North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You should have put "FACT!!" at the end of your post and then we'd know you're 100% right. 0100
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There are some really, really shit drivers in Newcastle this morning. That is all. 110
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026She's talking about electric cargo bikes, they counter with "you can't carry X on a push bike". Well, no you probably can't, but that's not what she said. It would be like saying you can't carry 50 people in a Fiat 500, therefore buses aren't useful. 1100
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I stopped off & bought a coffee & croissant on my ride into town today though. Does that count? 190
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Love the comments. They're shouting at puffins. 000
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Our cat once dropped a decapitated mouse on my pillow, presumably to wake me up - "got you something. Nice, aren't I? Right, get up, I want breakfast". 000
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026As far as I can work out, Braverman's rules would mean the England football team haven't had an English scorer in 15 matches since Ben White in March. 000
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026More favourite cafes (I spent a lot of time in cafes in my Amsterdam years). De Pels (feels French). De Kat in de Wijngaert (few tourists, great name). Thijssen (canal side people watching). P96 (open until god knows when). Sluyswacht (the leaning cafe of Amsterdam). Cafe Nol (just don't). 010
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Chris is long gone, but they do have a photo of him behind the bar, and he is a 1920s dude. But almost anyone in a b&w photo from the 20s looks a dude. 010
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My old locals were Cafe Chris (best bar in Amsterdam, supposedly been there 400 years. Say hello to Philip if he's working) and also de Nieuwe Lelie round the corner, the sort of place that feels right on a rainy Sunday night. 110
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Depending on what's wrong with them, I think I'd start with the brakes. 120
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The damage is clearly the bowling alley's fault. It wasn't wearing a helmet. 110
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Bumping into a friend might happen, but in a very different way. 010
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026At least it wasn't Pity Me or No Place. There's a High and Low Shitlington up near Bellingham. Just imagine reading your address out. "Oh, for Christ's sake. Yes, Shitlington. No, I'm really not winding you up". 110
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Always wanted to buy the house at the Blue House Roundabout and paint it red. 000
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The lead singer in a Newcastle Black Sabbath tribute band was Ozzy Ouseburn. Genius, that. Google Slack Babbath. Also Phoney Iommi. 000
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And why don't they just rename Shilbottle & be done with it? It would save a fortune on fixing the signs every time somebody changes the L. 130
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Also took some friends from the west country up to the borders once & we went through Otterburn. You do what round here?? Burn otters?? Why would you do that? Nah, it means a stream, with otters in it. Honestly it does. Ahh, never mind. Aye, we burn otters. 100
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Grew up near it. Never realised it was funny until I left Newcastle. I knew some lads who played in a comedy punk band in Newcastle. They called themselves Percy Main and Billy Mill Roundabout. Wasn't ever going to help with national fame. 230
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I knew a few people who sprayed graffiti round there when I was younger, but it wasn't over clever, more like "Aiden [redacted] is a [redacted] [redacted]". That stayed there for at least a decade. 010
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Top stuff. West Denton is where I'm originally from, as it happens. I can neither confirm nor deny that it was me. Ok, it wasn't me. 110
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If the test is white *and* English lineage going back several generations, then - depending on how many generations - she's ruling out a massive percentage of the population of England. Unless Irish, Welsh and Scottish gets a pass? I can go two generations, then I'm out. 241
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Morpeth's name is derived from Murder Path. Seems crime has got a bit less serious since. 001
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Her, Kemi and the Reform idiot are convinced they'll stop before they get to them. They won't. 090
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'd love to see her explain to Ian Wright face to face that he's not English. Actually, I'd pay to watch that. 020
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I only ever have one. Because un oeuf is un oeuf. 180
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yep. That's the real stumbling block for any UK return. 010
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes, that's what I think would be likely. It would be an almost perfect political fudge - "oh, we'd love to insist on Schengen, but you know, the CTA, hands are tied, etc. Maybe in a decade or so we'll look at it again?". 110
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The NIP would stop if the UK were back in the EU because it would no longer be needed. That doesn't relate to Schengen though. It would still be both or neither in Schengen. So again, nobody knows either way. It's the CTA that means neither can be in Schengen without the other. 000
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The UK and Ireland have the CTA, which predates Schengen & is why neither was in Schengen (it had to be both or neither). NI isn't in Schengen in any way at all. I think you may be confusing it with NI being in the single market for goods. 000
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026True, but it shows the rules are whatever the EU decides they are. They're not unchanging commandments from on high, so nobody can say either way with 100% certainty what the position would be in a few years time. 120
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Cyprus isn't in Schengen either. Denmark also doesn't use the euro, and seems to have no intention of joining. 570
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you'd had a haircut when I was a lad, somebody could whack you round the head if they said bats before you could say no bats (or nee bats, since it was Newcastle). Ahh, happy days. 120
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It would only lock the right out of power if they couldn't get enough people to vote for them. Maybe they could try doing something about that? 160
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You could have fireworks shooting out of your handlebars & rotating searchlights on your head & they'd still say you came out of nowhere. 020
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Be tricky to change. Maybe do it gradually, like 20 centimetres a year. 230
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yes, these things are accelerating like Max Verstappen's F1 car, but with ordinary people at the wheel. No offence to my mate, but he's no Max Verstappen. Doesn't speak Dutch for a start 020
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I've been in the car when he's accelerated hard, & what seems to me to be a big problem is how weirdly undramatic it is. It's because it doesn't have a screaming engine like a supercar, just a whirring sound. No sign you're doing something immensely dangerous. 100
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A friend has a Tesla. Does 0-60 in about 3 seconds, about the same as a Lamborghini supercar. It's terrifying. 110
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Same happened to me a few months back. Young lad in a hot hatch. 110
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Perhaps we should turn the big park next to it into somewhere to leave cars... 000
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He does. It's not a fund used to pay pensions. 041
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026First one too. Didn't realise it was city stadium. 010
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Could have been me on that fourth one. Often go through Shieldfield on the way too or from town. 010
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My local football (soccer) stadium. Cap 52,500. The car park (top left) is closed to the public on match days. The Metro station (bottom left) is open though. There are also apparently over 100 pubs within 1 mile. 220
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026That second one should be outside every school. 030
North Country Boy @northfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Tyre Monkey. Trust me, if you have marathon pluses, get one. Works brilliantly. 020
