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“People have only interpreted Birmingham, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” Editors @bounder.info & @jonhickman.bsky.social Formerly Birmingham: It’s Not Shit. paradisecircus.com

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 24/07/2026
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 08/07/2026
Hydration break.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 03/07/2026
Football shirt discourse has just been completed, mate. Best ever.
Facebook post showing a late 80s england shirt. On the front it has the logo for the Birmingham 1992 Olympic bid. 

Text on the photo reads:

Rare Footy Stuff Group •
Terry Griffin
Just got my hands on this - possibly one of the rarest England
shirts out there. Only around 20 produced for a photoshoot in Colorado just before the 1986 World Cup promoting the bid for the 1992 Olympic Games. It's in mint condition for a 40 year old shirt.
And Gary Stevens (Spurs) remembers them wearing the shirt on that day
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 29/06/2026
We would like to point out that the only way to define the boundaries of Greater Birmingham is this… www.paradisecircus.com/2015/10/06/t...
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 25/05/2026
Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 08/01/2026
Jeff Lynne meme format just dropped.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 26/11/2025
We found some copies of 101 Things Birmingham Gave The World at the back of a cupboard full of Ozzy the Bull baubles and Roy Wood Christmas wigs. We are posting paperbacks for £7, or treat yourself and add an ebook for an extra £3. paradisecircus.com/2025/11/25/s...
Christmas was better in the 80s. An 80s Noddy Holder pointing at you Kitchener-style, while wrapped in gold tinsel.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 20/11/2025
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 06/10/2025
Was it Sutton?
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 22/09/2025
#ITV70 (Series 1-3 only)
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 18/09/2025
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 30/06/2025
Toksvig?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 26/06/2025
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 20/06/2025
We used all of Wales’s water to make this satirical cartoon about the Bin Strike on Chat GPT, we hope it helps move things forward.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 20/06/2025
Hot enough for you? Bins emptied?
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 06/06/2025
Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 15/05/2025
Wow! This bin man has has all the kept promises from the council tattooed on his arm
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 14/05/2025
This is fun wbholland.github.io/trainspose/
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 23/04/2025
Google's AI is super.
A google search for "a brummie never leaves without a scallop meaning"

AI Overview

The saying "A Brummie never leaves without a scallop" is a Brummie idiom, meaning "a Brummie (a person from Birmingham) never leaves without saying goodbye properly". "Scallop" in this case refers to the specific Brummie goodbye phrase "Ta-rah-a-bit," which can be shortened to just "Ta-rah"
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 19/04/2025
She thought it was the dress code.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 19/04/2025
So here it is, happy Easter.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 28/02/2025
Gary Sambrook eats big dinners
There’s a famous slogan in the United Kingdom
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 21/02/2025
"Meta has spent over $100 billion on VR." Remember when Birmingham City Council continually had it's wallet inspected by this type of bullshit?
Screenshot of a press release :

Virtual library opens in Second Life
Press Release  July 4, 2011  Daden Limited, Library of Birmingham, Second Life  0 Comments
Press Release: Virtual Library of Birmingham opens its doors for public exploration
Birmingham, U.K. — The Virtual Library of Birmingham, built by Daden Limited, has opened its doors to the public allowing access two years before the real life building is ready for occupancy. The Virtual Library of Birmingham allows visitors to explore and learn more about the public spaces within the new library as well as leave their comments.

Birmingham City Council contracted Daden to deliver an interactive virtual model of the new library in Second Life. The purpose of the REIP (Regional Efficiency and Improvement Partnerships) funded projects was to support community engagement, and to inform the internal fit-out.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 21/02/2025
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 10/02/2025
You know it makes sense.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 26/01/2025
This is how you get what you want, right?
Cartoon of a Trump baseball hat thing. 

MAKE THE 11
A CIRCLE AGAIN
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 14/01/2025
Leaked photo of heaven is going viral on social media. No wonder Christians are so determined to get there!
Chamberlain Sq. with the bloody proper library.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 10/01/2025
Or is it The Pavilions?
Email screenshot of newsletter about LA fires:

The Palisades burn
Inbox
Richard Seymour (via Patreon) 9 Jan
to Jon <
•••
Richard Seymour
The Palisades burn

It's not unusual for a rich town in California to burn, but it is unusual for it to burn to the ground. Ordinarily, they can rely on a robust government response supplemented by their own private emergency services. Yet now, the glamorous beach front properties of Malibu, and the wealthy residences of the Pacific Palisades, have been levelled by flame alongside the more predictable destruction in Lidia, Eaton, Hurst and the Hollywood hills by brush and forest fire. James Woods, champion of pro-
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 28/12/2024
Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.
Four people in business clothes standing with an anthropomorphic clock that is doing the thumbs up
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 27/12/2024
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025
Four people in business clothes standing with an anthropomorphic clock that is doing the thumbs up
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 23/12/2024
This photo was taken immediately after my monologue at the 2020 Golden Globes. Not sure I'd realised quite what I'd done 😂
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 20/12/2024
Instead of sending Christmas cards we’ve made a donation to the ‘spoons at the One Stop. So here it is, Merry Christmas.
A misty pix of the spoons at the One Stop. 

We three kings of Orient are, One in a taxi, one in a car,
One on a scooter, beeping his hooter Going down Perry, Barr

Festive greetings from
PARADISE CIRCUS
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 10/12/2024
A tweet from the CEO shooter suspect dude

I believe this book will go down in history as the most important philosophical text of the early 21st century

And we’ve added our book, for a laugh
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 02/12/2024
Meme: Bill Clinton waving from the balcony of The Malt House (did you know the secret service took away his half pint glass after?)

Caption:  THAT FEELING WHEN
KNEE SURGERY IS TOMORROW

And no, I don’t get it either.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 01/12/2024
Show us _your_ Advent calendars.
24 packs of scratchings.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 28/11/2024
This Christmas you don’t have to ask “when is BiNS?”. You can buy it Birmingham: It’s Not Shit: 50 Things That Delight About Brum Foreword by Adrian Chiles amzn.to/3OANhlX Makes a perfect gift for someone you’d like to take up The Ackers.
The entire Paradise Circus publishing list in an Xmas stocking:

Birmingham It’s Not Shit at the front, 101 things Birmingham Gave the World and Staring Death in the Face in the sock
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 27/11/2024
No one beats The Lyndhurst RIP
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 24/11/2024
Didn't win? You can get a copy right now at www.paradisecircus.com/2021/05/04/b... We'll run another compo before Christmas…
Teh bok
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 24/11/2024
Thanks to all who entered our competition to win copy of Birmingham: It's Not Shit the book. The winner is… @unklerupert.bsky.social - please drop us a line at hello@paradisecircus.com and we'll get a copy in the post to you.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 23/11/2024
Happy #DoctorWhoDay 101 Things Birmingham Gave The World. No. 39: Doctor Who paradisecircus.com/2013/11/23/1...
Our Len as Dr Who
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 23/11/2024
Screenhot of BBC NEWS
Local News Birmingham & Black Country
Flat caps galore at
Tommy Shelby lookalike contest

Photo: 
Joe Freeman with James and Arthur Dunley, who all took part in the contest
Fucking ell it’s Fred Dibnah. 

Holding a pint
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 22/11/2024
Any more local news reporters named after homophones for cricket bat care liquids? Do write in.
The lovely Midlands Today reporter Lindsay Doyle?
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 19/11/2024
Birmingham: It’s Not Shit — Reason No. 12: Mr Blue Sky The ELO karaoke night — ELOke “the songs of ELO crucified by drunks” — finished with no audience, everyone on stage singing Mr Blue Sky together. It is a song that unites people. paradisecircus.com/2024/11/19/b...
The ELO football team line up in Shard End park
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 18/11/2024
A good old impact meme 

WANT TO FEEL OLD?

And an old scuffed fire extinguisher


THIS IS WHAT THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER BEV BEVAN PLAYED ON MR BLUE SKY
LOOKS LIKE NOW.
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 17/11/2024
Meme map of Birmingham’s wards - the Moseley one is highlighted blue and made huge
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 17/11/2024
We've made a starter pack containing all the information on Andy Street's action on homelessness during his time as WM Mayor.
A mocked-up empty Bluesky starter pack for 'Andy Street's Action on Homelessness as Mayor'
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 17/11/2024
Welcome to Blue Sky everyone.
A wall in Northfield. The white graffiti says:

GaRY SAMBROOK
eats BiG DiNNers


SCUM
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 15/11/2024
RT (RS?) and follow us and we'll pull one of you a week out of the hat to win a copy of our smash hit book that lays out the ineffable reasons why we say ‘Birmingham: it’s not shit’ and then effs them.
A copy of Birmingham: It's Not Shit on a photo of Central Library
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 15/11/2024
- Have you got that photo of Ron Saunders? - Yes, sure boss, real sexy just like you wanted. - Wait, what?
Stupid sexy Saunders
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 15/11/2024
Beckham meme. 

I've got a new joke about
Birmingham.

Be honest!
I am honest!
Be honest.
It’s about  Snobs' carpet.
Thank you
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