Standing there like a tin of milk

[Mr Vertigo]

Had a few looks of horror when asking for monkey's blood.

 

[MackemBob]

“We are all here, Like the folk of Shields” was a one I remember from being a bairn.

Assumed it was because the folk of shields were not all there.

 

[Churchlanelad]

I was told my bedroom looked like a Tagareen Shop when I was a kid but I still don't know what a Tagareen is

My mam used to use this term when I was a kid as well, I always thought that she had made it up, but I googled it and it means a rag shop. Her other favourite was “Do you want a few soup?” Hence my signature.

 

[mackembuddha]

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.

 

[PinzaC55]

My mam used to use this term when I was a kid as well, I always thought that she had made it up, but I googled it and it means a rag shop. Her other favourite was “Do you want a few soup?” Hence my signature.

My mam used to say she was "putting sandwiches up for my dads bait" but I always took it literally and expected her to put them on shelves.

 

[Hyltonian]

Asking for a fish lot anywhere but Sunderland causes puzzled looks, not to mention the batter situation

 

[mysticmackem]

Splart, as in:

All of a sudden,
A great big puddin came flying through the air
It hit Mrs Kelly a smack in the belly
and SPLARTED all her hair

 

[shadowplay]

I'll stick me arse in Binns' winda.

 

[happy feet]

Bullets - Sweets
Sandshoes - Insert appropriate term
Man - Applied to either sex
Skinch - Truce word in games
Spelk - Splinter of wood in flesh

Maybe a north east thing
Monkey's blood - strawberry sauce?

Had a few looks of horror when asking for monkey's blood.

Haha same

 

[alanturing]

“We are all here, Like the folk of Shields” was a one I remember from being a bairn.

Assumed it was because the folk of shields were not all there.

No, it dates back to several centuries ago when the Rich merchants of Newcastle wanted control of all the incoming ship trade on the Tyne. The people of both North and South Shields stuck together in solardarity and saw them off. Thus the saying aal tigether like the folks o Shields.

 

[muggboots]

Had a few looks of horror when asking for monkey's blood.

 

[Churchlanelad]

Maybe a north east thing
Monkey's blood - strawberry sauce?


Haha same

I doubt it very much if a strawberry was anywhere near it, but yes it was sauce put on your ice cream.

 

[hefty em]

Haddaway and shite man.

 

[Deleted User 11453]

I was told my bedroom looked like a Tagareen Shop when I was a kid but I still don't know what a Tagareen is

A Sexy dragon queen from GoT

 

[shadowplay]

Saying 'ket' for sweets confuses a few as well.

 

[happy feet]

I doubt it very much if a strawberry was anywhere near it, but yes it was sauce put on your ice cream.

Don't blame me for someone calling it strawberry, I'm not Gordon Ramsay.

 

[LondonMackem]

Getting wrong. It's apparently bizarre to southerners.

 

[Snaggletooth]

Polis

 

[Deleted User 11453]

Is it a northern thing to come home from work into a house where all of the room lights are on and you bellow out “What’s this? Blackpool f@£(£ing illuminations?”?

We were brought up to switch a light off when we left a room.

Also ‘scotch mist’.

 

[happy feet]

Another has to be, mam