How To Piss Someone Off Who Comes From Cornwall

[Ron]

www.holidaysincornwall.com/articles/how-to-piss-someone-off-who-comes-from-cornwall?fb_action_ids=10206303177284573&fb_action_types=og.comments


Is this true?

[mowjo]

I lived in Newquay for seven years back in the 70's and yup! it's was all pretty true even back then, I went for two weeks holiday and ended up staying seven years, Cornish back then were pretty friendly and once they knew you wern't just an Emmit! they accepted you into the clan, I've been all over England and found Cornish people some of the friendliest, the Pastie thing has been know to start wars between the Cornish and Devonions, for me if you havn't had a real Cornish pastie you havn't lived, one thing I would add is never say to a Cornish man "where I come from" because they will tell you to P**s off back there, and never ask a true local how far something is, they will say two miles as the crow flies, but in reality it's fifteen miles by road as I found out when I walked to Truro from Newquay,,

Mow,,,

[Chrissie]

Lol, when I moved to Cornwall I thought Dreckly meant directly - couldn't have been more wrong

[mowjo]

Chrissie! is that the one that means anytime this year if I havn't got something better to do??

[Chrissie]

Jan 27, 2015 14:43:05 GMT mowjo said:

Chrissie! is that the one that means anytime this year if I havn't got something better to do??

Indeed it is

[BrenD]

Yup, that looked pretty accurate to me

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[BrenD]

Jan 27, 2015 14:26:28 GMT Chrissie said:

Lol, when I moved to Cornwall I thought Dreckly meant directly - couldn't have been more wrong

Foreigners tend to learn that one pretty quickly

Look at me and my talk of foreigners when I haven't racked up enough uninterrupted time in Cornwall to be adopted Cornish!

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[mowjo]

Cornwall and Devon are a lot like Suffolk and Norfolk, we don't particularly get on with each other but ours was down to Herring fishing and not Pasties, we have different dialects and different time zones, and none of us really trust outsiders, but you know when they accept you, because they talk to you and not about you, and in the local shop if they include you in the gossip your one of them, If I remember rightly about Cornwall it's the same as here In Suffolk, it takes at least 25 years,

Mow,,

[igual]

Living in Devon but having been an adopted Cornish angler at the Bodmin club since I was knee high to a grasshopper I have encountered all of this lol.
Some of the old boys at the club talk with such thick accents a star trek styled universal translator is needed. Particularly when they have had a few.
Spent many a summer working at the salmon hatchery when I was a teen good times lol.
And I fully agree cream then jam just don't tell the locals here

[mowjo]

I find it sad that all these local dialects are dying out, I don't know about Devon, but I spent about an hour talking to a real old time local farmer in Cornwall, I found it totaly fascinating even though I didn't understand 90% of it, being around 18 and never going anywhere anything apart from a London accent may as well have been foriegn to me, a strange one for me is that although I live in Suffolk I understand the Broad Norfolk accent more than I do a broad Suffolk one, but having said that, with having a boat on the Norfolk Broads I do spend more time there, most of the broad accents seem to have gone, you just get a hint of them when you talk to people,

Mow,,,

[Chrissie]

Jan 27, 2015 14:56:08 GMT BrenD said:

Jan 27, 2015 14:26:28 GMT Chrissie said:

Lol, when I moved to Cornwall I thought Dreckly meant directly - couldn't have been more wrong

Foreigners tend to learn that one pretty quickly

I sure did - after sitting by the phone waiting for someone to ring me back dreckly

[mowjo]

Does that mean BT are all Cornish them,,

Mow,,

[Raffles]

Having lived in the South West for most of my youth, I'm ashamed to say I only visited Cornwall once... and that was to the town that began with 'N', on a camping holiday... lasted one night as we got washed out with a storm overnight.

Regarding the roads, they sound like those in Somerset, where I used to tootle around in my little Ford Anglia, no problem... until I went back on visits with my humongous Volvo... spent more time in the hedge than moving, but great fun.

Totally agree on the pasties from the big 'G'... rubbish, prefer the ones from my local baker up here, probably still not up to Cornish standards but perfectly acceptable.

As for cream teas, how can you put the jam on top of the cream... you'd never get if off the knife without a mess. It has to be jam on the scone then a damn good dollop of cream on top.

Hope I haven't offended anyone.

[Raffles]

Jan 27, 2015 17:47:41 GMT mowjo said:

Does that mean BT are all Cornish them,,

Mow,,

Nope, the word has obviously migrated to the Far East, after my recent experiences with them.

You need Google Translate open in another window when dealing with them.

[chrisjw]

I've never understood the rucks regarding jam or cream first................I mean, it makes sense to whack the jam on first & then, if it displeases someone,the simple solution is to turn the bugger upside down after filling it ..............Who's gonna know?................



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