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  • this was 3 years ago, birmingham is a much safer and cleaner place now.

  • I had personally never heard about the "bad rep" of the Brummie accent until AFTER I got back from there (I'm Australian), and I actually have to say that I prefer it to all other English accents!

  • I have a northern english accent, and my british aunt thinks it's bad to speak like that, and she says all the time that i need to "fix" it... But i wont, i think its a lot better!

  • theres nuttin wrong with us brummies. working man's place. what a snob. dont cuss my accent. at least im not posh!

  • 1:48 Could have slapper her! 'Working mans place' - snob.

    I love Birmingham, but I hate our accent being compared to the black country accent.

    The last time I said that to someone (whilst I was in Solihull) they thought by Black Country I meant Africa and said I was being racist, stupid posh people.

  • birminghams a shithole. too many stinky blacks and pakis

  • @bassliner90 LOL Racist twat!

  • @IlIJAYIlI maybe but atleast im not a liar

  • I went out this weekend and bought a new Jack Russell puppy for the family. It's black & brown with a small white area...so I called it Birmingham...

  • i dont think i have a brummie accent, but then i ask my aunts and uncles from around the country and they are like Definately! Charming! ive lived in brum all my life

  • @TheFunkystripes From Walsall but wherever you go, you're a Brummie if you're not from London or the North! ;-)

  • @Skadeedah No offence mate but Walsall West Brom Wolves your all yam yams with a different accent than Brummies and its like going back in time when i go up that way:)

  • @IlIJAYIlI True, but they say I'm posh cos I lived Coventry as well so got a mixed up accent if I'm brutally honest, lol!

  • The Birmingham accent is actually my favorite British accent. It has character. I'm Irish by the way. Never understood why people get so stuck up like that, it says more about them then the people they are criticizing.

  • @MrMcQ2u Lol an irish person not talking trash on english people? PRAISE THE LORD!!

  • I have a 70% positive view of Birmingham. I used to study in Wolverhampton, I live in Sunderland now but im moving to the second city when I can.

  • @WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 You're welcome here anytime maaaaate! lol :)

  • @lapalfan

    haha, cheers!

  • 'Unsafe' ??

    Birmingham is actually the safest big city in Britain

    30 murders in a population of 1 million +

    Compare that to the US city of Baltimore

    population- 630,000.... 282 murders last year

    even smaller British cities like Glasgow and Manchester have much higher crime and homicide rates

    the only places in Birmingham I would feel unsafe is Handsworth, Lozells and some other inner city districts- a problem every big city faces

  • @WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 Handsworth has a bad rep just like any other city suburb

  • This video must be several years old because Birmingham is well over 1 million now

  • Birmingham has a lot going for it but it could do a lot more to promote istself in the arts; we need several big feel-good films set in the second city. Or a highly successful sitcom- similar to what Cold Feet done for Manchester or The Full Monty done for Sheffield

  • Oh my god, just saw that they are on Sutton Parade!

  • I don't care if it's rough, I love living in Birmingham and I'm proud of being a Brummie.

  • What the fuck bus is at 0:04, I have never seen a bus like that in Brum!

  • Gimme London over Birmingham anyday.

  • Birmingham isn't any different to other cities. There are nice parts, and rough parts. Same as London, Manchester or Leeds.

  • Wow I thought Milwaukee where I attend Uni in the U.S. was small with a population of approximately 500,000. Talk about different standards.

    Absolutely fascinating documentary though!

  • lol i think the southern accent in the U.S. are closest related to the Brummie accent and Liverpool. im from alabama and i can tell its closer to that than the actual 'american' accent

  • ''one million people with a speech impediment''

    LOL!!!

  • London is always going to be the number one city in the UK and there is a reason for that. Reason 1. We speak normally. 2. We have amazing tourist attractions. 3. There is far more to do.

  • @DeanieBoi07 agree!!

    :)

  • @DeanieBoi07 awight gaverna, ow you doin?

    fack me hell tommy, what av you bin readin?

    queens english right there :P

  • why interview people in Sutton Coldfield where barely anyone I know has a proper Brummie accent?

  • If past governments had spent some money on the old industrial cities of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, then these cities would have been nicer places to live in and to visit. The only city that seems to matter in the UK is London, billions gets spent there, and bugger all anywhere else.

    If you want to meet an Englishman, don't go to London, you won't find one.

  • LOL. our accents aren't even that bad to be honest, not that we realize we have one but seriously and comments about it being Paki Central? It's actually quite mixed .. you fail

  • brum and london are nice cities equally, pointless argumentss

  • ohmygod! i've personally moved from London to Birmingham just recently and I love it :|

    I find the accent funny but not in an odd way - more of an amusing way & it's true what's been said - if Brummies go to London then they get the piss taken out of - the same thing happened to me when I moved to brum from London -.- sad times but minorrrrr! :)

  • sorry didnt understand it!!!!!!!

  • If it's in the North it's not worth visiting, plus its infested with Pakistanis. I don't mind other immigrants but Pakistanis are like vermin turning all they infest to hell.

  • Your man calls it burninghan

  • Britain's Paki capital

  • 100% Ozzy's accent....

  • The elderly lady at 3:45 is WISE AS SHIT.

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  • Brummies Rule

  • i wanna stab the lad at 1:48. and i'm not even from the midlands. snob.

  • "Not very sophisticated" SAYS THE MAN IN A DOUBLE BREASTED SUIT!

  • B9/B10 BIRMINGHAM

  • Thanks for posting. Some of the family are from Brum way way back. I'd love to see it one day. Fascinating that England has a north-south dichotomy just like Canada. The people in the south think they are superior to northerners. While northerners are just happy to be everyday people without pretence. All the best to you from Northern British Columbia, Canada. By the way, very cool accent--so there, London!

  • I love how they go to interview 'Brummies' to see what they think, and they are interviewing Black & Asian immigrants.

    I'm a Brummie, and it is unfortunately a multicultural hellhole, and will be one of the melting pot's for the future civil war.

  • @SperoPatria

    Could not have said it better myself. The blacks and Asian 'immigrants' were probably born in the Midlands, just like the whites, though. Isn't it great to be British? LOL.

  • @SperoPatria Birmingham, a multi...hellhole, err what's London then?

  • I'm German, currently studying in Birmingham. I just love the accent. It's like music. I'm really sad about it but I'm sure I'll never learn how to speak that way no matter how hard I rey.

  • @Funaru

    I am pleased to hear you say these things, but here in Britain, it is considered to be the worse accent in the country. Please do not try to talk like a Brummie. Just be yourself. The German accent is one of the best in the world. Good luck with your studies.

  • @ALNEAL

    Sorry, I got my English wrong. I meant to say '...the worst accent in the country.'

  • Birmingham! how much i love this city. Being the 2nd largest in the UK & in England. It is well known to the international world as being a 2nd city not industrial. Theres nothing in B-Ham City thats industrial in the year of 2011

  • one of the worst cities ive been too.

  • how can you hate on birmingham :'( B9 FOREVER

  • Birmingham is great the good and bad bits

  • If you want to know what Birmingham bullring is really about then watch this watch?v=bAfmaJDMP3A&feature=fe­edlik

  • My favourite cities in Britain are Oxford Birmingham London Bath and Edinburgh :)

  • I do not live in birimngham but i do live about 30min away i do not have brummie accent and i would say london is a bigger shithole than birmingham along with manchester and liverpool both so overated.

  • FUCK BETTER THAN LONDON!!!!!!!!!!!

  • omg Molly your comment!

  • after a week of being there, I had slightly picked up a Birmingham accent ! It was SO funny .But when I got home I quickly faded!

  • I'm from Sutton in Birmingham I've grown up here an I also own a property in covent gardens supposedly one of the better parts of London an I find Sutton safer cleaner and greener every city has it's good and bad bits the closer you get to the city centre the worse it becomes some of the roughest an most deprived areas are walking distance from the city centre. People mix up the black country accent which grates on me too with Birmingham they're basing their assumptions on a small proportion of

  • 3:49 very nice girls, very hot.

  • 5:31 lolololol

  • dirty goons came to brum and ran out !

  • 1:43 - sounds exactly like Alan Rickman

  • @CaptainOvious123 SO TRUE! Hahaha.

  • bcfc brum town 0121 snm

  • Dirty? They must of been to Sparkhill!!

  • The guys at 4:23 are from Birmingham, yet when they try to put a Birmingham accent on, it sounds nothing like it. They sounded like a mix between a black country and manchester accent. Fail much,.

    Brummie and proud <3

  • i love brummie accent :D

  • 2.48 what do brummies think , dont think any of the people spoke to had a brummie accent ??? .

  • Dudley, aint that where Lenny Henry was from?

  • u ppl think u know bout brum u know fuck alll be proud like

  • The guy at 4:10 cracks me up! and all these people know nothing about Birmingham come live here appreciate where your from!

  • 800,000 people live in Leeds!!!

  • Fuck that little grey mill town Manchester, Birmingham aint the second city, its the first city!!!

  • 3:45 What? LOL

  • Wooo I think I sound like the last guy that spoke lol

  • "THEY CUS OUR ACCENT AND STUFF.....THERE IS NO NEED FOR *THAAAAT*"

    3:26

    LOL I'm brummy but still thats funny

  • @amirullah Haha she didnt even have a brummy accent its was asian slang

  • one million people with a speech impedIment WANKER but quite funny though lol

  • 3.28 you ent a brumie your a paki

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  • 0121 do one

  • we found 2 people who said they had no preconceptions, and therefore no northern people have preconceptions. genius research,

  • Ha! I love brum and I am a proud brummie! You guys heard of the new comic book thats came out set in birmingham? The heros name is Dreadfire and theres a facebook page and a website, its interactive and set in Brum! Madness, Ive already pre-ordered my copy check it out, dreadfire. com! Birmingham ftw!

  • THE ONLY REASON I WANNA GO TO UK IS BECAUSE TO LEARN THEIR SWEET ACCENT

  • wtf all those fuck 'eds at the start criticising bham tssss noone can skank it like bham.. fuck dem "the way we speak" you fucken dizzy or somfink thats 1970's shit. black country. we dont talk no strong harsh accent tss fuck you yano

  • wooop b14 yeahhhhh

  • @MrBrumTing ennit all brum manzz

  • 5:30 no, you have a nigger accent

  • @seanyCFC1 racist bastard

  • @seanyCFC1 LOOOOOOOL

  • I live in birmingham not far from the city centre actually. Yes it's a shit hole but I love it, I really do it's my home. I do plan on moving away from Birmingham but that's in the future 20-30yrs maybe.

  • How fit was that blonde at 3:49 LOL.

  • lived in birmingham all my life it is a shit hole no jobs, over populated , and birmingham football club is an embarrasment to the cit yand so r their dopey retarded supporters lol

  • @jamescostello1976 birmingham is just as much of a shithole as other cities in the uk. every city has bad areas, lots of areas in birmingham are nice it's no worse than any other city. the city centre has more going for it than most cities in the uk

  • If u from birmingham, your a don lol

  • the people who hate on brum can go fuck yourselfs

  • I live in birmingham and its a full on shit hole but i'd never move away cuz theyres so many awesome people and places XD BRUM 4 LYF!!! -3

  • Huh i thought Manchester was a very rough place but i didn't know Birmingham had that reputation, good to know.

  • i cant tell the difference

  • Isn't og niki from here? hahahaha That girl gave all these females a bad name there.... oh quick question: what's a chav? Sounds cool lol

    -Love from the US

    PS...ur accents are fucking sexy but I can't tell the difference from one english accent to another :(

  • @Sendria OG nikki's not something were proud of, lmao a chav is like a person who goes around looking trashy haha, and thankyou for the accent compliment ;)

  • brum 4 lifey

  • "one million people with a speech impediment" hahahahahahaha

  • I found this by watching an interview with Gordon Ramsey on Craig Ferguson's show.

  • I used to live in Birmingham in 1999 with my boyfriend and bunch of other briliant people we got to know and we miss it there!I don't understand what people have against Birmingham.Guess they didn't get to know it the way we did.Sure it's not London and thank God!My love to all Ya Brommies!!!

  • I heard you were "embarassed" when you found out who you (naturally) COULD have had. These are YOUR people now. Look at them. Thats what you murdered us over...a flock of mongoloid sheep that can't even put a dream back without adding an Indian Giver to immediately sabbotage it again. YOURS, Autumn. For Christmas, you stole too.

    I have no ties there now. Not even the two pieces of photo from the Fish and Chip bin, and that's how a Smith who does NOTHING convinces themself they have a function

  • actaully its now 60 million ppl in total in UK thanks too even more ppl flooding in.

  • i've lived in Birmingham since i was born and i'm 15, in all honestly its a shit hole :}

    but i love it, i dont think i could ever move from here.

  • Proud to be a Brummie. An i luv my accent. Least it nt all propa like tht snob who sed 1 million people with a speech impediment. Arsehole to ya matee. And tha guy who sed its dirty. Go get a haircut!

  • bless the old dear gwaaaaaaaan old lady :)

  • 5:23 kid with red tie, brandon decosta? used to go plantsbrook school? interesting

  • I went to Birmingham last summer during a euro-trip. I always heard bad things about it. But i actually loved the city! Its really lively and the people were really nice. Oh, and the Brummie accent is pretty dope! Greeting from Chicago.

  • Im from America and I think the Brummie accent is best. I dont get why a lot of people hate it, its quite nice (:

  • Join or group on facebook.Nechells group Birmingham.

  • The black and Asian girls don't really have a traditional Brummy accent...

  • that asain sounds a dick he isnt even a real brummie hate people that take the piss

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  • @xxxxtruedestinyxxxx nonsense, wen are u gonna get married, instead of one man to another

  • @1Waddup excuse me u dont know me u shouldnt judge other people on who they date also i dont date all men i only date one man also u have no right to think badly off me im 31 years old i m not young

  • My boyfriend lives in Birmingham and I love his accent! ;D I can't wait till he comes to Miami this summer!!

  • People tend to describe things in black and white; in truth Birmingham is a "quite good" city that will become a decent one as soon as a new train station is finished and they replace some of the rotting districts with greenery.

    Probably the most stunning university campus after Oxford and Cambridge, though!

  • lol at 4:29 with the shite hair

    you have no fucking accent whatsoever you bellend

  • "They cus our accents"

    Stupid bitch

  • BEST accent ever.

  • @andy7666 worst accent ever you mean, they sound like they've got down syndrome.

  • @sh4p3shifter  prick

  • @andy7666 must be mad...and im birmingham born n bred!

  • worst accent ever

  • everyone's like EEERRRRRR BIRMINGHAM. but i love it here:')

  • Aw, I think that Brummie accent is kind of cute! (But I'm American >_>)

  • i don't know why the asians in the video complain about people making fun of birmingham accents, because their accent is nothing like a birmingham accent

  • 1.43..... 'one million people with a speech impediment'. get off your high horse you ignorant cunt.

    interesting documentary though... it's no secret that nationally birmingham connotates negative things to many people. but plenty of people love my accent! birmingham is a great place and i'm proud to be part of it.

  • @monumentalemptiness Yep, he needs a face black from booting.

  • fucking proud to be a brummie-3

  • Im proud to be a brummie !!!! xD @mrbluenose89 birmingham city football club are sh!t, Villa is so much better!!

  • bishop veseys grammer school at the end lol

  • Proud to be Brummie.

  • BirminghAM is shit. 

  • F.U.C.K A POSTCODE 0121!!! people from birmingham will get this aha.

  • can someone tell me what is shown at 2:08

    It is one of the standart windows 7 wallpapers and I always wondered whhat it could of been...

  • @62pickup That's the Selfridges Building, Designed by Future Systems for the Selfridges store. :)

  • I dig that accent.

  • Birmingham is a dump.

  • robotruss was happy in brum

  • Birmingham accent is ANNOYING!.

  • @Bunfire123 Hey, at least we're not scousers. YAY =D

  • I love birmingham

  • Go On Brum!

    We are the best :D

    Oh And BTW Our town is not Dirty!

  • Go On Brum!

    We are the best :D

  • Born Brummie, I'll fucking die Brummie! Fuck haters.

  • @daydream605 We are Brummies, we are Brummies, we are Brummies, yes we are. THEY ARE WANKERS, THEY ARE WANKERS, THEY ARE WANKERS, YES THEY ARE. FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THE TWAT WHO MADE THE SPEECH IMPEDIMENT COMMENT. I WANNA GIVE HIM A LIFE IMPEDIMENT!

  • I grew up in Redditch and spent a lot of time in Birmingham. It's not as bad as people make it out to be, but it's not a wonderful place either. It is dirty, but no dirtier than most of the cities in the UK, There is also a lot to do though, and everything is easily accessible.

  • I grew up in Redditch and spent a lot of time in Birmingham. It's not as bad as people make it out to be, but it's not a wonderful place either. It is dirty, but no dirtier than most of the cities in the UK, There is also a lot to do though, and everything is easily accessible.

  • Best city on earth!! Brummie til I die!! Birmingham City Football Club!! Shit on the villa.

  • @MrBluenose89 keep right on son

  • @MrBluenose89 COS THEY'RE A LOAD OF SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE.

  • wow, so i didn't know i have SPEECH IMPEDIMENT, i'm dirty and live in a unclean, unsafe abadonded dilapidated old factory... HAHAHA

    5:27 shut it stupid year 8 yeyeyeye

  • if birminghams the 2nd largets city with only 1 million people how the hell does UK have a population of 65 million

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