Wooleybacks

Anyone know where this saying comes from? I have my own idea, but will withold incase i tarnish anyone elses view

P.S. - Im asking this question on a Liverpool based forum i belong to, get the 'enemies' point of view

It comes from when wiganers used to work in liverpool docks and had all the bad jobs carryi arouf te sheep wool, or something along those lines anyroad.

It also can mean somert about the welsh/yorkshire folk being that the person in question is the product of a sexual liaison between man and sheep

LOL @ teash, first time I have heard that !!!

'Its true I tell yer its true' LOL So whats your own interpretation of the term woolyback mr suit? but feel free to use mine

'srlatics' came close. There was a strike at the docks and wigan workers were used to unload wool cargo. Due to the wool, and them breaking the strike ('scabs' i think the term is) the derogatory term was formed. However, the term is now applied to anyone outside of Liverool

Just been told this-'woolly back is used in liverpool, to mean someone from yorkshire, lancashire, southport?(thought s/p was classed as merseyside) etc.
not sure why, but you are considered a woolyback if you are in liverpool but have a 'yorkshire type' accent or similar.

'Woolybacks' are anyone who is not from Liverpool, not only Wiganers.

AND .. Merseyside and Liverpool are two serarate places.

It's a term from the docks. In the days when labour was picked for a days work by gangers, nepotism and cronyism was rife. If you were from outside the immediate area of the dock you would stand little chance of any work at all. Only when ships came in carrying hides of various beast were the outside lads given a chance as the regular dockers didn't want the dirty and smelly job of unloading stinking hides. Thus anyone from outside the immediate area of the dock was classed as a woolly back. Even if they came from Liverpool.

Well thanks for geography lesson TONKER, i`ll certainly remember Merseyside and Liverpool are 2 separate places NOT

Oh My Goodness, dont start tonker off with his boundaries. I dont think that i could cope with the stress of it all again. lol

There is the history behind the term Woolly-Backs as mentioned by copperhead but generally it is a term that Liverpudlians use for non- Liverpudlians.Especially those with a similar accent to them and whom claim to be scousers. In particular those from St Helens, Skelmersdale, Widnes.

that was interesting to read about the docks

Actualy DD, you are wrong. People FROM St Helens, Skem etc ARE wooleybacks. What you are referring to are 'Plassy' scousers (ie, born in liverpool, but left at an early age)

I dont understand why people from liverpool who I know live and work in Wigan and moan about it. If Liverpool is such a nice place why dont they stay there?

Are you a scouser then TS?

I am DD, you a wooleyback ?

Aaah! A Scouser,i thought so!
No im not a woollyback, but i do know a few.

Jesus DD, your slow, where do you think "The Suit" name come from ????

where do you think "The Suit" name come from ????

what does that mean?

Well i am bit thick.
"The Suit"! Explain!

Jeez, ok, "What do you call a scouser in a suit" ???

Dont know!

DD, your taking the mick arent you ???? "The Accused" !!!!!!

Its a well known anti-scouse joke, hence me picking the name....To annoy anti-scousers (well, ones with an ounce of nounce anyway)

Well, it goes to show, that i dont know everything!

lol, do you know anything ???

I know lots of things!

I'll take your word for it

But not everything!

OK, OK, OK, think we exhausted that line of enquiry, dont tax yourself

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so...the zoots a scouse...zoots to posh a name for this guy.
hmm, now let me think for a mini sec
yeahhh...zoot shall be known as...HUB CAPS.

top-o-the-morn hub caps. Smilies:
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ive left a pint over the bar in the baltic ale house hubs. Smilies:
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Never drunk in there, so yah best go get yer pint back.

P.S. - Don't understand 'Hub Caps' ??

There used to be uite a bit o' (usually good natured)banter on the CB radio, between Woolybacks = Non- scousers.
& Mushrooms = Scousers
Mushrooms of course, meaning, they all had big heads & were brought up in sh1t

ouch

and dont forget ©art©, "also kept in the dark"

Billy, 'Hub Caps' ??? You intimating I'm a thief ???

i only intimate in response to your intimations???decipher that one HUBS. Smilies:
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Billy, your a corker, lol, i dont intimate at all, I called you a deserter, 'cos you are one

Oops, forgot, point out the intimation there

hey guys...i think ive found his achiles heel.the zoot..alias
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"Hey Guys", seeking approval ??? need peer agreement ???

Billy, what's with all the smilies? I mean it's nice and colourful but why????

aint had my pills d-blonde. =

the hub cap has gone all quiet on the wooly back post???maybe its the hub cap name for scousers???if ya dont like it hubs, change over to wooly back, we will be glad to have ya on board.but remember, we run a tight ship here, all bristol fashion and ship shape, so ya gonna have to straighten yaself up x squaddie. Smilies:
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tennnnn-shunnn

'Tack', see other responses of mine re. You. Im tired of repeating myself

heres your ball babe, dont throw it over my wall agin, or else. Smilies:
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[edit] please stop spamming the boards.

M.I.C.K.E.Y m.o.u.s.e, mickey mouse,mickey mouse..........

Thay do doo dont thay do ....la

"M.I.C.K.E.Y m.o.u.s.e, mickey mouse,mickey mouse.........."

Another moron, soz, adversary

P.S. - you a proper wiganer ??? no proper wiganer would agree they are from greater mancland ???

NO MANCS ARE NORTHERN SCOUSERS

"NO MANCS ARE NORTHERN SCOUSERS"

What ? PMSL, you and Tack sharing a glass, or more ???

Mancs. are gits actually.

SCOUCERS ARE IRISH SCOUCERS

Klunk, its spelt S.C.O.U.S.E.R

and, are you a manc, or a Wiganer ?, or, like Sailor boy, you gonna avoid the question ????

Manks are northern scousers - are there any southern ones then klunk yed?

HOW AM I TO KNOW ???????????

Dunno klunk yed but Scousers are Scousers, no southern about um - Scousers are northern. Stop shoutin' an' all klunk (i.e. typin' in big letters/capitals) 'cos you're doin' me cyber ears in.

"HOW AM I TO KNOW ???????????"

If you dont know, then dont respond with assumed authority, you make yourself look like a 'Tack' (and NO-ONE wants to look like a 'Tack', apart from the Moron himself )

Look whos talking

"Look whos talking"

Boo Hoo friggen' Hoo "HOW AM I TO KNOW ???????????" MWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!

Mummy, what do I do ???? How am i to know , Mwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Yah big Baby, come back when your out of your shorts

TIT

lol, never mind didums

GO ON THEN PICK IT UP......

what? yer dummy, yer rattle, or yer handbag didums ????? pmsl

i guess if ya didnt know by now, this is hub caps at his worst. he boasted he had got rid of xrh...he tried very hard but failed to get rid of diva..emp..seamonkey. he targets me continualy, but cant get past first base. seems he has you in his sights now klunk yed.ya gotta play him like a fish on the end of your line.give him plenty of stinking bait, this will draw him in.i dont advise eating this agitated dog fish, i reckon he is poisonous to the human palate.note all his posts, agro and more agro. he is a very sad a******e indeed, his claims of being x service are just that..his claims. he took xrh to task on his service,and then gloated when he thought he had chased x out of the site. yup...something very very wrong with this play p***k.and as for being a scouse???i come of a long line of scousers. my missus relations were the fighting QUINNS. mick quinn was the hardest man on the length of liverpool waterfront. if this excuse of a d**k-head is a genuine scouse, he will have heard of this family, but i doubt it.hub caps is really having a bad time of it just now in his life. he strikes out left right and center.find ya self a dark room hubs, and be still in the silence...you will receive a healthy glow over your frame.(on sec thoughts..not to sure about that)

wipe ya chin hubs...your salivating. =

eh ??? keep it short Tack, I got bored after word one

(P.S. - Are you stupid, or plain ignorant ????? I made a thread for your rants so that you stop ruining other threads, this is the LAST time you get a response, unless it is thread relevent. Behave, or Begone)

this is the good news ive been waiting for. will it last????nah, not with this unstable wanna be.he"s a site destroyer. he cant even get into a chat room were the conversations rarely get above the navel.what we going to do with the vandal????

BILLY i must say that you DID start slaging off on this thread not suity you could of just joined in nicely or just read and left alone.

Emma, this is what suity does, he draws you in with threads such has this and just like the black widow spider, gets stuck in

Just wait till the Downall Greeners find out that they live in Liverpool. They'll all be on here making their noise!

emma...read back on this guys posts. how many has he started??how many has he attacked the poster, and not the subject matter??when you have done this research emma, come back and say..I AM WRONG.YOU ARE RIGHT>

i was maried to a scouser and his family used to get pleasure out of calling me a wooley back and another argument we used to have was when i made `lobbies` i would be told they are called `lob scouse` to be honest his mother didn`t like me `cos i was a wiganer but every sat she was in wigan shopping that was until the fab `connie` was opened got to be honest thought i like the scouse humour cos i find they can laugh at themselves- just dont marry one lol

suity isnt a real scouser, born there but brought up in north east england. He is a bullsh*****
Take no notice of him, he needs treatment he has very many issues to sort out in his poor head.

Maddy,thought of this when you mentioned
'lob scouse'
Half a pan - Half a pan - Half a pan Onwards

Into the pan of scouse rolled the six onions.

Forward the Scouse Brigade - was there a Veggie dismayed - Not!

But they knew someone had blundered.

Mutton to the right of them, spuds to the left of them. Gravy in front of them,

Volleyed and thundered.

Stormed at with Pepper and Salt

there was no time to halt.

Into the pan of Scouse rolled the six onions.

"brought up in north east england" ????

How do you work THAT one out ??????

Emma, thanks for that. I will agree that it is usualy me that gets the hump, but in this instance you was right

"just dont marry one "

Tut Maddy, Tut !

i think youve been rumbled hub cap.you aint an enigma anymore.your a pretend scouse
a pretend x service.
in fact..ya could say, your a pretentiouse rabble rouser.

yep Billy south shields is his stamping ground int it Darrin lol.
not as clever as he thought

actually billy on this occation i am correct

stick around emma. you will get the drift. nobody, but nobody is safe after this guy has had his snort. he goes for the jugular, and the fact you are sending him the message, i"m with you hub cap...just makes ya more vulnerable. hang around a while and be on guard.
hey hub cap...waddya know, someone is actualy in your corner????

Ah, Billy, SM, you foolish, foolish people

1. Scouser I am (though, other scousers would call me plassy because i was brought up in LANCASHIRE) (SM please note)

2. Squaddie I am, served with 1st Bn. The Queens Lancashire Regiment, from 17 to 31 (and did a bt of junior Soldiering too (48 weeks), bless 'em)

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