Irony?

Hinny is a North East England term of affection. It's also another word for a donkey.

OK hinny??. So maybe it's Geordie flu

Nah, a Geordie flu is where the smoke from the sea-coal goes,

Very Masefield

Stanza 3

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rails, pig-lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.

Masefield my arse. Ah wroat that when ah were a nipper.

<although the Channel bit always seemed a bit off. Tyne coal almost all went to Lahdon>

On edit:

Actually, that stanza has raised disturbing memories of the mad English teacher, Spitty-Willie Meakan, prancing around in his gown beating out the rhythm of the words with a ruler on his head. I won't sleep tonight.

yeah, but they dropped orf the Tyne coal and then went on with the tin trays down to Cornwall. Like coals to N'cstl only difrunt.

My work here is done.

pasties to Cornwall?

tin, woman, tin.

Why the heck do they need nipple covers in Cornwall?

Heinei is also a slang term for the buttocks (also spelled hiney) hence the Hebrew reference.

ooo aren't you the polyglot....

they have nipples there too? or is that just tits!

Oi are you callin' me a parrot.

Now we've gorn all ornithological.

Bill Oddie, here we come!