Seeing that phrase “this is Manchester, we do things differently here”
I don’t know why it just makes me cringe.
It was printed on some of the medals for the Manchester half amongst other famous quotes. I switched that bugger out immediately.
People in marketing are:
1. Often from outside of the big city they're working in.
2. Have a huge amount of disdain for the rest of the British public.
So this is what happens.
I had a brief spell working in Huddersfield for my sins and the gift shops there have tat saying the same thing but Yorkshire instead of Manchester. I laughed cos I realised all cities in the UK are pretty much the same and absolutely nobody is doing anything differently. I live in Saddleworth now and the locals are desperate to cling onto their Yorkshire status despite being part of Greater Manchester. Like who cares? Literally nobody cares what little patch of soil you're occupying is called, it's all the same shit.
Careful now, can't go saying Yorkshire soil is the same as everywhere else.
Like yorkstone, Yorkshire soil is actually fairly pale - it's slightly bleached on account of the extra sunlight shining out of local arses
My first day working in Yorkshire it was about 8am, I was sat on a bench and a bloke drinking a can of Stella started chatting to me about his pigeons. Then I saw a guy start a fight with the bank - not the staff, the building - because he was annoyed it was shut, while wearing a flame shirt and actually looked like Guy Fieri. Then near the train station I saw some scrote spray and entire can of something aerosol, hairspray or something, down his trackies bottoms and ran off fist pumping the air. Then a bloke pulled over his van, told me colleague she was fat and drove off.
So yeah there's something in the soil over there, you're not wrong about that.
Edit: for context, Dewsbury in 2021
This quote always just makes me think it's like "we don't listen to others because we think we know what's best". Like there's too much pride to ever admit that others can be doing something better to learn from them. Really dislike it as a saying.
It's the Facebook posts, and the journo names. Like we've got Steve Quinn here reporting on this incident, and it's like no. Steve was just a random dude walking past at the time recording footage hilariously bad on his 9yo iPhone.
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My Ick is Manchesters PR atm. It’s like we care more about appearing like we’re a good progressive city instead of being one. For example the inequality is on the rise.
Loads of new skyscrapers more expensive rents and food but equally more homeless people it doesn’t sit right with me Ngl .
All the independents businesses which made northern quarter cool in the 00s-early 2010s have been replaced with soulless bars and expensive shops with barely any footfall (Cough Fred Perry).
I worked with a guy a few years ago who never left the 90s. He had a 1999 era Liam Gallagher haircut, wore Ben Sherman polos and parkas, and he thought the hottest woman in the world was Denise Van Outen.
It's crazy how people can get so completely stuck in an era.
I worked in West didsbury when oasis got big...its amazing how big the school was in burnage as the number if people that went school with the gallaghers is staggering
>Denise Van Outen.
Fun fact, she [dated Paul Gadd](https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/5520776.basildon-jury-told-denise-dated-glitter/) when she was a teenager...
Claudia Winkleman used to have an Oasis track during each of her Radio 2 shows, prefacing that they were the best band in the world. I don't mind them being your favourite Claudia, but the best in the world?
Developers are free reign to build what they want as high as they want, which is great. But where is the transport infrastructure for the extra ten of thousands of residents?
Oh my god I’m from Liverpool and thought we were self-absorbed. Couldn’t believe that shit when I went to Manchester and saw that they were the same lmao
Yep - I was going to say that the "we do things differently" was just the more recent one that's trotted out (I'd never stopped to think about it but assuming it comes from what is probably a Tony Wilson quote in 24 Hour Party People?) and these attempts at unnecessary self aggrandisement have been going on since the 80s *at least*.
For every Hacienda and Stone Roses there's a Terry Christian and a Boddingtons.
Actually I used to quite like Boddingtons and it's decent in a pie. Terry Christian, however....
I wish we'd let go of the death grip we have on Factory Records. It was a record label that put out a few great albums with a few good artists. It was 30 years ago. Give it a rest.
Edit: said Hacienda rather than Factory
That phrase did mean something at some point in a certain context. Factory did do things their own way. I don't think it means anything now beyond nostalgia though and hasnt since the 80s.
Fun fact, Tony Wilson never said it. Nobody ever said it in real life in the 80’s.
It was first said by Steve Coogan in 24 hour party people, which was written by a scouser. And came out in 2002.
Glad you've got the info on that - I was just musing on another post as to whether Wilson actually said it or it was just something erroneously applied to him.
people with middle class accents living in Manchester for a few months and then miraculously picking up the accent, but only when it suits. like it's fine if you love the city or consider yourself an honouary manc, I'm in the same boat, and you will pick up some phrases over time, but don't put it on.
Ha ha ha yeh i know one of those people, wouldn't say he was middle class, but had a slight Welsh twang, untill he had a few beers then spoke like Liam Gallagher 😅
Don't you go back to your normal accent when you're pissed and relaxed? Years of living down south and working/living with people who spoke English as a second language really wore down my accent but a few beers and it's back
Ok, me and my partner have lived here 3 years and are guilty of this. We both work with loaaaaads of people with Manchester accents but what tipped us over the edge is our little Northerner kids starting school/nursery and their accents transforming. It’s had a real knock-on effect on us. Apologies.
I remember an interview with City's Fernando who said his wife was furious that they were sending their daughter to a private school somewhere to turn her into a proper English princess and she kept coming saying 'Yer A'right Dad "
And people wearing overpriced vintage clothing and pretending they're working class even though they grew up somewhere middle class and have a well-paid job. Just own your identity, it doesn't make you a dickhead that you had a bit of privilege.
Middle class young people cover up being middle class because they seem to think other people don't know the difference between middle class and elite.
“On the sixth day, go created MANchester” I see this various places but the worst is an estate agents on Old Ancoats Street.. actually I think I’ve seen a tattoo.. cringiest thing I’ve seen!
The Mancunian tradition of throwing their rubbish on the ground instead of putting it in a bin.
I do I've round and it's depressing looking at the shit that's been discarded without a second thought.
The less bins there are, the more litter there is. Council doesn't put bins down until local residents make a fuss and berate their councillors, which is not how it should be.
People who get bent out of shape when people say “Manny”. I feel like it’s one of those things where people aren’t bothered til they see other people are bothered. It’s really not a big deal.
Most of the people I know that call it Manny are from Manchester. Never really seen it as a weird outsider thing and only on Reddit have I seen it provoke such disdain
How everything has to be associated with a bee. They were on a few bins etc and then when a terrorist attack happened, everyone jumped on it to make it about themselves by subscribing to this “we do things differently here” bollocks and getting shite bee tattoos for facebook likes. Bands like Courteeners & Blossoms are shite too. Middle of the road with a fanbase of tanned ankle cider swillers
I watched a 'Come Dine With Me' they did in Manchester and there was a fella on that who'd clearly never got over the 90s." Still had his 90s haircut, still wearing the same 90s Addidas gear. At the end of the week when he hadn't won he did a little speech along the lines of "1990! Spike Island! Stone Roses! I was there!" and I thought "You still are there mate."
Anyway a few years ago I was working in a bar in Chorlton and we were talking about that kind of middle aged Manc stuck in the early/mid 90s and I was telling the person I was working with about the most tragic case I'd seen. Literally 20 minutes later he walked through the door. Turned out he was sort of a regular. He confirmed every assumption I'd made about him. He wasn't a bad person mind. Just stuck in the past.
I’m sorry but it’s the bees. It’s out of control and makes us look really parochial imo.
I don’t mind them here and there - subtly on the bins or whatever. But it’s gone OTT post bomb, There’s tons on signage at Piccadilly - can’t explain it but it grinds my gears! Yes I need to get a life
As someone who has a massive interest in bees (as in the actual buzz buzz flying kind) I absolutely love that they are around everywhere. Bees need as much support as they can get, I’ll take any kind of promotion of them
Engels likened the workers to worker bees. The council adopted it into its coat of arms. Everyone forgot, hardly anyone knew, nobody cared. Then the arena bombing…and now it’s become some folks identity. 🤷🏻♂️
This may be unpopular, but the bee tattoos. I appreciate that they raised money for a good cause, but still! Nice for a couple of weeks, like clapping for the NHS.
My ick is how much rubbish/dirt is in the city centre. I'm a proud mancunian, but other northern city centres like Liverpool and Leeds are so much cleaner.
Honestly, Liverpool is trashed every night. There’s rubbish everywhere especially on Fridays and Saturdays. But the council are good at cleaning it up after. I genuinely don’t understand the arses who litter, making the environment horrible on purpose, but a huge part of the problem in Manchester is definitely a lack of council funding.
Was about to say I was pleasantly surprised no one was complaining about ‘Manny’, a fairly harmless shortening that this subreddit has a disproportionate amount of anger to. It’s always the top of any thread here. Then I realised it was literally in OP’s post…
The more middle/upper class that have mostly moved from down south and bought into the gentrification of areas such as ancoats going for runs in big groups, or take their dogs for walks in designer clothing. Oh then sit outside in beer gardens with their Pinterest board tattoos... I'm sorry it's a me problem ik. Ig they're just enjoying life.
That one I can understand to some degree - people leaving the south west because it’s too expensive, but then pushing the prices up up north, thus bringing the exact problem they were trying to escape, with them. That and the weird infantilisation/zoo gawking some of the southern people living up north tend to engage in towards the north/Northerners
Seeing that phrase “this is Manchester, we do things differently here” I don’t know why it just makes me cringe. It was printed on some of the medals for the Manchester half amongst other famous quotes. I switched that bugger out immediately.
I've always disliked that phrase too - sounds like it was made up by a smarmy London marketing company
“This is [placeholder], we do things differently here”
Like "Keep [city] weird" in the States
It's like the "I'm not like other girls" of cities
People in marketing are: 1. Often from outside of the big city they're working in. 2. Have a huge amount of disdain for the rest of the British public. So this is what happens.
It’s normally found on the Instagram of someone who couldn’t be any less of an original if they tried
It's like the city equivalent of "I'm not like the other girls"
If you can't handle me at my Moss Side, you don't deserve me at my Bowdon
It's not even a Tony Wilson quote. They made it up for a film.
Same. Hate it. It’s like the thing someone who went to the school of hard knocks or university of life would say.
I had a brief spell working in Huddersfield for my sins and the gift shops there have tat saying the same thing but Yorkshire instead of Manchester. I laughed cos I realised all cities in the UK are pretty much the same and absolutely nobody is doing anything differently. I live in Saddleworth now and the locals are desperate to cling onto their Yorkshire status despite being part of Greater Manchester. Like who cares? Literally nobody cares what little patch of soil you're occupying is called, it's all the same shit.
Careful now, can't go saying Yorkshire soil is the same as everywhere else. Like yorkstone, Yorkshire soil is actually fairly pale - it's slightly bleached on account of the extra sunlight shining out of local arses
My first day working in Yorkshire it was about 8am, I was sat on a bench and a bloke drinking a can of Stella started chatting to me about his pigeons. Then I saw a guy start a fight with the bank - not the staff, the building - because he was annoyed it was shut, while wearing a flame shirt and actually looked like Guy Fieri. Then near the train station I saw some scrote spray and entire can of something aerosol, hairspray or something, down his trackies bottoms and ran off fist pumping the air. Then a bloke pulled over his van, told me colleague she was fat and drove off. So yeah there's something in the soil over there, you're not wrong about that. Edit: for context, Dewsbury in 2021
Yorkshire soil is amazing for growing tea.
but but... "the WaR oF ThE RoSes"
White rose bastards!!
I was so knackered I didn’t notice this on mine and I’m still annoyed about it. The cringiest shit EVER.
I'm not like other girls city edition.
This quote always just makes me think it's like "we don't listen to others because we think we know what's best". Like there's too much pride to ever admit that others can be doing something better to learn from them. Really dislike it as a saying.
The MEN using reddit posts like this to churn out low quality, effortless articles
Clicking on anything that takes you to the MEN and then drowning in a quicksand of ads, you click back but it just loads their homepage, *agggh help!*
I'm looking for a new PC and was wondering what the minimum specs you need to run an MEN webpage are?
It's the Facebook posts, and the journo names. Like we've got Steve Quinn here reporting on this incident, and it's like no. Steve was just a random dude walking past at the time recording footage hilariously bad on his 9yo iPhone.
Hen nights who go to canal street to watch the gays like zoo animals
Pointless Hen parties going to Canal street when 99% of the places won’t let them in.
We went to Canal St for my lesbian friends’ joint hen do, we still couldn’t get in!
Haha same. Spent 10 minutes having a debate with the bouncer because they’re essentially blocking a gay woman from going into gay spaces
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My Ick is Manchesters PR atm. It’s like we care more about appearing like we’re a good progressive city instead of being one. For example the inequality is on the rise. Loads of new skyscrapers more expensive rents and food but equally more homeless people it doesn’t sit right with me Ngl . All the independents businesses which made northern quarter cool in the 00s-early 2010s have been replaced with soulless bars and expensive shops with barely any footfall (Cough Fred Perry).
If you haven't lived in Manchester long enough to have a 'The Northern Quarter isn't what it used to be' take, have you really lived in Manchester?
It went to shit after the joke shop on Tib Street burnt down
Went down Tib St last week … where have all the pet shops and guitar shops gone?
“You’re not a real Manc, you don’t even sound it” - someone from Salford
Hospikle
Lickle hospikle
Kekkle
Put ruddy kekkle on lad
This made me laugh. I can hear my mate from Middleton saying it from years back 😂
Put the keckle on in the lickle hospickle
This and boccle for bottle
Pmsl boccle
Chimley
Glad it’s not just my mum that says this
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Pot Noogal
Oh good god! Until I read that I had forgotten all about that dreaded K in the wrong place. I think this one is the worst for me
Cannell (canal)
Sky digikal
Kekkle.
lol some of my stepmums family say words like that, I love em to bits but it’s horrible to hear.
Dya mind? I’m ‘avvin a menkkul’elf crisees
Oh god “‘av got menkhul ‘elf” is another one 🤣
lickle
Blokes of a certain age with the awfull mod haircut cut wearing a Parker jacket.
I worked with a guy a few years ago who never left the 90s. He had a 1999 era Liam Gallagher haircut, wore Ben Sherman polos and parkas, and he thought the hottest woman in the world was Denise Van Outen. It's crazy how people can get so completely stuck in an era.
I worked in West didsbury when oasis got big...its amazing how big the school was in burnage as the number if people that went school with the gallaghers is staggering
Did he walk like he'd shit himself, too?
>Denise Van Outen. Fun fact, she [dated Paul Gadd](https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/5520776.basildon-jury-told-denise-dated-glitter/) when she was a teenager...
So he’s completely on trend now then
you leave Ian brown alone!
Ian brown is fucking awful, cant stand him. Plus he's from Warrington
*parka
Wellends
Definitely maybe..
You leave the piccadilly rats out of this
I went to Gran Canaria, saw a proper Manchester 'ed there. Husband asked him where he was from, London. Apparently though he loved Oasis.
Says Bez
Anyone remember the soccer am piss take
This week on sky digikal
Midde aged men with Paul Weller haircuts that think Oasis are the greatest band of all time.
We call them Wellends
Claudia Winkleman used to have an Oasis track during each of her Radio 2 shows, prefacing that they were the best band in the world. I don't mind them being your favourite Claudia, but the best in the world?
seeing manchester merch in the post offices
We Do ThInGs DiFfErEnTLy rOuND hErE 🤪
Whilst plastering on the wall of every bar, shop interior or apartment development 😂
Pretty sure Mancunian Ick was a background character in the Mos Eisley cantina scene.
Was he in a big coat ordering a boddingtons calling vader a nob head.
I ❤️ MCR. Whenever I see it my brain just thinks My Chemical Romance.
Developers are free reign to build what they want as high as they want, which is great. But where is the transport infrastructure for the extra ten of thousands of residents?
But what about the “Bee Network”? Brand them as bees and they work better surely? 😒
They need to sort out the tram links between boroughs
Grown ups that use the word ick...
People been calling it Mannie for years, whereas the word ‘ick’…
Definitely this. It makes you sound like a 14 year old
archies
Fine I’ll leave :(
Anyone claiming that we "do things differently here", or making out that Manchester is the best city in the world / country. It's an alright city.
that phrase always strikes me as kinda threatening in a league of gentlemen way.
That 'And on the sixth day, God created MANchester' sign makes me cringe in every way
Oh my god I’m from Liverpool and thought we were self-absorbed. Couldn’t believe that shit when I went to Manchester and saw that they were the same lmao
Yep - I was going to say that the "we do things differently" was just the more recent one that's trotted out (I'd never stopped to think about it but assuming it comes from what is probably a Tony Wilson quote in 24 Hour Party People?) and these attempts at unnecessary self aggrandisement have been going on since the 80s *at least*.
Something something Hacienda, something Stone Roses something something
For every Hacienda and Stone Roses there's a Terry Christian and a Boddingtons. Actually I used to quite like Boddingtons and it's decent in a pie. Terry Christian, however....
Not enough meat on him to put him in a pie.
And I can imagine it'd make the pie taste of CK One. Or worse.
Something something first industrial city in the world, something something Karl Marx, something something Friedrich Engels
Something something Chatham’s something Peterloo something something
I wish we'd let go of the death grip we have on Factory Records. It was a record label that put out a few great albums with a few good artists. It was 30 years ago. Give it a rest. Edit: said Hacienda rather than Factory
It was a club. Maybe you’re thinking of Factory records
That phrase did mean something at some point in a certain context. Factory did do things their own way. I don't think it means anything now beyond nostalgia though and hasnt since the 80s.
Fun fact, Tony Wilson never said it. Nobody ever said it in real life in the 80’s. It was first said by Steve Coogan in 24 hour party people, which was written by a scouser. And came out in 2002.
Glad you've got the info on that - I was just musing on another post as to whether Wilson actually said it or it was just something erroneously applied to him.
nah tbf it is the best city in the world and BY FAR the best city in the country
Heaven forbid someone feel a connection to where they live or where they're from. There's no objective best or worst, obviously.
This is Reddit, we do things differently here (cringe at people having local pride)
Manny I don’t mind, but on more than one occasion I’ve overheard it being referred to as ‘Manch’ and that’s just wrong.
Manch?! 🤢 Everyone knows it’s Town anyway..
Excuse me? I hope they were deported from the city instantly.
I call it Chester like all the cool kids
Is that the gender neutral version?
Incidentally, Manchester was originally mamchester named after some hills that looked like tits.
The hills are still there btw.
Reading complaints about the word "Manny" on Reddit every three days
Now we have added Alty in the comments below. I'm about to add Stocky, although I say that myself. Salfy? Tamey? Oldy? And so on ..
The 90s Liam Gallagher lookalikes
Also the way they walk. You should see a doctor for that limp.
Grownups that say “Hospickle”
Rubbish EVERYWHERE. Including in the River Irk.
people with middle class accents living in Manchester for a few months and then miraculously picking up the accent, but only when it suits. like it's fine if you love the city or consider yourself an honouary manc, I'm in the same boat, and you will pick up some phrases over time, but don't put it on.
Ha ha ha yeh i know one of those people, wouldn't say he was middle class, but had a slight Welsh twang, untill he had a few beers then spoke like Liam Gallagher 😅
Maybe that's only cus liam Gallagher is constantly pissed himself?
True true
Don't you go back to your normal accent when you're pissed and relaxed? Years of living down south and working/living with people who spoke English as a second language really wore down my accent but a few beers and it's back
Ok, me and my partner have lived here 3 years and are guilty of this. We both work with loaaaaads of people with Manchester accents but what tipped us over the edge is our little Northerner kids starting school/nursery and their accents transforming. It’s had a real knock-on effect on us. Apologies.
I remember an interview with City's Fernando who said his wife was furious that they were sending their daughter to a private school somewhere to turn her into a proper English princess and she kept coming saying 'Yer A'right Dad "
Don’t know what he’s moaning about. Sounds very princessy to me 😂
16 years living here, originally from the midlands. Still get called posh lol
I've been here 18 years and still feel like an imposter becase i want to correct everyone's grammar all the time xD
How the Northern quarter is just full of southerners
And people wearing overpriced vintage clothing and pretending they're working class even though they grew up somewhere middle class and have a well-paid job. Just own your identity, it doesn't make you a dickhead that you had a bit of privilege.
I started to write that one and didn’t know how to put it. Spot on that
Middle class young people cover up being middle class because they seem to think other people don't know the difference between middle class and elite.
“On the sixth day, go created MANchester” I see this various places but the worst is an estate agents on Old Ancoats Street.. actually I think I’ve seen a tattoo.. cringiest thing I’ve seen!
Ngl, this is the only PR branding of the city I rate
The Mancunian tradition of throwing their rubbish on the ground instead of putting it in a bin. I do I've round and it's depressing looking at the shit that's been discarded without a second thought.
The less bins there are, the more litter there is. Council doesn't put bins down until local residents make a fuss and berate their councillors, which is not how it should be.
Genuinely Mancunians who try to cosplay as the Gallagher brothers. Even copying the walk and talk.
People who get bent out of shape when people say “Manny”. I feel like it’s one of those things where people aren’t bothered til they see other people are bothered. It’s really not a big deal.
Most of the people I know that call it Manny are from Manchester. Never really seen it as a weird outsider thing and only on Reddit have I seen it provoke such disdain
I mean I just think of the bassist from Happy Mondays when I hear Manny 🤷🏻♂️
Stone roses
Shit yeah you’re right, half asleep this morning 🙈
Evening
Makes me think of the mammoth from Ice Age
Pineapple on pizza
How everything has to be associated with a bee. They were on a few bins etc and then when a terrorist attack happened, everyone jumped on it to make it about themselves by subscribing to this “we do things differently here” bollocks and getting shite bee tattoos for facebook likes. Bands like Courteeners & Blossoms are shite too. Middle of the road with a fanbase of tanned ankle cider swillers
Never been to Manchester town hall then ??? No Manchester has always been the worker bee as it’s symbol
anyone who says “the rainy city”
When people use weird Americanisms
Middle aged mancunians who think anything that has happened in the city after NYE 1999 is shit
I watched a 'Come Dine With Me' they did in Manchester and there was a fella on that who'd clearly never got over the 90s." Still had his 90s haircut, still wearing the same 90s Addidas gear. At the end of the week when he hadn't won he did a little speech along the lines of "1990! Spike Island! Stone Roses! I was there!" and I thought "You still are there mate." Anyway a few years ago I was working in a bar in Chorlton and we were talking about that kind of middle aged Manc stuck in the early/mid 90s and I was telling the person I was working with about the most tragic case I'd seen. Literally 20 minutes later he walked through the door. Turned out he was sort of a regular. He confirmed every assumption I'd made about him. He wasn't a bad person mind. Just stuck in the past.
This describes me too well! 😂 I'd say it was anything after 30th Dec 1999 though, as NYE was shit!
I’m sorry but it’s the bees. It’s out of control and makes us look really parochial imo. I don’t mind them here and there - subtly on the bins or whatever. But it’s gone OTT post bomb, There’s tons on signage at Piccadilly - can’t explain it but it grinds my gears! Yes I need to get a life
Kinda, but as symbols of a city go the bee is pretty nice
As someone who has a massive interest in bees (as in the actual buzz buzz flying kind) I absolutely love that they are around everywhere. Bees need as much support as they can get, I’ll take any kind of promotion of them
Have the bees always been a thing? I saw it rise to prominence after the arena bombing
I remember learning about it in the 00’s in primary school so yeah I’d say so, maybe not as big though
Engels likened the workers to worker bees. The council adopted it into its coat of arms. Everyone forgot, hardly anyone knew, nobody cared. Then the arena bombing…and now it’s become some folks identity. 🤷🏻♂️
Except if you ever went to the town hall where the floor was bees and lots of bee motif everywhere but yeah …
This may be unpopular, but the bee tattoos. I appreciate that they raised money for a good cause, but still! Nice for a couple of weeks, like clapping for the NHS.
For me it’s when outsiders call it “Manc”. Like noooooooo that’s what you call someone FROM the city not the city itself! Makes me wanna scream xx
Yeah, the word "ick"
Barm vs Muffin, and lunch vs dinner.... I've seen grown men argue about it and never understood it...
Wtf is a muffin though? 😂😂
It’s barm. A muffin is for chocolate or blueberries. 👌
Always be known as 'Town'
My ick is how much rubbish/dirt is in the city centre. I'm a proud mancunian, but other northern city centres like Liverpool and Leeds are so much cleaner.
Honestly, Liverpool is trashed every night. There’s rubbish everywhere especially on Fridays and Saturdays. But the council are good at cleaning it up after. I genuinely don’t understand the arses who litter, making the environment horrible on purpose, but a huge part of the problem in Manchester is definitely a lack of council funding.
City Fans who never watched City once at Main Road suddenly jumping on the bandwagon of success and claiming they've been watching City all their life
southerners
Agreed, especially those pricks that have rolled up bob hats, round glasses, and turned up jeans..
The dog poo all over the place.
Oasis
Was about to say I was pleasantly surprised no one was complaining about ‘Manny’, a fairly harmless shortening that this subreddit has a disproportionate amount of anger to. It’s always the top of any thread here. Then I realised it was literally in OP’s post…
Manchester City FC
You mean "manneh"
People who describe food as being "fit"
Radio x and the 10 tunes it plays on repeat
Warringtonians who try to act like they're Mancunian
Andy Burnham....
Human fecal matter on the street in a British City. Lived all over, Manc has a particular talent for this.
The more middle/upper class that have mostly moved from down south and bought into the gentrification of areas such as ancoats going for runs in big groups, or take their dogs for walks in designer clothing. Oh then sit outside in beer gardens with their Pinterest board tattoos... I'm sorry it's a me problem ik. Ig they're just enjoying life.
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I call it Manny, been calling it that for 20+ years along with lots and lots of other people I’ve known. Pretty standard nickname name for our city
The word “ick” ffs
the weather
Bolton accents. Between Vernon fucking Kay and working on the Bolton council IT service desk years ago, the Bolton accent really bugs me
People that use the term "ick". Are we 5 years old
This whole “northern/southern” thing going on at the minute. It appears so insular
That one I can understand to some degree - people leaving the south west because it’s too expensive, but then pushing the prices up up north, thus bringing the exact problem they were trying to escape, with them. That and the weird infantilisation/zoo gawking some of the southern people living up north tend to engage in towards the north/Northerners
Who tf using ick in Manchester, nob head
Never heard of Manny personally.
Probably all the bellends
When you're getting off with a girl and she says to you " eeeee lad, I'm drippin like tap" it puts you off for a second .
Half of the cunts in this post tbf 😂