i watched a show about Philadelphia last night
dunkman
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what a fucking shithole of a place... well not all of it, but these suburb type areas where guys are being killed all the time and everyone was high as fuck on crack n stoof.
I pictured American cities to be nice, clean, etc... but this place looked like Beirut... being run by men with diamond teeth... i'm so glad i live in a civilised country
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7754357.stm
DISCLAIMER - NOT ALL PHILLY OBVIOUSLY!!! I MEAN THE SUBURB CRIME-RIDDEN AREAS... as i clearly said above, but people cant read
I pictured American cities to be nice, clean, etc... but this place looked like Beirut... being run by men with diamond teeth... i'm so glad i live in a civilised country
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7754357.stm
DISCLAIMER - NOT ALL PHILLY OBVIOUSLY!!! I MEAN THE SUBURB CRIME-RIDDEN AREAS... as i clearly said above, but people cant read
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing
Wembley 2007
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yeah... looks awesome
That's clearly not Philly because someone would be trying to steal that car.
Yeah, Philly is a dump.
I'm actually from the very wealthy suburbs, but if people don't fuck with me because they think I'm gansta, then so be it!
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It’s really ignorant of you to form an opinion of an entire city based on a tv program.
He did clarify and say not all of it
I was already so angry I missed that part.
I hate when people dump on places, no matter if I have any association with that place or not.
I thought you Scots were tough guys with painted faces and maces and stuff.
A couple of guys with gold teeth are scaring you?
Go back and hide in your castle
its ignorant of you not to read my whole post before calling me ignorant
i know it's a beautful city for the most part... i was just surprised to see this level of poverty, crime, drugs, etc in an US city... i thought y'all were the richest country in the world n stuff
skip to 7 minutes and then watch the devastation unfold.
lol I take it you never visited here eh?
:cool:
WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS DUDE!
9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
1. North Philly: a shithole that is slowly improving
2. South Philly: Dominated by Italians (think Rocky), very nice row homes... close to the athletic stadiums
3. West Philly: (Think Will Smith)... shitty in some areas/nice in others
4. North East: I think Route 1... a six to eight lane highway running through the middle or rowhomes.
5. Center City: Very very nice. A little bit of everything.
6. Other parts (these could be considered in some of the forementioned, but I don't consider them in them):
A. Manayunk: Great Pub town
B. Old City: Awesome Area, close to the river, great bars/resteraunts
C. Others?
7. Suburbs:
A. Del Co- An extention of South Philly, very nice in some areas, shitty in others
B. Mont Co- Conshy is cool, so is KOP. Very nice.
C. Ches. Co- Beautiful, some farm land still remains
D. Bucks- Starting to get a bit far North for my blood
Overall, there's no possible way to get a grip on Philly, unless you see all of the above. I'm willing to bet you saw a bit of North Philly and West. That's it.
US champions dude... the rest of the world doesnt give a fuck.
Dude, btw you live in Scotland. Have ever actually seen a girl that doesn't look like a foot? Also, what is your country know for besides ugly girls and guys who wear dresses?
But then again, Philly is famous for Cheez Whiz
grounds keeper willy.
Scotch is just whiskey made in Scotland. That's like saying Philly is famous for Yuengling.
Philly is famous for being the birthplace of the U.S. and its' indepence. There's more U.S. history in that city than anywhere in the U.S.
Scotland is famous for being a country, with a bunch of nobs, next to two very cool countries (England and Ireland) with a bunch of cool people.
I've only been to Philly once and from what I saw, it was OK, outside of the crackheads sleeping outside the hotel lobby.
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HTFD-6/27/08
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Dunkman, you seem like an alright dude so I'll let it slide.
If you ever do end up making your way to Philly though, let me know. I'll show you around. I love showing people see how awesome the 215 is(proving them wrong).
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Road Transport Innovations
* A gas mask: James Gregory (1638-1675)
* A steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754-1839) [1]
* Macadam roads: John Loudon MacAdam (1756-1836) [1]
* Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772
* The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878) [2]
* The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822-1873) [3]
* The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929)
* The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)
* The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870
* The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895
[edit] Civil Engineering Innovations
[edit] Bridges
* Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford (1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)
* Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)
* Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
[edit] Canals & Docks
* Falkirk Wheel: ??? (Opened 2002)
* Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)
* Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)
* The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)
* Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)
[edit] Lighthouses
* Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)
* The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)
[edit] Power Innovations
* Condensing steam engine & improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)
* Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)
* The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)
* Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)
* Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)
* The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854-1932)
* Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)
* Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)
* Wave-powered electricity generator:By South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977
[edit] Shipbuilding Innovations
* The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)
* The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)
* Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)
* The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
* The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)
* Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)
[edit] Heavy Industry Innovations
* The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)
* Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)
* Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)
* The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)
* The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)
* Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)
* Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)
* The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)
* Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
[edit] Agricultural Innovations
* Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)
* Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)
* The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739-1808)
* Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)
* The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)
* The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848-1922)
* The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979
[edit] Communication Innovations
* Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)
* The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)
* The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)
* The post office
* The mail-van service
* Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
* Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)
* The telephone:(disputed) Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
* The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)
* The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
* Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
* Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
* Radio (underlying principles) - James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
[edit] Some Scottish publishing firsts:
* The first book translated from English into a foreign language
* The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768-81)
* The first English textbook on surgery (1597)
* The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)
* The first textbook on Newtonian science
* The first colour newspaper advertisement
* The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK
[edit] Scientific innovations
* Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)
* The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
* Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)
* The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)
* The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)
* The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)
* Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773-1858)
* Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)
* Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)
* The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
* Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)
* Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)
* The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)
* The Cloud chamber: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959)
* Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)
* The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)
* Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955
* The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980
* The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996
* Seismometer - James David Forbes
* Chloroform Pioneer - Sir James Y Simpson (1811-1870)
[edit] Sports innovations
Main article: Sport in Scotland
Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:
* several modern athletics events, notably the shot put and the hammer throw, derive from Highland Games events
* Curling
* Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle
* Golf (see Golf in Scotland)
* Mountaineering
* Shinty
* Basketball (see James Naismith)
[edit] Medical Innovations
* Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)
* Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)
* Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)
* The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)
* Pioneering the use of antiseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
* Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
* Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)
* Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)
* Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others
* Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
* Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s
* Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)
* Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964
* Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)
[edit] Household Innovations
* The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)
* The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)
* The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)
* The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
* The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)
* The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807-1897){
* Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)
* The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)
* Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley
* Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867
* Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874
* The life ring, or personal flotation device: Captain Ward in 1854
* Electric clock - Alexander Bain
[edit] Weapons Innovations
* The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776
* The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee
* The Ghillie suit
[edit] Economics Innovations
Adam Smith; Smith was born in 1723, hailing from Kirkcaldy, a Scottish town north of Edinburgh; the 18th century Scot considered to be the father of modern economics; Smith's ``An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which argued that minimal government interference in commerce would promote human welfare and alleviate poverty, was published in 1776. He is the first Scotsman to appear on the central bank's currency in England, replacing Elgar's image in the next few years on as many as 1 billion notes.
[edit] Miscellaneous innovations
* The digestive biscuit, invented by McVitie's in Edinburgh in 1892 by Alexander Grant.
* Boys' Brigade
* Bank of England
* Bank of Scotland
* Bank of France
* Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
* The Comb - Aberdeen
* The Keyring - Aberdeen
* Robinson Crusoe - influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway
is there a law i dont know of where i cant say that an area of Philadelphia looked like a fucking shithole?
and cream cheese
and....um that's all I got
Yes, you look like quite the gangsta.
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relax man... i said an area of Philly looked really shit on TV... :rolleyes:
i didnt say ALL of Philadelphia looked bad... dont shoot me.
And I didn't see one mention of AC/DC here anywhere. Scotland's greatest contribution to the world.
*Now is when someone will tell me they're Australian.
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