50 or so things we love about Birmingham

To set some balance, another Twitter thing, where people are challenged to post a thing one ‘loves’ for each like a post can get. We could have gone on, but no-one liked it.

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Thu, Oct 19 2017 09:43:38

50+ things we love about Birmingham

  1. We can do this too, we’re not always negative. https://t.co/5DZCxiYBmI

    We can do this too, we’re not always negative. pic.twitter.com/5DZCxiYBmI

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    Tue, Oct 17 2017 21:55:24

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    1. The fact that the stone with the architects name on the Town Hall has it wrong.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 21:58:53

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    2. The flow of people through Digbeth, stopping traffic, after Blues home win.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 21:59:53

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    3. The way people love the eleven routes unironically and that no-one has yet found a way to commercialise this.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:02:18

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    4. Boon (series 1-3)

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:03:33

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    5. The patterns that spaghetti junction makes, from above or below.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:06:19

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    6. How no-one in town agrees which area things are really in.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:06:57

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    7. The Chipper Club.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:07:32

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    8. That Brum’s Victoria Sq Xmas tree is always sponsored by a Scandinavian company who can’t get any value from it.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:09:25

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    9. That heavy metal refuses to die, existing in the cracks in our concrete.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:10:22

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    10. That you can count the number of people who give a fuck about Michelin stars on the number that the city has.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:12:18

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    11. That people proudly refuse to drop
    the definite article in “the bull ring”. Hang the branders.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:14:57

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    12. That still no-one knows which one the Pavillons was.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:15:34

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    13. Roy Wood.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:16:00

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    14. That it’s always Rackhams, never House of Fraser

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:17:50

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    15. At all times there is always one Brummie searching for King Kong. Sometimes they’re even in Penrith, where his is.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:23:29

  17. 16. The pic of ol’ Al Bore with a clock. https://t.co/iqdd5iqlSR

    16. The pic of ol’ Al Bore with a clock. pic.twitter.com/iqdd5iqlSR

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    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:31:20

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    17. “Magic hour” light in Perry Barr. Honestly, the BCU campus from Perry Hall Park just glows.

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:38:22

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    18. The cross city line driver who says “Doodles Town” when he announces Duddeston

    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:39:35

  20. 19. This sign. Forever. https://t.co/Qhc5uvCjNA

    19. This sign. Forever. pic.twitter.com/Qhc5uvCjNA

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  21. 20. The Goosemore Lane website https://t.co/6yrfGTkCpm and Gary who runs it. https://t.co/Ej0YqTenbM

    20. The Goosemore Lane website  http://www.goosemoor-lane.com/news.htm  and Gary who runs it. pic.twitter.com/Ej0YqTenbM

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    Tue, Oct 17 2017 22:50:24

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    21. The gas towers of Saltley, seen when you’re driving in from the north.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 05:43:27

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    22. That they spent years returning Digbeth coach station to leave it pretty much the same (don’t mess with perfection).

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 05:49:01

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    23. Barbara Nice.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 05:49:16

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    24. That Gurchran Mall will turn up with his dhol at the opening of a letter.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 06:13:28

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    25. The small band of Mail Facebook commenters that cry “what’s this got to do with Birmingham?” on the ‘viral’ stories from TM network.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 06:20:56

  27. 26. The blue nose. https://t.co/QEA17vO2wb

    26. The blue nose. pic.twitter.com/QEA17vO2wb

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  28. 27. Summer 98 (pt 1) https://t.co/E9gX7BTNsA

    27. Summer 98 (pt 1) pic.twitter.com/E9gX7BTNsA

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    28. Summer 98 (pt 2) – Boris Yeltsin went for a vodka at the Trocadero, but forgot to invite the press.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 06:40:56

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    29. We will cling on to the metrics that show we are the second city not Manchester.

    Even if no-one else will.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 06:47:18

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    30. Stirchley: not a lot of what you do makes any real sense, but somehow it works, so keep doing it

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 07:32:35

  32. 31. That this image happened here. That it’s now a Billy Bragg single. https://t.co/mZimKjOSmC

    31. That this image happened here. That it’s now a Billy Bragg single. pic.twitter.com/mZimKjOSmC

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    32. That everyone says how much they hate the German Market. But somehow it’s always full of people.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 07:44:59

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    33. We love @Midge_UK.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 07:48:05

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    34. This novel all about bringing the SuperPrix back – Monaco of The Midlands: by Alex Dennistoun  http://amzn.to/2gjNKcc 

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 08:00:55

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    35. That you faved the ‘unpopular opinions’ one much more heavily than this one. You lovely cynical bastards.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 08:15:39

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    36. That it’s easy to become a Brummie. If you want it.
     http://paradisecircus.com/2013/11/11/how-brummie-are-you/ …

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 08:35:07

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    37. That Laurence Inman protects the authorship of his ‘born within the sound of someone moaning’ gag in the manner of Sisyphus.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 08:41:36

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    38. We love signing petitions about “threats” to Moseley’s Prince of Wales.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 08:50:02

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    39. Getting pissed cheaply and convivially in the club at Moor Green Allotments.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 09:25:41

  41. 40. That photo of Public Enemy on the bridge by the red cage. https://t.co/1zf4crl3BM

    40. That photo of Public Enemy on the bridge by the red cage. pic.twitter.com/1zf4crl3BM

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    Wed, Oct 18 2017 09:32:34

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    41. The Streets, even though he denies us as surely as Peter denied Christ.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 09:33:56

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    42. That ‘where’s the Capita contract?’ is always the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything in gag terms.

    Btw check out @btlpodcast

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 09:45:13

  44. 43. That you've now passed favs of the 'unpopular' thread, and that it's mostly out of spite for no. 35. & Cliff's Eternal Flame. https://t.co/6sDHjAITuD

    43. That you’ve now passed favs of the ‘unpopular’ thread, and that it’s mostly out of spite for no. 35.

    & Cliff’s Eternal Flame. pic.twitter.com/6sDHjAITuD

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    Wed, Oct 18 2017 09:55:11

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    44. We love the story of how David Unsworth’s wife made him cancel his Villa contract because she didn’t want to come to Birmingham.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 10:06:49

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    45. That we invented feminist journals.  http://paradisecircus.com/2015/03/08/101-things-brum-gave-the-world-no-70-feminist-journals/ …

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 10:34:56

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    46. Go on then. Jasper. Obviously.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 21:45:11

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    47. The ‘video’ for Tizwas’s Bucket of Water Song… filmed around the war memorial in centenary square.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 22:51:42

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    48. That the people of Stirchley fought so hard to keep a bowling alley. Maybe they’d left their shoes in there.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 22:52:52

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    49. Curry Crunch pork scratchings.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 22:54:09

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    50. David Harewood’s thespian accent when doing promos about how much he loves Brum.

    Wed, Oct 18 2017 22:55:42

  52. 51. The JRR Tolkien Calendar 1974 (but not any of the turgid novels he wrote) https://t.co/llw27rWPmf

    51. The JRR Tolkien Calendar 1974 (but not any of the turgid novels he wrote) pic.twitter.com/llw27rWPmf

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    Wed, Oct 18 2017 23:21:53

  53. 52. The novelisation of Boon (series one) https://t.co/Uhdk3K0Mq9

    52. The novelisation of Boon (series one) pic.twitter.com/Uhdk3K0Mq9

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Author: Jon Bounds

Jon was voted the ‘14th Most Influential Person in the West Midlands’ in 2008. Subsequently he has not been placed. He’s been a football referee, venetian blind maker, cellar man, and a losing Labour council candidate: “No, no chance. A complete no-hoper” said a spoilt ballot. Jon wrote and directed the first ever piece of drama performed on Twitter when he persuaded a cast including MPs and journalists to give over their timelines to perform Twitpanto. But all that is behind him.