Birmingham: It's Not Shit

Birmingham still “vibrant”

There’s a, probably apocryphal tale, about a Soviet “long lasting lightbulb”being invented — it was a big splash story one day in Pravda, but from thereon in got less and less interesting, ending up with the tiny phrase ‘light bulb still on’ appearing every day in a tiny corner. And that’s how I felt about this story in the Birmingham Post this morning:

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The Lonely Planet says Birmingham is a “vibrant city”. Nice, but not new. Not “news”.

Because they said that in 2005:

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and in 2007:

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and are saying at the moment (in the guide online — not updated yet):

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So, Birmingham still “vibrant” then, carry on, as you were.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 10:15 am by Jon Bounds and is filed under Birmingham, bad press. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.