Khunanup
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Post by Khunanup on Dec 13, 2014 20:49:54 GMT
A Plazzie is indeed a plastic scouser. Traditionally it was people from Runcorn and Widnes pretending to be scouse,with the plastics being the main local inindustry- although that's probably an urban myth. And the Wirral..... Indeed, a designation I've been awarded more than once... Of course people like Mike (ie incomers) sometimes also get called that too. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 13, 2014 22:17:37 GMT
Indeed, a designation I've been awarded more than once... Of course people like Mike (ie incomers) sometimes also get called that too. The one-eyed city! |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Dec 13, 2014 22:40:16 GMT
Not heard that one before. Is it called that because its full of dickheads? |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 13, 2014 23:36:10 GMT
Indeed, a designation I've been awarded more than once... Of course people like Mike (ie incomers) sometimes also get called that too. The one-eyed city! Ah, but not the original one apparently(stand up Lechlade in Gloucestershire): www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/nov/08/features11.g2 |
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Khunanup
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Post by Khunanup on Dec 14, 2014 0:27:51 GMT
I'm not from Birkenhead anyway! |
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Post by Merseymike on Dec 14, 2014 0:39:02 GMT
Indeed, a designation I've been awarded more than once... Of course people like Mike (ie incomers) sometimes also get called that too. Thong is incomers like me rarely pick up the accent. I can do a Liverpool accent but I think you need to be born here to speak it. The good thing about this city is that its really welcoming - the criteria for being accepted is that you have to love the place and not slag it off but I have never wanted to. It's a great place to live. |
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 14, 2014 1:24:03 GMT
Surely the town with the most suggestively pornographic name in Britain? |
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john07
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Post by john07 on Dec 14, 2014 14:30:45 GMT
Indeed, a designation I've been awarded more than once... Of course people like Mike (ie incomers) sometimes also get called that too. The one-eyed city! There is certainly a one-eyed village near Edinburgh called Carlops (aka Cyclops). |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 14, 2014 14:32:38 GMT
Surely the town with the most suggestively pornographic name in Britain? That's Leatherhead. |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 14, 2014 14:57:15 GMT
Surely the town with the most suggestively pornographic name in Britain? That's Leatherhead. i suspect this might be a slippery slope (pop 250) but i do think Cockermouth must be in with a shout.... |
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 14, 2014 15:13:57 GMT
Surely the town with the most suggestively pornographic name in Britain? That's Leatherhead. Oh no! It doesn't touch the claims of Lech...........Laid and the sound it makes. |
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john07
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Post by john07 on Dec 14, 2014 17:23:48 GMT
i suspect this might be a slippery slope (pop 250) but i do think Cockermouth must be in with a shout.... Cockermouth 250 population? |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 14, 2014 17:34:16 GMT
no, no - slippery slope - imaginary place - (small population) - move onto real place... probably should have had a dash in the middle.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 14, 2014 21:24:33 GMT
Not heard that one before. Is it called that because its full of dickheads? Sadly not. Rumour has it that it's because the clock on the town hall was visible from Liverpool. Although others claim that Mickeys crossed the water to thieve and the more naive local coppers were regarded as "one eyed. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Dec 14, 2014 21:43:29 GMT
I thought we were talking about Liverpool.. I guess you're referring to Birkenhead
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 14, 2014 22:12:35 GMT
i thought this was interesting so I've been doing a bit of research in the newspaper archive. As the Guardian notes and queries from 2001 says the phrase is almost certainly a generic one originating in America (equivalent of one horse town) . The 2001 reply suggests it was used by inhabitants of a large city about a neighbouring smaller city or town, but i've found references by locals about their own town and then by non locals about all sorts of places. The earliest reference i can track down so far is from 1863 (thus pre dating the Guardian by eight years - another triumph for the forum over the media establishment) and concerns (drum roll) Dundee. The article regards it as a "cockney" expression. There aren't many other examples before the twentieth century but I've found it applied to Exeter, Falkirk, Dumbarton (in the same football report as the Falkirk reference) and post 1900 to Derby, Sunderland and Gloucester.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 14, 2014 22:38:48 GMT
I thought we were talking about Liverpool.. I guess you're referring to Birkenhead Yes,I'm on about Birkenhead.Must be some good ones for Liverpool. |
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Post by Andrew_S on Dec 16, 2014 3:02:24 GMT
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neilm
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Post by neilm on Dec 17, 2014 14:50:24 GMT
Exeter is a one eyed town for sure.
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Post by Merseymike on Dec 17, 2014 17:23:47 GMT
If those views are the ones he holds either he has changed his view considerably or was in the wrong party!
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