Wilson & Dennis double act ...

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Smug in Boots

Smug in Boots

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... this kind of thing doesn't usually make me laugh but Isidor is like Tommy Cooper, just funny without speaking.

When he signed for us he said something to his wife like,

"Wake up love, you need to pack, I've just signed for Sunderland."

"Where's Sunderland?"

"Never mind, you'll love it." <laugh>

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Smug in Boots said:
... this kind of thing doesn't usually make me laugh but Isidor is like Tommy Cooper, just funny without speaking.

When he signed for us he said something to his wife like,

"Wake up love, you need to pack, I've just signed for Sunderland."

"Where's Sunderland?"

"Never mind, you'll love it." <laugh>

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Love this......Wilson is funny as owt...:emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
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Gordon Armstrong said:
That's very good, but there's no such word as 'shan' . . . . anywhere :emoticon-0145-shake
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I think you'll get people disagreeing with you tbh.

It's not a word I've ever used but it's common slang in Edinburgh ...

... perhaps it's filtered down to parts of the NE.

TBH I've seen it written more than heard ... it's not a nice way to describe someone.
 
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Gordon Armstrong said:
It doesn't count if only Jocks, like you, use it, and it hasn't filtered down to this area 'cos it's bollocks . . . . so there <nahnah>
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I'd never use it but plenty do, I'm amazed you've never noticed ...

... perhaps you only ever listen when it's you talking <laugh>

'Playing him in that role expecting him to win aerial stuff is just shan as ****.'
Post by: steesafc, May 4th, 2024 in forum: Sunderland.

Well that’s Shan as **** ain’t it.
Post by: Nads, Nov 7th, 2023 in forum: Sunderland

Proper shan making them climb owa buses imo.
Post by: Scootsie, Jan 19th, 2022 in forum: Sunderland
 
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Essayyeffcee said:
Sorry mate but they do in Hartlepool! I'm from the collieries so I have no idea what it means anyways
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Strange that, I knew it was used in Hartlepool but that seems to be an isolated pocket. I'd not heard it in the coastal Durham pit villages or round the Darlington area. That surprises me because Darlo people use a lot of old Gypsy words which is where I'd expect shan comes from. It's sounds like a Gypsy word such as radge, scran, gadgie, etc.

Those are all words people who trade horses use regularly and have crept into regular useage.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
I think you'll get people disagreeing with you tbh.

It's not a word I've ever used but it's common slang in Edinburgh ...

... perhaps it's filtered down to parts of the NE.

TBH I've seen it written more than heard ... it's not a nice way to describe someone.
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I used it as a teenager. Mainly when someone got screwed over.

E.g. That's shan as owt that like. I grew up in Northumberland so I guess that's almost Scotland.
 
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RedNWhite4Life said:
I used it as a teenager. Mainly when someone got screwed over.

E.g. That's shan as owt that like. I grew up in Northumberland so I guess that's almost Scotland.
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<laugh>

Growing up as exiles, in the Midlands, was mental.

Our friends were 'Geordies' from Alnwick to Darlington who all spoke differently but sounded exactly the same to the locals. We sometimes couldn't even understand each other. Some of the Northumbrians would say 'the morn's morn' for tomorrow morning and we'd say hacky for dirty whereas some from the Tyne valley would say hacky for lazy. We'd say vexed for angry and the Sunderland lads would say radged.

However we spoke, we all stuck together when the locals thought they could bully us <laugh>
 
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Smug in Boots said:
<laugh>

Growing up as exiles, in the Midlands, was mental.

Our friends were 'Geordies' from Alnwick to Darlington who all spoke differently but sounded exactly the same to the locals. We sometimes couldn't even understand each other. Some of the Northumbrians would say 'the morn's morn' for tomorrow morning and we'd say hacky for dirty whereas some from the Tyne valley would say hacky for lazy. We'd say vexed for angry and the Sunderland lads would say radged.

However we spoke, we all stuck together when the locals thought they could bully us <laugh>
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Yeah hacky definitely means dirty to me but I have also used the term he's hacky lazy to describe many a work colleague
 
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