"Stories we heard, lads we hung around with".
"Seriously, lads, we haven't seen a tide that high, surely?" I said.
"The lads we have here aren't used to playing with this sort of pressure.
Ms Mustafa added: "Don't worry lads we will give you and allies things to do", followed by a winky face emoji.
We were all in floods of tears, and as 16-year-old Geordie lads we didn't expect to be! Quite often we [playwrights] come from a literary tradition.
Dialogue by their leaders like "Tell the lads we want plenty of arrests today" is a challenge begging to be answered with violence.
"We spent the whole day with the lads, we went go-karting, and they gave us some gear and stuff," he says.
You see people with the same problem of depression, and for some reason this group seems to work with the lads we have".
'If they'd come up with a really clever word, then you'd be like, OK, maybe you've got us, but the word ladette... the connotations are, we're little lads, we wanna be lads.
The cost of one of them saying, "Come on lads, we can have a laff outside of school, we're here to learn so we don't have to do jobs we hate later on," would have been too much for any one of them to stand.
I think we're a good bunch of lads, we're a good team.
