Stereotypes of where you come from

[bobmus]

Liverpool. That I rob car sterios. I don't... I rob DVD players there's a difference.

Calm down calm down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaccLMuLa7o

I'm gonna guess that he's pretty calm, a year and a half later. Interesting thread to resurrect...

Anyway OT: Surrey, England - apparently we're all middle-class twits. I'm certainly the former, though I'd hope not the latter, but most of the towns around me were decidedly un-middle-class.

 

[straymatter]

Portland, Oregon: where everything is an IFC television show.

(It is. We have mixed feelings about this.)

 

[Dags90]

but my hometown is known more for being ghetto and having a lot of gang activity.

I do love some shoo fly pie, though.

Philadelphia?

Also, please tell me shoo fly pie involves roughly zero insects. Please.

 

[Launcelot111]

According to Southern Virginians all Northern Virginians are basically Europe's stereotype of all Americans, fat obnoxious stupid yuppies.

What? We only think you're soulless sycophants leeching government money who constantly push your wave of identical strip malls and highway congestion south. We don't think you're fat

 

[Lewieroo0]

I'm From Victoria, Australia.

Apparently, most people think that we all speak in very thick Australian accents along with constant Aussie slangs, wearing hats with corks hanging on them and that we ride Kangaroos to work (though to be fair, we always like to say that overseas, as i did when in Hawaii with my school band when talking to American band members).

 

[Chemical Alia]

but my hometown is known more for being ghetto and having a lot of gang activity.

I do love some shoo fly pie, though.

Philadelphia?

Also, please tell me shoo fly pie involves roughly zero insects. Please.

I'm from Easton, it's about halfway between NYC and Philadelphia, right on the New Jersey border.

Shoo fly pie is a molasses pie and it is just delightful. I guess they call it that because sugar attracts flies or whatever v: