Spent a long weekend in Birmingham

This is Chit Chat..comments like that are not welcome please desist.

...unless you've been mugged, stabbed or raped please keep your thoughts to yourself.

They told me it was infested with bigots but i don`t believe them.

Well worth it`s status as second city behind London. Just needs more promotion.

I noticed most of the fat heads no longer post, i assume they all went skint.

unemploynent capital of Britain  , accounts for half of the top ten highest claiming areas

dreadful place

Why is it called the Black Country?

The Black Country is an area of the West Midlands, England, west of Birmingham[2] and mostly in the Metropolitan Boroughs of Sandwell and Walsall.[3] During the Industrial Revolution, it became one of the most industrialised parts of Britain with coal mines, coking, iron foundries, glass factories, brickworks and steel mills producing a high level of air pollution.

The 14-mile (23 km) road between Wolverhampton and Birmingham was described as "one continuous town" in 1785.[4] The first trace of "The Black Country" as an expression dates from the 1840s.[5] The name is believed to come from the soot from the heavy industries that covered the area, although the 30-foot-thick (10 metre) coal seam close to the surface is another possible origin.

lfc, you always speak a lot of sense, you let yourself down with the comment above though.

Re-think and post something kind.

benefit claiming in certain areas are amazing as is health and many other issues

ladybrook is a classic

To be fair all England's cities are the same apart from London which is on a completely different level.

Ta trilby!

ok, the poor can’t escape from Birmingham so maybe it’s not their fault

landan is a free pass for lgbtqi fun except certain areas

They don`t want to escape. The place just needs a lick of paint (investment

I was on the platform of Boreham Wood train station the gay pride Saturday earlier this year. A **** dressed in just a rainbow coloured nappy joined the platform, a young child shouted big baby, big baby, all very surreal.

Not that there is any poverty in Birmingham , there isn’t

There are no poor people , only scroungers

The only city for me to re-visit is London, different class on every level.

Birmingham needs to learn to promote its self better.

Partly true lfc. I visited some lovely suburbs in Birmingham, i would say only second to Sheffield outside of London

London’s worse , I have no idea what people do in London to make money

I know what you mean. I visited Camden last year, spent all day around the market area, all i heard all day was Eastern European accents. How do they afford to rent, they must live 10 to a flat.

London is not a working city , I don’t know what it does

I despise it

They have a million shops/stores for sure.

I do get a little agitated when the tubes get full. If careful you can eat and drink for the same if not less than the Northern towns.

I went into a post office in London and realised I was the only white person there !
including behind the counter

How bad is that ?

Too many cyclists also , maniacs would run you down

I’m an anti Londoner : (

I’m being too harsh , there are some nice people there

I recall I was  little drunk one day and crossing the road  in central London and someone took my arm to help me across
That surprised me ( I didn’t think I was that drunk )

but it turned out she was American

Perhaps she was after your body?

American women are like that. Nymphs

Salam Mr Khan

she was just a nice person , isn’t that something

bit tubby ?

I went into a post office in London and realised I was the only white person there !
including behind the counter

Same in parts of all towns in this country now.

I didn`t realize Brum was so associated with poverty, always common knowledge Manchester was the poorest Northern town with most poverty and drugs.

Crime too.

plenty of Muslims

Speaking from my trench and bunker complex at MO TOWERS HQ in west LANDAN, I am currently crossing lfc  off my cristmas card list

You cad sir!!!!

“ I’m being too harsh , there are some nice people there “

  that’s you moisok you daft dandelion  : )

Didn`t York used to be the second city? Just googled Birmingham and they are because of population, you would never have known.

Off to Cambridge & Newmarket next.

Shanelee1966    12 Sep 18 20:37 
lfc, you always speak a lot of sense, you let yourself down with the comment above though.

Re-think and post something kind.

I concur to a point with the OP to a point. A few years back, on the way home from the Cheltenham festival, an Indian lad whom was in our party decided to take us to a pub in Handsworth to watch the Liverpool / man Utd euro semi final.. Massive pub on a corner with a huge bar, plenty of chairs and tables, tv screens all over the walls.....and an Indian restaurant in the pub. Every table had a menu on it that we could order off..brilliant idea and the natives were very friendly..on the downside to Birmingham...new street station is about the size of Manc airport and about as friendly, and Wolverhampton is nearby.

I also concur with lfc, London is one hell of a shathole

This is Birmingham

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https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/1040933082927452160

Not the usual lot ??  They come tooled up to a town a few miles from me in west landan.