Chillybean
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Spent 3 years there as student, the first two years watching out for Silverdale miners who had a passion for beating up students if they came from the Thatcherite south. In my last year I finally got cornered in a pub by a few hostile ex miners who on hearing I was from up north and from a mining town spent the evening buying me drinks. Can't fault the folks from Stoke, they're a good crowd once you get over idea of being called Duck.