This may not be popular but I was tuning into the news last night I got rather bored

[Ash]

At one point, some foul cvnt started reciting a poem in Mancunian and I nearly smashed the television.

ms A heard that too. "I wanted to get the weather but it was all Manchester and then they read a poem and I had to switch it off "

[Burney]

ms A heard that too. "I wanted to get the weather but it was all Manchester and then they read a poem and I had to switch it off "

Yes. Another terrible aspect of this of course is it encourages Manc nationalism, which is almost as sickening and chip-on-the-shoulder as its scouse equivalent.