Birmingham is not on the phone. So, here is a thread for messages

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If you are in Brum, could you pop round with urgent messages?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/6096082.stm

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Birmingham, how do you cope with being such a strange disappointment to your country?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

The fire service can be called from the red phone boxes outside fire stations.

Surely you could just pop in and tell them?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

birmingham, it's time to let go.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Selly Oak: you used to have Europe's busiest cash point, but then you put a second one next to it and now you don't. What was the point of that? Do you think anyone would give a shit about your weird mix of shisha bars and student powerdrinking establishments otherwise?

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Digbeth: I know you're teh hip and fashionable place for Birmingham's no doubt burgeoning hipster community, but charging £3 a badge is taking the piss.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Birmingham, I hate your bus station.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Birmingham taxi drivers: less trying to sell me drugs, more driving between two stops in the shortest distance possible, plz.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Birmingham, I don't like that bit of pavement which goes into that shopping mall (the pallisades??) which leads on to the train station. There's a booming recorded message which tells everyone to walk on the left hand side of the pavement because it's so busy, but nobody does and it's very chaotic. Or at least it was when I was last there.

― C J (C J), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

We did some Christmas shopping in Birmingham last December, and my kids were totally amazed by the colourful diversity of ethnic shops as we drove through the Sparkbrook and Sparkhill areas towards the city centre. "Wow!" they cried "This is amazing! It's better than a ride at Alton Towers!"

― C J (C J), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Dear Birmingham,

Your aloof rooftops jar my soul
I reach out and touch you. You recoil.
How about a shag?
No?
Just a quick fumble?

― hobart paving, Friday, 28 November 2008 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.birminghammail.net/2008/11/28/council-leader-tells-aston-villa-call-yourself-birmingham-97319-22360772/

― Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Friday, 28 November 2008 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

lol at the "yes" votes for "Should Aston Villa be renamed Birmingham?" being coloured blue.

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 28 November 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

would make singing "Birmingham, are you listening to the song we are singing? We're walking along, singing this song, shittin on the City as we gooooooooo" even more ideologically confused than it already is

― Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Friday, 28 November 2008 15:11 (seventeen years ago)

Villa, winners of the FA Cup seven times, the European Cup in 1982 and the former First Division seven times since being formed in 1874, counts Prince William and Tory leader David Cameron among their celebrity supporters.

And American film star Tom Hanks famously said: “I’m big on Aston Villa because the name is just so sweet. It sounds like a lovely spa.”

Prince William can often be seen schlepping round the streets of Witton, cramming a steak n kidney pie into his gob.

I love the fact that this article describes Aston as suburban.

― hobart paving, Friday, 28 November 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

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