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I remember ket being used as a word for sweets. this was long before the popularity of horse tranquilliser.

I like the term pitmatic. never worked down the mines meself although I drank with loads of lads who worked at marley hill colliery just outside of sunniside. me old man worked down the pit but not for long, he fucking hated it, found it quite frightening, his dad worked down the mines all his working life, I never met him, he died before I was born of lung disease associated with pit work. I know my old man used to get really passed off with ambulance chasers hassling him to claim compensation on behalf of his dad's 'black lung disease'. anyway, some 'pitmatic', quite extensive, strange how much I recognise, but I'd imagine younger folk have never heard the majority uttered...... baff weekend - then fortnightly pays were the custom, the baff week was when there was no pay. bait - a packed meal. baitpoke - a bag to carry the meal in. bait time - a stop for a meal. bank - the surface. barney's bull - anything broken beyond repair was said to be like barney's bull b------d. bat - to strike a blow with the fi3t or a hammer. blogged up - a pipe stopped up with dirt. bonny gan on - serious trouble. bord - a working place in the pit. brat - a black inferior sort of coal. bray - to beat or punish. "you cannot bray him back with a mell" (large hammer) described a pushing inquisitive person. bump the set - anyone taking unnecessary risks was described as "he'll bump the set some of these times". a set is a number of tubs or trucks pulled along by a rope from a fixed engine. canch - the stone below the thill or floor of a narrow coal seam that has to be removed as coal-getting proceeds. cankery water - impure, poisonous water, red in colour. cant - anything leaning over is said to be "on the cant". carvinarce - a smooth backed fossil easily dislodged. catheid - a nodule of iron ore found in coal seams. cavil - a working place in the mine selected by a draw. cavilling-day - the day the draw takes place. chinglees - pieces of coal the size of a marble. clacks - pump valves. clag - to stick. clarts - mud. cogley - unsteady. coin - to turn from the straight. corve - a wicker basket used in coal mines prior to the tub era. cow - a device attached to the back of a set of tubs to prevent them running back if the rope breaks. crab - a winch used in sinking operations. dab-hand - a capable or efficient worker. dad - to hit as, "i'll dad the lug". daddin - to beat the dirt out of pit clothes. deputy - an underground official. deputy's-end - the easy or lightest part of the work. deputy's kist - the box in which he keeps his tools. devil - a device for detatching the rope from a set of tubs whilst in motion. dogs - nails for fastening down tram rails. dollyshutting - blasting down coal without undercutting. dreg - a wood or iron stave put between the spokes of a tub wheel to prevent it from turning thereby retarding its progress. duds - clothes. dunched - to run into with force as "tubs dunching". ettle - to arrange beforehand. nb# fairly - steady. fash - trouble. fast jenkin : a bordway driven in the middle of a pillar. femmer - weak or delicate. fernenst - opposite to. fettle - to repair or mend. fizzle - a faint crackling noise caused by gas escaping from the strata. fizzled out - the end. flacker - to flinch or turn back. flackered - finished, unable to do any more. flayed - frightened. flusher - a squip that fails to do its work. forbye - besides. for-fairs - no trickery or underhand work. fullick - a blow with great force. fullen - full tub. gar - to make or force anyone to do something. get-thi-blaw - to rest, to regain the breath. gis-a-low - give me a light. glinters - curved sails to guide a rope on to a sheeve. graithe - to make ready or repair. grove - a space in a seam from which coal has been taken. hacky - dirty or filthy. hedgehog - if a strand of a wire rope works loose and gets fast, it coils in a mass of wire on the rope. this is a hedgehog on the rope. hinny - a term of endearment. hitch - a fault in the strata. hoggers - shorts miners wear in the pit. howk - to dig or scoup out, or punish. hoy - to throw. hunkers - the buttocks. a favourite posture of pitmen is sitting on their hunkers. inbye - to go from the shaft bottom into the workings insence - to make someone understand - "insence it into him". jealoused - anticipated, something would happen. joley - shakey, unsteady. jowl - to test the roof in a coal seam by tapping it with the end of a stick, also a threat as "al jowl tha". keeker : surface foreman who deals with the coal. kenner - the end of the shift. kep - to catch. kep-clack - the foot valve in a pump suction pipe. keps - props on which the cage rests at bank while the tubs are being changed. ket - filth or rubbish. kibble - a large iron bucket used in sinking operations, also a small low tub with open end. kink - a twist in a coil of rope that would damage it if pulled tight. kip - the highest point on the rollyway where the tubs are detatched. laid outs - if a tub of coal contains more than a certain amount of stone it is confiscated, the stones and the hewer's token numbers are laid out for inspection. limmers - wood shafts with an iron bow and a catdh to clip on to a coal tub carried on the harness of a pit pony. marra - when two men work together each calls the other his marra, meaning equal. mell - a large wood or iron hammer. met - a measurement marked on a stick. midgey - open fronted naked flame lantern. mizzled-off - gone away. nigh-hand-gannen - a shorter way. onsetter - the man in charge of the cage at the shaft bottom. outbye - travelling from the face to the shaft. plote - pluck or bring down. plunger - the piston in the water end of a pump. powder-reek - smoke caused by firing a short in the pit. progley - prickly. rammel - stone that gets mixed with the coal in the pit. rid - to clear out or tidy up a place. rising main - the pump delivery pipes in a shaft. rive - to tear. rolleyway - engine plane. roven - torn. scapipen - getting coal without blasting. scrush - crush. scumfish - to suffocate. shine a low - shine a light. skeets - guides for the cages in a pit shaft. slush hewer - a hard working coal hewer. smart-money - compensation. snore holes - holes in the strainer that make a snoring noise when the sump is drained. spangued out - a prop forced out by pressure. spelk : a splinter of wood that has stuck into the skin, also a small person. spigot and faucet - a type of pipe joint. spiting - storing up loose stone after a place has closed to make a way through. sprag - a wood or iron stave put between the spokes of a pit tub wheel to retard its progress. stowbord - an old working place into which refuse is put. strum - the strainer on the end of a pump suction pipe. stub and feathers - the stub is a wedge driven in between two tapered wedges in a bore hole to break down stone. stythe - bad air. sump - at the bottom of the shaft, a standage for water. swapes - tub rails bent to go round a turn. swalley - a dip or hollow on a roadway. tageing - a hard fatiguing time or job. tarry towt - a tarry rope. tewed - fatigued as "it's been a tewing job". tokens : pitmen's tallies. tommy hack - a combined hammer and chisel ended pick used by rolleywaymen. tuemmen : empty tub. usually pronounced chummum. varney - very near. viewer - obsolete term for an underground official. wedger : anything large or outsize. weeken - lamp wick. whimsey - a turntable from which a rope is uncoiled. yard-wand - deputy' s stick measuring one yard. yebbel - able

I'd put it down to var, a penalty wouldn't have been awarded without it... The VAR who awarded Paris Saint-Germain's controversial added-time penalty against Newcastle United in the Champions League has been removed from duty by UEFA on a game on Wednesday night. Polish VAR Tomasz Kwiatkowski sent referee Szymon Marciniak to the pitchside monitor in the 96th minute of Tuesday's match after the ball struck the arm of Tino Livramento, which was judged to be making his body bigger and creating a barrier

bit bemused by the one bit where he was on about var.... was he suggesting it was being applied better in CL than the PL? wasn't our experience in paris sadly.

right then, marra seems to have become a stick to beat the mackems with, but should it? my best mate down here, bleeds black and white is a born and bred blyth lad and fiercely proud of it. uses marra all the time. I pointed out to him the other day that in messageboard land at least marra is associated with being a mackem. I don't think he was very suited actually and probably our long standing friendship for getting on 4 decades now was what prevented me from having a bleedy nose. can't remember hearing it as a kid round the sunniside area or for that matter round stanley while working at the ever ready. research seems to indicate an origin of east durham pit villages but also those from northumberland too. are we offending huge swathes of our own support??

some canny escort girls at one, apparently.

maybe even rivals adam pearson's menacing rant about everton supporters?!

the image of the ground in that video from 3.57 to 4.07 is how I remember it as a kid when me dad first started taking me. nowt remains of it now, just the footprint. which is why I think all things considered I'd be at ease with them moving, although hopefully still somewhere within wobbling distance from the percy arms.

and another thing.... they've got the terminally stupid, cholesterol drenched man utd supporter on yet again at 11.30. no doubt he'll spend his time polluting the airwaves claiming his entire family were dangerously close to being murdered by social media. the fat cunt.

talking about newcastle selling players to saudi clubs. jordon claiming selling hotels is ok because it's easier to establish fair market value on property.

not the classic by legendary greek crooner demis roussos surely? I hope not, I might have to start liking them!

imagine (™ rtg) .... a 6 game winning end to the season, a tottenham implosion an awarding of a 5th champions league place. I'd hear exile's head explode from monmouth.

I can't remember that. thoroughly enjoyed having my eyes opened though!

thoroughly enjoyed that. ) popped on to rtg after our 3rd.... and at the end,, the newport nutter, completely broken..

there wouldn't be enough candles in the world.

tragic lack of capital letters in that post.

back in his days writing for the newcastle journal he was a massive apologist for sicknote 80kliks dyer, who when not on the treatment table was busy being a whopping thindercunt who couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo. (for Alex )

you're a more tolerant man than me. fought his way through multiple layers and folds of arse fat before finally reaching bruce's hoop. then stuck his tongue as far up it as he possibly could. never forgive, never forget. fuck him.

my post from last night was me being at my most benevolent best.

lest we forget...... bless him, one of the funniest things ever and a rare moment of light relief in the ashley era. happy onward journey joe.

not so much unrequited love, more like stalking. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/bbc-article-inaki-and-nico-williams-two-brothers-one-club-and-a-40-year-wait.1631084/ this aupaalaves is a fucking loon, surprised the museum director/historian hasn't had some kind of restraining order put out on him. DanceoftheKnights comes up with the killer punch at the end of thread.... looking forward to aupaalaves reply!

puts asprilla's somersaults to shame there too.

canny photo, although why's there a couple of the bad guys from the descent been photoshopped in the middle of it?

justice.