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Ask a Brummie
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I swear I thought Brummie was an euphemism for something... bad...
Anyway... do you have many street preachers there?  I heard you guys have the highest proportion of Muslims in any major English city. Do they tend to be preachy? ![[Image: tumblr_m2vsmhTfM41qa1e2io1_r1_500.gif]](https://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2vsmhTfM41qa1e2io1_r1_500.gif) 
It is a euphemism. And explaining it would violate forum rules.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
RE: Ask a Brummie
May 17, 2015 at 10:22 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2015 at 10:25 pm by dahrling.)
(May 17, 2015 at 10:19 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is a euphemism. And explaining it would violate forum rules. Well, if it really is an euphemism then Urban Dictionary is not in on its definition... I guess my curiosity will not be satiated today
 RE: Ask a Brummie
May 17, 2015 at 10:23 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2015 at 10:25 pm by Regina.)
We do have a lot of Muslims. It's a city of around 1 million people and around 1/4 are Muslim. Still CNN or whatever news channel it was were blowing it out of proportion.
You see more Christian preachers than Muslim preachers in the city centre tbh. Especially the Jamaicans, they're out in force.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie RE: Ask a Brummie
May 17, 2015 at 10:27 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2015 at 10:31 pm by dahrling.)
(May 17, 2015 at 10:23 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: We do have a lot of Muslims. It's a city of around 1 million people and around 1/4 are Muslim. Still CNN or whatever news channel it was were blowing it out of proportion. Leicester has the highest proportion of Muslims in the UK I think, but it's a much smaller city. But why the Jamaicans?  And here I was thinking they were really "chill " or plainly put, stoned.I guess not all of them are liberals
(May 17, 2015 at 10:22 pm)dahrling Wrote:(May 17, 2015 at 10:19 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is a euphemism. And explaining it would violate forum rules. You could try asking in Area 69, but even there it might be going too far. I think you are probably too young and innocent for these sorts of things. "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
Well yeah, there are some areas I wouldn't feel comfortable with. My Nan lives by Alum Rock and she's the only non-Muslim there I know of.
You have the opposite as well though. Muslims are like mythical creatures in the area I live in, they're so rare here.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie RE: Ask a Brummie
May 17, 2015 at 10:32 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2015 at 10:35 pm by dahrling.)
(May 17, 2015 at 10:31 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Well yeah, there are some areas I wouldn't feel comfortable with. My Nan lives by Alum Rock and she's the only non-Muslim there I know of. So are they alienating themselves, or are they the ones alienated? (May 17, 2015 at 10:29 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(May 17, 2015 at 10:22 pm)dahrling Wrote: Well, if it really is an euphemism then Urban Dictionary is not in on its definition... Yes, the famous Area 69. I really don't think I want to join it, to be completely honest. There are just so many weird references to it, I think I would end up traumatized but who knows?
RE: Ask a Brummie
May 17, 2015 at 10:35 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2015 at 10:35 pm by Regina.)
I think they alienate themselves personally
There's also a sizeable black (of Caribbran origin so Christian) population in Birmingham, and although they tend to be poorer on average, they've had less problem integrating in. Any Muslims I know who are secular and make an effort get places as well. One of my best friends growing up was Muslim, from an Iranian family who left Iran after the Shah was overthrown, they're very secular and have never struggled for anything.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie |
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