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turpsSometimes I wonder at my sister, she's just sent me an invite to the 'Appreciation of Kayleigh *last name here* Group' on Facebook. One she unsurprisingly created herself.
It did link me to this, the first one I've seen for people that live in the North East.
1) You're not taking the piss when you say "Why Aye Man!" -- There's a reason my website is called what it is :)
2) You're cousin had a friend whos sister's friend's cousin was in Byker Grove -- Oh yes.
3) The Metro is a train AND where you buy things -- Yep
4) You've heard of DJ Shrek -- Sadly I haven't, I am losing mackem points, woe!
5) People ask you to "do the big brother voice" -- Not personally, but I have done the Byker Grove voice *g*
6) You pray to Shearer, Gazza, Keano etc -- Heck no, know them, sure, admire them, some. Pray? No chance.
7) You've heard of/been to the New Monkey -- Been to.
8) You say 'kets' and don't mean drugs -- Yep
9) You can pronounce "bairn" - southerners have a right problem with this! -- Southerners can't say bairn?
10) You end your sentences with "man" or "like" -- Guilty as charged.
11) For a night out you arm youself with tabs, bella, and out of date durex -- nope.
12) You've partied at Vogue, and loved it -- nope
13) Cheryl Cole is your idol (lasses) -- Kayleigh loves her though, so I know it's true for many people here.
14) Bobby Robson is your idol (lads) -- *bows head*
15) You've been to Durham Cathedral on a school trip -- and a college trip
16) Greggs is everywhere.. -- Man, there's multiple Greggs everywhere. Very tasty pasties.
17) You don't bother wearing a jacket to go clubbing, even when its snowing (coz we're hardd man!) -- jackets are for the weak!
18) You know of Jimmy Jesus, Dave the Rave, The Durham Big Issue Woman, The dogs who wear the sunderland strips, the Durham Yellow Car -- sadly not
19) You find the Millenium Bridge romantic on a night -- It's very pretty.
20) You know what Fenwicks is - yep
21) You went to somewhere in the Lakes for a school weekend away --- Sadly not, we went to Western Supermare ( sp?). It felt very exotic at the time.
22) You know all the meanings of "canny" -- I do, I always remember someone being confused by the definition of canny, he pretty much went, how can someone be a canny lass and somewhere also be a canny distance away. It just is! It's an all purpose word.
23) Auf Wiedesen Pet makes sense -- yep
24) You're actually proud of a rusty structure slightly resembling a scarecrow. On a hill. On the A1. -- I like the Angel, though I know a lot of people don't.
25) "Mint" doesn't mean like a trebor -- Mint is a useful compliment.
26) You were scared of the Lambton Worm as a child -- it coiled around a whole hill! That is scary!
27) You think the "Loveshack" bouncers are twats -- never been.
28) You clap at the Great North Runners :) -- or watched that.
29) Stotties!! -- Stotties are love! Kira and me discussed making pease pudding and ham stottie sandwiches for our local food dinner at the next camp sparkle. I know, we are the most inventive cooks ever!
30) You drink stella, and you're a girl -- don't like it
31) You drink pints through a straw (girls) -- my drink of choice when I used to go clubbing was half a pint of larger, mixed with half a pint of shandy, advacah ( wrong spelling I know ) and blackcurrant, mix it up and drink through a straw.
32) You go the beach and the fair just beacause its summer, even though its raining -- sure
33) You go to the Air Show at Seaburn every year -- I used to, James still does
34) You say "Charver" or "Charv" not fkn"chav" -- sometimes
35) You have at least one friend whos a young mam :) -- yep
36) Clubbing in Shields is classy -- ahahaha. Classier than Sunderland I guess, but it doesn't take much.
37) You've snogged someone in Wet and Wild jacuzzis -- nope
38) You're still amazed by the Sea Life Centre -- yes!
39) You or your mam has partied on the Tuxedo Princess -- yes. The revolving dancefloor is a legend.
40) After asking a few southeners what their 1st impressions of the northeast is we got: fighting, women fighting on the street, brown ale, black teeth and stanley knives?? -- If so, that's sad.
41) You order gravy with your chips and no-one thinks its a bit weird -- gravy on chips isn't weird.
42) You buy tea from men in black cars, and again dont find it weird -- well I would, that sounds very suspicious.
43) Banter means you can totally slag someone off but no-ones allowed to get upset -- I've heard it done but wouldn't personally.
44) You laugh at anyone other than your nana ordering a shandy -- shandy is rank, if you want to drink it go for it.
45) "HAREEET!" is perfectly normal -- I know exactly how to say that, but haven't actually said it myself *g*l
46) You can tell the difference between a mackem and a geordie, but to the rest of the country you're a geordie or scottish -- Everyone thinks I'm a geordie, I'm not. I'm a mackem!
It did link me to this, the first one I've seen for people that live in the North East.
1) You're not taking the piss when you say "Why Aye Man!" -- There's a reason my website is called what it is :)
2) You're cousin had a friend whos sister's friend's cousin was in Byker Grove -- Oh yes.
3) The Metro is a train AND where you buy things -- Yep
4) You've heard of DJ Shrek -- Sadly I haven't, I am losing mackem points, woe!
5) People ask you to "do the big brother voice" -- Not personally, but I have done the Byker Grove voice *g*
6) You pray to Shearer, Gazza, Keano etc -- Heck no, know them, sure, admire them, some. Pray? No chance.
7) You've heard of/been to the New Monkey -- Been to.
8) You say 'kets' and don't mean drugs -- Yep
9) You can pronounce "bairn" - southerners have a right problem with this! -- Southerners can't say bairn?
10) You end your sentences with "man" or "like" -- Guilty as charged.
11) For a night out you arm youself with tabs, bella, and out of date durex -- nope.
12) You've partied at Vogue, and loved it -- nope
13) Cheryl Cole is your idol (lasses) -- Kayleigh loves her though, so I know it's true for many people here.
14) Bobby Robson is your idol (lads) -- *bows head*
15) You've been to Durham Cathedral on a school trip -- and a college trip
16) Greggs is everywhere.. -- Man, there's multiple Greggs everywhere. Very tasty pasties.
17) You don't bother wearing a jacket to go clubbing, even when its snowing (coz we're hardd man!) -- jackets are for the weak!
18) You know of Jimmy Jesus, Dave the Rave, The Durham Big Issue Woman, The dogs who wear the sunderland strips, the Durham Yellow Car -- sadly not
19) You find the Millenium Bridge romantic on a night -- It's very pretty.
20) You know what Fenwicks is - yep
21) You went to somewhere in the Lakes for a school weekend away --- Sadly not, we went to Western Supermare ( sp?). It felt very exotic at the time.
22) You know all the meanings of "canny" -- I do, I always remember someone being confused by the definition of canny, he pretty much went, how can someone be a canny lass and somewhere also be a canny distance away. It just is! It's an all purpose word.
23) Auf Wiedesen Pet makes sense -- yep
24) You're actually proud of a rusty structure slightly resembling a scarecrow. On a hill. On the A1. -- I like the Angel, though I know a lot of people don't.
25) "Mint" doesn't mean like a trebor -- Mint is a useful compliment.
26) You were scared of the Lambton Worm as a child -- it coiled around a whole hill! That is scary!
27) You think the "Loveshack" bouncers are twats -- never been.
28) You clap at the Great North Runners :) -- or watched that.
29) Stotties!! -- Stotties are love! Kira and me discussed making pease pudding and ham stottie sandwiches for our local food dinner at the next camp sparkle. I know, we are the most inventive cooks ever!
30) You drink stella, and you're a girl -- don't like it
31) You drink pints through a straw (girls) -- my drink of choice when I used to go clubbing was half a pint of larger, mixed with half a pint of shandy, advacah ( wrong spelling I know ) and blackcurrant, mix it up and drink through a straw.
32) You go the beach and the fair just beacause its summer, even though its raining -- sure
33) You go to the Air Show at Seaburn every year -- I used to, James still does
34) You say "Charver" or "Charv" not fkn"chav" -- sometimes
35) You have at least one friend whos a young mam :) -- yep
36) Clubbing in Shields is classy -- ahahaha. Classier than Sunderland I guess, but it doesn't take much.
37) You've snogged someone in Wet and Wild jacuzzis -- nope
38) You're still amazed by the Sea Life Centre -- yes!
39) You or your mam has partied on the Tuxedo Princess -- yes. The revolving dancefloor is a legend.
40) After asking a few southeners what their 1st impressions of the northeast is we got: fighting, women fighting on the street, brown ale, black teeth and stanley knives?? -- If so, that's sad.
41) You order gravy with your chips and no-one thinks its a bit weird -- gravy on chips isn't weird.
42) You buy tea from men in black cars, and again dont find it weird -- well I would, that sounds very suspicious.
43) Banter means you can totally slag someone off but no-ones allowed to get upset -- I've heard it done but wouldn't personally.
44) You laugh at anyone other than your nana ordering a shandy -- shandy is rank, if you want to drink it go for it.
45) "HAREEET!" is perfectly normal -- I know exactly how to say that, but haven't actually said it myself *g*l
46) You can tell the difference between a mackem and a geordie, but to the rest of the country you're a geordie or scottish -- Everyone thinks I'm a geordie, I'm not. I'm a mackem!
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Date: 2009-08-19 01:59 pm (UTC)Classy lass, you, like!
Edit: I really couldn't figure out how to punctuate that statement correctly. The North East: Defying Grammar Since 1732.
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Date: 2009-08-19 02:08 pm (UTC)Those were the days, and thank goodness they're over.
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Date: 2009-08-19 02:14 pm (UTC)See, if there was a Terri_daily I could confound all the members on a daily basis with my tweets.
You need to come to Camp Sparkle for sure, you'll see I'm not alien at all, and I could make you a stottie and pease pudding sandwich *g*
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Date: 2009-08-19 02:24 pm (UTC)And yes there are millions of Greggs everywhere.
What's a mackem?
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Date: 2009-08-19 02:32 pm (UTC)Greggs, hmmmm.
A mackem is someone born in Sunderland.
I want a pastie now.
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Date: 2009-08-19 02:39 pm (UTC)24) You're actually proud of a rusty structure slightly resembling a scarecrow. On a hill. On the A1. -- I like the Angel, though I know a lot of people don't.
How can people not love the Angel? It's so cool!
15) You've been to Durham Cathedral on a school trip -- and a college trip
and with visiting USians! ;-)
41) You order gravy with your chips and no-one thinks its a bit weird -- gravy on chips isn't weird.
Gravy on chips is downright..... Canadian!! Unless gravy means ketchup for you. I've run across that before.
Mint is a completely useful compliment! But what's Fenwick's, because we have one of those here and I'm betting they're not the same.
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Date: 2009-08-19 02:51 pm (UTC)The Angel is amazing, and I enjoy seeing it when we travel that way, but a lot of people thing it was a waste of money. There was a huge protest when it first went up, people saying they didn't want a rusty scarecrow looming over the motorway.
and with visiting USians! ;-)
Yep. I enjoyed the visit with you so much.
Gravy is, well gravy. The stuff proper cooks make from meat drippings and I get out of a tub *g*
Fenwick's is a big department store in Newcastle, most famous for it's Christmas window displays.
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Date: 2009-08-19 03:42 pm (UTC)Weston Supermare, isn't it? At least it looks right to me...
half a pint of larger, mixed with half a pint of shandy, advacah ( wrong spelling I know ) and blackcurrant, mix it up and drink through a straw
OMG! O____O You were quite (fool)hardy when you were young ;-)
I was going to ask what a mackem was but I see it's already been asked. I've heard geordie before but never mackem.
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Date: 2009-08-19 09:18 pm (UTC)That looks better, mine looks like something out of a western.
OMG! O____O You were quite (fool)hardy when you were young ;-)
Pretty much. The thing was for the amount you got to drink they were relatively cheap, so they were a good choice. Still, I tried one a few years back and never again.
Yeah, I imagine geordie is much more well known. When I'm out and about in the UK most people would say I sound like a geordie, but there is a slight difference in accent.
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Date: 2009-08-19 08:39 pm (UTC)4 --> Metro is a freebie newspaper! Lol.
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Date: 2009-08-19 09:11 pm (UTC)You know, I think our freebie paper is called Metro too. It must be a popular name for that stuff *g*
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Date: 2009-08-19 11:25 pm (UTC)We have that here too.
Metro is a grocery shop and Metro is our subway system. :)
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Date: 2009-08-20 04:07 pm (UTC)Can me and the babe visit one day I get passports and money? I promise we're both very tidy and helpful, plus, my son is likely to tell you that you're beautiful everyday and mean it. ;)
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Date: 2009-08-20 08:40 pm (UTC)Oh Terri, I love you and your cold-resistant self! :D
What the heck are Stotties?!
Also, please explain the mackem/geordie thing please? Has this something to do with you thinking you don't have an accent? *g*
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Date: 2009-08-20 08:48 pm (UTC)Stotties are delicious. They're sort of like large, round, flat buns but every doughy inside, like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stottie_cake)
I don't have an accent in the slightest! :D
Basically it depends on where you're born. Mackems are born in Sunderland, Geordies in Newcastle. The two cities are about 12 miles apart so to people outside of the area the accents will be pretty much identical. But there are differences. Plus, mackems and geordies are supposed to be rivals and get their dislike on for each other. It's all kinds of silly.
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Date: 2009-09-06 07:16 am (UTC)I'm also so amused by finding this post just now; today at work, an English couple came through my line and were confused by some aspect or another of the self-checkout registers (as most people who haven't used them many times before often are.) I pointed something out with just a word or two, and one of them exclaimed: "Oh! Well that makes proper sense!"
And then I had a five minute conversation with them, with my accent, cadence, and vocabulary at least half-British. It was awesome, and slightly shocking at how automatically and completely I switched over, heh.
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Date: 2009-09-06 10:04 am (UTC)I can well believe you did that. It's such a you thing to do :D