What are you upset about, the fact that none of us see Mackem as an insult in the slightest, or the statement that Geordie started off as a derogatory term.
You would get a kicking as a Plastic Mackum in Walker,Wallsen , Byker , they hate your type, Plastic Lads.
You are about three or four hundred years behind the time that phrase was coined, we have been building ships on the wear for close to five hundred years, and for those years we were the biggest shipbuilding town in the world, and the Press gangs saw to it that a crew was provided , not to move them to another place as you suggest , but to sail them around the world, if you look at a painting of the many sea battles that were fought by the British you can rest assured that the vast majority of the ships you see were built in SUNDERLAND, I do not have any proof but would be very surprised if any ships ever were sent somewhere else to be fitted out except in fairly recent times, certainly never to Newcastle as there only forte was coal, as over five hundred years we developed some of the finest tradesmen ever in the building and fitting out of a ship To suggest that Newcastle coined the phrase is nonsense the only thing in history that Newcastle can claim to be superior to Sunderland is in the production of coal, in every other field they were inferior, including football, their prosperity started when Sunderland supplied them with ships to move the coal that they overproduced Sorry to go overboard but it riles me to see the Magnificent history of Sunderland is not instilled into the modern generation
OK every one you can prove to be untrue is worth 100 quid to you and vice versa , are you a gambling man ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/articles/2008/01/16/shipbuilding_has_been_20_years_feature.shtml
