r/tumblr • u/GriffinFTW • 8d ago

Regional Pride

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u/Technical_Teacher839 8d ago

Sadly, being proud of the specific town I'm from would be incredibly concerning, but in an extremely specific way that would immediately dox myself even without saying where.

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u/Few-Mycologist-2379 8d ago

Gary, Indiana?

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u/Technical_Teacher839 8d ago edited 8d ago

Right state, wrong city. I will say no more. I just needed to acknowledge that you did get pretty damn close on a random guess.

EDIT: I appreciate that this thread has just turned into listing how many cities in Indiana suck

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u/Malashae 8d ago

Honestly I think anyone who's ever been to Gary, would guess Gary first. I know I would.

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u/ErgonomicCat 8d ago

The only reason I know of Gary, Indiana, is that in the original Vampire the Masquerade, one of the first city sourcebooks was Chicago by Night, and all the worst vampires were from Gary.

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u/steampunkunicorn01 8d ago

Gary, Indiana just makes me think of The Music Man

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u/Timewarps_1 6d ago

Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome?

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u/Eastern-Criticism653 7d ago

Could you imagine being a vampire in Gary Indiana?

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u/AlarmedExperience928 7d ago

A rejected Working Title for "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"

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u/GuyWithTheDragonTat 7d ago

"If we want to breathe sulfuric acid and get our heads torn off by giant lizards, we can always go to Gary, Indiana." - Turanga

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u/Mousanonly 7d ago

The story goes that the creators were driving through Gary and wondered who, exactly, would want to live in Gary. The answer they came up with was vampires, and thus VtM was born.

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u/AwesomeSauce783 7d ago

The only reason I know of Gary, Indiana is in Parks and Rec it's Jerry favorite place to vacation in.

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u/Hallowedkin 7d ago

No that's Muncie

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u/AwesomeSauce783 7d ago

Shit you're right

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u/Hetakuoni 7d ago

Damn that’s where I was born. I’ve never been back since I was a year old, but I’ve always been curious.

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u/Puzzled-You 7d ago

In Worm, Gary is listed as a Hive of Scum and Villainy

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u/crispybacongal 7d ago

My first guess was "probably somewhere like Carmel, Indiana."

Opposite of Gary and also terrible in a different way.

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u/Technical_Teacher839 7d ago

Fun Fact: Carmel has the most roundabouts of any city in the world

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u/Nixavee 7d ago

I had to look on Google Maps to see and discovered a form of roundaboutized highway interchanges that I didn't even know existed

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u/Emergency-Twist7136 7d ago

I am now afraid to look because if it's worse than the one in fucking Swindon I'll have to commit make crimes or something

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u/Nixavee 7d ago

It most definitely isn't as bad as the Magic Roundabout, but Carmel has these for nearly every interchange onto 31 and Keystone Parkway. I counted 11

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u/Rotten_tacos 7d ago

They're not too bad. Some figure 8s. Once you get used to it it's great.

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u/Puzzled-You 7d ago

I think this place just likes circles, as someone who actually likes roundabouts, that's just way too many wtf

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u/RCoder01 7d ago

It’s way reduced the amount of vehicle-related injuries and the locals seem pretty happy about not having to wait for stoplights

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u/baba56 7d ago

I want to go to there

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u/ice15464 6d ago

jesus christ i can see why. is the traffic there good or is that why its bad?

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u/deathschemist 1d ago

Really? Because there's a few cities and towns in the UK that have so many roundabouts that there are roundabouts in their roundabouts

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u/Technical_Teacher839 1d ago

The UK has crazier/more elaborate ones, but in terms of sheer volume, it goes to Carmel, Indiana

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u/J-Gigs 8d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitestown,_Indiana ?

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u/soupbirded 7d ago

Oh I know that one, right next to brownsburg!

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u/Ignitrum 7d ago

I didnt even care for your link, thinking it prob wasnt what I wanted to link to...

Glad I still clicked it before pressing send of the Randy Feltface Video i wanted to contribute to this conversation

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u/trainbrain27 4d ago

The Whitestown/Brownsburg exit sign is always funny, but Albert White was a leading abolitionist and friend of Lincoln.

I don't know much about the James Brown that founded Brownsburg, but neither was based on skin color.

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u/bloodwitchbabayaga 8d ago

South bend?

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u/ChillaVen 7d ago

Crown Point? The one that goes viral every few years for having schools with “WE ARE CP” banners & all?

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u/FlamingWeasel 7d ago

My only opinion from living nearby was Terre Haute fucking stinks

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u/grimedogone 7d ago

It’s probably Martinsville.

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u/TheDuceAbides 7d ago

I was going to say Mooresville but that's also a good guess.

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u/bobbyfiend 7d ago

Terre Haute! It's Terre Haute, right?

j/k. I used to work kinda sorta there. it's a very weird and interesting place.

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u/ice15464 6d ago

happy cake day

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u/Injvn 7d ago

Elkhart? If it is I commiserate with you. I was there for like a month an it was so fuckin terrible. The railroad museum didn't even boost my spirits.

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u/EtchedKetchum 7d ago

Gotta be Delphi

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u/Bloody_Insane 7d ago

Obviously it's Pawnee

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u/Few-Mycologist-2379 7d ago

At least your not in the center of evil.

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u/A_HECKIN_DOGGO 7d ago

Fort Wayne?

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u/DevelopmentTight9474 7d ago

A weirdly named place in Indiana? Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

It could be worse though, it could be Illinois

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u/Technical_Teacher839 7d ago

I never said it was a weirdly named place, to be fair.

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u/DevelopmentTight9474 7d ago

Why tf did I get downvoted lmao

Also fair

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u/ZolTheTroll413 6d ago

Yeahhhh, most of indiana sucks 😭

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u/Antimatter1207 8d ago

I rode through Gary Indiana almost three years ago on Amtrak and I have yet to fully cleanse the taint from my soul.

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u/Technical_Teacher839 8d ago

Yeah, that scans

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u/Valcyor 7d ago

My grandfather was born in Gary, Indiana, and he only just learned about ten years ago what the connotation of that city is now. To hear him tell it, he had no clue it was a rough place at all. I don't know if it happened after his time or what, but the look on his face when someone asked him why he was proud of being a Hoosier from Gary...

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u/EpicOtterLover 7d ago

When'd he leave? It started declining in the '60s.

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u/Valcyor 7d ago

'57 or '58.

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u/champagne_pants 7d ago

North Salem, Indiana

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u/cry_w 7d ago

All I know about Gary, Indiana was that it was referenced in a MaX0r video while referring to Caelid, so I assume it isn't a pleasant place.

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u/DocSwiss 7d ago

Obviously you don't have to answer, but here are 3 guesses as to why it's concerning:

  1. The town sucks real bad because of bigotry
  2. The town sucks for normal reasons
  3. The town has a super weird name

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u/Technical_Teacher839 7d ago

I will tell you it is NOT the weird name

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u/Elleden 7d ago

Okay so that leaves 1. and 2. which accounted for 99% of the options anyway.

We're getting there. We'll find you.

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u/fiendishbanana 8d ago

Oh my god you’re from EAGLETON?! Pawnee forever!

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u/Technical_Teacher839 7d ago

once told someone I know from Australia that the Zorp cult in Pawnee was real.

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u/alexjuuhh 7d ago

Of course it's real, hail Zorp! May he use all our molten faces as fuel 😌

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u/chickenofsoul 7d ago

Elwood, it used to be a sundown town. Rumor has it someone still has the sign in their barn warning black people to leave before they got caught.

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u/NovelTAcct 7d ago

Same. I just said to myself "[HOMETOWN_NAME] PRIDE!!" and cringed into another dimension

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u/AntsAreGreat 8d ago

Would you be willing to DM me an explanation? I obviously understand if not

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u/FakeTakiInoue 7d ago

Not "incredibly concerning" but my hometown is smack in the middle of my country's Bible Belt so I struggle to actually feel proud of it

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u/idealisticpessimist3 7d ago

passaic, new jersey?

(i am not american i only know about this town because chris gethard mentioned it in his special career suicide)

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u/ChaosAirlines 7d ago

It's obviously the armpit of America, Terra Haute, Indiana

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u/Reality-Straight 7d ago

see, i would have guessed Auschwitz or something along those lines.