OT- 50 Reasons To Be Proud

Thought id share this.....

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/50-reasons-proud-youre-geordie-1738928

 

Grey Street had a lovely liquid lunch there yesterday.
Being catty but watched Sarah Milligan the other night, the lass needs to stop eating all the pies

 

Do we include punching horses, rioting when the team gets beat, sacking Bobby Robson, pitch invasions and spewing up in shop doorways in all this proudness.

 

Wees keys are these keys.

 

Tremendous. I see the Mackems are piping up again. New signing boys?

 

Their new signing is his son isn't it? I think he has misunderstood what the locals mean by "keeping it in the family".

 

Brother's, sister's, next door neighbour's?

 

Xfactor! Xfactor!!!

You'll wear the barrel out scraping it so hard.

Not sure whether who compiled the list could decide if it was just a Newcastle thing or a regional thing. Some very good things in there.

 

That's a load of ****e. Nearly every point on there can be boasted by other cities, even towns. it isn't


Can't folk just be proud of where they come from because it's where they come from without having to justify it? It reeks of inadequacy.

 

Unfeckingbelievable that Xfactor darkens such a list. Lunacy. Of all the things you could pick from. I'd have picked the pigeon ****e on the monument before that.

 

Its not having the Evo festival that's upset you isn't it?

 

The Sunderland version got to 5 then struggled.

 

I'm not upset, on the contrary, I find it quite amusing. The Article that is, not Newcastle. Don't mind the place, there nearly every week and got a mad weekend coming up in november but the article reeks of self assurance. Never an attractive trait is it?

 

Tongue in cheek fella. I don't think it reeks of self assurance but can see why someone might see it that. I just read it as a light hearted take on whats good about the area.

 

Fair do. Wouldn't have battered a Bri-lid if it was aimed at tourists but surely the people of Newcastle know what's available to them, their history and culture of the area. Bizzare. Tried to find something similar of Darlington but all I found was this. Enjoy.

Darlington

What can I say? It’s a s**thole, but it’s home! As a boy of very young I remember no fake tartans, 12 year old mums and more then half of what s**te goes on now.

Too small for a town and too big for a village, recently wasted money on the two most pointless things the town needed. The Pedestrianisation of the Town Centre, which sees bus stops change more then my underwear.. And the all new “Through-A-Bout” bollock which is supposed to ease congestion, but what it really did was tore up a perfectly good bike path and old railway route and made the route home from town take half an hour instead of 10 minutes. But then again.. That bike path was a chav-infested haven.. I now have a slight respect for the council!

I will start with the outskirts of the town and work inwards. Starting with Haughton/Whinfield/Springfield/Harrogate Hill and tall those areas nearby.. s**thole. Done. Nahh.. Has Asda in this bit and what is said to be the best target for bombs.. The Shuttle & Loom. Formerly a chav infested pub with watered down beer (which can only be described as piss.. which wouldn’t surprise me if it was!) and a yellow wall. Now recently gone through a restoration which has got rid of the yellow wall but will most definately have the other two still there! This area has some quaint streets, but they are all nestled within the finest brick-looking cardboard boxes I’ve seen! Council Estates.. Filled with dole wallers, underage parents, inter-breds and.. Well any other words for chavs you can think of.

I would go on about other areas but I’d just be repeating myself. So here’s a list of places to avoid (unless you want to get stabbed).. Darlington. Hahaa.. Nahh.. Skerne Park, Firth Moor, Eastbourne, Haughton (near St. Andrews, Church) Red Hall, please add if I’ve missed off.

To the town! During the day it’s an alright place. This is when normal people dilute the arsewipes so all seems like a good place to be, apart from the constant not moving of others and the battering from pushchairs you get. Token arguments between chavs of “who f**king gets to f**king hold the f**king fiver they’ve found on the f**king floor” are there as a form of offensive street performers (DON’T PAY THEM!) and, above all else, the shops aren’t the best there could be. With rent up loads are closing down quicker then they went up (what was that nice shop with a bit of tat you thought of buying but left to get money out has now shut down now you’re back). Then the 4-hour 5:30 block comes where town gets quiet, college students stop laughing at cracks in the floor while quoting ‘RANDOM’ at everything they see and go home, chavs get sick because they can’t find “anymore f**king fivers on the f**king floor” and go home, the Job Centre shuts so the dole wallers go home to their council estates, the Post Office shuts so the oldies can no longer get their pension ’til tomorrow and the shops shut.

After said block, the night begins. Avoid Tanner’s, Retro (formerly Flares, chavs think they know all the songs because they’ve heard them remixed into a god awful song and the elders start trying to be hip.. In fact if these weren’t in this club there would be three people and the staff), Yate’s, Barracuda.. In fact avoid ALL of Skinnergate at night (and day).

So we start in the latest Wetherspoons, The William Stead (Steadie’s). Nice. Spoonies priced drinks and not at all rough as f**k. Next door is 10 Crown Street who do a belting Cosmopolitan, never been during the day but night time is cool. A long way up (opposite Joe Rigs) is Number 22, a real ale pub filled with oldies who love folk music and singing with fingers in their ears, slightly expensive for a drink, but is great for a pint.

Going back into town is Scene, what used to be Bacchaus, filled with goths/moshers/emos/scene kids/confused people who arent quite chav and arent quite moshers (or “boggers” if we turn back the clock a few years). An alright place with reasonable priced drinks and long hair.

Next door is Inside Out (formerly Club 2K, a chav as f**k club), now a place a chav can rarely be seen. Run of the mill nightclub playing 3 rooms of music, each of which a good choice.

But, I know what you’re thinking.. WHAT ABOUT THE ONLY CLUB IN DARLO?!.. Escapades, Spades.. Whatever you want to call it. It’s s**t. Waste of mortar and bricks and where chavs go when they’ve had a barny with the 2 year old missus and go to pick up another underager. Plays s**t, serves s**t and the mental age+IQ is about as equal to what the capacity is.

Maybe Darlo Boro Council should save up money, one to fix the road which have more holes then Swiss Cheese, but second to rip down Spades and the council estates/chav areas, and then invest in shooting each and every chav in Darlington and bring the population down from 100,000 down to about 3,000.

Oh, and avoid Morton Park from about 4:30 as it gets busy and the boy racers and their latest features (include state-of-the-art back seat warmer, who is no more then a run-of-the-mill 6 year old chav lass) do the worst driving round Maccy D’s car park. Go here if you want easy money (park up, eat a BigMac meal, then wait for one of them to hit your car, get the plate number as they will drive off/do a pegger, and claim on the insurance). Then again, insurance and chavs don’t go together so it may not work your way.








Oh yeah, it's all happening here.

 

Byker Grove could have been on instead, surelye Shirley.

 

Wees knees are these knees?

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Dammit Pouch, I've been sitting on that one for an age and the first time I get to use it and he's been out of work for a couple of weeks.

Tulta munille.

 

Apologies for not providing a better opportunity. I've waited until he has gone dolally tap. Ah well he served his purpose for you last year I suppose. Mind Gus likes to call people out in training according to Vicente. I wonder what he'll say to John O'Shea? "You were at Man U John, really???? Where's your mate Wes?" Good appointment I reckon.......................begrudingly.

 

looks like your old messiah has jack boots on under those pants....

 

A Mackem landlord (and ST holder) told me it is common knowledge that the reason Poyet got sacked from Brighton was that he let his assistant take the rap when someone **** on a players shirt in the changing room. Apparently it was Poyet and he let his assistant take the rap (who then got sacked) and that's why he hasn't persued a court case against the owners of Brighton.
IF it is true and it sounds like a big IF then there are two levels of sickness at play there.
The Mackem is a very good, honest chap and used to run the Beamish Mary so knows a lot of blokes close to the club.