Standing there like a tin of milk

[shadowplay]

tacking a proper Dicky Radge

 

[Abu Dhabi Red and White]

Lasses say that I stand there like a tin of lovely cream.

Clot?

Only 'Stiff' and lasses never get bored.

Keep trying, you'll get to bore another hole eventually.

 

[matt228]

Like a few others on here, I didn’t find out that “getting wrong” was northeastern slang until I left the region for uni and got the blank faces.

I don’t think I ever heard a few of these terms before, like; they must not have got as far south as Shildon/Bishop. What the hell is a topper?

 

[Deleted member 14766]

Getting wrong. It's apparently bizarre to southerners.

Not just Southerners. I used it (with Mrs Kaplan) from Yorkshire and she was utterly perplexed. Unsurprisingly really

 

[Daydream Believer]

Any other mackem sayings you have used to people in other parts of the country and they crack up when they hear them ?

My mam used to say standing there like a tin of shaky milk & she was from Southampton with no links to Sunderland before she met my dad.

 

[DaveySAFC]

Had thee horses or gan canny - wait and slow Down.

 

[Big Duke Six]

It's like a bear garden in here.

 

[Charmless Man]

Cheb as an interchangeable term for a cock or boob.

 

[EDGE]

Learned this at school when the new lad from Essex asked what it meant and the teach had to explain it means absolutely nothing outside of an SR postcode.



The past tense of treat is treated. I’ve not said “tret” since I was about 12.

Thought you still were.

 

[Bishop Mackem]

Like a few others on here, I didn’t find out that “getting wrong” was northeastern slang until I left the region for uni and got the blank faces.

I don’t think I ever heard a few of these terms before, like; they must not have got as far south as Shildon/Bishop. What the hell is a topper?

Getting wrong is a thing all over the north east , every fucker says it in bishop man

Even people in darlo understand it

 

[citybythesea]

"That will fetal 'em"

Not sure if this is pitmatic talk but sounds it

 

[The Lambton Worm]

My German mate is absolutely besotted with the word claggy. I explained what it meant when he first heard me saying it and he now uses it at every opportunity. He also has a Mackem Dictionary so could be the first German with a townie accent.

 

[becs]

well go to the foot of our stairs!

Most amusing as my Grandma used to say it and they lived in a bungalow.

 

[Mantobar]

Got all me southern mates saying not boshed all the time

 

[007Iron]

My Dad used to threaten to fist (punch) me and my brother when we were acting up downstairs while he was asleep after night shift.

I have a mental image of him running into the garden wearing me and my brother like a pairs of mittens.

Proper lol'd at that.

 

[RestlessNatives]

Getting wrong. It's apparently bizarre to southerners.

Years ago I was helping to investigate a massive fraud at work and we were interviewing loads of staff who were suspected of involvement. One lass was clearly guilty and I was saying as much to my boss as she left the office, then she stuck her head around the door and said "I'm not going to get wrong, am I?"

Innocently discussing narkie bashing nearly resulted in a HR incident once.

 

[007Iron]

well go to the foot of our stairs!

Most amusing as my Grandma used to say it and they lived in a bungalow.

My dad used to say that all the time. Used to crack my kids up when he said it.

 

[dangermows]

This has turned from sayings/phrases that make my way sense to listing local words.

Monkeys blood and getting wrong are our two classics.

 

[Wearson]

Whenever with Newcastle natives I always get told I say "curry" differently , it amuses them, yet I cant hear it myself, not even the way they it , strange .

When young I was always pleased that Bryan Ferry had included "all of a sudden" and "ta ra" in his and Roxy songs .

 

[the boot]

Fish lot.