Peaky Blinders

ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Davs 19 said:
fbloke said:
They had razor blades in the peaks of their caps and slashed people across the face hence the name PEAKy BLINDERS.


A career in Scotland Yard beckons..............

Googled it and looked it up and agree why it's called Peaky Blinders but mate is convinced it was going to be called Pikey Blinders


Tell your mate that the earth is not flat.
 
I am really enjoying this show now,it gets better with each passing episode.The acting is great and the story lines fascinating.

Sam Neil's cop is very menacing but Cillian Murphy is particularly superb,for a 'pretty boy' he manages to pull off the complex hard man character brilliantly.

As previously said,the soundtrack is also great - The White stripes and Nick Cave amongst the talent.

Hopefully it will get a second series,it certainly deserves one.
 
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Davs 19 said:
fbloke said:
They had razor blades in the peaks of their caps and slashed people across the face hence the name PEAKy BLINDERS.


A career in Scotland Yard beckons..............

Googled it and looked it up and agree why it's called Peaky Blinders but mate is convinced it was going to be called Pikey Blinders

Does your mate know that the Peaky Blinders were a real gang? Why would they change it to something offensive
 
SteWadda said:
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Davs 19 said:
A career in Scotland Yard beckons..............

Googled it and looked it up and agree why it's called Peaky Blinders but mate is convinced it was going to be called Pikey Blinders

Does your mate know that the Peaky Blinders were a real gang? Why would they change it to something offensive


He reckons it was originaly to be called Pikey Blinders as it was travellers who were in the gang. In the programme their is a gang of travellers but not the main characters.
 
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
SteWadda said:
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Googled it and looked it up and agree why it's called Peaky Blinders but mate is convinced it was going to be called Pikey Blinders

Does your mate know that the Peaky Blinders were a real gang? Why would they change it to something offensive


He reckons it was originaly to be called Pikey Blinders as it was travellers who were in the gang. In the programme their is a gang of travellers but not the main characters.

I will have the answer for you shortly. Just texted my friend.
 
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
SteWadda said:
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Googled it and looked it up and agree why it's called Peaky Blinders but mate is convinced it was going to be called Pikey Blinders

Does your mate know that the Peaky Blinders were a real gang? Why would they change it to something offensive


He reckons it was originaly to be called Pikey Blinders as it was travellers who were in the gang. In the programme their is a gang of travellers but not the main characters.

Your *ahem* mate obviously isn't paying much attention then, is he? It's very plain for even the casual observer to figure the gypsy's aren't part of the Peaky Blinders gang, until last night when the two clans became linked by marriage.

If your comments are a snide dig at the Birmingham accents on the show then you're way wide of the mark. Your veiled allusion that "peaky" could, in a Brummie accent, sound like "pikey", is wrong. In a heavy, almost now unheard Black Country diction, the two words could easily sound very similar, but Black Country and Birmingham tongues are so different.

Possibly one of the subtlest wind ups on here, ever, but foiled nonetheless.
 
Bilston Blue said:
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
SteWadda said:
Does your mate know that the Peaky Blinders were a real gang? Why would they change it to something offensive


He reckons it was originaly to be called Pikey Blinders as it was travellers who were in the gang. In the programme their is a gang of travellers but not the main characters.

Your *ahem* mate obviously isn't paying much attention then, is he? It's very plain for even the casual observer to figure the gypsy's aren't part of the Peaky Blinders gang, until last night when the two clans became linked by marriage.

If your comments are a snide dig at the Birmingham accents on the show then you're way wide of the mark. Your veiled allusion that "peaky" could, in a Brummie accent, sound like "pikey", is wrong. In a heavy, almost now unheard Black Country diction, the two words could easily sound very similar, but Black Country and Birmingham tongues are so different.

Possibly one of the subtlest wind ups on here, ever, but foiled nonetheless.

I doubt it was a wind up or even a joke of the subtlest kind.

Its more about people who can't see the wood for the trays.
 
Bilston Blue said:
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
SteWadda said:
Does your mate know that the Peaky Blinders were a real gang? Why would they change it to something offensive


He reckons it was originaly to be called Pikey Blinders as it was travellers who were in the gang. In the programme their is a gang of travellers but not the main characters.

Your *ahem* mate obviously isn't paying much attention then, is he? It's very plain for even the casual observer to figure the gypsy's aren't part of the Peaky Blinders gang, until last night when the two clans became linked by marriage.

If your comments are a snide dig at the Birmingham accents on the show then you're way wide of the mark. Your veiled allusion that "peaky" could, in a Brummie accent, sound like "pikey", is wrong. In a heavy, almost now unheard Black Country diction, the two words could easily sound very similar, but Black Country and Birmingham tongues are so different.

Possibly one of the subtlest wind ups on here, ever, but foiled nonetheless.
Yo tell im bab.
 
Right,

My friend has just texted back "Was that a joke? Peaky blinders is the name of a real gang".

So, as suspected, your mate was bullshitting.
 

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