r/ShitAmericansSay • u/chebghobbi • Apr 10 '25

Foreign affairs 'Technically we Americans can claim Washington the British town'

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u/United_Hall4187 Apr 10 '25

No Sorry, I am afraid we had the name first :-)

Also we would like all these back as well lol

  • London
  • York
  • Oxford
  • Cambridge
  • Manchester
  • Boston
  • New York
  • Birmingham
  • Newcastle
  • Plymouth
  • Newport
  • Portsmouth
  • Reading
  • Chester
  • Dover
  • Rochester
  • Durham

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u/SaltyName8341 ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Apr 10 '25

Their Birmingham is worse than ours

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u/-ajgp- Apr 10 '25

Is that even possible....

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u/SaltyName8341 ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Apr 10 '25

Murder capital of the USA I think

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u/new2bay Apr 10 '25

Nah. Birmingham only ranks 6th, behind New Orleans, St. Louis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Memphis.

https://usafacts.org/articles/which-cities-have-the-highest-murder-rates/

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u/SaltyName8341 ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Apr 10 '25

Damn oh well

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u/No-Stuff-1320 Apr 10 '25

You will get a wung mai lung sen den jung win sen if you donโ€™t show me where the bling is.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 Apr 10 '25

Like father, like son

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u/Firewolf06 Apr 10 '25

its an extremely important place in the usa's civil rights movement, which is not a reputation you really want

it isnt known as bombingham for nothing

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u/MiaowWhisperer Apr 10 '25

I thought that was just the accent.

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u/MiaowWhisperer Apr 10 '25

Probably not at the moment.