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11 minutes ago, number37 said:

County Durham is weird though. I once had to drive through Thornley and I was getting flashbacks to my time in Pripyat. 

 

[emoji38][emoji38][emoji38] I'm not from here but I live in Thornley. It's not that bad. Certainly not as bad as Wheatley Hill or god forbid.... Shotton Colliery. That place makes the ridges look like Beverly Hills.

 

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3 minutes ago, pedro111 said:

 

[emoji38][emoji38][emoji38] I'm not from here but I live in Thornley. It's not that bad. Certainly not as bad as Wheatley Hill or god forbid.... Shotton Colliery. That place makes the ridges look like Beverly Hills.

 

Yeah, perhaps I'm a wee bit strong in my comparison - I am from Ashington, after all! I think it's the expanse of the county where there's miles and miles of fields and hills and then all of a sudden a town/village that maybe doesn't quite fit the scenery. 

 

Again, I'm from south east Northumberland so we're all acutely aware of why our particular towns have maybe seen better days. I just like poking fun at our southern cousins, we're all cut from the same cloth and I wouldn't have it any other way. You can keep Sunderland though ;)

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7 minutes ago, number37 said:

Yeah, perhaps I'm a wee bit strong in my comparison - I am from Ashington, after all! I think it's the expanse of the county where there's miles and miles of fields and hills and then all of a sudden a town/village that maybe doesn't quite fit the scenery. 

 

Again, I'm from south east Northumberland so we're all acutely aware of why our particular towns have maybe seen better days. I just like poking fun at our southern cousins, we're all cut from the same cloth and I wouldn't have it any other way. You can keep Sunderland though ;)

 

I was born in North Shields and grew up in Monkseaton/Whitley Bay. The bloke who ran the Newsagents where I did my paper round was from Ashington. We used to piss ourselves laughing at him whenever he spoke. Class days. The northeast man, what a mint place it is really.

 

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Just now, pedro111 said:

 

I was born in North Shields and grew up in Monkseaton/Whitley Bay. The bloke who ran the Newsagents where I did my paper round was from Ashington. We used to piss ourselves laughing at him whenever he spoke. Class days. The northeast man, what a mint place it is really.

 

Couldn't agree more! We're canny, like. 

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5 minutes ago, pedro111 said:

 

I was born in North Shields and grew up in Monkseaton/Whitley Bay. The bloke who ran the Newsagents where I did my paper round was from Ashington. We used to piss ourselves laughing at him whenever he spoke. Class days. The northeast man, what a mint place it is really.

 

Actually, it wasn't Cecil Irwin was it who ran the newsagents? I'm sure he had one back in Ashington on Woodhorn Road and my Grandad always said he had more. 

 

See, culture like this is why Bruno has signed. 

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9 minutes ago, number37 said:

Actually, it wasn't Cecil Irwin was it who ran the newsagents? I'm sure he had one back in Ashington on Woodhorn Road and my Grandad always said he had more. 

 

See, culture like this is why Bruno has signed. 

 

I'm racking my brains but cannot remember his name but I'm sure it wasn't Cecil. He had curly hair iirc. Can still remember my confusion one time when he asked me if I was "working tomorrow?" I was thinking why's he asking me if I'm walking for? He knaas I always ride me bike!  He was a canny bloke though. He chipped me PS1 and sold us games for the price of a blank cd.

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2 hours ago, pedro111 said:

 

[emoji38][emoji38][emoji38] I'm not from here but I live in Thornley. It's not that bad. Certainly not as bad as Wheatley Hill or god forbid.... Shotton Colliery. That place makes the ridges look like Beverly Hills.

 

 

Shotton Colliery doesnt look too bad on googlemaps - in fact it appears to have a disproportionate number of bungalows.

 

Never been there like but the ridges/meadowell is no where near as bad as it used to be but still looks rougher.

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8 hours ago, BlueStar said:

 

Someone should look into his history to see if he’s a serial animal abuser, those that abuse animals tend to be psychopaths and most serial killers loved to torture and abuse animals. 

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