What's your country/state famous for?

[Onyx Oblivion]

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. All that Declaration stuff. That cracked bell. M. Night Sha-la-ma-long-a-ding-dong films a bunch of his movies here.

Most notable fact: The GameX convention this October that's partnered with the Escapist is held here!

 

[Agent Larkin]

Ireland so basicly Guinnes U2 the US Navy Leprechauns Guerilla Warfare and 95% of anything Britain claims to be famous for.

Didn't my country invent guerilla warfare? I think I remember something about history class about how we first used these tactics against British soldier during the boer wars in South africa.

Nope you invented Rural guerilla warfare. We went the full hog and integrated Urban Rural and Espionage.

 

[Not Good]

I think that California is most remembered as the state that accidentally the state budget.

Methinks you are missing a word there.

lrn2meme

 

[Zobers]

Many very, very false stereotypes.

O CANADA!

 

[Duskwaith]

Northern Ireland.

The troubles, sectarianism, being a 3rd world country until 1994, blowing up towns,barracks and various elements of the british army.

The only place in the world where your democraticly elected representitive has shot a few people.

 

[soren7550]

America - Always starting wars with everyone, blowing the ever loving shit out of them, then sending them food afterwards.

New York - 9/11 (sadly), and the New York Yankees (WOOOOO!! YANKEES!!!!!!)

 

[Valkyira]

Where do I start? Pizza, pasta, breadsticks, mozzarella, Rome, The leaning tower of Pisa, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Marco Polo, Venice, the Mafia, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Our Immigrants, Mussolini, Dante Alighieri, Maserati, Wine, Armani, Valentino, Versace, Benetton, Dolce & Gabbana, the Roman Empire, the Mona Lisa, Machiavelli, Lorenzo De Medici, Galileo Galilei, Luciano Pavarotti, Fellini, Verdi, Sergio Leone, we are the football world champions (have been 4 times), espresso, warm weather, etcetera etcetera etcetera...

Do I get a prize now?

no... go to sleep

 

[Valkyira]

Wales. The only country where you can count on a baggage handler to punch a man who is on fire in the face. Oh... and shagging farm animals.

 

[CymTyr]

My state is famous for writing people tickets. Also for the bad driving that people do when there's no police around.

 

[Oopsie]

For being one of the biggest insta-swimming pools would the dikes break.

 

[wewontdie11]

Country- England: Tea and crumpets, the Queen, the English language, colonising a sizeable chunk of the world, being a nation of alcoholics and football hooliganism.

City/Region- Sunderland/the North East: Football teams (and the resulting hooliganism), the highest density of slags anywhere in the UK outside of Essex, teenage pregnancy (see previous point), the accents, and Newcastle Brown Ale.

 

[Lord_Panzer]

Well, as far as country in concerned, my fellow Canucks pretty much took care of that.

Now, for province, that being Nova Scotia: blueberries, Ellen Page, Acadians, Fortress of Louisbourg, Black Loyalists, first province to achieve responsible government, location of the first trans-Atlantic radio message, unofficial home to Alexander Graham Bell.

I could go on.

 

[Thanatos34]

I think that California is most remembered as the state that accidentally the state budget.

Methinks you are missing a word there.

lrn2meme

I wouldn't have said anything if I knew what word was missing.

 

[Lonan]

Canada: mounties, maple syrup, hockey, having a highly trained but laughably equipped army, Just For Laughs, liberating Holland in WW2 (they still like us for that apparently), totally inhumane seal hunting (lol) and... Quebec separatism.

BC: Internationally - tonnes of weed, Hell's Angels, the gold rush (which got us a railroad YAY!) and many, many Chinese people,

Within Canada - All the international fame plus being the province so desperate for attention from the east we'll elect almost anybody. Hell, some ridings almost elected the Rhinoceros Party.

The World Wildlife thinks it's humane. How would it become humane in your eyes? They shoot the seals in the head killing them instantly. How much more humane can you get? Do they need to inject them with laughing gas so they won't feel a split second of pain before their brain is ripped apart? Or is that the real problem here, that you are, in the words of Pierre Trudeau, a "weak kneed, bleeding heart" and you just don't like the idea that a seal needs to be killed in order to sell it's fur. OR is teh fur the problem? Instead of letting a wildly out of control population get even bigger, killing 385 000 out of 5.6 million should not be allowed? In this world of extreme global warming, where water sources will quickly dry possibly leading to nuclear war, mother nature really doesn't care less than 10% of the total seal population being killed off every year. In Europe, they kill that many animals once every 3-5 days, PETA and Sea Shepard have convinced you that the completely sustainable seal hunt is inhumane and evil.

It seems my lol after "totally inhumane" seal hunting was far too inconspicuous ;P. I totally support the seal hunt and think it humane, I just don't post on the internet often enough to remember sarcasm translates very poorly. Sorry for giving the wrong impression. Furthermore I was very proud of my country when I heard our Olympic committee voted unanimously to implement sealskin in every Canadian uniform for Van2010 in response to the EU ban on seal products. Only good thing about Van2010 in my opinion, but that's a discussion for another time.

I guess I just read inhumane and started into a finger based beserker rage. Sorry about that, my mistake. I had just recently seen that PETA wants people to boycott Maple Syrup because Michelle Jean ate a seal heart. They really are trying to get people to villify the entire country. However, if we stand our ground we will eventually come through, and I think the fact that PETA was trying to villify Canada as a whole in the first place may become a huge blow to them. People en masse may finally realise that PETA is really dumb. Also, now that the Governor General has eaten a seal heart, I want them to start selling seal hearts at the supermarket. I'd eat one anytime. We can bring back the seal hunt by eating they're hearts! Apparently it tastes like sushi, and I for one love sushi. Take that PETA, seal meat as a staple food, make the government double or even triple the quota because of demand!

 

[flare09]

My state has a bunch of corrupt governors running around being douche bags.

 

[gigastrike]

Liberty, steel, sports teams, NASCAR, chocolate, bridges, having one of the only "-burgh" cities in America, more steel, robotics...

 

[cheesecake123]

cows (and so milk)
jumpers
potatoes (***** royals)
Being a tax haven
Having a childrens home dedicated to abuse
Being sunny
Being one of the only bits of Britain to be taken by the Nazi's in WW2

Where am I?

Northen Ireland? But that wouldn't go along with thebeing sunny thing though

Northern Ireland? Let's have a look

cows (and so milk) Hmm... Maybe
jumpers ... Not really?
potatoes (***** royals)... Northern Ireland Royals? Nope.
Being a tax haven... Not as far as I know
Having a childrens home dedicated to abuse... Possibly
Being sunny... Hell naw!
Being one of the only bits of Britain to be taken by the Nazi's in WW2... Definitely not!

Sorry, nope

To be honest I didn't think so, I was mostly going on the childrens home, and the WW2 one, I only realised 5 minutes ago I got it wrong, and American's landed in Northern Ireland to re-fuel. I really have to start thinking next time.

Ok, my next guess would be Dunkirk, but the only problem with that is, I don't have a clue where that is!

France xD

Not very British

its Jersy(did i spell that right)