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Jonathan Meades Quotes: Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.
         

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.


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If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.





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