Your home town's most embarassing thing?

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Where do I begin? I live in Mount Shasta, in northern California where we have more crazy, goofy, conspiracy theory riddled people per sqaure mile than Arkahm Asylum. The most popular theory is that the military has a secret base inside the local mountain is is using it drop nano-bots on us to dissolve the population into valuable resources. This was published in the newspaper.

My favorite person of our town by far is the guy who believes that Marilyn Monroe is hiding in his hair and won't talk to anyone as he is afraid she is going to pop out and embarrass him.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Where do I start...

Keith Vaz (Anti-rapeplay MP), David Icke (professional nutball), Mark Morrison (Return of the Mac), Engelbert Humperdink (Ask your grandmas), Jon Tickle (Out geeks Brainiac), Daniel Lambert (England's heaviest man), Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole), Richard the Third and Gok Wan.

But we do have

Graham Chapman (Python), Richard and David Attenborough, John Merrick (The Elephant Man), Gary Linker/Peter Shilton, Steve Redfern/Dean Richards, John Leeson (Voice of K9 and Bungle), Jeremy Bullock (Boba Fett), Biddy Baxter, Henry Curry/Henry Walker/Thomas Cook (Electrics/Crisps and Travel), Sydney Lucas (Last soldier who fought in both World Wars), Sir Alec Jeffreys (Inventor of Genetic Fingerprinting) so I think it balances out

 

[CultistRat]

I live in Ottawa, Ontario, so Stephen Harper.

 

[wrecker77]

At least we are better than nassau. Stupid rich people...

 

[robotam]

The Titanic set sail from here

Spoiler

Your profile says you live in Southampton?

Didn't the Titanic set sail from Cobh?
I'm probably wrong though...

Nope, from Soton to New York. Got a museum or two about it here.

We also have Craig David. D:

Ah, my bad I just checked it there - it only stopped at Cobh along the way.

There's a museum about it there too.

And yet Belfast (where it was built), still haven't got 'round to making a mueseum.

Anyway I'm from Comber, Northern Ireland and in keeping with the Titanic theme, the lead designer of it, Thomas Andrews, came from here. Although that's not really embarassing it was a pretty impresive ship.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

The birthplace of this Asshole
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Sorry world

 

[tredecim]

My little home town doesn't have anything embarassing as far as I know, but it is close to Edinburgh, which is home to this abomination. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_Building]

She's ugly on the outside, but she's beautiful inside. I've been in and out of it loads (my girlfriend works there) and it's a cracking building inside.

The birthplace of this Asshole
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Sorry world

You utter utter bastards.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

My little home town doesn't have anything embarassing as far as I know, but it is close to Edinburgh, which is home to this abomination. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_Building]

She's ugly on the outside, but she's beautiful inside. I've been in and out of it loads (my girlfriend works there) and it's a cracking building inside.

The birthplace of this Asshole
<img height=300>http://www.morninpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/pete-doherty.jpg
Sorry world

You utter utter bastards.

He was probably born in a travelling show or something and given the snootyness of people near here they would have drowned him at birth in hindsight. We won "best small market town" 2005 for heaven's sake.

 

[Kimarous]

Some people might find this embarrassing. I, personally, find it hilarious. Even more hilarious, my mother's workplace is right near where this guy performs.

 

[Snipermanic]

My town (Wisbech) was recently featured on a really biased programme by the BBC which made all the locals look like backwater hicks unwilling to work (Ok, some of then ARE like that) and the immigrant workers to all be saints, when in reality it's of course a lot more complicated than that.

Plus it was presented by that twathost from Dragons Den

 

[Shivarage]

Oh god... a politically correct piece of shit >.< (wonder if any of those singers would do any good on x-factor)

well, least it's better than this hell-hole of a retirement town i live in :O

 

[Miffmoff]

I live in Sleaford, Lincolnshire; its a market town and the market lost its use long ago. Its a barren wasteland, even the castle is a hole in the ground (quite literally) with hardly any shops and a teen age qroup that distribute and take drugs, mostly weed. The place could literally be twinned with the Moon rather than Marquette-Lez-Lille

 

[Exia91]

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.

Honeslt,y I do not understand people that bother with making each and every single word start with an Capital letter.

OT:
My town is known for participating in this MTV rap series where you "rapresent" (yes..aweful pun) your town and become the most bad ass town of the country. We utherly failed... well all participants failed. One just more than the other.

 

[Talshere]

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

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dear gawd /facepalm

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

Seriously what is up with that statue? They realise Braveheart is fiction right? I mean, its got real places and real names but its only true to life in the same way Titanic was true to life. There was a ship, it sunk, some people died, some may or may not have found love etc. Anything he may or may not have said is best guess only since in all likelyhood accurate records were destroyed.

Also, whoever designed that thing wants to be shot. God it awful. You guys would be doing yourself a favour if mysteriously overnight some youths destroyed it and it got replaced with something more like this, http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-34078561/stock-photo-wwii-statue-in-the-glen-coe-area-of-the-highlands-for-scotland.html

 

[InsanityBaronOfAtrocity]

A few months ago, they came up with this:

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

Jesus christ that was so intensely painful and cringe worthy. How does anyone get THAT out of touch?!

OT: The most embarrassing thing about my hometown is that everything shuts here about 1am even on the weekends. Fucking shameful. And to get to the nearest city will cost upwards of £25 for a taxi. We even used to have a nightclub here but some idiot got himself stabbed and now they shut it down. As usual the moronic few ruin it for the masses.

 

[Rylot]

I live in Spokane Washington and let see... We've had a gay mayor try and solicit sex from underage staff members. Our city council is in the pocket of a local family that has caused them to close down public roads so everyone trying to go to a local mountain has to go through a toll road that the family owns; they also started a downtown parking garage but it quickly became too expensive so they had the city council buy the project at millions of dollars lost to the public tax payers. A few local businesses weren't getting the council to do what they wanted so they decided to break away into the City of Spokane Valley (its seriously the only time I've heard of a city breaking into two). Our roads are absolute shit. There is continuous construction but about a week after its done the road is covered in pot holes again.

 

[Aeriath]

My little home town doesn't have anything embarassing as far as I know, but it is close to Edinburgh, which is home to this abomination. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_Building]

She's ugly on the outside, but she's beautiful inside. I've been in and out of it loads (my girlfriend works there) and it's a cracking building inside.

I couldn't agree more, but it still cannot make up for the outside or the cost.

 

[Andaxay]

Whilst not my home town, I live minutes away from Nelson, Lancashire. It officially has the lowest house prices in the UK (read: every other house is boarded up). It's an absolute shithole, and not safe to walk through after 6pm. It's not even safe to drive through it.

 

[Mikester1290]

Red Arrows FTW, the only thing that enabled me to get two thirds into that Fife video before hitting the GTFO, X button on top right.