Signs you've been living here for too long.... SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN LONDON TOO LONG 1. You say 'mate' constantly. 2. You think it is perfectly normal to pay over £3.00 for a pint. 3. Anyone not from London is 'wanker'. 4. Anyone from outside London and north of the Watford Gap is a 'Northern Wanker'. 5. You have no idea where the North is. 6. You see All Saints in the Bar Med (again) and find it hard to get excited about it. 7. The countryside makes you nervous. 8. Somebody speaks to you on the tube and you freak out thinking they are a stalker. 9. American tourists no longer annoy you. 10. You talk in postcodes. "God, it was really warm round SW1 the other day". 11. You can't remember the last time you got up to 30 mph in your car.. 12. You didn't realise that 'Paddington Green' is REAL. 13. You pay £2.95 for a frigging caramel frigging crapachino Starbucks muck coffee SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN MANCHESTER TOO LONG 1. You go mad when somebody who is not from Manchester says 'mad fer it', "Nobody says that EVER!" you scream. 2. You say 'mad fer it' when back in Manchester. 3. You think fisherman's hats are attractive. 4. You support Man City out of principle. 5. You see Coronation Street stars all the time and think nothing of it. 6. You think Londoners are 'soft southern wankers'... until they kick your head in at a footie match. 7. You get a freckle and consider yourself 'sun-tanned' 8. You deny that it rains all the time.. as you struggle home with the shopping in yet another torrential downpour. 9. You won't pay more than £1.50 for a wrap of skag. 10. People start yawning when you talk about how great Manchester is. SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN LIVERPOOL TOO LONG 1. You have an urge to steal. 2. You think Brookside is a 'glamorous' soap. 3. You think Hollyoaks is 'posh'. 4. You keep going on about how great Liverpool and Scousers are. 5. To you, organised crime is putting petrol in the getaway car. 6. You start to cry when you hear 'Ferry cross the Mersey'. 7. You think anyone from Liverpool has a great sense of humour. 8. You often wonder why you don't hear of many Scouse comedians any more. 9. You think everyone's heard of Greg Pateras 10. You start thinking that Plymouth sounds nice. SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN GLASGOW TOO LONG 1. You say 'pish' all the time. 2. You say 'aye' all the time. 3. You end sentences with 'like' i.e. 'I'm no goin' there, like, it's pish'. 4. You think McEwans beer is great, ignoring the fact it 'tastes of pish like'. 5. You get an urge to punch everybody you meet. 6. You punch everybody you meet. 7. You get drunk before, after and during punching everybody you meet.. 8. You are incomprehensible. 9. People seem to be scared of you when you say where you are from. 10. You automatically get the urge to kill on hearing the words 'Edinburgh' or 'England'. 11. You have heart disease aged 26 due to all deep-fried pizzas you have consumed since birth. 12. You don't wash. SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN DUBLIN TOO LONG 1. You say "I'm Grand" all the time. 2. You think of Guinness as if it is the sixth food group. 3. You disagreed with 2. - Guinness is the FIRST food group. 4. You're pale and white... yet compared to others your suntan looks good. 5. You say "Are you Grand ?" all the time. 6. You say "Isn't it grand" all the time. 7. You say "That'd be grand" all the time. 8. You can pronounce names like Eoghan, Niamh and Siobhan. 9. You take 4 hours to get home on a Saturday night and think nothing of it. 10. You don't eat anything cold, uncooked or not resembling meat, bread or potatoes 11. You say "Your man" all the time. 12. You say "Your woman" all the time. 13. You say "It's grand that your man asked if I'm grand" all the time. 14. You find yourself still living with family and having dinners cooked for you by someone's mammy - at 30. 15. You talk about 'dinners' and 'mammys'. SIGNS YOU'VE BEEN IN CARDIFF TOO LONG... 1. You are still there.
How about one for people who have been in Sheffield for too long..... You don't feel the need to go out for 48 hours every weekend even though the clubs are open. You have got so used to the full Monty references that it finally does not make you feel like stabbing someone anymore. Seeing Jarvis Cocker at a petrol station when your pissed barely registers. You get bored of saying "I remember Gatecrasher before cyber". You spend so much time shopping in Leeds and London that you start to learn the street names and shop owners (due to the pap shops in Sheffield). It is no longer amusing to say "a know where tha' lives" You make random convo to a stranger (from the south) and you are shocked when they tell you to stop stalking them. You learn where all 2 of the working speed cameras are and proceed to drive around at 90 miles an hour all day (apart from in those 2 places). You have seen Scott Bond pissed. You know who owns which shop on Division Street and frankly don't give a crap anymore. You accept the fact that you never meet anybody that you don't share a mutual friend with (EVER!). Sorry if that is a bit random/shit but I'm a bit pissed and it made me laugh (to myself like a madman).