Worcester (pronounced "Wister," of course) Massachusetts, home of barbed wire, the monkey wrench, and the infamous "Turtle Boy" statue seen below.
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.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not.
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.
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.
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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..?Originally Posted by kiki1982
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
you live in Llanelli? No way!! If i'd only known!
Hmm, well I live in Quebec.
The place is pretty much an amalgam of French culture heavily influenced by British and American culture.
Here are some pictures I guess
The Chateau Frontenac in Quebec city:
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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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...
Naked except for a cigarette, you let your mind drift and forget your disbelief. Feel the chill down your back and the flutter of wings through dandelion fields, and forget the pull of gravity in a night without stars.
I lack eloquence and commitment to my arguments. They are half baked, and I will begin passionately, and then abandon them.
Guelph looks so pretty Becs!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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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.
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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.
Although, we also have the largest church in Canada, Saint-Joseph's Oratory, but I think it's hideous looking.
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.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
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Naked except for a cigarette, you let your mind drift and forget your disbelief. Feel the chill down your back and the flutter of wings through dandelion fields, and forget the pull of gravity in a night without stars.
I lack eloquence and commitment to my arguments. They are half baked, and I will begin passionately, and then abandon them.
This is such beautiful, fun thread... so cool to read your descriptions too.
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!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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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.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
Just small town Canada? Haha, we had a riot after Montreal made it through the first round of the playoffs two years ago.
Playoff games pretty much shut down the entire downtown core
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJfeU...eature=related
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"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
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).
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
LOL, thats radical. Even by Africa's standards that would be considered radical.
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