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i just read this:
you know you're from coventry when...
* The only colour you recognise apart from grey is Burberry and police-light blue
* You can negotiate a ring road that would have seasoned London cabbies in tears
* You get accused of having a Birmingham accent by non-Midlanders - even though you sound nothing like a Brummie
* You think baby blue is an acceptable colour for a football team's strip
* Someone way back in your family emigrated here (yet some would still vote BNP, given half a chance)
* The name of the area you live in usually ends in 'Green'
* It's obvious to you that the sports centre is shaped like an elephant
* You stopped using consonants in the early 1990's
* You know that the upstairs back seat of a bus is the only acceptable place to smoke a blunt
* You know that the University of Warwick has nothing to do with Warwick, the place, at all
* A night out at 'Jak's' is really living it up
* The only time you attend the Skydome is to hang around outside, puke, pull women and fight
* You've always wondered what the elephant thing was about
* You've spent new year's eve at the city centre party...and the one the year after at a local working men's club
* Having a giant big top as a permanent feature of the city's architecture seems perfectly reasonable to you
* You can visit the scariest ghettos of the UK and still be accused of coming from a rough area
* You don't bat an eyelid at a naked woman on horseback - but you'll be all over teenage girls in white tracksuits
* You've always secretly wanted to put a bottle of washing up liquid in the Smithford Way fountain
* You can give directions to The Litten Tree, Ikon, The Flying Standard and the Social Security Office - but you've no idea where the Herbert Art Gallery is
* Grey is your favourite colour
it really made me laugh and worringly, to a lot of people it'd be true !
you know you're from coventry when...
* The only colour you recognise apart from grey is Burberry and police-light blue
* You can negotiate a ring road that would have seasoned London cabbies in tears
* You get accused of having a Birmingham accent by non-Midlanders - even though you sound nothing like a Brummie
* You think baby blue is an acceptable colour for a football team's strip
* Someone way back in your family emigrated here (yet some would still vote BNP, given half a chance)
* The name of the area you live in usually ends in 'Green'
* It's obvious to you that the sports centre is shaped like an elephant
* You stopped using consonants in the early 1990's
* You know that the upstairs back seat of a bus is the only acceptable place to smoke a blunt
* You know that the University of Warwick has nothing to do with Warwick, the place, at all
* A night out at 'Jak's' is really living it up
* The only time you attend the Skydome is to hang around outside, puke, pull women and fight
* You've always wondered what the elephant thing was about
* You've spent new year's eve at the city centre party...and the one the year after at a local working men's club
* Having a giant big top as a permanent feature of the city's architecture seems perfectly reasonable to you
* You can visit the scariest ghettos of the UK and still be accused of coming from a rough area
* You don't bat an eyelid at a naked woman on horseback - but you'll be all over teenage girls in white tracksuits
* You've always secretly wanted to put a bottle of washing up liquid in the Smithford Way fountain
* You can give directions to The Litten Tree, Ikon, The Flying Standard and the Social Security Office - but you've no idea where the Herbert Art Gallery is
* Grey is your favourite colour
it really made me laugh and worringly, to a lot of people it'd be true !