# What stereotypes do the Brits, Irish, and Scottish hold about one another? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 14, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219 "2013-08-14T15:50:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/21 "2013-08-15T09:09:45Z")
How do you know somebody’s from Yorkshire? They’d have told you three times already. Yorkshiremen are Scots with all the generosity squeezed out of them. Yorkshire born, Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm, thick in the head. The Tyke’s creed: See all, 'ear all, say nowt, eat all, sup all, pay nowt, and if thy ever does owt for nowt do it for thi sen. The Lancastrian view of Yorkshire. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/22 "2013-08-15T12:31:10Z")
So, how are people in and around London thought of? Cockneys & posh poofs? What else? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/23 "2013-08-15T12:40:38Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > So, how are people in and around London thought of? Cockneys & posh poofs? What else? Rude, unfriendly, arrogant, regard London as the centre of the universe. Pretty much like New Yorkers really. (I can say this because I’m a Londoner) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/24 "2013-08-15T12:45:39Z")
Q: When will Neds, Spides, Chavs & Millies be competing under their own independent flags in the Olympics? They’ve already got the track suits… ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/25 "2013-08-15T12:46:26Z")
> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#): > > How do you know somebody’s from Yorkshire? They’d have told you three times already. _Snorts coffee up nose_. Yorkshiremen are kind of the Texans of the UK in this regard. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/26 "2013-08-15T13:19:51Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > From Ireland: > > Scottish = sound if not a bit tight. > Welsh = quiet and sound when you meet 'em. > North Of England = salt of the earth, wonderful folk. > Southeast of England/London (unless of irish stock) = scum of the earth, warmongering toffs and racist, imperialist blaggards. Huh, I must be Irish, this sounds about right to me 😉 > [@SanVito](#): > > I’ve never heard the ‘Scots shagging sheep’ thing. Aberdeen seems to be particularly accused of it. Most of the Highlands and remote areas too, but mostly Aberdonians. ---
**Author:** ![PaulParkhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/27 "2013-08-15T14:38:25Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > Aberdeen seems to be particularly accused of it. Most of the Highlands and remote areas too, but mostly Aberdonians. Yeah, it is mainly teuchters who fall into this stereotype. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/28 "2013-08-15T14:59:03Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > From Ireland: > Welsh = quiet and sound when you meet 'em. I would never have pegged the welsh as quiet - in my experience you can’t shut them up. I took a train a while back from London to Swansea - the volume levels in the carriage once we’d crossed the border into Wales shot up several decibles, it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/29 "2013-08-15T15:07:10Z")
Essex - fake tans, blinged-up second-hand BMWs, nightclubs called things like Razzers. If Yorkshire is our Texas, Essex is New Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/30 "2013-08-15T15:14:34Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > Essex - fake tans, blinged-up second-hand BMWs, nightclubs called things like Razzers. If Yorkshire is our Texas, Essex is New Jersey. Does the UK not have a show called “Geordie shore”? If I want to meet people like Jeeves and Wooster, where should I go? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/31 "2013-08-15T15:19:39Z")
What about the Manxmen? ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/32 "2013-08-15T15:27:51Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Does the UK not have a show called “Geordie shore”? Apparently. But I think _The Only Way is Essex_ is better known. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > What about the Manxmen? Three-legged tax dodgers who are fond of corporal punishment. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/33 "2013-08-15T16:05:55Z")
I met a man from Norfolk who said he could count on one hand the number of times he’d slept with a relative. The answer was 9. Norfolk = inbred. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/34 "2013-08-15T18:08:09Z")
QuickSilver wrote: “What about the Manxmen?” > [@Ximenean](#): > > Three-legged tax dodgers who are fond of corporal punishment. A superstitious bunch, too. They at least partly believe in the existence of the island’s fairies, however much they may claim not to. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/35 "2013-08-15T19:06:47Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > If I want to meet people like Jeeves and Wooster, where should I go? The past? Though you could possibly make do with Jacob Rees-Mogg. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/36 "2013-08-15T21:39:01Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > Irish: …, people with eyebrows on their cheeks… What in tarnation does that-there fancy Yuropean lingo mean? I ain’t never heard nothin’ like that out here on the prairie range. [/spits tobacco out the window of his pickup truck, fires a gun into the air, praises Jesus] ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/37 "2013-08-16T03:19:03Z")
My grandparents who grew up in the 1930s all considered the Irish to be stupid and the Welsh to be dirty - dirty as in they didn’t like to get washed. I never heard them utter an opinion on the Scotch, except one of them always corrects me when I call them Scotch instead of Scottish. I think people were much more bigoted in their formative years. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/38 "2013-08-16T08:10:41Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > So, how are people in and around London thought of? Cockneys & posh poofs? What else? Mostly as dicks. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/39 "2013-08-16T08:45:36Z")
> [@Imasquare](#): > > My grandparents who grew up in the 1930s all considered the Irish to be stupid and the Welsh to be dirty - dirty as in they didn’t like to get washed. I never heard them utter an opinion on the Scotch, except one of them always corrects me when I call them Scotch instead of Scottish. > > I think people were much more bigoted in their formative years. Scotch is a drink, not a nationality. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219/40 "2013-08-16T08:49:33Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > If I want to meet people like Jeeves and Wooster, where should I go? [The Cotswolds](http://www.the-cotswolds.org/). Maybe Surrey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stereotypes-do-the-brits-irish-and-scottish-hold-about-one-another/666219.md?page=3)