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or someplace you've been.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

i've done a lot of debunking on various new york threads, but now i want my misconceptions about the rest of the world turned around.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

Liverpool is not a particularly violent place to go for a night out.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

Los Angeles: Every stereotype is true. Not as cartoonishly true as you might think, but true. Yep.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

Canberra really isnt that boring or quiet like people think. Unfortunately the city doesn't leap out and fling entertainment into ones lap; you have to seek it out, it is quiet and of a different pace. But its a cool place in many ways, and very beautiful.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

Bruges likes tourists. No, it doesn't, it only likes their money.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, New Jersey, where do I start.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

adelaide has wild sex orgies every night of the week - to get to them you have to find the hidden tunnel to the orgy room

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Monday, 10 October 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

Some people in Oakland obey traffic laws.

― viborgu, Monday, 10 October 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

I went to a pub in Brighton, and no there were no gay couples in it.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 10 October 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

Hull is a great place to live.

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Monday, 10 October 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

(Every time I visit LA I am surprised at how all my stereotypes keep being proved completely -- but, as said above, not cartoonishly -- true! It so weird. No other city has done this, not even cartoonish cities like Vegas.)

Portland: It's not so much a rain as a light spritz, and it's just during the winter; it rains more in New York City, as far as inches per year goes. Also, I know one or two people here who aren't in bands.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 10 October 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

Oxford is not posh, nor is it particularly pretty outside the city centre.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 10 October 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

Not everyone in Ireland drinks alcoholic beverages.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 10 October 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

Londoners are as likely to be friendly as anyone else, if not more so.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 10 October 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

not all women in woy woy wear dresses with patterns modelled on pub carpets. not all woy woy men own utes.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 10 October 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

Melbourne: it's not that wet, miserable and smogified really.

― salexander / sophie (salexander), Monday, 10 October 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

the flies arebad though, aren't they?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 10 October 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

We have electricity in Manchester.

― Tag (Tag), Monday, 10 October 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Grimsby does not smell of fish all the time.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Not everyone who lives on Martha's Vineyard has gold coins falling out of their ass. There's actual poverty here.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

But MV does smell of fish.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

i was on long island yesterday and it was cool to see how much 1950s architecture was still around. and not just stereotypical "institutional" or suburban identikit '50s architecture, but real posho scott fitzgerald stuff, country club- style properties with private entrances flanked in sexy stone columns and long driveways. i think there's a misconception that long island is all one big ugly strip mall until you get to the hamptons, but it's only MOSTLY true.

(in the spirit of the thread, i do technically live in a part of long island.)

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

Ireland is exactly as you imagine it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

I thought Dublin would be like Craggy Island :(

Clapton is NOT free of yapping dogs at 2 in the morning.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

denver is not in the mountains

oh and it's not that cold here.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Once you get out of the Bedford Ave area of Williamburg, you can attend a "Kill Whitey" party more than once a month!

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I live in an ex-council block.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

I've never seen a chippy selling deep fried mars bars in Glasgow. (I have, however, seen a chippy selling a burger wrapped in a pizza, coated in batter and deep fried.)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

worcester isn't really the shithole people make it out to be.

― bingo (Chris V), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

although im closing on my new house in auburn in 3 weeks so...i'll be out of worcester.

― bingo (Chris V), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Only time I saw (and ate) a deep fried Mars Bar was in Twickenham.

― Suckling robot at a warrior rave (alix), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

It's actually not that easy to buy sun-dried tomatoes in Islington, north London.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Sun-blush are what Islingtonians prefer, no?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Nor is it easy to get the Guardian delivered! (I have to buy it)
xpost

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Madrid is near Wales.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Rhode Island is neither an island or a road. NOR IS IT LONG ISLAND, or part of New York.

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

Not all Texans are monstrous fascist warmongering morons.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Hackney is quite leafy.

― Suckling robot at a warrior rave (alix), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Sun-blush are what Islingtonians prefer, no?

-- Mädchen

Oh crikey, don't ask me. I'm new arrival. It was very easy to buy organic milk and baby food in Crouch End though, so no debunking there.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Chicago doesn't really seem all that windy to me. No more than anywhere else, at least.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what people think about st louis! I'm not sure anyone thinks about st louis at all!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Some people in Brighton are heterosexual.

Oh wait Dave already did that one.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

OK, Hove has high levels of poverty.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Madison is neither the whitest nor the snobbiest place on earth.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Not everyone who lives on Martha's Vineyard has gold coins falling out of their ass. There's actual poverty here.
Speak for yourself, Maria. I actually DO have gold coins falling out of my ass. Hell on the septic.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

I was brought up in Rochdale, and yet have never heard anyone apart from a southerner say 'ee by gum'

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

The elk on the Hanford Reach do not glow in the dark. There is, however, a problem with the local pigeon shit being slightly radioactive.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

it doesn't always rain in glasgow.

i mean: it was dry for half an hour this morning, at least.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Not everyone from around here loves or gives a rats ass about rugby. OKAY ?!!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

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Stet is lying (or euphemising). No-one in Ayrshire is tall enough to stick the heid on him.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

It was when I was younger, and shorter. I got £500 for it, and spent it on (donner+chips+irn-bru) X 250.

― stet (stet), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

i don't live next to a toxic waste dump. it's been so long since i've had a car that i've forgotten what my exit was (and where i am originally from, we DIDN'T have an exit). and i don't care one way or another about frank sinatra.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Since I've been in Missouri, no one has offered to "show me" anything.

― mike a, Monday, 10 October 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

There is 'white trash' in San Francisco.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

HI DERE!

― Dickset! Dickset! Disckset! (jaxon), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

There are Republicans in San Francisco.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

A common misconception about where I live is that all the appliances, furniture and remote control devices are edible. This is not actually true, although it usually takes a game of peek-a-boo or pattycake to discourage efforts to prove it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

you live in candyland, gypsy?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

It is commonly believed that Portland, Oregon is all wet. It isn't.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Not everyone in Seattle shoots heroin.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Only you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Some of them chase it.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

I had a burmese python that tried to eat it, then it exploded.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Not everyone in Seattle drinks coffee, either

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

BULLSHIT!

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

(ok, sorry, only 90% of the people here do... that's not everyone.. but not enough for myth debunking. That's a stereotype which lives up to its stereo and type!)

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

not everyone is baltimore shoots heroin, either.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

unless i just havent been in on the initiation yet

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

True. I am not baltimore shoots heroin!

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

(haha, sorry.)

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

haha eat a dick brian

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

are there stereotypes about san francisco?

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tokenasians.com/archives/news/burgerpipe.jpg

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

No stereotypes about san francisco whatsoever.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

No one in SF hates Los Angeles.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

It was when I was younger, and shorter. I got £500 for it

o ye, i remember you telling me about the bizarre kilmarnock medical experiment centre.

(seriously: i now remember the whole story. for some reason earlier it had slipped my mind.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

i don't think hating los angeles is a stereotype, rather common sense.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

not everyone in greenville, sc is made of candy

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

hey Jess, how about, "Not everyone in Baltimore has been murdered"? does that work?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

RIP Stringer Bell

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Most Vermonters do not eat Ben & Jerry's ice cream. We can't f*ckin' afford the stuff.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Jim's right--and we also don't all make maple syrup and milk cows for a living. In fact, I don't even ski...

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Minnesotans aren't actually nice. We generally trade on quiet, sublimated hatred.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

haha there's no misconception to the contrary on that one, John!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

not everyone in greenville, sc is made of candy

-- latebloomer

you, sir, are a LIAR!

― tehresa (tehresa), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

We aren't all fat and don't all eat terrible food and smoke all the time.

― The Voice of Chicago (kenan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

Actually, we are a herd of barefooted gangbangers accepting blowjobs with abandon. The sunsets are pretty as well.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Laguna Beach is nothing like the MTV show, only about 10-15% like it.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

There is absolutely nothing about Virginia that says to me that it is for lovers.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

It's for lovers of hell. There wasn't room on the bumper sticker.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Haha snap!

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Nothing says "love" like strict anti-sodomy laws.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Universal Healthcare /= free massage parlour visits.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Brighton in not "London-on-Sea". If it was I'd move the fuck out in a split second.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

more like croydon-on-sea

*ducks*

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

southend isn't the poor man's Brighton.
it's the poor man's Clacton ffs.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

streatham is...er...um...uh...oh forget it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

People in Wales fuck sheep.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

On reflection I could probably have worded that better.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

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