vacant allotments

[crackapple]

i dont know whats wrong with people in hartlepool but we have a vast amount of vacant plots with no waiting list!! maybe its to easy to go to morrisons or asda.

[Alison]

Maybe I should think about moving house - it's bound to be less hassle than getting a lottie around here!

[Snadger]

I would love another one, but its just a tad too far to travel!!!

[nick the grief]

You'd get lynched of you went there Snadger

[Snadger]

You'd get lynched of you went there Snadger

Got no problems with the Smoggies Nic its just those dammed Mackems!

[Snadger]

Just perpetuating a myth with my last comment...we love each other really

[nick the grief]

As I know someone from the other side of the Tyne I wouldn't be so sure

[crackapple]

Got no problems with the Smoggies Nic its just those dammed Mackems!

we are monkeyhangers not smoggies. so you'd only be in trouble if you resembled a chimp!

[Snadger]

we are monkeyhangers not smoggies. so you'd only be in trouble if you resembled a chimp!

Sorry crackapple, just seen the Teesside in the top left corner and assumed you were a Smoggie.
On reading the thread fully I realise you are a monkeyhanger coming from aartlepool.
Is there any rivalry between the Monkeyhangers,Smoggiies & Mackems then?
Or do you all gang up on the Geordies?

You would never think this was a GYO forum would you? Lol

[Lesley Jay]

Snadger can you please translate for me?

[Alison]

Think it could be best not to ask!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lesley Jay]

I am too bloody nosey Alison - Moneyhangers and Smoggies??? I definitely want a translation Snadger. Please!

[Snadger]

Haltlepudians were supposed to have hung a monkey during the first world war thinking he was a German spy!
If you've ever driven through Teesside you'l realise why they are called smoggies! Used to be predominently steel works, cooling towers smog etc, probably all cleaned up and a nice place to live now though!.!!!

[Lesley Jay]

Thanks Snadger. The first world war was definitely before my time!! What or who are Mackems?

[Snadger]

Thanks Snadger. The first world war was definitely before my time!! What or who are Mackems?

Its a slur on the way people from the Sunderland area talk. ie Mackem and tackem (make them...take them)
Wees keees o theese (who's keys are these)

They send emails on a soopa doopa compewta (super dooper computer)

The geordies and mackums are a bit like the old firm Celtic v Rangers just without the religious content!

The smoggies have another name as well, but we won't go into that!

I come from a steel town myself..you may have heard of Consett...Consett Iron Company British Steel Corporation? Closed down in the eighties with 7000 redundancies! I was one of them!

I think the coloquial term for us was Woolleybacks because we lived out in the sticks among the sheep and were deemed to be tough b*****ds!

There's probably loads more regional nicknames, who have you got round your way?