OK folks - time for a reality check here.
I think the grump is really about inconsistency. You all know that I am a "Southerner" but it is a falsehood to suggest that all of us below the northern M25 belt see those above as being inferior.
The BBC does indeed seem pre-occupied with a bit of wetness spilling over the Thames into the surrounding areas. Is this because it is such a rare event? Or because they percieve it to be a "better place" than Hull (although that is probably right...)
I have had some of the best times of my life on rugby tours in Buxton and Norwich, plus great times racing motorbikes in various counties nearer Scotland than Sussex. Every place I have been to has its lovely people and also - like Southern counties - gits. Most intelligent people have the same outlook on life, even if their accents are different. Most decent people believe in the same decent standards and common values even if their dialect may appear funny to someone else.
Despite knowing that Growler, Nick and Berek are too close to the Polar Ice Cap for my liking, I still think I'd rather go for a few bevvies with them than 95% of the detritus that take the financial/moral high ground down in the rich part of the country - i.e. the South East.
This fact WILL NOT, however, stop me from taking the piss out ot the benefit scrounging, hub-cap stealing, Whippet-shagging, Pigeon breeding, in-breeds that most of them are.
And I would expect no less in return from them.
