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I'm Crap
Aug 15, 2001

cheerfullydrab posted:

We didn't have nowhere to live
We didn't have nowhere to go
Till someone said:
"I know this place off Burnett Road"
It was on the 15th floor
It had a board across the door
It took an hour
To pry it off and get inside
It smelt as if someone had died
The living room was full of flies
The kitchen sink was blocked
The bathroom sink not there at all
Oh, it's a mess alright
Yes, it's Mile End

And now we're living in the sky
I never thought I'd live so high
Just like heaven
(If it didn't look like hell)
The lift is always full of piss
The fifth-floor landing smells of fish
Not just on Fridays
Every single other day!
And all the kids come out at night
They kick a ball and have a fight
And maybe shoot somebody if they lose at pool
Oh, it's a mess alright
Yes, it's Mile End

Nobody wants to be your friend
'cause "you're not from round here", oh
(As if that was
Something to be proud about!)
The pearly king of the Isle of Dogs
Feels up children in the bogs
And down by the playing fields
Someone sets a car on fire
I guess you have to go right down
Before you understand just how
How low
How low a human being can go
Oh, it's a mess alright
Yes it's mile end

Mile End
same, except subtly different:

If you see a faded sign by the side of the road that says
Fifteen miles to the, Love Shack, Love Shack yeah
I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway
Lookin' for the love getaway
Headed for the love getaway, love getaway
I got me a car, it's as big as a whale
And we're headin' on down to the Love Shack
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about twenty
So hurry up and bring your jukebox money

The Love Shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Love Shack baby
A Love Shack baby
Love Shack, baby Love Shack
Love Shack, baby Love Shack
Love Shack, baby Love Shack
Love Shack, baby Love Shack

Sign says, woo, stay away fools
'Cause love rules at the Love Shack
Well it's set way back in the middle of a field
Just a funky old shack and I gotta get back
Glitter on the mattress
Glitter on the highway
Glitter on the front porch
Glitter on the hallway

The Love Shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Love Shack, baby
Love Shack, baby
Love Shack, that's where it's at
Love Shack, that's where it's at

Huggin' and a-kissin', dancin' and a-lovin'
Wearin' next to nothing 'cause it's hot as an oven
The whole shack shimmies
Yeah the whole shack shimmies
The whole shack shimmies when everybody's movin' around
And around and around and around
Everybody's movin', everybody's groovin' baby
Folks linin' up outside just to get down
Everybody's movin', everybody's groovin' baby
Funky little shack
Funky little shack

Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale
And it's about to set sail
I got me a car, it seats about twenty, so come on
And bring your jukebox money

The Love Shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Love Shack baby
A Love Shack baby
Love Shack, baby Love Shack
Love Shack, baby Love Shack
Love Shack, baby Love Shack (oh baby that's where it's at)
Love Shack, baby Love Shack (baby that's where it's at)

Bang bang bang on the door baby!
Knock a little louder baby!
Bang bang bang on the door baby!
I can't hear you
Bang bang bang on the door baby!
Knock a little louder sugar!
Bang bang bang on the door baby!
I can't hear you

Bang bang bang on the door baby, knock a little louder
Bang bang on the door baby, bang bang!
On the door baby, bang bang!
On the door, bang bang!
On the door baby, bang bang!

You're what?
Tin roof
rusted!

Love Shack, baby Love Shack!
Love Shack, baby Love Shack!
Love Shack, baby Love Shack!
Love Shack, baby Love Shack!

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jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007

Farmland Park posted:

China, toxic air, toxic water, toxic food, rude people, horrible traffic, censorship and blind nationalism.

Also they eat companion animals.

Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016



WILDTURKEY101 posted:

aside from the smells this place sounds perfect

then again i've lived my whole life in new jersey so i have a hosed up frame of refrence

edit: just checked on google maps, actually looks pretty crap

I can make it worse if you'd like. Google Maps only started registering its existence on the planet about 4 years ago. Before then it was just a pixelated green vomit blob.

Rambling Robot
Sep 13, 2011
Duggar Fan Club Superstar #1 LOL
mold infested shithole (i did not know at the time). i was sick for a year afterwards and still not ok.

curried lamb of God
Aug 31, 2001

we are all Marwinners
I live in the Democratic Republic of Congo, so I'd have to say here, OP

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

New Jersey.

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

Grody posted:

Tell me about the worst places you have lived and why they are so god drat bad.

For me its 100% the central valley of California. For those that are unfamiliar with the central valley it is approximately 5 hours north of San Diego and 2 hours south of San Francisco and 2 hours inland from the coast line. It boasts these wonderful qualities: worst air quality in the country, highest crime in the state, huge poverty and education problems, unbelievable drug problems (specifically meth). To expand on the air quality issue, the valley is surrounded by mountains and is largely farmland so all the pesticides and pollution from places outside the mountains sinks into the valley and gets trapped, causing the air to be borderline toxic. This causes a sharp rise in lung related issues for both children and adults alike(there is also something called valley fever which is caused by a spore you can ingest just from kicking dirt which will cause your lungs to pretty much fail), the groundwater is also terribly polluted from all the poorly regulated pesticides so you end up with water that A. tastes like sulfur and chemicals or B. is so chlorinated it tastes like a pool. It is hot as gently caress in the summer with daily temperatures in the summer ranging from 95-115 every single day. It is almost all farmland with small hick towns that have buildings like you would expect to see in the movie deliverance. The largest city in the central valley is Fresno, a place lovingly referred to as "The meth capital of the world". Aside from Fresno there is a very distinct lack of any real places to go, you will find yourself driving 2-3 hours to find anything to do. Oh yea and it also smells like cow poo poo literally everywhere. If you would like a better feeling of how lovely the Central Valley is here are 2 unrelated videos promoting a town by using a slideshow featuring a K-MART and a community college as attractions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMqvL8nKT3k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tDeEoXLA6s

FUN FACT: A large majority of COPS is filmed in King's County AKA the central valley

Learn 2 paragraph bro.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

jonathan posted:

One of my friends, his wife was assassinated

Murdered, perhaps.

jonathan
Jul 3, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

SilvergunSuperman posted:

Murdered, perhaps.

No assassinated is a better term. They were trying to send a message regarding a drug war.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/police-identify-white-rock-mother-killed-in-surrey-shooting-1.861787

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


jonathan posted:

No assassinated is a better term. They were trying to send a message regarding a drug war.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/police-identify-white-rock-mother-killed-in-surrey-shooting-1.861787

hahaha holy poo poo Surrey is hosed

TheShazbot
Feb 20, 2011

Snatch Duster posted:

Portland Oregon is really bad. Sucks so much.

Everyone thinking of moving here shouldn't it's real terrible.

It isn't. But please still don't move here, rents are out of control and gently caress out of state people. :argh:

I don't really have any terrible places I've lived, even my place in Omaha, Nebraska was pretty nice for what it was - and I lived in a suburban area off 108th and Maple/Dodge - the old mill area.

Las Vegas - down by the South Coast casino in like '07

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
The entirety of Oregon is terrible. Voodoo doughnuts and some serious austin texas envy? Lol.

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

The entirety of Oregon is terrible. Voodoo doughnuts and some serious austin texas envy? Lol.

Voodoo doughnuts is definitely terrible, it's weird having a mediocre donut shot be famous for being famous several years after they were forced to stop selling their only noteworthy products.

Karma Comedian
Feb 2, 2012

Illinois. The whole place is terrible.

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


LGD posted:

Voodoo doughnuts is definitely terrible, it's weird having a mediocre donut shot be famous for being famous several years after they were forced to stop selling their only noteworthy products.

What's the story behind that?

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

drunk asian neighbor posted:

What's the story behind that?

Well it is a doughnut shop that is next to the main bar/nightlife area of the city, so they always had a penchant for gimmicky doughnuts. Their most famous/innovative ones used over the counter medicine to make NyQuill glaze and a Pepto/crushed tums variety. That got shut down quick by health officials, and the rest of their offerings are slight variations on conventional themes- i.e. add bacon to a maple bar, make a creme doughnut that looks like a dick. All well and good, and a totally fine late night place to eat, but nothing really noteworthy.

However the owner is good at self promotion and managed to get the place featured on a succession of Food Network/travel shows so it became a place for tourists to visit, which got it featured on more shows and guidebooks, drawing more tourists in a self-sustaining feedback loop. Location and hours definitely play a big role because it's really easy to go if you're staying downtown or visit the bar area (esp. with the alley it's on being closed to road traffic and having gone upscale).

It's just weird because it's become this very ostensibly "Portland" place to go with huge lines and tourists carrying huge pink boxes of doughnuts around downtown, but no actual Portlanders I know particularly care about/for them or their doughnuts.

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


I mean I know they're incredibly overrated and are marketing themselves as best they can (all the Rogue Voodoo Doughnut beers are both horribly overpriced and range from disgusting to barely palatable IMO), but I didn't know the Nyquil/Pepto thing. It's pretty funny that they did that, but also seems like an incredibly hipster thing that what made them famous was literally putting cough medicine and antacids on donuts

e: actually while I'm on the subject Rogue themselves are an incredibly overrated brewing company

Tinestram
Jan 13, 2006

Excalibur? More like "Needle"

Grimey Drawer
Dartmouth, NS kinda sucked. It's the only place I've ever lived that I felt I needed to have a security system in place, and we had that motherfucker armed all the time, even when we were in the house, during the middle of the day.

The night we discovered a car, in our back yard, on fire, with a BODY in it, was the night we decided to move back to Moncton, NB. The worst thing I can say about Moncton is that it's kinda boring, culturally.

personable decorum
Sep 7, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
Toad Lane was truly abysmal. No one cleaned enough. One hundred and sixty-nine days I spent there and I never felt clean. The cat lady grew on me though and her pet was very well behaved. We took some marijuana brownies together and met eyes and laughed one night, but that was the extent of the experience, somewhat to my chagrin. I always knew people robotripped I just never felt I'd feel that way living in an environment like a Rupert cartoon. Everything on rails, people chasing their tails, stormy kids with megaphones. It wasn't the place I wanted to get married and I didn't really know what to say anyway. I'm pretty hosed up. What I'm saying is some girls raped me in that house and I didn't like it but it's fun to act and Push with Camilla Belle was a dandy movie. PTSD is a hell of a drug.

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

drunk asian neighbor posted:

I mean I know they're incredibly overrated and are marketing themselves as best they can (all the Rogue Voodoo Doughnut beers are both horribly overpriced and range from disgusting to barely palatable IMO), but I didn't know the Nyquil/Pepto thing. It's pretty funny that they did that, but also seems like an incredibly hipster thing that what made them famous was literally putting cough medicine and antacids on donuts

e: actually while I'm on the subject Rogue themselves are an incredibly overrated brewing company

I cannot disagree re: Rogue. They only use one proprietary variety of yeast ('Pacman'), which they pride themselves on. It's not a bad yeast and does makes a pretty solid base beer, but since they use it in everything all of their beers end up tasting similar, which causes problems when they try to do divergent styles. Also they just don't see to be that good at innovating decent new beers in general (if nothing else nobody who gave a gently caress would have put out those Voodoo collaborations). Since they price themselves as really premium beers it's hard to ever order/purchase/recommend a Rogue beer over other options.

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


The only time I ever heard anybody talk about them in a positive light was re: the Deadguy and Double Deadguy. They're pretty good, but I have yet to have another Rogue beer that I actually wanted to buy again (or that wasn't like $15.99+ for a 750ml)

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Rogue are super lovely to their employees and that's reason enough not to buy their monkey cheese beers

lorn Wayne
Jan 7, 2006

:staredog::meowth::pipe:
Chennai, India in the early 90s as a kid who was born there.

thank gently caress we moved to the UK, which for all its faults is still pretty ok in comparison.

gently caress you white people who talk about how great india is based on your weeklong visit to goa, no it isn't, it's a corrupt shithole desperately trying to emulate the worst parts of western capitalism while maintaining the shittiest aspects of indian 'culture' (eg the caste system and arranged marriages based on what planets were loving what stars in the sky).

the schools sucked. the driving death rates sucked. the rampant nepotism and expectations of business dads sucked. the pointless indo-pak racism and competition sucked. treating cricket players like literal gods sucked. moving to the desert outskirts for god knows what reason sucked. the diseases sucked. the smug middle class who would put california liberals to shame sucked. cows and dogs pissing and making GBS threads on the street with abandon sucked.

gently caress you india, just accidentally nuke yourself and get it over with. :mad:

sorry for the rant

LT56
Sep 9, 2016

by Smythe
The bratwurst factories of East Denton where the tweakers grow. Every Monday through Friday I'd rail meth on my nails and game and pretend I was living inside the video game. It literally was the only thing that took away the pain of being on probation and working in a slaughter house. Every day my mind cracked more. I started to snipe IRL and in the game at a very high level. Built these weird mental defense walls in my mind using meth induced synesthesia. I started to social engineer myself in my own mind. IT came naturally because I was alone and on meth and wanted friends. Computers were my friends and the Roboto people that accompanied them. While I was living there I met a girl. A real girl not some fake nancy bitch. We met out in the mountains, serendipitously cracking cans at 1km around the same area. It's a wonder she didn't pot me right in the noggin. What we were doing was all illegal hush hush of course. I brought her into my game world and she owned there too. How the Heck? But the whole time i kept working in the slaughter house. It didn't really get better for me, one day I saw the girl again but I had got fat from eating my own sausages and to escape charges for some other poo poo. I'm not a mean person and not crazy I just like the Aryan BrotherHood and killing people with my body and mind. I try to take it out on this paper and on the pots and video games but it don't really manner. I have a gun that I clutch when I write like this jeez. I mean who doesn't want to live in a fantasy land when they have to hose the guts off the walls at the slaughter house? See the mother sow bleed out while you know her piglets are crying and squealing somewhere else lost. This is the poo poo that makes me tweek. I DONT REALLY CARE ABOUT THE REST I JUST KNOW ID LOVE TO SHOOT SOME loving friend of the family IN THE FACE. On another note this meth trip is wearing off and it's not that fun anymore now that I'm writing it out. I mean there had to be some positives to working at the Bratwurst Factory. I love the smell of cooking breakfast sausage and italian sausage and polish sausage and street meats in general. I love going to school for womyn poetry classes for free by Stanford LAGUNITA online university. I think maybe I started to condition myself with the meth. Away from the horrible memories and bad times and into something else. The meth is taking me on a journey. I enjoy drinking pee still to this day. Past and present tense is a metaphor to me as I only live in the Now with this loose 6 shooter gun and stupid psycho grin. Some girl told me I could be a model if I took meth (fitness class) I just picked starvation and cardio and weights. meth militarized my life in Denton. I became a man in Denton and also a beast. You could call this a redux of source. MY GRAND PLANS COME TO FRUITION. TRUST. LOVE. SAUSAGES. JUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. BRAT FACTORY LOATHING. CONFUSION. no only black people. the black people came to my house and robbed my prized command station i had tweeked out to enthusiast excellence. The local bike gang showed up biblicailly faithful and i just ran with what they said. I dont really want to talk about the rest but it involves a gun and donuts on peoples lawns and robbing kids for n64s. I am a phone phreak now and im an okay person. I have a 7.5 inch penis and a real man not like those little girl meat puppets you're interested in. I have never gender swapped in my life. I am not a huge gaylord because of living at the sausage factory. I have no feelings because of the sausage factory. my parents are dead because of the suasage factory. At the sausage factory i unfortunately learned the correct method of doing a school shooting is to run down the halls throwing grenades into the classrooms and then proceed to wait at the exists or stairwells with guns to shoot the paniced masses. someone please help me now the machine elves are here LATERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

LT56 fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Sep 13, 2016

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


theflyingexecutive posted:

Rogue are super lovely to their employees and that's reason enough not to buy their monkey cheese beers

How so? Curious to hear more.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

LGD posted:

Their most famous/innovative ones used over the counter medicine to make NyQuill glaze and a Pepto/crushed tums variety. That got shut down quick by health officials,

lol jfc I hope that got shut down quickly what the gently caress man?

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations

PooInAnAlleyway posted:

Aherla, Ireland.

Everyone waves at you, whether they've seen you before or not. The whole village and its outskirts smells of slurry and garbage bags, due to the sheer amount of garbage bags being dumped by passing cars into the ditches. The one person of note that existed in the village was an old woman, who, rumour has it was a successful scientist at one point or another, who drove this old red banger of a hatchback, with two giant German Shepherds eternally sitting in the back. Nobody was able to stand next to this woman whenever she appeared in the tiny shop, because not only was she smothered in layers upon layers of dog hair, but she also had a strong resistance to water, soap and shampoo, which made her smell like her clothes contained baubles of varying sizes in the armpit and crotch areas.

thats a weird rear end thing to make the list

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Portland is not the worst place in the world but anyone who thinks it's good or great has a real bad brain fungus.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
Lmbo i didnt know voodoo used nyquil and pepto bismal in some of their original donuts that is the dumbest thing ive ever heard

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
I'm not crazy about the rest of their selection, but I thought VooDoo's apple fritters were legitimately great. :shrug:

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

drunk asian neighbor posted:

How so? Curious to hear more.

Google it, it's not exactly a secret

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

whoflungpoop posted:

thats a weird rear end thing to make the list

Maybe they were waving for rescue.

Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016



whoflungpoop posted:

thats a weird rear end thing to make the list

I think it's a weird rear end thing to do. Made the village look like the opening of Edward Scissorhands when all the residents gleefully wave at you as you drive by, like you're a visiting bureaucrat or something.

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations
maybe thats a euro thing then like the scandies and their weird aloofness to strangers

here in texas we are friendly townsfolk but the guns prob help

epsilon
Oct 31, 2001


theflyingexecutive posted:

Rogue are super lovely to their employees and that's reason enough not to buy their monkey cheese beers

Googled this and was genuinely disappointed. I haven't had a Dead Guy in a couple years and now I'll never have one again. What a bunch of lowlifes.

Tato
Jun 19, 2001

DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values
I had a basement apartment in Boone, NC that leaked yellow liquid from the ceiling that rotted through the tiles which my landlord assured me "was not piss" despite it smelling like piss. Additionally, the water heater somehow died and sent ash through the entire apartment while i was sleeping. I awoke to find soot covered cobwebs all over the house and was sneezing/coughing out black phlegm for a week.

I later moved to better apartments like the one that had groundwater seep up through the floor and into the carpet anytime it rained. The room was so wet that the walls started rotting off by the time I left. I paid handsomely for both of these places because it's a lovely tiny college town with no room to build and there wasn't much better available at the time. Thankfully they've now razed all those dumb local business to the ground to build super fancy condo/apartments for all the students.

basement jihadist
Oct 3, 2002

cleveland

Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016



whoflungpoop posted:

maybe thats a euro thing then like the scandies and their weird aloofness to strangers

here in texas we are friendly townsfolk but the guns prob help

It's an Aherla thing. I doesn't happen anywhere else in cork, or Ireland from what I've seen.

HOT! New Memes
May 31, 2006




I lived in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook

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Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016



Taste the Rainbugh posted:

I lived in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook

...and by gum you put them on the map.

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