12. Trying To Get A Drink At The Briar Rose
flickrNot because the staff are incompetent. They aren't. In fact, they're pretty damn great. The problem isn't with them, it's with the sheer popularity of the pub. Going in there for pre-drinks before hitting Broad Street? Yeah, good luck. It's the cheapest place in the city centre to get yourself a pint and so, on a Friday, Saturday or just about any night it is rammed full of people. Yet you'll still go there every single time because a bargain is a bargain. Wetherspoon's prices are the best. Is waiting an hour to get served really worth saving a quid here and there? Well, if you're a Brummie, it clearly is.
11. People Asking You To Say Words In Brummie
New Line CinemaMeeting new people is hard for everyone, but if you happen to be a Brummie meeting new people is particularly hard. There's one thing that everyone will ask you to do and whether you want to or not, you usually oblige. It's not like the Birmingham accent is particularly hard to understand, yet for some reason the moment you leave the city everyone wants to hear you say things. It's like a game for non-Brummies and you're the used up Brummie toy. "Say 'Birmingham'," they will demand. Then when that gets old, which it invariably does, "Say 'I'm from Birmingham". This will go on and on until you realise that these people are not laughing with you, they're laughing at you and somehow you have been reduced to a performing monkey. When someone starts doing this, it's usually best just to walk away.
10. People Impersonating Your Accent
4shared.comOnce people are done making fun of you by having you say different things in Brummie, they will decide it's now their turn. If anything, this is worse. People impersonating the Brummie accent isn't just annoying, it's damn right offensive. Would you go up to someone from Spain and imitate their accent for fun? No, that's right, you wouldn't. Yet, somehow it becomes socially acceptable when you do this to someone from the Midlands. The sound of a non-Brummie trying to put on a Brummie accent is comparable only to the sound of gravel in a washing machine. Sure, we might elongate our words, but not
that much. Sure, we might sound a little monotone, but you're really over doing it. Sure, we miss some parts of words out, but now you're really going too far. Actually... would you mind... I mean it would be really nice if... could you... Oh come on, shut up!
9. People In Adverts Pretending To Be Brummie
Hotels4U.comIf it wasn't bad enough that strangers you meet try to put on the Brummie accent, this has somehow slipped over into TV. There has been a trend recently of people in adverts having ridiculously over the top Brummie accents. What is it about Brummie accent that makes people want to buy things? That's right, nothing, so why are you using it in your advert? Of course, the worse of these was the recent Hotels4U advert, in which a charming couple search online for a budget holiday of their dreams. You have to question who thought this was a good idea and what their motives are. Is it that they think Brummies are think (as we've already discussed) and so are the perfect people to be using their simple database. This works on the premise of if a Brummie can use our site, then literally
anyone can. Like I said, offensive.