Birmingham!!

[gavgav]

I really feel sorry for anybody who lives in Birmingham! Coming home from Devon last night, we left Bideford at 4.15pm, hoping for an easy journey back. Apart from a slight delay in Bristol, everything was fine until we hit Birmingham!! The M6 was closed from junction 10 to 11 and the tail back was tremendous. We covered 3 miles in 1h45!! Then we had take a diversion that was badly signposted. I was absolutely fuming in the car.. A journey that should have taken 6 hours took us 9 hours so we arrived home at 1am.As I was overtired by then, it took me ages to go to sleep and I am still tired today.
Birmingham, you are sh****hole!! I am not blaming the people there but just its road structure. Rant over.

I feel more sorry for the person who died in the crash that caused the tailbacks and their family to be honest.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

A pal at work had the same 9 hours getting back from Devon to Manchester on Friday

 

[doog]

The canal network is great, too.

I did the canals through to the bullring back in the early 80's.. It was a few days before the Handsworth riots just to add a bit of spice to an extremely uncomfortable experience. The fact we navigated in and out through a sea of supermarket trolleys, general urban decay and people lobbing stuff at us from bridges was an achievement in itself.

I bet its all Rosie and Jim now.

 

[marshmella]

Yes but what about that accent?

Which one? There's so many

 

[BrumJim]

I did the canals through to the bullring back in the early 80's.. It was a few days before the Handsworth riots just to add a bit of spice to an extremely uncomfortable experience. The fact we navigated in and out through a sea of supermarket trolleys, general urban decay and people lobbing stuff at us from bridges was an achievement in itself.

I bet its all Rosie and Jim now.

Partly right. Haven't found Rosie yet.

 

[Dirk]

I really feel sorry for anybody who lives in Birmingham! Coming home from Devon last night, we left Bideford at 4.15pm, hoping for an easy journey back. Apart from a slight delay in Bristol, everything was fine until we hit Birmingham!! The M6 was closed from junction 10 to 11 and the tail back was tremendous. We covered 3 miles in 1h45!! Then we had take a diversion that was badly signposted. I was absolutely fuming in the car.. A journey that should have taken 6 hours took us 9 hours so we arrived home at 1am.As I was overtired by then, it took me ages to go to sleep and I am still tired today.
Birmingham, you are sh****hole!! I am not blaming the people there but just its road structure. Rant over.

I was born and bred in Birmingham.
I couldn't wait to leave; moved out of the city in 1978 and moved around North Worcestershire a bit for 25 years.
I now live in North Devon.
Every time I have to go back to Birmingham, which thankfully is rare these days, it depresses the hell out of me.
Wouldn't bother me if I never went there again. Mind you, I think much the same of any large city.

 

[Dirk]

[QUOTE 4430553, member: 45"].......
And then there's the balti...[/QUOTE]
Ah yes.... the Balti.
I still have fond memories of a bout of food poisoning shortly after a visit to Adil's Balti house on the Ladypool Road.


 

[Milkfloat]

[QUOTE 4429618, member: 45"]Only by those who are geographically challenged.

Birmingham doesn't need to add "Greater" like Manchester does in order to suck the outskirts in and pretend that it is when it isn't. Birmingham always was, is and will be.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately, things are changing, despite the opposition. http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/warwickshire-votes-join-greater-birmingham-11346248

 

[dellzeqq]

You, my friend, badly need to feast your eyes on this little classic from the 70s. (Once seen, never forgotten):

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EGWCG8fq9A

quite, quite extraordinary. Thankyou!

 

[Labradorofperception]

The M6 is a capricious mistress.

It can take me 4 hours plus to get to work in the centre from my house near Ironbridge when things go wrong.

Then you see why the motorway was closed, as it was last Sunday and think thank fook it's not me hearing the knock on the door ..


http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/...an-killed-in-crash-was-telford-father-of-two/

 

[Milkfloat]

[QUOTE 4430914, member: 45"]That's not greater, it's an alliance.[/QUOTE]

I see it more of a conquering

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Nothing to do with the Traveler community then?

(vague etymological wondering: What's the root of the term "Pikey"? Any connection with travelling along (turnpike) roads?)

That's an interesting thought - I might do some research!

 

[pplpilot]

I think Cliff Richard on a hovercraft around the Birmingham canal network for his 1973 film take me High was a pinnacle moment - shame there used to be a vid on Youtoob but it's no longer available, however google turns up a lot of info - http://tinyurl.com/jz8pjzx

 

[dellzeqq]

Flipping Bonkers!

Injest an Indian? Digest a Danish? Provocative Disco Dancing House Wives?!

Sod Greece, I'm on my way.

Better yet, digest a Danish at a Viennese cafe. Telly not tuned in to the complexities of the Single Market? And why didn't he try a Savaloy?