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Worcester (pronounced "Wister," of course) Massachusetts, home of barbed wire, the monkey wrench, and the infamous "Turtle Boy" statue seen below.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XU9x8G7khv...520turtles.jpg
However, we do have one thing going for us, that being our proximity to Boston, which has the best baseball, basketball, and football teams in the business (also, a hockey team that's decidedly not the best in the business), as well as actual culture and lots of historical significance.
Those pictures are so cool with a touch of personal pride to add. Thanks for sharing.
Well the good news is we will have the 2010 World Cup Soccer in South Africa pretty soon. Here's a picture of the stadium in Durban. I can see it to the left of my windows but it is shielded by another building so here is Google pictures of the stadium.
http://www.worldcupblog.org/files/20...uth-africa.jpg
The bad news is our guys dont know how to play soccer/football and they will surely loose the first match. haha.
More bad news is they are selling thousands of these noisy horns that make the most horrible sound.
Due to this, I'd better leave the country before the games begin. To be frank, I dont care for soccer. :auto:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...up_Stadium.jpg
It's two shops and a garage... I don't think it even classifies as a village..? I get my car repaired there, so its alright I suppose..?Quote:
Originally Posted by kiki1982
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Originally Posted by kasie
:eek: you live in Llanelli? No way!! If i'd only known!
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Originally Posted by OrphanPip
I'm from Guelph, Ontario, Canada... and we home the children's author, Robert Munsch, a whole bunch of hideous pretentious art, a really awesome arboretum, two incredibly polluted rivers, and lots of places to get sloshed. =) Oh, also, a cool downtown in the process of being totally destroyed by the City Council, and a church that was meant to be a replica of Notre Dame- they gave up halfway or so. We have... a theatre, lots of music and a decent Indie scene, an awesome second hand bookshop run by a total madman, an awesome thrift store run by a total mad man, a freak show, lots of burlesque/gay/fetish nights at the University, open to the public, and I'm sure much more...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/...a763a15f9d.jpg
http://pg.webring.com/members/blog/b...age/guelph.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2144/...4ff625ce65.jpg
Guelph looks so pretty Becs!
The town in Virginia that I live in has the first strip mall ever built in the USA.
Right now it consists of a few ramshackle old buildings in a horseshoe around a post office, a fire department, and a library with an extremely disappointing selection of books.
It's splendiferous. :rolleyes5:
I almost went to Guelph for university before choosing McGill, it is a nice place.
We have one of those pesky Notre Dame replicas in Montreal two, I think it's 1/4 the size or something.
http://www.pgscanada.com/bbs/data/mo...Notre_Dame.jpg
Although, we also have the largest church in Canada, Saint-Joseph's Oratory, but I think it's hideous looking.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...ia/0473_74.JPG
You can see the monstrosity from all around too, because they built it on the top of the frigging hill in the middle of the city.
There's also a giant hideous neon cross lit up year round on the top of the mountain to commemorate the wooden cross placed there by the original colonist at the founding of Montreal.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...oyal-cross.jpg
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This is such beautiful, fun thread... so cool to read your descriptions too. :hurray:
Perhaps we can include our dreams of where we wish to visit too. I'm going to Alaska in July 2011, on a cruise to be exact.
I'm with Becs. that Cross is tacky!
Seriously, small town Canada goes balls-to-the-wall crazy when it comes to hockey. I guess the nearest comparison would be a football riot in Manchester or something. It's absolutley nuts, some people would slit their own throat if they thought it would help their team win.
Just small town Canada? Haha, we had a riot after Montreal made it through the first round of the playoffs two years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
Playoff games pretty much shut down the entire downtown core
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJfeU...eature=related
Haha yeah, when the Oilers were in the final playoff game I think like two people were trampled on Whyte Ave. I just said "small town" because that's my culture. Hockey's huge all over Canada.
We take pride in being helpful and not bothersome (for example, if the waitress brings you the wrong food item, you usually say "don't worry about it" or you don't even mention it in the first place).
We DO NOT honk our horns unless somebody actually does something dangerous and illigal and they need to see us in order to not crash into us. When I was in California, people were honking their horns all over the place for no reason at all. If you did that in Canada, someone would probably either follow you to the parking lot of the 7-11 and beat the crap out of you or call the cops because they think you're drunk.
Hard work and a cold beer afterwards are highly valued.
We actually like the sport of curling.
Weed is not a big deal, everyone's pretty cool with it (even the cops).
Girls in my town get into fistfights with each other and sometimes with guys too, and I've said that before to people that aren't from Canada. They always seem to think that's weird. It's not a hate thing, it's just "I have an issue with you, you have an issue with me, we fight and it's settled" then everything's fine (usually).
LOL, thats radical. Even by Africa's standards that would be considered radical.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf