It’s about time we lightened up!!

A light hearted take on Biker Stereotypes and Yorkshire Accents

Hey welcome and welcome back as the case may be hope this finds you well so today we’re just going to take a winter ride over the Moors towards uh Kirby mazard and and Mum and uh just have a little chat about uh that last video which uh i’ be the

First to admit was a little bit sober and somber and maybe a little bit dark uh but it needed to be and uh of course I tried to bring a little bit of balance to it uh by introducing a bit of levity towards the back end and uh that levity was so sort

Of at the expense of GS Riders but uh I think the vast majority of you out there that watch my channel and RGS Riders took it in the spirit in which it was meant friendly banter that sort of thing uh I think only a couple of people uh

Took offense no offense intended yeah it’s satire and uh we can saiz all sorts of groups in life can’t we and uh to that extent different groups associated with the motorcycle Community a fair game myself included let’s have a look at a few of them eh now yeah we were talking about GS

Riders or some of them not acknowledging a wave I don’t know how much of that’s true how much of that’s individual perceptions and Imagination but quite a few people said oh Harley Riders do the same thing and uh again I’m not sure do they uh answers below please so uh yeah

What what sort of groups is it fair game to send up in a very very friendly way uh biker a biker yeah so how about sports bite Riders as a group you know one piece leathers and often to be seen sagging at the uh rear end

In such a way as to suggest they’ve got a pair of cauliflowers down there and the conversations at the local calf around uh what speed they managed to get the front wheel up at and uh how many times they got the knee down on the way

There well all know it don’t we and uh what about uh BMW R1200 stroke 1250 RT Riders yes high visibility jackets f whip top helmets invariably either black or white and uh underneath to be found a boom microphone as part of the onike or bike tobike coms systems and

Conversations to be had at the local biker CF about how they didn’t like the position of such and such a bike in front of them too far to the left too far to the right not adoped in the correct position for the road conditions etc etc ooh and are you in the

IAM no sir not me sir and then uh what about my group old men on Modern Classics so often to be seen wearing wax cotton jackets and jeans and uh occasionally uh rather dated looking lace up motorcycle boots yeah and their conversation at the local calf around uh how many teeth have you

Got on your front sprocket and I came flying down that last Hill I must have it 40 mph bit time I got to bottom and uh sorry I can’t come out to ride today cuz me farmers are playing up and uh there’s no need for all them Electronics

You know it’s just something else to go wrong and who needs all that power waste of time yeah you know the group and of course these aren’t all you Universal truths of course they’re not but they do sort of conjure up interesting images almost caricatures you might say and uh

Allow us a bit of friendly mocking on a give and take basis and that is Yorkshire banter now speaking of Yorkshire I had a couple of people ask what are the origins of my sign off when uh I give it AL C I’ll C it basically means I’ll see you

Catch you later I’ll see you later I’ll see Thee I will see thee and it’s uh a cross between Old English I suppose and a dialect uh rooted mainly in the south of the county of Yorkshire so let’s have a talk about Yorkshire and the Yorkshire dialect that is dialect not accent the

Two completely different things CU of course dialect includes words that don’t ordinarily feature in the English lexicon so Yorkshire if you don’t live here if you don’t know it it’s the biggest County in England and is so big that it’s divided into four administrative areas north south east

And west although for some strange reason they call East Yorkshire humberside but everybody that lives there claims to be a yorkman and with plenty of justification so no offense Uncle Stewart you are a yorkman through and through but the uh the four administrative areas they sort of uh differ demographically so North yor

Which is the biggest and North yor itself is the biggest County in England North yor is largely rural its only city with the name is York itself and then it has some rather Posh towns like harate and Richmond and ripen and of course the coastal towns which include scabra

Filey Whitby right at the top uh and then uh below North Yorkshire and to the right hand side we have East Yorkshire the main city in East Yorkshire is Hull on the banks of the Humber Estuary and uh East Yorkshire you know it’s flat as a bloody billyard table uh

As compared with certainly North and South Yorkshire uh which are rather hilly but uh East yoria is uh quite flat and yeah it’s it’s it’s major conation conation even is uh Hull uh and that’s that’s where Uncle stew is isn’t it and uh these uh these areas used to

Be called ridings actually back in the day um but maybe that’s for another video yeah so anyway below North yor and to the left West yor biggest city in West yorshire is le le is massive it’s certainly the industrial and financial capital of that part of the north of

England but West yorshire which is the most populous of the four by far has other big big cities within its boundaries so so in addition to leads there’s Bradford Huddersfield duesbury Wakefield Halifax and quite a few others so uh that’s uh population wise very very different kettle of fish to North

Yorkshire and of course I live in West Yorkshire I live in Bingley in West Yorkshire which is very close to the North Yorkshire border which is why you keep seeing me up and around the Yorkshire Dales and then South Yorkshire major city there being Sheffield there are others of course Barnsley uh

Roam Doncaster and uh and one or two others uh industrially centered around the steel and mining industry in days gone by before they shut it all all down uh don’t get me on that again and uh yeah it has its rural aspect but it has its Urban aspects as well so those are

The four counties but they have different accents so my accent is a West Yorkshire accent you might even call it a Bradford accent as distinct from a leed’s accent but it certainly is distinct from the north yorshire accent which there is and because North yorshire is so big you’ll get one accent

Down on the borders with West Yorkshire and East Yorkshire and you’ll get another ACC right up the very top because you’re nearly into Jord land uh cuz the next County up is Cleveland and you’re into tin and where middlesbury red car all of that um and and yeah the

South Yorkshire accent well that’s where alic comes from CU this the that and thine uh in uh in in recent years particularly has uh has become the uh shall we say repository for that aspect of the Yorkshire dialect so that’s where Al CI comes from CU there’s lots of the and

The and thine and uh other medieval sounding affectations so there we go now the uh the phrase alivi uh were made famous in the 70s by Fred Truman now Fred Truman was a demon uh cricket bowler played for Yorkshire and uh and for England and uh he also became famous in

Later years for presenting one of two TV programs including one called indoor League indoor League were on ITV uh in the early 70s came on midweek about 3 4:00 and it were all about um uh Pub games like bar Billiards darts arm arm wrestling tabl Skittles all of that carry on and it

Were like a champions league and at the end of each program he us to sign off by saying Al civi so uh I’ve pinched it off fiery Fred fiery Fred uh from south yorshire of course who were uh born in a place called Maltby uh which I believe is n Ram uh

And they were also famous for a beer advert back in 70s Webster penine bitter fiery Fred Webster penine bitter that advert where he’s breathing fire out of his mouth uh which sort of reminds me that back in the day there was a great deal of rivalry between drinkers of

Tetley’s bitter and drinkers of Webster’s bitter or or more generally drinkers of tetley’s beer and of Webster’s beer because they were really the two main types of Brew which you could in buy but certainly in my part of Yorkshire the others like whip bread and bass but they take tted so much like

Piss that uh They Don’t Really Merit a mention uh no offense wh bread and bass drinkers but tremendous amount of rivalry between tetley’s and Webster drinkers do you remember I were a tetley’s man my dad were a Webster’s man I tley andle beer in the late 70s and

Early 80s were absolutely fabulous it were beautiful uh until of course the money men came along and uh and ruined it but any Ro up yeah it went ector but there were this there were that rivalry and uh it reminds me of the it reminds

Me of an old joke that always tickled me and uh of course it’s Joshua tley and Samuel Webster that those are the two breweries concern both yor breweries and there’s a a great a great joke that um that Joshua tley and Samuel Webster uh buried the differences one night and uh

Went out on the beer and found a p that sold both T’s and Websters and a few pints in and uh Samuel Webster says to Joshua tley uh shall we have one foot Road and uh so Joshua tley says yeah I’ll have a pint of Websters so Sammy Webster looks at him

And says you’re kidding me why and tley says cuz I don’t want to go home smelling a beer he I love that one yeah tley now there were also tley tea back in the day as well tley tea I don’t think uh they were connected with uh

Tetley’s beer not so sure whether that’s right or not I don’t think they were but correct me if I’m wrong if you know but were there were there were tly tea there were Brook Bond PG tips there were tyu and if you were po the were twinings and

If you were very po there were them their rington Vans if you remember them in Black Gold and yellow that used to deliver tea and Posh biscuits and stuff I think they’re still uh still going strong in some parts of those uh but anyway up yeah um I mean we were tly tea

Drinkers um back when I were a kid and adverts were quite good and all if you remember tle tea with a tle te Fork uh with flat caps and whippits and all of that and uh the the PG tips that were them chimps remember do you know the piano’s on my

Foot yeah tyu put the tea in Great Britain if you remember that one and uh it w until quite a few years later actually that Yorkshire te came along Yorkshire Tea and of course their advertising campaign were anchored by Sha bean and more latly by Patrick

Stewart of Star Trek F and of course with sha Bean it were uh above all do it for Yorkshire and with Patrick Stewart it were that advert that that always tickles me where uh it gives this uh Shakespearean Soliloquy at some member of staff uh leaving do in the workplace

And he’s clearly clearly the boss and he goes off on this Shakespearean monologue about uh Tina Tina how big the void that is you’re leaving or something like that and he goes on and on on on and I think the idea was behind the advert that he’d

Finish off by dropping into uh into good oldfashioned Yorkshire dialect uh so that there’ be a bit of a contrast between the two but it don’t quite work because uh what he says is and we’re having a paint at the dog and trumpet after work you know and we’re having a

Paint at the dog and trumpet after well not after after work he you got that wrong Patrick I don’t know when last time you were in yorksh show were but what we should have said were and we’re having a pain at dog and trumpet after work that’s how you should have said it

Patrick after work indeed who are you kidding and he rode up so yeah Star Trek do you remember that I were bought up with the original series you know Kirk Spock uh McCoy Scotty aora um jov Sulu all of them and guys in red shirts the

All used to end up dead um but uh they were uh reprise a Star Trek came along in the in the mid 80s didn’t it with uh with with uh Patrick stew in Captain John Luke Picard hi Captain John Luke Picard of the Enterprise and uh I thought there were a

Bunch of imposters at first I wasn’t impressed with it but uh I think one thing that they could have done to make it Lords better had have been if uh if if instead Patrick Stewart instead of retaining his his best British theater voice just defaulted to his uh the oire

Accent of his of his hometown of murfield murfield in West yor not far from dubury where Patrick Stewart were born if we kept that accent it sounded a lot better wouldn’t it you know cuz uh you could have had uh Commander dat shouting out to Captain there’s a clling

On battle cruiser on the starboard bow and Picard say on screen and and then come up with W look at cizer bastard you better get it out of here Wht warp drive before we get thrashed hey and then they off the go into the darkness that would have been far more

Entertaining wouldn’t it uh and then towards nway they all have that cozy chat R Captain seat he could be sat there C with a PK pie and a whip it on his lap and what about his number one officer in there that to will rer play

By Jonathan FR W he will reker I always felt sorry for him if the beam down on surface of the planet and came under attack and Picard said fire at will Hey cuz he must have been diving for every Rock he could have found just imagine him saying oh for Christ’s sake not

Again hey hey good old days what’s this got to do with bike and you’re asking yourself old wheeler is going off on what’s he on about call the nurse well it’s it’s just a a humorous bit of imagery and satire to uh well it’s of no real value is it other than to

Illustrate that uh that it can be good humor for the troubled soul and that yorkman Lov to take the piss out of each other so until the next time ride safe be kind Oh and before I go yes few of you have asked that their Moto gutsy V7

Will be coming out very very shortly stick around stay tuned certainly in the next week or two uh unless we have ridiculously adverse weather I certainly be out on that bike for the first time so uh until then yeah ride safe be kind and I’ll City E [Laughter]