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What do you see when you picture the Midlands?

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colditz · 02/09/2005 23:13

To all Mumsnetters who don't live in the Midlands...what do you think it is like there? And how do you picture the people?

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jampots · 02/09/2005 23:13

ooh why colditz - are you a Midlander?

Hattie05 · 02/09/2005 23:14

This land in the middle of nowhere, full of trolls and widemouthed frogs.

Hattie05 · 02/09/2005 23:15

Oh and of course beautiful mumsnetters standing in the middle

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colditz · 02/09/2005 23:15

Jp, yesn I am. I am just nosy. People seem to have definate ideas about Scotland, South England, North England, Cornwall, Wales etc, but you never hear any interesting stereotypes about the Midlands!

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zippitippitoes · 02/09/2005 23:15

Sounds a bit betwixt and between...sorry just saw rthe don't bit...

starlover · 02/09/2005 23:16

when i see the word i picture a map of england! lol

midlands i just think of lots of grass and countryside and stuff,
also makes me think of birmingham!

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colditz · 02/09/2005 23:20

See? There isn't any. People just picture a big white space in between manchester and Watford [sulk]

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starlover · 02/09/2005 23:31

i tjhink you're all alcoholic mothers who leave their children while they go to the pub.
and you all have cleaners.
AND you have dogs,. some of you don't walk them

starlover · 02/09/2005 23:31

is that the kind of thing you wanted?

zippitippitoes · 02/09/2005 23:33

Starlover this is unwindinding ...

myturn · 02/09/2005 23:34

The Midlands - full of people who are more real and true to themselves than anyone else in the rest of Britain.

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colditz · 02/09/2005 23:39

Yay.

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starlover · 02/09/2005 23:40

people in the midlands have strange fixations with concentration camps

zippitippitoes · 02/09/2005 23:41

Midlanders are individuals in a wide world...

Tortington · 02/09/2005 23:42

my nan grew up in coventry and dislikes birmingham - so that taints my view.

i think birmingham is the midlands - the whole of the midlands
so that means that b'ham is the M6 and the M6 is a fing nightmare - ergo birmingham is a fking nighmare

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colditz · 02/09/2005 23:43

PMSL..... at strange fixations.

i picked the name for a very different reason actually, didn't stop to think how it would appear to people who aren't... "Local"

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starlover · 02/09/2005 23:44

you see i always think of the midlands as being this little green patch right in the middle... and there are noi cities! it is between birmingham and london (and whatever else borders it)... in MY head

and quite frankly i am always right

starlover · 02/09/2005 23:45

interesting... i have wondered about that rfom time to time!
is there another colditz inb the midlands?

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colditz · 02/09/2005 23:45

There, see? It might as 6well^ be a great big patch of nothing! LOL

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myturn · 02/09/2005 23:45

I lived in Telford for quite a while. Which is full of people from Birmingham and the rest of the Midlands. People who are funny, and lovely, and unassuming, and honest and I learnt a lot from them.

And I have drunk a lot of wine but am now speaking (or slurring) or typing from the heart.

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colditz · 02/09/2005 23:45

SL... a very very small one.

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colditz · 02/09/2005 23:46

Shropshire is supposed to be God's own couny, but I don't live there.

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myturn · 02/09/2005 23:47

Never heard that! I must be a very spiritual person!

starlover · 02/09/2005 23:48

is it your house? do you trap unsuspecting mumsnettetrs there when they come on midlands meets?

marthamoo · 02/09/2005 23:49

I just mentioned this on my Grim Up North thread. To me Midlands = Birmingham which = traffic jams and the most badly designed motorway junctions in the world. I've also seen Birmingham New Street Station (20p for a wee!) and the coach station. I'm sure it's really a very nice place...

Oh and Jasper Carrott.