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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 11, 2003, 06:22:27 pm

Title: Show us where you live.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 11, 2003, 06:22:27 pm: It's late, I'm bored, it's a long time since we had one of these, and I've found a pic that sums up my home town very well.

(http://swooh.com/peon/Petrarch/street.jpg)

Note the pathetic Christmas decorations, the patchy road, and the general squalor. This was taken Christmas 1999, I do believe.
It was on some Tripod site, so I've taken the liberty of liberating it.

This is why I spend so much time online, that's the alternative.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 11, 2003, 06:30:16 pm: By God that's grim. Look at the face of that woman in the bottom left if you need further proof. Here's my gaff in deepest darkest Leicestershire:

(http://www.swooh.com/peon/diamondgeezer/images/gaff.jpg)

Those curtains have not been opened in over 18 months :nod:
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 11, 2003, 06:32:22 pm: Insure them. You need to find some way to make financial gain from them.

Also, what's the idea of those white blocks?
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 11, 2003, 06:33:11 pm: Pidgeon traps

See that bush in front of the window? That's the one that we chopped down and burned, if anyone remembers the videos. The evil bastard's grown back now.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 11, 2003, 06:34:25 pm: I've seen better pigeon traps. Those 6-inch spike things you can get.

I do remember that video, you should have a repeat performance.

Hell, I've found some photos that I took shortly after getting the camera. They make the town look slightly less grim, but not much.
http://www.swooh.com/peon/Petrarch/brighouse
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Post by: Levyathan on October 11, 2003, 06:43:30 pm: Whoah. One of these. I feel so honoured. :D
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Post by: Sandwich on October 12, 2003, 02:37:07 am: The view from my house (more or less - a location very nearby to get some trees out of the picture):
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/sandwich/photos/jerusalem1-thumb.jpg) (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/sandwich/photos/jerusalem1.jpg)

Jerusalem's industrial zone:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/sandwich/photos/jerusalem2-thumb.jpg) (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/sandwich/photos/jerusalem2.jpg)

I always forget what these buildings are called:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/sandwich/photos/jerusalem3-thumb.jpg) (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/sandwich/photos/jerusalem3.jpg)

David's Citadel next to Jaffa Gate, Old City:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/sandwich/photos/jerusalem4-thumb.jpg) (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/sandwich/photos/jerusalem4.jpg)
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Post by: Zeronet on October 12, 2003, 03:33:51 am: http://www.wgfl.org.uk/wdia/then_now.htm

If you keep clicking the thumbnails, you can view what it looks like now without it changing. Our Town Centre is having, millions spent on it, to make it look good, especially Bridge Street. Sadly, skateboarding is banned, because what they've done is so perfect for skateboarding.
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Post by: Turnsky on October 12, 2003, 03:39:04 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
It's late, I'm bored, it's a long time since we had one of these, and I've found a pic that sums up my home town very well.

(http://swooh.com/peon/Petrarch/street.jpg)

Note the pathetic Christmas decorations, the patchy road, and the general squalor. This was taken Christmas 1999, I do believe.
It was on some Tripod site, so I've taken the liberty of liberating it.

This is why I spend so much time online, that's the alternative.

Heyyyy... it's devonport!:p

Okay.. so it's not really.. but when i get my digital camera back from being repaired by sony.. (either repaired, or i get a new one from them)
i'll take some photos of Devonport...
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Post by: Fineus on October 12, 2003, 04:43:46 am: Well, my town kicks ass. Why?

She came from it.

(http://www.damnthe.com/poster/acatalog/tank_girl_adv.jpg)
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 12, 2003, 05:38:00 am: Lori Petty (or what ever her name was)?

That makes you famous by proxy, Thunder :nod:
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Post by: Fineus on October 12, 2003, 06:02:51 am: Oh no, the girl didn't (shame) but Tank Girl did. It's creators were a couple of guys who lived on the far side of town.
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Post by: 01010 on October 12, 2003, 06:14:19 am: I live in Kidderminster which is/was the carpet capital of the worls, and if that isn't something to be proud of, well then I don't know what is. However, everything around here is registered as green belt so it's only a five minute walk to some of the most beautiful countryside I know, plus, there are trees. THE TREES, they are EVERYWHERE.

Et Voila (http://www.01905.com/photos-kidderminster.htm)

and also, the ugliest building ever created.

(http://www.voa.gov.uk/where/images/kidderminster.jpg)

Tried to find pictures of the forest up the road but could only find this:

http://website.lineone.net/~john_mackie/forest.htm (http://website.lineone.net/~john_mackie/forest.htm)
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Post by: HotSnoJ on October 12, 2003, 07:16:31 am: (http://www.mnhs.org/places/other/roadside/images/nakindw.jpg)
ph34r the n4k3d indian.

(http://www.forumcomm.com/images/west_central_tribune.gif)
Um...yeah. That's the local, or should I say "loco", newspaper I work for.

(http://www.cord.edu/dept/sports/highimage/evans_paul_02_hr.jpg)
I have no idea who that is.

(http://www.mntransfer.org/CampusInfo/Central/Ridgewater.gif)
If anyone is wondering where the heck Willmar is. It's that red star to the left. And if you can't find minnesota, then that is just sad. :blah:
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Post by: Turnsky on October 12, 2003, 07:19:07 am: oh... there is a little bit of 'ol tinseltown in Tasmania.... ever heard of Errol Flynn?

a local of hobart, Tasmania he is.. don't believe me?;)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001224/
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Post by: Killfrenzy on October 12, 2003, 09:39:08 am: Liverpool.

You work it out! :D
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Post by: Flipside on October 12, 2003, 09:43:11 am: Well, this was parked outside my house the other day.....

(http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/images/Van.jpg)

Flipside :D
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 12, 2003, 09:56:48 am: Quote
Originally posted by Killfrenzy
Liverpool.

*starts to twitch*:p
Title: Tampere, Finland
Post by: Gortef on October 12, 2003, 10:42:55 am: an overview of one kind (http://www.tampere.fi/matkailu/kuvat/hsilta2b.jpg)

A Statue (http://www.tampere.fi/matkailu/kuvat/hsilta1b.jpg)

Well have a look at yourself. Tre-D (Virtual Tampere... of somekind, never tested it myself though) (http://www.uta.fi/hyper/projektit/tred/english/index.htm)
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Post by: aldo_14 on October 12, 2003, 01:35:29 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
By God that's grim. Look at the face of that woman in the bottom left if you need further proof. Here's my gaff in deepest darkest Leicestershire:

http://www.swooh.com/peon/diamondgeezer/images/gaff.jpg

Those curtains have not been opened in over 18 months :nod:

curtains? Rich bastard.......
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Post by: Hunter on October 12, 2003, 02:44:14 pm: (http://www.descent.dk/hunter/images/02-hse08.jpg)
View from the Sectorgame Admi.. er, the computer room. :P

(http://www.descent.dk/hunter/images/02-hse04.jpg)
Down South.

(http://www.descent.dk/hunter/images/02-hse03.jpg) CATS!
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 12, 2003, 02:46:24 pm: That cat has wings!
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 12, 2003, 02:47:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
curtains? Rich bastard.......

:lol: That's ****ing funny. My hat goes off, sir :D
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Post by: vyper on October 12, 2003, 02:55:53 pm: [q]My hat goes off, sir [/q]
Does it do that often?

Anyway...

I shall take my digi camera to work/Uni 2morrow.
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Post by: Zeronet on October 12, 2003, 03:00:07 pm: I'll have to take a picture of the SUV with ETAK on its side parked at some house on the way to college.
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Post by: aldo_14 on October 12, 2003, 03:11:52 pm: I didn't even know DG had a hat..............
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 12, 2003, 03:14:54 pm: I stole it from Petrarch. It's a giant stetson
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Post by: Hunter on October 12, 2003, 03:22:32 pm: That cat has wings!

Probably, it's been dead for a year now , old pic :)
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Post by: aldo_14 on October 12, 2003, 03:55:20 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I stole it from Petrarch. It's a giant stetson

Ah. I thought it was a bowler hat, with a small indentation on the top, upon which floats a single cherry in a pool of ether.

Silly me.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 12, 2003, 04:52:45 pm: You probably saw my trilby in a bad light and jumped to conclusions
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Post by: aldo_14 on October 13, 2003, 03:15:45 am: Ah. Well, that's trilbys for you. noisy little buggers, you can't turn your back on them for a minute.

Oh, wait. That's furbies....
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 13, 2003, 03:47:27 am: I had that problem. Walking around with a chirping little electronic ceature on your head tends to provoke much consternation.
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Post by: Setekh on October 13, 2003, 05:17:43 am: View out one of my windows a few evenings ago:

(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/out_the_window.jpg)
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Post by: Gloriano on October 13, 2003, 05:34:23 am: (http://www.swooh.com/peon/Gloriano/CB030386.jpg)

there i am working and be lot's time

i trying get photos from my house
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Post by: Gloriano on October 13, 2003, 06:09:10 am: (http://www.swooh.com/peon/Gloriano/CB032724.jpg)

and i am here in month in decemper
take wild guess what city;) (australians should know)

little help (http://globaltickit.com/worldpho/Australia/2000_03_Sydney/opnt14.jpg)
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Post by: Killfrenzy on October 13, 2003, 08:41:17 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB

*starts to twitch*:p

:wtf:
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 13, 2003, 11:21:11 am: Liverpool Lime Street clock scared me.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 13, 2003, 11:39:38 am: Did it nick your wallet too?
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 13, 2003, 11:42:33 am: I believe it was in league with the people who tried. As I sat mesmorised by the minute hand, they made advances towards me.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 13, 2003, 11:48:58 am: Calm down
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Post by: aldo_14 on October 13, 2003, 03:52:24 pm: Ach well, if you give a clock hands, it'll use them.
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Post by: Hunter on October 13, 2003, 04:49:59 pm: Well at least everything is not as depressing here Graham, wanna come down sometime :P
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Post by: vyper on October 13, 2003, 04:56:14 pm: [q]wanna come down sometime [/q]

Is it me or am I seeing some form of pick up line? :wtf: :p
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 13, 2003, 05:00:40 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Hunt Smacker
Well at least everything is not as depressing here Graham, wanna come down sometime :P

Oh, I didn't find Liverpool depressing (I'm too damned insanely optimistic for that), I just found it unsettling, as I do with any large and crowded place.:)
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Post by: Zeronet on October 13, 2003, 05:16:28 pm: Liverpool is l33t. Better than Manchester, which sucks.
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Post by: Setekh on October 13, 2003, 05:18:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
little help (http://globaltickit.com/worldpho/Australia/2000_03_Sydney/opnt14.jpg)

:D I didn't recognise the aerial shot (couldn't see the Sydney Harbour Bridge or Centrepoint Tower), but there's only one Opera House in the world that looks like that. :D
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 13, 2003, 05:22:41 pm: The Chipping Sudbury Opera House you mean? They hold a cracking village fete there, you know :nod:
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Post by: Setekh on October 13, 2003, 05:25:06 pm: The one and only. ;) They hold a lot there, it's an awesome place to go - best dramatic theatres in Sydney, I say. ;)
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 13, 2003, 05:29:50 pm: Yes, but does it have morris dancing and hooplah?
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Post by: Setekh on October 13, 2003, 05:31:52 pm: ...I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to divulge these facts at the present time. :blah: Nah, actually, I have no idea... haven't been there for at least a year. :)
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Post by: diamondgeezer on October 13, 2003, 05:32:38 pm: I really need Petrarch in this thread right about now...
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Post by: vyper on October 13, 2003, 05:44:31 pm: (http://www.glasgowguide.com/i/gsc-pan.jpg)

I got lazy and forgot my camera today, so here's something I sourced from the net:

My University ("http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/images_gcaluni.html")

Cenotaph in George Sq. ("http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/images_cenotaph.html") (read the inscriptions)

Buchanan Galleries ("http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/images_buchanan_galleries.html") (Major shopping venue in city centre)

Sunny Glasgow ("http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/images_glasgow_sun.html")
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 14, 2003, 01:53:20 am: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I really need Petrarch in this thread right about now...

What what what?
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Post by: Turnsky on October 14, 2003, 11:03:52 pm: a dominant feature of the Devonport waterfront..
(http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/aotd/Turnsky/spirit.jpg)
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Post by: Setekh on October 14, 2003, 11:07:05 pm: Hey, that looks like a place in Sydney... meh, it's probably just the traffic lights. :p
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Post by: Turnsky on October 14, 2003, 11:26:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
Hey, that looks like a place in Sydney... meh, it's probably just the traffic lights. :p

you'll get something like this in sydney soon enough..;)
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Post by: Setekh on October 14, 2003, 11:37:52 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Turnsky
you'll get something like this in sydney soon enough..;)

Oh yeah, they're planning to link the ferries up, eh! That'll be so cool, come visit. :):yes:
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Post by: Turnsky on October 14, 2003, 11:39:44 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh

Oh yeah, they're planning to link the ferries up, eh! That'll be so cool, come visit. :):yes:

yeah.. the Spirit of Tasmania 3... 1&2 already go to melbourne..:nod:

all 3 will be going to devonport.. ;)

note devonport's total population is roughly 25,000