Sunderland ...
For the sake of a Fuck. WHY!

I have lived in many places in England and Scotland, but Sunderland was the most useless, depressing sinkhole of a slagheap.

I ought to have been tipped off during my first trip to a hairdressers there. A gargantuan elephant-hybrid thundered in and demanded to know what we kin-cunts had done with the perfectly good tattoo parlour that used to be there.

I never understood the idea of entirely different, although physically identical, ethnicities with their own dialect, football team and (supposedly) affectionate collective noun.

Mackems vs Geordies. You live 20 miles from each other! Drop the hate!
(Que?, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 4:14, 4 replies)

On the upside
Leatherface, arguably the greatest punk band Britain has ever produced, come from Sunderland.
( uncle bastard is twanging a dan moi, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 8:41, closed)

even closer
It's worse than you say.. Newcastle - Sunderland is just over 10 miles. I'm from shitty Billingham, and when at school, a kid joined as he had moved from Hartlepool. it was like he was from Mars. Different accent entirely, different dialect actually as loads of words we didn't know.
I'ts 4 miles away FFS..I though it odd when I moved to the London at 18 and realised that from Watford to Bournemouth everyone speaks pretty much the same.
(skyfriend packaged in a protective atmosphere, for freshness, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 11:33, closed)

Well you knowwhat they say about satellite towns...
... Alas Middlesbrough is a satellite of Sunderland.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 12:12, closed)

lived there for 7 years...
and got an education as to why some folks see taking heroin is a good life choice..
(artesia if a badger crawled out my arse, i'd call it jesus, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 18:13, closed)