newcastle, not bad just over the river in Gateshead.
Its all relative really the Southern press still think Liverpool / Manchester is the North, i have to drive 100 miles South to get there!
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Si Tyler on 09 November 2013, 02:07:13 PM
55% born and live in Gloucestershire, but did spend a lot of my formative years (and some later episodes) in North Yorkshire in my defence
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Albie Bach on 09 November 2013, 02:31:02 PM
60% Somewhere around Doncaster
Pretty good, I lived in Doncaster from the age of 4 to 22.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: fsn on 09 November 2013, 04:19:56 PM
87% geeky.

As for Northern, being from the proper North we look down upon these pretensions of Northerness with quiet amusement.

Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Kiwidave on 09 November 2013, 08:01:35 PM
73% geeky...
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Techno on 09 November 2013, 08:31:06 PM
Dave !
Where you originate from....You should have a score of minus 'lots'. ;) ;D
I mean.....Could anyone get much further South ?  ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Orcs on 09 November 2013, 11:48:23 PM
72% geeky
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Kiwidave on 10 November 2013, 07:34:50 AM
Quote from: Techno on 09 November 2013, 08:31:06 PM
Dave !
Where you originate from....You should have a score of minus 'lots'. ;) ;D
I mean.....Could anyone get much further South ?  ;)
Cheers - Phil.

Auckland, NZ. Dad from Bristol, Mum from Guernsey, and I'm currently living in Cheltenham :D
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Techno on 10 November 2013, 08:34:15 AM
34% geeky.
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: mollinary on 10 November 2013, 08:34:47 AM
95% apparently, which they think puts me somewhere around Middlesborough!    That said, Heaven knows where they would have said I came from if I hadn't admitted to wearing a coat when it is cold.    For the record, my county of origin is actually Cheshire (I refuse to recognise that new fangled rubbish of a "county" Greater Manchester) .  :D

Mollinary
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Albie Bach on 10 November 2013, 08:41:26 AM
Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 09 November 2013, 05:36:01 AM
Oh - and talking to people on buses!  :D
Last time we caught a bus we got talking to John Otway's mum which was quite entertaining. :D
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 10 November 2013, 09:13:03 AM
I ended up in Doncaster - what is well sarf o me.

IanS
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Leman on 10 November 2013, 06:19:15 PM
57% Nottingham. Went to uni there but am from the Wirral originally.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Techno on 10 November 2013, 06:38:56 PM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 10 November 2013, 09:13:03 AM
I ended up in Doncaster - what is well sarf o me.
IanS

Furthest North I've ever strayed is Edinburgh.
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Leon on 10 November 2013, 07:08:40 PM
34% Geeky, which I thought would be a higher for some reason.  I seemed to be answering 'Other' for quite a few of them though.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Ithoriel on 10 November 2013, 07:49:56 PM
Quote from: Techno on 10 November 2013, 06:38:56 PM
Furthest North I've ever strayed is Edinburgh.
Cheers - Phil


Nothing further north is worth going to  :d
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Tommy Atkins on 10 November 2013, 09:09:16 PM
Despite being born in Newcastle and bred mostly in the Northeast. Only scored 40% 'Wolverhampton'. Didn't know what a 'pie barm' was, don't like chips and gravy, put a coat on when it is cold, and drink pear cider. Being in a 'forces' family living in Gibraltar for a while probably didn't help either. :-<

58% geek though answering other for several probably didn't help,
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: O Dinas Powys on 10 November 2013, 10:44:43 PM
Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 09 November 2013, 05:36:01 AM
65% - Doncaster! Must be the rugby leage, mild and chips and gravy!  ;)

Oh - and talking to people on buses!  :D

Redid it again later on Facebook and got 70%/Hull!  Maybe Northerness fluctuates?! Must have been listening to t' World Cup on t' wireless...  :-\

Cheers!

Meirion
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Hertsblue on 11 November 2013, 10:21:20 AM
Finally discovered the geek-meter. 36% - well, no surprises there then.  :-B
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: republic of tolworth on 11 November 2013, 04:19:18 PM
25% Northern  :-[ Far far too high. Puts me in London, which is handy  :D

And 51% Geek, which I thought was high for mostly 'other' answers.  ???
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 11 November 2013, 05:01:11 PM
78% geek! oops!
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: mollinary on 11 November 2013, 05:04:44 PM
36% Geek, a lot of other, but recognised Clive Sinclair!

Mollinary
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: ianjgow on 26 November 2013, 10:57:44 PM
Quote from: Leon on 08 November 2013, 09:41:14 PM
:D :D :D

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/north-o-meter/ (http://toys.usvsth3m.com/north-o-meter/)

I scored 85%, which was slightly disappointing, but it did place me at York when I was born in Harrogate.

Just found this. Scored only 90% which puts me well south of where I'm from. Been away too long. Mind, I never liked gravy with my chips....
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: Techno on 27 November 2013, 08:54:08 AM
There was a chippie in Newark (Notts) that did superb gravy and chips.....But haven't eaten that delicacy for about 10 years now. :'( :'(

Just found the 'How Essex are you' quiz....
A fine score of 0%.....Huzzah !

Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: How Northern are you?!
Post by: slugbalancer on 27 November 2013, 11:25:12 AM
40% Wolverhampton, not bad for a Londoner born & breed.