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Brummie sayings
replied on: 12/25/2004 9:28:19 PM

My father also told me of Peaky Blinders in Summer Lane, nan also used to refer to people from Pakistan (or maybe india in general?) as parkies... this was, i can asure you, by no means racist, if anything she was probably a very early p.c. brigade contender but we all sniggered when she said it regardless. Could that be considered offensive? not really as to my knowledge it was never used by racists!
Jonni_adams

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Brummie sayings
replied on: 1/10/2005 12:19:18 AM

I Swede is a what you Brummies used to call us in Bromsgrove, before you all move in next door!
DrVeraJenkins
old dear
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Brummie sayings
replied on: 3/8/2005 10:47:30 PM

A lot of Brummies refer to hospitals by shortened names. Like: The Kids, the Matty, the old Acci, Deadly Road, you know that sort of thing. "er was born up the Matty but 'ad to goo straight in the Kids 'cause 'er 'ad an 'ernia".
JPF






Brummie sayings
replied on: 3/31/2005 3:05:06 PM

I was born in the Q.E. and probably blarted at the time.

I mean the non-rude version of blarting!

There's a bloke who works with me who says 'if thats right then my pricks a bloater' WTF?
peakyblinder
old hand
Rank: Chinny





Brummie sayings
replied on: 4/1/2005 8:48:40 PM

What's the rude version?
JPF






Brummie sayings
replied on: 4/2/2005 9:32:08 AM

It involves a porridge gun. Thats all i'm saying.
elasticman






Brummie sayings
replied on: 4/12/2005 11:40:25 PM

"Giz a raz" as in "Giz a raz on yer byke yer spaz" (late '70's early '80's)
greatperrybarrstand

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Brummie sayings
replied on: 5/7/2005 10:17:48 PM

Seen more fat on a greasy chip than on you.
m8e
Rank: Ozzy





Brummie sayings
replied on: 5/8/2005 12:46:30 AM

Face to stop a clock.
bondibrummie






Brummie sayings
replied on: 5/21/2005 8:52:01 AM


What about yow goowin ta pub
DaanSaaf

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Brummie sayings
replied on: 9/23/2005 3:25:29 PM

Saw it in another post. What is a Yam Yam ?

falsedog
Rank: Jasper
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Brummie sayings
replied on: 9/23/2005 5:42:54 PM

Many people ask what YamYams are. When shown some, they ask again what they are.
Russ-L
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Brummie sayings
replied on: 9/23/2005 6:44:46 PM

A Yam-yam is an inhabitant of the urban region known as the Black Country, to the west of Birmingham. If you've heard of places like West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall, Stourbridge etc - those ends.

I am a Yam-yam. God hermself told me that we are her chosen people. On the bus one night, this was.
DrVeraJenkins
old dear
Rank: Jasper





Brummie sayings
replied on: 11/13/2005 11:43:48 PM

"Oi, Bezza, them babbies ands is a frozzan, ain dey got no mits? Them babbies a be poorly sick. Call ya selva muvver ya stupid bitch?"

Meaning, "I say Beryl, look at the cold hands of these young children. Don't they have any gloves to wear? They'll be ill with influenza. Parenthood requires a greater degree of responsibility in my opinion."

Just one of the common coloquiel sayings from the West Midlands area as I've recorded over the years. This one published in my most recent book on the great Birmingham slum clearance "Smiling Through The Rubble: The Day the Corporation Bulldozed Garbett Street".

sherpa_lova

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Ded Yampy...
replied on: 7/11/2006 1:11:02 PM

quote:
Throwing a sausage up Great Charles Street. I don't know what it means though.


If it's the same as throwing a sausage up an alley then it means having sex with a woman who creates an echo whenever she takes her pants off.



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