Sweet. Its been an age since I've lived in that area (not since I was a baby really) but when I go back I stay with a friend in Malmesbury. Went to WOMAD round there last summer.x0ny said:
Whats the coolest/ most badass thing your city/ town has ever done?
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Our chemical plant blew up about 2 years ago. We made national news!
Seriously though, what dumbass leaves an exothermic chemical in the sun when its combustion temperature is 15 degrees?
Seriously though, what dumbass leaves an exothermic chemical in the sun when its combustion temperature is 15 degrees?
My hometown (in Kentucky) once had a chapter of the KKK in it. That is until they set a local black man's house on fire, someone who the townsfolk liked. As it turns out, the townsfolk ended up hanging some of the KKK members from an old railroad bridge. There hasn't been a KKK chapter in my town since.
Nothing at all good. I'm in the most drugged up, under-educated, chavvy, racist spot on the entire island. The only badass thing here is... well... nothing. We succeed at making every other spot in the country, and possibly the world, look like Badasston, Awesomeville and Kickass City.
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We also have the second largest copper statue in the United States after the Statue of Liberty, but ours is totally better because she has a trident. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File
ortlandia.jpg] Yeah, that's about all I've got. As a city, Portland's history isn't very badass.
We kept Charles 1st here when he was being chased by Cromwell and his mates, at that time it became the capital of England because the King was living there.
We beat Liverpool and Chelsea and almost won the FA cup before losing to Cardiff. Yeah one of our biggest achievement was almost winning. Ho and the person who wrote chocolate came from here along with the guy who invented the beer pump and the flushing water closet according to wikipedia Joseph Bramah was his name.
Vancouver, BC.
We're hosting the Olympics with more protesters trying to extinguish the Olympic Flame then Athletes trying to honour it. Oh, and more free live bands, music gigs, galleries, and activities to go do than the hours it'll take to watch any sports! It's an Olympics for All! You don't have to like SPORTS, come for the shows!
In other news, we also have practically every policeman, corrections officer, sheriff, and security guard in the country. Doing crowd control. Yep!
And how they get an outdoor ice rink to work in Rainy Springtime Vancouver has to be some form of dark magic. Or freaky good chemistry.
We're hosting the Olympics with more protesters trying to extinguish the Olympic Flame then Athletes trying to honour it. Oh, and more free live bands, music gigs, galleries, and activities to go do than the hours it'll take to watch any sports! It's an Olympics for All! You don't have to like SPORTS, come for the shows!
In other news, we also have practically every policeman, corrections officer, sheriff, and security guard in the country. Doing crowd control. Yep!
And how they get an outdoor ice rink to work in Rainy Springtime Vancouver has to be some form of dark magic. Or freaky good chemistry.
an airplane crashed through a kids window not killing any one and he woke up with a guy in the cock pit staring at him. I'm not shitting you.
it's the fictional hometown of this guy in the future.
so yeah, what do you have?
In reality, Umm... we started Shay's Rebellion. And Recently Edge of Darkness was filmed in my town. My town is also known as the asparagus capital of the world, so that's something to be proud of I guess. We're also the Lesbian Capital of the northeast XD Calvin Cooladge was born in my town. A webcomic that I've never heard of but it's wikipedia page said won many awards is set in my town- "questionable content"- anyone heard of it? I got a million of em!
so yeah, what do you have?
Saints Row and Saints Row 2 were made here. Home to Volition Inc. Ooh ooh! And we have this really obnoxious "holiday" called unofficial St. Patrick's Day, which is always held the weekend before spring break and was created by the... wait for it... bars. At least one person dies every year, countless people are hospitalized and I cannot go to campus without having green beer handed to me.
Travesty I tell you. The least they could do is blare the Pogues out as I drive around, but noooo! I must hear drunken frat boys warble U2 songs at the top of their lungs as they string green beads on each other. Sorry for the rant, but I am reminded that this is coming up soon.
Travesty I tell you. The least they could do is blare the Pogues out as I drive around, but noooo! I must hear drunken frat boys warble U2 songs at the top of their lungs as they string green beads on each other. Sorry for the rant, but I am reminded that this is coming up soon.