The Sin Bin • Re: Are all things Yorkshire best ?
I find the idea of counties archaic and outright strange.
Lines on a map that don’t really exist in real life on the land. Villages, towns and cities exist as they are physical entities that you can map as a conurbation to say “I am from here”. Forests, mountain ranges, lakes, islands and continents exist as they are physical entities too.
Counties and even most countries, however, are just made up rubbish that were introduced in order to control people and are really now just their own administrative businesses formulating their justification for existence through their GDP mostly to keep the rich from these places rich or make them richer.
“Lancashire” “Yorkshire” or “England” “Scotland” and “Wales” do not exist. The hamlets, villages, towns and cities on the island of Great Britain do exist though.
Even the idea of “Lancashire” and “Yorkshire” and their emblems are based on a load of historical inaccuracies. The Wars Of The Roses were battles between elites, who were mostly landowners from the South of England and the Welsh Marches and their subjects, two of whom were given meaningless titles and stately homes in Lancaster and York and involved very little of the populations of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Lancaster red rose and the York white rose has nothing to do with Manchester or Sheffield yet these two cities have those emblems across their cities and ManCity and SheffUtd have these emblems on their badges even though they are miles away from Lancaster and York and have even less in common with the Southern English or Welsh Marches landowners who were part of the Wars Of The Roses.
And what about what stood before them? What about Emlet? What about Brigantia?
It’s all a load of rubbish if you ask me.
Lines on a map that don’t really exist in real life on the land. Villages, towns and cities exist as they are physical entities that you can map as a conurbation to say “I am from here”. Forests, mountain ranges, lakes, islands and continents exist as they are physical entities too.
Counties and even most countries, however, are just made up rubbish that were introduced in order to control people and are really now just their own administrative businesses formulating their justification for existence through their GDP mostly to keep the rich from these places rich or make them richer.
“Lancashire” “Yorkshire” or “England” “Scotland” and “Wales” do not exist. The hamlets, villages, towns and cities on the island of Great Britain do exist though.
Even the idea of “Lancashire” and “Yorkshire” and their emblems are based on a load of historical inaccuracies. The Wars Of The Roses were battles between elites, who were mostly landowners from the South of England and the Welsh Marches and their subjects, two of whom were given meaningless titles and stately homes in Lancaster and York and involved very little of the populations of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Lancaster red rose and the York white rose has nothing to do with Manchester or Sheffield yet these two cities have those emblems across their cities and ManCity and SheffUtd have these emblems on their badges even though they are miles away from Lancaster and York and have even less in common with the Southern English or Welsh Marches landowners who were part of the Wars Of The Roses.
And what about what stood before them? What about Emlet? What about Brigantia?
It’s all a load of rubbish if you ask me.
Statistics: Posted by Psychedelic Casual — Sat Jun 15, 2019 11:06 am