Toonpack

Just fulfilling my care in the community quota, trying to educate the helplessly thick. If you shout long and hard enough it might become true.

Hardly ever used now, but was commonly used pre Charva, just accept it man!! (btw 13 miles from Scotswood and you'd be asking the fish their opoinion)

Doubt it's used many places these days, been superceded by charva I reckon. Be interesting if your mates know it, my lads are mid/late 20's and they knew it.

Returning for a moment to the knowledge/use of Scotchie/Scotchy at the coast. A straw poll of my coastal FB chums has an early score of 5-1 in favour of "knowing/heard of/used the word" the one "nay" in the poll is from my daughter in law......................................................................................................................................................................................................she's from the west end

You have wrong end of the stick Fishy. The argument is not about the origin, (I wouldn't have a clue where it came from, I did put forward a tongue in cheek theory mind) the point is/was about a statement made along the lines that "no-one outside of the west end and definitely down the coast" had ever said/heard of said word, several persons outside of the west end have stated that is not the case, me amongst them.

Would stand up in court (under oath obviously)

Inference went wooosh sadly That said, it's hardly anecdotal when several folks outside the "sphere of Scotchie" (or Scotchy) have heard the word, despite one side of the arguments total denial.

I dunno, I didn't stalk them day and night when they were playing out, but they used it/said it as young'uns and young'uns tend to pick things up and then use them regularly, they must have heard it to use it. Your point is ???

True, never used it myself but certainly heard it being used.

Nope, see my earlier post for the context in which they used the word. Wasn't used as a term of endearment in respect of their chums. Irrespective of the reason behind their use of the word, they used/heard it as did Chez as did HF, non of whom are restricted to Stevie's "the only place the word is used" area.

Well if my lads used it as younguns (25 and 28 respectively now) and who also lived all their formative years at "the coast" there aint no argument to lose.

It's largely been replaced by Charva in the last 15/20 years. Anyway, the Sluice ain't "the coast" matey and no metro line for them to get near you. The coast runs from the North Pier at Tynemouth through Whitley Bay and ends at the DMZ represented by the pitch and put and the cemetary, St Mary's lighthouse is like "the coast's" forward observation post overlooking the Scotchie Summer Holiday caravan park.

Who are the "several people from the coast" who disagree with the real "several other people from the coast" ????

You asked and immediately he appeared

Who ?? The several people from the coast who have participated in/ have knowledge of this thread, are of the exact opposite to "your understanding". Or has JawD's lass from Holywell (not the coast) been cloned ???

On the 308 obviously

Blyth is not "the coast"

More lies

There's loads of independent butchers up north, they live and die by their pies. Football pies are not to be trusted in the main (bigger clubs anyway as they'll buy from "manufacturers"), smaller clubs will likely buy/promote one of aforementioned local butchers. McSween's is "the" Edinburgh butchers, (their Haggis pies are immense) bet Hearts/Hibs don't buy from him, will be Hall's stuff (at best).

All hail Uber-Scotchie

Your dimness and thus susceptibility to buy into hype.

Dobbies, Ponteland, of all places, do bloody lovely one's btw

You can hardly write it, let alone pull it to pieces man You got the placing of literate/illiterate in the wrong to descripe you/me tbh Put me on ignore if I wind you up so much, will detrimentaly effect your education, but hey ho !

I answered the question truthfully. Your liking of Steeeeevie G, says it all tbh

Hey, I'm literate, what can I say ???