“To me a radgie, was someone who was a proper man mental. Sometimes know as a radge packet.
Although I may have made radge packet up, I’m not sure.
Anyway, being radged up or a radgie usually meant someone who was really upset and angry to a point where no one could reason with them.”

Micky, I used to think of it the way you defined it at the end, but I think it covers the whole spectrum now, from someone who’s a little eccentric, or who’s got drunk, fallen over, blown £1000 on the horses etc, to someone who’s locked up in a padded cell in Broadmoor.

You haven’t made up “radge packet”, it’s very common. It’s someone who’s a packet of pure, 100% radgieness.

My dad was a superb example of the classic ‘radgie gadgie’ (bless him). One of those little old fellas who are always getting angry in the newspapers railing about the state of this and that and campaigning against the council etc. He once got so hacked off with his car breaking down that he drove it through the window of a London Mercedes Benz dealer with a load of reporters from all over the place in tow and the bizzies on his tail. The tv footage of the incident is on ‘Not the Nine o’ Clock News’ somewhere with a punchline something like “The world’s first drive-in opticians was opened today…”

What a radgie!

Hence you and I being ‘Keegan radgies’.