Author Topic: Where you from/ what it's famous for. (Read 17299 times)

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #50 on:** April 23, 2004, 11:28:57 AM »

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I'm sorry, no. That dubious honor belongs to Egypt.

Heh, they're not much better in Japan- if the guy in front of you runs a red light and the guy behind you wants to run a red light, you're running that red light, too. There will be a lot of times in Japan where people will just keeping driving through the red light, forcing the people going the other way to stop even though they have a green light.

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #51 on:** April 23, 2004, 11:44:22 AM »

Yeah, red lights are also non-existent in Egypt.

There's a running joke about it, but it's in Arabic.

TheYoungerPlumber · « **Reply #52 on:** April 23, 2004, 11:51:37 AM »

Did you know they have a standard car-horn based language in Egypt? I read that in my tour guide book when I visited crazy Cairo.

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #53 on:** April 23, 2004, 07:10:05 PM »

Heh... I didn't know about the language, but somehow I'm not surprised.

Arabic swearing is truly a thing of beauty though.

- NintendoFan - · « **Reply #54 on:** April 24, 2004, 03:48:19 AM »

Well, I'm from Quincy, Massachusetts. And here is some stuff about Quincy because I don't feel like typing any of it out. But for the most part, it's right next to Boston, so you know the Boston Tea Party, etc., etc.....

ib2kool4u912 · « **Reply #55 on:** April 24, 2004, 08:35:24 AM »

I'm from new jersey. Scroll up and read what The Omen said about it cuz im just too lazy to come up with my own stuff to say.

to lazyness

RABicle · « **Reply #56 on:** April 24, 2004, 05:41:32 PM »

I'm from Western Australia. Western Australia is famous for... the awesome bands like Eskimo Joe and Little Birdy! Oh right you guys havent heard of them. WA is slightly famous for having black swans, which are different from white swans.

manunited4eva22 · « **Reply #57 on:** April 25, 2004, 03:43:19 PM »

I've heard of eskimo joe! (Nods head)

The Omen · « **Reply #58 on:** April 26, 2004, 08:15:10 AM »

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Toronto is known for arrogant hockey fans who will never win a stanly cup (GO FLYERS GO) and some of the worst drivers on the planet.

Although I agree with the Flyers kicking Torontos ass. I have to say, just having migrated to Florida has given me a whole new insight on hideous drivers. They're brutal, and I'm from Jersey for chrissakes!

Ian Sane · « **Reply #59 on:** April 26, 2004, 09:09:44 AM »

I think the "_____ has the worst traffic in the world" thing can be explained by a few simple rules.

1. Traffic sucks in major metropolitan areas. Thus the traffic sucks in Toronto, New York, LA, Chicago, Seattle, etc.

2. The United States and Canada are the only two countries in the entire world where anyone drives in a civilized manner.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #60 on:** April 26, 2004, 09:31:21 AM »

Heh, when we went to Mexico people would go into on coming lanes of traffic to pass someone on a highway. I thought that was funny.

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #61 on:** April 26, 2004, 12:02:22 PM »

"I think the "_____ has the worst traffic in the world" thing can be explained by a few simple rules.

1. Traffic sucks in major metropolitan areas. Thus the traffic sucks in Toronto, New York, LA, Chicago, Seattle, etc.

2. The United States and Canada are the only two countries in the entire world where anyone drives in a civilized manner."

No, see, I thought so too, but it's a common misconception.

You're going to have to add "Middle of Nowhere" to that list in number 2. They drive in a very civilized manner there because there's barely any crime so the police hunt down bad drivers instead.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #62 on:** April 26, 2004, 12:09:49 PM »

"You're going to have to add 'Middle of Nowhere' to that list in number 2. They drive in a very civilized manner there because there's barely any crime so the police hunt down bad drivers instead."

Which country is this particular "Middle of Nowhere" in?

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #63 on:** April 26, 2004, 12:26:23 PM »

If I told you it wouldn't be a gimmick anymore, now would it?

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #64 on:** April 27, 2004, 03:29:14 PM »

RI funfact: Not only is the state bird a chicken, but the highest point in the whole state is the top of a landfill!

Ocarina Blue · « **Reply #65 on:** April 27, 2004, 06:59:43 PM »

The places best for driving are wealth areas that are scarcely populated. Chiefly rural areas in N. America, Europe, and most of Australasia. Poorer places like India, China, much of S. America and Russia have both poor roads and have a system where a drivers liscence can be easily obtained; large metrapolition areas have too much congestion/road rage.

Oh, New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #66 on:** April 27, 2004, 08:16:01 PM »

A famous serial murderer graduated from my high school (Sentinel HS, Missoula).

I forget which one, exactly

Deguello · « **Reply #67 on:** April 29, 2004, 01:39:31 AM »

I live in Silver Creek, GA. I'm not sure where the creek is, and I'm not sure it ever had any silver in it. For every stage of my life I have moved farther and farther away from people and civilization in general. Everytime I opened my eyes I saw less people and more livestock.

I was born in Newnan, GA a good-sized city with a rich history dating back to the Civil War. When I was 4 or 5 I then moved live in a screwed up yet bustling city of Carrollton, GA. Then I moved to Bowden, GA a peacefully quiet hamlet. I didn't mind it, in fact I grew to like it. Nice weather there. But when my parents' work demanded they leave we landed in a subdivision in Rockmart, near an old Goodyear plant. Rockmart, GA, despite it's desolation from the Goodyear plant downsizing (I dunno if it closed or not), was a pretty cool place for a non-working kid like I was. I found lots of other kids that loved playing video games and baseball. We all sucked at baseball, but we still loved to play anyway. It was nice, my favorite place. But Mom and Dad needed to uproot again, so onward my family went to a really small town of Aragon, GA. This place sucked, I lived in a duplex in a community with the most unsavory of men and women. The types that would kill a cat with a BB gun for scratching a car. Thankfully we bought a scrap of land out in Silver Creek and built a house with money fused with a rather fortunate inheritance, and now I live there. Or rather, here. It's dull out here. And improvement over the last place, but since I just graduated I find myself with a lot of free time. Not a lot of jobs out here. All the good ones taken. All the bad ones taken. Not a good place to be when you're thinking about college. Ah well...

Oh about Georgia, heh. Well... Coca Cola. That guy Alton Brown (host of Good Eats, neat food network show) is from here. The Atlanta Braves, who have no pitching anymore, d'oh! Oh yeah, peanuts. Chickens too. Onions. One of the 13 original colonies, right. But most people in the other 46 non-Florida Contiguous states see Georgia as the driveway to Florida. And I wish I could argue with them. But it's true. There is lotsa neat stuff in Georgia, like the Shakespeare Tavern, but most people just wanna get to Florida. And that's ok.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #68 on:** April 29, 2004, 02:48:08 AM »

We had a serial murderer in our town for a while, just a few months back. He killed some women in Baton Rouge, but only about 5 or 6 that are known to be his victims, so he ain't big time or anything. Derek Todd Lee, I believe is his name.

Shorty McNostril · « **Reply #69 on:** April 29, 2004, 03:51:46 PM »

I'm from Queensland, Australia. Townsville to be precise. There's nothing terribly special here. There is the strand I suppose but that is far from an international wonder. I hear that it won the Australia's Cleanest Beach award. Or something like that anyway.

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Author Topic: Where you from/ what it's famous for. (Read 17299 times)