I have only ever met 2 mackems
one is me best mate, the other I met in a pub, got into a fight after being called a 'mackem' and got arrested.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 0:06, archived)

Wait, why were they upset about being called a mackem

( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 0:12, archived)

they were a mackem.
I dunno what else to say. That and they had no neck.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 0:15, archived)

Fuck, I don't really care for the regional bigotry that goes on round here.
We're all Geordies and that's that.
( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 0:22, archived)

He was in Bristol
maybe he felt all fish out of watery?
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 0:23, archived)

Yeah, probably, the daft shite.

( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 0:31, archived)