Community Voices: Downfield

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Younger speakers

Ashley: Oh no, yeah well, it went on for ages, eh? Like, wir biscuits conversation. Went on for so long and [name] said in the end he can only use about 10 minutes of it.
Interviewer: Just 'cause we were laughing that much, eh? So.
Ashley: Know when you just do a silent laugh? 'Cause we were going on about Oreos, we're both quite passionate about Oreos, and then I went "what do you think about the ones with, um, aye, the double-- the double centre?" and he went "oh, it's a bit much. I mean it's a nice thought, but--"
Interviewer: It so is though. It's full on once you put it in your mouth, it's too much man.
Daniel: Is that when you do it yourself? Like, when you break one off and break one off and join them together?
Ashley: No, you actually get double, like, centred ones.
Daniel: I was away to say because the-- the flip side of that is you're left with an Oreo with no stuffing.
Interviewer: He's doing his homemade, double the stuffing.
Ashley: Yeah.
Daniel: I thought that's what youse were on about.

Older speakers

Ian: Atween the teachers-- atween the teachers and the-- and the boys that were wanting to fight wi you, it was absolutely-- ken it was a good job I wasna bad at fighting mysel. But oh, I mean I used to say, ken, "here we go"-- and the names of them.
Patricia: Should have put-- should have put them to a boxing class, you know?
Ian: Oh, I was in-- I-- I was boxing when I was young.
Patricia: Yeah but maybe that would have been a good thing to get the-- that out of you.
Interviewer: Yeah.
Ian: Well that's what I had to-- that's what I had to do. Ken? Get into them-- get into them quick.
Interviewer: What did they want to fight you for? What did they want to fight you for?
Ian: Oh.
Interviewer: Did you have a mouth on you?
Ian: Eh?
Interviewer: Did you have a mouth on you?
Ian: Eh, oh I never bothered anybody.
Interviewer: No?
Ian: No, I never ever-- never ever picked on anybody in my life. But there was aie-- when I went up to that modifying place, there was aie somebody right away whenever you come in would, you know?
Interviewer: Mhm.
Ian: You were in their-- Oh it was torture, ken, when they wouldna--
Patricia: Yeah, you found the toughers were in that, yeah, yeah.
Ian: Oh the toughers were a' there waiting on you coming in, ken? A' picking up abody, you know? And, uh, of course I wasna for that. I could handle mysel wae anybody.
Interviewer: Yeah.
Ian: So you got the warning fae them, ken? Coming oot at-- I mean one of them's hitting me in the head wi a-- a what do you call it, a ruler. It's no so bad hitting you in the ruler-- in the head wi it like that.
Interviewer: Mhm.
Ian: Ken? But when they hit you wi that, oh, it's an absolute sare ain, ken?