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To hoy a few rivets in? Aye Righto 👍
You’re showing your ignorance there, there is a bit more to a ship than rivets. When I started as an apprentice with the NCB IN 1962 many pits were still dependent on animal power. Not sure how Wearmouth was at that time I was at Westoe, both to become super pits. If I learned one thing, it was to lie in a pool of water flogging a hammer and chisel cutting the king pin on an Eimco shovel. Cramped, dangerous and I learned nothing good. Still have the fingers to remember it by, f*cking glad to get out at the earliest opportunity. There was more to it drilling holes for blacksmiths for one.
 
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To hoy a few rivets in? Aye Righto 👍
It also couldn’t have been hard to cut a bit of metal in two by following a line of chalk.
47 years ago
Blaydon,on the banks of the Tyne, used to be in Co Durham.Should the residents have supported us then,and should they still be supporting us,due to old county boundaries and the Wear running through Co Durham?
 
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You’re showing your ignorance there, there is a bit more to a ship than rivets. When I started as an apprentice with the NCB IN 1962 many pits were still dependent on animal power. Not sure how Wearmouth was at that time I was at Westoe, both to become super pits. If I learned one thing, it was to lie in a pool of water flogging a hammer and chisel cutting the king pin on an Eimco shovel. Cramped, dangerous and I learned nothing good. Still have the fingers to remember it by, f*cking glad to get out at the earliest opportunity. There was more to it drilling holes for blacksmiths for one.
It was obviously tounge in cheek to Boris the bellend tbf mate. To say miners weren’t skilled is a huge insult, I just bit, that’s all.
 
It was obviously tounge in cheek to Boris the bellend tbf mate. To say miners weren’t skilled is a huge insult, I just bit, that’s all.
I know, Miners needed good skills to survive, it was hard work and many ai knew lived long and active lives, most were the salt of the earth. I never thought about going down the it, the year I left school was the bulge year 1962, plenty of jobs too many kids. Started apprenticeship ar £5:12:6d the other chance was 30 bob, so I chose that, wasn’t for me. My tongue in cheek sounds a bit more serious than yours but that’s what it was. lying in water between the tracks scarred mre for life, three and a half days with a hammer and chisel, I never misssed the chisel again. Bent fingers are handy for playing the keyboard.
It was obviously tounge in cheek to Boris the bellend tbf mate. To say miners weren’t skilled is a huge insult, I just bit, that’s all.
Mind how they stuck eotking on a dick bottom in winter is beyond me. Truth is they eere all shit jobs.
 
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Relevant point but Sunderland is about the sea and ships, beaches etc. Durham lot will just have to buy into that surely.
I’m born and bread in the heartland of the Durham Coalfield in 1950. Sunderland was our town, people got dressed up to go on a Saturday. We are proud of our maritime history, our beautiful beaches and our history going back to the Venerable Bede.
The hundreds of pit villages sent coachloads to Roker Park to watch their beloved Sunderland AFC. They made up the vast numbers along with fans from South Tyneside when we regularly got 50-60k in the 1960’s. It’s a pity that more town people of Sunderland did not attend home games, my hope is this regime build a successful team and we can help fill the stadium, with these fans.
I eat and breathe Sunderland and have always enjoyed having the interest of learning about our history, both SAFC and Sunderland, the city as well as Co Durham. I’ve been a season card holder for many years.
I’ve been exiled for 30 years with work in Yorkshire but always extol all things Sunderland and Co Durham to whoever will listen. Many, many say ‘ I didn’t realise Sunderland was on the coast’ ???
We need to make more of our town.
 
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I’m born and bread in the heartland of the Durham Coalfield in 1950. Sunderland was our town, people got dressed up to go on a Saturday. We are proud of our maritime history, our beautiful beaches and our history going back to the Venerable Bede.
The hundreds of pit villages sent coachloads to Roker Park to watch their beloved Sunderland AFC. They made up the vast numbers along with fans from South Tyneside when we regularly got 50-60k in the 1960’s. It’s a pity that more town people of Sunderland did not attend home games, my hope is this regime build a successful team and we can help fill the stadium, with these fans.
I eat and breathe Sunderland and have always enjoyed having the interest of learning about our history, both SAFC and Sunderland, the city as well as Co Durham. I’ve been a season card holder for many years.
I’ve been exiled for 30 years with work in Yorkshire but always extol all things Sunderland and Co Durham to whoever will listen. Many, many say ‘ I didn’t realise Sunderland was on the coast’ ???
We need to make more of our town.
Rose tinted myopic glasses
 
I would change your name to Boris Skunk, another black and white creature.
I'm from Roker marra...a proper Mackem. Lived less than 100 yards from the roker end and had/have a pretty good grasp on where the majority of our support was from (because I saw/see it every other week with my own eyes)...i.e. Sunderland. I don't know why pit yackers have this problem with identity (you don't see it on Tyneside with Newcastle) but SAFC is definitely Sunderland's team. it also serves the surrounding towns, villages and conurbations (it's their team too) but it's just laughable to see non-mackems suggest or try and dilute the fact that it's Sunderland. I don't understand the sentiment or what it is that some of our support has against mackems or Sunderland the city...not sure why it threatens some of them. I'm certainly not tarring everyone with the same brush but it's weird how we have these comments every so often. The OP was being a bit daft but why wouldn't SAFC symbology reflect what Sunderland is most famous for?? Go support Durham if you want a Durham team that better reflects your identity.
 
I'm from Roker marra...a proper Mackem. Lived less than 100 yards from the roker end and had/have a pretty good grasp on where the majority of our support was from (because I saw/see it every other week with my own eyes)...i.e. Sunderland. I don't know why pit yackers have this problem with identity (you don't see it on Tyneside with Newcastle) but SAFC is definitely Sunderland's team. it also serves the surrounding towns, villages and conurbations (it's their team too) but it's just laughable to see non-mackems suggest or try and dilute the fact that it's Sunderland. I don't understand the sentiment or what it is that some of our support has against mackems or Sunderland the city...not sure why it threatens some of them. I'm certainly not tarring everyone with the same brush but it's weird how we have these comments every so often. The OP was being a bit daft but why wouldn't SAFC symbology reflect what Sunderland is most famous for?? Go support Durham if you want a Durham team that better reflects your identity.
Hit a raw nerve eh!
The term Mackem is a derogatory term used by
Newcastle taking the piss out of our accent . They say Mek and tek like the Yorkshire dialect. We say mak and tak, like Scotland.
In 1970’s there was no such term as Mackem and we were all Geordies. Fact.
I’ve never used the term Mackem and would
never let anybody call me that. Those who use it of red and white persuasion don’t realise they are pandering to the piss take of our dialect. In the 1960 ‘s the Mags hated that we wrote FTM on any surface, walls, haversacks and back door of lorries.in the 1970’s Sunderland took a census of fans entering Roker Park versus West Ham Utd to determine where the bulk of the crowd came from , at that match. They published the outcome that the highest numbers came from South Tyneside, Co Durham and the town itself in that order.
 
Hit a raw nerve eh!
The term Mackem is a derogatory term used by
Newcastle taking the piss out of our accent . They say Mek and tek like the Yorkshire dialect. We say mak and tak, like Scotland.
In 1970’s there was no such term as Mackem and we were all Geordies. Fact.
I’ve never used the term Mackem and would
never let anybody call me that. Those who use it of red and white persuasion don’t realise they are pandering to the piss take of our dialect. In the 1960 ‘s the Mags hated that we wrote FTM on any surface, walls, haversacks and back door of lorries.in the 1970’s Sunderland took a census of fans entering Roker Park versus West Ham Utd to determine where the bulk of the crowd came from , at that match. They published the outcome that the highest numbers came from South Tyneside, Co Durham and the town itself in that order.
The term Mackem is not a derogatory term...it's sounds like you're a pit yacker and so you wouldn't be the expert here.

Again it's a tired old discussion from people who struggle with the identity of Sunderland if they're not from Sunderland.

Census :lol:
 
I'm from Roker marra...a proper Mackem. Lived less than 100 yards from the roker end and had/have a pretty good grasp on where the majority of our support was from (because I saw/see it every other week with my own eyes)...i.e. Sunderland. I don't know why pit yackers have this problem with identity (you don't see it on Tyneside with Newcastle) but SAFC is definitely Sunderland's team. it also serves the surrounding towns, villages and conurbations (it's their team too) but it's just laughable to see non-mackems suggest or try and dilute the fact that it's Sunderland. I don't understand the sentiment or what it is that some of our support has against mackems or Sunderland the city...not sure why it threatens some of them. I'm certainly not tarring everyone with the same brush but it's weird how we have these comments every so often. The OP was being a bit daft but why wouldn't SAFC symbology reflect what Sunderland is most famous for?? Go support Durham if you want a Durham team that better reflects your identity.
To be honest mate, Im born and bred roker and have had a season ticket for 30 years (im mid 40s now). I moved to Hebburn 18 years ago and I can honestly say I find the area I live now much more of a hot bed of sunderland support than I ever did in Roker. Every other person 20 years ago and up to today from roker and fulwell 'im not going to watch that shite'.....is all you hear. I would say the estate I live on is about 60% sunderland and they are as loyal as the day is long, many of them home and away every week.
 
To be honest mate, Im born and bred roker and have had a season ticket for 30 years (im mid 40s now). I moved to Hebburn 18 years ago and I can honestly say I find the area I live now much more of a hot bed of sunderland support than I ever did in Roker. Every other person 20 years ago and up to today from roker and fulwell 'im not going to watch that shite'.....is all you hear. I would say the estate I live on is about 60% sunderland and they are as loyal as the day is long, many of them home and away every week.
Way more mags in hebburn
This is bollocks, people need to stop stating it as fact. From the age of 4 (in 1979) I was instructed by my Grandfather "never let anyone call you a geordie Son. You're a Mackem and make sure you tell them that"
Absolutely this.

A mod on here who has lived everywhere apart from Sunderland insists people from Sunderland were not mackems in his day. That tells you all you need to know
 
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The term Mackem is not a derogatory term...it's sounds like you're a pit yacker and so you wouldn't be the expert here.

Again it's a tired old discussion from people who struggle with the identity of Sunderland if they're not from Sunderland.

Census :lol:
You’re a new age fan Marra, who probably doesn’t know the real meaning of the term Marra.
Why the funny face on census. Everybody going through the turnstile was asked.
I was married in 1979 Alan Durban era, Fulwell End used to reverberate with ‘ We’re Geordies, we’re Geordies ‘ etc and ‘Geordie Aggro’. Never ever heard a song with Mackem in it because it didn’t exist. FTM
To be honest mate, Im born and bred roker and have had a season ticket for 30 years (im mid 40s now). I moved to Hebburn 18 years ago and I can honestly say I find the area I live now much more of a hot bed of sunderland support than I ever did in Roker. Every other person 20 years ago and up to today from roker and fulwell 'im not going to watch that shite'.....is all you hear. I would say the estate I live on is about 60% sunderland and they are as loyal as the day is long, many of them home and away every week.
Spot on. I travel 160 miles to the match and constantly hear locals in the local bars saying that they wouldn’t go and watch that shite. They never came to see me when I was bad. I can’t understand that attitude or lack of loyalty. If all these went to the games our attendances would be up but the stadium would have more negative bastards in it. Stay away.
 
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The term Mackem is not a derogatory term...it's sounds like you're a pit yacker and so you wouldn't be the expert here.

Again it's a tired old discussion from people who struggle with the identity of Sunderland if they're not from Sunderland.

Census :lol:

If you believe that you are a fool, please tell me the first time you heard the term makem? Before that it was mak n taks, geordies taking the piss out of the Sunderland accent. I am a Durham lad, when I was born Sunderland was in County Durham, I am what you describe as a 'pit yacker'. You are insulting a large percentage of supporters who attend SAFC matches and at the same time accepting a geordie insult and wearing it as a badge of honour. What a wanker you are!

FTM.
 
This is bollocks, people need to stop stating it as fact. From the age of 4 (in 1979) I was instructed by my Grandfather "never let anyone call you a geordie Son. You're a Mackem and make sure you tell them that"
You haven’t got a clue. If you’d been born and gone matches in 60’s and 70’s it was all ‘Geordie aggro’. I travelled with John Tennick and the official supporters club from his Dundas Street shop, all the buses lined up on a Friday night for a 12 o clock start. Near where Jackson’s is now.
 
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