Peaky Blinders

[Zambo]

Took me back to the 80's with the Brum Zulus, and what a great accent, but don't take my word for it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... cents.html

[Hillman avenger]

I love it but I think they overdo the moody, smoky thing a bit.

[Reg]

As an ex-resident of Birmingham, I love it, and the accent - but one place you won't find it is in Peaky Blinders.

[sjbarca]

Can't err warm to it.....they should change the stupid fucking title and move it out of Birmingham to have a chance really??!!

[Zambo]

Had many a pint in the Garrison before the match. Good job I wasn't in it when it got blown up

As for moving the series out of Brum, bollocks. Look how successful Crossroads was. Not to mention other stuff like Benefits Street, Boon, The Golden Shot and Bullseye.

[Basualdo]

As an ex-resident of Birmingham, I love it, and the accent - but one place you won't find it is in Peaky Blinders.

They cant be worse than Sam Neil's Ulster accent.
Which is a surprise as hes from here (okay, but grew up in New Zealand) and has the most Ulsterish name in existence.

[Boozios]

I love it but I think they overdo the moody, smoky thing a bit.

Oh yeah, every shot is like a fuckin' 80's fag advert

I'll give it a go but am wearying of the 'clenched teeth' acting style arfter 25 mins - WOOF! Light and shade, Beeky, light AND shade, please, doctor, please.

I like the fact that it's not another Lahhdahhn gangster outing...buhhrt wait...they're gonna take on the cockernees...oh dear

So far it's not in the same league as the late 70's Brum show 'Gangsters' - that really ROCKED.

Edit - Just watched the bit where he tussle's with London gangster Darby Sabini - Sabini was born in London, had an English mother and couldn't speak Italian - yet this gimp chooses to play him with a bit of the old 'what a mistake a to make a' accent Research, Beeky...give it a try.

Jesus, is that Arthur a fuckin' yokel or what? Hope he gets mullered early doors

[Reg]

Had many a pint in the Garrison before the match. Good job I wasn't in it when it got blown up

As for moving the series out of Brum, bollocks. Look how successful Crossroads was. Not to mention other stuff like Benefits Street, Boon, The Golden Shot and Bullseye.

Pebble Mill at One.

[Reg]

As an ex-resident of Birmingham, I love it, and the accent - but one place you won't find it is in Peaky Blinders.

They cant be worse than Sam Neil's Ulster accent.
Which is a surprise as hes from here (okay, but grew up in New Zealand) and has the most Ulsterish name in existence.

Apparently they did research the Brummie accent, and the pace of speech was different then.

Most local accents - including London - have changed out of all recognition over the past 100 years.

London has gone through at least three completely different versions.

That said, I still think the Peaky Blinders accents are crap.

[lasharoo]

Just watched it, and as I think I said before in the first season thread I find the music annoyingly distracting at times, it's like it's been added in by a frustrated pop video maker, if it's meant to give it a contemporary edgy feel it fails miserably, imo.

Apart from that it's a reasonable effort I suppose, but after watching so much quality Yank stuff over the last few years I think my viewing taste buds have changed and when I grace a TV program with my presence I demand a higher standard now, and I can't help comparing this to Boardwalk Empire, which is just so much better.

[Reg]

Just watched it, and as I think I said before in the first season thread I find the music annoyingly distracting at times, it's like it's been added in by a frustrated pop video maker, if it's meant to give it a contemporary edgy feel it fails miserably, imo.

Apart from that it's a reasonable effort I suppose, but after watching so much quality Yank stuff over the last few years I think my viewing taste buds have changed and when I grace a TV program with my presence I demand a higher standard now, and I can't help comparing this to Boardwalk Empire, which is just so much better.

Very true.

Apart from the occasional off-the-wall offering such as Pulling (which got shit-canned by the BBC, presumably for being too good) and Toast of London, Top Boy, and Accused, there's been nothing worth watching on British TV over the past decade.

[Boozios]

Just watched it, and as I think I said before in the first season thread I find the music annoyingly distracting at times, it's like it's been added in by a frustrated pop video maker, if it's meant to give it a contemporary edgy feel it fails miserably, imo.

Apart from that it's a reasonable effort I suppose, but after watching so much quality Yank stuff over the last few years I think my viewing taste buds have changed and when I grace a TV program with my presence I demand a higher standard now, and I can't help comparing this to Boardwalk Empire, which is just so much better.

Very true.

Apart from the occasional off-the-wall offering such as Pulling (which got shit-canned by the BBC, presumably for being too good) and Toast of London, Top Boy, and Accused, there's been nothing worth watching on British TV over the past decade.

Your opinion is a SHAM, Tupper - get thee to Gomorra*

*it's coming Lash-O - I wiz detained in St Thomas's A&E larst week...the horror! WOOF! I've had mair radiation in mah gut than Tony Stark...Super powers are bound to occur shortly...RZZZZZ RZZZZZ...sadly, not yet

[Sadact7]

As an ex-resident of Birmingham, I love it, and the accent - but one place you won't find it is in Peaky Blinders.

They cant be worse than Sam Neil's Ulster accent.
Which is a surprise as hes from here (okay, but grew up in New Zealand) and has the most Ulsterish name in existence.

Apparently they did research the Brummie accent, and the pace of speech was different then.

Most local accents - including London - have changed out of all recognition over the past 100 years.

London has gone through at least three completely different versions.

That said, I still think the Peaky Blinders accents are crap.

I find accents and dialects really interesting. I read somewhere that not much more than 100 years ago the Scouse accent didn't exist and they spoke with a much more Lancastrian accent.

Must have been so much better

[Reg]

As an ex-resident of Birmingham, I love it, and the accent - but one place you won't find it is in Peaky Blinders.

They cant be worse than Sam Neil's Ulster accent.
Which is a surprise as hes from here (okay, but grew up in New Zealand) and has the most Ulsterish name in existence.

Apparently they did research the Brummie accent, and the pace of speech was different then.

Most local accents - including London - have changed out of all recognition over the past 100 years.

London has gone through at least three completely different versions.

That said, I still think the Peaky Blinders accents are crap.

I find accents and dialects really interesting. I read somewhere that not much more than 100 years ago the Scouse accent didn't exist and they spoke with a much more Lancastrian accent.

Must have been so much better

Was discussing this with Boozios a while ago.

Listen to the Beatles, or old Liverpool actors, and they have an accent that is a variant of other Lancashire accents.

You never used to hear what I call the "squeakers" - the Jamie Carragher type high-pitched voice with the Dutch-type throat clearing.

Booz reckons this accent comes from a specific part of Merseyside. I reckon it must be a fairly recent development.

[Sadact7]

As an ex-resident of Birmingham, I love it, and the accent - but one place you won't find it is in Peaky Blinders.

They cant be worse than Sam Neil's Ulster accent.
Which is a surprise as hes from here (okay, but grew up in New Zealand) and has the most Ulsterish name in existence.

Apparently they did research the Brummie accent, and the pace of speech was different then.

Most local accents - including London - have changed out of all recognition over the past 100 years.

London has gone through at least three completely different versions.

That said, I still think the Peaky Blinders accents are crap.

I find accents and dialects really interesting. I read somewhere that not much more than 100 years ago the Scouse accent didn't exist and they spoke with a much more Lancastrian accent.

Must have been so much better

Was discussing this with Boozios a while ago.

Listen to the Beatles, or old Liverpool actors, and they have an accent that is a variant of other Lancashire accents.

You never used to hear what I call the "squeakers" - the Jamie Carragher type high-pitched voice with the Dutch-type throat clearing.

Booz reckons this accent comes from a specific part of Merseyside. I reckon it must be a fairly recent development.

Carragher comes from Bootle, I've been told by a Scouser that even other Scousers take the piss out of people from Bootle

[Reg]

The Glasgow accent has really changed, and the odd thing is that it now has elements of London in it - especially the way they pronounce Ls as Ws.

Geordie hasn't really changed at all - probably because Newcastle is so isolated and backward.

[Sadact7]

The Glasgow accent has really changed, and the odd thing is that it now has elements of London in it - especially the way they pronounce Ls as Ws.

Geordie hasn't really changed at all - probably because Newcastle is so isolated and backward.

Don't provoke Dougie, he's already had one Geordie outburst tonight

[Reg]

Dougie from Southampton?

[lasharoo]

Apart from the occasional off-the-wall offering such as Pulling (which got shit-canned by the BBC, presumably for being too good) and Toast of London, Top Boy, and Accused, there's been nothing worth watching on British TV over the past decade.

I haven't watched any of them that you've named there Reg

[Reg]

You don't know you're born, boy.

[lasharoo]

*it's coming Lash-O - I wiz detained in St Thomas's A&E larst week...the horror! WOOF! I've had mair radiation in mah gut than Tony Stark...Super powers are bound to occur shortly...RZZZZZ RZZZZZ...sadly, not yet

No worries Boozy cheers for doing it in the first place.


All the best with the treatment as well mate, sounds like you're really going through it at the mo, I hope you're self medicating sufficiently

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

All the best boozy lad. Think of the jerk and the green...you'll be outside ts yelling abuse at fisher in no time

[Sid Pervcat]

All the best boozy lad. Think of the jerk and the green...you'll be outside ts yelling abuse at fisher in no time

+ 1

All the best Booze - O

[Basualdo]

Apart from the occasional off-the-wall offering such as Pulling (which got shit-canned by the BBC, presumably for being too good) and Toast of London, Top Boy, and Accused, there's been nothing worth watching on British TV over the past decade.

I haven't watched any of them that you've named there Reg

You gotta watch Toast of London, lash. Its the funniest thing on British tv for years.
Any show that uses the revenge plotline of a cuckolded actor training to be a plastic surgeon so that he can evilly cut the beautiful daughter of a Nigerian general to look like Bruce Forsyth (except for one hand) so that she will move to London and seduce the flatmate of the actor who is shagging his wife, just to mildly annoy that actor, has to be at least given the chance.



Oh and it doesnt annoy him, as Toast says "I dont even give a fuck."


And its probably the most quotable thing since Anchorman.

phpBB [video]

[Reg]

Unfortunately Booz just picked one of the shit bits to post up in evidence.