Are you up to the test!?

He'd finished work and decided to go to the pub. Instead of going to his local he thought he'd try another just for a change, now he is from just outside London and talks in what I would consider a quite posh voice (this will be important in a second). Just for background he has lived in the area for around 6 months and has never been any trouble to anyone.

So, he walks into the bar and orders a pint. They stare at him and do nothing. Pleasant by nature he just smiles and asks if everything is okay. Everything is not okay. They tell him that they will not serve him, they want him to leave and not to come back. Southeners are not welcome. Obviously he was beyond shocked, he is a white, heterosexual man, English, living in England and he has just had the first taste of prejudice in his life. Morevoer from another white, heterosexual man (I assume), English, living in England.

Now when I heard this my first thought was 'Well... some Northerners don't like Southerners but fuck me that's a bit strong'. There is still to an extent the old 'Arrrgh, Northern monkeys, Southern fairies' attitude but no one really takes it that seriously do they? Apparently some do.

Now racism/prejudice is shite in all forms, the hobby of dickheads, but with all the different races, beliefs and lifestyle choices in this great country of ours I find it hard to believe there is still room in the minds of some dickheads for the old North/South divide.

What really annoys me about all this, is that the pub in question is one of those that has England flags hung all round it. Turning away an Englishman for not being born in the same place as you, how fucking English is that?