Birmingham makes the best dads – full of Brummie wisdom and for some reason able to fix anything
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Father’s Day is the perfect time to celebrate the Brummie dad.
The fortunate ones among us have them – sat there in their favourite sofa seat but ready to jump up the second they can save you a few quid.
Birmingham really makes the best dads – full of Brummie wisdom and for some reason able to fix anything. Maybe it has something to do with the West Midlands’ engineering prowess.
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With all this in mind, we are in the mood to give a pat on the back of Brummie dads.
These are the 11 sure-fire signs you’ve got a proper Birmingahm dad:
The heating is always too high
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Not sure why this is – they’re from Birmingham not Iceland, but for some reason – almost certainly financial – they are just happy at freezing conditions. And don’t you even think about touching that thermostat until November.
There’s nothing he can’t fix
Now, we have a theory here. BIrmingham and the Black Country are home to the industrial revolution – we changed the world by just “having a gew”. A Brummie dad will have a stab at fixing your fence, toaster, car, you name it.
He has a sofa groove
Depending on their age, they might call it a settee or three-piece suite, but regardless, they spend enough time in it that it has a bottom-shaped stamp. A Brummie dad has made time to get to know his seating position in front of the telly.
He’s constantly surprised by inflation
We know inflation is a thing. By and large prices go up year after year, and yet a Brummie dad is surprised when he rocks up at Tesco and milk has gone from £1.45 to £1.55.
He likes hot curries
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Why do dads have different taste buds? For some reason, you dad loves a hot curry. This is either something to do with a snowflake generation or a desperate desire to impress.
He really knows how to work a carvery
When it comes to a visit to a carvery, your Brummie dad really knows how to get value. They can organise a moderate-sized plate so it can hold 18 roast potatoes, a pound of carrots, three million peas and a Yorkshire pudding the size of your head. Sure, the adding gravy phase is tricky but once they’ve sat down, as long as the table doesn’t give way under the weight of it, they’ll get through the whole thing no bother.
He has a mate called Dave
If he hasn’t got a mate called Dave, he probably is the mate called Dave.
He’s certain the world is getting worse
One thing that unites Birmingham dads is a sense the world was better in their day. It may have been the 1960s, with back to back houses, or playing kerbie in the 1990s, but what is certain is progress has gone backwards.
He is great in emergencies
Panic isn’t a word Brummie dads are aware of. Car broken down? House flooded? Credit cards nicked? ‘It’ll be reet’, he’ll say, then he’ll come over and calmly fix everything with ease. If he can’t, he’ll make you feel better about it anyway.
He thinks getting taxis, or Ubers, are some sign you’re bourgeois
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Brummie dads love a bargain, but when it comes to cars they seem to lose all sense of value. If you fork out £12 to get yourself home at the end of the night, it is like you’re Elon Musk or something. A Brummie dad would have walked 12 hours home instead. He’ll also park miles away to save a quid
He has a speciality
Some Brummie dads cook, some don’t, but all have some kind of speciality they cook better than your mom. You don’t often see evidence of this, mind.