I lost my lunch in ...

Uncle Sparky · November 27, 2003, 05:38

I thought I'd start this as a companion thread to Starchild's "I Left My Heart In...".

What cities/towns have you spent time in that you would recommend only to people you really dislike ? What was it about them that must be seen/experienced to be believed.

Wroclaw, Poland - I never saw thick yellow air before. Although I have no respritory problems, I had trouble breathing for 2 extremely unpleasant days. The year was 1990. Wroclaw is a heavy industry city. Maybe they improved things since then. I would recommend all major heavy industries send there CEOs for extended periods.

I'll post more later...

Harovan · November 27, 2003, 05:45

Esslingen, Germany. A hideous place, dirty and stinks. I was there once on a vacation trip with the family, for one day only, because according to a tourists guide they have a "beautiful wild park with dolphinarium" there. What I found instead (after paying entrance fee, of course), was a rotten, stinking pool without any visible sign of life in it whatsoever.

aaglo · November 27, 2003, 05:52

I'll be blunt and say:

Niagara Falls, Canada: there's no city more fake than that. There just cannot be. Except some cities in USA (but I've never been there, so...) If possible, avoid this city, but if you want to see the falls, natually you cannot avoid seeing that place. It's a shame, really...

duke o' york · November 27, 2003, 05:52

Middlesbrough

or Chernobyl, Baghdad, etc...

connorkimbro · November 27, 2003, 06:08

Quote:

Niagara Falls, Canada: there's no city more fake than that.

uhhh. . . care to elaborate?

General Ludd · November 27, 2003, 06:14

Detroit.

Paul Hanson · November 27, 2003, 06:25

Hull.

Pity I practically live here.

aaglo · November 27, 2003, 06:27

Quote:

Originally posted by connorkimbro
uhhh. . . care to elaborate?

well:
- it's a fake town. a sort of 'las vegas of canada'
- everything there feels so plastic and use-once-then-throw-away -like
- why on earth would someone want to place 'Ripley's believe or not -museum' and some other ridiculous 'horror museums' by the niagara falls. What is the relation between them?
- It's very expensive to eat there - in every restaurant
- Lundy's lane is the most ridiculous lane I've ever seen

(because of all I've mentioned above).

want more? go and see it yourself

So actually we did lose our lunch there, because we didn't want to pay 23 CAD per pizza...

orange · November 27, 2003, 06:35

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Worst. City. Ever.

Theben · November 27, 2003, 06:35

that sounds like every tourist trap in Amrerica.

better stay away.

I cast my vote for Philedelphia. The whole toen is dirty. Even the supposed nice placeas.

Theben · November 27, 2003, 06:36

damn is my spelling sdhot.

I only had half a bootlel.

aaglo · November 27, 2003, 06:38

...of what? Soda? or is it Pop?

Theben · November 27, 2003, 06:41

Korbel.

Theben · November 27, 2003, 06:42

kinda fizzy tho
damn admin whiere they to say I kin post only once every 30 second.

aaglo · November 27, 2003, 06:49

I'd say, that everyone spelling incorrectly and blaming alcohol is faking (the typo's, that is).

orange · November 27, 2003, 06:50

shtu teh fock upp aaaglooO!@!)!)(*

Theben · November 27, 2003, 06:59

Quote:

Originally posted by aaglo
I'd say, that everyone spelling incorrectly and blaming alcohol is faking (the typo's, that is).

Not affecting the typos, just my desire to fix them.

Provost Harrison · November 27, 2003, 08:00

Bristol...

Provost Harrison · November 27, 2003, 08:03

Quote:

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Hull.

Pity I practically live here.

Says the man from S****horpe. And hell, have you ever visited Grimsby? Sheesh...

Gangerolf · November 27, 2003, 15:00

Bangkok: what a shithole

I got the runs literally minutes after stepping off the plane. Don't know what I ate... It consisted of rice and something that tasted like chicken. The locals were squatting all over the place, looking like they were in pain, so at first I though "damn the food must be really bad if the locals can't handle it either". But I found out later that squatting is just their way of resting.

And all the filthy touts, pimps and tuk-tuk drivers yelling at me in high-pitched Donald Duck voices. Hilarious people.

Worst thing is, I kind of liked the place. But 5 days was more than enough for me.

Sandman · November 27, 2003, 15:14

Aberdeen.

The city is built from a grey type of granite, and it's been nicknamed 'the silver city'. Oh please, it's grey, dammit. The entire city is grey, and it's supposed to be a positive trait.

Still, I don't blame them for trying. The whole town stinks of fish and the seagulls are bigger than the people.

The quarry from which the granite came is the biggest hole in Western Europe. Says it all.

Spec · November 27, 2003, 15:33

Toronto.

Namaste · November 27, 2003, 15:50

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

God awful, **** city. Basically, there are a few decent blocks in Center City and everything outside is the worst kind of slum I've ever seen in my life. Nothing redeeming about it, and I'm stuck living there until May.

st_swithin · November 27, 2003, 16:31

Sydney, Aus. or Las Vegas, NV.

BustaMike · November 27, 2003, 17:47

El Paso, Texas. The whole city is brown and made of dirt. It's the ugliest place on Earth. Albequerque, New Mexico deserves an honorable mention for being totally brown and filthy also.

Az · November 27, 2003, 18:08

Cairo, Egypt. it's so... run down.

Evil Knevil · November 27, 2003, 18:28

I have to second Cairo. In fact Egypt in general

Az · November 27, 2003, 19:26

There ARE some positive sides, like the shore stree in Alexandria, but the whole country is sooo depressing. Like the Cairo-Alexandria Highway... Miles and miles of half built of brick or clay standing in the middle of fields. Sigh. or one market place in alexandria... OMG, it looks like some post-apocalyptic world. The walls of the 3 story buildings around it are covered with something weird.. everything is so gray....

damn.....

molly bloom · November 27, 2003, 20:01

Taft in California. Looked like it could be used as one of those settings for 'British travellers turned into spare ribs by locals' drive in films.

The place at which we ate was the only place in town left open at three in the afternoon and appeared to be operated by the weird sisters from Macbeth. The menu had fried, deep fried and clot forming sections. My tuna sandwich had so much mayonnaise there were booms around it stopping it spreading further out to sea.

The people were rude and unhelpful (in contrast with elsewhere in Ca.,) and the town was uglier than a cane toad in the mud.

We had to drive through some scrubby landscape to get there, and we were mighty glad to leave. Even Fresno looked better.

Shi Huangdi · November 27, 2003, 23:28

Cardiff, Wales.