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    Posted: June 11 2010 at 06:15
Some people come down on the United States for its politics, government, etc. I won't disagree. But I seriously love the land, nature, and history of this country. I suppose the size of America makes it varied in landscape, so there's something for everyone. I am not very well traveled in my country, but I want to visit the Northwest most of all. There's a lot to see. Trees and flying, sparkly vampires, apparently (thanks Twilight).

Anyway, describe to me in your own words what your country is like.

I'm from Indiana. The northeastern part. Wherever there isn't insanely flat farmland full of corn and soybeans.....



"Yep."


.....we have typical temperate deciduous forests. I'm pretty sure this whole state would be a forest if not for the farming.




Nature, cities, people...what's going on where you live?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 06:24
Someone doesn't like the outback.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 06:42
I've never actually seen the outback lul.

Okay, fine:



But I actually live in the suburbs, in the western suburbs to be more exact (which is generally poorer than the east) so where I live doesn't actually look pretty at all compared to that picture.
I actually live one suburb away from quite easily one of the scummiest, more run down, typical examples of urban decay type suburbs you can probably find in Melbourne, so I was only half joking when I posted the pic of the piece of crap.
Yeah, so it's not actually true that ghetto's only exist in the US.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 06:47
In my neck of the woods we have a stone mountain called Stone Mountain, oddly enough LOL:
http://a-tour.net/1/pages/travel/images/stonemountain4.jpg
http://www.stonemountain.forabettertomorrow.org/DuckRideStoneMountain3.jpg
It was defaced by this enormous carving Tongue:
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Stone_mountain_closeup_mosaic_crop.jpg




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 06:50
Originally posted by Petrovsk Mizinski Petrovsk Mizinski wrote:

I've never actually seen the outback lul.

Okay, fine:



But I actually live in the suburbs, in the western suburbs to be more exact (which is generally poorer than the east) so where I live doesn't actually look pretty at all compared to that picture.
I actually live one suburb away from quite easily one of the scummiest, more run down, typical examples of urban decay type suburbs you can probably find in Melbourne, so I was only half joking when I posted the pic of the piece of crap.
Yeah, so it's not actually true that ghetto's only exist in the US.


Sure they don't. Any big city will have slums. Australia has some beautiful landscape though. Too bad 50% of it tries to kill you. I'd love to go there, but it's far and stuff. And Canada is so close. I want to go to north.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 06:56
Yeah I don't really get out of the city anymore.
I did when I was in Scouts, but I haven't been outside of the city for years lol.
The landscape is alright I suppose, nothing more special than what other countries have.
I guess the novelty of stuff wears when you actually have to live in the damn place
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 07:10
"This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me...

"In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me."
Woody Guthrie


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 07:29
Originally posted by Petrovsk Mizinski Petrovsk Mizinski wrote:

Yeah I don't really get out of the city anymore.
I did when I was in Scouts, but I haven't been outside of the city for years lol.
The landscape is alright I suppose, nothing more special than what other countries have.
I guess the novelty of stuff wears when you actually have to live in the damn place


Eh. You should get out of the city more. I live 10 minutes from the downtown of my city (200,000+ people) and about 5 minutes away from pure country. I can escape to wherever whenever I'm tired of where I am. I need variety...in music, in landscape, in weather. Which is why I like Indiana. We have 4 very distinct seasons. Though I sometimes wish we had longer springs and autumns.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 07:39
They do a bitching light show at Stone Mountain.  I've seen it twice.  It was the exact same one since the first time I'd gone four years before.   LOL

As for where I live, it's mostly houses, apartments, and commercial buildings.  Nothing to see here.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 08:00
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

They do a bitching light show at Stone Mountain.  I've seen it twice.  It was the exact same one since the first time I'd gone four years before.   LOL

As for where I live, it's mostly houses, apartments, and commercial buildings.  Nothing to see here.

Yeah the laser show is fun.  I haven't been in years.  Walking to the top on nice day is really cool.  Some guy decided to go over the fence, fell off, and killed himself a few months ago. Ouch  According to the news story someone does this every few years.

When visiting the top of Stone Mountain be sure and not go over the fence.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 08:06
wine and cheese.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 08:07
I live in historic Woodstown, N.J...the only place I visit for the purpose of viewing a landscape is Fort Mott in Pennsville N.J........I enjoy the atmosphere of the East Point Lighthouse in Hesslerville N.J.  Many landscapes leading the pathway to a breaking point or where land meets water are beautiful to view. Usually a road which leads to a lighthouse. I enjoy the countryside effect in P.A....A beautiful place to visit is Glencarin Castle across from the Bryn Athen Cathedral. A childhood friend who performs as a magician attended mystery school and the landscapes there were just amazing. Apart from the weirdos on private campus, the formation of hills and landscape in general were perfect for a picnic with friends. Many castles, mystery schools, and lighthouses in America are surrounded by landscapes that I am intrigued with.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 08:16
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

wine and cheese.


and beautiful women.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 09:42
 

The Untied Kingdom, or the British Isles as we more often call it (since 'Untied' it is most certainly knot... and we have a Queen, not a King), is a collection of 6,289 islands made up from bits of rock left over when Europe and the Americas where formed during the Plasticine Epoch - some of the oldest and most progressive rocks in the world can be found on the British Isles, most notably in the southern regions, as documented in the song Brighton Rock by the afore mentioned monarch (or 'Queen' as she likes to be called) and its accompanying music video featuring Richard and David Attenborough (sharp-eyed viewers of that will notice that it is totally devoid of colour - this is normal and chromatic adjustments to video-playback equipment is not necessary or recommended, all of the British Isles are monochromatic and covered in a thick layer of grit, grime and of course, fog that emanates from the dark satanic mills in the north of the islands) - another interesting fact about Brighton Rock is that it was used as the inspiration for a novel by Graham Greene - a fictitious author created by The Greatest Living Welshman, John Cale, on his seminal album, Paris 1919 (named after the plaster used to render his house in Andalusia). It should also be noted that the use of "Greene" by Cale is not derived from the homophone spectral colour, (since this is a seldom seen in the islands, hence the extra “e” on the end – Britains frequently add extra e's to the end of all words to sounde more authentically British), but from the small pockets of Wasteland (from the poem of a similar name by TS Elliot) used for archery practice in most villages on the islands (as protected by Ray Davis of the The Village Greene Preservation Society - a society set-up to safeguard the manufacture jams and other fruit compotes by the institution known as the WI-fit).

 
Most of the islands of the British Isles are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, others are more pocket size, while a few are large enough to support fauna and flora with a minor amount of over-crowding, this has resulted in the inhabitants being more grumpy and argumentative than similar species found on the mainland - this difference was first observed by one-time Royal ballerina Charles Dance (of the English National Opera … or Eno as he is otherwise referred) and led to the development of a theory of emulation through natural inflection - a radical proposition that caused many inhabitants to flee the islands (a emigration known as the Great Depletion and not to be confused with the Great Depression or London Artesian Basin as it is better known) and form colonies in far-flung lands based on more socially acceptable philosophies, their love of coffee and their innate ability to make every statement sound like a question through the use of the, like, rising intonation? The huge out-flux of people from the islands during this time drastically altered the political map, leaving only two political parties – the Labour Party (dedicated to social reform through the pain of child birth) and the Conservative Party (whose whole political philosophy is based upon the previously mentioned Graham Greene Preservation Society, hence they are colloquially known as The Kinks, or the Kinky Party and have a natural penchant for frilly nylon panties, usually pulled “right uptight”.. denoted by their natural demeanour and their constant leaning to the right). In recent times there have been rumours (spread by Paul McCartney's lesser known brother Fleetwood McCartney) of a third, more liberal, party, but since this is practically indistinguishable from the Kinky Party, I fear it is just an internet meme started on /b/ or some other such student prank.

The largest of the British islands would fit in the trunk of a Toyota Land Cruiser (hence its name) if you removed the rear seats and the collection of crushed soda cans you've been meaning to take to the recycling centre but haven't quite found the time for. This large island we call England. A common misconception is that Wales (etymology: Whales or Land of the Wails after their style of singing while seated on sharp tacks, known as 'eisteddfod' meaning “to sit and sing”) and bits of Scotland (etymology: Scout Land or Land of the Scoots, or “The Highlands” due to the vast numbers of psychotropic mushrooms found there) form part of this island, but that is a fallacy (or urbane myth as it is known) - Wales is confined to two smaller islands - Anglesey and Barry while Scotland is in fact only The Mull o' F'kin Tyre, a small outcrop of rock in the Atlantic Ocean owned by ex-Beadle Paul McCartney, his more famous younger brother Mike McGear and A Flock Of Seagulls. The centre of this Island of England is called Canterbury – named after the music movement of the 14th century instigated in a caravan by the minstrel duo Geoffrey Chaucer and Mutt Lang (another little know snippet of fact is that Mutt and Geoff were profoundly hard of herring and could often be seen totally bloatered and kippered in the local fish hostelries of Whitstable near Canterbury – day trips from the Capital to Whitstable to witness this event are available on the purchase of an Oyster Card, or the Canterbury Fare as it is sometimes called) – there has been some observations of a pale red colouration to this area of England, hence it is occasionally known as the land of grey and pink – though a fair degree of artistic licence is needed to see this (weekend licences are available from all major Post Offices).

The major industry (and hence chief export) of the British Isles is Frippertronics, a subatomic technology married by Toyah and Robert Wilcox using a process of Enossification through a Van der Graaf Generator, however it is suspected that this technology is a derivation of The Nice process by Anderson and Council using a Soft Machine, some psychotropic mushrooms and a Kaleidoscope in Ladbrooke Grove during the latter half of the second Beat Invasion (aka The First Prog Wars); however proof of this was lost during the Great Fire of Laudanum when Lord David Byron, [a distant relation of Uriah Heap (who wrote many Dickensian novels during the Great Depletion) and the famed magician David Copperfield whose expectations were far greater than his ability] had a conflagration with fellow poets Pete “Bishe-Boshe” Shelley and Johnny “The Rotten” Lydon in a coffee house off Regent Street over the origins of the Great Plague of Lighthouse Keepers that had blighted the land a mere 12 months earlier (in 1966, just after 'The Battle of Battle just outside Hastings', where Angles defeated the Saxon's 4-2 after extra time); however a glimpse of this lost history can be deduced from the record of the 'Battle of Hastings' recorded in Chaucer's Canterbury caravan (note the abbreviated title which is the result of their earlier work, 'If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Grow Plump In The Night', failing to chart because the name was too long to fit on the album cover).

Visitors to the Isle of Britain are encouraged, and on occasion known to be welcomed; however it should be noted that it is closed at weekends and every alternate Wednesday for staff training.

 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2010 at 11:51
Well, I have posted plenty of pics of my travels around my beautiful country. Guatemala is a very small country right in the middle of America (the continent). Thanks to it's small size, you can see a lot of different weathers in less than two hours of driving... that's great... you can see the still beautiful Atitlán Lake in less than two hours from Guatemala City, or the mythic mayan cities of Tikal, Quirigua, Ixchimche and hundreds more. there are beaches in both oceans, there are jungles, montains, volcanos, just everything to get busy all weekends. You can be at 3600 meters over the ocean in Huehuetenango or 150 bellow the ocean in Flores, Petén.
 
I could say that's the better about my country, but I have to say the best of Guatemala is their people. Many of the tourist I have talk to during my travels as a photographer stated that what they liked more was the people, because we are very warm and polite, we do care about visitors and treat them always with care and we always give you a smile.
 
Most of the people lives in poverty, but that's never a problem when we try to recieve a visitor and our mood is always good and welcome... Shame of our violence and corruption in the Government, but we tend to survive that, as always...  I use to post my pics in the rogue gallery, but I don't have Firefox so I have to post pictures of others... enjoy...
 
 
 
  
 
3 million persons inhabbit this big city... the biggest of Central America... and there's is where I live...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2010 at 14:54
Minnesota....immortalized in that early Zappa track....in winter we are one of the most frigid American cities with lots of snow and ice.  Summers are hot and humid, Spring and Fall are some of the nicest weather on Earth. 

http://www.gusto.com/gusto_images/1_10000/193/feature.jpg


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2010 at 15:14
I'm here most days in the summer:
More pics of the beautiful golf course where I work:
 
And just a short drive in the other direction:


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2010 at 16:01
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:


farmland full of corn and soybeans.....we have typical temperate deciduous forests. I'm pretty sure this whole state would be a forest if not for the farming.

Sounds about right, except it would be worth mentioning all the horses, sheep, pig, cow farms and the 8 million or so lakes and streams around here. Oh, and Lake Michigan.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2010 at 16:28
Vancouver, BC

http://www.thebeautifulbritishcolumbia.com/Photo/Panoramas/images/Vancouver%20Panorama.jpg

beautiful.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2010 at 16:50
Kind of wide, not so much high, and it has Hawaii!!!  I could care less about Alaska though.

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