funny things of your area/country

[freemouse]

Here are something funny about Hawaii, what about your place?

--- Professors dress suit/tie to classes-----wearing slippers
--- Chopstick is more popular than spoon/fork
--- Birds prefer walking over than flying
--- No snake
--- McD serves rice and spam
--- Plants are greener in the "winter"

[MsRuthieB]

Folks tie their old sneaker together by the strings and throw them over the power lines. I call it outdoor urban decor

Oh, and we have a natural snow machine....it's technically called lake effect snow. And we also have a snow belt (the area of northern Ohio that gets hardest hit when the snow machine kicks it into high gear).

The lake gulls aren't afraid of people. As a matter of fact, back years ago I was eating a hot dog downtown at lunchtime off of one of those hot dog vendors...I know, I took my life in my own hands. Anyhow, I was half way done when one of the gulls swooped down and took the rest of the dog right from my hand. Friggin' crazy man. These birds don't play

[mouse]

St. Louis:

• Highway interchanges were mostly added after areas were built up; as a result, we don't have cloverleaves exchanges or exchanges that follow any kind of pattern--very confusing for people who are not familiar with the area.
• All the native St. Louisans are convinced that the winters here are awful. Hah!!! They are very mild. However, no one knows how to drive in the snow.
• Native St. Louisans "place" each other, socio-economically, by the high school attended. Therefore, one of the first questions they ask, upon meeting a new person (no matter what age) is "Where did you go to high school?"
• Many local place names are French. However, local pronunciation of those names bears absolutely no resemblance either to French or to the actual spelling of the names.

[Erin_S2S]

Originally posted by MsRuthieB
The lake gulls aren't afraid of people. As a matter of fact, back years ago I was eating a hot dog downtown at lunchtime off of one of those hot dog vendors...I know, I took my life in my own hands. Anyhow, I was half way done when one of the gulls swooped down and took the rest of the dog right from my hand. Friggin' crazy man. These birds don't play

That's so funny. In junior highschool, my marine biology class took a trip to Sea World. I was eating a churro and after about two bites, a sea gull swooped down and stole it from me. It then landed on a nearby rooftop and ate it. I swear it was laughing at me. When I met up with the rest of the class, several other kids were talking about the same thing happening to them.

[Loki]

Blackpool/Lancashire, England:

We have a huge carnivalesque tower, which dominates the blackpool landscape. This is the only building which stands out. Yet we apply to be a city almost every year.

The local dish is lancashire hotpot, which you can't get at a lot of lancashire pubs

Blackpool is at war with a town called Preston. (Also in lancashire) Mainly due to football teams, but also regarding te fact that when blackpool applied to be a city, preston won.

In some parts of the fylde district, between st annes and Thornton is the only place where people pronounce the word "there" as "there" and not as "thure"

Blackpool residents are desensitized to callous acts of puking, drunkenness and sex before they reach seven years old, because it's what happens on the streets of blackpool.

Blackpool is actually a tourist destination. Even though there's sh*t all over the beach. (You think I'm joking, don't you?)

Because rich people didn't want to go on the beach and get covered in sh*t, three piers were built. Over the years, they've changed from bein ga hiding for the rich to a commoners place. One is falling down, one has a big wheel on it, and the other is like a theme park on a jetty.

one pier had a helicopter landing pad on it. Then it fell apart.

Almost everyone is addicted to something. Half the town smokes. most poeple take drugs, and gambling problems are prevalent.

Despite these gambling problems, Blackpool governors are pushing to build casinos all over Blackpool.

It is rumoured that one of these govenors sons has a gambling problem.

i wouldn't be surprised if the others had families with gambling problems.

Blackpool is home to the pleasure beach, which is a crappy theme park with some great rides and soem not so great rides. It is argued that some of the best rollercoasters on earth, such as the grand national, reside here.

Animal rights protestors show up in Blackpool every saturday. I tried to give them cookies. They refused.


Well, that's Blackpool for you, and also lancashire. Oh yeah - And lancashire and yorkshire never got over that war. even though Richard III was killed years ago.

[Ntelligentidiot]

Wow. And I used to want to go to england.

[allibaba]

Cincinnati, Ohio

We say "pop" instead of "soda." Apparently this is odd to some people. It drove my roommate in college crazy (she was from Pennsylvania).

[MsRuthieB]

This is all over. There's soda, pop, and coke depending on what part of the States you're in. Weird...

[Erin_S2S]

They call shopping carts "buggies" here! It annoys me to no end!
And some of the accents have people pronouncing "th" as "d".
Get me outta here!

[Astarte]

We have hollywood-type letters on the big hill overlooking downtown that originally said SAINT JOHN 2000, but they change the last letter to reflect the year... as if anybody would forget.

People pronounce "sure" as "shore."