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What, like a gnargoyle it only looks good in the dark?
Ha ha ha. Wow. That’s a pretty fancy big building you boys got there. Ha ha ha. Omaha.
Oh, and what movie do you think you saw Omaha in?
Omaha always looked like this to me!
http://www.omahabeach.org/wp-content/themes/iZen/images/omaha_beach_landing.jpg
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Well actually that’s Juno beach, as the Canadians were the only people who had enough balls to actually get cameras on the beach and film everything. (also you can tell by the shape of their helmets that they are not American) but I would understand why you would believe that was Omaha as both the Brits and the Yanks claim it as their own.
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Haha, funny! especially when I looked up Juno beach, really tough landing…(in comparison ofcourse. I don’t think that the dead there are worth less)
Clueless much? The films from Omaha beach were inadvertantly overexposed during processing by a Navy tech.
The Canucks were the only ones the Germans weren’t shooting at. But that’s okay – thanks for coming to our party anyway.
You know,… if you don’t look too closely they almost look like real soldiers.
Why and how was Omaha D-Day to you?
beeecause it is Omaha Beach??
face palm
omaha beach was a code name for one of the D-Day landing zones
Meanwhile in South Africa…
I would’ve thought there would be more machine gun nests, sea and sand for omaha.
They’re only at the beach.
Oh there are machine guns you just have to go to the hood
that is the hood! on the left. thats the south side right is the north side.
fyi, north omaha is the getto, west omaha is were the normal folks live
so we are finally living at a time when photos are no longer media
Well both are accurate. the picture on the right is downtown the picture on the left looks like several neighborhoods heading west from downtown.
*Heading north trolololol
hahaha i ended up in north o once noone spoke english it was grrrrrrreat
…. where?
Dammit, I can barely see the Woodman Tower! Get a better photo, please!
At least I know that this IS, indeed, a photo of Omaha (I live in Omaha).
^has driven through Omaha…missed most of it cause I blinked.
Glad to see they captured almost all 10 buildings in Omaha. Only thing missing is Nebraska Furniture Mart.
I’ve always imagined Hell as being an infinitely repeating Omaha.
Nah, Hell is an eternity spent in Bruges.
“B-R-U-G-E-S” is a weird way to spell “New Jersey”
I’ve always thought of Hell being like Utah.
The problem, of course, is that both are accurate; Omaha is mostly like the one of the left (run-down suburbia), with the photo on the right being the glitzy downtown that sucks down all the taxpayer funds.
You know – the 99% on the left, and the 1% on the right.
More like those who stayed in school and lurned proper egrish….
I was in Omaha once, and you’re right. However, I was in Omaha once, and you’re definitely wrong.
Considering this is Warren Buffett’s hometown, I’m not too surprised.
It is true that people on either coast think that the Midwest is just a bunch of outhouses, cows, and churches. And then they think the people from the Midwest are the closed-minded ones who don’t know about the rest of the world. It’s natural for people to look down on those different from themselves in order to boost their own egos.
For “people on either coast”, read “Los Angeles, and New York City”.
Don’t forget Seattle. There is very little people in Seattle like more then looking down on other people.
People in Boulder, CO do that a lot too, but for different reasons….
Because they’re in the mountains? I mean, logistically they’d HAVE to look down at people, yeah?
Don’t try to change their minds. We don’t need them here.
NY, DC, Miami, Seattle, and most of California. But yeah, mostly NY and LA.
lies, because i live in nebraska, and even i think it sucks. and you used alot of generalizations… and we dont use out houses anymore. *awkward silence…*
Same here. I used to live in Nebraska but I moved up north to South Dakota. Not much better but eh, its a start.
Some places still use outhouses lol. Usually very old small farms though I think.
you guys have chicago, right?
No.
Do I really have to point out the irony/hypocrisy in what you are saying? Really?
When those folksy flyover people do things like put stickers on textbooks, it makes an impression.
My older brother was talking to some Canadians on World of Warcraft. They didn’t even think people lived here. I’ve also had German and French transfer students at my High School and they were told we didn’t have roads or cars and that buffalo still roamed.
Git yer butt back to Des Moines.
I was actually surprised at how beautiful Omaha/Council Bluffs was when I drove through it for the first and only time. It’s only an impression, but it really didn’t match the Omaha of my imagination.
Daren did you put this up here?
Sorry, but who cares? This is the worst poster ever because the subject matter is not only humorless, but also boring.
…and no demotivational at all.
lol, too bad papillion is better than omaha. but basically, when your not in omaha or its suburbs, your in hick towns. how do i know? I LIVE HERE. please save me.
The same goes for Lincoln (I’d know, I live there) and a select few other communities. What few cities you find in Nebraska are like islands surrounded by a sea of corn fields and their farm villages.
It’s true that rural communities tend to be conservative, including religiously, hence the stereotype of a buncha churches churning out a buncha close-minded individuals. And since the Midwest has probably the highest percentage of people who live in rural communities as opposed to urban ones, it’s hardly any wonder why hicks and rednecks are considered to be the number one representative of states like Nebraska.
Especially Nebraska.
Brohoof from Topeka. We’re the exact same way.
you need to get out more ass-hole Joe.
Stinkin Lincoln. How’s that Pen*s of the Plains standing?
Wow… the things you can build out of corn…
Still don’t want to go to omaha
Good! We dont want you!!
That is the downtown area. Go immediately north or south of downtown Omaha and suddenly you would think you are in south central LA. Total, absolute GHETTO!
Meanwhile the rest of us in Denver laugh at your tall building.
Denver? Really? LOL okay.
I’ve been to Denver. I’m not impressed. Your omelets suck, your thin air sucks, your snow sucks, your Rockies suck, your Nuggets suck, and your Tebows, I mean, your Broncos suck. Oh yeah, almost forgot about the Avalanche. Guess what, they suck too.
hmm a few small buildings doesn’t cut it. I live in a really suburban city, but if you look at our website it looks like it’s some bustling metropolitan area.
I am from Omaha. It’s a beautiful city. This might not be funny or anything, but it’s the freakin’ truth. Thank you, whoever made this!
Actually, the “tall” building is the tallest between Minnieapolis and Denver. Bigger than any building in St. Louis or KC. Did a college paper on it. And most of you people bashing on Omaha have probably never been to it. I live in the metro east of St. Louis and prefer Omaha over St. Louis.
Really? Wow.
Cities are never depicted accurately in films or on tv. Probably has to do with the fact that most movies, are shot in Vancouver.
p.s. I find this poster lame
I live in Eastern Europe and if we have such buildings we will be happy.
Wait… that was supposed to be funny.
Omaha? What’s Omaha?
O-maha moon, keep shining on, Omaha keep shining down.
We’d like it if you wouldn’t shine on Council Bluffs, or for that matter
Any other town.
Omaha moon, we heard that you shined on Cedar Rapids last June.
We’ll thank you to remember that you are a one-town moon.
Don’t forget, your name is Omaha Moooon!
Where’s all the snow?! Cause we have a lot of it right now!
I live in Lincoln, NE. It’s a little smaller than Omaha and doesn’t have hardly any tall buildings, the capital is probably it. And just so you know, people aren’t all that close-minded. Nebraska has the highest percentage of homosexuals. Also, funny story. I went to Denver and this girl asked me if I rode a cow to school and when I said no, she asked if I rode my tractor. That’s not legal! We’re the same as everyone else.
Relax, enjoy all the misconceptions while you can. I get a huge kick out of seeing how many people I can fool into thinking we only just got electricity figured out back in the nineties!
Besides, we Nebraskan urbanites are the odd ones out when it comes to the overall population, so sadly, despite how modern rural areas truly are, the stereotype is a long way from dead.
Nebraska urbanites are far from the minority. About one million people live in the Lincoln and Omaha metro areas. There is less than 2 million people in the state. Do some basic math. As for stereotyping who cares? I grew up in Nebraska and there are truths to some of it. I live in New Orleans now and plenty of people think we all live in stilted houses and use air boats to get to work. People are stupid and generally misinformed.
City ordinance and possibly state legislation prevents any building in Lincoln being taller than the capital, in fact I think it cannot be within 10 stories of the capital to allow the capital to show as the tallest building. And in rural Nebraska it is legal, and not unlikely, to see someone drive their tractor to school. (I’m from rural Nebraska and I lived in Lincoln for 8 years).
Iowa gets worse representation. It’s always just vast nothingness, even when it’s supposed to be one of the big towns.
I used to live in Iowa a long time ago. When did you get big towns?
Sioux City isn’t that small…
Yes it is.
Maybe that has something to do with the sheep outnumbering the people? In Omaha, we used to say Iowans were “In Omaha Without Authorization” or “Idiots Out Wandering Around” . I lived in Omaha, Bellevue, Papillion Fremont and Lincoln for about 8 years. Overall, Nebraska is an easy place to live even when you are on the streets or a market-rat, people are friendly, and only rarely do you find people dead and stuffed into the apt building clothes drier.
Ive been there 3 times, its like picture number two on like, one stretch of buildings. Its really spaced out like in picture one over 75% of it.
Go Bluejays!
#12 in the nation.
Yay Creighton!
I can’t wait to move back to good ol’ Nebraska.
Hm… since when is a picture next to the airport (which is actually considered to be council bluffs) relevant to Omaha?
The airport is not in CB. IDK where you got that idea. The pic is relevant to Omaha because it’s in Omaha. If you don’t believe me, go drive around and actually look at the scenery.
The one on the left is actually more like Council Bluffs… but as an Omaha native I can admit that our downtown is not quite as pretty as that picture suggests.
But to that 99%/1% guy, obviously you’ve never been West of 90th. It gets a lot cleaner and newer.
I live in Omaha, and to be honest it does look more like the picture on the left.
In comparison to every other city I’ve been too, Omaha may as well be the pic on the left…. and I live there >__<
Oh yeah. West 90th is an amazing place to guy. I live in Bellevue, which is a Suburb of Omaha.
Im actually just a stones throw away from omaha
Lol then we both know it looks like a blank white piece of paper right now. e_e
I’ve lived here my entire life, and both of these are Omaha, just depends where you’re going. There are fancy areas with huge houses, and there are run-down ghettos. And there’s the Old Market downtown, which is a fantastic mix of historic Omaha and brand new Omaha.
And yeah, Warren Buffett lives here, but he lives a pretty modest life actually. He has a fairly big house, but no frills, no fancy car, and he eats at Petrow’s and McDonald’s lol.
*402* REPRESENT
To all of you making comments about our one tall building: I’d personally rather have that than the many enormous buildings of NY or LA or any other larger city. They make me feel claustrophobic.
Ditto. I grew up in Omaha and moved to Middle-of-Nowhere, Iowa (now in craptastic Des Moines) and love the space. I visited a few larger cities and didn’t like it so much. My parents weren’t kidding about being able to reach through your neighbor’s window to borrow a cup of sugar right out of their pantry in Pittsburgh.
And although I am comfortable around North O, I think there’s no place better than Henry Doorly or Heartland of America Park (Gene Lehey when it’s clean is nice lol).
I’ve been to Omaha a bunch of times. It’s both, but with a lot of corn, too. So. Much. Corn.
This is frustrating. There are very few corn fields actually IN Omaha. Yes, outside of it there is a lot of corn, but that is true for outside of most cities in the Midwest. If not corn, some other crop or farmland for livestock.
Stop, please. New Yorkers don’t eat corn or anything that grows on a farm. They get their food from the grocery store.
I have never once in my life been to a corn field or seen a running tractor. I’ve driven past them in small cities like fremont and kearny in Ne. I live in Omaha. So I pretty sure I would notice a cornfield in the middle of NoDo or South O or Dundee or…anywhere that’s anywhere.
On the left is Counciltucky–I mean Council Bluffs. On the right is downtown Omaha
Sounds about right.
Funny story about the airport, its actually in Carter Lake, Ia! I don’t really know why they call it Omaha’s Epply Airfield….
It is ON Carter Lake, but it is on the Omaha side of it. The state line runs down the middle of the lake….
Yeah. That IS funny.
Who cares which is accurate??? It’s Omaha…
still not impressive
…Like everything else. Here in Texas, we’re depicted as living on wide open plains, milking cows for a living, and letting our kids ride horses to school. In reality, we have smelly downtown areas, and big cities just like a lot of places. Except we also have a bit more room to put it all.
I’ve lived in/very close to Omaha my whole life (21years), and I have to say… Both images are pretty accurate, just depends on where you are.
I will also say that it is pretty at night, with the lights and what not. Matter of opinion I suppose. Just enough buildings, while not over doing it.
Oh dear God, so many who do not know Omaha! The photo on the right is facing south maybe southwest coming from the airport heading towards downtown. The rest of you who think Omaha is just the D-day landing need to learn to google things. North Omaha I guarantee people speak English, South they don’t. There is a lot more to Omaha than this, but the buildings on the left look more like Council Bluffs.
true, omaha looks nothing like in the movies! i had to drive 4 hours before i found a suitable corn field to bury my victims! damn lying moogie producers
I’m from Omaha, and I’ll tell you right now!!!
The former is more accurate than the epic-looking picture of the ONE tall building we have.