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Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by MagicCarpet, Feb 9, 2012.

  1. Steven Royston O'Neill

    Steven Royston O'Neill Well-Known Member

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    [video=youtube;O2tzUFw_onY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2tzUFw_onY[/video]
     
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  2. jerseymackem

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    My grandads from South Shields and gets a bit annoyed if anyone calls him a mackem, he's a Geordie, as with most of the rest of my family. I was born in Sunderland and despite moving away when I was little over a year old, I still class myself as mackem.

    Interestingly, the spellcheck on my iPod doesn't recognise mackem but it does recognise Geordie... Is Steve Jobs a closet Geordie???
     
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  3. MackemsRule

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    He's a sanddancer then. :p
     
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  4. Steven Royston O'Neill

    Steven Royston O'Neill Well-Known Member

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    Geories, yackers, sand dancers, we have them all here
     
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  5. Blind Corner

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    Mr RAW, I can say categorically that you are wrong about the word "mackem " not existing until the 70's - I am 63 years old now and I can remember as a child both my father and grandfather telling me that they were called mackems by the tynesiders when they worked in the shipyards thjrough there , so it is most definitely a derogatory term aimed at the way we speak, nothing to do whatsoever with making and taking ships - what a lot of rubbish.
     
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  6. MrRAWhite

    MrRAWhite Well-Known Member

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    I've actually done some research on this, and you are the first person who I have came across who has said they come across the term before the seventies...I agree that this making and taking ships mullarky is fiction, and I also agree that it was first used as a derogatory term aimed at the difference with our accent...
     
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  7. CyprusMackem

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    It was used in the Shipyards of Tyne for many years before coming into a more general circulation.
    When a ship was launched in Sunderland it would normally go to the Tyne to be fitted out. Many blokes (Shipwrights, fitters etc) would have to go with it. These were called Mackem's by the local workers.
    It was used as a piss take on the way we say make aswell as they saw it. We were the daft buggers who did the donkey work and make (mack) the ships only for the finishing touches to be done on the Tyne.
    I was told this by an old soak in "Pickies" just before he tried to stick a broom handle up my arse...Strange place to be an Apprentice, the Shipyards.
     
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  8. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    <applause><applause>:emoticon-0116-evilg
     
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  9. Ryhoper1

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    1. mackem 1185 up, 320 down

    n. A demi-god worshipped by ancient civilisations as the epitome of wit and sexual prowess. Romans and Vikings colonised the area in the hope of developing a race of supermen to help them in their ambitions. The word is based on a blend of Roman and Norse, and means "astonishingly well-endowed, funny and attractive angel on a temporary visit from Valhalla."

    Not to be confused with Geordie who were the unfortunate result of a Roman experiment in which Scotsmen had intercourse with pigs. These unfortunate troll-like humanoids can be identified by the fact they have to wear clothes covered in a large barcode so they can be tracked and controlled by security satellites.
    My goodness, that John Holmes is almost as well-hung as a Mackem.
     
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  10. Vincemac

    Vincemac Well-Known Member

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    i first heard the term mackem around 1988 and i first thought it came from laurie mackmenamee who was the manager i now realise i was wrong <bubbly>
     
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