# Would UK Dopers like to stand up and be counted? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 24, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969 "2009-10-24T16:23:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/41 "2009-10-25T21:16:22Z")
USAer, but living in the UK going past five years now. [And nearby to **Liche** , apparently]. I think \*\*jjimm \*\*is also in Oxon. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/42 "2009-10-25T21:21:53Z")
I’m a Geordie. That’s sort of English. ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/43 "2009-10-26T02:08:39Z")
Hello. Another Northeasterner. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/44 "2009-10-26T08:06:50Z")
> [@Jennyrosity](#): > > I’m a Geordie. That’s sort of English. The _best_ sort. 😉 ---
**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:** [October 26, 2009, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/45 "2009-10-26T08:35:27Z")
'Nother one here. Former Brummie now London wanker. Hopefully joking ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/46 "2009-10-26T09:26:42Z")
I’m a south-westerner. I bet that there aren’t many Dopers down here. ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/47 "2009-10-26T09:30:59Z")
I’m from Norn Iron in the UK. Living in London. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/48 "2009-10-26T09:35:48Z")
> [@Liche](#): > > English and in Oxford. Anyone else nearby? Hi there - yup, there’s you, me and Daphne, and wasn’t there someone who attended one of the colleges and organised games or something? I’m one of those trendy knit-your-own organic scatter cushion\* types in East Oxford - you? \*This is untrue. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/49 "2009-10-26T09:38:23Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’m British rather than English. Heh, I always fill out “English” on those nationality forms. The reason? When I was a reporter, the editor advised me to do this, because “Any c\_nt can be British, but only an Englishman can be English.” 😃 This amuses me. ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/50 "2009-10-26T09:44:30Z")
Dutch man living in the UK… ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/51 "2009-10-26T12:06:00Z")
English former Londonite here. I’m in Milton Keynes now, if anyone cares. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/52 "2009-10-26T12:19:08Z")
If more people would fill in the Location bit of their profile it might be helpful … ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/53 "2009-10-26T12:23:24Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > If more people would fill in the Location bit of their profile it might be helpful … It’s now disabled if one’s status is “guest”. Mine is in my profile but you can’t see it unless you click on me. ---
**Author:** ![Elvis\_Chimney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/50afbb/32.png) [@Elvis\_Chimney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvis_Chimney)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/54 "2009-10-26T12:45:08Z")
+1 to the count of Scots ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/55 "2009-10-26T14:04:43Z")
Scot living in and from Edinburgh ---
**Author:** ![wolf-alice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@wolf-alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf-alice)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/56 "2009-10-26T15:45:14Z")
I’m British! Can’t you tell? I’m in the Grim North-West, too. Whippets. Pies. Coal in the bathtub. That sort of carry-on. ---
**Author:** ![Neverender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/848f3c/32.png) [@Neverender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neverender)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/57 "2009-10-26T16:57:16Z")
English - born in Chesterfield, living in Huddersfield. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/58 "2009-10-26T18:10:37Z")
> [@wolf-alice](#): > > I’m in the Grim North-West, too. Whippets. Pies. Coal in the bathtub. That sort of carry-on. I lived up there for 20 years. Big Dipper. Candy Floss. Piers. Yates’s Wine Lodge. Tower. Coal in the bathtub. ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/59 "2009-10-26T18:41:34Z")
Born in London of Irish parents (therefore Irish); living in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/60 "2009-10-26T19:17:42Z")
Highland Scot living in Glasgow here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969.md?page=4)