Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
The worst destination I had on my calendar while working in IT was the annual exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham . . . It's exactly as SA describes, but he left out the ring of Pakistani and Indian misery surrounding these creatures.
We had InterOp in Las Vegas, Tokyo andothers, Cebit in Hanover etc... and then there was Birmingham - if the incredibly nasty accent doesn't get you then the dental horror of these subhumans will.

Always hated it with a passion and tried to fob off attendance to others - usually people from HQ in the US who were enamoured by the embellished description of Buckingham Palace and Big Ben being just around the corner.

When it comes to dreary the UK's mid to north has it down pat.
I was in Birmingham meeting a mate during the summer and Brum has come on leaps and bounds over the last few years. Like most of the city centres in the midlands/north - Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle etc - it's had a lot of money pumped into it and is a decent place to live while you've also got the accent to laugh at. Ain't that right, Cy/Dil?

The smaller northern mill towns - hence the title of the song, Kingdom of Rust - are pretty desperate places at the best of times though, and they're not helped by the seemingly perennial leaden skies either. Grim, but you're pretty much guaranteed a good curry.