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I noticed when in Bradford that quite a few of the locals said 'Bratford'.

I love the way they say "Lestoh"

I've got quite a good ear for accents and I can do them quite well as well but the Leicester accent has me beat

It's like a perfect mashup

stop it

Yes there are subtle variations around the county. We had a kid at school who originally came from Barnsley and we used to take the mickey out of his accent. "Baarnsleh" we used to say. Barnsley wasn't as rich as Sheffield so we made out he was a down-market little pauper while we were sophisticated. All in good fun of course. If you didn't tease mercilessly they thought you were a little snot and you'd be finished socially. If only grown-ups were like that. Hang on, some of us are.

I think getting teased at school is a right if passage for most people

I watched one of those Ken Loach plays a few years back. It was set in the Barnsley area, and the locals were still saying 'tha' and 'thee' for 'you', even the teenagers! This was in the early 1980s!! !

I can fake accents when I'm singing. I try to give them a country song and an Irish song, and I sound like 2 different people. At least one punter thought that was clever.

Don't get me started on Ken Loach. He's a genius and a socialist.

I'll have to look up the psychology behind teasing one day. I mean we all do it, but why oh why do we do it? I don't know. I think I did it to make sure they knew I wasn't a snot, but I enjoyed it.

Current Labour establishment don't like him though - they've kicked him out of the party.

Yeah it's fun but anyone's fair game really when you're that age

It figures. He'd be much too socialist for Starmer.

"I, Daniel Blake" was spot on, I reckon.

Yeah I saw that

He's done loads of good 'uns. Trouble is a lot of them were done a long time ago and the copies are often blurred. Somebody ought to remaster them like they did with Laurel and Hardy and Star Trek.

Skatepark today. weeeeeeeeee!

Well I need to kill time before my scan otherwise I'll be pacing up and down all day

I wouldn't have gone otherwise because I've got a sore throat

I hate smartphones. Little rectangles of misery, those things are.

I got a bit Yoda-esque there, didn't I?

But seriously, do younger people really think gen x lived in the Middle Ages because we grew up without smart phones? Do they really see life without them similar to living without electricity or something?