Heavy horses are so ****ing gentle mate. Thing is, they're so ****ing powerful. One swing of the head would have you on your arse no ****ing problem. Been there & done it, lol.
Echo's readers response to article - 23 things you said made you a Mackem please log in to view this image 10HAVE YOUR SAY Here are 18 things you said made you feel like a Mackem. Hundreds of you got in touch with ideas after we published our 17 things that make you a Mackem These are just a few of your suggestions: 1) Clair Vineberg: Panackelty on a cold day 2) Steven Maddison: The word “pyet” The ball smacked him right in the pyet. 3) Bob Darbyshire: Maws pie and peas 4) Rob Cullen: Saying “man” at the end of every sentence, even when your talking to a woman. 5) Debbie Boyce: When you come In and ask where me Mar or Dar is ... Meaning mam or dad ... 6) Simon Young: “Our boy” meaning “my brother” 7) Beverley Ganley: Cowld instead of cold 8) Shaun Vassallo: Suddick instead of Southwick. 9) Mark Spedding: Calling them “willicks” and not “whelks”. 10) John Martin: Sighting Penshaw Monument on the way back from holiday, you know you’re home. 11) Marie Webster Colquhoun: The saying smart as a carrot appears to be only a Sunderland thing. 12) Bill Walton: Putting your clothes in those wire clothes hangers instead of lockers at Newcastle Road baths and then breaking your teeth on those big bars of ket you could get out of the vending machines. 13) Paul Donaldson: Saying “Ower Lass” meaning your wife! 14) Bill Walton: Sykes pop or Alpine if you weren’t posh enough for Sykes. 15) Sarah Inglis: Taking turns standing at the side of the diving pool at the leisure centre and looking through the round windows so ya can wave at your mates who have dived in 16) Carole Donkin: What about a ham & pease pudding stottie sandwich? 17) Paul Maxfield: The fact we don’t pronounce our H’s, for example: arry ( Harry ) ospital ( hospital ) enry ( Henry ) 18) Julie Mulvaney: Notriannis ice cream mmm! X 19) Mackembella: Saying ‘I’m a Mackem not a Geordie’ and eating pastie sarnies 20) Catherine Scott: Mey nanna’s home made stottie, freshly baked and cut in half with thick Lurpak butter spread on. 21) Shaun Ferguson: Curried bun and following football team through thin and thin 22) John McDonald: Brian Moore, The Spectre. 23) Al Penna: Walking home from Seaburn after spending your “bussy “
11 smart as a carrot? Never ever heard anyone say that. 17 dont pronounce the h? Anyone else ever notuce this. 20 thick lurpak buttet....posh cow.
That list is an absolute pile of ****ing ****e, with almost no accuracy at all and Billy . . . . whelks are whelks and 'williks' are what we call winkles
I'm originally from South Tyneside near Hebburn and me mam always said smart as a carrot, mind she was born in Cassop, Co. Durham, so neither of us were true Mackems.
Being "a makem" to me is sitting on your a*se and not complaining to the club about the loss of our ship on the club badge. Without J. L. Thompson, Jnr. and his yard foreman, Thomas Marr (along with coal owner Samuel Tyzack) Sunderland A,F.C. would never have amounted to bugger all. O.k., call me old-fashioned, but I'm a Sunderland born and bred 'Geordie'. I will never acknowledge 'makem' till I die. But whatever you call yourselves, why doesn't this offend you? That badge shows a complete misunderstanding of who we are and what we've been. Pick up your pens and write to Ellis (personally, because the sad truth is, Yanks appreciate our history a lot more than we do these days).. Whether you call yourself Makem or Geordie doesn't matter - just get our f**king ship back on there! It's who we are, and where we owe. Yes, you.
Why just the ship? What about the mines? Glass? Rope? We did more than just build ships! But that was yesterday! Now we build cars! More efficiently than most other plants across the globe! I don't understand this grasping on to symbols of history. Its what we did. But its not who we are.
No, but you'll claim six championship wins though. O.k., let's forget our shipbuilding past and the four titles they won 1890-1900. I don't mind that if that's what you want. What I don't like is the hypocrisy of boasting one and claiming the other is 'all in the past'. If those times are irrelevant don't claim the successes of them. That's all I'm saying. Jesus, you can't have your cake and eat it man.
Sorry mate. I don't know what you're getting at. I don't know how you relate old industry and football. I'm clearly missing your point. I don't boast about our championship wins or cup wins from 80 years. Its ancient history to me. I just care about the here and now.
I would like to say that I have lived within shouting distance from the old Roker Park since 1943, served my time in the swinging 60's and had never heard the term Mackem until a few years ago. Makem I was told comes from the expression that the town's population at one time was made up of men who either made ships (mackems) or sailed in them (tackems), no shame in that, and none should be felt, but my belief, its a term which has no history whatsoever.
We used to gan wilikin down the beach, me gannie was an ould fish wife and she used to boil them and we would have crisp and wilik sandwiches now thats a real barbary coast treat.
Oh I love them, I could live on shell fish but I'd never heard that term until I met Jerry. We always called them winkles, short of course for periwinkles. That's why those long pointed boots were called winkle pickers. I'm pleased she's on her holidays or she'd be on to give me another lecture. Her & me have discussed this many times.
Call me what you want but I also never heard the word makem until about 1988.i was living in Morpeth and been a Sunderland supporter I was called a makem by friends and colleges living in Northumberland.infact ithought they derived the word from the then manager Lawrie makmenamy.calling me a makem after him .......??????
I have never ever heard of anybody being called a Makem (obviously pronounced 'make 'em') Can some people not understand that it's Mackem (pronounced 'Mackem' obviously)
