It’s Leeds (or UK) when…

• There is a conductor on my train


• The traffic lights go green, amber, red, amber green. Australian traffic lights miss the amber warning it’s going to be green next


• You can park either side of the road, in any direction


• Someone asks you if ‘re’ you orright’ they don’t mean are you well or sane, they are just saying hi


• ‘You do right’ is used to tell you they agree with you, innit is used at the end of too many sentences, and not just when the want to know if you agree, gaffer is your boss, to blag something means you’ve winged it


• If someone doesn’t know your name they call you love, not mate


• A tracksuit is designer – think chavs, think Jordan
  
• Someone asks if I'm an Australian


• The post is delivered on a Saturday


• Page 3 of the dailies has a topless women – in 2009!


• Yorkshire puddings are served with every baked dinner. Meat is well cooked, as is the veg


• Thank you you’re a star, means the person saying it to you can’t think of anything to say other than the standard Yorkshire work thank you


• A breadcake is a bread roll, a butty is a bread roll, peppers are capsicums


• They know what street you live in by your postcode


• The school year ends in July and (re)starts in September


• An Asian is normally someone from India or Pakistan


• You meet people who have Sir in their title.


• When someone says while Monday, or while 4pm they mean until Monday or until 4pm


• Make-up is a given


• Blondes rule


• Streets are dirty


• Scum bastard – normally means someone who follws Manchester – the war of the roses continues
  
• There are diddy (tiny) people


• Measure ment is measured in miles, feet and pounds


• There are no state governments


• Old is 1700s not 1900s


• Green rolling hills – and only 5 miles from the city


• There are studentss dressed up as superhereos doing pub crawls


• Mums have a buggy not a pram or stroller for babies


• Pop is soft-drink


• Briggate (think Pitt Street Mall) on Saturday is a sea of people


• Twat is another rude way to swear at a women
  
• People ask me directions and then after hearing my accent, are shocked I know where it is