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Just an FYI
I got around to watching the F vs F movie.
I thought is was real good.
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One of the few films I've watched lately that I've enjoyed enough to watch again ...... and subsequently bought the DVD

Ok, you can nitpick some of the detail, as ever with a film of this genre, but it gets the spirit of the deal across well

The guy who plays Henry II (I think he was in 'Fargo' as well) really nails it

Ken Miles was born a few miles down the road from me, and even the 'Brummie' accents by Bale and the leading lady are passable
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What part of England is a Brummie from?
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Dave ....... binya arhkid

Birmingham, or 'Brummigem' colloquially, hence the name

There are at least a hundred dialects within about a twenty five mile radius ....... 'Black Country' & 'Yam-Yam' being the other better known ...... all much of a muchness to the untrained ear, but woe betide anyone who calls an 'Ocker Bonk' native a 'Brummie' even though it's less than ten miles from the city centre :wink:

AIUI Ken Miles was born south of Brum, so chances are he would have had a softer dialect, not as 'thick' as in the film ...... but that's splitting hairs and it's a change to hear something familiar without it being a parody

Anyway .......
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If I remember my schooling Birmingham was where the industrial revolution more or less began.
Also got the heck bombed out of it in WW2.

Interesting that Birmingham, Pennsylvania became a center for steel production here.
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Dave Koehler wrote:If I remember my schooling Birmingham was where the industrial revolution more or less began.
Yes, more or less ..... some would put it 'down the road' at Coalbrookdale ..... but it took off in Brum
Also got the heck bombed out of it in WW2
Not so much, Coventry had it worse, although we had regular raids
Interesting that Birmingham, Pennsylvania became a center for steel production here
Birmingham was mostly known as a 'metal bashing' town, there were smelters on every corner hundred years ago, but a lot of 'steel' came in from Wales and the Rother valley

Interestingly, Brum has a much bigger canal network than Venice ..... don't see too many gondoliers plying their trade around here though, lol ......
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BCjohnny wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 1:48 pm
Interestingly, Brum has a much bigger canal network than Venice ..... don't see too many gondoliers plying their trade around here though, lol ......
It's all in the marketing.
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Some Brummies

No gondoliers, but Iommi was at least Italian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qanF-91aJo
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