Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
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- Basking in my own brilliance.
As any fool knows, if you enter any wormhole in the London sewers, you can only leave it at Mornington Crescent.
Inconsistencies or plot holes in films
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As any fool knows, if you enter any wormhole in the London sewers, you can only leave it at Mornington Crescent.
Illaveago
Guru
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I keep reading the title as "Pot Holes!"
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Like the one in the Yellow Brick Road that caused Dorothy to break her ankle?
Chris S
Legendary Member
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- Birmingham
Benjamin Zephania appears in the second series of 'Peaky Blinders' wearing dreadlocks. They were practically unknown in the Carribean until the emergence of Rastafarianism in the 1930s. The second series of 'Peaky Blinders' was set in 1922.
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Chief Broom
Veteran
In Terminator 'Rise of the machines' Arnie runs over Mrs terminator and imbeds the pickup in a wall, Mrs terminators mercedes blows up for no reason at all as it wasnt hit by anything. This bothers me greatly... 
Chris S
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- Birmingham
'This Town' is set in the West Midlands in 1981. It shows whole blocks of council flats with UPVC windows. In 1981 they had metal windows, they weren't retrofitted with UPVC windows until around the Millenium.
matticus
Guru
Dogtrousers
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I haven't seen it, but isn't it set in Coventry?
That's not what I would think of as West Midlands. I'd class Coventry, and anything else E of Brum like Leicester and Northampton as East Midlands.
But maybe it's just me. Maybe I've hit on another of those "Where does the North start" things
That's not what I would think of as West Midlands. I'd class Coventry, and anything else E of Brum like Leicester and Northampton as East Midlands.
But maybe it's just me. Maybe I've hit on another of those "Where does the North start" things
matticus
Guru
.. and that's just the beginning of controversy around the show:
Fans took aim at the accents describing them as 'so fake'
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Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery was one of the actors who tried her best to get the Brummie accent right
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Brummie accent? In Coventry? Oh dear.
This takes me to a tale told by a good friend of mine from Coventry. She was an engineering student (probably at roughly the same time that "This Town" is set, or a bit before). By her own admission she has never been much good at geography. Anyway, she was on a placement at a foundry somewhere in the Black Country. Dudley or somewhere like that. She was having difficulty understanding what people were saying, there was a big molten metal spill and a lot of yelling. "I thought they were talking Welsh. I must have gone all the way to Wales" (What did I say about not being very good at geography?)
Accents in the Midlands are a bit of a nightmare. Mind you that's probably true of most places. Imagine something set in Manchester, but involving scenes in Liverpool and Bolton.
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wiggydiggy
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The last series of Happy Valley had a character go to court in (supposedly) Leeds, then ride a bike back to Halifax area. The court is actually in Bolton so I've got a little respect for the effort involved in riding back that quickly!
Chris S
Legendary Member
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- Birmingham
Coventry is part of the West Midlands county and has been since its creation in 1974.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Well you live and learn. I grew up in the West Midlands (that is the bits of the Midlands that are West, not East) and I never knew it stretched so far East!
Interesting that there are chunks of the East Midlands that are West of Coventry.
matticus
Guru
Well blow me down.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/a...nly-just-realised-learned.284396/post-7177452
The Midlands is like a foreign country to me!
