you have the best pic ever. bravo.

Oh like you've never done something stupid before.

Nope, I still don't get it. Enlighten me.

I hope you're being sarcastic and amusing. But on the offchance you're not, I'm going to point out that toilet paper is very thin and throw in the word osmosis for free. :)

ooh free osmosis!

Don't worry, pendatik, I only gave the word away for free! :P

And there was me thinking that our stereotype was being stingy bastards.... Oh well. :P But we've stolen the south's nice weather, so it's all good. :)

Three excellent points there. :P However I feel that t'actual distance might make you safe from us northerners. Not to mention most get scared by the south because of this mysterious extra word you seem to have...

Cinn... osmosis? Really? Are you that ridiculously stupid? Really?!? Like.... REALLY!?! Just.... wow.

@GEFStryker - Apparently. But I would have thought it was still an applicable term, oh, actually, now I think about osmosis is the difussion of solution UP a concentration gradient isn't it? Ops, my bad. Maybe dialysis (however spelt) would be more appropriate. Because that's the difussion through a partially permeable membrane down a concentration gradient. I apologise for having not done biology for four years. @pendatik - Well if we don't have it, how can I tell you what it is? :P But luckily we have it in writing, we just have no idea how to say it; 'the'.

Oh aye :P Not really that northern though, just good ol'lancs and york...not a good combination, they seem to hate each other, we northerners good at keeping grudges over a five hundred year period it'd seem... But we unite against t'south. But yeah, back to the normal way of typing, even for northerners :P

Oh we have the same grudge against the french, and the germans...actually, pretty much anyone who's not part of our own country, bunch of bigots the lot of us really :P Though I can't think of any issues the north have with the welsh... Basically lancs and yorks hate each other unless it involves the south, and then they unite (along with the other counties up here). The north and south hate each other unless it involves another country and then they unite... Or so it seems.

I've no idea. I don't hate southerners, I mean I joke about it and stuff, but honestly I don't really care. Most people I know are the same. But it must've come from somewhere. Sibling-like rivalry?

@124: No, its not a reaction. We really do hate their intercoursing guts.

Sorry, FarSide, but as pendatik said, we were discussing the north/south divide of England. Hence the mention of 1066 and no word 'the' etc. :)