All Activity

Did she get her personalised number plate too?

Am pretty sure Shearer's done it on that podcast just this week.

Aye that's fair enough. I was thinking more conversationally that we wouldn't use it so yes, totally agree with NJS. I also agree with NJS about the songs, but then again we can barely ever get a decent rendition of The Blaydon Races going at home or away matches these days which is far more concerning.

He did it a couple of times when he first started on MOTD but I think he was called out for it and I haven't noticed him doing it for quite a while.

Heard him do it a few times on Motd

my mum and dad had a Moskvitch estate when i was a lad. it had a crank for starting the car from the front of it. (not a photo of our actual car but very similar. by which i mean the same colour)

Yeah, know what you mean. When I'm at the match nowadays, I have to shout "Come on UNITED! I mean Newcastle United, formed from the merger of Newcastle East end and and Newcastle Westend clubs in 1892, not the the club from Newton Heath who erroneously only became Manchester United in 1902". Just doesn't have the same ring to it, the manc cunts.

That picture reeks of stale cigars and whisky breath.

My mates got a Berlingo, its a classic motor. Been on some trips in't Brenda.

Listen chum, you started this…

he doesn't, does he?

Are you alright in the head?

HMHM is just the Geordie version of this:

I’m not too fond of Shearer doing it either

I’m disappointed it’s not a B reg

I'd use it shouting encouragement if we're sustaining some attacks/got them on the ropes, 'howay United! Howay Newcastle!' that sort of stuff. Every local paper would never say 'newcastle are after etc, etc..' it would always be 'United win thriller at wherever' and in print it was always prevalent. NJS nails it tbh.

A Berlingo is most definitely not an MPV

must be nothing in it then - like there was no antisemitism in the labour party under corbyn, i bet. just the right wing using the jewish card to play the victim and distract from the real issues.

I think you're correct in that it wouldn't be used "conversationally" but I lament the loss of all of the songs containing it - "They call us Newcastle United" was always a favourite of mine.

Lets call it a multi purpose vehicle

Would you have said something like "did you see how united played on Saturday"? Not being old enough to be in pubs til the mid 90's, I might have missed the boat on that time but I honestly can't remember such talk. Tbh I would just expect someone to say did you see the match and everyone would assume you were talking about us, I don't think you have to really refer to us by any name most of the time if you're in the city. I suppose with the sheer volume of matches on the telly these days (not even counting the fact that you can see every match if you have the right access to streams) it's more possible people could be unsure which match you meant.

In what context? I'm not doubting you here btw, I'm just interested in how you would do it. I honestly can't think of a time when I've heard anyone say "I'm off to see united today" or something like that. I suppose I could envisage someone saying "for fucks sake united come on" or something like that I suppose. I certainly would never dream of saying that I supported united if someone asked me. And not just because I would expect them to assume I meant Manchester. Newcastle would be the name that always immediately came to mind.

i don't feel particularly scared myself. like i said i'm a secular jew so i can walk around and people presume i'm just a white bloke. but it's clear lots jewish people who live in central london are scared to be "visibly jewish" and don't feel safe around these rallies, which is really what falter was trying to highlight. i don't think calling for the commissioner's job reflects well on him, but the choice of language by the officer was pretty appalling, and he was right to share it, however contrived the set up might have been. my mother is worrying herself sick with this stuff. her grandparents fled to israel (mandate palestine at the time) from ukraine during the pogroms. she keeps saying she's waiting for the cossacks to come and get her. i told her not to worry - i doubt they'd make it to her quiet corner of County Durham.

It's also nicely distracted from the discovery of mass graves at hospitals in Gaza.

That’s debatable…a Berlingo has windows all the way round and seats front and back. It could however be adapted quickly and simply into a vital transport link for an amount of two “live” beehives at a time every August; to take them from their usual valley location up to the high hills where they feasted on the heather blossom of late summer producing beautifully pungent heather honey 😊