Sex? No thank you; we're British

[Sauron]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20050401/od_nm/odd_britain_sex_dc&sid=84439559


Who Closes a Sex Festival for Lack of Interest?


LONDON (Reuters) - Organizers of a major erotic festival are closing for business in Manchester due to a lack of interest, which they blame on recalcitrant northern English men.

Erotica Manchester opened on Friday, selling a range of sex aids, clothing and footwear, but ticket sales have been poor and organizers say they will not be coming back.

"We've tried to warm this city up for more than two years but northerners just haven't responded in sufficient numbers," said event director Savvas Christodoulou.

"They are happy enough to come to our London event in the autumn but they seem embarrassed about being seen at Erotica Manchester."

Organizers said their research shows northern women wanted to attend the three-day adult show but were "under the thumb of their other halves."

[Ensign Steve]

Erotica Manchester opened on Friday, selling a range of sex aids...

Well there's your problem. :doh:

[MooseIBe]

LOL well bf and I would have gone if we'd know it was on! He was complaining that there are no decent sex shops or similar in this area.

[livius drusus]

So maybe it's not so much that northerners are frigid prudes with asses so tight not even the smallest buttplug would fit comfortably, but more of an advertising deficiency?

[ceptimus]

Nah. It's just that us british guys already have all the equipment we need, thank you very much, and we didn't have to buy it from any shops either.

[livius drusus]

Expert whittlers are you?

[ceptimus]

There's nothing wrong with a good whittle. In fact I may go and have one right now...

[Sauron]

Here's the problem with Northern English men and sex:

http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/

[Gurdur]

Here's the problem with Northern English men and sex:

http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/

That is I think the most bizarre thing I have ever seen.

[Gurdur]

So maybe it's not so much that northerners are frigid prudes with asses so tight not even the smallest buttplug would fit comfortably, but more of an advertising deficiency?
I conna thole tha there Mancunians any road, lass. Nowt can they nooo, kin they ?

[livius drusus]

Here's the problem with Northern English men and sex:

http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/

I'll refrain from making the expected pussy joke, but I have to say I found the music rather fabulous, particularly the refrain.

I conna thole tha there Mancunians any road, lass. Nowt can they nooo, kin they ?

Erm, yes? Or should I say no? :giggle:

[Gurdur]

I conna thole tha there Mancunians any road, lass. Nowt can they nooo, kin they ?

Meaning:

I can't stand those Manchesterians [Mancunians] there anyway, and neither can they now, can they, lass ?

Northern English dialect, mostly Yorkshire.

[livius drusus]

Well I had that pretty much completely wrong. Separated by a common language, as the man said.

[Ensign Steve]

Here's the problem with Northern English men and sex:

http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/

:appl: :clap: That was beautiful!

[Gurdur]

Well I had that pretty much completely wrong. Separated by a common language, as the man said.
You're not alone; they recently had a news report-in-depth program on the BBC inside Britain, about Manchester, in which they actually provided subtitles for at least one of the Mancunians speaking on the program.

If the English can't understand each other, what chance do you have ?
To be fair, Northern English is very different; and the local Birmingham and Manchester dialects are very different again.
Oddly, don't ask how, the first English I really learnt, in East Africa. was a very strong Yorkshire dialect.

[Pendaric]

I conna thole tha there Mancunians any road, lass. Nowt can they nooo, kin they ?

Meaning:

I can't stand those Manchesterians [Mancunians] there anyway, and neither can they now, can they, lass ?

Northern English dialect, mostly Yorkshire.

I have to say, you need to revise your idea of how Yorkshire people speak, even traditionally. I'm born and bred in deepest Yorkshire (Bradford) and that just looks like so much gibberish to me.

[Gurdur]

I have to say, you need to revise your idea of how Yorkshire people speak, even traditionally. I'm born and bred in deepest Yorkshire (Bradford) and that just looks like so much gibberish to me.
It's actually roughly 30-year-old lingo from round there and just northeast of there. Time marches on.

[MooseIBe]

Heh I have to say that I didn't understand it either Gurdur and our dialect is very similar to Yorkshire :). But I will take your word for it.

[Gurdur]

I did mix a few northern and border dialects in there, but I assure you, I was not making it up.
I really have known people to talk like that.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Maybe they are too busy really doing "it" than to bother with any so-called festival?

[Sweetie]

Nah. It's just that us british guys already have all the equipment we need, thank you very much, and we didn't have to buy it from any shops either.


:clap: :D

I tend to be like St. Paul and have flesh on the mind as opposed to rubber. :D