Your home town's most embarassing thing?

[Jasper Jeffs]

Manchester.

Highest rate of Car crime in Europe.

And the worlds highest Chav:Normal people ratio.

Haha, this is the truth. My entire estate is compromised of chavs.

OT: <youtube=61o-KkOGyAE>

This was a "leavers video" a tutor made for her form, I was in the same year so I had to watch it too. It's so fucking cheesy. Fun fact though, the tutor who made it got put in prison a year later for shagging one of her pupils, hah.

Also, the place I'm living in, Littlemoss, is the birthplace of a member of Take That, ew.

 

[amadhatter]

Fort Frances was "Home of the Big Chair", then they tore the chair down...

 

[bawkbawkboo1]

I forgot to mention that Sebastopol's high school is named Analy.

Seriously.

 

[Spencer Petersen]

Well, my town probably has the biggest problem with drunk college students in the United States, there was even a big problem back in 2005 in which a college student died from a hazing ritual that got national attention.
(Chico, CA btw)

 

[Eat Uranium]

I was born in Swindon. That alone brings shame to my current town.

 

[SteinFaust]

my hometown is quickly being gentrified for people who aren't moving into the area.

the real estate prices are absurd, and there are empty condominiums everywhere.
also-- hipsters, the vermin scum they are.

 

[Talshere]

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

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The National Wallace Monument

and his statue at Stirling castle

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As a brit, I know how to appreciate a good wall, and that castle, THAT is how you commemorate something! I think I have a new place to add to my list of places to go. It just looks STUNNING :O

 

[subject_87]

Narberth, Pennsylvania

During 4th of July festivities and other events, my dad wears either a cartoonish Uncle Sam hat with lots of old campaign buttons, or a hat with small toys glued to it. Either way, it's pretty embarassing.

 

[DanDeFool]

[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.

Dude! Albuquerque's my actual hometown!

I'd offer you a high five, except ABQ is part of the state with the 4th highest crime rate in the US. I think we might also be the US capital for both rape and DUI.

Yaay...

Oh, and this was kind of embarrassing too:

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Just so you know, we actually did name our town's baseball team the Albuquerque Isotopes.

Ha ha ha... ahhh...

 

[JRCB]

I live in Toronto, Ontario.

G20 summit, the garbage strike, and the Toronto Maple Leafs.

On the other hand, we have the CN Tower, which was the largest freestanding structure in the world for a while.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

Canton Ohio, pro football hall of fame in canton.... just come on, anywhere but here would be better

 

[Shock and Awe]

Warner Robins, GA

Our mayor is a complete dumbass and his public shows some call Council meetings are making city government look like a joke. This shit is bad enough to flirt with the idea of moving the Air Force Base. Which is the the location of US Air Force Material Command and Reserve command, the largest employer and driver of industry in all of Middle Georgia.

 

[VicunaBlue]

Rochester has the highest murder per capita in new york, and my old town, Laramie Wyoming, is famous for the brutal death of a gay man at the hands of rednecks with bats.

 

[Betancore]

I'm pretty sure Melbourne has like, the largest population of emo kids, scene kids, hipsters and god knows what else, in the whole of Australia. And they all hang out around the same place. I wonder what the tourists think of them.

 

[laststandman]

we spent 7-14 million dollars on a billboard campaign to let everyone know that the Triborough bridge is now called the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge.

Nobody calls it that.

 

[tredecim]

Manchester.

Highest rate of Car crime in Europe.

And the worlds highest Chav:Normal people ratio.

I think Glasgow could give you a run for your money in terms of that ratio, but we call them neds, not chavs

 

[minarri]

I'm from Erie, PA. Our shopping mall is shaped like a handgun and is oriented toward city hall.

 

[AvsJoe]

We are Canada's #1 most polluted city and you have a 50% chance of getting cancer if you are male and live here your whole life. Windsor pride!

 

[Taddy]

South Australia - Gawler, we have so many bloody roundabouts. No seriously, theres one on both ends of my street, one in the school area, one near the shops, near the train stations. You can't drive a minute without running into the bloody things.