tim@tcs
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A proper Brummie, being Irish
Birmingham in the Aus news...is it as bad as reported?
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Stalker62
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Whilst I am reluctant to stereotype...here goes.
On my frequent trips 'T'up North', when I am on the M6, in and around Birmingham, I do not slow down, I keep all my doors and windows locked, and most certainly never pick up hitchhikers...
To be totally fair, the same applies in and around the Liverpool - Manchester line.
Thinking about it
It also applies to the M8 in and around the Glasgow and Edinburgh line.
Once north of that line, it's all...
On my frequent trips 'T'up North', when I am on the M6, in and around Birmingham, I do not slow down, I keep all my doors and windows locked, and most certainly never pick up hitchhikers...
To be totally fair, the same applies in and around the Liverpool - Manchester line.
Thinking about it
It also applies to the M8 in and around the Glasgow and Edinburgh line.
Once north of that line, it's all...
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Yes. My brother lived in Brum and is a curry fanatic. When we visited he took us to a curry place. The taxi driver - who was an Asian - refused to take us past the edge of the district!Birmingham was where my mother used to take me when shopping, Coventry was nearer but the train station was further from the shops. There were barrow boys in the bullring and fish and fruit markets. My father a toolmaker cycled the 12 miles to his work on the outskirts.
Now it is a frightening place and not being racist but many areas it's difficult to see any of the indigenous species. According to a friend who lives on the edge his words to me were "Don't ever go in there at night". He tells me that he feels threatened in the daytime if he goes there to shop in the markets, where most of the meat is Halal. I went to a grammar school there in the middle of a council estate, all Brummy working folk. The school is now one that was involved in the radicalisation of youngsters and the whole area has changed completely. The city seems to be vying with Riyadh for the most mosques. Not the good place to go now as it once was, when I wandered down Steel house lane looking in the windows of C.Smith, Lincoln Jeffries and others.
My one son had a share in a pub in the centre but wisely gave it up after three years of problems, even though they had some good doormen.
Rapid change of venue
. As for mosques, I drove through a part of the city when the first Iraqi war was on. The biggest mosque was called the Sadam Hussein mosque!! They were openly recruiting in the public park for men to go fight in Iraq, and it wasn't the British army. You couldn't make it up. Since then it's got so much worse that my brother moved away.olliehopes
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If you want a butt clenching hour or so, go and pick up a van load of guns from the proof house.....
Nimrod1960
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Bankrupt Liebore run council.
A foretaste of what we have to come in England. Wales already know what a useless corrupt lot they are but will vote them in again.
A foretaste of what we have to come in England. Wales already know what a useless corrupt lot they are but will vote them in again.
Lloyd90
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It is too late now and I am shooting tomorrow but I'll recount the true Edna Parker Proof House story tomorrow.
John Gryphon
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would it be funny if I did?
Smellydog
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Blimey, and I thought the roads were bad down here....Whilst I am reluctant to stereotype...here goes.
On my frequent trips 'T'up North', when I am on the M6, in and around Birmingham, I do not slow down, I keep all my doors and windows locked, and most certainly never pick up hitchhikers...
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To be totally fair, the same applies in and around the Liverpool - Manchester line.
Thinking about it
It also applies to the M8 in and around the Glasgow and Edinburgh line.
Once north of that line, it's all...
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olliehopes
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Please do...
Scares the bejesus out of me having to go to pick guns up from proof. All the criminal underworld must know where the proof house is and it wouldnt take much for them to park up on fazeley street to watch someone go in and then out!
Lloyd90
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No but your suggestion the kid should get himself to and from school without help because you (someone who isn’t disabled) used to do it was amusing.
Why don’t those people in wheelchairs just get up and walk? I walk all the time …
John Gryphon
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I made no suggestion re the disabled kid at all.
Lloyd90
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Oh right …
I took it mean the child should walk/ride a bike… considering the context of my post that you replied to.
Right. Here it is! As told to me by someone who at the time happened to be in the waiting area at the Birmingham Proof House and overheard it all.
Edna Parker's "man" walks into the waiting area at the Birmingham Proof House and starts passing a small number of revolvers he has brought with him across the "hatch" to be proofed. But then suddenly stops and exclaims "Oh no! I've lost it!" The Proof House staff, alarmed, think that on the journey from Moseley Road to Banbury Street that he's obviously lost one of the revolvers he was supposed to have brought in. So they ask where he thinks he might have lost it and what make and model of revolver it is. To which he replies "No, no I've not lost a gun. I've lost my bus ticket here and if I don't have it to give to Miss Parker she'll say that I've walked down and not give me back the shilling I paid..."
John Gryphon
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Was that in 1940 when a shilling was worth something ha ha
tim@tcs
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She was renowned for Victorian values including working conditions and wages!
Oh no JG. When I was thirteen in 1970 I could travel from Loughborough to Leicester about twelve miles for 1s 3d. Buses were nationalised then so fares were cheap.
John Gryphon
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Reg Varney was alive and kicking too lol.
tim@tcs
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Already 70 years old when he had that acting job!
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