Doesn't count though, because she's a Geordie and they're all barmpots, cradle to grave.
wtf is a 'barmpot'? Sounds alcoholic if not promiscuous.
I've got a question - are all people from Northumburland Geordies? Or just those from Newcastle? Why "Geordie"?
This may help. Also spelled 'bampot'. You started it with the link to 'This is Newcastle' :)
Geordie.
So it's an objectionable person -- bampot. Never ever heard that one.
Bah. My grandma's 81 and she has:
Cracked two car windshields (with a metal ring, now confiscated)
Punched through a window (bare hands)
Kicked through our front door, requiring plywood reinforcements
Broken down another locked door, tearing off the lock mechanism along with a sizable chunk of door.
Stuck a garden hose through the mail slot and turned it on (ok, that's not a feat of strength, that's just evil)
...what was my point? Oh yeah, old people suck.
Exppil, your gran will be played by Vin Diesel in the upcoming summer blockbuster (or you could just have her arrested, poor dear.)
I had more the 'slightly nuts' meaning in mind peacay - I've yet to meet an overly objectionable Geordie.
Wow, and here I was impressed with my ex-husband's 97-year-old grandmother for going to aerobics class! The aerobics place used her as a model in their ads: "If she can, what's your excuse?".
>>Mary, of Spital Tongues, Newcastle
i swear, you brits have the bestest place names evah.
Spunky ancients piss me off. Dodder around properly, you simpleton!
Spital Tongues is a very nice place as well as having a quality name.
because she's a Geordie and they're all barmpots, cradle to grave.
say that again and I'll fookin' knack ya
Oh ...
That's an interesting origin for "Geordie" - sort of tied up with the economic and social change in the region, setting coal-mining Newcastle against the rest of traditional pastoral Northumberland (which was always close to Scotland, even when fighting it). (Totally over-essentialising here, but that's how I picture it.)
And now back to your regularly scheduled active older people. I hope I can do cool things like this when I'm old - certainly I'm too decrepit now to try :)
Cracked two car windshields (with a metal ring, now confiscated)
Punched through a window (bare hands)
Kicked through our front door, requiring plywood reinforcements
Broken down another locked door, tearing off the lock mechanism along with a sizable chunk of door.
Stuck a garden hose through the mail slot and turned it on (ok, that's not a feat of strength, that's just evil)
...what was my point? Oh yeah, old people suck.