Your home town's most embarassing thing?
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The homeless problem is pretty embarrassing for Edmonton, Alberta... I always wonder what tourists think when they go downtown and see more homeless than regular people, spitting around and taking dumps on the sidewalk (no joke, I've seen that more than once). I make a point of avoiding downtown, even if it's fast or convenient sometimes. Now, Whyte Ave? That's a place I strongly recommend visiting if you come to Edmonton.
Oh, and our city council loves wasting millions to try to "put us on the map". Like we have the Indy that no one really cares about, but costs taxpayers millions every year.
What makes this embarrassing is that they could be supporting already existing tourist attractions to "put us on the map". Expand Fort Edmonton Park, a live history museum based on the times of the fur trade up to the 1920s. They actually thought about transforming it into some sort of Disneyland, but were met with so much opposition that they cancelled that plan.
Oh, and our city council loves wasting millions to try to "put us on the map". Like we have the Indy that no one really cares about, but costs taxpayers millions every year.
What makes this embarrassing is that they could be supporting already existing tourist attractions to "put us on the map". Expand Fort Edmonton Park, a live history museum based on the times of the fur trade up to the 1920s. They actually thought about transforming it into some sort of Disneyland, but were met with so much opposition that they cancelled that plan.
If you have ever seen Jay Leno's show, he has a topic called "Headlines", where he reviews typos, misprints and other things in newspapers. A certain Law Official years ago was found canoodling in a dumpster, and sure enough, this person was posted in the newspaper.
Someone sent it to Leno and he posted it.
I never saw it (I was too young when he put it on) but my parents did remember reading the newspaper with that headline, and when they saw that, it was more embarrassing than funny.
A close second was another certain Law Man had recorded a sex tape with his wife and accidently put the tape into the box of our local video store.
We only have one video store, so anyone who rented that tape (not a DVD, this was the 90s) saw fun times (or wrong times, whichever you prefer).
Again, I have never seen it, but it was the talk of the town many years ago.
Someone sent it to Leno and he posted it.
I never saw it (I was too young when he put it on) but my parents did remember reading the newspaper with that headline, and when they saw that, it was more embarrassing than funny.
A close second was another certain Law Man had recorded a sex tape with his wife and accidently put the tape into the box of our local video store.
We only have one video store, so anyone who rented that tape (not a DVD, this was the 90s) saw fun times (or wrong times, whichever you prefer).
Again, I have never seen it, but it was the talk of the town many years ago.
Your profile says you live in Southampton?Frequen-Z said:The Titanic set sail from here
Didn't the Titanic set sail from Cobh?
I'm probably wrong though...
Why do you put a capital at the start of every word?TehIrishSoap said:
It makes your post really hard to read.
Nope, from Soton to New York. Got a museum or two about it here.DuplicateValue said:Your profile says you live in Southampton?Frequen-Z said:The Titanic set sail from here
Didn't the Titanic set sail from Cobh?
I'm probably wrong though...
We also have Craig David. D:
that alone makes indy awsome
Really? I find that the massive amount of drunks, hippies, socialists, scientologists, and homeless people are more frustrating. You know the saying is "keep Austin weird", right?Worgen said:
I can't walk down Guadalupe Street without being handed a copy of The Socialist Worker on my way to the book store, and since the new freshmen are here, the Scientologists are recruiting in the streets. I doubt even you are very fond of walking the alleyways after dark here.
The Tea Party doesn't harass you on your way to class, at least.
Well in Worcester,MA., there isnt much to be ashamed off, well....... no i got nothing sorry, my town is boring.
[small]Albuquerque isn't my hometown, but it's where I've lived most of my life, so...[/small]
Supposedly, the city banned the show COPS from further filming in Albuquerque--
because they shot so many episodes here it was making us look bad.
Supposedly, the city banned the show COPS from further filming in Albuquerque--
because they shot so many episodes here it was making us look bad.
"Everywhere you go, you'll, feel, Fife's HEARTBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAT"tredecim said:
"So many different colors"
Not that I'm in any position to criticize. I live near Sebastopol, California. The place is literally as close to being a hippie commune as you can get without actually being an official hippie commune. It is known as the ONLY city in the United States ever to have a Green-Party majority on the city council. But by far the most embarrassing thing that happened is that a proposal to broadcast free municipal Wi-Fi (albeit with bandwidth restrictions) was successfully shot down by twelve literal lunatics who claim that electromagnetic energy causes them horrible pain. No, they don't know that every house around them has individual wireless routers with non-broadcast SSIDs, because if they knew they would probably throw a shitfit over that too. The proposal would have actually materialized, too- I know a lot of cities claim to be "working on" free public wifi and then conveniently forget about it after elections, but in this case they had an actual contract with the ISP ready to go and everything.
I live in Johannesburg and it has one of the highest crime levels in the world, if not the highest. Does that count?
I'm from Boston, MA. Almost everyone is uttetly fascinated with the Red Sox and their rivalry with the New York Yankees. As a member of the escapist, I'm sure you can tell how I feel about this.
Ah, my bad I just checked it there - it only stopped at Cobh along the way.Frequen-Z said:Nope, from Soton to New York. Got a museum or two about it here.DuplicateValue said:Your profile says you live in Southampton?Frequen-Z said:The Titanic set sail from here
Didn't the Titanic set sail from Cobh?
I'm probably wrong though...
We also have Craig David. D:
There's a museum about it there too.
