Re: The Sheffieldshire thread

[Fangirl Three]

So is Zarnichester apparently.

[SiberianPrincess’sMidriff]

Poor old Paisley, forever the biggest town in Scotland.

[Fangirl Three]

That's just the way I like it.

[Nightjar]

That's the way, och aye, och aye, I like it.

[cosmictanya]

When we used to pass through Buckinghamshire I used to think that was where Buckingham Palace was.

I had a similar experience when I read the post a few posts up, wondering if shelves were made in whatever Tibshelf is. Is the landscape shelved? Like rice paddy fields perhaps? Is that a 'tib' in local parlance? Congratulations to the people of Doncaster - it will change your lives. Build the tibshelves and they will come.

[cosmictanya]

[Fangirl Three]

When we used to pass through Buckinghamshire I used to think that was where Buckingham Palace was.

I had a similar experience when I read the post a few posts up, wondering if shelves were made in whatever Tibshelf is. Is the landscape shelved?

It seems that's the explanation:

Tibshelf

'Tibba's slope/shelf/ridge'.

   pers.n. (Old English) pers.n. Personal name
   scelf (Anglian) A shelf, a shelving terrain; a pinnacle, battlement.

Somehow I imagine Brian Blessed as Tibba. Instead of selling me coffee or petrol he's cutting my head off with a big sword.

[SiberianPrincess’sMidriff]

Probably would have been cheaper than a cup of coffee and one of those oversized biscuit thingies though. There is that.

[SiberianPrincess’sMidriff]

Hale was probably still Stout and bitter about Hull being taken out of Yorkshire.



Norman John Pace (born 17 February 1953 in Dudley, Worcestershire)


Wait, Dudley was in Worcestershire?

[Nightjar]

The sauce!

[SiberianPrincess’sMidriff]

I though Buttertub would be a more likey to a Bear than a Pear.





What do they call the Staffordshire Cricket team anyway?

[Butterfield]

I didn't realise "Pace" was from Dudley.

Yes, the town of Dudley was historically in Worcestershire (along with nearby Stourbridge), though northern parts of what is now the larger Dudley Metropolitan Borough were in Staffordshire, including the part I'm from.

But don't start me. This and the "new" naming of the area, as well as one's identity, was often a hot topic of debate over in that other place.

[cosmictanya]

Isn't Worcestershire quite nice, and Staffordshire very much isn't?

[Nightjar]

It's definitely better in a Welsh rarebit.

[Butterfield]

Isn't Worcestershire quite nice, and Staffordshire very much isn't?

In some people's minds perhaps. Depends where. I'd say there's more wealth in Worcestershire and it wasn't mined like parts of Staffordshire so there aren't the industrial parts like Stoke-on-Trent and the bits of the Black Country. But parts of the Peak District are in Staffordshire, as is the delightful Cannock Chase. Those are nicer than Redditch in Worcestershire, which is simply Birmingham overspill! Though Worcestershire also contains beautiful parts of the Cotswolds - Broadway in particular.

I've always thought of Staffordshire as more "earthy" than Worcestershire - but in a good way. My parents always preferred to associate with the perhaps more snobby Worcestershire name, though I've always felt more of an affinity with Staffordshire.

I did say not to start me.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

I've watched many videos about cycling in the last year.

This is by far the dullest one I've ever encountered.

Sheffield Cycle Stand Galvanised.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

"Contact us through Bollards Direct. "

[SiberianPrincess’sMidriff]

I'm sure I've seen it mentioned by Buttertubz, but I can't find the post, but When Johnny Depp played Sheffield with Beck Jeff Beck the other day, they apparently played a cover of Killing Joke's Death and Resurrection Show





Let's remind ourselves as to how the orginal sounds,

[cosmictanya]

I thought Johnny was busy.

[Fangirl Three]

I was pro-Johnny Depp till I saw the kind of people who were supporting him on TikTok.

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