{"id":1596,"date":"2021-04-14T06:10:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/may-2012-uberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T07:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T07:20:49","slug":"may-2012-uberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/may-2012-uberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2012 – \u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May 31, 2012<\/abbr><\/h5>\n
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From Geordie Shore to Germany<\/a><\/h3>\n

by James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n
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We\u2019ve recently been made aware that the \u00fcberlin origin story<\/a> is incomplete. We use phrases like \u201cLondon to Berlin\u201d, \u201cLDN to BLN\u201d and \u201cLondon refugees\u201d, but that\u2019s an oversimplification. Yes, we lived there for five years, and it\u2019s convenient to describe Berlin as being so much cheaper\/more liveable\/awesomer(?) than London, but that\u2019s not where we\u2019re from. No, both Zo\u00eb and myself grew up in the North East of England, in a city called Newcastle upon Tyne<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m always surprised when Germans have heard of Newcastle. They may only know Newcastle United FC<\/strong>, and sometimes Newcastle Brown Ale<\/strong>, but as football and drinking makes up 90% of our culture, all they\u2019re missing is the details. Apart from one poor girl who\u2019d had the misfortune to spend a year in Newcastle as a student, for whom this VICE<\/strong> article will make for uncomfortable reading:<\/p>\n

\"Vice\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That article is ostensibly about a new generation of students, The Lads, but it\u2019s really about Newcastle. Our hometown is the *only* choice for lads who want to spend their University years drinking, having their faces tattooed on their arses, and getting rapey with the lasses. But local competition to be \u201cBritain\u2019s Biggest Lads\u201d is fierce, coming from these plucked-and-preened trannies with Schwarzenegger bodies and a thirst for fanny:<\/p>\n