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Teaching a lesson about perceptions of the Toon this week - who do you class as a typical/atypical Geordie - and what is Newcastle like ?

estimates on minorities, typical meal, or anything would be ov great help - thanx

― , Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Newcastle is like in Byker Grove. Everyone is mad about football. There's a nice bridge over the Tyne. Gazza. Also, I saw a TV show about Newcastle night life, locals don't wear coats when out on the town, regardless of how cold it is.

I'm sure my perceptions are wrong!

(is sean = geordie racer?)

― james, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's my friend Angus, who is very much from the area and who talks about St. James Park as god's own house. That and how Peter Reid and Sunderland are deserving of nothing but rude songs.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes but im shorn of all that malarky[mostdayz] - cheerz!!! if you dont mind i'll wait fer more answers [pleeze] before replying to yr commentz

plleeze answer peepz - thee kidz need yr help

?;~{-

― , Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But St James's Park is God's Own House, and Peter Reid does resemble a chimp. Look out for Stottie Cakes (flat bread cakes), avoid the Bigg Market at chucking out time (unless you want a ruck). Eating out is usually quite inexpensive. My Geordie father raised me to have an irrational love of the place, people, and especially its football club.

― stevo, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will say, based on my train journeys, that it is impressive that you can see St. James Park towering over the skyline. A city with its priorities clear. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, it simply dwarfs the rest of the city, being a) massive b) on a hill + c) one of few grounds still to be found in the centre of a town. Whether they would have gotten planning permission anywhere else is open to question. Certainly tells you everything about how important the club is to the city.

Incidently I 'discovered' ILM, + subsequently ILE, by accident as the finest Newcastle United BBS is elsewhere on LUSENET.

― stevo, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alll Newcastle is populated by Donna Air and Ant+Dec

― Graham, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i miss my year (studying) in Newcastle. Newcastle is a fantastic place, i belive it was the only UK city in some 'top 10 cities for nightlife' poll, whatever that's worth. i loved the way all the locals and students would go out boozing on the town together, there seemed to be much less town/gown shit than in other places

― michael, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have just remembered my mum is a geordie!! tho not much rubbed off as she left when still an infant and moved to filey, then welwyn garden city. i mean her mum [= glasgow] and dad [= leeds] did, and she went with them)...

auf wiedersehen pet did for newcastle when brookside (and i spose yosser hughes) did for liverpool: ie turned the toon into a cartoon for anyone who didn't already know (not that i did or do know it)...

blimey that's no help at all is it?

― mark s, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

have just remembered my mum is a geordie!! the secret of mark's wit revealed.

I would love to see 'Auf Wiedersehen, pet' again, at the time I loved it. A groundbreaking (male) working- class '80s comedy that dealt with issues such as the collapse of northern industry, unemployment, and black labour but all going out on prime-time TV (Ken Loach meets The Likely Lads). Could probably do without the post-WW2 resentment but given the scenario (unemployed english brickies finding work in Dusseldorf) it could hardly be avoided. Spall + Nail were especially brilliant. Best forget the theme tune.

― stevo, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Abt ten years ago I visited my sister when she was at Durham uni, and we had a 'day out' in Newcastle while I was there. Being a soft Southern shite, I had all sorts of preconceptions/prejudices abt Newcastle - most of 'em based on 'Sid The Sexist' etc. - but found it to be one of England's nicest cities - v. friendly people, great views across the bridge (esp. at dusk), a v. easy to use underground system, lots of buses, a gd arthouse cinema, large Waterstones and an okish comic shop (couldn't find many decent rec shops tho'.) Got the impression it might be a bit of a different story on a Friday night in the city center, but that's true of London too.

Also went to the Metro centre in Gateshead, which was a living hell.

Sorry, this is prob. no use at all to you Sean...

― Andrew L, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't forget the car park that Alf Roberts is thrown off in Get Carter, kind of on a hill on the opposite bank to St James' isn't it? or have they knocked it down?

― chris, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's still there, but it's in Gateshead, south of the river, not near St James' Park.

― michael, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they were going to knock it down a while back until Sylvester Stallone intervened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!what a bastard - it's hideous!!

― , Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sean, have you got the Microsoft email skit on Geordies ("Windaaz too thoosan'" or similar) that seems to have been emailed to everyone on the planet? If you're allowed to be a little risque, that might get a laugh.

― Mark C, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they are all nasty hackin' maggie bastads mind ('specially that shearer). It took me years to work out what the four foot high letters FTM* painted on one of our school walls meant

i read an article the other week that said that n'cle town centre is becoming increasingly poncey, ie more winebars, restaurants etc thus leaving the canny lads and bonny lasses neewhere t'gan n' get pissed like. On my last visit in august it was good to see that old eldon square is *still* where the alt-kids hang out, bless 'em. also the thing about not wearing coats, despite being a cliche, is completely true across the north east, no idea why...

*Fuck The Magpies

― carsmilesteve, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know a kid from Blyth with three nipples named Oliver. He says he's not the only one.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wot you mean you don't..?.....[strokes chin wiv webbed fingers]

thanx ppl + twas a fun lesson

― , Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

nothing to do with geordies, but hey does someone have a good ol' 'cliffs notes'/for dummies etc summary of "bleak house"?? i can't find anything longer than an ultracondensed two paragraph gloss on the net. you have..er..two hours and twenty minutes..

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mcgoodwin.net/pages/otherbooks/cd_bleakhouse.html

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

N. you are a high cheekboned prince among men

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Somewhat fortuitously, it turned up on my first Google attempt ("bleak house" summary longer).

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually maybe it didn't. I've no idea how I found it now.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

I very much remember reading a village voice article sometime last year (perhaps even 2002 sometime) about the 'new american modernist painters', a return to narrative, the collapse of relativism in the face of 9/11, no more pomo etc. now i've searched the whole vv archives for 'modernist' and 'modernism' and can't find it. now i'm thinking maybe i read it somewhere else on the net. anybody remember such an article?

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

anthony?

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't think this was going to elicit any response but oh well one last bump

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 30 May 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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