 Poster: A snowHead
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Bloody Northerners! And as for the Welsh!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Good morning,
I have forwarded your email to our Marketing Director who will respond to you when he returns to the office tomorrow. Kind regards
xxxxxxxxxSales ManagerDirectski.com
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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IT may be relevant to point out that Yad Moss lies somewhere between Durham and Cumbria and Westmoorland and could be regarded as the Geordies back yard.
May be after all the Geordies don't need to have a skiing holiday each year if they can head for the Teesdale every weekend when there is snow. How much they can get out of it is another matter.
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saikee, Weardale ski club is even closer to Durham and was so popular last winter, it closed it's membership list.
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| Smokin Joe wrote: |
Good morning,
I have forwarded your email to our Marketing Director who will respond to you when he returns to the office tomorrow. Kind regards
xxxxxxxxxSales ManagerDirectski.com |
Still no response from the marketing director. Although I did ask when I could expect his xxxxx company to start flying from newcastle ?
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Those of us from the other side of the pond having trouble understanding who exactly a Geordie is...The guy who owned the apartment below us in Bourg St. Maurice was from Manchester...does that count?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Reminds me of the great gag from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (basically the same gag appears in both the Spanish and Middlesbrough/Arizona series)
"I always thought we were working class but now I've seen Newcastle (or smoggie-land), I realise we're middle class....." 
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
| MEfree30 wrote: |
| Those of us from the other side of the pond having trouble understanding who exactly a Geordie is...The guy who owned the apartment below us in Bourg St. Maurice was from Manchester...does that count? |
Absolutely not!
One of the many differences between the UK and the US is the many different regional accents. OK in the US you have differences between the standard American accent and the Southern one, but over here there are so many eg Cockney,Brummie, Scouse, West Country, Yorkshire, Geordie etc (and that's just England!). What's more you can move say just 50 miles and the accent is noticeably different.  |
It might not be noticeable to you guys because you all talk funny, but it is the same in CERTAIN PARTS of the US. I know you mentioned the south, but there are many different accents in the NE with Boston being very different than Long Island or other parts of New York. We may have had more people move around, so this has mellowed it in some areas, but rural Texas will probably speak differently than Georgia or other parts of the South.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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The accent is totally different less than 20 miles from us - beautiful Stoke on Trent
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Poster: A snowHead
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When I first moved south to Sunderland (about 15 miles?) outsiders may have mistaken me for a Makum, but the locals could tell. Mind you, the black and white scarf was probably a bit of a give away.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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JulesB, You could have been dressed in red and white all over with a black cat on your head and your accent would still have been a giveaway
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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JulesB, Definitely a difference there..
My southern friends used to refer to me as a Geordie..I guess it can sound similar to others from outside the region. I am a smoggie and proud. Lol
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I've never head of "smoggie"
edit quick google; got it
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It get's confusing when you're a Sand-dancer, and come somewhere in the middle. Not me BTW, I don't know what I am. Mackems think I'm a Geordie, and Geordies think I'm a Mackem, and I don't suppose I'm really either, being born in Consett.
Anyhoo support the TOON, so I guess that makes is a Geordie.
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Hells Bells, That made me look at the Sand Dancer's website - "As one of South Shields most scenic beach bars we offer a wide range of specially selected drinks to cater for every pallet"
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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I was promised a response to my email by Tuesday this week. It hasnt arrived.................he must have been sacked ! Anyway, I'm off to cash my giro................
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Is it in their T&C's that you must have branches on your family tree to book with them? That would rule out all of the North East, not just Geordies 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Bergmeister, definitely ! FTM
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Hells Bells, yep directski still havent replied !
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Lou, Oh we know our geography over here so the 'joke' is not lost on us.....but what they should've done is replaced "Geordies" with "Northsiders"....now THAT'D work.
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FAQ
Edit -- of course I assume you do claim to be a Northerner still?
