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Originally Posted by Mumbles

Interesting, I didn't know that about the pints. That may also account for the sterotype of them being miserly as well, if the pints cost the same as English ones.

I think with some stereotypes, there's a tendency with some of them to try and live up to them too. Using Geordies as an example, the sterotype is one of hard drinking, fun loving, sexually promiscuous hard men, which can be seen as quite positive by some, especially teenage boys. You'd think that by the time they got to Jay's age they'd have grown out of that by now though and would want to be perceived as their own man, an individual rather than a cliche. (see how I managed to drag this back on topic there? )

When BB started it didn't pander to stereotypes as much

BB1 Anna - pretty feminine (not man-hating) lesbian
BB1 Craig - hard working self-made Scouser
BB1 Nick - dishonest middle class guy

BB2 Narinda - Geordie: middle class, professional (medical sales person), British-Asian
BB2 Elizabeth - Scottish: sophisiticated, articulate and worldly, not drunkard etc
BB2 Dean: Black/ mixed: professional, intellectual and geeky, not into rap or gangster culture, not homophobic

Almost every black male since BB2 Dean (bar legend Derek BB6 and John Tickle BB4) has been a rap-loving 'urban' stereotype.

Found BB2 Brian D annoying as a camp cliche of a gay man, but I presume thered me masculine gay men in later series, never happened.