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2011/10/06 22:59:28
Subject: Re:Cities from around the world, what does your city look like? :)
Google images only of my local town (because you 'aint seeing any closer) due to nobody really wanting to remember Stockport:
The Co-Operative Pyramid and one of the most god-awful junctions ever. Behind the Pyramid is a building with a flat white roof, the building to the left of that is where I did my apprenticeship.
Aerial View:
The Viaduct:
Part of the market on market day:
And the local Legal High store:
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2011/10/06 23:12:01
Subject: Re:Cities from around the world, what does your city look like? :)
the name originates from an roman fortress that was build on our land. Were eventually a small town emerged.
the city was called Oudenburg in Medievel times (Translates as Old Fortress)
The fortress is sadly gone, the stone's stolen to build a big part of T'steen... The Medieval fort of Brugges.
And Ofcourse our most renowned visitingplace
It's an old Monastery where St-arnoldus apparently has lived.
He's the Patron/saint of brewers. And boy, they still make some good beer.
2011/10/06 23:30:35
Subject: Re:Cities from around the world, what does your city look like? :)
Well, I currently live in the Quad cities, on the border of Iowa and Illinois. About 2 hours from Chicago.
However, I was born in, spent most of my life in, and will eventually return to, a small town on the northeastern US seaboard. You may have heard of it.
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2011/10/07 00:07:29
Subject: Re:Cities from around the world, what does your city look like? :)
George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier wrote:One particular picture of Sheffield stays by me. A frightful piece of waste ground (somehow, up here a piece of waste ground attains a squalor that would be impossible even in London), trampled quite bare of grass and littered with newspaper, old saucepans etc. To the right an isolated row of gaunt four room houses, dark red, blackened by smoke. To the left an interminable vista of factory chimneys, chimney behind chimney, fading away into a dim blackish haze. Behind me a railway embankment made from the slag of furnaces. In front, across the piece of waste ground, a cubical building of dingy red and yellow brick, with the sign, 'John Grocock, Haulage Contractor'.
Other memories of Sheffield: stone walls blackened by smoke, a shallow river yellow with chemicals, serrated flames, like circular saws, coming out from the cowls of the foundry chimneys, thump and scream of steam hammers (the iron seems to scream under the blow), smell of sulphur, yellow clay, backsides of women wagging laboriously from side to side as they shove their perambulators up the hills....
2011/10/07 00:57:13
Subject: Re:Cities from around the world, what does your city look like? :)
George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier wrote:One particular picture of Sheffield stays by me. A frightful piece of waste ground (somehow, up here a piece of waste ground attains a squalor that would be impossible even in London), trampled quite bare of grass and littered with newspaper, old saucepans etc. To the right an isolated row of gaunt four room houses, dark red, blackened by smoke. To the left an interminable vista of factory chimneys, chimney behind chimney, fading away into a dim blackish haze. Behind me a railway embankment made from the slag of furnaces. In front, across the piece of waste ground, a cubical building of dingy red and yellow brick, with the sign, 'John Grocock, Haulage Contractor'.
Other memories of Sheffield: stone walls blackened by smoke, a shallow river yellow with chemicals, serrated flames, like circular saws, coming out from the cowls of the foundry chimneys, thump and scream of steam hammers (the iron seems to scream under the blow), smell of sulphur, yellow clay, backsides of women wagging laboriously from side to side as they shove their perambulators up the hills....
Looks (and sounds) like a setting for a survival zombie horror game.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2011/10/07 01:43:43
Subject: Re:Cities from around the world, what does your city look like? :)
I'd post, but all you'd get is a giant Wal-Mart sign.
There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
2011/10/07 02:08:23
Subject: Cities from around the world, what does your city look like? :)
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2011/10/10 04:13:32
Subject: Cities from around the world, what does your city look like? :)
My city has a few claims to fame, our Ocean Front is pretty big.
Also pretty big is our military presence. If you look at the above image the body of water that the little bridge crosses is called Rudee Inlet.
That's not just some pimped out boat, that there be a SEAL boat heading out for some training, using Rudee Inlet in order to do so. I live in a tourist town that has a huge military presence, F-18s fly in the sky, closer to the oceanfront you can see military vehicles, and all sorts of other fun things.
Closer to my city we have Norfolk Naval Base, but we also have a nice little naval museum with the USS Wisconsin, if you served in WW2's Pacific Theater, Korea, Vietnam, or even in the first Gulf War you were supported by this bad boy. In fact, a lot of the news footage of the first Gulf War where they show missile fire are thanks to this ship.
2011/10/10 06:43:54
Subject: Re:Cities from around the world, what does your city look like? :)
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