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Rough and ready?

Northern farmers in China are kind of like that, especially to someone from the south. To people from the south, northern men, especially those from the Northeast are all rough and ready, and, of course, they don’t always mean it in a good way.

You know what I mean, don’t you?

The Northeasterner looks big and crude and speaks loud and rough, if he speaks at all. In fact, if he can settle a difference with someone via a fist fight, he won’t bother to sit down and talk things over with them, ever.

They’re rough, rough as a saw edge if I’m allowed to exaggerate, raw but ready, ready and eager to get right down to business without a single fuss.

All right?

All right, media examples:

1. In a room at London’s O2 arena, photographers have assembled to commemorate the return of a classic British rock band. A familiar figure with spiky, dyed-black barnet and impenetrable shades casts a sceptical eye over a banner advertising sponsors American Express. “We’re not having that in the picture,” mutters Ronnie Wood and (to the visible alarm of various PR persons) starts to tear it down. His band mates join in, laughing, three old men wreaking havoc amidst drum kits and guitars. “There’s a little igniting mischievous flame in this band,” Wood later, rather gleefully, explains.