How well do you fit the stereotype of your homeplace / place of birth?

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How well do you fit the stereotype of your homeplace / place of birth? For example i'm from Christchurch so i'm supposed to be paranoid, depressed, eccentric, obsessed with which school people go to, and on the methadone program. i now live in Dunedin so i should drink lots of beer, go to rugby games and play jangly whiny guitar music. i'm not sure what being from New Zealand is supposed to mean, maybe a foreigner can help out with that one. And i'm from the antipodes so i should have my feet on my head and my face in my stomach. Anyway out of all this i think the paranoia one is the only one that fits me. what about you?

― hamish, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm from New York and don't fit the stereotype a'tall. According to the pop belief of many, New Yorkers are all on therapy, rude and obnoxious, sarky and notorious, lazy boozers.

I admit to being sarky, but that's not New York's fault;>

― Nichole Graham, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha 'city of subarus' yes (seattle) er, are tullycraft a seattle band, um well, if not theyre close by i think. i don't drink coffee though, and im not very grungy, but i am very DIRTY

― Ron, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was born in Santa Monica/Los Angeles. Lesee, I love cold gray weather, Hollywood culture makes me puke, and I like walking... so, yeah, I certainly don't fit the stereotype at all.

― Brian MacDonald, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, Ron, are you associated with Tullycraft? I engineered a live set they did on KUCI back in the day...

― Brian MacDonald, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I'm from Cornwall and though I love my sister very much I have yet to try and sleep with her.

― Matt, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So not really.

― Matt, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But do you like pasties?

― Andrew L, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As a Yorkshire man I'm supposed to be bluff, straightalker, careful with my money and with an unhealthy interest in sheep. I'm none of these things.

But then again the area I grew up in is predominantly non- white/'immigrant' area (as Kodanshi could confirm if he hadn't gone AWOL). I'm now an 'imigrant' myself so perhaps its had a bigger influence on me than I realised.

― stevo, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

stevo how ca-a-an you be so hea-a-atless? Ha-a-ave you forgotten those times behind the ba-a-arn?

― Lamb S. Mutton, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm from Ireland......er of course I don't fit the stereotype. What stereotype. I don't really, though I eat lots of potatoes.

― Ronan, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm from Derbyshire but I have never shagged a sheep (Mr Miller, aren't you from Derbyshire too?)

Seriously though, I don't really match with any of the people I used to hang around with up there, apart from loving football and the occasional beer. They all loved a fight on a Saturday and never thought of leaving town.

― chris, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, being from Romford (widely regarded as Essex but isn't ha ha)...well I'm sure you know. I'M NOT AN ESSEX BOY! I'M NOT I'M NOT I'M NOT!

― DG, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was born in timaru, which shouldn't mean anything much to anyone anywhere except maybe that i'm a provincial hick. now i live in dunedin which means that i'm into polysexual polyamorous liberal pseudo-buddhist mock lesbianism.

― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OR DOES IT?

― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Seattle but never really lived there...mostly grew up in Coronado ten minutes or so walk from the beach. Theoretically I should be a tanned surfer dude. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So do you like pasties? I used to work as a baker. I'd be up at four for a five o'clock start, the Independent described the pasties we made as the best in Cornwall. I'd make pastry involving manhandling blocks of lard about three cubic feet in volume. It was an on-show bakery so once the sun started shining the temperature (what with the ovens and the huge picture windows) used to rise to about 90 degrees F. A pasty is designed to be the only thing you need to eat all day, they are huge, we used to make about five hundred and once we opened they would all be sold in an horrific feeding frenzy which would last unitl about two o' clock. the I'd start scraping the sun-baked pastry off the floor, which would take me until about five-ish. I don't like pasties.

― Matt, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been known to occasionally add "baby!" to the end of "I'm from L.A." and sometimes not ironically so...

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I love a good Cornish Pasty (Mum's Cornish) and seen as most mass produced pasties are unedible - Ginster's honourable exception - so how about sharing the recipe Matt?

― stevo, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was born in timaru, which shouldn't mean anything much to anyone anywhere except maybe that i'm a provincial hick.

Being from Timaru means you are an arsonist and in a motorbike gang and your parents are Jehovah's witnesses and you like the Exponents.

― hamish, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was born in cromwell. this means probbly i should have bleach blond hair with visible roots, thickly applied black eyeliner and pink frosted lipstick. i should have a boyfriend who drives an RX7 with that "addicted to bass" song blasting out of it. my name should be shiraz. alas none of these things are true.

― di, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i grew up in oamaru which would mean the same thing, only my name would be "erena".

― di, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cambridge New Zilun. as above, but 'Sharynn' or 'Tracy'. and a Holden instead of a Mazda, maaaaaaate.

I am not part of the Horsey Set, have never spent a fourth form Friday night trying to pick up boy racers outside the Victoria Street Hamilton Mcdonalds and was only moderately terrorised by a certain secondary school. However, i do have a fixation for dumm rock n roll.

― petra jane, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, being from Romford (widely regarded as Essex but isn't ha ha)...well I'm sure you know. I'M NOT AN ESSEX BOY! I'M NOT I'M NOT I'M NOT!

DG, protesting a bit hard, aren't ya?

― Nichole Graham, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You don't understaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand!

― DG, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I grew up on the outskirts of Oamaru. I should be working as a receptionist at the freezing works, or maybe if I looked pretty as the cashier at tangibles. Or at Matsingers berry farm if particularly desperate. Having found a mate (shane or Gavin) I would become a share milkers aide.

I should be an aunt many times over by now, and I should be married myself or at the very least with a sprog on the way. I should be concerned about entering a and p shows and have a penchant for chambray, over shirts and animal print. something like that I guess. as for makeup - well Di, when you are raising a family and milking cows in between times you dont have time to apply anything other than natural glow.

― Menelaus Darcy, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a born and bred sarf Lahndoner, but really I am an archetypal Surrey boy. Over-privileged, expensively-educated snob with feeling of superioirty but no imagination and no soul. I suspect some of you may have alreay had similar sentiments about my posts.

― Mark C, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Nelson (either a hippy/skapunk or a farmer), raised in Rotorua (er, outdoorsy white trash/gang member?), now in Dunedin, see above.

― Ess Kay, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm Essex Man. I should be crying when the dear old Queen Mum dies, putting alloys on my car, derivative dealing, supporting the Hammers and listening to the Prodge and Depeche. Some of this is true.

I once stood behind Martin Gore in a queue in WHSmiths in Basildon. I was waiting to buy Seven And The Ragged Tiger by Duran Duran. The look of contempt he shot me would have stripped paint.

― Mike Ratford, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He was trying to save you from yourself. And talk about him having the last laugh a million times over...

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How about the recipe Matt Take an enormous quantity of lard and margarine, mis it with an enormous quantity of flaour and water, then fill with enormous quantities of beef, onions and potatoes with a little seasoning and bake in batches of twenty in enormous ovens, preferably whilst being photographed by tourists
― Matt, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops

― Matt, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hay Mush, Being from New Zealand means you are crazeeee ( mercury in all the fush) adventurous- sir edmund style, down to earth (with the sheeps) think everywhere else has gross landscape, occasionally fashion savveee, but with an inferiority complex about the size of your country and prefer big bums on girls.. I am from sydney so obviously I am blonde, no tan lines, dumb as a bag of bricks, toe.ee.err than a roman sandle, and have an alcoholic lager swillin buff boyf with a face like a bucket of smashed crabs. But rilly I have a taste for the NZ flayva, all the boys are suck- wucked with nice ducks.

― J.Mo, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

spooky the last 2 people who called me that both ended up living in Seednee too.

― hamish, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Wolverhampton - should be dressed in Morgan and mini-skirt and listening to glam handbag house with good line in deadpan sarcasm or Banks bitter drinking heavy metal fan with good line in deadpan sarcasm.

Neither of these.

I now live in north London. I should be spending what money I have left over from my sky high rent on clothes, St Etienne CDs, organic vegetables that then are left to rot in the fridge, copies of The Guardian, Pret a Manger sandwiches and too much wine.

Oh dear

― Anna, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in a small highland town, I should be a SHEPHERDESS!!! Hooray! I am not though, I live in south London and sleep a lot. I tell you, no more afternoon naps for me, it was a real pain getting to sleep last night eh wot eh.

― Sarah, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's because of the frightening things you saw on C4.

I'm typical of Surrey, yes.

― Tom, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think some of my colleagues / mates still believe that I have a pony called Twinkle. However despite my Buckinghamshire upbringing I have never been anywhere near a gymkhana.

In all other respects I am utterly middle class though.

― Emma, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Except for the raw Jade edge, of course.

― N., Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From and still in Brighton = gay new age traveller? Tho actually it's all Pret-a-Manger-on-Sea now, grrrrrr.

― Archel, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have the arrogance of a born and bred Londoner.

― N., Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RAW JADE EDGE!!!!

― Emma, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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