[supernoodles!]

Don`t know if theres many around... I know theres Josh and Lauren although shes not been around for a while,am I right?But I`m sure there must be others out there.I just found this on a facebook group and I think its quite funny lol
You Know You're From the Northeast When...

1) You're not taking the piss when you say "Why Aye Man!"

2) You're cousin had a friend whos sister's friend's cousin was in Byker Grove

3) The Metro is a train AND where you buy things

4) You've heard of DJ Shrek

5) People ask you to "do the big brother voice"

6) You pray to Shearer, Gazza, Keano etc

7) You've heard of/been to the New Monkey

8) You say 'kets' and don't mean drugs

9) You can pronounce "bairn" - southerners have a right problem with this!

10) You end your sentences with "man" or "like"

11) For a night out you arm youself with tabs, bella, and out of date durex

12) You've partied at Vogue, and loved it

13) Cheryl Cole is your idol (lasses)

14) Bobby Robson is your idol (lads)

15) You've been to Durham Cathedral on a school trip

16) Greggs is everywhere..

17) You don't bother wearing a jacket to go clubbing, even when its snowing (coz we're hardd man!)

18) You know of Jimmy Jesus, Dave the Rave, The Durham Big Issue Woman, The dogs who wear the sunderland strips, the Durham Yellow Car

19) You find the Millenium Bridge romantic on a night

20) You know what Fenwicks is

21) You went to somewhere in the Lakes for a school weekend away

22) You know all the meanings of "canny"

23) Auf Wiedesen Pet makes sense

24) You're actually proud of a rusty structure slightly resembling a scarecrow. On a hill. On the A1.

25) "Mint" doesn't mean like a trebor

26) You were scared of the Lambton Worm as a child

27) You think the "Loveshack" bouncers are twats

28) You clap at the Great North Runners

29) Stotties!!

30) You drink stella, and you're a girl

31) You drink pints through a straw (girls)

32) You go the beach and the fair just beacause its summer, even though its raining

33) You go to the Air Show at Seaburn every year

34) You say "Charver" or "Charv" not fkn"chav"

35) You have at least one friend whos a young mum

36) Clubbing in Shields is classy

37) You've snogged someone in Wet and Wild jacuzzis

38) You're still amazed by the Sea Life Centre

39) You or your mam has partied on the Tuxedo Princess

40) After asking a few southeners what their 1st impressions of the northeast is we got: fighting, women fighting on the street, brown ale, black teeth and stanley knives??

41) You order gravy with your chips and no-one thinks its a bit wierd

42) You buy tea from men in black cars, and again dont find it wierd

43) Banter means you can totally slag someone off but no-ones allowed to get upset

44) You laugh at anyone other than your nana ordering a shandy

45) "HAREEET!" is perfectly normal

46) You can tell the difference between a mackem and a geordie, but to the rest of the country you're a geordie or scottish

[~Kizwiz~]

LOL.... I can identify with lots of those as half of my family come from the North East

[Corkie]

34) You say "Charver" or "Charv" not fkn"chav"



Lol I knew some but others were quite old I think. Lol.

[supernoodles!]

yeh some are quite old number 15 is funny though lol so true

[Wildcat!]

So you talk with a Geordie accent then! Wow, I would have never guessed! So you sound a bit like Michelle Eaton, or Jennifer Clark!

Also, why do you guys talk in the 3rd person a lot. That really bugs me!LOL!

[M X]

I'm from Newcastle - but half those things are like really awful and over exaggerated -

You're cousin had a friend whos sister's friend's cousin was in Byker Grove

^Nope. But my friends grandma's dog was in Byker Grove.

Yes, I say Charver. Lol.

Bobby Robson isn't my idol. I met him and he completley ignored me.

Most of those things are right but the things about 'tabs' and 'young mums' LMAO. Most people are but not all.

Yep - the Metro is a train and a place where you go to go shopping.

kett- god! i haven't heard that in a long, long time! it means sweets.

but -

i don't pray lmao.

I know what you're talking about with all of them though LOL.

[JOSHUAH!]

HAHA.
Yes! No one else on here, especially the londoners like Xtina, Conor, Loukas, don't have a clue what 'Canny' means. I use it all the time!

But I don't know anyone in Byker Grove

[30stone]

I seriously love the Geordie accent lol.

[supernoodles!]

Originally posted by Aint_mad_atcha
So you talk with a Geordie accent then! Wow, I would have never guessed! So you sound a bit like Michelle Eaton, or Jennifer Clark!

Also, why do you guys talk in the 3rd person a lot. That really bugs me!LOL!

lol well aparantly I dont have much of an accent according to samuel but w/e!
To me Michelle has a broader geordie accent than Jennifer,personally I think I sound like a slightly toned down version of Jen

[xERFx]

I dont recogsise all the points but some of them especially:

3) The Metro is a train AND where you buy things

[Sunny_01]

Ha Ha I am from OOOOP North as well, and have to confess to giggling away to most of them.

The rusty scuplture thing made me chuckle, when it was first put up I HATED the angel, and now I am actually quite fond of it lol.

Cheryl Cole - not my idol, she is what I would call a "charver" lol, her family are a right bunch of skanks lol

[Wildcat!]

Originally posted by supernoodles!

lol well aparantly I dont have much of an accent according to samuel but w/e!
To me Michelle has a broader geordie accent than Jennifer,personally I think I sound like a slightly toned down version of Jen

I want to hear it now! You should post an audio message or something Cmon. I did it here once.

[M X]

Originally posted by xERFx
I dont recogsise all the points but some of them especially:

3) The Metro is a train AND where you buy things

Well over here -

The Metro is a train and also a place were you buy things.

[Mark]

Originally posted by supernoodles!

42) You buy tea from men in black cars, and again dont find it wierd

What?

[Annie]

i got a lot of these which is weird for me... normally i am never on the ball

[xERFx]

Originally posted by TheMichaelO

Well over here -

The Metro is a train and also a place were you buy things.

no lol i meant that one i know the most, metro centre rocks

[Z]

I identified with a few of those things, and I'm from the other north east (you know, the Scottish one, the "real" one )

[supernoodles!]

'real one' pffffttt

[Sunny_01]

The tea from men in black cars has to be the ringtons tea man lol who if my memory serves me well also sells tunnocks tea cakes.

[James]

Do you get Scotland's Sunday Post newspaper in the North-East? Because they used to have reports on Sunderland, Newcastle etc football matches in it.