Repping for East Anglia

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Well, everywhere else has a thread. Many parts of Britain have a regional pride: East Anglia never has. It's famously the home of English puritanism, and perhaps that's part of it. There's no mystical 'thing' that you get with the South West, Yorkshire, even Kent, for example. When I went to Norwich, though, I thought it was great and totally undeserving of all the Partridge jokes I'd been making. It's hella windy though.

― NRQ, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

OTM.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

AHA

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

(sorry)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

East Angular!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Ipswich in the hizzay!

(I'm so glad I don't live their anymore)

The countryside's nice, there are some good beers, local produce can be good, ITFC are great... er... that's it.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I went to UEA, and I turned out okay!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

UEA was great! Norwich - great! Cromer - greaat!

― Remy (hstencil tastes like bubble gum) (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

"East Anglia" always (mis)reminds me of 1984:
Oceania has always been at war with East Anglia!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

i am from wickham market

― tractor boi, Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

i mean I AM FROM WICKHAM MARKET!

― tractor boi, Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

"East Anglia" as a phrase was a running joke in Monty Python quite a bit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

the north norfolk coast is lovely and i definitely get the 'mystical thing' there: endless desolate beaches etc. i dig all that vast flatness. a town like wells seems much more remote than it really is - the people just seem a bit different, somehow? it's one of the strangest parts of the country, actually.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

N-Town represent!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

I still love that story of Jon Williams having to protect Remy from SWEDISH PRINCESSES! That is my overriding impression of UEA.

My dad really likes Norfolk. Birdwatching, innit.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I know I'm from Bermondsey and I know that's London, but where is Cambridge? Is it in Kent? I knew it was in England but I thought it was in London.
It's in East Anglia.
East Angular? That’s abroad. When people tell me they work in East Angular, I think they’re talking about near Tunisia and places like that.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I heart the fens - South Lincolnshire reprazent! Tha Wash! Droves! Dykes! Being called Holland!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

North Lincolnshire has a few fennish bits too - see my posts on the PhotoBritain thread.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 17 February 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

people tell me cambrizzle is the hip-hop capital of england. is this true dog latin? it wasn't when i lived there.

― NRQ, Friday, 18 February 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been to Cambridge in ages Enrique.

I think Ned's post about Monty Python goes to prove the rubbishness of East Anglia. If it's only famous for sketch routines and such then it must be crap considering it must take up a good sixth of bloody England.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

Cambridge is not the hip-hop capital of England, although the Delegates of Culture are pretty good.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 18 February 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

East Anglia has the whole MR James thing as well. All those long Norfolk beaches where you can pretend to be Michael Hordern running away from some HIDEOUS, UNKNOWABLE THING from your DARKEST NIGHTMARES.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Friday, 18 February 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

There is a sizeable yet diffuse Norwich contingent on these boards. What else could possibly unite the Pinefox and Jon Williams?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 18 February 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

Actually, yes, what is it with touring American rappers and playing Cambridge anyway?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 18 February 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

Jon Williams is a rapper?

― NRQ, Friday, 18 February 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

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