Why Do English People ....

They are ahead of the game by a few thousand years.

When the poles reverse, London will then be 'Up North'.

That or they are thick wollybacks. In Liverpool it is 'down', and in Newcastle everything English is 'down'.

Correct. It's always 'Up North' or 'Down South' innit. 'Up to London' is just plain wrong. 

unless London is on higher ground

The railway line to London was always described as the "up" line, and the line from London the "down" line.  I don't know whether the same applied in Scotland to lines to and from Edinburgh.

The railway line from where?

ive never said that in my life.

dont know anyone who says 'up to London'

What about people in Sussex?

They are quite correct. It's because London is the capital city.

Here in glorious North Yorkshire I never heard anyone say "up to London"!

It's because many people in the North live underground in mines and deep caves, so they have to go up to get out.

Don't people from Sussex go 'up to town'?

''Down the smoke'' is the appropriate tern for visiting London if you live up North.

Much to my annoyance, Mrs CMAT always tell her sister 'We're coming up to see you.'

And every time I hear her say it I say 'No we're not. We live in Norfolk, She loves in Romford. We're going DOWN, ffs.'

And her response 'Does it matter?'

YES, it does. When you get to motorway junctions, like the M11 from the M25, it won't have York, Doncaster, Leeds, Dover, Folkestone or Margate, it will have 'M11 North' or 'M11 South'. So if you're normal, and you have your map up the right way, and you know where you're going, you know if you're heading UP the map, which is north, or DOWN the map which is south.'

As usual, she chose to ignore me.

Some months later when she had been to Bluewater in Kent with her sister, she turned south on the M25 to come home.

Far too busy yakking, she just carried on driving until she realised she was lost. Her sister phoned me, I said to call back when you see a sign for the next junction.

The next sign was for Chertsey

I told her to carry on until she saw signs for Romford.

When she got home, after a 105 mile tour of the M25 instead of a 12 mile drive, I asked her if she now knew the difference between up and down.

She called me a bastard.

I think you may all be wrong here. London is south from the north, not down nor up. Down might take you to Australia.

Half of that trip would be up.

clearly they need their english noggins farted upon for making such ridiculous statements.

It's because of the general illiteracy of the Ingerlanders.I've lived in Warwickshire and Bucks where 'going up to London' was in common usage but my favourite would be the fact that 'southerners' call the floor 'the ground' and the ground 'the floor',ffs.

The bottom floor to an English lift user, is the ground floor, not the ground ground. 

Yank buildings have no ground floor, they call it the first floor.

It is always correct to say going up to any town, the "up" has no geographical relevence.

ive never once said up to london or down to london. i may say im going up a hill or down a hill, but thats different. i just say im going to london. which dunt half confuse people, when im going to newcastle.

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TBF I think your wife ghas a point. Just be glad she didn't give you a skelp.

Never heard this alleged statement once , who said this forum is becoming stale .

sideshowbob    13 Aug 14 13:29 
ive never once said up to london or down to london. i may say im going up a hill or down a hill, but thats different. i just say im going to london. which dunt half confuse people, when im going to newcastle.

Do you drive?

I always say going down to london or The Smoke  or that shyyte hole

She called me a bastard

ROFL!

I bet she has difficulty telling her right from her left as well cmat, correct?

She can spot a left winger from 50 yards.

I always thought why do the english say that us scots are tight,because imo we would give anyone our last.

Have you ever been in a pub with English people because they are the feckin last tae buy a round !

When I lived there I never heard anyone in Lancashire say up when referring to London. Always down.

erse2 • August 13, 2014 12:17 PM BST
clearly they need their english noggins farted upon for making such ridiculous statements.


What is your weird obsession with FARTS erse? it's most peculiar ?