Heteroromantic asexual, as it happens. I was also born in the North of England but have lived and worked for thirty years in the South and Midlands. I still get 'jokes ' about my supposed meanness, enquiries as to the wellbeing of my racing pigeons and whippet (I have two cats, actually), fake sympathy for my wife over my supposed refusal to engage in domestic chores (untrue), remarks about cobbled motorways and waiters who don't bring the wine-list because they assume I only drink beer.

This goes along with the unspoken assumptions that I was raised in poverty by a drunken father and abused mother, that I receivedonly a asic education and that I am only fit for manual work.

It's not always about skin colour.

I'm also left -handed. I'll let you think about that one!