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As with everything from cracked.com there is foul language.

I particularly liked The Bolton Strid in Yorkshire.

1 posted on 01/27/2013 4:32:01 PM PST by BBell
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Hmmm, no mention of Chicago. But then, the landscape isn’t all that great anyways.........


2 posted on 01/27/2013 4:45:55 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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Wow, that Strid sounds like serious business.

And I liked this caption under the first one with the limestone spikes: “Sometimes the formations produce Yes album covers just to mess with you.”


3 posted on 01/27/2013 4:46:33 PM PST by Yardstick
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That is some scary sh*t...

The Bolton Strid in Yorkshire

Right out of King Arthur or Harry Potter

A small little calm stream in a beautiful meadow that will KILL you dead 100% of the time if you put more than a toe in it...and never give up any bodies...

4 posted on 01/27/2013 4:53:26 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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The Corryvreckan Maelstrom looks pretty wicked.


6 posted on 01/27/2013 4:54:49 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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This one is too good:

Sometimes the formations produce Yes album covers just to mess with you.

I guess they want this if linked:(Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_19705_the-5-most-spectacular-landscapes-earth-that-murder-you.html#ixzz2JE7Qd2s4)

7 posted on 01/27/2013 4:54:52 PM PST by freedumb2003 (I learned everything I needed to know about racism from Colin Powell)
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The Strid sounds like a great place to raise kids. It's always good to have a Darwin test around.

/johnny

9 posted on 01/27/2013 4:55:41 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Maybe Obama will visit one of these sites! I can dream.


10 posted on 01/27/2013 4:57:56 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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Great site. They use some foul language, but not much. It’s more to keep their target audience engaged (i.e., those in public schools and those that went to public schools).

The Strid is intense, but the “Yes” album cover is hysterical.


11 posted on 01/27/2013 5:02:57 PM PST by BobL
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One landscape that should be included will actually kill you while you are just standing there. Those are the glacial silt “beaches” around Anchorage, Alaska and environs.

When the tide is out, they just look and act like typical gray sand. You can stand and walk on them just fine. But when the tide comes back in, it does so underneath your feet, and from “solid ground”, you suddenly plunge downward three feet into thick, sandy chocolate pudding. And once you are down, nobody is strong enough to get their legs out of that vacuum.

And then the tide comes in over the top, and you drown.

It happens frequently enough so that there is a helicopter rescue. No, not directly, because if it tried to lift you out it would tear your legs out of their sockets.

But a very, very brave man, with “mud snowshoes”, and a pressurized backpack full of water lands next to you, inserts a tube next to your legs, which sprays enough water down their to hopefully break the suction.

He works quickly, because he has to. And though there are signs and constant warnings everywhere, dumbasses still go for walks on that silt, and die.


12 posted on 01/27/2013 5:06:35 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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Urban-8th-grader language aside....it was very entertaining. I enjoyed the read (and will scrupulously avoid ALL 5 sites....yeesh.....).


14 posted on 01/27/2013 5:33:50 PM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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These are mere tears in the carpet compared to The Fiery Furnace of Dismemberment and Death located just south of Toadsuck, Arkansas. Gift shop open daily from 9-5.


15 posted on 01/27/2013 6:44:51 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Forgot the Dreaded Fire Swamp filled with Rodents of Unusual Size!


22 posted on 01/27/2013 8:42:29 PM PST by Madhattan
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