You've got to love Geordie lassies

[longers]

Wouldn't some of the people who take these photos be better off helping the people instead?

Graham - nice jumper!

I did read this while looking for gansey and thought it very interesting, if morbid.

Every Gansey tells its own story. This was originally for a very practical, if morbid, reason. As each village fishing community could be identified by the design on its Gansey, if the body of a fisherman was found it could then be returned to his home for burial.

 

[graham56]

Wouldn't some of the people who take these photos be better off helping the people instead?

Graham - nice jumper!

I did read this while looking for gansey and thought it very interesting, if morbid.

Circa 1970 , exactly how long have you been stalking me Longers?

 

[longers]

Circa 1970 , exactly how long have you been stalking me Longers?

Since before I was born apparently

 

[Mark_J]

"Excuse me love, would you mind if I used your inner thighs as a pair of ear warmers"?

I have not yet been brave enough to come out with that one.

 

[Greedo]

Apparently the Sun website have a banner up asking to call if you know who she is

I'm sure she'll end up getting a few grand selling her story or more if she gets her baps out for them.

Goes out New years eve, gets hammered, plastered all over the Sun and Daily mail the next day, then gets her 15 mins of fame and a wee boost to her bank account. Fair play if she does. We've all been pissed before I'm sure

 

[postman]

Can i say we all did something like that when younger .I remember missing the coach back from Blackpool.Cost us £60 by taxi .And i numpty that i was paid it .

The others so pissed didn't pay me they forgot the incident happened .
Oh the joys of youff.

 

[zacklaws]

Unless Newcastle has been moved and is now that far North that the sun never sets for 6 months, I cannot understand why all the captions refer to a "heavy night", when it is broad daylight in all the pictures.

And as its in today's "Sun", which would have been published before the Sun even rose, the pictures must have been took sometime before the Sun set on New Years eve.

 

[Greedo]

Unless Newcastle has been moved and is now that far North that the sun never sets for 6 months, I cannot understand why all the captions refer to a "heavy night", when it is broad daylight in all the pictures.

And as its in today's "Sun", which would have been published before the Sun even rose, the pictures must have been took sometime before the Sun set on New Years eve.

It was on the Sun and Daily Mails websites, not in the actual papers as far as i know and the streetlights in town centres and professional photographers flashes and the snow all make it look like daylight i would imagine. I have photos taken in similar circumstances and always get confused as I know they were taken at night but look as if it's daytime

 

[Globalti]

I think I probably saved a bloke's life in Gosforth, when I lived there. I was coming home from a friend's house well after midnight and it was well below freezing; there was a heavy white frost on everything. I came a cross a bloke in just jeans and a T shirt sprawled awkwardly half off the pavement in Station Road. From his posture I thought he'd been hit by a car. I stopped, tried to wake him and couldn't so I put a rug over him and walked to a nearby 'phone box and called 999. Within a couple of minutes three panda cars arrived (Hillman Imps at that time!) and the coppers just grabbed the bloke and shook him hard. He opened his eyes and looked dazed so they just threw him in a car, thanked me and drove off, fast.

Anybody who drinks that much, falls over and lies around unconscious in the cold is heading for hypothermia. The girl in the pictures above looks like she has passed out on the way home the next morning (it's obviously daylight) and needs medical attention fast.

Alcohol is a vaso-dilator; it causes dilation of the blood vessels. When you're cold the blood supply to the body surface shuts down to conserve warmth in the body core where the vital organs are. Drink alcohol and you'll open up the vessels and flood the body core with cold blood, which kills instantly. That's the way I'm going to do it when I get the Alhzeimer's or cancer diagnosis. Up a mountain in winter, undress, sit around a bit then neck a bottle of Scotch.

 

[brokenbetty]

So, do they have to get pissed first just to go out?

Oh yes vodka shots or a bottle of wine or two with your mates while you get ready. Alcopops for the kids (or whatever they drink these days - we used to drink Blastaways )

Thing is you get a taxi or a lift out and never walk too far between bars, so you never really get cold. The worst part is the taxi queue at the end of the night - the wait can be 45 minutes +. If you haven't pulled yet, best to chat up someone in the queue to keep you warm

Hee hee, I'm quite nostalgic now

 

[Wolf04]

Oh yes vodka shots or a bottle of wine or two with your mates while you get ready. Alcopops for the kids (or whatever they drink these days - we used to drink Blastaways )

Thing is you get a taxi or a lift out and never walk too far between bars, so you never really get cold. The worst part is the taxi queue at the end of the night - the wait can be 45 minutes +. If you haven't pulled yet, best to chat up someone in the queue to keep you warm

Hee hee, I'm quite nostalgic now

Spent many a happy 45 minutes in Newcastle taxi ranks.

 

[Browser]

Haadaway & Shite, bonnie laad, theor's nowt y'can teech this Geordie lass aboot the Toon, or Geordie lasses... An this Geordie Lass kan tell ye, bonnie laad, that theors laads & lasses like that in ivvorie toon in the land, not just in God's Own Country.

Terrbily sorry my dear, but would one mind translating that into standard queens english for those of us who are no au fait with the dialect of, ahem, Tyneside(shudder)?

Ya divvent need ta fret pet, ah myte be a nat'yuralised Fen-dwellah, but me mam's from Walker an' ah wuz bawn in Ryton, so ah can follah yer convahsaysheun (at a distance anyway!).
The only thing that jerks my chain about the subjects of these photos is that, should they end up in hospital, they'll be abusive and often violent to the staff trying to help them not die of exposure, and then they'll swear blind it wasn't their fault, they were only having fun, someone must've spiked their drink, blah blah blah etc etc etc! Fine them for wasting medics time, or stop their benefits for a week if they're on them, see how they like that.

 

[trustysteed]

chav women binge drinkers. don't you just love 'em?

 

[Kirstie]

Howay man hinnie man pet man
I love a bit of geordie, me

 

[Hilldodger]

And in proper (Lestah) English that is?