Hi

Just wandered if there was any other people from Birmingham now nesting in Sheffield.

I always see this same geeza wearing an Aston Villa top in town and meadowhall. Dont know if there is anyone else.

Cheers

spyro2000 - your location lists B'ham, but are you actually 'nesting' in Sheffield then?

Originally posted by spyro2000
Hi

Just wandered if there was any other people from Birmingham now nesting in Sheffield.

I always see this same geeza wearing an Aston Villa top in town and meadowhall. Dont know if there is anyone else.

Cheers

He bought it cheap from a car boot sale, and he works cleaning windows in the day, and delivers Kebabs at night :D

Originally posted by redrobbo
spyro2000 - your location lists B'ham, but are you actually 'nesting' in Sheffield then?

Yes I currently live in sheffield. Im a tax dodger :D

p.s. why has this thread been moved, as its clearly a sheffield issue.

Originally posted by owdlad
He bought it cheap from a car boot sale, and he works cleaning windows in the day, and delivers Kebabs at night :D

lol sounds like a very busy chappy indeed :D

Sort of...lol...I'm originally from the Black Country, although I was born on Hagley Road ;) Don't flaming support Aston Villa though!:P

Originally posted by Eleri
Sort of...lol...I'm originally from the Black Country, although I was born on Hagley Road ;) Don't flaming support Aston Villa though!:P

Baggies or Wolves?

Originally posted by LordChaverly
Baggies or Wolves?

As a kid, it was Baggies (my brother insisted!), but now...none of em. Gave up on football long ago :D

In our family, my uncle supported Villa, my grandmother supported Wolves, and the rest supported West Brom, lol. I fondly remember the Christmas I was given a Villa hoodie by my uncle, now that caused trouble! :lol:

Most people outside the area don't know the difference between the Black Country and Birmingham - there is a difference, as any Black Countryman (or woman) will tell you - including the most famous Black countryman of all (probably), Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. .

Ay that roit aer kid?

Originally posted by LordChaverly
Ay that roit aer kid?

Yoi, Am bostin I yam bab! :D

Originally posted by Kristian
Yoi, Am bostin I yam bab! :D

Kristian, bin yo from the Black Country?

No, not me bab, but sat next to someone who was for far too long; I always referred to him (to his face!) as Mrs Tardibigge; do you remember her, she was the cleaner from Crossroads! :clap:

Originally posted by LordChaverly
Most people outside the area don't know the difference between the Black Country and Birmingham - there is a difference, as any Black Countryman (or woman) will tell you - including the most famous Black countryman of all (probably), Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. .

Ay that roit aer kid?

Ar ;)

True though, I soon found out that it was easier to tell people I came from Brum than from the Black Country when I moved up here. No one knew where the Black Country was! :lol:

Wor arf a loff

(Dudley born me)

Oldbury and a Baggie. There are quiet a few Baggies fans around Sheffield.

Originally posted by LordChaverly
Most people outside the area don't know the difference between the Black Country and Birmingham - there is a difference, as any Black Countryman (or woman) will tell you - including the most famous Black countryman of all (probably), Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. .

Ay that roit aer kid?

true true

one thing that slightly irritates me is that when i tell people imfr om Birmingham, they automatically say "you dont sound like a brummy. I think that most people when thinking of the Birmingham accent presume we speak like Black country folk. Its totally seperate, and if any of you come to Birmingham you will see that the accent you actually think we have is black country and not Birmingham.

rant over:D

Originally posted by spyro2000
true true

one thing that slightly irritates me is that when i tell people imfr om Birmingham, they automatically say "you dont sound like a brummy. I think that most people when thinking of the Birmingham accent presume we speak like Black country folk. Its totally seperate, and if any of you come to Birmingham you will see that the accent you actually think we have is black country and not Birmingham.

rant over:D


I don't know...think it depends where you're from in Brum, to be honest.

I know a lot of Brummies that have a really thick accent, they just don't speak the same dialect as Black Country folks. :)

Saying that, after 12 years up here, I've virtually lost my accent now, so I sometimes get the same thing said to me...do they think I'm lying or summat?? :D

Some information on the Black Country.

Location: between Birmingham and Wolverhampton (including Wolverhampton);

Black Country towns: Tipton, Dudley, West Bromwich, Oldbury, Bilston, Wednesbury, Walsall, Sedgley, Cradley, Brierley Hill, Darlaston, Halesowen, Wolverhampton, Blackheath, part of Smethwick.

Traditional industries: metalbashing in all its forms

Famous Black Country people: Robert Plant, Noddy Holder, Lenny Henry, Frank Skinner, Sam Allerdyce, Josie Lawrence, Christine McVie, Julie Walters, Jerome K. Jerome, Ford Maddox Ford, Abraham Darby ('father of the industrial revolution'), Dud Dudley (iron smelting pioneer), some of the 1605 gunpowder plotters, Billy Wright, Enoch Powell, the Tipton Slasher (William Perry, champion prize fighter), Aynuk and Eli

Famous Black country animals: Black Country Bulldog (Staffordshire bull terrier); ferrets; various animals in Dudley zoo;

Black Country cuisine: grorty pudding (beef and oat groats); faggots and pays; pigs pudding; scratchins; Desperate Dan cow pie (from the Pie Factory);

Black Country Dialect: a huge number of words (e.g. ‘ar’ for yes; ‘bay’ for am not; ‘caw’ for can’t and many others just too numerous to list) and distinctive vowel sounds (e.g. yo for you; fower for four; foive for five; noin for nine; babby for baby etc)

Football teams: the Baggies, Wolves, Walsall

Papers: Express and Star; the Black Country Bugle

Black Country sights: Dudley Castle and zoo; Dudley priory, the Wrens Nest, Netherton tunnel, the Black Country museum; the Venice of the Midlands (Tipton’s canal network);

Black Country masochists: season ticket holders at The Hawthornes and Molineaux

Disloiks: being taken for Brummies; Brummies (sorry Ozzie).