12 of the Scarist places on earth

[diabeticman]

[kentauros]

1. He needs to pot the music way down!

Because all too often, I couldn't understand what he was saying because his foreboding music drowned him out!

[frogmarch]

2. St. Helena will have an airport

early in 2016. When the runway is completed, the island won't be so isolated and scary.

Some of my maternal ancestors were planters on St. Helena in the 1700s.

[kentauros]

3. Planters, or planted?

[frogmarch]

4. Planters, not planted.

They eventually relocated to India, and that's where they died.

St. Helena (Eh LAY nuh) is the only remaining British colony.

My ancestors there were English colonists who were given land on which to grow food for East India Co. ships en route to India. They and other plantation owners had slaves. When the airport runway was being constructed, mass graves containing skeletons of slaves were discovered. Even when slavery was abolished, the slaves on St. Helena remained there, in encampments. Ugly history there.

[kentauros]

5. I know you didn't mean planted,

just making a play on how "planters" now also means potted plants

Thanks for the history. I don't know much about my family, mostly because it's never been that important to me. I leave all that genealogy stuff to my siblings.

[LynneSin]

6. I figured you'd have a photo of the CPAC convention

[diabeticman]

7. I wanted to creep you out not give you nightmares for a week.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. While the Izu (pronounced Ee-zoo, not I-zoo) Islands of Japan

can be scary in the sense that they are remote and vulnerable to certain natural disasters (like last year's typhoons that caused huge mudslides and the deaths of a few dozen people), there is no requirement that local residents must wear gas masks at all times.

[progressoid]

9. I drove by Buford, Wyoming a few years ago.

Could have been worse. If you like isolation and bleakness, go to Buford (now called PhinDeli, Wyoming).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhinDeli,_Wyoming