Common misconceptions (misperceptions?) about your state/country.
#102
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Location: Bar Harbor, ME.
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Maine is nothing but shore line, not true. Travel inland and you'll find some of the most beautiful scenery in the mountains.
Everyone is Maine is a lobsterman, not true and most of us can't even afford to eat lobster but once or twice a year.
Maine is freezing all the time, not true. We have the most beautiful and changeable weather. The saying is "if you don't like the weather, wait a minute" and it is so true. It's never dull, hardly every hot and humid and most of all, Maine is beautiful.
Everyone is Maine is a lobsterman, not true and most of us can't even afford to eat lobster but once or twice a year.
Maine is freezing all the time, not true. We have the most beautiful and changeable weather. The saying is "if you don't like the weather, wait a minute" and it is so true. It's never dull, hardly every hot and humid and most of all, Maine is beautiful.
#105
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: NYS Finger Lakes Region
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Originally Posted by peaceandjoy
Originally Posted by no1jan
Upstate New York. People think of New York as being all like the city. We have our rolling mountains, suburbs, and big city. Just like any other state.
#106
Originally Posted by peaceandjoy
Originally Posted by no1jan
Upstate New York. People think of New York as being all like the city. We have our rolling mountains, suburbs, and big city. Just like any other state.
#107
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I suppose that I can speak for Germany too (since it is my birth country):
They do not eat Sauerkraut and Bratwurst every day of the year.
Not everyone drinks beer by the liter mug.
The days of sponge baths are long gone. (Showers are a daily routine.)
Not every woman is au natural where hair growth is concerned.
They do not geerally wear Dirndl and Lederhosen and not everyone has a Wienerdog.
German-chocolate cake has nothing to do with Germany.
They do not eat Sauerkraut and Bratwurst every day of the year.
Not everyone drinks beer by the liter mug.
The days of sponge baths are long gone. (Showers are a daily routine.)
Not every woman is au natural where hair growth is concerned.
They do not geerally wear Dirndl and Lederhosen and not everyone has a Wienerdog.
German-chocolate cake has nothing to do with Germany.
#108
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Bar Harbor, ME.
Posts: 2,911
Originally Posted by JJs
I think every state or even every country has that saying...
"If you don't like the weather in (insert town/state/country), just wait 5 minutes"
"If you don't like the weather in (insert town/state/country), just wait 5 minutes"
#110
I'm in Arkansas. I DO wear shoes, don't dip snuff and therefore DO have all of my front teeth. I do not know anyone who is crude and backward. Although, I have been to some places where all of these discriptions DO apply!
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