Cockneys

[Chutney]

What a bizarre thread. It's like the circus came to town.

Isn't it normal to hear all sorts of accents wherever you are?

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

I saw some blokes up on the roof with dirty faces singing chim chimeney something or other.

 

[afcb_acklam]

I've been checking out Rightmove.... you've been warned

 

[fella]

What a bizarre thread. It's like the circus came to town.

Isn't it normal to hear all sorts of accents wherever you are?

I Adam and Eve so.

 

[Capybara]

What a bizarre thread. It's like the circus came to town.

Isn't it normal to hear all sorts of accents wherever you are?

I thought Brexit was supposed to stop this sort of thing. Or summat.

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

I thought Brexit was supposed to stop this sort of thing. Or summat.

Blinking cockneys, COMING OVA ERE!!!!

 

[Capybara]

 

[Chutney]

I thought Brexit was supposed to stop this sort of thing. Or summat.

Je suis cockney

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Perhaps they went to Teesside Uni and ended up sticking around, I know a handful of people who’ve done that in the last 10 years.

 

[Caesium137]

In Weatherspoons Billingham, one of them was talking in Cockney slang, bubble and squeak and other nonsense.

When is the funeral?

 

[Cardiffdaffs]

Brilliant

 

[spanishman]

Perhaps they went to Teesside Uni and ended up sticking around, I know a handful of people who’ve done that in the last 10 years.

Good that times are changing.

I was the opposite. Went to London for a university with a good "Computer Science" course in the late 70s. Had to stay there to work as there were not many IT jobs outside London at that time.

 

[spanishman]

Very good.

 

[Cardiffdaffs]

Good that times are changing.

I was the opposite. Went to London for a university with a good "Computer Science" course in the late 70s. Had to stay there to work as there was not many IT jobs outside London at that time.

Many Teessiders did including me - MSS blossomed as a result especially from the guys who worked in construction boom of the 1980s in the City.

 

[The Ruthsayer]

When is the funeral?

Is Teesside one of the last remaining areas where a non-local accent is unusual?

 

[spanishman]

Many Teessiders did including me - MSS blossomed as a result especially from the guys who worked in construction boom of the 1980s in the City.

They were probably building not far from me. Spent most of my time working a little north of Liverpool Street. Plus a few years in Docklands. Again surrounded by construction work.

 

[Kosovo]

I know of two different Londoners who now live on the river in Stockton. They've sold up in the Smoke and bought a houses mortgage free and a couple of rental properties and have bit of coin in the bank. Both work remotely for firms in London.
Apparently quite a few are doing it...

Got new neighbours in the summer a professional young couple who have moved from the south up here. It looks like they must work remotely from home as well.

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

It could be me. I'm practically a cockney now. Came up to teesside on the old Lynda Bellingham the other day after getting a pair of boat races at the whistle and spoon.
I have been having a bit of difficulty with the old Doris day on the back of old sheep face with a tin whistle and a bucket full of hats.
Having said that the drawbridge has been like a meat raffle the last few days and pat sharps fly's are undone me old peach.

 

[kuepper]

Happening all over the North, people selling up in South and usually buying 2 houses - a nice one for themselves and another to rent out

 

[NYboro]

Good that times are changing.

I was the opposite. Went to London for a university with a good "Computer Science" course in the late 70s. Had to stay there to work as there were not many IT jobs outside London at that time.

Teesside Poly had one of the best Comp. Sci. degree courses in the country back then. I should know; I have one. Mind you, I still ended up in London for work.