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no

not brazil actually :o

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 22:34 (thirteen years ago)

Portuguese-speaking but not Brazil or Portugal, people mostly of lightish tones ... Praia, Cape Verde?

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:48 (thirteen years ago)

no

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:54 (thirteen years ago)

Oslo

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:56 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/xDCnv.jpg

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:59 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/KyDIT.jpg

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 01:08 (thirteen years ago)

stoke

bill paxman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 01:41 (thirteen years ago)

We are in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. I pop down to "the City of the East" whenever I need a rejuvenating baby blood detox. It's a totally natural - but naturally totally illegal - scurve-potion you buy from the scar-faced bib-dribblers who punt and grub it over the nearby Brazilian border.

Grampsy, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 03:12 (thirteen years ago)

busan?

sweetántangó (clouds), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 04:19 (thirteen years ago)

I'm not just guessing that it's Ciudad del Este, I'm stating that it is. Compare the photo three pictures up with this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/onildo_lima/5675940205/

Grampsy, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 05:03 (thirteen years ago)

p sure it's stoke, the southern aspect, just down from the cake factories

bill paxman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 09:09 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/FqoD1.jpg

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 01:27 (thirteen years ago)

somewhere in spain?

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:52 (thirteen years ago)

no, but not that far away

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:29 (thirteen years ago)

michael white to thread

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:32 (thirteen years ago)

yeah those mile long dead-straight streets in old world cities usually signify a dirigiste disregard for property rights

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:35 (thirteen years ago)

Is it Braga?

Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:37 (thirteen years ago)

no

it's a city dear to the heart of old school ILM posters

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

riese-moraine, france

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:42 (thirteen years ago)

that sounds like it would be nearby

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:47 (thirteen years ago)

Munich?

Jeff, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:50 (thirteen years ago)

try this one in the meantime

http://i48.tinypic.com/2nvul43.jpg

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 16:54 (thirteen years ago)

fukuoka?

bertrim hapaz (anky), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:07 (thirteen years ago)

japan is correct, but not fukuoka

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:11 (thirteen years ago)

not munich. no hills around munich. somewhere in central france i reckon.

caek, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:37 (thirteen years ago)

this game isn't fun anymore once you've got the "Search Google with this image" extension

"poop floats" starring sandra buttock (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:40 (thirteen years ago)

honor system

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:48 (thirteen years ago)

caek ✓

japanese one idk

the skeletal space needle thing in the background suggests the sort of contrived landmarks that otherwise unremarkable provincial cities build to give themselves a 'skyline'

for a japanese city it looks fairly modest, guessing from the trees in foreground that it is towards the south

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:56 (thirteen years ago)

all correct guesses

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:00 (thirteen years ago)

I know what it is I know I know!!!

"poop floats" starring sandra buttock (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:01 (thirteen years ago)

daytime shot:

http://i.imgur.com/2ps0G.jpg

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:06 (thirteen years ago)

I am into the tan-n-brown thing in the middle there, very

http://www.owningpink.com/sites/default/files/images/wp/i-gotta-be-me.jpg

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:38 (thirteen years ago)

ha yes, didn't even notice it

another hint: it's pretty far south

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:41 (thirteen years ago)

kumamoto

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:54 (thirteen years ago)

further south :o

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:55 (thirteen years ago)

Not Naha? I don't see any palm trees

you, your max is on fire (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 19:10 (thirteen years ago)

Ah it is Naha

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Naha_montage.jpg

you, your max is on fire (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 19:15 (thirteen years ago)

indeed

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 19:15 (thirteen years ago)

That is perhaps the only angle of Naha that obscures the endless ocean views (looks like it's taken from the Crowne Plaza). You can kind of see the horizon on the middle-left.

This is more reminiscent of Naha, from my last visit:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr8c5ffttM1r2m6v9o1_1280.png

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 19:53 (thirteen years ago)

nice

it is definitely a place i want to visit (despite my dislike for hot humid climes)

clouds, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 19:55 (thirteen years ago)

Nice. The Okinawan people and culture are really amazing. But yes it is quite hot and humid.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:08 (thirteen years ago)

is the french one toulouse?

caek, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:03 (thirteen years ago)

nah

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:12 (thirteen years ago)

nice panoramic photo

http://i.imgur.com/lOu12.jpg

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:25 (thirteen years ago)

add a few terraces and get rid of the terracotta roofs and it would look like somewhere in northern england

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:27 (thirteen years ago)

yeah my first impression was sheffield

clermont ferrand?

caek, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:07 (thirteen years ago)

not seeing any ILM connections with clermont....

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:08 (thirteen years ago)

Saint-Etienne!

doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:12 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/ZfXBU.gif

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:17 (thirteen years ago)

I looked and thought France (lack of steeples, European architecture), never would've narrowed it down to St. Etienne though

you, your max is on fire (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:36 (thirteen years ago)


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