Your home town's most embarassing thing?

[tredecim]

At the moment, my hometown is in Dunfermline, Fife (which is part of Scotland).

A few months ago, they came up with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJiGxDnJaN8

If you can watch that video without either laughing or seriously cringing, you're a better person than I am.

So, after that, I throw down the gauntlet. Anyone else have a home town (or state) with something even comparable to the above in terms of sheer embarassingly cringeworthy awfulness?

(I hope this thread pulls out some cracking laughs)

 

[Sleekgiant]

Cullman Alabama

We had one of the largest groups of Ku Klux Klan members I think......actually know the Grand Dragon...

 

[crudus]

The only thing we have going for us is the Indy 500 and "The Crossroads of America". The most embarrassing thing is the city says the former so proudly. That's basically saying "We are the biggest delta hub for cars!"

 

[Apocalypse Tank]

All we got is one of the busiest financial centers in the world, along with the Statue of Liberty and Grand Central Station.

It's not a lot.

 

[Grayjack]

Probably the fact that the Gnome on Kelder's Farm still says "Biggest Gnome in the World", even though it's now the 3[sup]rd[/sup] biggest. Or the high concentration of rednecks.

 

[tredecim]

well i don't live there but Stirling has this...

dear gawd /facepalm

As a proud Scot, I cringe and die a little inside every time I see that statue.

 

[ultimasupersaiyan]

Mt Druitt, Australia

Bogan and unemployed central. Come to be pick pocketed, beaten up and robbed or glassed, stay for racial intolerance. I only live here because it's cheap and only go out during the day when it's safe.

 

[Worgen]

Austin tx and the most embarrassing thing about it is that its in tx, not to mention its the capital so we get assholes from all over coming down to be stupid, Im looking at you, tea party idiots

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[jackhyter]

I'm from Derby, UK, the most embarrasing thing we ever did was accidentally start the industrial revolution with cotton mills.

Which resulted in modern day high stress, nuclear armed, obesity obsessed, out of shape and whacky world.

 

[Frequen-Z]

The Titanic set sail from here

Spoiler

 

[wooty]

Southport, UK. The most embarassing thing is that it still exists. But its also famous for being the worlds largest retirement home or the worlds only sand-side resort town.

 

[TehIrishSoap]

Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland.
The Only Thing It's Famous For Is That Every October, We Host The Oldest Horse Fair In Europe. And The Fact We Got Flooded Last November, Which Made Us The Center Of Attention... For 10 Minutes, As There Was The Small Matter Of The French Cheating Their Way Into The World Cup Against Us.
I Have To Travel 20 Minutes To Go The Cinema, As My Town Doesn't Have One :/
All-In-All, Its Crap.

 

[Naheal]

We have a holiday dedicated to a headless chicken that survived for 18 months after it's beheading. I'm not joking [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken].

 

[Dags90]

They film some of The Real Housewives of New Jersey here. :/

 

[SimuLord]

I'm from a little town called Wakefield, Massachusetts, which once (back at the butt end of the Cold War) played host to a bunch of Soviet military officers, who were on some sort of cultural exchange with the US. Some of our Army guys took them candlepin bowling.

 

[ryo02]

Barnsley in the UK ... from what I hear we have alot of BNP (british national party (racists) supporters. urghh