Shamokin named ******* of the Week" on Comedy Central (York: apartments, car insurance)

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Wells5

Shamokin gets a bad rap but I find the town fascinating from an architectural angle and also for its street running railroad track. People must commute long distances to find work nowadays but they do take pride in their town and most wouldn't leave. See "Shamokin State of Mind" rap video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5SmoLF55YY

Those two are everything that is good about a small town.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

Reminds me of northern England.

In what way?

[JustMike77]

My Dad was born & raised in Shamokin. His Mother and his Aunt owned a big house and they used to house the police station in their basement back in the 30's - early 40s. I remember seeing pictures of it all when I was a kid.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by JustMike77

My Dad was born & raised in Shamokin. His Mother and his Aunt owned a big house and they used to house the police station in their basement back in the 30's - early 40s. I remember seeing pictures of it all when I was a kid.

How cool is that?

[jtab4994]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

Reminds me of northern England.

Originally Posted by Gerania

In what way?

Northern England was the industrial powerhouse of England in the glory days of the Empire. The poor & uneducated left the farms in droves in order to find steady work in factories. Many rough-around-the-edges entrepreneurs got rich, irking the landed gentry and the London elites. Now the factories sit empty and decaying like they do in the Rust Belt of America.

There is cultural prejudice against Northerners in England where they are regarded with disdain by the Southern elites, much the way rural Southerners are regarded in the U.S.

Watch Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen sketch for a parody of Northern nouveau riche behavior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by jtab4994

Northern England was the industrial powerhouse of England in the glory days of the Empire. The poor & uneducated left the farms in droves in order to find steady work in factories. Many rough-around-the-edges entrepreneurs got rich, irking the landed gentry and the London elites. Now the factories sit empty and decaying like they do in the Rust Belt of America.

There is cultural prejudice against Northerners in England where they are regarded with disdain by the Southern elites, much the way rural Southerners are regarded in the U.S.

Watch Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen sketch for a parody of Northern nouveau riche behavior:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Actually I do not like Comedy Central naming any city "Sh*thole of the Week". They could have picked cities that have terrible crime rates; but they decided to pick on Pennsylvania local culture. I hope people have noticed and struck their program from their 'must watch' list!

[theatergypsy]

We were driving home last Summer from our annual vacation. It was two days after the arson fire at Shamokin's Dunkin' Donuts.

Two fools were on the radio, acting as though they alone had the scoop on the residents of that beleaguered town, criticizing their looks, their intelligence, their pronunciation of the word "donit", the fact that there is no other place in Shamokin to get coffee. They were even so despicable as to demean Nikki Krize, (a local TV newscaster). They called her ugly. They criticized her report. They were just a couple of mean-spirited hot shots who obviously view themselves as smarter, better-looking, and with multi-sources for their caffeine fix. Of course, since it was radio, we weren't able to see how well they fit their own opinion of themselves, thereby relieving them of having to prove any of their attributes.

To trash a reporter who is on assignment, and a town full of people who don't have a whole lot to be proud of in their town but who nevertheless don't disrespect it, earns these two the title of "Sh*tbrains of the Month".

I have been trying to find out who these two are ever since I heard the radio broadcast in July. It would be interesting to find the Achilles' Heel(s) of these two heels.

[jtab4994]

Originally Posted by theatergypsy

I have been trying to find out who these two are ever since I heard the radio broadcast in July. It would be interesting to find the Achilles' Heel(s) of these two heels.

Was it WZZO-FM out of Allentown, in the morning?


I googled the entire Dunkin Donuts thing because I somehow missed it when it originally aired on WNEP, and it seems like the whole thing went viral over the summer. Lots of people all over the world were ridiculing Shamokin and the people who were interviewed.


Residents of Shamokin CANNOT COPE with their Dunkin Donuts burning down | Metro News

[Bitey]

Just the fact that there's a regular feature called "Sh*thole of the Week" is mean-spirited and unseemly. "Hey, let's turn this city's and its residents' misfortune into a subject of derision for our own amusement and affirm our own superiority!" Wow, how edgy and ingenious to go after the low-hanging fruit like that.

[theatergypsy]

Originally Posted by jtab4994

Was it WZZO-FM out of Allentown, in the morning?


I googled the entire Dunkin Donuts thing because I somehow missed it when it originally aired on WNEP, and it seems like the whole thing went viral over the summer. Lots of people all over the world were ridiculing Shamokin and the people who were interviewed.


Residents of Shamokin CANNOT COPE with their Dunkin Donuts burning down | Metro News

No, I think I've tracked them down. It was Opie Radio on Sirius. How pathetic that this is what humor has come to and even more pitiful that people are willing to PAY for it!

We were in my son's new car and they offered a free trial of Sirius. He's not subscribing when the trial runs out next week. I have a 90 day free trial in my new car and I can't be bothered even checking it out. I have FM for news, sports and talk. I have a CD player for anything I choose. With a four-letter vocabulary, I suggest these young men move beyond fourth grade humor and read a book. Any book. Time they learned what real language sounds like.