Mags embarrassing themselves yet again

Sad bastards

 

There's nothing wrong with a bit of biting humour that you can't help but laugh at ...

... there's a lot of effort gone into something that's just not funny.

Very strange people.

 

Honestly, they are rattled. F@cking being envious of a bridge in another city. Pathetic little bastards. But they'll think it's brilliant and that they've "owned" us...

It's what I've said before, they can't stand it if someone else gets something better, including publicity, than them.

 

Jesus thats just embarrassing

 

What a sad sad bunch they are

 

sad as fook!

Them lot, not you pet xx

 

I haven’t lived in the Noeth East for 20 years and its a word I never use these days but from what I remember when I was a kid Shan was more unfair or dissapointing!

Someone did something to someone else that belittled them etc.. proper shan them. Never used as a word for something being crap or not as good as something else.

I'd use it more I the context of the real problem thats bothering them!

"The mackems have a random new foot bridge to give their fans easier access from the city cente that was built mainly and we haven't had owt new proper shan that!"

Either way its ****ing pathetic way to go on and I'm glad our media team don't get up to childish ****!

 

I keeping thinking how glad I am that they think we're not their rivals anymore - can you imagine how seriously embarrassing they would be if we were?

 

They seem desperate to show themselves as better than Sunderland but just show themselves up.

I doubt 'shan' is used on Tyneside and most have never used the word or even heard of it ... I know it but have never used it.

I'd guess it's of 'Gypsy' origin so will have come from around the Darlington and Weardale area where there's always been lots of horses.

It's then been picked up around Durham and the villages.

Where did you use it?

 

Or used in Portugal and I'd say the Portuguese will be asking what does it mean. Fecking idiots the lot of them

 

I'm trying to remember now mate. Because I Hendon from birth until 11 then moved to Weardale at 11 until leaving for school at 19. But I wasn't sure i used it in Sunderland but not in Weardale as it wasn't understood in Weardale.

I remember it being one of those words our gang of kids used but don't think it was a common saying. I thought it was a passing fad to be honest! Like I said it was more "me Mams proper Shan she wouldn't give me £2 to gan to the crowtree with me mates" than something being inferior quality.

Funny how you mention weardale though, I'm convinced thats when I stopped using it but could be getting mixed up?

 

Not really for them though, its for their bairns (90% of them).

 

I'll have a look later but I seem to remember it being used around the Catterick-Scotch Corner-Jedburgh 'corridor' which is basically the A68.

You'd have had cattle drovers, sheep markets, horse traders using that route from Darlington to the Borders.

I can only remember it 'from real life' being used in conjunction with other 'traveller' slang like 'shan gadgie' etc.

I just don't picture it as a typically Tyneside word.

 

Not used in Durham pit villages in my experience, but I have worked with people from both Newcastle and Sunderland who used the word, but to be honest I was never really sure what it meant when they said it.

 

Definitely not. The first time I ever heard it was when I moved down to Hartlepool after I got married

 

Yeah, I mean the Durham/Darlington area, not the coastal pit villages.

I associate it with travellers and more inland areas.

I've no idea about Cumbria but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not used up there.

 

It always seemed like something kids said more than the adults. Now as a bloke who is only a few days off 40 looking back I reckon a handful of adults probably said it and their kids said it and other kids picked it up a bit more but I don’t think it was regularly used beyond a young age for kids.

 

I’m originally from Sunderland/town end farm area and we used it a lot as kids not heard it used for a lot of years tho, never thought you could contract Bridge jealousy tho

 

They pretend to be superior, they drum it into their kids, but dirty their pants every time we are mentioned, even their media team, bless them

 

Exactly as l remember using it as growing up in Pennywell.
Used daily for anything negative but we seemed to grow out of it as we neared our teens.
KTF