Rained on 12 times per year?

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[domtyler]

None so far for me, why don't you move to a more civilised city like London?

 

[domtyler]

Because London is rubbish.

No it's not.

 

[spindrift]

people who think London is rubbish are rubbish.

 

[domtyler]

S'not. People who come from Birmingham smell of tired socks and old ladies purses.

 

[domtyler]

Ah yes. London.

Did I mention I'm reading Ackroyd's "London The Biography" at the moment?

No, I think you forgot to mention that, do please tell us all about it!

 

[spindrift]

I don't make generalisations but people from Birmingham have plastic fruit on the sideboard, a niece called Kylie and a Big Ben doorbell.

Chuffing knobbers.

Ackroyd's The Thames is very good too.

 

[jezhiggins]

Ackroyd's The Thames is very good too.

He wrote a book about London and managed to miss out the large river running through the middle of it?

 

[spindrift]

Anyone who isn't a Londoner is essentially a parasite, leeching off the work of the good people who defeated Hitler.

 

[domtyler]

The Jasper Carrot emulating folk from Birmingham didn't make any Spitfires, that is a long standing misconception. Their main contribution to the war effort was to polish the buttons that were subsequently sewn onto several hundred privates uniforms and raising the goats that were later distilled into Brandy for sending to the Western front.

 

[spindrift]

Didn't a petrol tanker explode causing a conflagration in Birmingham city centre?




Did £12.50 worth of damage.

 

[domtyler]

Didn't a petrol tanker explode causing a conflagration in Birmingham city centre?




Did £12.50 worth of damage.

Yes, but it was way, way more than that. At least sixteen pounds according to one report.

 

[spindrift]

Birmingham isn't actually twinned with anywhere but it does have a suicide pact with Hull.

 

[domtyler]

Many people think that Birmingham is a city, not true. It is in fact just a large number of small villages and hamlets tightly connected by inbred idiots and extended bus shelters.

 

[fossyant]

Anyway - this week has been fine in Manchester - rained a little on my commute home early in the week, and damp on or two mornings, but no rain as such during commuting.

Just been to the park for a picnic for my lunch....