Londoners
Specifically Londoners that believe that London is the whole of England (yes BBC, I'm talking about you).

Many parts of England were important when London was just a bog by the Thames (and it still is).

We don't really care about the Mayor of London elections - you can fester in your own Community Charge and stupid house prices.

Also facist Welsh, who continue in going on about the "Evil English". I'm a Yorkshireman - we've been under the yoke of the English for much much longer.
(resident deity, Mon 5 May 2008, 23:05, 6 replies)

Well said
London may be our biggest city and the capital, but I get sick of the BBC treating it as if everything that happens there is vitally important to the rest of us.

Prime example: the weather. The presenter will skip over most of England (the Scots should rightfully be pissed off by the passing mention they get considering that Scotland isn't that much smaller than England) but always give more detail about what's happened in the south-east.
(hagis_uk, Mon 5 May 2008, 23:50, closed)

There's a song that goes
"Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner
That I like sucking c*ck"

Londoners can't drive in the rest of the UK, especially in rural places
"Where are all the road markings?! How do you know where the middle of the road is?"
( Peapod Has returned to the fold on, Tue 6 May 2008, 0:49, closed)

@ Londoners...
I was in a lecture last year when we were doing introductions. One guy said he was from London, and sat down. The next guy stood up and said smugly: 'I'm also from the greatest city in the UK' to which I piped up, 'I'm from Exeter too!' His face fell.
(stiglfc And the big wheel keep on turnin', Tue 6 May 2008, 2:08, closed)

I was born in London
I don't live there now (only did until I was 1 year old) and I hate that this country is so London-centric. If something happens in London, it will get at least 10 times the amount of media coverage than if it happened in say Manchester or Liverpool. And they get their own Mayor, the election of which completely overshadowed the elections that the REST OF THE COUNTRY WAS HAVING AS WELL YOU TWATS.

And from TV programmes I probably know the layout of London like the back of my hand. But if someone showed me a picture of a famous Birmingham landmark, I wouldn't recognise it at all. In fact I don't know any. I think I've perhaps seen two pictures of Birmingham in my life and that was from googling them.

And if there's any event going on, it will be in London. I mean, it really does feel in this country sometimes as if the whole area of the country outside of the M25 just doesn't exist.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Tue 6 May 2008, 3:49, closed)

View from Birmingham
Yup, well said. I was mightily peeved about the whole "Wembley can't move to the NEC - it's hard to get to" thing. Um, the NEC has two motorways, hotels, a train station and an airport - what more do you want?!?

I was born in London, but I now live in Birmingham, so I'm allowed to complain.

(And the Mayor of London elections *do* matter - they've elected the BNP candidate. Oh good.)
(purplegod counting down for Christmas!, Tue 6 May 2008, 7:03, closed)

I'm a Londoner
But I spent 4 years at Uni in the West Midlands, and I can tell you right now that Birmingham only has two landmarks:

1 - An office building that looks like a pepsi can
2 - New Street Station, which has less architectural merit than dog poo.

But the fact is that 1/4 of the UK's population live in London or the South East, as well as the government, so it's not all that surprising that it hogs the media coverage a bit. And besides, apart from the odd stabbing, nothing interesting ever happens in Birmingham - BBC Midlands today once led with a story about a dog that was frightened by a firework. At least we get Yardie shootouts.
(Axeman Jim, Tue 6 May 2008, 11:52, closed)