Yorkshire Ripper : Left for dead

[Big Duke Six]

Interesting programme now on Ch 5, but why do they keep referring to "Wearside jack" as a Geordie?

 

[Deleted member 27897]

Interesting programme now on Ch 5, but why do they keep referring to "Wearside jack" as a Geordie?

This kind of thing always pisses me off, but in this case just let them.

Would you really want him to be described as a mackem and proudly claimed as one of our own?

 

[Wise Man Says]

Wouldn’t Geordie have been the common used term back then? When did Mackem come into usage?

 

[Hair Flick]

Wouldn’t Geordie have been the common used term back then? When did Mackem come into usage?

Aye. All the time I was at uni I was called a Geordie. You just went with the flow back then but corrected them by saying you weren’t from Newcastle.

 

[Big Duke Six]

Wouldn’t Geordie have been the common used term back then? When did Mackem come into usage?

The interviews were conducted recently, not back in the late 70's.

 

[Cheesy Feet]

Wouldn’t Geordie have been the common used term back then? When did Mackem come into usage?

This is more or less it like..Mackem has been around for a while but back then I can't personally remember it being used.

 

[king of the road]

Wouldn’t Geordie have been the common used term back then? When did Mackem come into usage?

I first heard it early 80s

 

[Big Duke Six]

Ive met Richard McCann, his mother was a victim. He was 5 Years old.
Google him, interesting guy.

 

[Butcher's Coat]

I first heard it in the late 70's.
I was seeing a lass from the Fellgate estate in Jarrow - and she said then that her dad didn't like Mackems as he supported the Mags.

Wouldn’t Geordie have been the common used term back then? When did Mackem come into usage?

 

[bernardbresslaw]

My dads got a Geordie accent but was arrested and questioned. He was working in South Wales and his landlady turned him in, he had been staying there for weeks.
He got off with it mind.

 

[TopCat]

Interesting programme now on Ch 5, but why do they keep referring to "Wearside jack" as a Geordie?

Because the Ginger Piss Biscuit signed for "tha toon" on a free

 

[Dodgy]

Interesting programme now on Ch 5, but why do they keep referring to "Wearside jack" as a Geordie?

Because at the time we all sang, on the terraces, "We all agree, Jack the Ripper's a Geordie."

In those days, irrespective of what people now claim to the contrary, we sang about being Geordies every week.

 

[Big Duke Six]

Because at the time we all sang, on the terraces, "We all agree, Jack the Ripper's a Geordie."

In those days, irrespective of what people now claim to the contrary, we sang about being Geordies every week.

I get that, but read my earlier post.

 

[Dodgy]

I get that, but read my earlier post.

I served my time with apprentices from Sunderland Shipbuilders and Pickies in the early 80's.

Mackem was still a derogatory term then and they hated it.

I'm a Sandy, incidentally.

 

[cosmicchris00]

Wouldn’t Geordie have been the common used term back then? When did Mackem come into usage?

I first heard the term in 1980 but it didn't come into common usage among pals of mine until the mid 80s.

By 1990 it was a huge compliment to be referred to as a makem - principally due to play off semi etc.

By the time Berb named his horse it was all over.

 

[mickb2112]

Aye. All the time I was at uni I was called a Geordie. You just went with the flow back then but corrected them by saying you weren’t from Newcastle.

Me too, all the time. Got the When The Boat Comes In song sung a few times too. Didn`t bother me. Just a bit of banter and usually replied with a Cockney, Scouser or Brummie reference depending on which they were closest too and if I didn`t know, I`d just call them a Cockney anyway..