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question about pronunciation.
Does 'Birmingham' rhyme with 'Sam' or 'hum'?
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:05, 81 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
Hum

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:06, Reply)
Kipper tie

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:06, Reply)
heh

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:07, Reply)
milk and half a sugar please

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:08, Reply)
hum
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:07, Reply)
it's pronounced birmingum

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:07, Reply)
Locally it's pronounced 'Beermingumm'
by local legends such as 'Yow Bay Fah Tay', and 'Slide'.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:14, Reply)
*shudders*

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:15, Reply)
lol for Slide

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:16, Reply)
Slide are from Wolverhampton
As is the accent you are typing in.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:20, Reply)
Ow, oi'm ivver saow sehrrhai, pal.

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:29, Reply)
You are too good at this

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:36, Reply)
Oi naow. Oi'm am-eye-zingggg.

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:43, Reply)
It's just a suburb of Milton Keynes
just call it north west MK.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:08, Reply)
You want to claim Birmingham for your own?
How odd
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:12, Reply)
Of course, we'll swallow it up and make it better.

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:13, Reply)
To be fair, if it's outside the M25 or isn't Brighton, it's all the same.

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:13, Reply)
oh gonz
*sadly shakes head*
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:14, Reply)
He means "not shit and full of gaylords"

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:17, Reply)
that makes sense

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:18, Reply)
*bumpkin fives*

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:24, Reply)
I think it rhymes with Chair, as in "I don't care".
I'm sorry, I hope you don't mind, it's just that I'm not really interested, I guess it depends on what your dialect is.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:11, Reply)
It's pronounced
Buuurrrrrrrr ming am
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:12, Reply)
*put in a lone vote for ham*

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:12, Reply)
Wet ham?

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:15, Reply)
moist pork

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:19, Reply)
My god you are DISGUSTING

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:21, Reply)
given half a chance, yes

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:26, Reply)
Can't wait to read your Gathering blog

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:26, Reply)
"fought a bit
wandered round, got drunk, watched someone vomit, fought some more stuff, did something you won't understand the significance of, fought more zombies, ate burger, home"
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:28, Reply)
That is pretty disgusting
Less penetration than I was expecting though
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:29, Reply)
i'll work on it
but it's pretty unlikely. You aren't allowed to stab with larp weapons
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:30, Reply)
I know
I got bollocked for that on my first LARP
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:34, Reply)
A flanking assualt to the rear?

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:36, Reply)
Hahaha

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:36, Reply)
Nope
Might have been different had I gone to Uni with Cavy, mind
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:41, Reply)
woah!
you're sullying my good name, there!
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:42, Reply)
I only suggested that I might have tried
not that you'd have let me succeed
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:45, Reply)
oh ok
Also, I wasn't a larper at uni, that's why I have a degree
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:46, Reply)
I see
At what point did you become a filthmonger?
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:48, Reply)
i think that developed in tandem with larping
for no reason at all
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:49, Reply)
Nothing to do with being surrounded by the waves of unsatisfied testosterone?

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:53, Reply)
nothing at all

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:55, Reply)
you love it you filthy minx.

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:56, Reply)
*feels sick*

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:26, Reply)
Burr-ming-um

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:16, Reply)
you can't spell Birmingham without MING
fact
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:17, Reply)
I like this
Nearly as good as Scunthorpe
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:18, Reply)
you can't spell scunthorpe
without 'hope'
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:19, Reply)
and an r

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:19, Reply)
Do you know, I've been to Southampton, but I've never been to Scunthorpe?
Don't even ask me about my wardrobe arrangements, it's a nightmare. Aunt Maud is *constantly* nagging at me to sort it out.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:19, Reply)
Hahaha
I feel a bit dirty for clicking this
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:21, Reply)
I feel pretty gross for posting it.

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:25, Reply)
I hope it ends up on the popular page
as a constant reminder of your filth
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:26, Reply)
I don't get it

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:26, Reply)
Popular music reference.

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:27, Reply)
oh right
not actually dirty then
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:28, Reply)
This is to your credit
Kroney is riffing on a couple of lines from Tinie Tempah's pop smash "Pass Out"
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:28, Reply)
I'm fairly sure I have never heard Tinie Tempah
and I hope it stays that way
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:29, Reply)
I have heard the name
but I too had no fucking clue as to what it was about
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:30, Reply)
This entire subthread has made me extremely ashamed of myself.
I wish I had never posted.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:31, Reply)
This is the part where we all click your original post

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:32, Reply)
darling
we feel like that every time you post
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:34, Reply)
I have been known to tolerate some of his music, briefly
but you'd hate it.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:30, Reply)
I just googled that as I've not heard it before.
Tell ya, he was much better in those Halifax adverts.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:30, Reply)
Haha!
Harold Tempah
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:32, Reply)

Scunthorpe Me
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:21, Reply)
'Scum'
It rhymes AND it's an aide-memoire
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:17, Reply)
Brummagem

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:19, Reply)
Bur...ming....ham.
With the accent on the ming.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:24, Reply)
You pronounce it....
'Worth starting a fucking thread and then fucking off like a cunt without so much as a word of apology for making people think about the shithole that is Birmingham'
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:29, Reply)
Psst! He's Australian.

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:30, Reply)
Is he really?
He must be a fan of BBC1 dramas starring Keeley Hawes and Robert Glenister then
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:31, Reply)
It's better than his 'other' OT post
'Look at me I've written a bent story'
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:30, Reply)
Oh yeah, the 'short' story.

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:31, Reply)
So he's SpankHanky's sockpuppet?
Ew, can you imagine? It'd be full of dried spunk.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:32, Reply)
now you're picturing it though
you'd have to crack it in half to get your foot inside it.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:33, Reply)
Haha, I hate you.

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:34, Reply)
and all the little white flakes would drift down to lodge in your pants

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:36, Reply)
i think you killed the thread with that

(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:41, Reply)
depends on whom you ask.
locals say buuuuuuurrrrrrrrrm-ing-ham.

everyone else says shit-hole.
(, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:32, Reply)

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