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[Howay 12496]

 

[RobinRobin 13087]

  On 23/05/2023 at 11:30, LongTimeAdmirer said:

 

If for some reason, Mbappe and Neymar were available to us. Would you turn them down?  (Ignoring FFP for a moment)

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But ... wouldn't one of them play on the left wing?

[Renton 24756]

 

  On 23/05/2023 at 19:57, Monkeys Fist said:

Be ???

 

Its their default setting man. 

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[Alex 38157]

  On 23/05/2023 at 23:14, Howay said:

 

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The Durham Cricket song  I’m not sure how long it’s been associated with DCCC but they’ve only been a first class county since 1992. Their patter in general and attempted gotchas are fucking shite. 

[Renton 24756]

  On 24/05/2023 at 10:22, Alex said:

The Durham Cricket song  I’m not sure how long it’s been associated with DCCC but they’ve only been a first class county since 1992. Their patter in general and attempted gotchas are fucking shite. 

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As you know, you see them genuinely arguing that Blaydon was in County Durham, so it's a mackem song. Apart from being utterly pathetic, it ignores the fact the whole song is about people travelling there from Newcastle. Same with the Sage and Baltic, accroding to them they are more closely allied to Sunderland because they are on the South banks of the tyne and therefore "part of Durham". . 

 

It actually always struck me as a bit daft Gateshead is treated as a seperate entity to Newcastle anyway. Lots of cities are divided North/South by large rivers and are the same city - London, Glasgow, even Sunderland spring to mind. Only Liverpool Birkenhead is similar, but the Mersey is about 2 miles wide there and only traversed by tunnel. Newcastle's population has accordingly been regarded as artifically low, which is important for national and international recognition, if not funding formulas. Same as the artifical North Tyneside Newcastle split. Anyway, I digress, but the moniker sad mackem bastards is well earned by that pathetic tweet again. 

[Gemmill 53452]

  On 24/05/2023 at 11:28, Renton said:

It actually always struck me as a bit daft Gateshead is treated as a seperate entity to Newcastle anyway. Lots of cities are divided North/South by large rivers and are the same city - London, Glasgow, even Sunderland spring to mind. Only Liverpool Birkenhead is similar, but the Mersey is about 2 miles wide there and only traversed by tunnel. Newcastle's population has accordingly been regarded as artifically low, which is important for national and international recognition, if not funding formulas. Same as the artifical North Tyneside Newcastle split. Anyway, I digress.....

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Worse than the train craic this.
 

[Alex 38157]

Also, Blaydon (like Gateshead) is almost exclusively black and white anyway. 

[The Fish 11501]

  On 24/05/2023 at 12:00, Alex said:

Also, Blaydon (like Gateshead) is almost exclusively black and white anyway. 

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 A glory much of the North East can look forward to.

[Renton 24756]

  On 24/05/2023 at 11:59, Gemmill said:

 

Worse than the train craic this.
 

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No, I wouldn't include Boldon as part of Newcastle. 

[Gemmill 53452]

I don't know how an amateur geography teacher such as yourself has mistaken me as coming from Boldon.

[Renton 24756]

  On 24/05/2023 at 12:17, Gemmill said:

I don't know how an amateur geography teacher such as yourself has mistaken me as coming from Boldon.

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Thought I was a hospital porter? Alright, South Shields, whatever, floating distance from the Blue Monkey. You've done well for yourself and have graduated to the Great Park I think, which is Newcastle proper (unless you're a mackem in which case its Northumberland), but you can't shake your roots which you share with CT. 

[Gemmill 53452]

Great Park was pre-divorce.

 

Wideopen now. Which is classed as North Tyneside but you better fucking believe I use the Brunswick (Newcastle) tip. Am I fuck driving all the way to the Tyne Tunnel one which is what I'm meant to do.

[Meenzer 16895]

  On 24/05/2023 at 12:36, Renton said:

Great Park, which is Newcastle proper (unless you're a mackem in which case its Northumberland)

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Too right. The western extension of Great Park basically meets the airport runway which means it's in PONTELAND, marra.

[Renton 24756]

  On 24/05/2023 at 12:44, Gemmill said:

Great Park was pre-divorce.

 

Wideopen now. Which is classed as North Tyneside but you better fucking believe I use the Brunswick (Newcastle) tip. Am I fuck driving all the way to the Tyne Tunnel one which is what I'm meant to do.

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Reported. 

[The Fish 11501]

  On 24/05/2023 at 12:44, Gemmill said:

Great Park was pre-divorce.

 

Wideopen now. 

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Is that why you broke up?

[Sonatine 12419]

 

[Monkeys Fist 46793]

  On 24/05/2023 at 13:34, The Fish said:

 

Is that why you broke up?

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aD was less than xD. 

[Renton 24756]

  On 24/05/2023 at 14:13, Sonatine said:

 

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Surely this is from the van parked outside?

 

Mind, I remember going to SJP once aound 2009 where I was helping host a fairly large workshop with some senior NHS staff - GP partners, consultants, industry reps and above. Came to lunch and it was "build your own sandwich" which was baguettes sliced along ways with fillings like grated cheese you had to add yourself, and an unlimited supply of chips. The chips were good tbf. Anyway, the snobby doctors weren't too impressed and I was asked to enquire was this really a £25 per head lunch, to which the response from the catering manager was, yes, it was  the "credit crunch lunch".

 

Fanks Mike.

 

[The Fish 11501]

  On 24/05/2023 at 14:19, Monkeys Fist said:

aD was less than xD. 

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Less of a Dick than expected?

 

Gotta be the only time anyone's suggested that with regards to Gemmil.

[ewerk 34697]

  On 24/05/2023 at 14:49, The Fish said:

Less of a Dick than expected?

 

Gotta be the only time anyone's suggested that with regards to Gemmil.

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No, he HAD less of a dick than the ex-wife expected. #chinesemouse

[Alex 38157]

  On 24/05/2023 at 14:13, Sonatine said:

 

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 Complimentary glass of blue pop on arrival 

[Alex 38157]

  On 24/05/2023 at 14:46, Renton said:

 

Surely this is from the van parked outside?

 

Mind, I remember going to SJP once aound 2009 where I was helping host a fairly large workshop with some senior NHS staff - GP partners, consultants, industry reps and above. Came to lunch and it was "build your own sandwich" which was baguettes sliced along ways with fillings like grated cheese you had to add yourself, and an unlimited supply of chips. The chips were good tbf. Anyway, the snobby doctors weren't too impressed and I was asked to enquire was this really a £25 per head lunch, to which the response from the catering manager was, yes, it was  the "credit crunch lunch".

 

Fanks Mike.

 

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That story about the chef at SJP in the Ashley years who resorted to cutting old desks up because Charnley wouldn’t sanction him buying some new cheese boards  

[Monkeys Fist 46793]

  On 24/05/2023 at 15:26, Alex said:

 Complimentary glass of blue pop on arrival 

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I wonder which one of sunderland’s top-end hotels she stayed at? 
 

 

[Howay 12496]

 A vintage bottle of blue wkd, aged in an alley, for the special vip customers. Callum the staffy will be wearing his tuxeyyydo, and beyy on best behavior, you best fuckin believe he won’t bite any nippahs. Get yersel a plant dog with some extra fuckin crispy onions and give that Beyoncé a bit of casual racist support like “she’s areyyyt furra…”. Then as the vips leave the black cats clerrrb you can see Callum rutting some of the lerrrcal stray Alsatian’s, a real special treat and really classy like. FTMs. 

[Monkeys Fist 46793]

I pity the poor fucker who’s job it was to jet wash all the skid marks off the seats before normal people used them.