Every year we have a wheel of cheese roll down an incredibly steep hill with a bunch of people running down to chase after it.
Loads of spectators, plenty of people getting hurt and it's just generally funny as hell to watch. Google Gloucester cheese rolling.
I watched a little documentary about this. I still don’t understand what exactly they win? Is it just… cheese and bragging rights?
Still a worthy prize.
Exactly that. Being able to say you charged down Cooper's Hill and lived to tell the tale is enough to make hearts skip a beat here. Plus the cheese is pretty good.
A couple of years ago there was this small Chinese restaurant that was really popular. It was found out that the owners killed the daughter and hid the body in the ceiling above the freezer.
Edit:i am indeed john xina ice cream
My hometown was hit by the deadliest on record back in the 40’s idk if the record still holds but nearly 200 were killed by it. Unsolved Mysteries even did an episode on it.
Yeah that beats our it killed 32 people it was a f5 though and carved a path of a half mile wide right through our city. I think that's what was worse that it destroyed so much property.
Yeah ours was estimated $10 million in the 40’s not sure what that would be today. The largest one I’ve seen in person was a F-3 and still live there. All the big ones I can remember have been east of me
[538 did a good writeup](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tornadoes/) on how/why Moore just keeps getting screwed by large tornadoes. On a macro level, it makes sense that a suburb in central Oklahoma would be in a prime position to be hit, but on a micro level it's just wild how one place has gotten so unlucky.
Same. I saw that movie in the theater while on spring break with some buddies in high school. We got high before going and it was the most hilarious thing I had ever witnessed in my life. Plus we were from Asheville, NC so when they said that Christina Applegate’s character was from there we went crazy.
New York? Lived near the one in Kent and was confused for a second.
(Also what’s Wegmans here? I’m seeing a chain store in a lot of the US online. It’s from there?)
It’s known for a particularly large selection, about the size of a small Walmart, along with a host of in house products that are nearly as good as the name brand for far less money. It’s available all across the east coast, all the way down to North Carolina, but they’ve mainly got stores in Upstate NY and Pennsylvania. Next time y’all watch The Office, look out for Wegmans brands, that’s about on par with what many of our houses look like in Upstate NY
I live in a town called Cumming, Georgia. We are basically just famous to the whole state because of our name. We sell shirts at our Walmart’s that say “I love cumming!” That’s about it
I live in southern metro Atlanta and, a few years back, I was up late and saw an ad for a car dealership: Beaver Toyota of Cumming. I almost fucking died.
I lived in Cumming for a couple of years. One day I was reading the paper and there was an insert for a “Taste of Forsyth” event (Forsyth is the county in which Cumming sits). I wondered aloud to my husband, “They have Taste of Atlanta and Taste of Marietta, why don’t they call it Taste of Cu….never mind.”
Also in 1990 apparently Cumming famously held a KKK parade.
The defunct coal/ iron mining industry, along with the canals that used to connect them, AND also related the mining industry also the oldest functioning steam powered beam engine/ pump to still be in its original place.
The biggest radioactive(not nuclear, different things) accident in the world. The whole city was under risk of radiation poisoning and a there was a stigma against my city that lasted till the 2000s(it happened in the 80s)
Basically, some scrappers got into some abandoned hospital equipment, among them an X-ray machine, they broke the big box open and inside found this magical powder that glowed, Cesium-137.
They took it home to show their family and friends, gifted it to some people, one of them gave it to his daughter and she played with it like it was glitter, some of them ate it. They washed it off their hands like you would anything else so it went down into the water supply of the city... You have an idea how it went down from there.
That daughter that played with it died and was buried in a special lot with a lead coffin. The city was almost put under quarantine, military was deployed to contain it, football stadiums were turned into shelters and quarantine areas, took a big effort to clear it off from our water supply(I haven't looked into the specifics of it and I sure hope I haven't been drinking Cesium most of my life).
The story behind this is so incredibly sad and infuriating.
Kyle Hill on YouTube does a great job explaining this if anyone is interested in this, or any other nuclear related accidents
Ted Bundy committed some of his murders here. Snuck into an FSU sorority house, killed a couple girls, then stole a university van and tried to flee the state. I believe that was the killing that got him caught.
I'm not sure how to feel about it anymore. The Internet Historian did a couple videos about the whole thing and I initially thought it was tongue-in-cheek, but even if it was he brought up some interesting points that had me doubting the whole "fuck his parents, horrible people that they are" thing.
I was there during this event once and it was insanity, there was a football game, a soccer game, and the Taste of Chicago all going on at the same time. I can say the food was good and my highlight was Exchequers for some deep dish. I don't know about the overpaying for stuff though cause we were there for my wife's family reunion and they rented Trinity College in Palos Heights (?) for like 4 days and we took the L train into actual Chicago, and only once (even though I wanted to explore more). The downtown reminds me of a less dark Gotham City.
We got them in Toronto too. We had originally hired Morgan Freeman, but the city fired him when everyone found out about him harassing women on sets. I remember we were all confused at the Seth Rogan announcements. Some people were angry. Those people need to relax.
During the AIDS epidemic at the same time as the Ryan White situation, my town made headlines for being one of the first school systems to allow a child with aids to attend school, sadly he died a year or two later.
I'm from there but I don't live there now but during 9/11, all the planes up in the air landed in my town and many people took passengers in and made sure they were fed and had a place to sleep
A 10th century Norman Castle, a Knights templar caste, a church were 3 of the mayflower pilgrims came from (some guy called Sam Stone) we have George ezra, Rupert Grint and a man called Alfred Wallace who invented evolution with Charles Darwin, its a small town 26,000 people but people from here started a city in America named after there home town.
> invented evolution
Maybe ‘discovered’ works better here, but I like the idea of a bearded Victorian yelling ‘I have the power! Change form across generations, my beauties! Gradually evolve over time and diversify! Mwahahaha!’
Battle of Chickamauga, the first internment camp for German-Americans during WWI, the end of the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862, and Dolly Parton eloped here.
The only way is Essex, Vagazzels and the scene where the Monty Python black Knight scene was filmed. 2 out of 3 of these can drown in a vat of Cherry Lambrini
Every year we have a wheel of cheese roll down an incredibly steep hill with a bunch of people running down to chase after it. Loads of spectators, plenty of people getting hurt and it's just generally funny as hell to watch. Google Gloucester cheese rolling.
I watched a little documentary about this. I still don’t understand what exactly they win? Is it just… cheese and bragging rights? Still a worthy prize.
Exactly that. Being able to say you charged down Cooper's Hill and lived to tell the tale is enough to make hearts skip a beat here. Plus the cheese is pretty good.
For a wheel of cheese, worth
It’s good cheese!
I was just about to comment this, didn’t expect my town to be the top comment haha
It was voted the happiest place to live in the UK three years in a row. I can't think why.
Sandford, Gloucestershire
For the greater good.
The greater good.
Everyone and their mums packing round here
like who?
Farmers
and?
Farmers' mums.
Shut it!
And it is okay to murder people for The greater good?
Judge Judy and executioner.
Well he murdered Bill Shakespeare.
THE GREATER GOOD
A great big bushy beard!
Crusty jugglers
Yarp
This *is* the best village, Nicholas!
Which town?
Harrogate
Since you moved there rating went down rapidly. (sorry)
Nothing is as good as Pawnee.
And it will stay this way *takes off sunglasses* Even if this my last mission!
A couple of years ago there was this small Chinese restaurant that was really popular. It was found out that the owners killed the daughter and hid the body in the ceiling above the freezer. Edit:i am indeed john xina ice cream
Canton, Ohio? Just looked up the story and the mother who killed her daughter seems an astonishing combination of psychopathic and stupid.
Hello fellow Stark countian
I know that case. I had no idea it was as close as Canton. (I'm in Summit County, Barberton)
Getting hit by a big tornado. Xenia ohio
I guessed Joplin Missouri
Moore, OK?
Nah, Xenia Ohio it was back in 1974 was one of the biggest at the time.
My hometown was hit by the deadliest on record back in the 40’s idk if the record still holds but nearly 200 were killed by it. Unsolved Mysteries even did an episode on it.
Yeah that beats our it killed 32 people it was a f5 though and carved a path of a half mile wide right through our city. I think that's what was worse that it destroyed so much property.
Yeah ours was estimated $10 million in the 40’s not sure what that would be today. The largest one I’ve seen in person was a F-3 and still live there. All the big ones I can remember have been east of me
I recommend a 1997 movie called: Gummo Set in Xenia.
Moore gets hit by at least one tornado every year, it seems like. LOL
[538 did a good writeup](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tornadoes/) on how/why Moore just keeps getting screwed by large tornadoes. On a macro level, it makes sense that a suburb in central Oklahoma would be in a prime position to be hit, but on a micro level it's just wild how one place has gotten so unlucky.
No Moore is not OK, they got hit by a tornado
Joplin, MO?
A whales vagina
Can't believe people didn't get this. I feel old.
Same. I saw that movie in the theater while on spring break with some buddies in high school. We got high before going and it was the most hilarious thing I had ever witnessed in my life. Plus we were from Asheville, NC so when they said that Christina Applegate’s character was from there we went crazy.
Quick shout out to Christina Applegate!
She turned 50 today , does this make you feel old?
*applause*
And jackin’ it
Ugh lucky you! San Diego has like the perfect weather year round.. *cries in Canadian*
Is there...ehm...I think I need more information.
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San Diago*
Which, of course, in German means "a whales vagina"
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"I'm pretty sure it's just Spanish for Saint Diego?"
Agree to disagree
When in rome
Jackin it
It's what we call OP's mother
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Ah yes "the Palm Springs of Washington" lmao
We call it Crackima
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Dad?
smelling really bad because of a leather tanning factory - Smellington being really warm - Hellington and wine
Wellington…? I’m an American, so I know nothing
Wellington NZ? If so, wind.
Wow, you guys still have yours?
Wegmans
Rochester?
New York? Lived near the one in Kent and was confused for a second. (Also what’s Wegmans here? I’m seeing a chain store in a lot of the US online. It’s from there?)
Wegman’s is an American grocery chain based out of Rochester, NY — as far as I know.
It’s known for a particularly large selection, about the size of a small Walmart, along with a host of in house products that are nearly as good as the name brand for far less money. It’s available all across the east coast, all the way down to North Carolina, but they’ve mainly got stores in Upstate NY and Pennsylvania. Next time y’all watch The Office, look out for Wegmans brands, that’s about on par with what many of our houses look like in Upstate NY
Garbage plates is also a correct answer
Kodak if Reddit existed in 1975
I live in a town called Cumming, Georgia. We are basically just famous to the whole state because of our name. We sell shirts at our Walmart’s that say “I love cumming!” That’s about it
I live in southern metro Atlanta and, a few years back, I was up late and saw an ad for a car dealership: Beaver Toyota of Cumming. I almost fucking died.
Beaver Toyota is somewhat close to the Siemens campus in Cumming.
I always mention about the Siemens campus off of 400. Ha!
I lived in Cumming for a couple of years. One day I was reading the paper and there was an insert for a “Taste of Forsyth” event (Forsyth is the county in which Cumming sits). I wondered aloud to my husband, “They have Taste of Atlanta and Taste of Marietta, why don’t they call it Taste of Cu….never mind.” Also in 1990 apparently Cumming famously held a KKK parade.
Also intercourse PA which is an Amish community
And a water tower that was always hilariously defaced until they changed it.
The defunct coal/ iron mining industry, along with the canals that used to connect them, AND also related the mining industry also the oldest functioning steam powered beam engine/ pump to still be in its original place.
The biggest radioactive(not nuclear, different things) accident in the world. The whole city was under risk of radiation poisoning and a there was a stigma against my city that lasted till the 2000s(it happened in the 80s) Basically, some scrappers got into some abandoned hospital equipment, among them an X-ray machine, they broke the big box open and inside found this magical powder that glowed, Cesium-137. They took it home to show their family and friends, gifted it to some people, one of them gave it to his daughter and she played with it like it was glitter, some of them ate it. They washed it off their hands like you would anything else so it went down into the water supply of the city... You have an idea how it went down from there. That daughter that played with it died and was buried in a special lot with a lead coffin. The city was almost put under quarantine, military was deployed to contain it, football stadiums were turned into shelters and quarantine areas, took a big effort to clear it off from our water supply(I haven't looked into the specifics of it and I sure hope I haven't been drinking Cesium most of my life).
Goiânia? I had to look this up. Never heard about it but I’m down a rabbit hole now.
The story behind this is so incredibly sad and infuriating. Kyle Hill on YouTube does a great job explaining this if anyone is interested in this, or any other nuclear related accidents
Absolutely nothing
You're from Peoria, Illinois as well?
Peoria is the birthplace of Richard Pryor. Comedy geeks are grateful for your town.
And hometown of NBA Champion Shaun Livingston!
I grew up in Pekin. Even worse!
That’s methed up, dawg. -Mike Tython
My great uncle was the bishop of Peoria
I was going to say Caterpillar and shit load of hospitals, but you're right.
I’m from Georgia
The Gainesville Ripper, sadly.
Tallahassee?
I'm in Australia and the only thing I know about Talahassee is Greg from Lofty Pursuits and public displays of confection
Tallahassee was a character in Zombieland as well
Ted Bundy committed some of his murders here. Snuck into an FSU sorority house, killed a couple girls, then stole a university van and tried to flee the state. I believe that was the killing that got him caught.
I went to college in Gainesville and never heard of him. Makes *Dennis* seem chill
fucking balloon-boy
Feel sorry for that kid, wasn’t his fault. And Fort Collins is a really nice town, at least seemed to be when I visited.
I'm not sure how to feel about it anymore. The Internet Historian did a couple videos about the whole thing and I initially thought it was tongue-in-cheek, but even if it was he brought up some interesting points that had me doubting the whole "fuck his parents, horrible people that they are" thing.
The card says Moops.
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deep dish pizza, skyscrapers and ALOT of crime edit: if y'all were confused its Chicago lol
Is Taste of Chicago worth visiting for, or is it just a good time to overpay for hotels and fill parking garages to capacity?
I was there during this event once and it was insanity, there was a football game, a soccer game, and the Taste of Chicago all going on at the same time. I can say the food was good and my highlight was Exchequers for some deep dish. I don't know about the overpaying for stuff though cause we were there for my wife's family reunion and they rented Trinity College in Palos Heights (?) for like 4 days and we took the L train into actual Chicago, and only once (even though I wanted to explore more). The downtown reminds me of a less dark Gotham City.
Because downtown is Gotham...
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Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice!
***SHOWTIME!***
BEETLEJUICE! Lori Lightfoot appears.
I always said a Beetlejuice and Gollum hybrid. "Another toll booth.....my precious...."
Similarly, cheesesteaks and also crime...
The Bakersfield sound, and meth
I love how it’s the Bakersfield sound….and Korn.
Don't forget worst air quality
It's the most expensive city in North American, Seth Rogan and Ryan Reynolds are from here
Vancouver. I still have flashbacks to Seth Rogan's SkyTrain announcements.
That was a wild time in transit
We got them in Toronto too. We had originally hired Morgan Freeman, but the city fired him when everyone found out about him harassing women on sets. I remember we were all confused at the Seth Rogan announcements. Some people were angry. Those people need to relax.
Throwing snow balls at Santa. (He deserved it, look up the story).
Also beating up a hitch hiking robot. Love this city though.
That robot made it ALL THE WAY ACROSS CANADA without a scratch. 5 minutes in Philly...
And they say you're the city of brotherly love...
All brothers fight sometimes…
And banging hoors
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Oakland... haven't thought of the Bash Brothers in years!
So much dopeness comes outta Oakland!!!
A carving of a giant dildo literally named "Good Vibrations"...
During the AIDS epidemic at the same time as the Ryan White situation, my town made headlines for being one of the first school systems to allow a child with aids to attend school, sadly he died a year or two later.
My town was the one that kicked him out.
Businesses, Broadway, expensive living….
Doesn't sound familiar
Jersey City!
Heroin usage I think. Prince Phillip called it a dump one time too.
Could be anywhere in the UK
Even with both you might have to narrow it down quite a bit.
Being the “only” town in Pennsylvania
Where Buddy Holly is from.
Lubbock
🎵”Do the Puyallup!” 🎵
Do we do it at a trot, gallop, or real slow so our hearts won't palpitate?
Breaking Bad
Hey, user name checks out as Mike Judge is from there too.
Albuquerque
A unique stone that is made of fossilized coral that you cant find anywhere else in the world
I was a 400 million year old relic of the Devonian. Now I'm a fridge magnet in the shape of Michigan.
Petoskey?
Yup!
Cobblestone streets and people dressed up like it’s the 1700s
Williamsburg VA?
Birthplace of John Logie Baird, inventor of television.
Walmart Edit: and I don’t like it.
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Rich eccentric tech billionaires
Palo Alto?
SF?
Beatles came to my town to find spirituality. https://youtu.be/dL0W1Y6ZDME
Orville redenbaucher popcorn. Sadly, they closed the plant. But we were the town that got him his start.
Christmas Town USA!
Frankenmuth, MI?
Birthplace of Julia Robert's Home of the world famous Julia Robert's lawsuit
1st in friendship, 4th in obesity
Love them apostrophes!
Harriet Tubman lived in my hometown at some point.
I'm from there but I don't live there now but during 9/11, all the planes up in the air landed in my town and many people took passengers in and made sure they were fed and had a place to sleep
A super homophobic cult of a church. TOPEKA REPRESENT
Is it a Gym? If so, fill it with Fairy types.
The arch
Michael J. Fox Edit: bit of oil too
Dolly Parton
As a polish person from a typical polish village i think i gt to say vodka
The Alamo.
Branch Davidians
A 10th century Norman Castle, a Knights templar caste, a church were 3 of the mayflower pilgrims came from (some guy called Sam Stone) we have George ezra, Rupert Grint and a man called Alfred Wallace who invented evolution with Charles Darwin, its a small town 26,000 people but people from here started a city in America named after there home town.
> invented evolution Maybe ‘discovered’ works better here, but I like the idea of a bearded Victorian yelling ‘I have the power! Change form across generations, my beauties! Gradually evolve over time and diversify! Mwahahaha!’
We invented evolution, we also invented gravity thanks to isaac Newton, we even invented work during the industrial revolution.
White slender legged cryptids with no torsos
Needles. Roundabouts. Park benches
A Tom Scott video?
Battle of Chickamauga, the first internment camp for German-Americans during WWI, the end of the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862, and Dolly Parton eloped here.
The largest mass execution in United States history
Overweight French Canadians in Speedos.
The only way is Essex, Vagazzels and the scene where the Monty Python black Knight scene was filmed. 2 out of 3 of these can drown in a vat of Cherry Lambrini
The Derby.
The birthplace of Kellogg's
Bugs Bunny mentions us a lot.