On September 05 2010 08:30 zatic wrote: OK everyone who got new into this thread:
This thread was absolutely excellent. Don't ruin it.
Do not argue in this thread!Do not argue in this thread!Do not argue in this thread!
Post what sucks about your country, and leave it. That's it. Do the arguing somewhere else.
I believe everyone has an insurmountable pride of their own country and nationality to some extent. Some say "my country is the best at this and that!!" But as you know, if you have the goods, then you also have the bad tagged along with it. What pisses you off about your country? What are the faults? What would you want to see improved upon? Now.. it could specific things, but it could be broad and general things that everyone in your country knows.. but others in foreign countries might not've realized.
Since I'm a Korean, but has lived in Canada for a few years, I guess I'm entitled to hold opinions about two countries.
As for Korea, for starters, the mandatory service in the military for men. The immense stress put on grade school students to enter an elite university.. but then having a low chance of being employed once you graduate from university.. there're many more which I can probably think of later
And as for Canada... it's just too plain and boring -_- Also many feel that they live in the shadows of America which I don't think is necessary.. oh yea.. and there's also a French speaking province Quebec which wants to separate from canada and leave a giant hole on Canada's map and also in the economy
Well of course I could list the 1000 things wrong with our country, but then again almost everyone knows what they are so... and yes we do spend too much on the military.
I was born in Hong Kong and live in Canada. Canada is filled with stupid people. The service in just about every place is really slow, and everything is just generally (not always, but generally) inefficiently run. Also, people complain about the dumbest things, like "The school system is too difficult for my retarded kid. Make it easier or I'll accuse you of child abuse" or some stupid shit like that. As for Hong Kong, it smells funny and the TV there sucks (of course, whenever I go there, I only get like, 6 channels, so that may have something to do with it...)
United States of America is funny. We're supposed to be some rich, superpower of a country, yet we have high level of poverty, we talk about our budget in terms of how much less we're going in debt relative to the last years, and while we have a free education system, less and less funds are being put into it. Or something like that, because I know our schools arent getting as much funding that we need.
hm... can anyone tell me which countries are actually not in debt? ... I was thinking if there was one country that wouldn't be in debt, it'd be the states
i dunno, maybe we drink too much alcohol ;-] Some time ago one man have 12 promiles and he is still alive =] Its true, 12 promiles, im not joking. He has it in breath, not in blood, but nvm ;-) He was riding on bike, going home haha =] Poland > all in alcohol -_-
I'm from Canada where I live it rains too much our immigration policies create distinct subcultures that dont relate well to each other we don't have enough international power we are too dependant on the US for trade corporate taxes are too high theres no tropical part of canada our society doesn't place enough value on having fun people over 40 are way too disconnected with people under 25
On February 02 2005 13:51 ssidengi wrote: hm... can anyone tell me which countries are actually not in debt? ... I was thinking if there was one country that wouldn't be in debt, it'd be the states
i think the states have the world's biggest debt..
Obesity Debt Privacy Education Unemployment Declining Morality of Media Murder Gangs Disregard For Laws Corruption (In large corporations and government: judicial,legislative.
americans consume too much. waste too much - food, supplies, energy (gas guzzling SUVs). things get thrown away too often, and people buy new things instead of repairing broken ones. entertainment industry too overpaid, (read: hollywood/sports/music). needs to be more socialist. needs to value education more. americans kinda lazy, but for some reason leads in many technology sectors. i suppose as in any country, the range of types of people is really wide, so things can't really be generalized.
As for Poland it's nice as long as we're not talking about politics. Guys there seem corrupted as fucking hell, every now and then some new xx-gate shit pops up.
Putting that aside we've got some fucked up antisemite priest who runs his own tv & radio.
That combined with around 20% unemployment and you can begin to imagine ;P
Still, politicians are introducing a law not to punish possesion of small amounts of drugs back and nobody except old folks gives a fuck 'bout that psycho priest. But the corruption is like omfg, everywhere. Too bad there's no capital punishment anymore.
Nobody is ever allowed to become too big in Sweden. The whole "never too much of anything" lifestyle can be irritating. People are also overly petty here, it's another part of the typical Swedish lifestyle. I honestly can't stand it sometimes.
ow because now im living in UK the only thing im jealous off them is that they are well mannered at driving its pretty cool to walk and they stop so you can pass to the other side. i once had a porsche stopping just for me to pass to the other side. so sweeeet.
American people speak and don't act, while the government... just bm, we all know what's wrong with it.
There is little respect here, and 'morality' is almost a negative thing, people think it is only a christian thing (and christianity here is only a wall to hide behind, most of the time)
We dont invade a wide enough selection of countries. When I heard we were attacking Iraq I was like WTF?? We've already blown their shit up. I can think of so many more places that would be really interesting to drop bombs on. And then to top it off...we're like giving control of the country back to them!!! We win fair and square and then just hand it right back; I dont get it. I mean, we're even going to let them choose a new government. Our foreign policy has never made much sense in the past, but this is just getting to the point of ridiculousness.
the prices! the damn prices! norway is EXPENSIVE and the countrys broadband policies... have no idea wtf is going on. they think everyone is happy with a really shitty adsl. our immigration policies. how ignorant people can be when they fucking want to be (guess this is more of a general thing)
probably lots more, but don't have the time to wrtie anymore atm
On February 02 2005 14:11 LeJester wrote: We dont invade a wide enough selection of countries. When I heard we were attacking Iraq I was like WTF?? We've already blown their shit up. I can think of so many more places that would be really interesting to drop bombs on. And then to top it off...we're like giving control of the country back to them!!! We win fair and square and then just hand it right back; I dont get it. I mean, we're even going to let them choose a new government. Our foreign policy has never made much sense in the past, but this is just getting to the point of ridiculousness.
Either that was irony which I didn't get, or you're an arrogant asshole imo...
On February 02 2005 14:11 LeJester wrote: We dont invade a wide enough selection of countries. When I heard we were attacking Iraq I was like WTF?? We've already blown their shit up. I can think of so many more places that would be really interesting to drop bombs on. And then to top it off...we're like giving control of the country back to them!!! We win fair and square and then just hand it right back; I dont get it. I mean, we're even going to let them choose a new government. Our foreign policy has never made much sense in the past, but this is just getting to the point of ridiculousness.
Either that was irony which I didn't get, or you're an arrogant asshole imo...
I am 99% sure he is being sarcastic. I thought it was pretty funny actually
On February 02 2005 14:11 LeJester wrote: We dont invade a wide enough selection of countries. When I heard we were attacking Iraq I was like WTF?? We've already blown their shit up. I can think of so many more places that would be really interesting to drop bombs on. And then to top it off...we're like giving control of the country back to them!!! We win fair and square and then just hand it right back; I dont get it. I mean, we're even going to let them choose a new government. Our foreign policy has never made much sense in the past, but this is just getting to the point of ridiculousness.
Our government is a joke, if you think your sucks because its corrupt well, we are the 2nd country in corruption just after Nigeria, followed by Ghana.
The mexican overall doesnt know the meaning of ethics, its widely accepted that to suceed you have to use dirty tactics...
So the main problem is my country is that, theres absolutely no ethics at all.
On February 02 2005 14:40 baal wrote: Our government is a joke, if you think your sucks because its corrupt well, we are the 2nd country in corruption just after Nigeria, followed by Ghana.
The mexican overall doesnt know the meaning of ethics, its widely accepted that to suceed you have to use dirty tactics...
So the main problem is my country is that, theres absolutely no ethics at all.
=Indonesia= - Increasing widespread poverty while our top corrupt politcian soak up the country resources and money - Racism toward Chinese (like myself) - General hatred and dislike toward certain ethnic groups and religions - Dangerous, unstable conditions
Edit: I'M SORRY TO ANYONE OFFENDED. In my 2nd point I meant that there are are racism toward Chinese people like me! I am Chinese! I've been discrimnated against in Indonesia!! I'm sorry. Apologies to any misunderstood concepts!! >__<
I don't have anything bad to say about finland so i'll do USA instead: USA is a damn warmongering promised land of extra fat people with no intelligence whatsoever, but a very distorbed picture about their place as the world leaders.
Muhweli we are doing a fine job of bashing the U.S. ourselves, we really dont need your help. If you dont have anything bad to say about Finland, its probably because Finland isnt even a real place. Its one of those countries that if you sent one of us to the map we wouldnt even know where to begin looking. Finland, what the fuck is Finland? They dont have shit to blow up, and you dont make any of the products we buy, so really you dont even exist.
ok here it goes. Argentina (this is how a 3rd world country looks like). VERYYYYYYYY corrupted politicians (and when i mean veryyyyyyyy , even worse than 99% of the world countries). Terribly high debt with the IMF. (200.000.000.000 $) poberty rate at 45%. Pathetic public services (people like me who have the luck of being wealthy have to do anything we need with privates). Uneducated Politicians wich is a direct cause of corruption. Terribly high prices in heavy industries (electronics , cars , etc) Terribly devaluated economy very corrupted police however , im going to tell u some good things: -Kickass Basketball and Soccer teams -Very cheap prices in non technological products (1 litre of beer = 1 dollar) -Laws are so shitty , u can be 14 and drink on the street and no one will give a shit. - the gram of weed is 0,50$ - Varied weather with good coasts. -Very beautiful girls. - Decent Internet conections and cheap (2 mb of cable modem is 50 dollars per month).
George Bush Debt People who think our Country is the best in the world 51% of the country Anyone who lives in the south except for Florida, and especially Texas and the Bible Belt Most Republicans Foreign Policy George Bush George Bush's Cabinet Drinking Age Constant Wars Politicians illegal immigrants White Trash Nascar MTV American Made Cars Fat People (Despite what people say they are not even close to a majority) The huge ammount of people who are very well off and won't share the wealth with the less fortunate Pop music
I wish everyone would stop bashing the United States, just because of how a certain someone runs the government does not mean everyone agrees with it. All hate leads to is war and that is just useless killing.
Fucking bullfighting, it's so retarded it's humiliating omg Bad Manners all over the bw comunity Terrorism from ETA, as well as from mArch 11 (al qaeda) Going to the war of Irak losing 5-0 to sweden haha The crowd behaving as retards on Davis Cup Final how everyone gets a job by knowing someone, not by merits (corruption in general)
In America so many people think they're superior to others. Normally just because they believe in something else than them. They can't understand that there can be two views, two approaches, neither which is inherently better :/
On February 02 2005 14:34 {ToT}Strafe wrote: Hmm! Crappy politicians, extremist muslims, retarded laws and rules, crappy tv... hmm dunno anything else
Yeah, we're having crappy politicians, extremist muslims and too many turks.. I have to disagree on the laws & rules thing tho.. Compared to other countries I think it's pretty good to live here... having good school support and shit >.< And what's wrong with the TV? ;P
On February 02 2005 15:12 Liquid`Drone wrote: our prime minister is a priest and we have polar bears walking in the street
Polar bears in the streets, that's cool
actually we don't, it was actually just a way of saying "norway is fucking cold"
or wait there is this one city called longyearbyen which is located on svalbard which is this island far NORTH OF NORWAY. omfg. and they have polar bears there.
I was born in Brazil. I lived there many years. It sucks, most people are severely uneducated and aside from that, most people are also just mean. Oh yeah and there is also this unholy amout of violence, drugs, and whatnot. I do not recommend anyone even go there for vacations.
Most people here are whiners and very lazy. Life goes "well" when they just are lazy but then something bad happens to their family or friends and they start complaining how everyone else and the government suck and must be burnt alive.
If someone here even becomes a SUSPECT of raping some girl or murdering someone, he gets beaten up on the street by massive crowds, unless the police protects him well enough. And if so happens, people go and destroy his house and beat his family up, and maybe proceed to destroy a police station or two (seriously). It doesnt matter if the suspect is later proven to be innocent. This has happened many times, its sickening.
Most people are fucking hypocrites (sp?) and EVERYONE complains about corruption but a lot of the people complaining are so fucking corrupt themselves that it makes you numb, most of the time i think "what the fuck?" when anything happens over here. Theres corruption even at schools' fathers associations (not kidding). Actually people are so corrupt over here that if you try to be nice and honest most people will say you are just a corrupt bastard pretending to be a honest person, which leads people to be even more lazy and unhelpful to others.
Other than that, people pretend to be nice all the time when they meet strangers, so its mostly very nice to live here, but dont get to know anyone too well or you'll regret it. Seriously, not talking about any specific person, most people are like that.
On February 02 2005 13:49 useless wrote: United States of America is funny. We're supposed to be some rich, superpower of a country, yet we have high level of poverty, we talk about our budget in terms of how much less we're going in debt relative to the last years, and while we have a free education system, less and less funds are being put into it. Or something like that, because I know our schools arent getting as much funding that we need.
I just want to point out that the Chicago school systems have the most money put into them in Illinois, and are also the WORST schools in Illinois. You seriously can't go into a worse school system. Money doesn't mean everything, and in fact, when it comes to education, it means very little. Some of the poorest schools in this state (as far as I know) have turned out the best testing scores. The school district I used to be in was the second largest in the state (I think, it was really high up there), yet it was on that government plan to be taken over by the state, because of low performance. As I said, it has little to do with money. It's the general attitude of the people in the school that makes it bad.
That being said, I think our country is really fucked. I seriously can't see anything getting better, and I'm really tired of this war. I'm tired of the money it's taking to run it, and how inefficiently it's being run. I don't think the other choice this year would have done any better, come on, he was a weak candidate, but Bush is doing a poor job over there, too. We need other countries to help us out, but they've all been ousted.
Our national debt keeps growing, and instead of cutting back on expenses, we keep adding more. That's something that's been going on for a long time, though. Fuck the donations to other countries, we have problems of our own. We need to fix those before we can fix any other countries problems.
I'm sick of these dumb fucks who think that killing people overseas is going to stop terrorism. Being a pacifist won't either, but there has to be some other way. I'm glad that shit's over there and not here, though.
Too much socialism is killing this country. People are growing too dependent on others to do everything for them, and that's why we haven't done shit for who knows how long now. If the government would just back down, and force people to make decisions for themselves, instead of being spoon-fed by them, we'd see a better country, with less idiocy, and more productivity. Not to mention a smaller population, meaning less consumption, and no more of those asshole SUV drivers.
There are a lot of problems with this country, and the whole world, for that matter, but I think they can be fixed if we get the right people in there to fix it. Just who those right people are, though....
On February 02 2005 14:02 WhizKid77 wrote: americans consume too much. waste too much - food, supplies, energy (gas guzzling SUVs). things get thrown away too often, and people buy new things instead of repairing broken ones. entertainment industry too overpaid, (read: hollywood/sports/music). needs to be more socialist. needs to value education more. americans kinda lazy, but for some reason leads in many technology sectors. i suppose as in any country, the range of types of people is really wide, so things can't really be generalized.
HAHAHA! Being more socialist is going to cure laziness?
On February 02 2005 15:32 Veg wrote: COLD WINTERS + NO BEACHES = VEG MOVIN' TO CALI VERY SOON
t.t
So you can pick up more of those twelve year old hotties?
koreans are usually nerds koreans usually listen to crappy music korean music sucks korean girls have flat boobs korean guys have small dicks korean government is really corrupt korean mothers are the WORST
On February 02 2005 16:29 ItchReliever wrote: koreans are usually nerds koreans usually listen to crappy music korean music sucks korean girls have flat boobs korean guys have small dicks korean government is really corrupt korean mothers are the WORST
China: The government is corrupted, but you won't notice anything if you aren't anti-communism. Majority of the country is still poor. The difference between the rich and the poor is too great. Everyone is greedy and manipulative. Children are under too much pressure (too much competition).
Canada: Taxes are too high (15%, WTF?) Too cold / Too much snow. Too hard to get liquor.
Live in US for two years, in general: People are SO STUPID! they cant even do simple arithmetic with out a calculator. Way too frenzy on entertainment, look at the much $$ go to the hippies and they spend them on drugs and fat ass gold watches and ugly american cars, no wonder the country is going to dogs. Dumb government, they intervene too much, they think they are acting justice in the world, help other ppl out, but its annoy to trouble other country of their own business, so american can just fuck off and leave them alone. And economy sucked lately, too many imports and no exports, with job outsourced and ppl dumb and fuck!
On February 02 2005 16:41 Cambium wrote: China: The government is corrupted, but you won't notice anything if you aren't anti-communism. Majority of the country is still poor. The difference between the rich and the poor is too great. Everyone is greedy and manipulative. Children are under too much pressure (too much competition).
Canada: Taxes are too high (15%, WTF?) Too cold / Too much snow. Too hard to get liquor.
I'd kill for 15% taxes. TT; Our taxes are WAY too high.
On February 02 2005 16:41 Cambium wrote: China: The government is corrupted, but you won't notice anything if you aren't anti-communism. Majority of the country is still poor. The difference between the rich and the poor is too great. Everyone is greedy and manipulative. Children are under too much pressure (too much competition).
Canada: Taxes are too high (15%, WTF?) Too cold / Too much snow. Too hard to get liquor.
At least the government there doesn't waste it all on the military...
The fucking Patriot Act. People who support the Patriot Act saying, "well, it doesn't effect me, so what do I care? I don't do shit I shouldn't do, so what does it matter to me?" This really pisses me off, because the government is in direct violation of the fourth amendment, part of the same Constitution that guarantees them the right to speak out against the government. The very same Constitution they say they "uphold" when it comes to other issues, such as free speech, and gun ownership. Suddenly, though, when it doesn't DIRECTLY effect them, it's okay, that part isn't important. The only thing I will agree with those fools on is that the Constitution doesn't apply to non-citizens of the United States, or at least people who are here legally. Like when they catch some fucking wetback who raped and killed some girl, and someone fucking saw the guy do it, hell, ten people saw the guy do it, but they have a "right" to a trial. No, they don't, the Constitution doesn't pertain to them. I suppose it's a good idea that we do apply it to people that aren't citizens, but are legally here, though, because I'd sure as hell hate to break some other countries rules and be hung for it. People who are here illegally (no green card, nothing) should not be treated the same as those who go through the process, though.
That's another thing that pisses me off. All these illegal fucks and how they get away with robbing the system. Then, when they get caught, off to Mexico they go! They stole thousands of dollars from the government, so now I have to pay more taxes! Then they have no insurance for their damned cars, and when they hit you they just run! What happens? Not a damned thing! They aren't forced to pay assloads of money out in fines for not having insurance or a liscense. Nope, they're let off! (This has happened to me before, so I'm not really making this shit up)
The people here are so fucking stupid it pisses me off. That and we're all so lazy. I'm lazy, I'll admit it, but I have a job, and go to school. People who are lazier than me piss me off. Those fucks who bleed the system on unemployment when they get laid off, rather than finding another job. For example, my U.S. History teacher actually worked at a Menard's (which is a hardware store if you've never heard of it) during the summer instead of taking unemployment like a lot of her co-workers did.
HAHAHA! Being more socialist is going to cure laziness?
Do you know what socialism is?
# Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
Yes, I copied and pasted. Yes, I knew what it was. No, you apparently do not. Government run things never promote productiveness. Look at Europe. Those people vacation more than they work. They're fucking LAZY.
On February 02 2005 16:41 Cambium wrote: China: The government is corrupted, but you won't notice anything if you aren't anti-communism. Majority of the country is still poor. The difference between the rich and the poor is too great. Everyone is greedy and manipulative. Children are under too much pressure (too much competition).
Canada: Taxes are too high (15%, WTF?) Too cold / Too much snow. Too hard to get liquor.
I'd kill for 15% taxes. TT; Our taxes are WAY too high.
I was gonna reply that our taxes are way higher than yours but it looks like I was wrong.. I'm pretty surprised. I thought our taxes were way higher than yours, but i guess thats outdated. Should attract alot of business to Canada :D
life isn't supposed to be work. more vacations than work would be a really good thing, of course it's not true though. but that would be truly awesome.
Yes, I copied and pasted. Yes, I knew what it was. No, you apparently do not. Government run things never promote productiveness. Look at Europe. Those people vacation more than they work. They're fucking LAZY.
I just want to point out that the Chicago school systems have the most money put into them in Illinois, and are also the WORST schools in Illinois. You seriously can't go into a worse school system.
CPS still doesn't pay their teachers anything, and they still don't have textbooks, etc. Daley must have a bunch of his cousins on the payroll or something.
You're wrong about spending levels, too. Cook County spends a little less than $6k per student per year. Most of the suburbs spend significantly more. Here's what some other Illinois schools are spending:
Deerfield/Highland Park $17,991 Lake Forest $15,218 NewTrier $14,160 Glenbrrok North/South $13,832 Libertyville $12,867 District 214 $12,819 Mundelein $11,892 Stevenson $11,162
This leads in beautifully to my post about the WORST part of the US.
Everyone here is so fucking sure their opinions are right, there's no need to get any facts. You walk around talking to people, and they're either brainwashed by Limbaugh to think that schools are overfunded and inefficient, or some idiot liberal who tells you how many students just one stealth bomber could put through school, or that racism holds all those poor black kids back.
Our education system sucks. Noone thinks for themselves. People all come out behaving like sheep - they hear somethign once somewhere and accept it as a fact of life as if some old crazy bearded guy stumbled off a mountain with their opinions carved in stone by God.
Look at our elections, but from a new persepctive. Instead of blaming the politicians, look at it like this: They are doing whatever they think is best to win votes. What kind of people would be swayed one way or the other by the political ads, debates, etc.? Fucking morons, that's who.
We have a country of completely inadequately educated yet supremely self confident people. Stupidity, power, and American-style "God's on our side so who the hell's on yours?" attitudes is an ugly combination.
And people in the midwest are horribly overweight. Whoever was complaining about German girls, please don't. I will trade you the women in Michigan for the women in Germany any day.
There's another thing that pisses me off, but it's not country specific. Reading comprehension. I never stated it as fact, I stated it "as far as I know." (knew, now) I said, "I think" several times in the post, meaning, I could very well be wrong, but am not going to look up actual statistics.
EDIT: I don't type "properly," so sometimes I hit two keys at once that would be seemingly impossible to hit together, but it's because of my improper typing style.
On February 02 2005 18:21 SickofLife wrote: There's another thing that pisses me off, but it's not country specific. Reading comprehension. I never stated it as fact, I stated it "as far as I know." (knew, now) I said, "I think" several times in the post, meaning, I could very well be wrong, but am not going to look up actual statistics.
EDIT: I don't type "properly," so sometimes I hit two keys at once that would be seemingly impossible to hit together, but it's because of my improper typing style.
Okay time for reading comprehension check. Here is the first paragraph of your post, in its entirety:
I just want to point out that the Chicago school systems have the most money put into them in Illinois, and are also the WORST schools in Illinois. You seriously can't go into a worse school system. Money doesn't mean everything, and in fact, when it comes to education, it means very little. Some of the poorest schools in this state (as far as I know) have turned out the best testing scores. The school district I used to be in was the second largest in the state (I think, it was really high up there), yet it was on that government plan to be taken over by the state, because of low performance. As I said, it has little to do with money. It's the general attitude of the people in the school that makes it bad.
As you can see, you never, in any way, added a qualifier to the statement "I just want to point out that the Chicago school systems have the most money put into them in Illinois, and are also the WORST schools in Illinois. You seriously can't go into a worse school system. Money doesn't mean everything, and in fact, when it comes to education, it means very little." You stated that is if it is a fact. You only added the qualifier to some of your subsequent statements.
A major problem we've always had in america is the idea that our government can spend more money than it actually has. I've always wondered how we get away with that one.
In my part of the country too, we have the youth WAY too worried about school. 90% of the students in my school are taking at least 1 AP course. Kids at my school proportionately apply to the ivy league schools than almost everywhere else in the country. Some people don't make it... and we have one of the highest suicide rates in the country because of this. (I hear this is a problem in japan too?)
On February 02 2005 18:46 Haemonculus wrote: A major problem we've always had in america is the idea that our government can spend more money than it actually has. I've always wondered how we get away with that one.
In my part of the country too, we have the youth WAY too worried about school. 90% of the students in my school are taking at least 1 AP course. Kids at my school proportionately apply to the ivy league schools than almost everywhere else in the country. Some people don't make it... and we have one of the highest suicide rates in the country because of this. (I hear this is a problem in japan too?)
if someone would actually commit suicide becoz he/she cannot get into any ivy league,,,,then that pretty much shows he/she is inadequate for ivy league anywayz...
On February 02 2005 13:35 FroZZoR wrote: I live in the USA and can confidently state from the election results that over 50% of our country are retarded hicks.
Let's test your reading comprehension. I said, "has the most money put into it." Which is true, it does. Perhaps it doesn't have the highest per capita rating, but it definitely has more money put into it. Chicago has a population of nearly 3,000,000 people, while Highland Park has about a tenth of that. Tell me that about 6k toward the amount of people in the Chicago School system is not more than that toward the ones in Highland Park. Did I misrepresent something? Yes. Was I wrong? No. What I said was completely factual. Not to mention that you take your statistics from 2001, and they have probably changed since then. That's not really important, though. Also, I can't find the link right now, but 39 (can't remember where that is) spends a bit over $8k a year, and is still among the top in testing scores.
EDIT: I did some quick math, estimating at 17,000 per child, at the total population of Highland Park (I did that at 30,000). It came out to $510,000,000. I read at another site that Chicago spends 3.8 BILLION dollars on education. $510,000,000 falls about 3.3 billion dollars short.
"Within CPS's $3.8 billion operating budget, $2.5 billion is spent on education, including basic instruction, supplemental support, and school-based administration. The remaining $1.3 billion is spent on tuitions to private companies for special education and pre-school students, counseling, social and health services, food transportation, maintenance, security, pensions, and central office administration."
On February 02 2005 17:24 Liquid`Drone wrote: life isn't supposed to be work. more vacations than work would be a really good thing, of course it's not true though. but that would be truly awesome.
i wonder what percent of teamliquid is from USA/CANADA. i think most. then korea.. then sweden ? I dont know. just thought about it looking at all the different countries. Any one know this ?
I just want to point out that the Chicago school systems have the most money put into them in Illinois, and are also the WORST schools in Illinois. You seriously can't go into a worse school system.
CPS still doesn't pay their teachers anything, and they still don't have textbooks, etc. Daley must have a bunch of his cousins on the payroll or something.
You're wrong about spending levels, too. Cook County spends a little less than $6k per student per year. Most of the suburbs spend significantly more. Here's what some other Illinois schools are spending:
Deerfield/Highland Park $17,991 Lake Forest $15,218 NewTrier $14,160 Glenbrrok North/South $13,832 Libertyville $12,867 District 214 $12,819 Mundelein $11,892 Stevenson $11,162
This leads in beautifully to my post about the WORST part of the US.
Everyone here is so fucking sure their opinions are right, there's no need to get any facts. You walk around talking to people, and they're either brainwashed by Limbaugh to think that schools are overfunded and inefficient, or some idiot liberal who tells you how many students just one stealth bomber could put through school, or that racism holds all those poor black kids back.
Our education system sucks. Noone thinks for themselves. People all come out behaving like sheep - they hear somethign once somewhere and accept it as a fact of life as if some old crazy bearded guy stumbled off a mountain with their opinions carved in stone by God.
Look at our elections, but from a new persepctive. Instead of blaming the politicians, look at it like this: They are doing whatever they think is best to win votes. What kind of people would be swayed one way or the other by the political ads, debates, etc.? Fucking morons, that's who.
We have a country of completely inadequately educated yet supremely self confident people. Stupidity, power, and American-style "God's on our side so who the hell's on yours?" attitudes is an ugly combination.
And people in the midwest are horribly overweight. Whoever was complaining about German girls, please don't. I will trade you the women in Michigan for the women in Germany any day.
In Naperville, one of the richest areas in DuPage County, also one of the richest counties in the U.S., I believe my district spends roughly around $7000-$8000 per student. We also have some of the highest test scores in the nation, not to mention in the top of the State for all grades K to 12.
More money doesn't mean better. Efficient use of money means better.
Just because you throw money at something doesn't mean it's going to grow and blossom... results matter, not how much money you are spending on something.
I flipping hate tax and spend Liberals who want to raise taxes on everyone to pay for health care for the already middle class and rich people.
I hate Liberal people who think Ronald Reagan was an idiot when the Middle Class had the most wealth, and more people climbed from poor to middle class and wealthier income brackets then during any other adminstration in U.S. history.
Bill Clinton was a horrible President because he did jack shit after the 1993 WTC Bombing in our country that was meant to be a 9/11, 3 embassies lost overseas, had multiple chances to take out Osama and the Al-Qaeda network while it was still developing and did nothing for fear of 'hitting a mosque,' in particular after we accidentally hit a Chinese embassay. Same goes for how our air traffic security system was structured, we still only allow 2 Arab people to be searched before entering the plane, because Liberals don't want to be racist despite roughly 99.9% of the people trying to kill American interests are Islamic Extremists.
I hate people who say the American economy is the worst since the Great Depression when unemployment is roughly 5.4%, and anything around 5% is considered full employment of the population.
I hate how our tax system has been structured since under JFK that allowed outsourcing companies to start up in 1992 from a former General Electric Executive to start taking American manufacturing jobs for everything from textiles to microprocessing, to aerospace boards, to now even automobiles and airplanes.
90% of what was made in the U.S. was consumed by Americans in 1995, since NAFTA it's dropped to 75%.
I hate how President Bush spent way too much money, we need to be more fiscally conservative to the ideals of Ronald Reagan who left a $550M surplus as a two-term governor of California, the largest state in the U.S. in the 70s. Cutting taxes during wartime is fine, but we didn't have to spend so much on ridiculous BS.
What's even worse is the pork barrel spending. What, $20B a year is wasted for congressmen helping there consitutents? Maybe this could be used to give health care to all the uninsured Americans with low cost drugs, not making a park look nicer.
No Federal Education Standards, while America has the finest educational Colleges on the face of the Earth, our High School students and younger aren't learning the proper material and are far behind the rest of the world.
I don't like how America won't add Poland to it's special VISA program, as Poland has been a staunch ally of the U.S. -- and would've been I think the only country in Europe to re-elect President Bush if they had a say in the election last Nov. (I'm also 90% Polish and my great grandfather nearly died getting to the U.S. from there)
I hate how people say we should reduce defense spending, or say the U.S. is purely an imperialistic country...
We helped stop advancement of imperalism in World War 1. In World War 2 we freed Europe from fascism. We then gave out the Marshall Plan and took Europe from poverty to prosperity. We also freed more in Europe under the evil grasp of Communism from the Soviet Union... I don't know any other country before in the past willingly gave money to a country as Japan and helped build it into one of the largest economic powers after it was destroyed...
God damn, if we wanted oil we could just forcefully take it or drill it ourselves...
I'd love to drill for our own oil in Alaska but liberals/Democrats won't let it happen. (hopefully it does now)
Oh, I'd also like to build a Oil Refinery for once in the United States. Oil a barrel should be $35 not upwards to $50 but a Oil Refinery hasn't been built in the U.S. since 1976 (start of the Carter adminstration). Then maybe our airline industry will be profitable again. I hate Democrats for not allowing this to happen.
I hate how we don't offer more tax breaks or subsidize more research into Hybrid Cars/Hydrogen Fuel Cells. We shouldn't be dependent on other people for our energy and the environment should be cleaner. Let American companies flippin do research to make the world more clean from fossil fuels. There the best to do the task...
Oh well, that's just a rough put together of things.
On February 02 2005 14:02 WhizKid77 wrote: americans consume too much. waste too much - food, supplies, energy (gas guzzling SUVs). things get thrown away too often, and people buy new things instead of repairing broken ones. entertainment industry too overpaid, (read: hollywood/sports/music). needs to be more socialist. needs to value education more. americans kinda lazy, but for some reason leads in many technology sectors. i suppose as in any country, the range of types of people is really wide, so things can't really be generalized.
It's also cheaper to buy new things then to get them replaced. Ever hear of the Throwaway Society? It's been that way here since the 1920s. Yeah, socialism, that works [eye roll eye roll puke]. You've of all people being in China should be thankful Western capital has rolled into your country. You think being socialist you'd have a $1.7 Trillion Dollar economy with 250 million people out of poverty?
On February 02 2005 20:48 IronMentality wrote: I flipping hate tax and spend Liberals who want to raise taxes on everyone to pay for health care for the already middle class and rich people.
I hate Liberal people who think Ronald Reagan was an idiot when the Middle Class had the most wealth, and more people climbed from poor to middle class and wealthier income brackets then during any other adminstration in U.S. history.
Bill Clinton was a horrible President because he did jack shit after the 1993 WTC Bombing in our country that was meant to be a 9/11, 3 embassies lost overseas, had multiple chances to take out Osama and the Al-Qaeda network while it was still developing and did nothing for fear of 'hitting a mosque,' in particular after we accidentally hit a Chinese embassay. Same goes for how our air traffic security system was structured, we still only allow 2 Arab people to be searched before entering the plane, because Liberals don't want to be racist despite roughly 99.9% of the people trying to kill American interests are Islamic Extremists.
I hate people who say the American economy is the worst since the Great Depression when unemployment is roughly 5.4%, and anything around 5% is considered full employment of the population.
I hate how our tax system has been structured since under JFK that allowed outsourcing companies to start up in 1992 from a former General Electric Executive to start taking American manufacturing jobs for everything from textiles to microprocessing, to aerospace boards, to now even automobiles and airplanes.
90% of what was made in the U.S. was consumed by Americans in 1995, since NAFTA it's dropped to 75%.
I hate how President Bush spent way too much money, we need to be more fiscally conservative to the ideals of Ronald Reagan who left a $550M surplus as a two-term governor of California, the largest state in the U.S. in the 70s. Cutting taxes during wartime is fine, but we didn't have to spend so much on ridiculous BS.
What's even worse is the pork barrel spending. What, $20B a year is wasted for congressmen helping there consitutents? Maybe this could be used to give health care to all the uninsured Americans with low cost drugs, not making a park look nicer.
No Federal Education Standards, while America has the finest educational Colleges on the face of the Earth, our High School students and younger aren't learning the proper material and are far behind the rest of the world.
I don't like how America won't add Poland to it's special VISA program, as Poland has been a staunch ally of the U.S. -- and would've been I think the only country in Europe to re-elect President Bush if they had a say in the election last Nov. (I'm also 90% Polish and my great grandfather nearly died getting to the U.S. from there)
I hate how people say we should reduce defense spending, or say the U.S. is purely an imperialistic country...
We helped stop advancement of imperalism in World War 1. In World War 2 we freed Europe from fascism. We then gave out the Marshall Plan and took Europe from poverty to prosperity. We also freed more in Europe under the evil grasp of Communism from the Soviet Union... I don't know any other country before in the past willingly gave money to a country as Japan and helped build it into one of the largest economic powers after it was destroyed...
God damn, if we wanted oil we could just forcefully take it or drill it ourselves...
I'd love to drill for our own oil in Alaska but liberals/Democrats won't let it happen. (hopefully it does now)
Oh, I'd also like to build a Oil Refinery for once in the United States. Oil a barrel should be $35 not upwards to $50 but a Oil Refinery hasn't been built in the U.S. since 1976 (start of the Carter adminstration). Then maybe our airline industry will be profitable again. I hate Democrats for not allowing this to happen.
I hate how we don't offer more tax breaks or subsidize more research into Hybrid Cars/Hydrogen Fuel Cells. We shouldn't be dependent on other people for our energy and the environment should be cleaner. Let American companies flippin do research to make the world more clean from fossil fuels. There the best to do the task...
Oh well, that's just a rough put together of things.
Apart from the rather vulgar taste in categorizing people and expressing no shortage of hatred for various such categories, there are several faults in your claims:
1) Reagan's fiscal conservatism really can't be substantiated in his presidency. Both national spending and deficit increased radically during his presidency. 2) The First World War had almost nothing to do with Imperialism, nor did it stop imperialism. 3) Although the contributions of the United States in WW2 fundamentally affected the post-war geopolitical conditions, "freeing" Europe from "fascism" is rather characteristic of the imbecile political categories which have unfortunately been the dominant trend of American nationalistic thinking in recent times. 4) The United States had nearly nothing to do with "freeing" Europe from "communism", which was largely accomplished by the voluntary Soviet withdraw from Europe, but did much to contribute to the causes of the cold war in the beginning. 5) Your use of historical examples are selective and dishonest at best, rather representative of a kind of idealism-cum-nationalism which has plagued the country for a century.
There's not too much else I can disagree with in your post, apart from rather obvious exaggerated claims such as "people who say the American economy is the worst since the Great Depression when unemployment is roughly 5.4%, and anything around 5% is considered full employment of the population."
On February 02 2005 17:24 Liquid`Drone wrote: life isn't supposed to be work. more vacations than work would be a really good thing, of course it's not true though. but that would be truly awesome.
180 days of school 185 days off :D
Just wait until you get in 20'S, when you go out of school. I read a document of my former summer job, a restaurant, it's like :
-begin 6us/hour, can get to 10 us/hour with 5 year work, cannot go higher -Minimal of 32 hour a week -No vacation on holidays ( christmas, any national day) -1 week of paid vacation//year, can get 4 week after 15 years of work, cannot go higher.
The sad thing is that most of the people work like this. It's so depressing and I think it's what sucks about my country
Oh and something suck about the world in general : people are mostly selfish and doesn't give a shit but to themself. And those idiot make stupid statement that make a country look stupid ( mostly US idiot I hear from, it give a shitty image of US).
Oh , final note, our provincial governent is sooooo weak ( quebec).
Oh one guy was mentionning something like this : ''I hate french canadian, once this french guy wouldn't let me pass, therefore all quebecers are idiot and bad.'' ............... that sad....
On February 02 2005 14:02 WhizKid77 wrote: americans consume too much. waste too much - food, supplies, energy (gas guzzling SUVs). things get thrown away too often, and people buy new things instead of repairing broken ones. entertainment industry too overpaid, (read: hollywood/sports/music). needs to be more socialist. needs to value education more. americans kinda lazy, but for some reason leads in many technology sectors. i suppose as in any country, the range of types of people is really wide, so things can't really be generalized.
It's also cheaper to buy new things then to get them replaced. Ever hear of the Throwaway Society? It's been that way here since the 1920s. Yeah, socialism, that works [eye roll eye roll puke]. You've of all people being in China should be thankful Western capital has rolled into your country. You think being socialist you'd have a $1.7 Trillion Dollar economy with 250 million people out of poverty?
Socialism is the ideal political stance as for its theory, but again it's corrupted. Oh, every polical party is corrupted. No one is better than any other. Some hide it better though.
America has the best of the best and the worst of the worst.the county itself is a revolutionary idea.Diversity is everywhere,I honestly cant find enything to hate about my country other than military spending and schoole funding.but hey,there are great jobs in th U.S and you cant say that about every country.are lowest low's are far from other countries and their history.We mite be a lil BM but so what? we do it with a swagger and smile and go on with are buisness.Germany seems depressed they always have seemed depressed,france is bm but they sound like sissies when they try to put U.S down.north korea selling nukes,germany spying on us,china spying on us,Isreal spying on us,germany riging ukraine elections and its obviose.BUT LOOK AT US
On February 02 2005 14:02 WhizKid77 wrote: americans consume too much. waste too much - food, supplies, energy (gas guzzling SUVs). things get thrown away too often, and people buy new things instead of repairing broken ones. entertainment industry too overpaid, (read: hollywood/sports/music). needs to be more socialist. needs to value education more. americans kinda lazy, but for some reason leads in many technology sectors. i suppose as in any country, the range of types of people is really wide, so things can't really be generalized.
It's also cheaper to buy new things then to get them replaced. Ever hear of the Throwaway Society? It's been that way here since the 1920s. Yeah, socialism, that works [eye roll eye roll puke]. You've of all people being in China should be thankful Western capital has rolled into your country. You think being socialist you'd have a $1.7 Trillion Dollar economy with 250 million people out of poverty?
Socialism is the ideal political stance as for its theory, but again it's corrupted. Oh, every polical party is corrupted. No one is better than any other. Some hide it better though.
Just what on earth do you mean by socialism? To a great extent every country on earth is a "socialist" welfare state governed by a corporate (in the old fashioned sense of the term) bureaucracy.
Marxism on the other hand is an ignorant and stupid philosophy of history
Despite their revolutionary propaganda, very few so-called communist states have been marxist. At best, their economic structures were inherited from earlier cultural prototypes.
china - cheap, too many fucking forger, corrupted, alot of stupid morons, alot of jack asses, alot of selfish bitches, dirty, fill with morons, don't crack down on forgers, alot of powerful mafias, too many criminals, lack traditional moral values, won't build houses on buildings, lack understanding of protecting the enviroment, fill with bunch of fuckers who destory the enviroment for their own selfish deeds...etc
America - low voter turn out, general population are uninformed, selfish bitches, alot of senators in california (where i am) are fucking stupid selfish son of bitches, senators in us senate are fucking gayass morons (especially for taking money away from social secrity), out dated taxes system (fucking propsitions), under rated school systems, terrible school system (k-12), not enough hot asian girls in my area...etc
On February 02 2005 20:48 IronMentality wrote: I flipping hate tax and spend Liberals who want to raise taxes on everyone to pay for health care for the already middle class and rich people.
I hate Liberal people who think Ronald Reagan was an idiot when the Middle Class had the most wealth, and more people climbed from poor to middle class and wealthier income brackets then during any other adminstration in U.S. history.
Bill Clinton was a horrible President because he did jack shit after the 1993 WTC Bombing in our country that was meant to be a 9/11, 3 embassies lost overseas, had multiple chances to take out Osama and the Al-Qaeda network while it was still developing and did nothing for fear of 'hitting a mosque,' in particular after we accidentally hit a Chinese embassay. Same goes for how our air traffic security system was structured, we still only allow 2 Arab people to be searched before entering the plane, because Liberals don't want to be racist despite roughly 99.9% of the people trying to kill American interests are Islamic Extremists.
I hate people who say the American economy is the worst since the Great Depression when unemployment is roughly 5.4%, and anything around 5% is considered full employment of the population.
I hate how our tax system has been structured since under JFK that allowed outsourcing companies to start up in 1992 from a former General Electric Executive to start taking American manufacturing jobs for everything from textiles to microprocessing, to aerospace boards, to now even automobiles and airplanes.
90% of what was made in the U.S. was consumed by Americans in 1995, since NAFTA it's dropped to 75%.
I hate how President Bush spent way too much money, we need to be more fiscally conservative to the ideals of Ronald Reagan who left a $550M surplus as a two-term governor of California, the largest state in the U.S. in the 70s. Cutting taxes during wartime is fine, but we didn't have to spend so much on ridiculous BS.
What's even worse is the pork barrel spending. What, $20B a year is wasted for congressmen helping there consitutents? Maybe this could be used to give health care to all the uninsured Americans with low cost drugs, not making a park look nicer.
No Federal Education Standards, while America has the finest educational Colleges on the face of the Earth, our High School students and younger aren't learning the proper material and are far behind the rest of the world.
I don't like how America won't add Poland to it's special VISA program, as Poland has been a staunch ally of the U.S. -- and would've been I think the only country in Europe to re-elect President Bush if they had a say in the election last Nov. (I'm also 90% Polish and my great grandfather nearly died getting to the U.S. from there)
I hate how people say we should reduce defense spending, or say the U.S. is purely an imperialistic country...
We helped stop advancement of imperalism in World War 1. In World War 2 we freed Europe from fascism. We then gave out the Marshall Plan and took Europe from poverty to prosperity. We also freed more in Europe under the evil grasp of Communism from the Soviet Union... I don't know any other country before in the past willingly gave money to a country as Japan and helped build it into one of the largest economic powers after it was destroyed...
God damn, if we wanted oil we could just forcefully take it or drill it ourselves...
I'd love to drill for our own oil in Alaska but liberals/Democrats won't let it happen. (hopefully it does now)
Oh, I'd also like to build a Oil Refinery for once in the United States. Oil a barrel should be $35 not upwards to $50 but a Oil Refinery hasn't been built in the U.S. since 1976 (start of the Carter adminstration). Then maybe our airline industry will be profitable again. I hate Democrats for not allowing this to happen.
I hate how we don't offer more tax breaks or subsidize more research into Hybrid Cars/Hydrogen Fuel Cells. We shouldn't be dependent on other people for our energy and the environment should be cleaner. Let American companies flippin do research to make the world more clean from fossil fuels. There the best to do the task...
Oh well, that's just a rough put together of things.
Apart from the rather vulgar taste in categorizing people and expressing no shortage of hatred for various such categories, there are several faults in your claims:
1) Reagan's fiscal conservatism really can't be substantiated in his presidency. Both national spending and deficit increased radically during his presidency. 2) The First World War had almost nothing to do with Imperialism, nor did it stop imperialism. 3) Although the contributions of the United States in WW2 fundamentally affected the post-war geopolitical conditions, "freeing" Europe from "fascism" is rather characteristic of the imbecile political categories which have unfortunately been the dominant trend of American nationalistic thinking in recent times. 4) The United States had nearly nothing to do with "freeing" Europe from "communism", which was largely accomplished by the voluntary Soviet withdraw from Europe, but did much to contribute to the causes of the cold war in the beginning. 5) Your use of historical examples are selective and dishonest at best, rather representative of a kind of idealism-cum-nationalism which has plagued the country for a century.
There's not too much else I can disagree with in your post, apart from rather obvious exaggerated claims such as "people who say the American economy is the worst since the Great Depression when unemployment is roughly 5.4%, and anything around 5% is considered full employment of the population."
Hrm. When Germany is marching in Downtown Paris, and England is down to it's last $2 Billion Dollars, and FDR starts the Lend-Lease Act to help them out, I'd say the U.S. fighting off Imperialist Japan and Germany is infact, freeing Europe from fascism.
As is the Marshall Plan. When Communist parties are getting large percentages of elections and Europe lays in poverty, we simply built Europe. There is no arguing that.
The United States outspending the Soviet Union on defense weaponry led to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself. The U.S.S.R. spent 50% of it's GDP on Nuclear Weapons and its military funding. However, there economy was no where close to our size after it boomed in the 1950s, 60s under JFK, early to mid 70s under Nixon, and the greatest expansionist years (1982-1989) of U.S. economic history, the Reagan years.
As far as Reagan's fiscal conservatism. He left a $550M surplus as a two term governor of California. And just in case anyone forgot, the Democrats controlled Congress from the Great Depression up until 1994 when the Republicans finally won a majority under Bill Clinton's Democratic presidency in both the House and Senate.
The Republican Congress would go on to shutdown HillaryCare, or the nationalization of 1/7th of the U.S. economy (Health Care obviously), keep tax rates low, CUT spending, and bring about the budget surpluses of the 1990s.
To suggest the U.S. had nothing to do with freeing Europe from communism is ridiculous. Please, how many people would still be living in poverty in Eastern Europe today if the U.S. did not challenge the Soviet Union. Hell, if we did nothing, they'd have an oil monopoly in the Middle East at the present moment.
As far as the economy, it's been growing I think on average of around 4% since a few quarters after 9/11. That's unbelievable growth, period.
On February 03 2005 01:19 IronMentality wrote: To suggest the U.S. had nothing to do with freeing Europe from communism is ridiculous. Please, how many people would still be living in poverty in Eastern Europe today if the U.S. did not challenge the Soviet Union. Hell, if we did nothing, they'd have an oil monopoly in the Middle East at the present moment.
you seem pretty convinced that there arent living pretty much all of the ppl in eastern euro in poverty. did you visit at least one of the eastern euro states in the last 3 years? you seem pretty convinced that there isnt an oil monopoly in the middle east. do you think that the oil drillings in alaska and the north sea are anywhere comparable to the recources in the middle east?
- I think the legal system in norway is too forgiving. Some criminals should spend way more time in jail.
- I don't like the high car costs.
- I don't much like the fact that our prime minister is a priest because it reflects in his decitions.
- I don't like the fact that Norway is trying to be a bigger country than it actually is.
I DO like the fact that norway ain't plagued with tons babling idiots who can't realize their country make mistakes and keep talking "OMG LOOK WE HAVE MANY ARMY WE CAN PWN YOU NUB" everytime someone points out a valid argument.
Poland: - The high corruption of the political class. Although there are probably corrupted politicians in every country, the way most politicians behave in Poland is fucking disgusting. - High unemployment. - The corruption of the clergy. They have to many privileges... - Many other things but mainly connected to the stuff I mentioned.
Apart from the faults that Poland has, I still love my country and I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. As a matter of fact I’m about to write a post in the “Praise your own country” thread
huh, the highest stake here in Poland is around 50% .. so i guess our taxes are really fucked up.
No it's not. Although some stupid fucks tried to make it happen around december. President didn't sign that, and besides it's like it would affect like 300 people or so.
But, yeah, our taxes suck from what i've heard they're 19,30 and 40% depending on how much you actually earned last year.
SPAIN: Our political class are puppets. Terrorism. We supported the lies of Afghanistan and Iraq while 90% of the spanish people where manifestating against it Somepeople here call bullfighting ART <- WTF?! Our public TV is fucking retarded We are unable to control the inmigration from Africa (everyday dozens of immigrants appear died in our beaches trying to cross from Africa to Spain in little boats) We have neo-nazi groups in out main cities wich make noise when they have a TV camera near (Spain vs England football match, etc) EDIT: Every spanish thinks that he is a football coach and a medical doctor
Spain: - People spend a shitload of time arguing about either soccer or politics - Disrespect for other's opinions - Education is very poor here (i believe that's the main reason for the problems above)
No it's not. Although some stupid fucks tried to make it happen around december. President didn't sign that, and besides it's like it would affect like 300 people or so.
But, yeah, our taxes suck from what i've heard they're 19,30 and 40% depending on how much you actually earned last year.
yup, you'r right it's 40% ..
although I really doubt that it would be only around 300 ppl who qualified for that new (dead) tax scale.
Taxes a bit too high (i.e., a guy with about 35 000 SEK/month (abot 5 grand each month) pays around 50 %, which is a bit insane).
As stygg mentionened, it's "bad" to be succesful... or it's something you should hide a bit ;D (only in BW-channes where poker is the thing you should brag as much as possible). I would say there is something called the "swedish jealousy", because people pretty much can't accept others making it good.
The only regret I have about Canada is the crappy health care system. Although it's free, It can take forever to get into see a specialist or get surgery. Alot of times, It'd be faster/better if I just drove down to USA and paid for it.
the thing i hate the most about canada is how the entire nation is forced into this bilingual bullshit, when it's only spoken in two provinces; quebec and new brunswick. New Brunswick is the only province in the entire country that needs bilingulism. other then in montreal, there is very little english used in quebec. and from ontario onward towards the west, there is zero french.
On February 02 2005 14:51 Muhweli wrote: I don't have anything bad to say about finland so i'll do USA instead: USA is a damn warmongering promised land of extra fat people with no intelligence whatsoever, but a very distorbed picture about their place as the world leaders.
Ill bash Finland for you. They banned Donald Duck for nudism LLOLOL
On February 02 2005 15:21 JazZ[AutO] wrote: George Bush Debt People who think our Country is the best in the world 51% of the country Anyone who lives in the south except for Florida, and especially Texas and the Bible Belt Most Republicans Foreign Policy George Bush George Bush's Cabinet Drinking Age Constant Wars Politicians illegal immigrants White Trash Nascar MTV American Made Cars Fat People (Despite what people say they are not even close to a majority) The huge ammount of people who are very well off and won't share the wealth with the less fortunate Pop music
I wish everyone would stop bashing the United States, just because of how a certain someone runs the government does not mean everyone agrees with it. All hate leads to is war and that is just useless killing.
On February 02 2005 14:34 {ToT}Strafe wrote: Hmm! Crappy politicians, extremist muslims, retarded laws and rules, crappy tv... hmm dunno anything else
Yeah, we're having crappy politicians, extremist muslims and too many turks.. I have to disagree on the laws & rules thing tho.. Compared to other countries I think it's pretty good to live here... having good school support and shit >.< And what's wrong with the TV? ;P
Goede tijden slechte tijden is one of the most viewed shows for 10 years now? Do i need to say more about our tv lol?
Laws and rules suck when im talking about, environment rules, laws on expanding your house, high taxes are ok but they charge texas on insane things like, if your father dies when you inherit his money you must pay tax over that? Thats just ridicoulous.
Oh and to all people complaining about taxes, whiners! Finnish people or swedish people have enourmous taxes if I remember correct. Canadians and Americans have relatively low taxes compared to scandinavia and some other western europe countries. I think
Ironmentality are you aware communism is something different than socialism?
Sporting facilities. Shitty broadband. Shit weather. Channel 5. The cost of driving. Shitty police force. Overpaid train drivers. 30 grand they get. Total bollox public transport. _Very_ unfriendly staff. Unreliable buses and trains. Expensive.
On February 02 2005 15:06 Energies wrote: Aboriginals.
aren't those the people who owned your country in the first place, and you white ppl stole it from them?
The didn't own shit they just occupied it. Is it too much to ask to not commit crimes learn proper english and at least once in a while...bathe?
The High Court actually ruled the notion of Terran Nullis void, and that Aboriginal Native Title does exist.
I suppose one could say the Aboriginals do have a good claim to Australia, but we (the evil white rulers) refuse to give it back. The whole situation is a joke.
Our judges and legal system are way too soft. Lenient sentences for criminals and left wing hippy judges are ruining us!
On February 02 2005 20:48 IronMentality wrote: I flipping hate tax and spend Liberals who want to raise taxes on everyone to pay for health care for the already middle class and rich people.
I hate Liberal people who think Ronald Reagan was an idiot when the Middle Class had the most wealth, and more people climbed from poor to middle class and wealthier income brackets then during any other adminstration in U.S. history.
Bill Clinton was a horrible President because he did jack shit after the 1993 WTC Bombing in our country that was meant to be a 9/11, 3 embassies lost overseas, had multiple chances to take out Osama and the Al-Qaeda network while it was still developing and did nothing for fear of 'hitting a mosque,' in particular after we accidentally hit a Chinese embassay. Same goes for how our air traffic security system was structured, we still only allow 2 Arab people to be searched before entering the plane, because Liberals don't want to be racist despite roughly 99.9% of the people trying to kill American interests are Islamic Extremists.
I hate people who say the American economy is the worst since the Great Depression when unemployment is roughly 5.4%, and anything around 5% is considered full employment of the population.
I hate how our tax system has been structured since under JFK that allowed outsourcing companies to start up in 1992 from a former General Electric Executive to start taking American manufacturing jobs for everything from textiles to microprocessing, to aerospace boards, to now even automobiles and airplanes.
90% of what was made in the U.S. was consumed by Americans in 1995, since NAFTA it's dropped to 75%.
I hate how President Bush spent way too much money, we need to be more fiscally conservative to the ideals of Ronald Reagan who left a $550M surplus as a two-term governor of California, the largest state in the U.S. in the 70s. Cutting taxes during wartime is fine, but we didn't have to spend so much on ridiculous BS.
What's even worse is the pork barrel spending. What, $20B a year is wasted for congressmen helping there consitutents? Maybe this could be used to give health care to all the uninsured Americans with low cost drugs, not making a park look nicer.
No Federal Education Standards, while America has the finest educational Colleges on the face of the Earth, our High School students and younger aren't learning the proper material and are far behind the rest of the world.
I don't like how America won't add Poland to it's special VISA program, as Poland has been a staunch ally of the U.S. -- and would've been I think the only country in Europe to re-elect President Bush if they had a say in the election last Nov. (I'm also 90% Polish and my great grandfather nearly died getting to the U.S. from there)
I hate how people say we should reduce defense spending, or say the U.S. is purely an imperialistic country...
We helped stop advancement of imperalism in World War 1. In World War 2 we freed Europe from fascism. We then gave out the Marshall Plan and took Europe from poverty to prosperity. We also freed more in Europe under the evil grasp of Communism from the Soviet Union... I don't know any other country before in the past willingly gave money to a country as Japan and helped build it into one of the largest economic powers after it was destroyed...
God damn, if we wanted oil we could just forcefully take it or drill it ourselves...
I'd love to drill for our own oil in Alaska but liberals/Democrats won't let it happen. (hopefully it does now)
Oh, I'd also like to build a Oil Refinery for once in the United States. Oil a barrel should be $35 not upwards to $50 but a Oil Refinery hasn't been built in the U.S. since 1976 (start of the Carter adminstration). Then maybe our airline industry will be profitable again. I hate Democrats for not allowing this to happen.
I hate how we don't offer more tax breaks or subsidize more research into Hybrid Cars/Hydrogen Fuel Cells. We shouldn't be dependent on other people for our energy and the environment should be cleaner. Let American companies flippin do research to make the world more clean from fossil fuels. There the best to do the task...
Oh well, that's just a rough put together of things.
Apart from the rather vulgar taste in categorizing people and expressing no shortage of hatred for various such categories, there are several faults in your claims:
1) Reagan's fiscal conservatism really can't be substantiated in his presidency. Both national spending and deficit increased radically during his presidency. 2) The First World War had almost nothing to do with Imperialism, nor did it stop imperialism. 3) Although the contributions of the United States in WW2 fundamentally affected the post-war geopolitical conditions, "freeing" Europe from "fascism" is rather characteristic of the imbecile political categories which have unfortunately been the dominant trend of American nationalistic thinking in recent times. 4) The United States had nearly nothing to do with "freeing" Europe from "communism", which was largely accomplished by the voluntary Soviet withdraw from Europe, but did much to contribute to the causes of the cold war in the beginning. 5) Your use of historical examples are selective and dishonest at best, rather representative of a kind of idealism-cum-nationalism which has plagued the country for a century.
There's not too much else I can disagree with in your post, apart from rather obvious exaggerated claims such as "people who say the American economy is the worst since the Great Depression when unemployment is roughly 5.4%, and anything around 5% is considered full employment of the population."
Hrm. When Germany is marching in Downtown Paris, and England is down to it's last $2 Billion Dollars, and FDR starts the Lend-Lease Act to help them out, I'd say the U.S. fighting off Imperialist Japan and Germany is infact, freeing Europe from fascism.
As is the Marshall Plan. When Communist parties are getting large percentages of elections and Europe lays in poverty, we simply built Europe. There is no arguing that.
The United States outspending the Soviet Union on defense weaponry led to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself. The U.S.S.R. spent 50% of it's GDP on Nuclear Weapons and its military funding. However, there economy was no where close to our size after it boomed in the 1950s, 60s under JFK, early to mid 70s under Nixon, and the greatest expansionist years (1982-1989) of U.S. economic history, the Reagan years.
As far as Reagan's fiscal conservatism. He left a $550M surplus as a two term governor of California. And just in case anyone forgot, the Democrats controlled Congress from the Great Depression up until 1994 when the Republicans finally won a majority under Bill Clinton's Democratic presidency in both the House and Senate.
The Republican Congress would go on to shutdown HillaryCare, or the nationalization of 1/7th of the U.S. economy (Health Care obviously), keep tax rates low, CUT spending, and bring about the budget surpluses of the 1990s.
To suggest the U.S. had nothing to do with freeing Europe from communism is ridiculous. Please, how many people would still be living in poverty in Eastern Europe today if the U.S. did not challenge the Soviet Union. Hell, if we did nothing, they'd have an oil monopoly in the Middle East at the present moment.
As far as the economy, it's been growing I think on average of around 4% since a few quarters after 9/11. That's unbelievable growth, period.
FDR's switch from neutrality to non-belligerency (in actuality, undeclared war) was resolved upon long after the fall of Paris and when it became clear that Britain would sustain her will to resist Germany. Neither the Lend-Lease nor the destroyer for bases deal were very significant in the outcome of the war (on the other hand, the sending of millions of American soldiers which you do not mention was). The United States had a large part to play in the "liberation of Europe" but to this date the Soviet invasion of East Germany is called the "liberation of East Germany", not meaning very much. Meaning even less is the ideological category of Fascism, which is inaccurately attributed to every non-leftist dictatorship. Then again, the principle point is that the United States largely relied on the Red army as the principle instrument of winning the war in Europe.
The nonsense about Reagan's arms build-up forcing the Soviet Union into bankrupcy is one of those idiotic nationalistic legends which is only believed incidentally by ideologues. To compare the GNP of the Soviet Union to the United States is disingenious. One might similarly claim that Germany should have bankrupted the USSR into the ground in the 1940s. I understand that people take a liking to kicking the fallen enemy when he's down, but patriotic myths have to yield to more realistic evidence. Neither Reagan nor the CIA foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union even when the event was occuring under their noses. Relatively speaking, the GNP ratios of the USSR and the United States were more favorable to the USSR in 1980 than any time in history:
GNPs in 1950 USA: 381 billion USSR: 126 billion in 1980: USA: 2.6 trillion USSR: 1.2 trillion
Therefore the claim that US economic growth was superior to Soviet growth during the cold war cannot really be substantiated. Furthermore by the 80s the USSR became the world's largest producer of steel, petrol, and other strategic resources traditionally led by the USA.
If we analyse Reagan's speeches and public statements, they reveal nothing about an economic policy designed to force the USSR on the defensive.
Instead, if you were not unduly prejudiced against the USSR, and instead analysed the internal history of the country, it would become evident that the broad corrosion in faith against the state and self-consciousness of party corruption were the principle events which led Gorbachev to declare his glasnost and perestroika policies, largely without external pressures, which led to the massive erosion which the USSR experienced in the later decade.
There seems to be a double standard played here. You say that the democrats controlled congress then, whereas Republicans control congress now and we have yet to see a decrease in spending. It's undeniable that Reagan himself pushed the military budget to unprecedented proportions. It's also undeniable that the double standard played; whereas Reagan gets credit for statistical growth, democrats get censured for deficit spending.
Since you're fond of statistics, I would like to point out that nowhere in Eastern Europe have GNPs radically improved from the 80's. In many cases they are worse off. The greatest aid given to the former Eastern Bloc following the collapse of the USSR was not the United States but the FRG. How did the United States contribute to the division of Europe? During the Second World War, Roosevelt (and the American public as a whole) regarded the Soviet Union as the principle ally, often ahead of Britain. There came also the utopian vision that constrained around the international body of the United nations, the Soviet Union would become a cooperate member of the international community and therefore post-war territorial arrangements were placed on a basis of good faith rather than prearranged agreements. (Roosevelt did not understand Stalin nor the Russians, but Churchill did. Hence the infamous percentages agreement in 1944.) This inability to negotiate the limits of Soviet military advance until the very end of the war was a prime factor in the division of Europe into east and west blocs. During the 50s, the Eisenhower administration refused to take seriously Khruschev's efforts at detente, even when the latter voluntarily withdrew from her finnish naval bases and Austria. The problem of the Cold War was never communism and capitalism, the contest of two economic systems. The problem was the military presence of two superpowers in the center of Europe. The Roosevelt and Eisenhower did not understand this, Ronald Reagan did not understand this and I am afraid you do not understand this.
Suffice it to say that its ridiculous to claim that the USSR would have a monopoly on mideastern oil. As early as the 40s she withdrew from Iran, which was the last instance of Soviet military presence in the mid east (as opposed to the United States), apart from various half-hearted attempts to woo the Arab states and Egypt, the only other intrusion of the Soviet Union south of her frontiers was the war in Afghanistan.
i bash China(mainland) for: -its corrupted bureaucracy(most serious in central and west china) -in some metropolitans,there're lots of arrogant people who think they are leading a perfect life style..... -CCP want to attack Taiwan by force -I guess CCP will deprive HongKong of its autonomy 40 years later......
On February 03 2005 08:29 Izenra wrote: Hum when it come to taxes, when we buy anything, we get a 15 % taxes.
Each year, the government takes a part of my dad salary ( they take everyone salary), which is 52 % for him.
we pay 19.5 % tax and my dad also pays 52% income tax, but there are many other taxes too, it doesnt just stop here
and hmmm! I forgot to mention raising crime rates, but police that spend more time on fining people for, parkin, speeding, bikers with no light While many criminals walk in public z_Z. Also our law system is a bit soft. Prison punishments are so little. You can kill someone and make it look like an accident, you will do jail for 5 years from 1/3 on parol.
On February 02 2005 18:19 Eniram wrote: too much genocide ;(
Deeply black, but I had a good laugh at this as it is implying that there is an amount of genicide that is ok. I dedicate this twisted humor to the Montys-
When they were standing in front of a death camp site which was closed at the time, they are said to be standing there screaming "We're jews, let us in!". Golden.
I wanted to reply to IronMentalitys ramblings but gave up on it when I read all his "There is no arguing that", "Period." and, really golden: "God damn, if we wanted oil we could just forcefully take it.".
You can read about his personality in at least 6-7 other ppls complaints in this thread. They should thank him for giving such an excellent example.
high/much imigration (no im not a racist but you can ask anyone in Sweden) our prime minister is a fat moron, i hate him and his party taxes are too high
our population is the same as new york's and yet 25% of that population would like the country divided in two (yes, let's get even SMALLER and more racist)
4th highest taxes as shown above
Of all the things this bothers me the most. We have a king ffs. How medieval is that?
On February 03 2005 08:58 niklasTHEfro wrote: high/much imigration (no im not a racist but you can ask anyone in Sweden) our prime minister is a fat moron, i hate him and his party taxes are too high
that's about it
Could you give us a link please, I can't see anything in that image, THX
Corruption Violence Poverty Injustice Corruption Unemployement High Taxes*** Corruption generating High Taxes Horrible and inefficient Public Services Politics robbing the people (Corruption)
Infinite natural and mineral resources Great land area (Brazil is greater than the USA if you take out the Alaska and Hawaii from it, believe me).
Brazil had everything to be a rich superpower but it didn't come to be thanks to it's dumb elite and criminous leaders.
*** We pay europe-level taxes but we have awful public services. And still, in many highways, we've got to pay to travel on.
On February 03 2005 05:45 Smurg wrote: Complaining about 15% tax?? I assume you're talking about income tax? Our income tax in Australia is 48.5%.
You living in the 1st world are complaining about taxes so let me tell you something. I pay about 25% in taxes but: Public schools sux. If I had kids, I'd have to spend about $500 per month in particular schools for each one. Public hospital services are horrible. We have to pay an "health services plan" which means particular hospitals and such. About $150 per month. You got to pay for driving on most Highways. The free ones are car-trashers (full of roles) at most. An average of $10 spent on every 100 kilometers.
Summarizing: You pay more, but you get much, much more from your government than us.
On February 03 2005 05:45 Smurg wrote: Complaining about 15% tax?? I assume you're talking about income tax? Our income tax in Australia is 48.5%.
You living in the 1st world are complaining about taxes so let me tell you something. I pay about 25% in taxes but: Public schools sux. If I had kids, I'd have to spend about $500 per month in particular schools for each one. Public hospital services are horrible. We have to pay an "health services plan" which means particular hospitals and such. About $150 per month. You got to pay for driving on most Highways. The free ones are car-trashers (full of roles) at most. An average of $10 spent on every 100 kilometers.
Summarizing: You pay more, but you get much, much more from your government than us.
What city do you live in?
Oh yeah, I fucking hate Canada's -30 + dregree weather, fuck that, fuck winter.
On February 03 2005 05:45 Smurg wrote: Complaining about 15% tax?? I assume you're talking about income tax? Our income tax in Australia is 48.5%.
You living in the 1st world are complaining about taxes so let me tell you something. I pay about 25% in taxes but: Public schools sux. If I had kids, I'd have to spend about $500 per month in particular schools for each one. Public hospital services are horrible. We have to pay an "health services plan" which means particular hospitals and such. About $150 per month. You got to pay for driving on most Highways. The free ones are car-trashers (full of roles) at most. An average of $10 spent on every 100 kilometers.
Summarizing: You pay more, but you get much, much more from your government than us.
What city do you live in?
Oh yeah, I fucking hate Canada's -30 + dregree weather, fuck that, fuck winter.
I live in Campinas city, 100 kms away from São Paulo, the greatest city in the southern hemisphere.
Hrm. When Germany is marching in Downtown Paris, and England is down to it's last $2 Billion Dollars, and FDR starts the Lend-Lease Act to help them out, I'd say the U.S. fighting off Imperialist Japan and Germany is infact, freeing Europe from fascism.
As is the Marshall Plan. When Communist parties are getting large percentages of elections and Europe lays in poverty, we simply built Europe. There is no arguing that.
The United States outspending the Soviet Union on defense weaponry led to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself. The U.S.S.R. spent 50% of it's GDP on Nuclear Weapons and its military funding. However, there economy was no where close to our size after it boomed in the 1950s, 60s under JFK, early to mid 70s under Nixon, and the greatest expansionist years (1982-1989) of U.S. economic history, the Reagan years.
As far as Reagan's fiscal conservatism. He left a $550M surplus as a two term governor of California. And just in case anyone forgot, the Democrats controlled Congress from the Great Depression up until 1994 when the Republicans finally won a majority under Bill Clinton's Democratic presidency in both the House and Senate.
The Republican Congress would go on to shutdown HillaryCare, or the nationalization of 1/7th of the U.S. economy (Health Care obviously), keep tax rates low, CUT spending, and bring about the budget surpluses of the 1990s.
To suggest the U.S. had nothing to do with freeing Europe from communism is ridiculous. Please, how many people would still be living in poverty in Eastern Europe today if the U.S. did not challenge the Soviet Union. Hell, if we did nothing, they'd have an oil monopoly in the Middle East at the present moment.
As far as the economy, it's been growing I think on average of around 4% since a few quarters after 9/11. That's unbelievable growth, period.
FDR's switch from neutrality to non-belligerency (in actuality, undeclared war) was resolved upon long after the fall of Paris and when it became clear that Britain would sustain her will to resist Germany. Neither the Lend-Lease nor the destroyer for bases deal were very significant in the outcome of the war (on the other hand, the sending of millions of American soldiers which you do not mention was). The United States had a large part to play in the "liberation of Europe" but to this date the Soviet invasion of East Germany is called the "liberation of East Germany", not meaning very much. Meaning even less is the ideological category of Fascism, which is inaccurately attributed to every non-leftist dictatorship. Then again, the principle point is that the United States largely relied on the Red army as the principle instrument of winning the war in Europe.
The nonsense about Reagan's arms build-up forcing the Soviet Union into bankrupcy is one of those idiotic nationalistic legends which is only believed incidentally by ideologues. To compare the GNP of the Soviet Union to the United States is disingenious. One might similarly claim that Germany should have bankrupted the USSR into the ground in the 1940s. I understand that people take a liking to kicking the fallen enemy when he's down, but patriotic myths have to yield to more realistic evidence. Neither Reagan nor the CIA foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union even when the event was occuring under their noses. Relatively speaking, the GNP ratios of the USSR and the United States were more favorable to the USSR in 1980 than any time in history:
GNPs in 1950 USA: 381 billion USSR: 126 billion in 1980: USA: 2.6 trillion USSR: 1.2 trillion
Therefore the claim that US economic growth was superior to Soviet growth during the cold war cannot really be substantiated. Furthermore by the 80s the USSR became the world's largest producer of steel, petrol, and other strategic resources traditionally led by the USA.
If we analyse Reagan's speeches and public statements, they reveal nothing about an economic policy designed to force the USSR on the defensive.
Instead, if you were not unduly prejudiced against the USSR, and instead analysed the internal history of the country, it would become evident that the broad corrosion in faith against the state and self-consciousness of party corruption were the principle events which led Gorbachev to declare his glasnost and perestroika policies, largely without external pressures, which led to the massive erosion which the USSR experienced in the later decade.
There seems to be a double standard played here. You say that the democrats controlled congress then, whereas Republicans control congress now and we have yet to see a decrease in spending. It's undeniable that Reagan himself pushed the military budget to unprecedented proportions. It's also undeniable that the double standard played; whereas Reagan gets credit for statistical growth, democrats get censured for deficit spending.
Since you're fond of statistics, I would like to point out that nowhere in Eastern Europe have GNPs radically improved from the 80's. In many cases they are worse off. The greatest aid given to the former Eastern Bloc following the collapse of the USSR was not the United States but the FRG. How did the United States contribute to the division of Europe? During the Second World War, Roosevelt (and the American public as a whole) regarded the Soviet Union as the principle ally, often ahead of Britain. There came also the utopian vision that constrained around the international body of the United nations, the Soviet Union would become a cooperate member of the international community and therefore post-war territorial arrangements were placed on a basis of good faith rather than prearranged agreements. (Roosevelt did not understand Stalin nor the Russians, but Churchill did. Hence the infamous percentages agreement in 1944.) This inability to negotiate the limits of Soviet military advance until the very end of the war was a prime factor in the division of Europe into east and west blocs. During the 50s, the Eisenhower administration refused to take seriously Khruschev's efforts at detente, even when the latter voluntarily withdrew from her finnish naval bases and Austria. The problem of the Cold War was never communism and capitalism, the contest of two economic systems. The problem was the military presence of two superpowers in the center of Europe. The Roosevelt and Eisenhower did not understand this, Ronald Reagan did not understand this and I am afraid you do not understand this.
Suffice it to say that its ridiculous to claim that the USSR would have a monopoly on mideastern oil. As early as the 40s she withdrew from Iran, which was the last instance of Soviet military presence in the mid east (as opposed to the United States), apart from various half-hearted attempts to woo the Arab states and Egypt, the only other intrusion of the Soviet Union south of her frontiers was the war in Afghanistan.
Thanks for taking time to try to hold off the string of unsubstantiated crap that IronMentality spews in political threads (of which I thought this wasn't one, but I guess it was bound to happen).
IronMentality, are you honestly claiming that the 1990s economic boom was a result of Republican fiscal policies instituted after Newt became speaker in 1994? You are absolutely clueless. Clinton and the Democrats RAISED federal rates in 1990 and 1993, and there was no reduction in personal rates between 1994 and 2001 when the bubble burst. I don't know what you're smoking, please let me know what Republican laws passed under Gingrich had anything to do with the boom years of the 90s. Since you seem to have forgotten about evidence, let me once again demonstrate the idea of sources:
For anyone who is interested, even the richest 1% of Americans, who pay the highest percentage in taxes, still pay less than 30% when you include ALL payroll and income taxes (see the first link above). No one here pays close to 50%.
Finland really suck beeing a small country with small population and a suck ass gene pool. You get to eat potatoes every meal and people are very distant, and dont know how to drink. Teenagers are really bad in a country were authority lacks.. Law are really too idealistic, meaning that if you harm someone when you protect yourself you can get sued for it. Stores lack of diversity in product, and fish and meat choices are really limited. Cheese is almost inexistent. The taxes and price of life in general is really high. Finnish are really racist in deep inside toward africans and muslims. Not the kind of brutal racism, more of the worse uneducated everyday racist attitude. The winter suck, and with the climate worming its not getting any better, later and later the snow come and the lack of sun is really depressing. The summer is beautifull but the mosquitoes are really annoying and often its all just a freaking rainy rainy summer and you get three day of sun (im exarating, most summer are good but one in a while sucks ass) Being the neighbour of russia also suck. And being a nordic country also suck. But I think people in finland are the most distant and cold from nordic countries. The bars still allows to smoke and there is no strong antitabacco will. People in finland tend to judge personns based on what they do. And also people tend to specialised to what they do in life. The general culture level is really terrible. Finland will be facing a crisis soon I think because this country is not active enough on big industries. Wood industry might be moving in russia etc.. Nokia is well international and only hiding the lack of economic booster
Most of this is generalized and exagerated, but this is what I call bashing finland. I could write also a praise the country with the opposite of those things, because finland have all the opposite existing also .
On February 03 2005 05:45 Smurg wrote: Complaining about 15% tax?? I assume you're talking about income tax? Our income tax in Australia is 48.5%.
You living in the 1st world are complaining about taxes so let me tell you something. I pay about 25% in taxes but: Public schools sux. If I had kids, I'd have to spend about $500 per month in particular schools for each one. Public hospital services are horrible. We have to pay an "health services plan" which means particular hospitals and such. About $150 per month. You got to pay for driving on most Highways. The free ones are car-trashers (full of roles) at most. An average of $10 spent on every 100 kilometers.
Summarizing: You pay more, but you get much, much more from your government than us.
What city do you live in?
Oh yeah, I fucking hate Canada's -30 + dregree weather, fuck that, fuck winter.
My city's winter rarely drops below -10..and the summer regularly gets above 40
On February 03 2005 11:16 0x64 wrote: Finland really suck beeing a small country with small population and a suck ass gene pool. You get to eat potatoes every meal and people are very distant, and dont know how to drink. Teenagers are really bad in a country were authority lacks.. Law are really too idealistic, meaning that if you harm someone when you protect yourself you can get sued for it. Stores lack of diversity in product, and fish and meat choices are really limited. Cheese is almost inexistent. The taxes and price of life in general is really high. Finnish are really racist in deep inside toward africans and muslims. Not the kind of brutal racism, more of the worse uneducated everyday racist attitude. The winter suck, and with the climate worming its not getting any better, later and later the snow come and the lack of sun is really depressing. The summer is beautifull but the mosquitoes are really annoying and often its all just a freaking rainy rainy summer and you get three day of sun (im exarating, most summer are good but one in a while sucks ass) Being the neighbour of russia also suck. And being a nordic country also suck. But I think people in finland are the most distant and cold from nordic countries. The bars still allows to smoke and there is no strong antitabacco will. People in finland tend to judge personns based on what they do. And also people tend to specialised to what they do in life. The general culture level is really terrible. Finland will be facing a crisis soon I think because this country is not active enough on big industries. Wood industry might be moving in russia etc.. Nokia is well international and only hiding the lack of economic booster
Most of this is generalized and exagerated, but this is what I call bashing finland. I could write also a praise the country with the opposite of those things, because finland have all the opposite existing also .
O_O
*Crosses Finland out of the countries to visit list*
Transport is unreliable and very very expensive. When a train journey takes you 35-40 minutes, it should not cost £8. That's £40 a week just for me to get to college. And this doesn't get paid for by the Govt becase their is a nearer school I could go to. But this doesn't consider that that school is in such a state a police officer is a permament part of it...
Our Goverment can (and does) screw up as much as they want, because the opposition (Conservatives) are a complete mess, who either agree with the Government, or convey an impression of being small-minded and out of touch (well they are...)
:[ im the only Colombian lol....theres too much bad shit in my country, so much in fact that it obscures the great beauty of it from others than the ones living in it. Well, the OBVIOUS thing i hate about my country is the goddamn guerrilla. And the paramilitary who have now themselves become corrupted. We can't even travel to the most beatiful parts of our country without being scared shitless of getting stopped by guerrila soldiers and such. It truly sucks.
Other than that Colombia in itself is a reeaaaalllllyy beautiful country ( You should see our mountain ranges and our beaches ). The general warmth of people is also something I admire, and seemingly every colombian seems to be extremely Proud to be colombian no matter how shitty it is at times.
However i live in Miami, FL now . The only thing i dont like is that we have no mountains here :[
Social Psychologist: The Danes are sloppy and avoid conflicts
Can you remember the Swedish Dr. Stig Helmer in Lars von Trier's "Riget" (a movie) who could not tolerate the Danish doctor profession sloppiness and lack of discipline and had to scream 'danskjävler' (danish bastards) from the roof of the Rigs-hospital?
(A guy from a movie but he is out there in real life)
He exists and is a good friend of the 69-year-old Swedish professor and social psychologist Lasse Dencik who has lived in Denmark since 1974:
"I know the doctor who inspired von Trier's Dr. Stig Helmer. And I understand perfectly well why he eventually escaped from Denmark. While the Swedes are generally result oriented, the Danes puts value in the process and is content with that 'you just have to do your best'. But that wont solve the issue if the issue is too tough. But it will do in Denmark'.
"When I came to Denmark as a researcher, I fought with the avoidance of conflicts and the sloppyness. I was accustomed to that one puts his research forward and receive criticism. But thats not how it was in the university environment of Denmark, which protects mediocrity, because you might hurt a fellow colleague, right? So everything was covered up in a thick layer of politeness. And if there was disagreement at meetings the leader always ended the debate with: "Yes, yes, basically we all agree." To damm hell we were not! It was simply to hide the contradictions. And without criticism the sloppyness could continue '. "My experience is that the lack of result-orientated behaviour effects many areas of life in Denmark.
Take feminism, which in Denmark was colorful with the redsocks (feminist movement), but it wasnt followed up with practical politics like it happened in Sweden.
Reforms were made because Swedes aim for the result. Or like in cultural life, where, in Sweden they strive for perfection, while in Denmark they basically boast about themselves being mediocre and celebrates a song that goes on 'On the plain, on the regular ... "'.
Words like 'sloppy' and 'unambitious' are mentioned when Lasse Dencik must describe Denmark shortly. But what he gets disgusted the most about is the 'hygge'. The 'creepy hygge, "as he likes to call it!
"You sit in a pub, talking about nothing, pouring water out of ears. Drink a beer or two and then go home and say you have had a" hyggelig evening ". Without being able to remember what was said. Danes enjoy themselves at parties, but if a stranger enters the room, then its disturbing the hygge. I have often sat at dinner parties in Denmark, which also had foreigners at the table, but after a short time the Danes will begin to speak Danish. It is very rude and very Danish.
"Yes, many Swedish tourists think it is very nice and relaxed in Denmark. When they are on vacation. But basically - no. When Denmark has evolved into a small xenophobic country, it is because among other things, the Grundtvigian public- and self-understanding and the weird idea of 'hygge'. Danish hygge is a way to run parties (like a family party) that is based on avoiding disturbances and conflicts. I know many who have moved to Denmark, who says it is incredibly hard to become a part of social life in Denmark.
"Danes are enormously tolerant ... against themself. If someone doesnt pay their taxes, or if Lars Hedegaard says something crazy and racist, then the Danish attitude is like: 'Well, yes ... there must be room for that too. But if suddenly a Muslim arrives who refrained to drink a beer or eat a red sausage (swine meat), then the danes will quickly become very intolerant. Danes are very tolerant inward, but also extremely intolerant outward '. "Yes, in the Danish rhetoric there a strong idea of 'national soul', 'tribalism' and hygge. In Denmark, there is a widespread notion that the Danish people are the same as ethnic Danes and outsideres have no access to the tribal community. Danes expel those who are not part of the 'Danish people' in an unpleasant way. It is reinforced by the fact that Danes often are shamelessly arrogantish and self-complimenting and likes to refer himself as a world champion in every aspects.
'When the Swedes fear the racistic political parti and the vulgar, vomitting debate and horrible xenophobia in Denmark, then thats humanism. Notice in Sweden there is no campaign advertising something called 'Swedish'. In the Swedish perspective, the world is everchanging, everything is constantly changing and there is no one who really thinks it works to expel the outside world and stick to romantic nostalgia. "
"When some Danes are rejoicing over the swedish politically racistic party's emergence and almost hope for its success, it's about that the danes wishes to project its own bad features onto others.
The danes wants so much that Sweden will be just as bad as Denmark that we here again can let loose the inner pig dog. That they so to speak gets a buddy in the corner. But it's just not gonna happen. "
"It is an expression of prejudice, when Denmark criticizes the Swedish debate to be oppressive. The scary democratical conducted happens in Denmark. Goebbels once said that he needed people marching in the streets, but that it is also necessary to have intellectual who can shape the words. And the latter has Denmark now had with Langballe, Krarup, Pittelkow, Hedegaard Meier Carlsen and Others (names of rascists).
"No, the Swedish left has more been on the avant-garde: The intellectual must inform the people. Prejudices, we should not aim for that. It is one of the reasons why the Swedish election campaign is primarily about serious welfare policy issues and not about insignificant burkas (dress for muslim women).
Do I even have to? I mean whos ever heard of us outside 'Oh they have that super corrupt government and retarded overpopulation and poverty rates' maybe 'oh yeah thats the place where they have floods every so often' but most commonly 'hey thats where they make our clothes' you think america is bad with their teenagers pretending to be black? teenagers here pretend to be a mixture of black and stereotypical white americans. fuck this place
Lets see. In America, we are turning into a third world country because of social programs for lazy and illegal peoples. Also, we voted in Obama, who has never held a real job in his life, to fix our economy. Look how that one turned out...
On September 05 2010 00:15 Scruffy wrote: Lets see. In America, we are turning into a third world country because of social programs for lazy and illegal peoples. Also, we voted in Obama, who has never held a real job in his life, to fix our economy. Look how that one turned out...
"we are turning into a third world country" -> a slippery slope argument that doesn't even make sense since America is, by every definition of the concept of 3 worlds, part of the first world.
"who has never held a real job in his life" to fix our economy. This is faulty on two counts: 1.) A straw man, assuming that one has to be X to do things that are good for X. I have to have a vagina to push for laws that foster equal treatment of women. 2.) Furthermore the definition of "real job" is highly suspect. Being a professor is a real job, is it not? Being a senator is also a real job? Or by real job, does the poster mean a job in the private sector? 3.) "Look how that one turned out." Is basically equivalent to the ubiquitous loaded question "How did that turn out?" such is a rhetorical question that does not actually draw any conclusions, but is full of implicatons regarding gloom/doom scenarios. Instead of telling me to look how that turned out, it would be far more constructive to tell me, in fact, how those policies turned out. What is the actual state of our economy?
Anyway, I am ashamed we have people in our country that are so fond of over-polarizing politics and logical fallacies.
High taxes because our politicians couldn't even run a lemonade-stand. High debts.
Alot of stupid people, ignorant people, rascist people (but I think I probably belong in this last category lol), separatists( srsly? Split the country? What?) and foreigners always talk about belgian waffles but I don't get the big fuss (They're just waffles?).
In the last 3-4 years we've had more time without a government than with one.
Currently half on the Belgium's ministers are demanding millions (almost a billion) of euros before they'll allow a new financial law and to split a small district where the voting laws have been unconstitutional for many decades already. Oh and they're pretty much refusing to form a government until they get what they want. The last government fell because they couldn't come to a decision about this trivial problem. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde) (~some people in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium can also vote on the French speaking parties so they're getting more votes than they should.)
Alcohol - So expensive i swear its Ridiculous but good thing the alcohol is cheap in Germany so lots of swedes go there or denmark to buy it.
Politics : I Swear its so stupid im ashamed just to look at them we all know they just lie 24/7 and corrupt the country and we lose our jobs and than they say " we are trying to bla bla " just stfu
Racism : It's probably worse in other countries but im ashamed when i see racists here and there they are so stupid i have seen lots of immigrant that own them in speech and than the racists peeps scream and want to fight. I have many immigrant friends that are good they are not the kind of immigrants that come from a third world country and run around in sweden saying fuck sweden. i do have a few third world country immigrant friends but they are mature and not as immature as the others.
Feminists - i swear i dont want to ellobrate or there is probably a girl ( OMG ) that will report me.
Unemployed - I Swear it was all thanks to the politics and now i won't vote since its just stupid nothing good will ever come of voting so why bother.
On September 04 2010 23:33 exeexe wrote: Social Psychologist: The Danes are sloppy and avoid conflicts
Can you remember the Swedish Dr. Stig Helmer in Lars von Trier's "Riget" (a movie) who could not tolerate the Danish doctor profession sloppiness and lack of discipline and had to scream 'danskjävler' (danish bastards) from the roof of the Rigs-hospital?
(A guy from a movie but he is out there in real life)
He exists and is a good friend of the 69-year-old Swedish professor and social psychologist Lasse Dencik who has lived in Denmark since 1974:
"I know the doctor who inspired von Trier's Dr. Stig Helmer. And I understand perfectly well why he eventually escaped from Denmark. While the Swedes are generally result oriented, the Danes puts value in the process and is content with that 'you just have to do your best'. But that wont solve the issue if the issue is too tough. But it will do in Denmark'.
"When I came to Denmark as a researcher, I fought with the avoidance of conflicts and the sloppyness. I was accustomed to that one puts his research forward and receive criticism. But thats not how it was in the university environment of Denmark, which protects mediocrity, because you might hurt a fellow colleague, right? So everything was covered up in a thick layer of politeness. And if there was disagreement at meetings the leader always ended the debate with: "Yes, yes, basically we all agree." To damm hell we were not! It was simply to hide the contradictions. And without criticism the sloppyness could continue '. "My experience is that the lack of result-orientated behaviour effects many areas of life in Denmark.
Take feminism, which in Denmark was colorful with the redsocks (feminist movement), but it wasnt followed up with practical politics like it happened in Sweden.
Reforms were made because Swedes aim for the result. Or like in cultural life, where, in Sweden they strive for perfection, while in Denmark they basically boast about themselves being mediocre and celebrates a song that goes on 'On the plain, on the regular ... "'.
Words like 'sloppy' and 'unambitious' are mentioned when Lasse Dencik must describe Denmark shortly. But what he gets disgusted the most about is the 'hygge'. The 'creepy hygge, "as he likes to call it!
"You sit in a pub, talking about nothing, pouring water out of ears. Drink a beer or two and then go home and say you have had a" hyggelig evening ". Without being able to remember what was said. Danes enjoy themselves at parties, but if a stranger enters the room, then its disturbing the hygge. I have often sat at dinner parties in Denmark, which also had foreigners at the table, but after a short time the Danes will begin to speak Danish. It is very rude and very Danish.
"Yes, many Swedish tourists think it is very nice and relaxed in Denmark. When they are on vacation. But basically - no. When Denmark has evolved into a small xenophobic country, it is because among other things, the Grundtvigian public- and self-understanding and the weird idea of 'hygge'. Danish hygge is a way to run parties (like a family party) that is based on avoiding disturbances and conflicts. I know many who have moved to Denmark, who says it is incredibly hard to become a part of social life in Denmark.
"Danes are enormously tolerant ... against themself. If someone doesnt pay their taxes, or if Lars Hedegaard says something crazy and racist, then the Danish attitude is like: 'Well, yes ... there must be room for that too. But if suddenly a Muslim arrives who refrained to drink a beer or eat a red sausage (swine meat), then the danes will quickly become very intolerant. Danes are very tolerant inward, but also extremely intolerant outward '. "Yes, in the Danish rhetoric there a strong idea of 'national soul', 'tribalism' and hygge. In Denmark, there is a widespread notion that the Danish people are the same as ethnic Danes and outsideres have no access to the tribal community. Danes expel those who are not part of the 'Danish people' in an unpleasant way. It is reinforced by the fact that Danes often are shamelessly arrogantish and self-complimenting and likes to refer himself as a world champion in every aspects.
'When the Swedes fear the racistic political parti and the vulgar, vomitting debate and horrible xenophobia in Denmark, then thats humanism. Notice in Sweden there is no campaign advertising something called 'Swedish'. In the Swedish perspective, the world is everchanging, everything is constantly changing and there is no one who really thinks it works to expel the outside world and stick to romantic nostalgia. "
"When some Danes are rejoicing over the swedish politically racistic party's emergence and almost hope for its success, it's about that the danes wishes to project its own bad features onto others.
The danes wants so much that Sweden will be just as bad as Denmark that we here again can let loose the inner pig dog. That they so to speak gets a buddy in the corner. But it's just not gonna happen. "
"It is an expression of prejudice, when Denmark criticizes the Swedish debate to be oppressive. The scary democratical conducted happens in Denmark. Goebbels once said that he needed people marching in the streets, but that it is also necessary to have intellectual who can shape the words. And the latter has Denmark now had with Langballe, Krarup, Pittelkow, Hedegaard Meier Carlsen and Others (names of rascists).
"No, the Swedish left has more been on the avant-garde: The intellectual must inform the people. Prejudices, we should not aim for that. It is one of the reasons why the Swedish election campaign is primarily about serious welfare policy issues and not about insignificant burkas (dress for muslim women).
-Too politically correct media -Our winters suck -Sky-high taxes -People are too metrosexual, atleast in Stockholm -Way too hard to find a own places to live in if you are a student or living in Stockholm -Too low punishment for serious crimes such as rape and murder -90% of all TV-shows produced in Sweden are garbage
Feminists - i swear i dont want to ellobrate or there is probably a girl ( OMG ) that will report me.
You think you have it bad with feminists? Take a look at Norway, cant even get laid by a hooker without getting 4000$ (dollars!) in fine. This law even makes it so you cant even fuck for a buck out of our country. So most men here are criminals. Oh and you have no idea how much police resource are being put into this law, while rapist and real criminals make it free and are rocking the streets. All because some fat politican of a wife is jealous of her husband nailing some whore.
Denmark is a socialist dunghole with the majority of the population being unable to have even the slightest clue in regards to politics.
The majority of danish women are utterly retarded, superficial and care only for their alcohol and stupid tv shows.
The people on Zealand (Sjælland) and the general capital area consider the rest of the country stupid rednecks which is a gross misconception.
Our educational system is failing in the early grades.
The public services are grossly mismanaged and the publicly employed milk the public funds by slacking off and swindling with their hours.
"Efterløn" which is a sort of early retirement which was introduced in 1979 to make place on the job-market for young people is now obsolete and no longer needed with the current unemployment rates but is still draining the welfare money from the danish budget. No politician dares to say they will remove it in fear of losing the support of the many many elderly voters even though it is clear that it can no longer be afforded and is no longer needed.
Intelligence is not an attractive trait among youngsters in Denmark (Jersey Shore ftw?)
Our internet service providers are ripping us off with their pricing models and connections. All danish internet connections even though great in download speeds are almost all capped at 1mbps upload rate.
50mbps download / 1mbps upload DOES NOT COMPUTE - I want 25/25 BUT I CAN'T HAVE THAT
Also, we get ridiculous protests like this entire Muslim Community Center in NYC business. Too much money on the military, too many opinionated people without something to back up their opinion.
There's more stuff, but I can't think of it right now. :/
On September 05 2010 00:20 Mawi wrote: Politics : I Swear its so stupid im ashamed just to look at them we all know they just lie 24/7 and corrupt the country and we lose our jobs and than they say " we are trying to bla bla " just stfu
Socialism - The taxes in Sweden are high beyond belief! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day#Tax_Freedom_Day_around_the_world The average Swede pays 55% or more in taxes every year, and only a couple a years ago it was even more (and probably will be again after the incoming election September 19th)
Another problem I'd say is caused by socialism is the fact that we have adapted a kind of lifestyle where its a bad thing to be better then the people around you. For example, when I was a kid, I was really into maths, and as a result I was a couple of years ahead of my classmates (probably was around 9-10years at the time). This caused my teachers to stop me from doing maths for 2years, instead of helping me to continue develop! The same thing is happening to my younger brother right now, and I'd say its a trend you can see everywhere in our society!
Feminism - Holy shit are some girls here angry I do have to point out that we have really some intelligent, beautiful and independent gals here, its just a shame so many of them are so into feminism^^
Half of the French population semt outraged after somebody posted a video of policemen doing their jobs, aka evacuating illegal immigrants. That's the effect of the neo-socialist propaganda. French socialists now don't give a fuck about hardworking French people (whether they be ex immigrants or not) like it did before, right now all its attention is focused on the third world illegal immigrants who don't give a fuck about our country and abuse all sort of social aid plus welfare. The neo-socialist propaganda is working with the help of the French media who keep on hidding the name of the rapists and killers, and the weakness of our right-wing party which never managed to legalize ethnical statistics.
Feminists - i swear i dont want to ellobrate or there is probably a girl ( OMG ) that will report me.
You think you have it bad with feminists? Take a look at Norway, cant even get laid by a hooker without getting 4000$ (dollars!) in fine. This law even makes it so you cant even fuck for a buck out of our country. So most men here are criminals. Oh and you have no idea how much police resource are being put into this law, while rapist and real criminals make it free and are rocking the streets. All because some fat politican of a wife is jealous of her husband nailing some whore.
Norway, most retarded country ever
Holy shi! i feel sorry for norway you must come to sweden and get some easy gals :< hell just going to a party can get you laid without talking to them
Politics: A total and complete mess involving existing power structures from past colonial masters and a ridiculous amount of corruption. Many congressmen and senators are agonizingly inept and just in it for the power and money they can milk from their position. Voters are not helping either. Case in point: One of our ex-presidents who was sentenced of plunder ended up second in the presidential race. Really, Filipinos? I'm not a fan of the guy who won the whole thing but that's another matter.
Herd Mentality and Lack of Critical Thinking: In terms of traffic, when one driver does illegal counterflowing or other magic tricks, expect that there will be bozos who will follow his lead right away without even considering that they're making the situation worse. In political crises, the most natural response is to look for somebody to blame, fire or force that person to resign, and then assume that the problem is fixed, without really investigating the underlying reasons why it happened in the first place. In the end, the same problem is there because you've only removed one person from the web/haven't taken the necessary steps to prevent it from happening again.
It is ridiculously easy to get a prostitute- two of my friends (one Filipino, one foreign) were recently propositioned separately in supposedly-high class malls: one in front of a Gap store, one in a Starbucks branch. Yes, I'd really like a prostitute along with my coffee and cake. In restaurants, you can often see foreigners with their 'hirelings' either out for the night or having a morning-after breakfast/lunch.
Edit: Reading the posts above me seems that some people might think that having the last point is not so bad.
Hygiene - people spit/litter everywhere, stray animals everywhere Government - corruption. corruption everywhere; institutional racism (basicly non-malays are not entitled to anything. As a result, the malays get all lazy and grumpy); politics here is one bad joke
Racism - pretty bad lately Media - pretty much every local programs is filled with guys being sissy, newpapers are so heavily regulated, beyonce/avril can't wear scandalously education - everybody is forced to learn Bahasa Melayu. its such a shitty language : (
a remix of the national anthem. it sounds pretty bad overall but its hilarious and it pretty much sums everything. lol aside from all these, everything else is pretty darn good though : D
On September 05 2010 00:20 Mawi wrote: Alcohol - So expensive i swear its Ridiculous but good thing the alcohol is cheap in Germany so lots of swedes go there or denmark to buy it.
Politics : I Swear its so stupid im ashamed just to look at them we all know they just lie 24/7 and corrupt the country and we lose our jobs and than they say " we are trying to bla bla " just stfu
Racism : It's probably worse in other countries but im ashamed when i see racists here and there they are so stupid i have seen lots of immigrant that own them in speech and than the racists peeps scream and want to fight. I have many immigrant friends that are good they are not the kind of immigrants that come from a third world country and run around in sweden saying fuck sweden. i do have a few third world country immigrant friends but they are mature and not as immature as the others.
Feminists - i swear i dont want to ellobrate or there is probably a girl ( OMG ) that will report me.
Unemployed - I Swear it was all thanks to the politics and now i won't vote since its just stupid nothing good will ever come of voting so why bother.
Jesus christ. People like you make me pretty ashamed of Sweden.
The price of the Alcohol is a GOOD thing. The state should always try and keep people from consuming poison.
The racists in this country however, I can agree on. I myself am a part of Antifa. The biggest problem with Swedish racism however isnt the big Neo-nazis who we have to fight all the time but the underlying "Smygrasism". Cant really find a good word for it in English but it´s basicly not yelling "I hate blacks" but more of a "I´m not a racist but why cant they just live in Somalia like the rest of them?".
And swedish feminists are the best femenists. Wth is wrong with femenism?!
Unemployment has NOTHING to do with our country, it´s all about the crisis.
On September 05 2010 00:43 Zharak wrote: Socialism - The taxes in Sweden are high beyond belief! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day#Tax_Freedom_Day_around_the_world The average Swede pays 55% or more in taxes every year, and only a couple a years ago it was even more (and probably will be again after the incoming election September 19th)
Another problem I'd say is caused by socialism is the fact that we have adapted a kind of lifestyle where its a bad thing to be better then the people around you. For example, when I was a kid, I was really into maths, and as a result I was a couple of years ahead of my classmates (probably was around 9-10years at the time). This caused my teachers to stop me from doing maths for 2years, instead of helping me to continue develop! The same thing is happening to my younger brother right now, and I'd say its a trend you can see everywhere in our society!
Feminism - Holy shit are some girls here angry I do have to point out that we have really some intelligent, beautiful and independent gals here, its just a shame so many of them are so into feminism^^
Not to be rude or anything, but all your points are stupid.
We dont live in a Socialism, not even near it. How can you even say that? A freaking Capitalist Mumintroll is ruling the country at the moment!
And what is Wrong with the taxes?! That you pay a high amount of taxes is so that you dont have to Pay A LOT MORE when you for instance go to the hospital! And by A LOT I mean A LOT A LOT!
Once again, as long as things arent completely equal we have every right in the world to be pissed off. That you take up "Beautiful" as one of the things that make a girl less "annoying" that just proves my points even more! I dont understand how anyone (Except for Possible Sverige Demokraterna, a pretty sick party in Sweden) can have anything against femenism!?
On September 05 2010 00:15 Scruffy wrote: Lets see. In America, we are turning into a third world country because of social programs for lazy and illegal peoples. Also, we voted in Obama, who has never held a real job in his life, to fix our economy. Look how that one turned out...
"we are turning into a third world country" -> a slippery slope argument that doesn't even make sense since America is, by every definition of the concept of 3 worlds, part of the first world.
"who has never held a real job in his life" to fix our economy. This is faulty on two counts: 1.) A straw man, assuming that one has to be X to do things that are good for X. I have to have a vagina to push for laws that foster equal treatment of women. 2.) Furthermore the definition of "real job" is highly suspect. Being a professor is a real job, is it not? Being a senator is also a real job? Or by real job, does the poster mean a job in the private sector? 3.) "Look how that one turned out." Is basically equivalent to the ubiquitous loaded question "How did that turn out?" such is a rhetorical question that does not actually draw any conclusions, but is full of implicatons regarding gloom/doom scenarios. Instead of telling me to look how that turned out, it would be far more constructive to tell me, in fact, how those policies turned out. What is the actual state of our economy?
Anyway, I am ashamed we have people in our country that are so fond of over-polarizing politics and logical fallacies.
Let me elaborate. He is a professional politican, and his economic policies are ruining America. Better? Our debt load is unsustainable, so yes eventually, we will be a third world country at this rate. It doesn't take a philosopher to see the truth.
On February 02 2005 15:06 Energies wrote: Aboriginals.
aren't those the people who owned your country in the first place, and you white ppl stole it from them?
The didn't own shit they just occupied it. Is it too much to ask to not commit crimes learn proper english and at least once in a while...bathe?
Government and people can be a little too boring and unadventurous sometimes. Not very inspiring aspirations.
Cost of living is a little expensive and I feel some of the better qualities that give the nation some character are being replaced by more generic and mainstream qualities.Things like trying to be too politically correct, too much 'part of the crowd' mentality, etc.
Other than that not much to complain about really, and would feel kind of guilty if I did.
How could I say anything else? Only by swedish standars would mumintrollet be called a capitalist! As I said, our taxes are still at 55%, which is a ridiculous amount!
What I mean when talking about the girls in Sweden is this - They are amazing, its just a shame so many of them are extreme feminists. I'm all for equal rights and treatment between the genders, I just wish the same could be said about all feminists! Sverigedemokraterna don't really talk about feminism - their main question when it comes to the hole gender-issue is the rapes, of course making it sound as if its a problem caused only by immigrants.
In my eyes, taxes=theft, but I'm guessing thats something you wouldn't agree with... Saying that I get more money back from paying my taxes is just plain wrong, and in my eyes doesn't even relate to what I consider beeing the real problem - the fact that I've got no choice about paying them, even though I don't agree with most of what its used for.
On September 05 2010 00:55 Sl4ktarN wrote: Not to be rude or anything, but all your points are stupid.
We dont live in a Socialism, not even near it. How can you even say that? A freaking Capitalist Mumintroll is ruling the country at the moment!
And what is Wrong with the taxes?! That you pay a high amount of taxes is so that you dont have to Pay A LOT MORE when you for instance go to the hospital! And by A LOT I mean A LOT A LOT!
Once again, as long as things arent completely equal we have every right in the world to be pissed off. That you take up "Beautiful" as one of the things that make a girl less "annoying" that just proves my points even more! I dont understand how anyone (Except for Possible Sverige Demokraterna, a pretty sick party in Sweden) can have anything against femenism!?
Most western countries today are mixes between Capitalism and Socialism, if you don't know that Sweden happens to be far to the Socialist side of the spectrum you need to go outside your house and look around. Not saying that Socialism is bad at all, just saying that Sweden is a Socialist country.
Paying high taxes is good for the overall welfare of the country, but for the rich who can afford to pay for healthcare etc,etc by themselves, paying high taxes blows.
If you don't see the flaws with feminism and the crazy feminists out there you either haven't encountered the bad side of feminisms at all or you need to stop being naive for a second and open your eyes to the harsh reality.
Personally, I would say the worst thing about Sweden is the naive attitude towards immigration and segregation many people seem to have.
Oh, and still like 20% of people believe in a god, needs to be 0%.
Fatass dumb rednecks electing politicians over and over who consistently prove they are in the pocket of large oil corporations, pharmaceutical companies, etc. People that actually think Sarah Palin has anything intelligent to say at all. Religious fanatics that hamper scientific progress because of a false set of morals and ethics hammered into them since they were children by their parents who had the same thing done to them. Thank you America.
Political correctness and general misconception of tolerance is (imo) out of control in Sweden. Discussion of religion is therefore uncommon/discouraged among anything but friends.Swedes may be secular, but the majority believes there are such things as spirits/ghosts/destiny.
I consider myself very lucky to have that as one of my countries major issues.
On September 05 2010 00:43 Zharak wrote: Socialism - The taxes in Sweden are high beyond belief! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day#Tax_Freedom_Day_around_the_world The average Swede pays 55% or more in taxes every year, and only a couple a years ago it was even more (and probably will be again after the incoming election September 19th)
Another problem I'd say is caused by socialism is the fact that we have adapted a kind of lifestyle where its a bad thing to be better then the people around you. For example, when I was a kid, I was really into maths, and as a result I was a couple of years ahead of my classmates (probably was around 9-10years at the time). This caused my teachers to stop me from doing maths for 2years, instead of helping me to continue develop! The same thing is happening to my younger brother right now, and I'd say its a trend you can see everywhere in our society!
Feminism - Holy shit are some girls here angry I do have to point out that we have really some intelligent, beautiful and independent gals here, its just a shame so many of them are so into feminism^^
Not to be rude or anything, but all your points are stupid.
We dont live in a Socialism, not even near it. How can you even say that? A freaking Capitalist Mumintroll is ruling the country at the moment!
And what is Wrong with the taxes?! That you pay a high amount of taxes is so that you dont have to Pay A LOT MORE when you for instance go to the hospital! And by A LOT I mean A LOT A LOT!
Once again, as long as things arent completely equal we have every right in the world to be pissed off. That you take up "Beautiful" as one of the things that make a girl less "annoying" that just proves my points even more! I dont understand how anyone (Except for Possible Sverige Demokraterna, a pretty sick party in Sweden) can have anything against femenism!?
Going into debate with a guy who says "all your points are stupid" are whats wrong with todays voters. So many people into politics say this, and have this rolling their eyes at your points. This is the sole reason I have opted out of politics, it's a waste of energy, and I can adapt to whatever they throw at me, move out of the country if I have to.
Its funny how you can not understand people who think otherwise then yourself, that is my impression of you. More scaring is that I've seen real politician act like this, the kind of politican that are "good".
Oh yeah, the sneaky racism in Sweden is annoying the fuck out of me. >:[ I went out drinking last night and got into a political discussion with some dude, and the fucker I was talking to pulled exactly one of those retarded ''I'm not a racist, I just don't want see any of them sandniggers in my country''-thingys. He is going to vote for Sverigedemokraterna, but he admitted that he don't know anything about what they actually intend to do with our country if they rise to power and that he doesn't know anything about politics in general. ((((((( Seriously, I'll go into exile due to shame if Sverigedemokraterna gets into the Riskdag. Goddamnit at to hell. And it seems like 50% of all people iny my age (around 20) are gonna vote for them. DJIWAOJDidiotsjodwaretardsnkdwafuckers
Complaining about our taxes and alcohol prices are stupid though. It's one of the things that makes Sweden awesome (although we are currently not as awesome as we used to be).
On September 05 2010 00:20 Mawi wrote: Alcohol - So expensive i swear its Ridiculous but good thing the alcohol is cheap in Germany so lots of swedes go there or denmark to buy it.
Politics : I Swear its so stupid im ashamed just to look at them we all know they just lie 24/7 and corrupt the country and we lose our jobs and than they say " we are trying to bla bla " just stfu
Racism : It's probably worse in other countries but im ashamed when i see racists here and there they are so stupid i have seen lots of immigrant that own them in speech and than the racists peeps scream and want to fight. I have many immigrant friends that are good they are not the kind of immigrants that come from a third world country and run around in sweden saying fuck sweden. i do have a few third world country immigrant friends but they are mature and not as immature as the others.
Feminists - i swear i dont want to ellobrate or there is probably a girl ( OMG ) that will report me.
Unemployed - I Swear it was all thanks to the politics and now i won't vote since its just stupid nothing good will ever come of voting so why bother.
Unemployment has NOTHING to do with our country, it´s all about the crisis.
Uh that's just entirely wrong. Long-term unemployment in sweden has been high ever since the mid 80's and is essentially linked to horrible labour market regulations and enormous tax pressure building up ever since the 60s.
Also when people are referring to 'socialism' these days they are almost always talking about the middle way that's prevalent in western societies, but more so in nordic countries.
On September 05 2010 00:20 Mawi wrote: Alcohol - So expensive i swear its Ridiculous but good thing the alcohol is cheap in Germany so lots of swedes go there or denmark to buy it.
Politics : I Swear its so stupid im ashamed just to look at them we all know they just lie 24/7 and corrupt the country and we lose our jobs and than they say " we are trying to bla bla " just stfu
Racism : It's probably worse in other countries but im ashamed when i see racists here and there they are so stupid i have seen lots of immigrant that own them in speech and than the racists peeps scream and want to fight. I have many immigrant friends that are good they are not the kind of immigrants that come from a third world country and run around in sweden saying fuck sweden. i do have a few third world country immigrant friends but they are mature and not as immature as the others.
Feminists - i swear i dont want to ellobrate or there is probably a girl ( OMG ) that will report me.
Unemployed - I Swear it was all thanks to the politics and now i won't vote since its just stupid nothing good will ever come of voting so why bother.
Jesus christ. People like you make me pretty ashamed of Sweden.
The price of the Alcohol is a GOOD thing. The state should always try and keep people from consuming poison.
The racists in this country however, I can agree on. I myself am a part of Antifa. The biggest problem with Swedish racism however isnt the big Neo-nazis who we have to fight all the time but the underlying "Smygrasism". Cant really find a good word for it in English but it´s basicly not yelling "I hate blacks" but more of a "I´m not a racist but why cant they just live in Somalia like the rest of them?".
And swedish feminists are the best femenists. Wth is wrong with femenism?!
Unemployment has NOTHING to do with our country, it´s all about the crisis.
Uh what? I don't really think the state should have any say whatsoever in what people put into their own bodies.
It's their freaking body.
Which brings me to my country. I hate how conservatively religious my country is in general, and it's someone the rest of the world routinely has a laugh about.
Next, the drug fearmongering that's going on. Prisons are overfilled with damn marijuana dealers and other shit that nobody besides politicians actually care about. I was always of the belief that people should be masters of their own destiny. If they want to smoke meth and rot their teeth out they should have that freedom.
Ignorance is not an excuse, I have yet to meet an addict who didnt know what he or she was getting into. A lot of the time they don't care.
On September 05 2010 00:20 Mawi wrote: Alcohol - So expensive i swear its Ridiculous but good thing the alcohol is cheap in Germany so lots of swedes go there or denmark to buy it.
Politics : I Swear its so stupid im ashamed just to look at them we all know they just lie 24/7 and corrupt the country and we lose our jobs and than they say " we are trying to bla bla " just stfu
Racism : It's probably worse in other countries but im ashamed when i see racists here and there they are so stupid i have seen lots of immigrant that own them in speech and than the racists peeps scream and want to fight. I have many immigrant friends that are good they are not the kind of immigrants that come from a third world country and run around in sweden saying fuck sweden. i do have a few third world country immigrant friends but they are mature and not as immature as the others.
Feminists - i swear i dont want to ellobrate or there is probably a girl ( OMG ) that will report me.
Unemployed - I Swear it was all thanks to the politics and now i won't vote since its just stupid nothing good will ever come of voting so why bother.
Jesus christ. People like you make me pretty ashamed of Sweden.
The price of the Alcohol is a GOOD thing. The state should always try and keep people from consuming poison.
The racists in this country however, I can agree on. I myself am a part of Antifa. The biggest problem with Swedish racism however isnt the big Neo-nazis who we have to fight all the time but the underlying "Smygrasism". Cant really find a good word for it in English but it´s basicly not yelling "I hate blacks" but more of a "I´m not a racist but why cant they just live in Somalia like the rest of them?".
And swedish feminists are the best femenists. Wth is wrong with femenism?!
Unemployment has NOTHING to do with our country, it´s all about the crisis.
Uh what? I don't really think the state should have any say whatsoever in what people put into their own bodies.
It's their freaking body.
Which brings me to my country. I hate how conservatively religious my country is in general, and it's someone the rest of the world routinely has a laugh about.
Next, the drug fearmongering that's going on. Prisons are overfilled with damn marijuana dealers and other shit that nobody besides politicians actually care about. I was always of the belief that people should be masters of their own destiny. If they want to smoke meth and rot their teeth out they should have that freedom.
Ignorance is not an excuse, I have yet to meet an addict who didnt know what he or she was getting into. A lot of the time they don't care.
Well, I dont think that Drugs should be illegal either but I think that they shouldnt in any way possible be easy to get.
On September 05 2010 00:20 Mawi wrote: Alcohol - So expensive i swear its Ridiculous but good thing the alcohol is cheap in Germany so lots of swedes go there or denmark to buy it.
Politics : I Swear its so stupid im ashamed just to look at them we all know they just lie 24/7 and corrupt the country and we lose our jobs and than they say " we are trying to bla bla " just stfu
Racism : It's probably worse in other countries but im ashamed when i see racists here and there they are so stupid i have seen lots of immigrant that own them in speech and than the racists peeps scream and want to fight. I have many immigrant friends that are good they are not the kind of immigrants that come from a third world country and run around in sweden saying fuck sweden. i do have a few third world country immigrant friends but they are mature and not as immature as the others.
Feminists - i swear i dont want to ellobrate or there is probably a girl ( OMG ) that will report me.
Unemployed - I Swear it was all thanks to the politics and now i won't vote since its just stupid nothing good will ever come of voting so why bother.
Jesus christ. People like you make me pretty ashamed of Sweden.
The price of the Alcohol is a GOOD thing. The state should always try and keep people from consuming poison.
The racists in this country however, I can agree on. I myself am a part of Antifa. The biggest problem with Swedish racism however isnt the big Neo-nazis who we have to fight all the time but the underlying "Smygrasism". Cant really find a good word for it in English but it´s basicly not yelling "I hate blacks" but more of a "I´m not a racist but why cant they just live in Somalia like the rest of them?".
And swedish feminists are the best femenists. Wth is wrong with femenism?!
Unemployment has NOTHING to do with our country, it´s all about the crisis.
Uh what? I don't really think the state should have any say whatsoever in what people put into their own bodies.
It's their freaking body.
Except the shit you put into your body might harm both you and others, causing a lot of trouble and economical cost for the society. People who smoke are likely to get deceases related to that, a fuckton of car accidents are related to drinking, etc etc etc etc etc. It is a positive thing that the state is doing something to control stuff like this.
No displays of public affection including holding hands, hugging and kissing.
The rules and regulations are terribly designed.
The police and legal system prosecute the people, rather than protect them.
The attitude towards work is terrible.
The standard of labor jobs is very low.
The education system is poor.
The education system can easily be manipulated because it's corrupt.
The police are corrupt.
In most cases Arabs are above the law.
The social scale is all about the colour of your skin and where you come from.
The drinking age is 21
There isn't a big social life for expats.
The cities are more than poorly designed
The road systems are the worst I have ever seen or even known of. No seriously, throw a pile of spaghetti on the floor and you'll get a better lay out.
The drivers are TERRIBLE
Arabs think they own the road and think nothing of cutting you up, speeding, lane discipline.
There is no such thing as road rules.
The labor, Visa and residence laws are extremely flawed.
Electronics are WAY over priced.
You get charged VAT (British Tax) on most imported items, even though the Country is tax free.
Overly, and in-your-face Religious.
Everyone, not matter who must fast in public during certain times of year.
No alcohol is some Emerites, and others are strictly regulated.
I think that's about it for now. I could go on and on though.
Yes there are typos but I am americian so I can do that "Americca Fuck Yeah".I do have a complaint though when I went to my class the other day I found out the Asian that I hired did not show up for my test so now I have failed that test and may actually have to take it myself.I have found some other smart looking asian that may be able to take it for me...time to call daddy and see if he can hook me up with some "study money".
The other day I had to take the garbage out Hector the man servant did not show up to clean.I had to take the garbage to my car BMW m6 and because the garbage can was more than 10 feet away decided to pile the garbage on my car and drive it 30 feet now to the can.So what that one bag feel off I mean i did pick it up and throw it on the sidewalk.I did take the other bag to the garbage.
O man we got robbed off all our dank and some of our game systems etc...by gunpoint, so after they leave I decide to call the cops and get arrested for the other 2 pounds in my closet and all the smoking paraphernalia...Thank god I have a rich daddy to help me through these difficult times.
And whats up with all these Mexicans in Arizona I thought they got kicked out.\
This is pretty much the typical mindset of the college fools I get to deal with daily.My weekday job happens to be located right in the middle of high end condos catering to the richer UofA students.
O yeah we are fat fat fat........"I wanna loss weight can I just take a pill for that? What do you mean good diet and regular exercise is the only thing that works...Ill just stop eating bread that will help right?"
On September 05 2010 00:20 Mawi wrote: Alcohol - So expensive i swear its Ridiculous but good thing the alcohol is cheap in Germany so lots of swedes go there or denmark to buy it.
Politics : I Swear its so stupid im ashamed just to look at them we all know they just lie 24/7 and corrupt the country and we lose our jobs and than they say " we are trying to bla bla " just stfu
Racism : It's probably worse in other countries but im ashamed when i see racists here and there they are so stupid i have seen lots of immigrant that own them in speech and than the racists peeps scream and want to fight. I have many immigrant friends that are good they are not the kind of immigrants that come from a third world country and run around in sweden saying fuck sweden. i do have a few third world country immigrant friends but they are mature and not as immature as the others.
Feminists - i swear i dont want to ellobrate or there is probably a girl ( OMG ) that will report me.
Unemployed - I Swear it was all thanks to the politics and now i won't vote since its just stupid nothing good will ever come of voting so why bother.
Jesus christ. People like you make me pretty ashamed of Sweden.
The price of the Alcohol is a GOOD thing. The state should always try and keep people from consuming poison.
The racists in this country however, I can agree on. I myself am a part of Antifa. The biggest problem with Swedish racism however isnt the big Neo-nazis who we have to fight all the time but the underlying "Smygrasism". Cant really find a good word for it in English but it´s basicly not yelling "I hate blacks" but more of a "I´m not a racist but why cant they just live in Somalia like the rest of them?".
And swedish feminists are the best femenists. Wth is wrong with femenism?!
Unemployment has NOTHING to do with our country, it´s all about the crisis.
Uh what? I don't really think the state should have any say whatsoever in what people put into their own bodies.
It's their freaking body.
Except the shit you put into your body might harm both you and others, causing a lot of trouble and economical cost for the society. People who smoke are likely to get deceases related to that, a fuckton of car accidents are related to drinking, etc etc etc etc etc. It is a positive thing that the state is doing something to control stuff like this.
Oh I see.
So we basically restrict freedom because a couple of irresponsible people messed it up for everyone.
If you aren't harming anyone else I'm all for doing whatever you want to yourself. Yes smoking and drinking have an economical cost to society...
So do Prisons. Get rid of those?
So do Fat People...and they actually put a HUGE strain on society cost wise, what do you propose should be done about that?
So does just about everything else.
Drinking and driving is already illegal just about everywhere but prohibition FAILS and we have a perfect example of WHY it fails in the US back in the 1920-1930's. I don't think your point really holds up in the grand scheme of things.
On September 05 2010 01:18 Holgerius wrote: Oh yeah, the sneaky racism in Sweden is annoying the fuck out of me. >:[ I went out drinking last night and got into a political discussion with some dude, and the fucker I was talking to pulled exactly one of those retarded ''I'm not a racist, I just don't want see any of them sandniggers in my country''-thingys. He is going to vote for Sverigedemokraterna, but he admitted that he don't know anything about what they actually intend to do with our country if they rise to power and that he doesn't know anything about politics in general. ((((((( Seriously, I'll go into exile due to shame if Sverigedemokraterna gets into the Riskdag. Goddamnit at to hell. And it seems like 50% of all people iny my age (around 20) are gonna vote for them. DJIWAOJDidiotsjodwaretardsnkdwafuckers
Complaining about our taxes and alcohol prices are stupid though. It's one of the things that makes Sweden awesome (although we are currently not as awesome as we used to be).
This whole ordeal with Sverigedemokraterna is very interesting. In many people's eyes you would be seen as a racist for voting for them. A good part of their voters are actually racist, aswell as some of the people who are politically active in the party. Their main issue is to restrict immigration from non-european countries. Is that racist? Maybe, but in Sweden you really can't have a debate about it, because the majority of people will see you as a racist person if you are going to vote for SD or even if you bring up the debate about immigration. It's quite sad actually.
My parents are not swedish, and I would certainly not vote for SD, but labling them as extremists is just ridiculous, especially when we have a real communist party, "Vänster Partiet", in the Riksdag, with a leader, Lars Ohly, that said that it was a sad day when the Berlin wall fell. They are as much extremists in my eyes as SD is.
stupid Quebec separatists. They think they can just get up and walk away from Canada. Bunch of babies trying to run away from home and divide our great nation. On top of that, the laws of their province are anti-English speaking.
For example, you can't buy a game in English if there's a French version available.
I also think there was some law about no English signs in stores.
Also, our treatment of the First Nations is pretty terrible, but I think that goes for many countries. Meh, I don't have many negatives to say about Canada, I think it's a pretty sweet place to live. Oh, and the leafs are terrible, but I'm hoping that will change in the next few seasons.
EDIT: Researched a bit, and the no English sign law was argued and struck down and bashed by the UN for being unconstitutional, but they still want signs to be predominately French. They also tried to stop children from learning English, but that was also fought.
I live in Australia. We were given the choice of voting for dumb and dumber for the federal election. Our current Prime Minister backstabbed her predecessor. On that note, our former Prime Minister cried on the air when giving his farewell speech. But I don't really give a shit about politics anyway, OH WAIT VOTING IS MANDATORY FOR US FUUUU-
We have literally 0 e-sports scene, we got paired with South East Asia for SC2, our games are almost ALWAYS more expensive than in the US (given the currency exchange), we always get shit later than every other country like movies, games, tv shows, pretty much anything, sometimes we don't even get them at all. Our entertainment/gaming industry is virtually nothing, when's the last time you've watched an Australian movie or played an Australian game? Fucking, one of our most famous soap operas (Neighbours) is watched by more people in the UK than in Australia.
While I'm on the subject of gaming: WE HAVE NO R18 RATING FOR GAMES. This means that whenever a game is deemed unsuitable for an MA15+ rating, it is effectively banned. Exhibit A: L4D2 was banned in Australia because of the blood and violence so it was toned down. This led to Riot Cops not spawning in any game where someone had an Australian copy of the game because they were removed from all the Australian copies, which meant that the game was 'ruined' (exagerrated maybe) for everyone in the game. What did people start doing? They started kicking Australians via majority vote, even if it was a fucking Australian based dedicated server.
Also, we're getting internet censorship too. Woop de fucking doo.
On September 05 2010 00:20 Mawi wrote: Alcohol - So expensive i swear its Ridiculous but good thing the alcohol is cheap in Germany so lots of swedes go there or denmark to buy it.
Politics : I Swear its so stupid im ashamed just to look at them we all know they just lie 24/7 and corrupt the country and we lose our jobs and than they say " we are trying to bla bla " just stfu
Racism : It's probably worse in other countries but im ashamed when i see racists here and there they are so stupid i have seen lots of immigrant that own them in speech and than the racists peeps scream and want to fight. I have many immigrant friends that are good they are not the kind of immigrants that come from a third world country and run around in sweden saying fuck sweden. i do have a few third world country immigrant friends but they are mature and not as immature as the others.
Feminists - i swear i dont want to ellobrate or there is probably a girl ( OMG ) that will report me.
Unemployed - I Swear it was all thanks to the politics and now i won't vote since its just stupid nothing good will ever come of voting so why bother.
Jesus christ. People like you make me pretty ashamed of Sweden.
The price of the Alcohol is a GOOD thing. The state should always try and keep people from consuming poison.
The racists in this country however, I can agree on. I myself am a part of Antifa. The biggest problem with Swedish racism however isnt the big Neo-nazis who we have to fight all the time but the underlying "Smygrasism". Cant really find a good word for it in English but it´s basicly not yelling "I hate blacks" but more of a "I´m not a racist but why cant they just live in Somalia like the rest of them?".
And swedish feminists are the best femenists. Wth is wrong with femenism?!
Unemployment has NOTHING to do with our country, it´s all about the crisis.
Uh what? I don't really think the state should have any say whatsoever in what people put into their own bodies.
It's their freaking body.
Except the shit you put into your body might harm both you and others, causing a lot of trouble and economical cost for the society. People who smoke are likely to get deceases related to that, a fuckton of car accidents are related to drinking, etc etc etc etc etc. It is a positive thing that the state is doing something to control stuff like this.
Oh I see.
So we basically restrict freedom because a couple of irresponsible people messed it up for everyone.
If you aren't harming anyone else I'm all for doing whatever you want to yourself. Yes smoking and drinking have an economical cost to society...
So do Prisons
So do Fat People
So does just about everything else.
Drinking and driving is already illegal just about everywhere but prohibition FAILS and we have a perfect example of WHY it fails in the US back in the 1920-1930's. I don't think your point really holds up in the grand scheme of things.
People are idiots, it's a fact we have to account for when we make our laws and rules.
I am definitely not saying drinking should be illegal, I'm having a beer myself right now, all I'm saying is that a good thing that the alcohol is not too cheap since it prevents the abuse of it that leads to bad things. Freedom is awesome, but we need some restrictions or else our civilized society would collapse. The prize of alcohol in Sweden is a great thing IMO.
On September 05 2010 01:40 eLiE wrote: stupid Quebec separatists. They think they can just get up and walk away from Canada. Bunch of babies trying to run away from home and divide our great nation. On top of that, the laws of their province are anti-English speaking.
For example, you can't buy a game in English if there's a French version available.
I also think there was some law about no English signs in stores.
Also, our treatment of the First Nations is pretty terrible, but I think that goes for many countries. Meh, I don't have many negatives to say about Canada, I think it's a pretty sweet place to live. Oh, and the leafs are terrible, but I'm hoping that will change in the next few seasons.
EDIT: Researched a bit, and the no English sign law was argued and struck down and bashed by the UN for being unconstitutional, but they still want signs to be predominately French. They also tried to stop children from learning English, but that was also fought.
they're not anti-english, they're pro french we've been speaking french longer than you've been speaking english I think you at least owe us that
and well, separatists are like USA's rednecks can't say I'm proud of them (cause they think separating is gonna solve everything, el oh el)
oh and while I'm still thinking about it, that game law is bullshit, nobody respects it. the most they do is just have a translation of the box cover or whatever, nobody fucking plays games translated in french.
except WoW, but that's mostly cause they're too retarded to see the big "FRENCH VERSION" on it
Islamophobic, but i guess that is spread around the world by now, god bless the word 'terror' -.- This includes the politicians btw, people just talk in serious debates about throwing people out of the country that believe in a certain book.
I live in the metropolis side of The Netherlands and people are disconnected from reality and each other, totally lost sense of what comes first in life and what is important.
Everything is so well controlled and so "safe", people are afraid of every little thing and don't know what real problems are anymore it seems, so all you hear is complaints about the dumbest sh*t all the time and the conversations are just a hundred words to make a lousy point most of the time. Empty.
The only interesting people here are foreigners and tourists.
There is no form of nature whatsoever, the ocean is dirty green, there are no real forests and not even 1 mountain.
What i love about The Netherlands? Tourists, the multicultural society that still shows some signs of "Life"
The moment i have the chance, i am out of here.]
Edit;
about the drugs;
2nd biggest XTC exporter in the world. Weed is legal, so people grow up thinking it's normal ....... you can fill in the dots. People call it ''Gangsters Paradise" We got the most powerful and most bad ass 21st century gangster(s) living here. I mean why not, prostitution is legal, weed is legal, the cops wont touch you if you they catch you with a little bit of cocaine, only when they notice you are trying to sell it. Kill someone and get out in 1~2 years max. Welcome to Holland ! (and i didn't even mention the corruption)
Americans are all like sheep, follow popular trends just to be in on them, and focus on their carreer above everything else, even though it is not good for your kids to spend 12 hours a day at work, and see your kids once on the weekends just so you can buy them an xbox and say you did a good job parenting when they hug you for it.
1. People on all sides of the political spectrum have EVERYTHING spoon fed to them, if FOX said it, then it must be true, if CNN said it, then it must be true....Glenn Beck or Keith Olberman are gods....stfu please.
2. Rabid and irrational abhorrence of videogame culture. No, playing videogames will not make me take a gun to school and shoot everyone, thanks, and no, it's not anti-social, as a matter of fact, it's an extremely social experience.
3. (A continuation of the above...) Excessive videogame culture. Playing videogames alot is fine, I do it too, but for the love of god, do get SOME other activities.
4. I have to be 21 to drink a beer, but at 18 I can take a gun and go shoot other people and get shot for my country. All the while, I can't even have a sip of alcohol.
5. We police the world, and it's a waste of time. Fuck it, the world doesn't want us there, most of US don't want to be there, and we're just wasting lives. There are legititmate reasons to go to war, and lately we just don't have them.
6. Our college women are whores. It's fucking annoying me, if I wanted a whore, I'd go buy one. I'd rather have a relationship.
On September 05 2010 01:27 FJ wrote: UAE: The social scale is all about the colour of your skin and where you come from.
Yeah, I was really shocked by this in Dubai, basically if you're filipino you're a waiter/waitress, if you're pakistani you're a taxi driver or a construction worker, if you're white you're supposed to be enjoying the oh-so-awesome Dubai lifestyle so you act like you do even if you don't, and if you're an emirati you basically don't give a fuck about anything at all. Lol it's definitely one of the most disturbing countries I've ever been in and I've seen quite a few. I've not been in the other UAE countries though.
About France, I dunno. The land is beautiful and has it all from sunny beaches to snowy mountains, the food and local products are stellar, when I'm abroad and tell people where I come from I get a very good reaction most of the time, so not much to bash here. On the other hand there's probably a lot to say about french people and politics but I've stopped caring about them a long time ago so I wouldn't even know where to start.
Theres so many things to complain about Brazil but im gonna take my time pick on a specific topic.
Politics, in Brazil most people dont give a flying shit about politics. But are forced by law to vote, this makes some corrupt motherfuckers give poor people things like food, clothing, even provides transportation and money at the day of election, to get them to vote for him, and it fucking works.
he will never comeback to the poor community until election is near again, and will just steal the shit out of the public coffers instead.
France : the government is just a big joke and thanks to them the whole world thinks we're fascist now with all the shit going on with Rom people at the moment.
Lebanon : people loves themselves to much, other than that definetely the best country in the world
On September 05 2010 02:04 Marou wrote: France : the government is just a big joke and thanks to them the whole world thinks we're fascist now with all the shit going on with Rom people at the moment.
+1
And, we have the French Football Team which is...crap, just crap.
On September 05 2010 02:04 Marou wrote: France : the government is just a big joke and thanks to them the whole world thinks we're fascist now with all the shit going on with Rom people at the moment.
Lebanon : people loves themselves to much, other than that definetely the best country in the world
Lebanese should love each other instead of loving themselves, that could prevent another civil war.
On September 05 2010 02:03 Matoo- wrote: I tried to find nasty stuff to say about France but I just couldn't. The land is beautiful and has it all from sunny beaches to snowy mountains, the food and local products are stellar, when I'm abroad and tell people where I come from I get a very good reaction most of the time... a few years ago I probably could've ranted for hours about how much the people or the politics suck but nowadays I just don't care. Sorry for doing basically the exact opposite of what people are supposed to do in this thread. :p
Let me help you then, it's actually quite easy.
First our dear president and the whole government are assholes who arent thinking even a second about the nation. They are just here for money (and the money of their friend, the most powerful mens/ womens inf france's economy are close friends to the president and his ministers), but well it's the same every where i guess and it has been like that for years (the 2 former president were like that too).
If you are a bit curious, just check out who Eric Woerth and Bettencourt are. Then all the world have heard a little something about the expulsions of the roms in France. And don't get me started about the favorite subject of our dear president, security, and how his views on the subject have worsen the mood between the population and the police (which wasnt good to begin with).
I could continue with how hard it is to find a job nowadays if you are young, but it is obviously the same everywhere.
Then again, if you can forget all of this, life is good down here. And people are aware of what is wrong in the country and what needs to be improved.
When this thread first appeared it was supposed to be a humbling, self-deprecating way to bring the community together. It's turning into a flame war. I blame my country for starting this notion of a "flame war."
Slovakia: Biggest problem number 1. Corruption in Politic..... its everywhere i think but here its REALLY HUGE. 2. Drugs and Alcohol are so easy to get so even 10 years old are drunk. 3. Gypsies: well i moved from Bratislava to the village side and its even worst :D i heard about thinks like: They came to our house, snap my son, told us to get the fuck out of their new house and now they are leaving happily in new. its worst and worst im not racist but its never good for me when i meet one of em. 4. School: so much worst than in the pass (5years ago) better than in other counties i mean in general. 5. roads 6. behavior, I was in UK for some time and the people out there were so friendly and helpful, that doesnt exist here. its little big scary to go out at night and there is also big chance to get punch in the face and lose your valet just some asshole doesnt have good mood. 7. A lot of mistakes in the pass and i think even more are coming in the near future.
and a lot of others bad things.
Skillz_Man: lol i lough so hard when i red this :DDDD and still do, still do. : )
The land is beautiful and has it all from sunny beaches to snowy mountains, the food and local products are stellar, when I'm abroad and tell people where I come from I get a very good reaction most of the time, so not much to bash here.
I remember watching a segment during the 20heures on France 3 where like France ranked 1st as worst tourists I lol'd hard because my family was like "bullshit" and I was like "tis true don't deny it"
The land is beautiful and has it all from sunny beaches to snowy mountains, the food and local products are stellar, when I'm abroad and tell people where I come from I get a very good reaction most of the time, so not much to bash here.
I remember watching a segment during the 20heures on France 3 where like France ranked 1st as worst tourists I lol'd hard because my family was like "bullshit" and I was like "tis true don't deny it"
edit: got the article lol
Frenchmen usually are horrible tourists, not because they're douchebags or something like that but because i have yet to meet a french tourist in Sweden that could speak English or Swedish and since i dont speak French its kinda hard to help them
We still have Neo Nazis. Most of the Nazis have however started wearing tuxedos and are trying to "only want the immigrants best!". It pisses me off.
Unhealthy Drinking culture. (Even though our booze is really expensive, imagine how it would be if it was cheap!) Basicly swedes are really boring and gray people just waiting all week for the weekend, on the weekend we drink so much that we almost die. Rince and repeat.
Our politicians arent corrupt or lie more than others. However they are extremely gray. I think that most politicians in the world pretty much want the same thing but in Sweden its worse than just that. We have 7 major parties. These 7 parties consist in 2 blocks. Since last election we no longer choose which party we want to rule but which block. Basicly a 2party system. And becouse of this the parties are growing closer and closer to each other.
Canada: Complicated tax system with high tax rates. Blowing away a billion for s stupid summit over the weekends makes me wonder why I am paying tax.
Shitty telecommunication network: All canadian isp throttle BT connections and wireless+internet plans are very expensive.
High car insurance. Police enjoying their coffee while hiding at the bottom of a hill catching ppl just slightly above speedlimits/hiding in corners to catch rolling stops, while there are old people jaywalking just a block away which they ignore.
Highways in Ontario are clocked @ 100km/h although no one drive below 115 these days...
Also Canada. A Francophone Quebecer, to be more specific:
I'm depressed that most of English Canada jumps to absurd conclusions about Quebec, and that they don't even try learning the causes behind the separatist movement or why certain Quebecers fight to protect their language with such gusto. I'm also annoyed whenever I become targeted by said English Canadians just because of the fact that I speak French and live in this province.
I'm also annoyed by the ignorant Quebecers that hate all Anglophones for no good reason. I despise how some of them believe that certain beliefs and cultures shouldn't be prevalent in Quebec, all while promoting Francophone supremacy.
Denmark just over all sucks. Public transportation is insanely expensive, cars are 4-5x the price that they are in America, and just generally people are just idiots.
How a problem is solved in Denmark:
Talk - 98%
Doing something - 2%
Thank god i moved to Hong Kong, it's much nicer here, even though Danes think that Denmark is the greatest country in the world (more like the worst).
Edit: Oh and the weather makes you want to kill yourself (not joking). Sunrise: 10 AM, Sunset: 3:30 PM.
On September 05 2010 03:36 Deadlyfish wrote: Denmark just over all sucks. Public transportation is insanely expensive, cars are 4-5x the price that they are in America, and just generally people are just idiots.
How a problem is solved in Denmark:
Talk - 98%
Doing something - 2%
Thank god i moved to Hong Kong, it's much nicer here, even though Danes think that Denmark is the greatest country in the world (more like the worst).
Edit: Oh and the weather makes you want to kill yourself (not joking). Sunrise: 10 AM, Sunset: 3:30 PM.
Denmark was voted happiest country on Earth more than once o.O
Anyway, my last country was Mexico: corrupt police, army, government, and drug gangs are everywhere its depressing how far back Mexico has gone
too trigger happy (need less wars) too religious (need less "creationism is a science" mentality) too greedy (need less public laws based on personal emotions and need more socialism)
Also I wasn't sure if this guy was kidding:
On February 02 2005 14:11 LeJester wrote: We dont invade a wide enough selection of countries. When I heard we were attacking Iraq I was like WTF?? We've already blown their shit up. I can think of so many more places that would be really interesting to drop bombs on. And then to top it off...we're like giving control of the country back to them!!! We win fair and square and then just hand it right back; I dont get it. I mean, we're even going to let them choose a new government. Our foreign policy has never made much sense in the past, but this is just getting to the point of ridiculousness.
On September 05 2010 03:36 Deadlyfish wrote: Denmark just over all sucks. Public transportation is insanely expensive, cars are 4-5x the price that they are in America, and just generally people are just idiots.
How a problem is solved in Denmark:
Talk - 98%
Doing something - 2%
Thank god i moved to Hong Kong, it's much nicer here, even though Danes think that Denmark is the greatest country in the world (more like the worst).
Edit: Oh and the weather makes you want to kill yourself (not joking). Sunrise: 10 AM, Sunset: 3:30 PM.
Denmark was voted happiest country on Earth more than once o.O
Anyway, my last country was Mexico: corrupt police, army, government, and drug gangs are everywhere its depressing how far back Mexico has gone
I know, but i just cant see how that is possible. And anyways those tests are not very accurate A few years back Venezuela was the happiest country on earth, riiight...
I've lived in Denmark, Dubai, Panama, and now Hong Kong, and Denmark is the worst country tbh. There are so many rules and regulations, everything is too expensive, the weather sucks, young people think that Paradise Hotel (jersey shore denmark) is the best program ever, and worst of all it's BORING
At the moment my main beef is with the politicians not doing their goddamn job. They've created and enlarged a feeling of hostilty between Flanders and Wallonia for years now and it's come at the cost of being able to even form a freaking government. Wallonian politicians and Flemish politicians can't even make a deal on what they're gonna order for dinner.
For the rest... Regular folk are unnecessarily afraid of foreigners and this makes these foreigners feel excluded and stay in their own tight groups, which makes the regular folk even more xenophobic for no goddamned reason.
Oh, and there's way too many childmolesters. It's been a while now (Well if you don't count priests, they're everywhere right?) and I'd like to keep it that way.
On September 05 2010 03:52 Incognoto wrote: I'm French and I'm tired of whiny little lazy fruit tards who go on strike simply because they are lazy and can piss everyone off doing so.
I'm French and I'm tired with our racist, elitist, bourgeois right-wing fucking policy.
We have the most retarded, vulgar, incompetent, incult, cynical leader in Europ after Berlusconi.
70% teenagers smoke here, 90% teenagers drink alcohol, most teenagers smoke weed(which I don't mind, but it's still a fact) we are like .. 15th most fat country in the World? May be even higher. Drugs are RIDICULOUSLY easy to get.
Also, we have a shit lot of gypsies and a shit lot of unemployed people. The social fees the state gives to the people are really high, so it's better for people to actually not work. There is a lot of holes in the whole social system here but this is one of the bigger ones. Basically if you work (no education, mc donalds worker or some shit) you get 500-700$ dollars per month, if you don't work you get about 400$ What the fuck.
On September 05 2010 03:57 AttackZerg wrote: My country was founded and fought for by independent store owners and traders and we have done nothing but lose sight of this over the years.
We waste all of our money on wars.
We pretend that the constitution which was written before the industrial revolution actually isn't just another outdated relic from a dead age.
Am I the only one that thinks it is time to re-do the whole thing?
From this day forward - All men shall have freedom to pursue happiness, voting will be reserved for the knowledgeable, the official drink is Pepsi, official company in charge of food - McDonalds. There will be one computer manufacturer - Microsoft. Price regulation will be decided by the customer and his wallet, the same with job conditions. If you're not satisfied, just change jobs silly! Health care, well-fare and social security is communism. Be sure to save that check for a rainy day. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. . .
We give our trust to politicians way too easy and then sit and wait for them to fix our problem. We're still dreaming about the days of the Cold War when Bulgaria meant something more then the poorest country in EU. We got potholes on our roads that are bigger then Grand Canyon. Our girls are cheap sluts, who'd fuck anything for a bit of expensive cloths or shoes, even if it's the ugliest and uncleanest person on the planet. Our current prime minister is so dumb, that he calls our internal affair's minister to tie his shoe laces. Keep in mind, the internal affair minister is just a mini-me of the prime minister. We got a pop-star that's older then the dinosaurs ! Honestly, they didn't died coz of a meteor hitting the planet, but because they've heard her second album. In general, bulgarians consider themselves to be "OK", when everyone around them is worst then them.
Where to start? USA flushes far too much money down the drain on futile wars (lol WMDs), inefficient and poorly designed socio-economic policies (lol ethanol subsidies), and social entitlement programs that are literally bankrupting our country as we speak (lol social security/medicare). To pay for it all we borrow massively from countries whose interests are not exactly well aligned with our own (I think I put that as PC as possible), saddling our future generations with massive amounts of debt that will substantially reduce their quality of life just because the current generation wants all sorts of shiny new shit they don't need and are physically incapable of being fiscally responsible.
Nobody likes to talk about that though because clearly if you just pretend a debt problem like that doesn't exist and just spend more, the debt problems will go away on their own. Doesn't work for homeowners, doesn't work for countries. The problem is deeply ingrained into our political system since politicians that want to stop spending money are promptly either voted out of office or not voted into office in the first place, for being "downers" for making realistic assumptions about future economic growth relative to current expenditure. The population explosion in America that has been the primary source of our constant substantial economic growth over the last 50 years has run its course, but everyone just assumes that this rate of growth can be counted on to continue for the next 50. While that very well may happen, it is not responsible policy to base your budget expenditures on that assumption. Sorry, starting to ramble because this really makes me unhappy. Sad, sad panda.
Note: Whenever I start to lose my faith in my country/humanity in general, I just watch this: Where the Hell is Matt? and it makes me feel so much better. I'm going to go watch it now.
sweden: it's cold here, and not just the climate if a person you know is struggling you don't help him out, you expect him to be able to figure it out himself with the aid of the government; we proxy social responsibility to the government.
spontaneous social interaction is unheard of; if you don't have a reason to talk to someone other than a very close friend then you are acting weird if you do.
we idolize the social culture of warmer countries where the family takes care of the old (again we proxy that responsibility to the government), yet we do nothing to adopt such a culture because in the end we all know we can't be bothered with our aging parents when we are busy being a part of the modern world.
if you ever get a kid (this is rare; as are intimate relationships) don't worry about having to raise the thing; proxy that responsibility to government run schools.
we don't stand up for ourselves; we allow other cultures that are abusive and immoral to exist in the country because it would be intolerant to do otherwise.
Canada is boring, nothing really worth seeing and a bad country to visit, its too fucking huge with nothing in it. I work for the government, and yes, its really slow for any decision to be taken and when it is, it take even longer to make the change, and we are overpaid for what we do. The population is getting old, the healthcare is gonna blow when I will need it, the education has taken a turn for the worst, the government made several stupid decision and we can no longer be proud of being Canadian: Canada was liked by about every country and now its just a dumb US follower.
On September 05 2010 03:23 Slivered Skin wrote: Also Canada. A Francophone Quebecer, to be more specific:
I'm depressed that most of English Canada jumps to absurd conclusions about Quebec, and that they don't even try learning the causes behind the separatist movement or why certain Quebecers fight to protect their language with such gusto. I'm also annoyed whenever I become targeted by said English Canadians just because of the fact that I speak French and live in this province.
I'm also annoyed by the ignorant Quebecers that hate all Anglophones for no good reason. I despise how some of them believe that certain beliefs and cultures shouldn't be prevalent in Quebec, all while promoting Francophone supremacy.
I share your thoughts on that
I also hate the government system we have, it encourages status quo unless you get elected by majority (which rarely happens). I'd like to see less talk, and more changes.
Lived 10+ years in both Korea and Canada so here it is
Korea: -Pressure to study in school. All kids to is school and study, they don't get to have a life. -Very conservative society - half the shows on tv in the states you won't be able to air in korea. Sexual jokes are practically nonexistent. -In the workplace, you get rewarded for seniority rather than your ability -Government is a joke -Shallow and superficial. Seriously, I don't think there's any country that focuses more on external appearance than Korea. Girls getting plastic surgery as a MIDDLE SCHOOL graduation gift, shitloads of guys wearing elevators to make them appear taller, please... -Netizen society
Canada: -Bit too liberal for my taste -Judicial system too lax on criminals -Technological behind on things like internet, cellphones...ect -Public school system is a joke - way too easy, not challenging, catering to the lowest common denominator
I hate the music in my country that people call pop-folk, I also hate the mentality of the general public, and the fact that people rely to much on the government to do everything for them.
Canada, what I hate about it is racism. Not your typical white lynch type but everyone sticks together and creates racism, so much so the Vancouver area the word Richmond is synonymous with Asians, Surrey East India and Greater Vancouver rich white folk. People bitch about racism but every single person/race does it, now that I'm a minority in my own country it's bittersweet.
On February 02 2005 14:11 LeJester wrote: We dont invade a wide enough selection of countries. When I heard we were attacking Iraq I was like WTF?? We've already blown their shit up. I can think of so many more places that would be really interesting to drop bombs on. And then to top it off...we're like giving control of the country back to them!!! We win fair and square and then just hand it right back; I dont get it. I mean, we're even going to let them choose a new government. Our foreign policy has never made much sense in the past, but this is just getting to the point of ridiculousness.
Either that was irony which I didn't get, or you're an arrogant asshole imo...
I am 99% sure he is being sarcastic. I thought it was pretty funny actually
Not sure if I understand his post correctly, but hes trying to make fun of the typical american hick?
Typical american hypocritical hick = Everyone should be allowed to have a metal tube that shoots out super fast smaller pieces of metal with the sole purpose of killing things, but the option to decide what to put in my own body? Noooo, no thanks.
hungary:-bad government over the past years(theres a new one now so we shall see) -healthcare getting worse and worse -education the same as healthcare -bad relationship with the neighbours(slovakia, romania) hell the country is about to financially collapse :O
On September 05 2010 05:22 Skee wrote: Seriously..... a beaver? WTF.
Lol what are talking about Beavers are awesome there like the troll of nature, "Oh what a beautiful river you've got there... (Builds dam, floods your back yard, kills all the surrounding trees)So I made you a pond! Lolololol" Fuuuuu beaver!
France : - Soccer Team. - Goes on Strike for whatever reason, some companies goes for strike 2/3 times a year. We just get used to it. - Nobody is ever happy with the current system, but nobody want anything to change either.
Way too many yuppies here. Seriously i hate yuppies and their fucking money. These stupid suburb yuppies all come to where i gew up and live, and they change everything. Theve converted my neighborhood from a beautiful local hangout-place, to a hip modern shopping street. God i hate them!
On September 05 2010 05:43 Tyrran wrote: France : - Soccer Team. - Goes on Strike for whatever reason, some companies goes for strike 2/3 times a year. We just get used to it. - Nobody is ever happy with the current system, but nobody want anything to change either.
Companies going on strike isnt a bad thing, workers shouldnt put up with everything
On September 05 2010 04:34 Whomp wrote: Canada, what I hate about it is racism. Not your typical white lynch type but everyone sticks together and creates racism, so much so the Vancouver area the word Richmond is synonymous with Asians, Surrey East India and Greater Vancouver rich white folk. People bitch about racism but every single person/race does it, now that I'm a minority in my own country it's bittersweet.
It's the minorities' countries just as much as it is yours so suck it up.
Our country has too many retarded liberals (as in liberal party/NDP), an extremely costly & inefficient health care system, and half the country thinks there should be more government spending.
On September 05 2010 04:34 Whomp wrote: Canada, what I hate about it is racism. Not your typical white lynch type but everyone sticks together and creates racism, so much so the Vancouver area the word Richmond is synonymous with Asians, Surrey East India and Greater Vancouver rich white folk. People bitch about racism but every single person/race does it, now that I'm a minority in my own country it's bittersweet.
It's the minorities' countries just as much as it is yours so suck it up.
I think you're misunderstanding his statement. He's not arguing for the minorities to leave, but rather he's decrying the de facto segregation. He's merely using the "minority in my own country" to illustrate the resulting irony of that segregation.
Over 1/4 of U.S. adults are obese. Not fat - but so fat that it is dangerous to their health. The Army has had to change their Basic Training program because recruits were not fit enough to do situps or to do distance running.
Many people base their worldviews on Christianity, but have never so much as thumbed through the Bible.
Americans have completely lost any sense of self-sacrifice and hard work. People want the national debt reduced, but they don't want to pay higher taxes. They want better healthcare, but they don't want to take care of their own health by exercising and eating right. They want national security, but they're indifferent or hostile to the idea of a Palestinian state, they don't want to join the army, and they don't want to change their lifestyles by reducing their dependency on foreign oil. Our obsession with with finding out "what's in it for me?" is matched only by our shallow emotional need to appear to care about something larger than ourselves.
Over 1/4 of U.S. adults are obese. Not fat - but so fat that it is dangerous to their health. The Army has had to change their Basic Training program because recruits were not fit enough to do situps or to do distance running.
Many people base their worldviews on Christianity, but have never so much as thumbed through the Bible.
Americans have completely lost any sense of self-sacrifice and hard work. People want the national debt reduced, but they don't want to pay higher taxes. They want better healthcare, but they don't want to take care of their own health by exercising and eating right. They want national security, but they're indifferent or hostile to the idea of a Palestinian state, they don't want to join the army, and they don't want to change their lifestyles by reducing their dependency on foreign oil. Our obsession with with finding out "what's in it for me?" is matched only by our shallow emotional need to appear to care about something larger than ourselves.
Half of my country is a bunch of Bible thumping dumbasses and the other half is a bunch of whiny liberals with no balls and their head shoved so far up their politically correct ass that they are blind from reality.
Also, my country cries about our healthcare system(which does need reform) and says that if universal healthcare works in Europe, it will work here. But one thing I notice about Europeans is that they actually care about their health. Here in America is like a competition to see how fast you can eat yourself into a heart attack..
Our unemployment is bothersome to be sure. There's quite a few problems but I don't want to sit here and list them all. What I do want to note is that the different regions in America are very different often times, and it's a little too various to make claims about something so broad.
So far Sweden looks like heaven compared to the other countries.
Moar Brazil bashing:
- Criminality in all sectors of the society. Ranges from the little pickpocketer to the high government figures public money diversion.
- Public universities have poor infra-structure (lack of equipment, low quality equipment). I was kind of ashamed when two german professors from Gelsenskirchen (almost sure I misspelled ) came to give us a lecture about HCI. + Show Spoiler +
Just a note: half of their presentation was written in English, the other half in German. Holy shit, German words are long.
- Brazilians think too high about themselves when it comes to football (soccer). Often we are bad losers.
- A PC that cost US$800 in the US will cost around US$1350 here due to importation taxes.
- On the internet, everyone I know laugh like this: shuhuhUHSUHUSHASshuhauhauhsuha or like this kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Several different rape cases are judged the same way:
"Because the 3 and 4 year-old girls did not cry out or protest, it can't be proved that it wasn't consensual. Therefore, the rapists will get a few months in prison."
A few months?! WTF?!
Thing is, there are laws that could put these people in jail for years, yet the judges chose to pick this "consent" rule.
Everything costs more than America, some of them make sense others... not so much. We get shafted and we take it (seriously I wish we could general strike like France). This province called Quebec whines a lot, they want to separate, but yet they don't know that if they do, they will crumble due to the fact that Canada pays companies to go there and prop it up. There is more I know, but this is what comes to my sleep-deprived mind.
Food (mostly talking about fast food, restaurants) in general is cheaper in the States. This is my experience being in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. The US is known for having large portions of food. Soft drinks generally don't have free refills in other countries also.
Finland: Mandatory army Slight hatred towards sweden Shitty language Alcohol/cigarette taxes Schools are involved with christianity (kids get diplomas and stuff while singing in church)
On September 05 2010 04:11 Jameser wrote: sweden: it's cold here, and not just the climate if a person you know is struggling you don't help him out, you expect him to be able to figure it out himself with the aid of the government; we proxy social responsibility to the government.
spontaneous social interaction is unheard of; if you don't have a reason to talk to someone other than a very close friend then you are acting weird if you do.
we idolize the social culture of warmer countries where the family takes care of the old (again we proxy that responsibility to the government), yet we do nothing to adopt such a culture because in the end we all know we can't be bothered with our aging parents when we are busy being a part of the modern world.
if you ever get a kid (this is rare; as are intimate relationships) don't worry about having to raise the thing; proxy that responsibility to government run schools.
we don't stand up for ourselves; we allow other cultures that are abusive and immoral to exist in the country because it would be intolerant to do otherwise.
I think I did a pretty thorough job
Really nice post. It's a very individualistic place to be with solid relation to the government. I can't believe that the youth of today hasn't rebelled and created a counter culture with roots in the community. Creating an identity for themselves and leaving a history behind. Instead everyone is caught up with themselves and listening to whatever TV/Internet/books tells them they should do. Maybe this is normal and will get better once everyone hits 30.
A pathetic country were it's pretty much legal to commit crimes since the punishment is so low and the prisons are so luxurious ( TVs in cell, X360 and so on).
We still have a king and queen despite living in the 21th century, cmon how fucking retarded isn't that.
And let's not talk about the media, it's ok to show the face of a suspected murderer/rapist if he is white but if he is not from sweden it's not ok to show his face/name. What a fucking joke. All the good parts with Sweden won't stay good for long unless this shits keeps going on.
On September 05 2010 07:28 suxN wrote: Finland: Mandatory army Slight hatred towards sweden Shitty language Alcohol/cigarette taxes Schools are involved with christianity (kids get diplomas and stuff while singing in church)
Isnt the hatred more pointed against Russia than Sweden? That´s what Ive always thought anyways.
I think Finland is getting more deeper mental suffering about forced culture acceptance. Like my summer coworker said (He is from Iraq) that if you go to coffee shop (or some diner) and order with their language and fail about it most native customers will laugh to you (most likely you will too to yourself :D). Now in Finland if same thing happens native customers automatically stay silent and be like nothing happened. Why this? Its because we fear that we are accused of hatred / racism towards foreign people. Even though we have low amount of refugees / foreign people coming we are now turning point. Some people don't want them here but can't express feeling about it so they vote one party that opposes this.
Coworker said that people are getting colder and more careful what they say now days. Why so serious? I might ask.
On September 05 2010 07:06 fabiano wrote: - On the internet, everyone I know laugh like this: shuhuhUHSUHUSHASshuhauhauhsuha or like this kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
I've run across a lot of "jajajajajajajajajajaaa" in my time :/
On September 05 2010 07:06 fabiano wrote: - On the internet, everyone I know laugh like this: shuhuhUHSUHUSHASshuhauhauhsuha or like this kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
I've run across a lot of "jajajajajajajajajajaaa" in my time :/
A pathetic country were it's pretty much legal to commit crimes since the punishment is so low and the prisons are so luxurious ( TVs in cell, X360 and so on).
We still have a king and queen despite living in the 21th century, cmon how fucking retarded isn't that.
And let's not talk about the media, it's ok to show the face of a suspected murderer/rapist if he is white but if he is not from sweden it's not ok to show his face/name. What a fucking joke. All the good parts with Sweden won't stay good for long unless this shits keeps going on.
That last point is bullshit and has never been proven. It´s just Propaganda from stupid White trash Sverigedemokrater who believe everything they hear. Actually, the Media is Very happy to point out when immigrant-"gangs" do something. Just chech out Aftonbladet! (big Newspaper) They pretty much live on writing about "Rosengård burns again!"
Just a question, do you read "Politiskt inkorrekt"? Couse that blog has been proven to 1. Just talk about things that prove their points and never meet counter arguments and 2. lies A lot.
On September 05 2010 07:43 Too_MuchZerg wrote: I think Finland is getting more deeper mental suffering about forced culture acceptance. Like my summer coworker said (He is from Iraq) that if you go to coffee shop (or some diner) and order with their language and fail about it most native customers will laugh to you (most likely you will too to yourself :D). Now in Finland if same thing happens native customers automatically stay silent and be like nothing happened. Why this? Its because we fear that we are accused of hatred / racism towards foreign people. Even though we have low amount of refugees / foreign people coming we are now turning point. Some people don't want them here but can't express feeling about it so they vote one party that opposes this.
Coworker said that people are getting colder and more careful what they say now days. Why so serious? I might ask.
There was a year when there were only 2 people who moved to Finland <3
A pathetic country were it's pretty much legal to commit crimes since the punishment is so low and the prisons are so luxurious ( TVs in cell, X360 and so on).
We still have a king and queen despite living in the 21th century, cmon how fucking retarded isn't that.
And let's not talk about the media, it's ok to show the face of a suspected murderer/rapist if he is white but if he is not from sweden it's not ok to show his face/name. What a fucking joke. All the good parts with Sweden won't stay good for long unless this shits keeps going on.
Yes prisons are luxurious here too which sucks.
Having king and queen is good publicity (tourist and so) for Sweden. We calculated having president cost more money than Sweden having royal family.
A pathetic country were it's pretty much legal to commit crimes since the punishment is so low and the prisons are so luxurious ( TVs in cell, X360 and so on).
We still have a king and queen despite living in the 21th century, cmon how fucking retarded isn't that.
And let's not talk about the media, it's ok to show the face of a suspected murderer/rapist if he is white but if he is not from sweden it's not ok to show his face/name. What a fucking joke. All the good parts with Sweden won't stay good for long unless this shits keeps going on.
That last point is bullshit and has never been proven. It´s just Propaganda from stupid White trash Sverigedemokrater who believe everything they hear. Actually, the Media is Very happy to point out when immigrant-"gangs" do something. Just chech out Aftonbladet! (big Newspaper) They pretty much live on writing about "Rosengård burns again!"
Just a question, do you read "Politiskt inkorrekt"? Couse that blog has been proven to 1. Just talk about things that prove their points and never meet counter arguments and 2. lies A lot.
It's bullshit? yea sure whatever, how come that I haven't seen a single foreign persons name or picture in the newspapers? How about Mats Alm? Joakim Eriksson? Thats just this year. Or how about Anders Eklund? Interesting how the person that killed the old lady in helsingborg and the one that killed 16 year old Nancy never had their faces or names reveladed to the public. Hmm that's really odd... Or how about how on Efterlyst they always defend the criminal immigrants which even Leif GW Persson have questioned several times.
Whats bullshit is your inability to open your eyes and not listening to the media that covers everything about. It's weird how over Neighbour countries can show the truth but we can't despite being way worse off than both denmark and Norway. But please go on and live in your lie, I guess you live in Östermalm or any other place were there isn't any immigrants or much crime.
First our dear president and the whole government are assholes who arent thinking even a second about the nation. They are just here for money (and the money of their friend, the most powerful mens/ womens inf france's economy are close friends to the president and his ministers), but well it's the same every where i guess and it has been like that for years (the 2 former president were like that too).
If you are a bit curious, just check out who Eric Woerth and Bettencourt are. Then all the world have heard a little something about the expulsions of the roms in France. And don't get me started about the favorite subject of our dear president, security, and how his views on the subject have worsen the mood between the population and the police (which wasnt good to begin with).
I could continue with how hard it is to find a job nowadays if you are young, but it is obviously the same everywhere.
Then again, if you can forget all of this, life is good down here. And people are aware of what is wrong in the country and what needs to be improved.
+1 to this btw, we got 2 break ins in the past 2 years lol
We need a proper government but we also need a proper mentality. People in France will often times go on strike for ridiculous reasons. It's stupid.
A pathetic country were it's pretty much legal to commit crimes since the punishment is so low and the prisons are so luxurious ( TVs in cell, X360 and so on).
We still have a king and queen despite living in the 21th century, cmon how fucking retarded isn't that.
And let's not talk about the media, it's ok to show the face of a suspected murderer/rapist if he is white but if he is not from sweden it's not ok to show his face/name. What a fucking joke. All the good parts with Sweden won't stay good for long unless this shits keeps going on.
That last point is bullshit and has never been proven. It´s just Propaganda from stupid White trash Sverigedemokrater who believe everything they hear. Actually, the Media is Very happy to point out when immigrant-"gangs" do something. Just chech out Aftonbladet! (big Newspaper) They pretty much live on writing about "Rosengård burns again!"
Just a question, do you read "Politiskt inkorrekt"? Couse that blog has been proven to 1. Just talk about things that prove their points and never meet counter arguments and 2. lies A lot.
It's bullshit? yea sure whatever, how come that I haven't seen a single foreign persons name or picture in the newspapers? How about Mats Alm? Joakim Eriksson? Thats just this year. Or how about Anders Eklund? Interesting how the person that killed the old lady in helsingborg and the one that killed 16 year old Nancy never had their faces or names reveladed to the public. Hmm that's really odd... Or how about how on Efterlyst they always defend the criminal immigrants which even Leif GW Persson have questioned several times.
Whats bullshit is your inability to open your eyes and not listening to the media that covers everything about. It's weird how over Neighbour countries can show the truth but we can't despite being way worse off than both denmark and Norway. But please go on and live in your lie, I guess you live in Östermalm or any other place were there isn't any immigrants or much crime.
I live in Malmö, very close to Möllevången and Rosengård. So yeah. For you nonswedes, that is classed as Swedens 2 most "islamised" and "criminal" parts of Sweden.
However I also know that GW is stupid, he, if anyone, is the one who lives segregated from people from other countries.
Also, havent you thought about this: Since more swedes commit crimes in Sweden ofcourse more Swedes will have their names and faces posted in the newspapers -.-
A pathetic country were it's pretty much legal to commit crimes since the punishment is so low and the prisons are so luxurious ( TVs in cell, X360 and so on).
We still have a king and queen despite living in the 21th century, cmon how fucking retarded isn't that.
And let's not talk about the media, it's ok to show the face of a suspected murderer/rapist if he is white but if he is not from sweden it's not ok to show his face/name. What a fucking joke. All the good parts with Sweden won't stay good for long unless this shits keeps going on.
Yes prisons are luxurious here too which sucks.
Having king and queen is good publicity (tourist and so) for Sweden. We calculated having president cost more money than Sweden having royal family.
Swedens view on Jailtime is not Punishment as much as it is Rehabilitation. If you´re gonna bash that, look at Norway, they are even "worse".
On September 05 2010 08:12 gdroxor wrote: The United States: + Show Spoiler +
actually the united states is not an old well of cutie, it is a young untrained frat that refuses to learn from foreign history.
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The picture is of Sarah Palin, the worst thing to happen to this country since we gave the natives smallpox blankets. Also your link is broken, and you didn't bash your own country. P.S. Angela Merkel is a hottie. <3
Bulgaria was named the capital of corruption a few years ago. You can be basically sure that like 100% of politicians around here leech money from the state. And some of them are greedy as hell. The latest news is that the leader of one of the bigger parties, who has a Ph.D. in philosophy was given nearly 1,000,000 Euros for being a consultant in hydrology and construction engineering in 4 huge projects. Of course all of those are government projects, which somehow have been awarded to companies that have links to this guy.
On September 05 2010 08:30 ggrrg wrote: Bulgaria was named the capital of corruption a few years ago. You can be basically sure that like 100% of politicians around here leech money from the state. And some of them are greedy as hell. The latest news is that the leader of one of the bigger parties, who has a Ph.D. in philosophy was given nearly 1,000,000 Euros for being a consultant in hydrology and construction engineering in 4 huge projects. Of course all of those are government projects, which somehow have been awarded to companies that have links to this guy.
corruption... what about haiti?
Canadian who is from Taiwan. Taiwan bitches too much about being an independent country and kids there are so one-dimensional Canada = rocks trees dirt. so exciting
Why should I bash the US? It does the job for me...
I just fail to see how a country that produces such great philosophers as George Carlin (no sarcasm there) has enough" greatness" left over to claim that obesity is a disease and not a lifestyle choice. To me, that falls in the same vein as calling homosexuality a disease and not a lifestyle choice. I mean really? Some people may be predisposed to obesity or homosexuality, but last I checked neither was "catching."
A pathetic country were it's pretty much legal to commit crimes since the punishment is so low and the prisons are so luxurious ( TVs in cell, X360 and so on).
We still have a king and queen despite living in the 21th century, cmon how fucking retarded isn't that.
And let's not talk about the media, it's ok to show the face of a suspected murderer/rapist if he is white but if he is not from sweden it's not ok to show his face/name. What a fucking joke. All the good parts with Sweden won't stay good for long unless this shits keeps going on.
How the hell does low/not so harsh punishment make something legal?
You just made me realise another thing I hate about Sweden, people here idolize the conservative sides of the US way too much. It's been shown in pretty much every single study ever done that having a harsh legal system doesn't reduce crime at all, it makes shit worse. Seriously, just look at the US, more than 1% of the entire population is in jail, stop trying to make Sweden more like that ffs.
Hahaha, I've never heard of this country before. Damn it's small! On a side-note, a little to the right of Nauru is the even smaller island of Ooma. Wow geography :O
The US has Glenn Beck We are fat as all hell We think everyone else in the world would be lucky to be American Our government is inefficient and corrupt at best
United States = * Border officials that are required to be retarded in order to be employed. * Media * United States LAW (In the court house the criminal is protected and the person that initiates a law suit has an advantage)
Mexico = * The fact that we have to deploy our military within our own country (drugs) * Alcoholics * Poverty * Populations short-term memory regarding the damage some political parties have done to the coutnry.
I hate that in Norway you have bullshit politicians which wont / cant do shit, so that nothing ever changes. I hate that in Norway bars and nightclubs arent allowed to play trance, because it "ecourages" exstacy. I hate that in Norway you have to pay more than in any country for a beer or a pack of cigarettes. I hate that in Norway most prisoners actually have better conditions in jail than they do on the outside. I hate that in Norway anything negative (as in any kind of critique) regarding immigrants (Muslims especially) is considered rasist. I hate that in Norway bars close at 01.30. I hate that in Norway you have a relatively retarded school system, which locks out people who might have done well only given a second chance (if you do allright you walk a golden paved road of stundent loans) with a test or something (as they have in the netherlands).
/rant of norwegian fails (probably forgot many of them though, as im writing this drunk)
-There are actually a large percentage of us who think evolution is a hoax -Some people here truly believe the Earth was created 6000 years ago -Sarah Palin -Most American adults are overweight and some of these people breed and then overfeed their children to produce even more overweight people. This is a serious health problem that people recognize but don't do anything about it. 15 years ago I would have never thought obesity would be a larger problem than smoking -A lot of people don't like acknowledging it, but racism is still is a large part of American society. How disgusting -Only in American can someone like John and Kate get swept up by media poaches and then have their lives ruined because of it -We happen to be the only developed nation to not have universal health care. How pathetic are we that we can spend enough to maintain 50% of the world's combined military yet can't provide health care for the less unfortunate -Our education is getting more and more behind; more of our leading scientists are imported from other countries
Most of these problems are leading to a slowly decaying country. We may have the world's largest economy but if you asked a middle class American (wait that's a countradiction, there is no middle class anymore) to rate the quality of their life it would probably be a 3 on the scale of 1-10. If these problems are not fixed another Civil War is a possibility (one completely different, most likely a class war) or federal government implosion leading to complete anarchy or modern day city-states.
Last year I visited/lived in all three of the following countries for a good duration: Canada, China, US I've also lived in these countries before for four+ years each.
Canada: I used to think Canadians were nicer than Americans. But the truth is, they're the same. I just lived in a small suburb in Canada, and attended grade school so they seemed nicer.
I think Canadians are very similar to Americans in almost every way, but we make fun of America anyways. In truth, we follow America, it's celebrities, and news stories. Canada is America's hat, or little America, not the other way around :/
The country is filled with greedy businessmen, unwilling to lose profit by changing the price of their items even when the value of the loonie has risen so much in comparison to the states.
The internet is god awful, even here in Toronto.
The people are hypocrites who think that they are doing good and saving the planet from evil forces, when they are really following a mob mentality and aiding in what they are fighting against.
There is too much weed.
China: This country is horrendously corrupt.
The children spend way too much time either studying (either school or a hobby) because they are pushed to the extremes by their parents, or spend too much time working at a job and playing at internet cafe's.
The educational system stresses memorization over critical thinking.
While the country claims to want peace, the people are very racist, and think that Americans are trying to disturb their peace by instigating rebellions and messing with their economies. They think that blacks and people of other skin colors are inferior creatures, and that we evolved from them. The beliefs are much the same that fueled the second world war.
The people are too nationalistic and, having been raised one way, are unwilling to see any other point of view.
The country still operates in a backwards fashion in many ways. People still trust old medicine that has never been proven in a laboratory setting to work. The health system essentially sells a cheap placebo.
Large cities are filled with smog and smokers. Both contribute to give me chronic asthma attacks. There are more smokers where people are poorer.
There are many people who steal and scam. Just about every advertisement on TV lies. If you don't speak chinese, be prepared to pay twice as much (at least) for everything.
The streets can be dangerous for pedestrians. People jaywalk in very dangerous ways, cars fight so hard for the little space they allow other cars. Taxi drivers can make more money the more people they find, so they drive way above the speed limit.
US: Same as China, the country is hopelessly nationalistic.
The people in cities and suburbs are fatter, Chinese people eat healthier food, food with less fatty oils. Canada has fewer dense cities / large dispersed planned suburbs.
The US is divided between the relatively really smart and the stupid. Very few people inhabit the middle ground. The conditions just seem to be there to raise incredibly capable individuals, but the potential is also there for many individuals to fall through a gap.
Reality television, sitcoms, and (fox) news prey on the masses using sensationalism. There is no substance in the entertainment in general. The eastern world copies this pattern, it's very profitable.
Family guy.
They also have many flaws in common, such as the large disparity between the very rich, and the very poor.
People are increasingly reliant on computers. As a computer engineering student, I love computers, but I do not like seeing a rapid decline in the amount of effort people think that they are capable of getting away with.
What can you do :/
edit: Perhaps instead of seeing everything as a flaw, I will just say that it is hypocrisy that makes me think of these things as flaws. If people accepted that they were selfish by nature, then it would not look so bad if someone did a selfish deed.
Fucking internet censorship, government doing gay shit everywhere, polluted, education system flawed, rich and poor gap, food doesn't live up to health standards, internet slow, traffic jams
i am from canadiania land i wear hats made of beaver pelts my computer is made of wood and my internet service is a hamster in a wheel but hey it's hard to get much else in my igloo
We paid our foreign debt in full a couple of years ago... Dunno if we got some new loans or what. But AFAIK the US is one of the most in debt countries at least in some ratio, dont remember where i read that, and i think a huge part of it is to china.
I'm not even going to comment about my country cause i'd get depresed -.-
On February 02 2005 13:51 ssidengi wrote: hm... can anyone tell me which countries are actually not in debt? ... I was thinking if there was one country that wouldn't be in debt, it'd be the states
I was always of the belief that people should be masters of their own destiny. If they want to smoke meth and rot their teeth out they should have that freedom.
This is naive imo. When people do things like crack-cocaine or crystal meth, the problem isn't necessarily the fact that they are now under the influence of some pretty messed up drugs and are screwing with their general health, it's the fact that people do crazy shit when under the influence of these drugs. If everyone who ever did any relatively extreme drugs (heroine, meth, etc.) never left their house (or more realistically, their box they live in) then I wouldn't give a damn about it. The problem is that people who do these drugs also tend to commit atrocities that destroy other peoples' lives.
The US is divided between the relatively really smart and the stupid. Very few people inhabit the middle ground. The conditions just seem to be there to raise incredibly capable individuals, but the potential is also there for many individuals to fall through a gap.
I think I agree with this. The U.S. has some of the best research institutions/universities in the world, yet much of our population is incredibly stupid.
I mainly hate the way the U.S. is perceived by foreign countries (fat, lazy, nosy, ignorant, arrogant), because for the most part, it's true. When I've been abroad in Europe I've seen some pretty stupid shit done by pretty stupid Americans...
being part of a country that consist of the most rudest , impatient , and not so civilized people the case is so bad that an Israeli client in tourism is considered hell.
I was always of the belief that people should be masters of their own destiny. If they want to smoke meth and rot their teeth out they should have that freedom.
This is naive imo. When people do things like crack-cocaine or crystal meth, the problem isn't necessarily the fact that they are now under the influence of some pretty messed up drugs and are screwing with their general health, it's the fact that people do crazy shit when under the influence of these drugs. If everyone who ever did any relatively extreme drugs (heroine, meth, etc.) never left their house (or more realistically, their box they live in) then I wouldn't give a damn about it. The problem is that people who do these drugs also tend to commit atrocities that destroy other peoples' lives.
The US is divided between the relatively really smart and the stupid. Very few people inhabit the middle ground. The conditions just seem to be there to raise incredibly capable individuals, but the potential is also there for many individuals to fall through a gap.
I think I agree with this. The U.S. has some of the best research institutions/universities in the world, yet much of our population is incredibly stupid.
I mainly hate the way the U.S. is perceived by foreign countries (fat, lazy, nosy, ignorant, arrogant), because for the most part, it's true. When I've been abroad in Europe I've seen some pretty stupid shit done by pretty stupid Americans...
Yeah, and they destroy the lives of their children who aren't given a chance to become functioning members of society.
That said, I hate everything Obama stands for. Watching him run our country into the ground makes me sick.
In my country people can't speak to new people, outside of work, without having been drinking for 2 hours.
People complain about the weather all year around. In the summer it is too hot, in the winter it is too cold, in autumn it rains too much and in spring it rains too much.
My country thinks it is a good idea to have an army that can't defeat any serious threat, just invest the money in the police and surrender in case of war.
My country takes in huge amounts of immigrants then complains about them not integrating due to there being so many of them, even starting racist parties.
G'day mate 'n welc'm to Australia, Where th' Spiders 'ave HP bars, we eat Kangaroo 'n beer for all our meals, 'n the mostdeadly animal is not a crocodile, but them blasted sting rays
Koreans have way too much national pride esp the parents/grandparents. They strongly believe that they are better than everyone else just because they are Korean. Another problem with Koreans is that they care way too much about status/looks/etc.
The U.S just has way too many dumb fucks that can fuck up a good country. Sarah Palin is a prime example of this, to have even 1 person support her is retarded, yet there are millions that do. Basically too many dumb shits here.
On September 05 2010 07:47 Sl4ktarN wrote: That last point is bullshit and has never been proven. It´s just Propaganda from stupid White trash Sverigedemokrater who believe everything they hear.
It's a matter of principle. You DO NOT harm other people. If you do, you should expect to be punished hard. But that's not the case over here.
Canada: - The pace of the country is very slow. I feel it's a great country to settle down if you are old, but it's a terrible place if you have ambition or passion of any kind. I think the government does recognize this flaw, and it is consistently trying thing to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship (in Ontario at least), but, at least for now, it's not enough. When I first returned from Japan, my immediate reaction was that people walked really slowly in both Vancouver and Toronto. - Another big problem in Canada is that the country has trouble keeping talents within its borders. Top candidates get picked by firms in the U.S. and even overseas, and many aren't hesitant to leave their homeland.
China: - The difference between the rich and the poor is still too great, and it's saddening. - Some of the people living in the more prosperous cities in China think they are the kings of the world; they refuse to take any criticism of their wonderful city, and believe everything they have is the best of the best. - Rich people in China are the worst; minus the money they have (through 'grey' channels I'd assume), most of them they are still just farmers. They have no respect for their surroundings, and lack even the most basic mannerism. This really struck me when I was in Tokyo, where apparently flocks of rich Chinese tourists shop in upscale department stores. They were always shouting, pointing and generally not showing a sign of respect to the Japanese culture (which is being polite, quite and reserved). - Pollution, labour laws, etc, etc. China still has a very long way to go.
edit: Wow, this is really cool. Here's what I posted over five years ago!
On February 02 2005 16:41 Cambium wrote: China: The government is corrupted, but you won't notice anything if you aren't anti-communism. Majority of the country is still poor. The difference between the rich and the poor is too great. Everyone is greedy and manipulative. Children are under too much pressure (too much competition).
Canada: Taxes are too high (15%, WTF?) Too cold / Too much snow. Too hard to get liquor.
edit 2: Hmm, I raised some interesting points about China last time... and lol at my Canada comments.
@Cambium: Yeah! I can't really call China my country since I've spent probably only 6-7% of my life there, but we Shanghainese be lovin' our city. If you have shit to talk about our city, gtfo. I guess that's a bad thing :<
On September 05 2010 10:06 love1another wrote: @Cambium: Yeah! I can't really call China my country since I've spent probably only 6-7% of my life there, but we Shanghainese be lovin' our city. If you have shit to talk about our city, gtfo. I guess that's a bad thing :<
I think Shanghai residents are the worst. My GF and I lived with her uncle's family for a few weeks in China last time we visited together. He asked me for my opinions of SH, I said a few good things and also some things I did not like; he basically flipped out on me and rebutted every point I made =.=
On September 05 2010 10:06 love1another wrote: @Cambium: Yeah! I can't really call China my country since I've spent probably only 6-7% of my life there, but we Shanghainese be lovin' our city. If you have shit to talk about our city, gtfo. I guess that's a bad thing :<
I think Shanghai residents are the worst. My GF and I lived with her uncle's family for a few weeks in China last time we visited together. He asked me for my opinions of SH, I said a few good things and also some things I did not like; he basically flipped out on me and rebutted every point I made =.=
It's cuz... Shanghainese, in fact, are the best in the world. We're from motherfucking Shanghai, and all the rest of you Chinese peepz are peasants. Get back to farming! :3
guns are hard to get in germany, for the very good reason that all of our politicans would be dead within hours
bureaucraZy overpopulation, nazis, dogs(like 1 dog per inhabitant comes close), and the very loose interpretation of the human rights, captilism, and the conflict of not having united culture due to history (ww2, cold war etc).
MOST modern german music, german "schlager"(worst kind of music in the world), mafia like goverment-television channels
superinsane Rich/Poor ratio
translation/synchronisation of everything (one of the reason why manny germans can't speak proper english)
lately: removal/great reduction of healthcare, access to free education, enforcing power of policemen, being at war because there is a HUGE american D1ck in Merkels 4ss
Not germanies fault, but still annoying: having to use proxys often to get intresting content from other countries.
On September 05 2010 10:17 Zombee wrote: guns are hard to get in germany, for the very good reason that all of our politicans would be dead within hours
bureaucraZy overpopulation, nazis, dogs(like 1 dog per inhabitant comes close), and the very loose interpretation of the human rights, captilism, and the conflict of not having united culture due to history (ww2, cold war etc).
MOST modern german music, german "schlager"(worst kind of music in the world), mafia like goverment-television channels
superinsane Rich/Poor ratio
translation/synchronisation of everything (one of the reason why manny germans can't speak proper english)
lately: removal/great reduction of healthcare, access to free education, enforcing power of policemen, being at war because there is a HUGE american D1ck in Merkels 4ss
Not germanies fault, but still annoying: having to use proxys often to get intresting content from other countries.
How do you feel about English being so prevalent in Germany? I took a few years of German here in the States only to learn that it's fairly pointless since most of Germany speaks better English than much of America.
@ gdroxor I think it's awesome, foreigners welcome - but compared to sweden or netherlands most germans speak terrible terrible english. Probably not the guys you would meet when visiting germany - like everyone older than 30 and anyone without a proper highschool degree, the majority of people here
Most of everything I dislike about the UK can be traced directly to our media.
Its not a state puppet, its not got any incredible bias to it, its free and fair...
...but it thrives on negativity, scandal and a vulgar "celeb" culture. No government can ever do a good job, because the we only want to hear about the bad. When there's nothing too wrong going on, we invent something bad to make up for it. Doomsaying shifts five times as many copies as good news. Politics, culture and the opinion of the people bend to reflect what the media reports, and its for the worse.
I even blame our underperforming football team on the media.
Libel laws in this country also suck big balls. London is the world capital in libel tourism: Saudi oil barons go to the UK to sue American authors for content written in books never sold in Britain.
And public transport is appalling. But I can live with that.
EDIT: Oh, almost forgot. Worst bit about the country: It rains.
On September 05 2010 10:27 XazXio wrote: we have obama in the white house.... i think that is the worst any country can do
So you're saying electing people named obama are bad? Or are you against his socialist policies? Or you think his elitist views are bad for the country? Please specify your complaint, or risk looking like a narrow-minded redneck! Until your clarify, I'm going to assume you hate pseudo-black people <3
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On September 05 2010 10:06 love1another wrote: @Cambium: Yeah! I can't really call China my country since I've spent probably only 6-7% of my life there, but we Shanghainese be lovin' our city. If you have shit to talk about our city, gtfo. I guess that's a bad thing :<
I think Shanghai residents are the worst. My GF and I lived with her uncle's family for a few weeks in China last time we visited together. He asked me for my opinions of SH, I said a few good things and also some things I did not like; he basically flipped out on me and rebutted every point I made =.=
It's cuz... Shanghainese, in fact, are the best in the world. We're from motherfucking Shanghai, and all the rest of you Chinese peepz are peasants. Get back to farming! :3
It's scary because I think some people actually think like that, to a lesser degree... I hope.
More accurately, I think it's something along this line: 1. China is on its way to become the world's second largest economy, and projected to overtake America in a few decades. 2. Shanghai is the most prosperous city in China From 1 and 2, we derive Shanghai is the best city in the world. Yay~
There are too many people who get swayed too easily by the media and don't really think for themselves in our country. Said people develop dangerous and uneducated ideas. >.<
America is in love with victimhood. They're so drenched in it that's it permeated our thinking, our behaviors, etc. Everything is a "disease".
As for Korea, I hate how seniority outranks merit. I hate how there's pretty much 0 innovation in its tech industry and how is\ts always attempting to copy. I hate the commercials here and their laughable attempts to be emotionally profound. I hate how they use the word "we" and "our", and how it visibly demarcates who is "us" and who is "them", "friends" vs "others", "Koreans" vs "foreigners", etc.
On September 05 2010 10:32 blahman3344 wrote: There are too many people who get swayed too easily by the media and don't really think for themselves in our country. Said people develop dangerous and uneducated ideas. >.<
Hear hear.
That is what's happening in here right now that's why we took a turn for the worse after the Marcos Regime.
This only applies to the region of Canada I live in (Alberta) and not the whole country.
1. Unpredictable weather - I've seen the weather go from a snow blizzard to 15 degrees Celsius...in a period of 12 hours. I think the weatherman said it was going to rain that day.
2. Lots of rednecks/extreme conservatives. Unfortunately, most of the government and wealthy people here consist of these people.
3. It's boring. Nothing much to do. Although a new mega-mall is being built...
On September 05 2010 10:52 Box.N.Straw wrote: This only applies to the region of Canada I live in (Alberta) and not the whole country.
1. Unpredictable weather - I've seen the weather go from a snow blizzard to 15 degrees Celsius...in a period of 12 hours. I think the weatherman said it was going to rain that day.
2. Lots of rednecks/extreme conservatives. Unfortunately, most of the government and wealthy people here consist of these people.
3. It's boring. Nothing much to do. Although a new mega-mall is being built...
Avoiding hot potatoes and promising more for everyone wins peoples vote.
People don't vote for clever people, they vote for whoever tells the prettiest fairy tales.
EDIT: AND THE WEATHER IS SO FUCKING COLD
And there's a huge religious influence from a lot of immigrants. Anything related to religion is just sad. It feels like Sweden as a modern society is taking steps backwards.
Religion's popularity declining is a sure sign of a societies modernization.
On September 05 2010 10:52 Box.N.Straw wrote: This only applies to the region of Canada I live in (Alberta) and not the whole country.
1. Unpredictable weather - I've seen the weather go from a snow blizzard to 15 degrees Celsius...in a period of 12 hours. I think the weatherman said it was going to rain that day.
2. Lots of rednecks/extreme conservatives. Unfortunately, most of the government and wealthy people here consist of these people.
3. It's boring. Nothing much to do. Although a new mega-mall is being built...
You guys have no provincial tax, yea?
They don't, but I think they have to pay 14% or 15% GST.
I live in Toronto, even I'm going to complain about how cold it is. Everyone puts on about 10 pounds during winter.
On September 05 2010 10:27 XazXio wrote: we have obama in the white house.... i think that is the worst any country can do
So you're saying electing people named obama are bad? Or are you against his socialist policies? Or you think his elitist views are bad for the country? Please specify your complaint, or risk looking like a narrow-minded redneck! Until your clarify, I'm going to assume you hate pseudo-black people <3
The attitude that people that disagree with your social philosophies are "narrow-minded" is really annoying, and something else I hate about the united states. I suppose it comes from the fact that the vast majority of our political commentators are heavily biased to one side or the other, and very, very few (I can think of just one?) actually attempt to show both sides without painting people who disagree like idiots.
On September 05 2010 10:06 love1another wrote: @Cambium: Yeah! I can't really call China my country since I've spent probably only 6-7% of my life there, but we Shanghainese be lovin' our city. If you have shit to talk about our city, gtfo. I guess that's a bad thing :<
I think Shanghai residents are the worst. My GF and I lived with her uncle's family for a few weeks in China last time we visited together. He asked me for my opinions of SH, I said a few good things and also some things I did not like; he basically flipped out on me and rebutted every point I made =.=
loool Shanghainese people love to argue and quarrel. It's absolutely ridiculous.
The attitude that people that disagree with your social philosophies are "narrow-minded" is really annoying, and something else I hate about the united states. I suppose it comes from the fact that the vast majority of our political commentators are heavily biased to one side or the other, and very, very few (I can think of just one?) actually attempt to show both sides without painting people who disagree like idiots.
Can you refer me to this one political commentator? I really need to listen to one, because I've been hearing a lot of biased arguements lately >.<
on topic: I hate how people like those in the Westboro Baptist Church abuse their first amendment rights to say extremely hurtful and offensive things.
On September 05 2010 10:27 XazXio wrote: we have obama in the white house.... i think that is the worst any country can do
So you're saying electing people named obama are bad? Or are you against his socialist policies? Or you think his elitist views are bad for the country? Please specify your complaint, or risk looking like a narrow-minded redneck! Until your clarify, I'm going to assume you hate pseudo-black people <3
it's this sort of ignorance that i hate about americans. i also hate how people here, for some incredibly stupid fucking reason, think that having a college eduction=elitist. Education and intelligence should be championed, not blissful ignorance.
I'm also ashamed that someone like sarah palin has so much support
Our suburbs are the fucking worst. The people who want to live 30 minutes away from the nearest actual city and spend two hours commuting to work everyday and then go home to a place where their house is differentiated from the others only by lawn ornaments and there's absolutely no diversity of any sort drive me mad. I'm so glad I live in an urban area; if I lived in the suburbs, I'd probably jump off a bridge. Except, wait, I wouldn't be able to, because I'd live an hour away from the nearest one.
On September 05 2010 11:57 Kpyolysis32 wrote: Our suburbs are the fucking worst. The people who want to live 30 minutes away from the nearest actual city and spend two hours commuting to work everyday and then go home to a place where their house is differentiated from the others only by lawn ornaments and there's absolutely no diversity of any sort drive me mad. I'm so glad I live in an urban area; if I lived in the suburbs, I'd probably jump off a bridge. Except, wait, I wouldn't be able to, because I'd live an hour away from the nearest one.
Over 1/4 of U.S. adults are obese. Not fat - but so fat that it is dangerous to their health. The Army has had to change their Basic Training program because recruits were not fit enough to do situps or to do distance running.
Many people base their worldviews on Christianity, but have never so much as thumbed through the Bible.
Americans have completely lost any sense of self-sacrifice and hard work. People want the national debt reduced, but they don't want to pay higher taxes. They want better healthcare, but they don't want to take care of their own health by exercising and eating right. They want national security, but they're indifferent or hostile to the idea of a Palestinian state, they don't want to join the army, and they don't want to change their lifestyles by reducing their dependency on foreign oil. Our obsession with with finding out "what's in it for me?" is matched only by our shallow emotional need to appear to care about something larger than ourselves.
This is a major problem and completely true in America. For example, I was just listening to some Mississippi Republican senator on NPR saying that he wants to reduce the size of the federal government, but whenever he was criticized, he said that the federal government wasn't doing enough.
The religion in America is absolutely intolerable. At all of the major universities in Colorado there are literally insane christians screaming at the top of their lungs that we are all sinners and going to hell etc etc. (They usually have teenage women as assistants, and I can't help but think those women are severely abused.) The state of science is really sad as well. Although the scientific community itself is extremely vibrant and rigorous, people don't respect it and often use scientific theories for their own horseshit ideas (ex. Law of Thermodynamics - energy can't be created or destroyed, only changed. People say that all the time as proof that heaven exists... wat) Also the fact that anyone can have opinions about science is truly annoying (religion again, but also regarding climate change). There are such things as facts, and that's why science exists... stupid religious nuts.
I would say that yes, the US has a lot of career opportunities, but this country (as far as my experiences go) is a country of hate. Rampant racism. Neighborhoods are divided by race (black, white, Mexican) pretty much wherever I've been. Extremely divisive communities, idealogies and of course politics. I live in Denver, which is actually a pretty nice place. There are a lot of bums but overall it's fine. Yet if you ever leave the metro cities, you will be hated if your neck is not very very red. The entire south will hate you if you are perceivably a foreigner of any type (US northerner included). I was shocked at how mean the south is to northerners and I will never ever visit the south again.
Also I feel like there is no real morality. Christians of course are the opposite of moral - rape, lie, hate and steal is all they do (and 'fundraisers' for the poor, etc are just excuses for recruitment). But also the Republican party are THE most selfish people on the planet. That's the real reason there is 'controversy' about global warming and the biodiversity crisis. They're worried it will affect the prices of things and their lifestyles. I'm a liberal not because I want the government to take care of me (how did that become a stereotype? I've actually never met a liberal who wants that) but because I'm concerned with social equality and the opportunities of future generations. But these anti-abortion freaks are completely willing to indoctrinate their children while simultaneously destroying their future (poor education, environmental destruction, reckless wars, stupid politicians, etc). There isn't any morality at college either. "Let's drink until we never wake up!" is the mantra at the colleges I've been (I was a guest student at a few).
More personal things - no nature. Mega-lazy culture. Even in Colorado - a 'healthy' place, so many people are grossly obese and simply do not care about exercise. Way too many cars. Everybody drives (unless you're poor). Nobody smiles. I've found it's impossible to gain respect unless you're just a raging prick. Too exclusive of groups - unless you're a hardcore biker, bikers hate you. Unless you're a jock, football players don't like you. And the worst for me - unless you're a graduate student, nobody likes you in your degree program ;(. People use 'America is awesome-land' as an excuse to be lazy good-for-nothings relying on the country's reputation for work ethics. Lastly you can't be "proud to be an American" unless you were a founding father. You're proud of something you're not responsible for? "Oh I'm really proud of that new bridge over by the interstate! God bless the bridge!" It doesn't make sense. Unless you personally helped write the constitution, you have no right to be proud.
Over 1/4 of U.S. adults are obese. Not fat - but so fat that it is dangerous to their health. The Army has had to change their Basic Training program because recruits were not fit enough to do situps or to do distance running.
Many people base their worldviews on Christianity, but have never so much as thumbed through the Bible.
Americans have completely lost any sense of self-sacrifice and hard work. People want the national debt reduced, but they don't want to pay higher taxes. They want better healthcare, but they don't want to take care of their own health by exercising and eating right. They want national security, but they're indifferent or hostile to the idea of a Palestinian state, they don't want to join the army, and they don't want to change their lifestyles by reducing their dependency on foreign oil. Our obsession with with finding out "what's in it for me?" is matched only by our shallow emotional need to appear to care about something larger than ourselves.
This is a major problem and completely true in America. For example, I was just listening to some Mississippi Republican senator on NPR saying that he wants to reduce the size of the federal government, but whenever he was criticized, he said that the federal government wasn't doing enough.
The religion in America is absolutely intolerable. At all of the major universities in Colorado there are literally insane christians screaming at the top of their lungs that we are all sinners and going to hell etc etc. (They usually have teenage women as assistants, and I can't help but think those women are severely abused.) The state of science is really sad as well. Although the scientific community itself is extremely vibrant and rigorous, people don't respect it and often use scientific theories for their own horseshit ideas (ex. Law of Thermodynamics - energy can't be created or destroyed, only changed. People say that all the time as proof that heaven exists... wat) Also the fact that anyone can have opinions about science is truly annoying (religion again, but also regarding climate change). There are such things as facts, and that's why science exists... stupid religious nuts.
I would say that yes, the US has a lot of career opportunities, but this country (as far as my experiences go) is a country of hate. Rampant racism. Neighborhoods are divided by race (black, white, Mexican) pretty much wherever I've been. Extremely divisive communities, idealogies and of course politics. I live in Denver, which is actually a pretty nice place. There are a lot of bums but overall it's fine. Yet if you ever leave the metro cities, you will be hated if your neck is not very very red. The entire south will hate you if you are perceivably a foreigner of any type (US northerner included). I was shocked at how mean the south is to northerners and I will never ever visit the south again.
Also I feel like there is no real morality. Christians of course are the opposite of moral - rape, lie, hate and steal is all they do (and 'fundraisers' for the poor, etc are just excuses for recruitment). But also the Republican party are THE most selfish people on the planet. That's the real reason there is 'controversy' about global warming and the biodiversity crisis. They're worried it will affect the prices of things and their lifestyles. I'm a liberal not because I want the government to take care of me (how did that become a stereotype? I've actually never met a liberal who wants that) but because I'm concerned with social equality and the opportunities of future generations. But these anti-abortion freaks are completely willing to indoctrinate their children while simultaneously destroying their future (poor education, environmental destruction, reckless wars, stupid politicians, etc). There isn't any morality at college either. "Let's drink until we never wake up!" is the mantra at the colleges I've been (I was a guest student at a few).
More personal things - no nature. Mega-lazy culture. Even in Colorado - a 'healthy' place, so many people are grossly obese and simply do not care about exercise. Way too many cars. Everybody drives (unless you're poor). Nobody smiles. I've found it's impossible to gain respect unless you're just a raging prick. Too exclusive of groups - unless you're a hardcore biker, bikers hate you. Unless you're a jock, football players don't like you. And the worst for me - unless you're a graduate student, nobody likes you in your degree program ;(. People use 'America is awesome-land' as an excuse to be lazy good-for-nothings relying on the country's reputation for work ethics. Lastly you can't be "proud to be an American" unless you were a founding father. You're proud of something you're not responsible for? "Oh I'm really proud of that new bridge over by the interstate! God bless the bridge!" It doesn't make sense. Unless you personally helped write the constitution, you have no right to be proud.
It makes me very sad that you have such a negative view of Christians and religion in general. Perhaps you have had some bad personal experiences? I really despise the behavior of professed Christians that behave the way you describe because they give people exactly the impression you seem to have.
Reading it all it only make it obvious that the majority of the problems arent localized to a certain country, but its generalized.
Bad public education/healthcare system. Corrupt government. Empty headed people screwing your country. Social issues.
My impressions after reading americans posting in the thread: + Show Spoiler +
As for americans, I believe you have all you need in the US and it had been like that for a long time. People probably started to fall more and more in the comfort zone and get lazy/ignorant about what happens outside of their country.
I believe the average american can afford to lunch in McDonalds every day of the week, and they just go for it. In Brazil for example, the majority of people cannot do that (actually we can but its cost-inefficient, since those damn hamburgers are tiny and cost ten times their size lol).
Over 1/4 of U.S. adults are obese. Not fat - but so fat that it is dangerous to their health. The Army has had to change their Basic Training program because recruits were not fit enough to do situps or to do distance running.
Many people base their worldviews on Christianity, but have never so much as thumbed through the Bible.
Americans have completely lost any sense of self-sacrifice and hard work. People want the national debt reduced, but they don't want to pay higher taxes. They want better healthcare, but they don't want to take care of their own health by exercising and eating right. They want national security, but they're indifferent or hostile to the idea of a Palestinian state, they don't want to join the army, and they don't want to change their lifestyles by reducing their dependency on foreign oil. Our obsession with with finding out "what's in it for me?" is matched only by our shallow emotional need to appear to care about something larger than ourselves.
This is a major problem and completely true in America. For example, I was just listening to some Mississippi Republican senator on NPR saying that he wants to reduce the size of the federal government, but whenever he was criticized, he said that the federal government wasn't doing enough.
The religion in America is absolutely intolerable. At all of the major universities in Colorado there are literally insane christians screaming at the top of their lungs that we are all sinners and going to hell etc etc. (They usually have teenage women as assistants, and I can't help but think those women are severely abused.) The state of science is really sad as well. Although the scientific community itself is extremely vibrant and rigorous, people don't respect it and often use scientific theories for their own horseshit ideas (ex. Law of Thermodynamics - energy can't be created or destroyed, only changed. People say that all the time as proof that heaven exists... wat) Also the fact that anyone can have opinions about science is truly annoying (religion again, but also regarding climate change). There are such things as facts, and that's why science exists... stupid religious nuts.
I would say that yes, the US has a lot of career opportunities, but this country (as far as my experiences go) is a country of hate. Rampant racism. Neighborhoods are divided by race (black, white, Mexican) pretty much wherever I've been. Extremely divisive communities, idealogies and of course politics. I live in Denver, which is actually a pretty nice place. There are a lot of bums but overall it's fine. Yet if you ever leave the metro cities, you will be hated if your neck is not very very red. The entire south will hate you if you are perceivably a foreigner of any type (US northerner included). I was shocked at how mean the south is to northerners and I will never ever visit the south again.
Also I feel like there is no real morality. Christians of course are the opposite of moral - rape, lie, hate and steal is all they do (and 'fundraisers' for the poor, etc are just excuses for recruitment). But also the Republican party are THE most selfish people on the planet. That's the real reason there is 'controversy' about global warming and the biodiversity crisis. They're worried it will affect the prices of things and their lifestyles. I'm a liberal not because I want the government to take care of me (how did that become a stereotype? I've actually never met a liberal who wants that) but because I'm concerned with social equality and the opportunities of future generations. But these anti-abortion freaks are completely willing to indoctrinate their children while simultaneously destroying their future (poor education, environmental destruction, reckless wars, stupid politicians, etc). There isn't any morality at college either. "Let's drink until we never wake up!" is the mantra at the colleges I've been (I was a guest student at a few).
More personal things - no nature. Mega-lazy culture. Even in Colorado - a 'healthy' place, so many people are grossly obese and simply do not care about exercise. Way too many cars. Everybody drives (unless you're poor). Nobody smiles. I've found it's impossible to gain respect unless you're just a raging prick. Too exclusive of groups - unless you're a hardcore biker, bikers hate you. Unless you're a jock, football players don't like you. And the worst for me - unless you're a graduate student, nobody likes you in your degree program ;(. People use 'America is awesome-land' as an excuse to be lazy good-for-nothings relying on the country's reputation for work ethics. Lastly you can't be "proud to be an American" unless you were a founding father. You're proud of something you're not responsible for? "Oh I'm really proud of that new bridge over by the interstate! God bless the bridge!" It doesn't make sense. Unless you personally helped write the constitution, you have no right to be proud.
It makes me very sad that you have such a negative view of Christians and religion in general. Perhaps you have had some bad personal experiences? I really despise the behavior of professed Christians that behave the way you describe because they give people exactly the impression you seem to have.
Guess what these mainstream personalities all have in common?
On February 02 2005 13:51 ssidengi wrote: hm... can anyone tell me which countries are actually not in debt? ... I was thinking if there was one country that wouldn't be in debt, it'd be the states
The whole country is full of skinny homosexuals (which might be a good thing, less competition). I'm talking about Sweden of course (known for vikings, ironic, isn't it?).
The main issue with religion in America is that so much of the Protestant churches have gone mad with their Biblical Fundamentalism and religion has nearly completely hijacked an entire political spectrum. It isn't even really Christian anymore, but rather just utter idolatry and insanity. It is just as Paul Tillich had said decades ago. The burst of growth of Protestantism in America doesn't mean that religious life was prospering because it was lending itself to mass collectivism. And then the Christian wonders, "the atheists, why are they so antagonistic towards us?" It is because such an unbearable amount of Christians in the country show such a terrible proclamation of faith and doctrines that give way to the most disturbing implications. The atheist revolt against the Christianity that they are shown is justified.
As for the Koreans (I am a Korean American), it is amazing at how much solidarity the entirety of the nation can muster in an instant if it is called for. It is sometimes baffling. But we Koreans disperse and degenerate into petty conflicts just as quickly. Our culture is one with limitless potential but we will always disappoint it.
On September 05 2010 15:04 koreasilver wrote: The main issue with religion in America is that so much of the Protestant churches have gone mad with their Biblical Fundamentalism and religion has nearly completely hijacked an entire political spectrum. It isn't even really Christian anymore, but rather just utter idolatry and insanity. It is just as Paul Tillich had said decades ago. The burst of growth of Protestantism in America doesn't mean that religious life was prospering because it was lending itself to mass collectivism. And then the Christian wonders, "the atheists, why are they so antagonistic towards us?" It is because such an unbearable amount of Christians in the country show such a terrible proclamation of faith and doctrines that give way to the most disturbing implications. The atheist revolt against the Christianity that they are shown is justified.
As for the Koreans (I am a Korean American), it is amazing at how much solidarity the entirety of the nation can muster in an instant if it is called for. It is sometimes baffling. But we Koreans disperse and degenerate into petty conflicts just as quickly. Our culture is one with limitless potential but we will always disappoint it.
I agree with your assessment, and like I said before it's very sad. Christianity has the potential to be so much more to the world than so much of it has become in America.
On September 05 2010 10:02 Cambium wrote: - Rich people in China are the worst; minus the money they have (through 'grey' channels I'd assume), most of them they are still just farmers. They have no respect for their surroundings, and lack even the most basic mannerism. This really struck me when I was in Tokyo, where apparently flocks of rich Chinese tourists shop in upscale department stores. They were always shouting, pointing and generally not showing a sign of respect to the Japanese culture (which is being polite, quite and reserved).
Haha yeah newly rich chinese people aged 40+ are horrible. They lack class to the highest degree. They invade luxury stores and act like pricks because they have money so that means they can do whatever the fuck they want right? They also lack the slightest elegance, they'll buy some random LV stuff just because there's LV written all over it and then they'll mix it up with green sweatpants and random running shoes and just look like huge douchebags. Just look around in airports and you'll see them everywhere.
Also in China some people from the older generation are incredibly rude. They'll run over you to get in the subway train, they'll fight their way through waiting queues and wave 100y bills under the nose of the employees to get served first, etc. I don't really mind though because maybe they just went through fucking hard shit 40 years ago, and the new generation is much more mannered imo. The strange thing is that older people here are either rude assholes,or very nice and mannered people, it's like there's nothing inbetween.
About french people being the worst tourists in the world: fuck them seriously, France is all about the image of romantism and elegance, ruining that by acting like pigs is a fucking shame. This makes me mad. Thank god every single foreigner believes I'm german based on my looks, if France goes down the drain I'll just say I'm german lol. :/
Over 1/4 of U.S. adults are obese. Not fat - but so fat that it is dangerous to their health. The Army has had to change their Basic Training program because recruits were not fit enough to do situps or to do distance running.
Many people base their worldviews on Christianity, but have never so much as thumbed through the Bible.
Americans have completely lost any sense of self-sacrifice and hard work. People want the national debt reduced, but they don't want to pay higher taxes. They want better healthcare, but they don't want to take care of their own health by exercising and eating right. They want national security, but they're indifferent or hostile to the idea of a Palestinian state, they don't want to join the army, and they don't want to change their lifestyles by reducing their dependency on foreign oil. Our obsession with with finding out "what's in it for me?" is matched only by our shallow emotional need to appear to care about something larger than ourselves.
This is a major problem and completely true in America. For example, I was just listening to some Mississippi Republican senator on NPR saying that he wants to reduce the size of the federal government, but whenever he was criticized, he said that the federal government wasn't doing enough.
The religion in America is absolutely intolerable. At all of the major universities in Colorado there are literally insane christians screaming at the top of their lungs that we are all sinners and going to hell etc etc. (They usually have teenage women as assistants, and I can't help but think those women are severely abused.) The state of science is really sad as well. Although the scientific community itself is extremely vibrant and rigorous, people don't respect it and often use scientific theories for their own horseshit ideas (ex. Law of Thermodynamics - energy can't be created or destroyed, only changed. People say that all the time as proof that heaven exists... wat) Also the fact that anyone can have opinions about science is truly annoying (religion again, but also regarding climate change). There are such things as facts, and that's why science exists... stupid religious nuts.
I would say that yes, the US has a lot of career opportunities, but this country (as far as my experiences go) is a country of hate. Rampant racism. Neighborhoods are divided by race (black, white, Mexican) pretty much wherever I've been. Extremely divisive communities, idealogies and of course politics. I live in Denver, which is actually a pretty nice place. There are a lot of bums but overall it's fine. Yet if you ever leave the metro cities, you will be hated if your neck is not very very red. The entire south will hate you if you are perceivably a foreigner of any type (US northerner included). I was shocked at how mean the south is to northerners and I will never ever visit the south again.
Also I feel like there is no real morality. Christians of course are the opposite of moral - rape, lie, hate and steal is all they do (and 'fundraisers' for the poor, etc are just excuses for recruitment). But also the Republican party are THE most selfish people on the planet. That's the real reason there is 'controversy' about global warming and the biodiversity crisis. They're worried it will affect the prices of things and their lifestyles. I'm a liberal not because I want the government to take care of me (how did that become a stereotype? I've actually never met a liberal who wants that) but because I'm concerned with social equality and the opportunities of future generations. But these anti-abortion freaks are completely willing to indoctrinate their children while simultaneously destroying their future (poor education, environmental destruction, reckless wars, stupid politicians, etc). There isn't any morality at college either. "Let's drink until we never wake up!" is the mantra at the colleges I've been (I was a guest student at a few).
More personal things - no nature. Mega-lazy culture. Even in Colorado - a 'healthy' place, so many people are grossly obese and simply do not care about exercise. Way too many cars. Everybody drives (unless you're poor). Nobody smiles. I've found it's impossible to gain respect unless you're just a raging prick. Too exclusive of groups - unless you're a hardcore biker, bikers hate you. Unless you're a jock, football players don't like you. And the worst for me - unless you're a graduate student, nobody likes you in your degree program ;(. People use 'America is awesome-land' as an excuse to be lazy good-for-nothings relying on the country's reputation for work ethics. Lastly you can't be "proud to be an American" unless you were a founding father. You're proud of something you're not responsible for? "Oh I'm really proud of that new bridge over by the interstate! God bless the bridge!" It doesn't make sense. Unless you personally helped write the constitution, you have no right to be proud.
Pride in your country is pride in being a part of it, because every time you meet someone you're exemplifying america, and at the same time being associated with the picture of america that person already had. People don't reject environmental responsibility just because it would be immediately inconvenient to them. They reject it because they don't think it's real, because everyone is telling them it's not real. It doesn't have all that much to do with selfishness. The problem with america, and with most everywhere else, is intellectual laziness. The way most people are, they won't do anything good unless they have a good person to tell them what to do. It doesn't matter what side you're on. 95% of people don't understand the issues they hold some of their strongest opinions about anyway.
There's too much pride in the United States, and probably all over the world. No one should be proud of being a member of a country they were born or became a member of. You can be happy, but not proud. What have you achieved but by sheer luck that you were born in your country?
The United States is filled with religious fanatics, and being an atheist is... Annoying, to say the least. Too many people in my country press their ethics and ideals on you, and that seriously pisses me off. It disgusts me that religion is so deeply entwined in our culture and government.
I hate that people feel the need to cockblock science due to moral issues.
I'm certainly not "proud" of being apart of the United States. I wouldn't say I'm happy, either. But I'm not sure its practical for me to move countries any time soon, though it would be nice if there ends up being a better option in the future. Generally, I wish politics didn't exist, but its unavoidable so your stuck in shit wherever you go.
The rampant racism against Africans, Aborigines, Asians and Muslims is disgusting in Australia. It's not uncommon to watch a news program attack Asians "taking our jobs" and the rise in bashing of Indian students and the belief that it's their fault makes me sick. Our two major political parties are almost exactly the same and pander to the ridiculous far right extremists.
On September 05 2010 16:49 hoppipolla wrote: The rampant racism against Africans, Aborigines, Asians and Muslims is disgusting in Australia. It's not uncommon to watch a news program attack Asians "taking our jobs" and the rise in bashing of Indian students and the belief that it's their fault makes me sick. Our two major political parties are almost exactly the same and pander to the ridiculous far right extremists.
australian politician <3
on second thought they might be from new zealand or something
anyway hilarious
(like to add that this is not infact a real interview )
On September 05 2010 16:49 hoppipolla wrote: The rampant racism against Africans, Aborigines, Asians and Muslims is disgusting in Australia. It's not uncommon to watch a news program attack Asians "taking our jobs" and the rise in bashing of Indian students and the belief that it's their fault makes me sick. Our two major political parties are almost exactly the same and pander to the ridiculous far right extremists.
on second thought they might be from new zealand or something
anyway hilarious
Oh they're comedians, "Mock interview from Clarke and Dawe regarding an Australian Shipping Mishap. Extremely funny in the spirit of Monty Python." And yes they're very funny. Damn your ninja edit.
Canadians seem to have a very odd sense of nationalistic pride. Other countries have more of a shared culture and history, whereas Canadian nationalism seems a bit forced. People in Alberta have almost nothing in common with people in Quebec. We tend not to question why we all love Canada (if we do) and dwell on the merit of "not being American".
There are some nice things about our cities, landscapes and government, but I dislike nationalism in general. Why we should all have blind allegiance to the state we were born into is stupefying to me, but obviously our governments do nothing but encourage it.
In my country people is only nacionalist when Spain Fooboll and Basket selections wins WorlCup or Eurocups, or Nadal wins wimbledon, or Alonso F1, or Gasol do well in NBA. When Spain dont play any sport almost nobody is nacionalist.
I think that people here is more concentrated in Sports than in their economy. xDDDD
America's politicians are too conservative while the majority of the citizens are liberals. Politicians think that they cannot get elected if they were liberal so after a primary every candidate "runs to the center." And the Democratic Party has no fucking ballz to do anything against the Republican Party. Also they are too pussy too call bullshit on anything that is said on Fox News Channel. AND GOD DAMN CONSERVATIVES THAT THINK TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICH WILL CREATE MORE JOBS! DA FAK
There is not much to be said about the negatives of Canada that cannot be said about the rest of the world. There is a parochial mentality which comes about living in Canada which harbour the remnants of our innocence. There is suburbanization and uninhabitable cities, but therein lies the refuge of neighbourhood. There is the loss of Anglo-Celtic heritage, and a widespread meaningless belief in multiculturalism and progress, but patriotism remains unscathed. There is the deficit of cultural life, but there remains an unassuming pragmatism untouched by barbaric dogmas.
Having been away from Canada for four years now, it has become difficult to criticise her to foreigners in a meaningful way. One may grumble and wail about family to family, but among strangers, one closes ranks.
On February 02 2005 13:53 Musli wrote: i dunno, maybe we drink too much alcohol ;-] Some time ago one man have 12 promiles and he is still alive =] Its true, 12 promiles, im not joking. He has it in breath, not in blood, but nvm ;-) He was riding on bike, going home haha =] Poland > all in alcohol -_-
Heh same thing in Finland :D We have had truck drivers working with 7 promiles
On September 05 2010 14:57 drlame wrote: The whole country is full of skinny homosexuals (which might be a good thing, less competition). I'm talking about Sweden of course (known for vikings, ironic, isn't it?).
However, there is some falseness of voice in excoriating this thing. Saying that your country drinks too much is as much a boast as a derision in every context I've heard. In Europe there seems to be some claim to social standing based on the amount you can drink.
On September 05 2010 18:20 MoltkeWarding wrote: Every European nation boasts of drinking too much alcohol. I have heard consumption of alcohol to be the cardinal virtue of the following nations:
However, there is some falseness of voice in excoriating this thing. Saying that your country drinks too much is as much a boast as a derision in every context I've heard. In Europe there seems to be some claim to social standing based on the amount you can drink.
I agree with this and I think the attitude is ridiculous, especially in countries like finland and russia where it's actually a problem that affects the national economy... although russians don't seem as proud of it as the others
also kids in sweden have this attitude, which is another thing I hate about sweden :D
On September 05 2010 18:20 MoltkeWarding wrote: Every European nation boasts of drinking too much alcohol. I have heard consumption of alcohol to be the cardinal virtue of the following nations:
However, there is some falseness of voice in excoriating this thing. Saying that your country drinks too much is as much a boast as a derision in every context I've heard. In Europe there seems to be some claim to social standing based on the amount you can drink.
I agree with this and I think the attitude is ridiculous, especially in countries like finland and russia where it's actually a problem that affects the national economy... although russians don't seem as proud of it as the others
also kids in sweden have this attitude, which is another thing I hate about sweden :D
I heard that russian ppl use the most vodka and other strong alchols and Finland comes second but may not be exactly true
In my opinion Canada has a lot of kind of oddly placed patriotism, there aren't that many super unique things about Canada as a culture so "watershed" moments like the Battle of Vimy Ridge get maybe more play then they warrant. I guess that's the kind of thing that happens when "multiculturalism" is supposed to define you as a country. You've got to build some sort of identity for yourself with what history you have. Not trying to disrespect the chaps who fought at Vimy or anything... I dunno it's kind of hard to explain without watching Canada Day specials and other "home-grown" broadcasting that the CBC ships out(they blur the line between feel good patriotism and gag worthy back patting sometimes).
I also have a bit of a problem with Canadians often defaulting to arbitrarily comparing us to the states to come to positive conclusion about Canada. We struggle with many environmental and financial issues, but a to common conclusion is often to say problem A is worse in the states(true or not) and that settles it we can procrastinate till the situation gets worse .
Don't get me wrong I love Canada, even Quebec ^^, these are just some of our "societal quirks" that irk me.
Edit: I just thought about a great example for my first point, Vancouver 2010. Canada can't decide on how to represent our cultural identity to the world. So they hit the ol' fallback plan of pulling the first nations peoples from wherever we dropped them after our last international set piece to base our opening/closing ceremonies around. Now don't get me wrong the first nation's deserve their moment in the spotlight certainly, but it just seems like we kind of can't think of something else ever haha. Plus after the events it's always back to the government having disputes with first nations not the begrudging hand holding they do in front of the rest of the world lol >_<.
Abortion is illegal but over ten thousand girls have it yearly in private houses and shady clinics.
You can get a prostitute if you know where to look INSIDE A SCHOOL. Note: You only need to use the equivalent of ten cents of coin OR a white handkerchief to get one of them. Also, if you're lucky, they go for less than 10$. If you're REALLY LUCKY, they're smoking hot.
A Meth hit here costs 2$. And you can get free weed if you live in certain areas of the country.
You can smoke cigarettes even if you are only 4 years old and not get caught. Drinking at 6-7 years also happens.
If you know someone or are very smart, you can get luxury items for half their retail price, or even less.
Our government cannot even pass a population-control law because it is too scared of the various churches. And you'll never see a contraceptive commercial in prime-time TV, ever.
Five percent of the population subscribe to a church that promises to deliver all of its votes to a single politician every election; and the damn thing's headquarters is across our premiere state-funded institution, who have anti-government and religion hypocrites who can't even get the balls to actually protest against them.
Politicians change political parties every six years. Or less. Or they make their own.
A sex scandal is worth getting the Senate to call some meetings.
Our government has not recovered a single cent from the plundered funds of our former President, who ran again after being convicted and actually got second place. Another President has had four impeachment attempts and all of them failed.
A former governor who massacred around fifty journalists and civilians has not had his case even start yet.
Some estimates claim there is one loose firearm for every one hundred people.
Our policemen practice their hostage-rescue "tactics" on a rusted 70's era bus with no windows, no seats and no tires.
These policemen don't have gas masks, battering rams, door breaching rounds, explosive breaching charges, and submachine guns or PDWs.
Our military and police arm the ONLY Communist insurgency in the world armed primarily by Western weapons.
Too many people in Denmark are still trying to make up for the cooperation-policy in World War 2 (Denmark rolled over when Germany invaded) by hating Germans today and also have a very insecure national identity
Umm... What? Oh lol the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is in the Philippines. Haha I thought your post was a little weird for the USA being your listed country.
I see you updated the top of your post >.> was getting scared about my southern neighbors there =].
On September 05 2010 18:56 ValSic wrote: Half of the people in my country have aids. (True story)
lol what country is this
Well, can't be japan at least.
Stuff that sucks about Germany:
Politics. Especially seeing those politicians that have no idea about something trying to talk about it as if they were professionals on the subject. Well, but I guess you got that in a lot of countries. The weather could be a little better, but I'm actually quite fond of this country
On September 05 2010 07:34 DizzyDrone wrote: Its been nearly 3 months since we had elections in the Netherlands. Apparently forming a government is hard.
Stops copies me!
But seriously, we feel your pain. Last elections it took almost a year to get a hallf-assed government workin. This time it looks like it'll be at least half a year once more...
On September 05 2010 18:20 MoltkeWarding wrote: Every European nation boasts of drinking too much alcohol. I have heard consumption of alcohol to be the cardinal virtue of the following nations:
However, there is some falseness of voice in excoriating this thing. Saying that your country drinks too much is as much a boast as a derision in every context I've heard. In Europe there seems to be some claim to social standing based on the amount you can drink.
Yeah pretty much. Whoever can drink more but get less drunk is like a total baller.
EDIT: Translation for moltke
I can relate with this assertion. In such a society, he who possesses the most drinking prowess is to be regarded as a man of high esteem.
On September 05 2010 16:49 hoppipolla wrote: The rampant racism against Africans, Aborigines, Asians and Muslims is disgusting in Australia. It's not uncommon to watch a news program attack Asians "taking our jobs" and the rise in bashing of Indian students and the belief that it's their fault makes me sick. Our two major political parties are almost exactly the same and pander to the ridiculous far right extremists.
I've always wanted to go to Australia and work. Is the racism directed at backpackers and Europeans as well?
It's interesting. While racism is a terrible thing - I've read about the gang rapes performed by Lebanese immigrants as racist acts against Australian women and it got me thinking: If something like that happened in Sweden, would I personally be able to separate my hate for those individuals from my hate for Lebanese people? I'm really not sure. I'd like to hope that I could but I'm not sure. Anger and frustration are powerful feelings. Same thing about terrorism, I've been thinking about how I would react if Islamic terror struck Sweden. Would I become more nationalistic? This is the opposite of on-topic but what I like about Sweden today is our lack of national pride. Nationalism is generally frowned upon, it pits people against people. Would our views on the subject change if we had enemies?
I hate Holland because the police is too busy milking the working class instead of taking care of actual crimes. They have yearly ticket goals, so when November comes they will stake out in city centres and give out tickets to bike riders without adequate lighting. What irks me about this is that it is not done in the name of safety but merely to raise enough funds. But when your bike gets stolen (which will happen to you, regardless of the place you live) you will get a notification the very next working day that the case has been closed (and will remain unsolved). In a city of say 100.000 inhabitants the same 10 people will be responsible for 80% of bike thefts. I've had the same guy offer me a stolen bike at least 10 times. Once he offered me a 2 different bikes in the span of half an hour. If you molest a child of rape a girl, worst case scenario you get 2 years in jail, with a cell all to yourself and pay-tv with porn and everything, but if you drive to your work and speed with 4 km/h over the limit you get fined 40 euro's. Just recently police were staking out a highway where a temporary speedlimit of 70km/h was enforced due to roadwork. Of the 8000 people obsevred, 5000 of them were caught speeding. instead of maybe looking into the possibility that the speedsign situation was inadequate, they just kept fucking the people that were merely going to their job.
We're too cautious and political correct, we label people with different view rasist and stop listening to whatever points they might come up with.
Our government can't decide wether or not to actually excist lately, I guess we saw belgium and thought it would be a funny idea to try.
Soft drugs policy gets tougher even though we have one of the lowest addiction percentages in the world.
Every time there is wind from the west, we get rain from england. Everytime there is wind from the east, we smell germany. Lose lose situation :> ( really, we love you secretly ).
Houses are too frickin' expensive, thinking of living near the dutch border in germany just for the cheaper prices.
Our airport is too expensive. Our restaurants are too expensive.
This thread just convinced me even more to immigrate to canada - everyone bashing theire country and canadians have a hard time finding something even worth slapping^^.
On September 05 2010 18:20 MoltkeWarding wrote: Every European nation boasts of drinking too much alcohol. I have heard consumption of alcohol to be the cardinal virtue of the following nations:
However, there is some falseness of voice in excoriating this thing. Saying that your country drinks too much is as much a boast as a derision in every context I've heard. In Europe there seems to be some claim to social standing based on the amount you can drink.
I would say social drinking, not excess drinking is a hallmark of the UK. We drink quite a bit, but we're nowhere near Europe's heaviest drinkers...
Except in Scotland. There was a study recently that said that, if Scotland was its own country, it'd be the second heaviest drinker of alcohol per capita in the world. The UK as a whole would be 12th or something around there.
I thought that boasting about alcohol consumption isn't a feature of European nations, rather its a common feature in the youth in any alcohol-drinking country. Imported US tv suggests there are "Frat Boys" with similar views on the other side of the pond.
On September 05 2010 23:18 Chaosvuistje wrote: Our restaurants are too expensive.
Why are restaurants so fucking expensive in our countries? Is it because of the higher taxes/waiter salaries/raw food costs? Basically you either have to shell out 20€+ for a meal or settle for a McDonald's. It's a pain really. I've never been to Korea but I'm pretty sure you have cheap and delicious small restaurants at every corner. I'd kill to have that in Europe too.
On September 05 2010 10:27 XazXio wrote: we have obama in the white house.... i think that is the worst any country can do
So you're saying electing people named obama are bad? Or are you against his socialist policies? Or you think his elitist views are bad for the country? Please specify your complaint, or risk looking like a narrow-minded redneck! Until your clarify, I'm going to assume you hate pseudo-black people <3
it's this sort of ignorance that i hate about americans. i also hate how people here, for some incredibly stupid fucking reason, think that having a college eduction=elitist. Education and intelligence should be championed, not blissful ignorance.
I'm also ashamed that someone like sarah palin has so much support
Too true. I hate the backlash against education that's becoming more popular in our country. I've never seen so many people *proud* to not be educated. Seriously political candidates in some states will get up on the podium and proudly announce that they "Never went to no fancy liberal school," or that their opponent is an elitist jerk for having an education. And the crowd fucking devours it too.
-American politics are garbage that gets worse every election cycle.
-We've got a serious obesity problem.
-It's the American psyche to get married at ~20-23, have kids at 25, then work 40-50 hours a week for the rest of your life until you can retire. Everyone just accepts this and very few manage to escape it.
-The internet is garbage here. I get 8 down .7 up and I live in the second largest city in my state.
-Rednecks. People who think it's cool to wear camouflage baseball caps into restaurants.
-It's full of people that stop learning when they graduate highschool, then lose what little they did learn by watching American Idol.
-People that spend money they don't have and don't know how to save, then whine that they never have any money.
Exaggerated sense of self-importance for a country of whopping 4.8 million people.
Too many political parties, many of which have like 3-5 % of the votes. Governments don't get anything done because they are invariably coalitions w/o majority in parliament.
This may be international but our nerds today. In my business class, I hung around a few fellow nerds and all they do is spout out 4chan memes. When I told them that it was getting annoying, they would scream "I TROLLED YOU FAGGOT!!" I guess I was trolled but that is a pretty pathetic display of character.
What pisses me about my country is that so many people settle for mediocrity and everything is geared towards it. We used to have (can't say for now, it's been years since I finished high school) very high level of education and at the same time very bad teachers and system and absolutely no way for intelligent, exceptional people to spread their wings as they are held back. All such people I knew that were successful dropped their education and went on to try and fulfill their dreams without it. All the rest struggled or still struggles with morons teaching at universities (getting to it later), more than often in the fields they're not really interested in, just to get ANY degree/paper which is required to have any kind of decent job.
What's wrong with many universities: people are hired there not on the merit of their work/science but rather on the basis of 'who knows who' and 'who can pull the strings'. That's why I have to pass some stupid exams with people who do have their doctors degree, but the last publication they made was in 1983...
No one here knows our own history. Everyone talks about America's Christian roots when they're discussing the founders like Jefferson/Washington/Adams etc, but it was well known and documented that they were all Humanism loving Deists.
People only care about the Constitution when it's beneficial to them.
Mainstream media still doesn't understand video games.
On September 06 2010 01:37 oldboy88 wrote: No one here knows our own history. Everyone talks about America's Christian roots when they're discussing the founders like Jefferson/Washington/Adams etc, but it was well known and documented that they were all Humanism loving Deists.
People only care about the Constitution when it's beneficial to them.
Mainstream media still doesn't understand video games.
What I hate about America is that everyone talks about Jefferson, Washington, and Adams, as though they are the founders of the American intellectual tradition; this notion is incorrect.
Ireland is too wet. Alcoholism is tolerated way too much. Underage drinking is virtually mandatory. Our Economists are hilarious. Everything is quite expensive but that is balanced by our quite frankly ridiculous minimum wage. Immigrants while on the whole are tolerated are pressured into social sub-groups. We're really, really bad at everything except drinking heavily.
On September 05 2010 18:20 MoltkeWarding wrote: Every European nation boasts of drinking too much alcohol. I have heard consumption of alcohol to be the cardinal virtue of the following nations:
However, there is some falseness of voice in excoriating this thing. Saying that your country drinks too much is as much a boast as a derision in every context I've heard. In Europe there seems to be some claim to social standing based on the amount you can drink.
dont know how trusty this site is but its says:
Luxembourg, where residents pound down 15.5 liters of alcohol in a year, on average, ranks first. Close behind are France (14.2 liters), Ireland (also 14.2 liters, a lot more of it from beer), Hungary (12 liters) and the Czech Republic (11.8 liters).
On September 06 2010 01:27 Manit0u wrote: What pisses me about my country is that so many people settle for mediocrity and everything is geared towards it. We used to have (can't say for now, it's been years since I finished high school) very high level of education and at the same time very bad teachers and system and absolutely no way for intelligent, exceptional people to spread their wings as they are held back. All such people I knew that were successful dropped their education and went on to try and fulfill their dreams without it. All the rest struggled or still struggles with morons teaching at universities (getting to it later), more than often in the fields they're not really interested in, just to get ANY degree/paper which is required to have any kind of decent job.
What's wrong with many universities: people are hired there not on the merit of their work/science but rather on the basis of 'who knows who' and 'who can pull the strings'. That's why I have to pass some stupid exams with people who do have their doctors degree, but the last publication they made was in 1983...
It's seriously flawed...
Totally agree with this.
I would add also a few other things that make me annoying: 1. Church has way too much power and they keep getting involved into politics. "Vote for him as he is a good catholic" shit going on almost every election. 2. We have no good politicians. All of them are so bad it is beyond imagination. You have to vote for lesser evil if you feel like voting at all. 3. Division into "good" patriots who are catholic and "bad" people who do not support all that madness. 4. Out super nationalistic right-wing party, PiS (or Law and Justice) is really socialistic. However, their claim they are anti-socialists. 5. Lots of people think that liberal economics or as a matter of fact capitalism is bad and root of all evil. 6. I hate as the past is still used in politics. Half the news is about who was an undercovered communist agent and who wasn't. Noone is looking at the real credential of politicians, if they are educated or capable of governing the country, rather everyone looks if they were fighting against communism which collapsed 20 years ago. As if the fact that someone was a leader of the resistance movement makes him immediately qualified to get a top spot in government. 7. Our football association is corrupted and full of old jerks who have no education except for primary school or at most high school and they keep their jobs because they support each other. As a result football in Poland sucks so badly I can't even watch it right now. 8. No one encourages hard work. If you are hard-worker you are called "kujon" (a nerd but who is not very intelligent and he has to study more than average person to get a good grade). And everyone is "talented but lazy". 9. Most of the people think that our education is top notch and make fun of American universities. But they forget that our best university is ranked around 400-500 in the world. We have almost no good scientist working in our country at universities. And Manit0u explains well why it is.
There are many more but this should be enough for now.
House/apartment prices in our capital are obscene - a medical doctor and a PhD in molecular biology MIGHT be able to buy a 3-room apartment in a desirable neighborhood.
In Germany the weather is too bad, there is too much (mostly suppressed) racism and especially ethnocentrism and that despite our history
A typical hypocritical German statement would be: "We are so much better, more modern and cultured than all these narcissistic, proud and ultra patriotic Americans, Italians or whoever..."
The funny thing,is that us italians consider germany the prime example of a country that knows how to run its own shit in the right manner. During various discussions the"in germany things are waay better" comes up often,we idolize you for some reason lol.
On September 06 2010 02:53 GiftPflanZe wrote: Germanys youth is full of idiots.Like 80% in my school are wannabe gangsters who think smoking and drinking is cool.
Its like this everywhere. And ya, many countries look up at Germany for political stability and efficiency.
On September 06 2010 02:53 GiftPflanZe wrote: Germanys youth is full of idiots.Like 80% in my school are wannabe gangsters who think smoking and drinking is cool.
Its like this everywhere. And ya, many countries look up at Germany for political stability and efficiency.
ye kids every think smoking and drinking is "cool"
what i dislike about germany is the labour market and economy policy of the last decade. basically they intentionally facilitated the growth of precarious, low paid jobs which often times even replaced old jobs.
so say someone has a normal job off of which he can make a living. then he gets fired and 6 weeks later he gets rehired by the same company in one of these hire-and-fire jobs where he does the exact same work as in his old job, but for half the payment and without any social security like period of cancellation or stuff like that. and the most paradox thing about it is: as these jobs yield fewer taxes the state loses taxes by propelling these kind of jobs. and the most absurd thing about it is that often times these time-workers dont earn enough to make ends meet, so that the government has to add to their wage by some sort of partial welfare. so our policy intentionally propelled jobs which worsen the living conditions of their workers, cost the state money because of tax losses, cost the state money because of more people needing welfare aids despite having a "job" and are humiliating for the persons concerned. all this just to increase the companies` profit and reduce the number of people officially on the unemployment statistics.
the fact is that (afaik, might be slightly off) 90% of the german population have seen their net income decreasing during the last decade, while the profits of the companies have exploded. germany is one of the countries in the world where the decoupling of economic growth and improvement of living conditions is most advanced. this bothers me even though i will probably belong to the upper 10% of the income hierarchy once im done with my studies and my phd....
something else i hate about germany is that our politicians are complete retards when it comes to computers and video games. they got no fucking clue at all, but whenever something bad happens which could be tracked back to video games, they blame them and demand the ban of all "violent games" (Killerspiele in german). for example if a kid is mobbed and tortured by his classmates for years with the teachers not stepping in and this kid then takes the gun which his father has kept in their house, disregarding any security laws about weapon storage, and this kid runs amok in his school, they blame the violent video games this kid has been playing.
something else i hate about germany is the "slave mentality" of many germans. the people here always accept any fucking shit happening to them, although they could stand up and fight against it. sometimes i envy the protest and strike culture of france... i also hate how easy our politicians can distract the people. when everyone had nothing but the football world cup in mind, they passed some really bad laws concerning our privacy.
what i also hate about germany is the huge influence of the retired persons. we got tons of them and as kids below 18 cant vote, their influence on the outcome of elections is even greater than their percentage of the overall population. the consequence is that the government would rather increase overall taxes like the VAT than reducing the pensions when in need of money. once in the 1950s and 1960s we had a prosperous economy with a good demographic. our pension system is that the ones currently working pay for the ones currently receiving pension. this system was grounded very well back in these times because there were many younger people and fewer pensioners. therefore, the politicians back then increased the pensions overproportionally to win elections. when the demographics began shifting to the worse, they didnt dare to actually reduce the way too high pensions. the german reunification where 16 million people entered our pension system without having ever paid into it was the final death blow. in some years, each working person will have to pay for, on average, over 2 pensioners. this is crazy and wont be possible without pension cuts, but every government makes the situation only worse and worse by postponing the unavoidable pension cuts, in the hope that some other government after them will have to undertake it. because there are so many elderly people, the government would rather milk the young, working people than cut the pensions of the elderly. whichever government will finally have to cut the pensions will inevitably get voted off at the next public vote. this whole issue is increased even further by the decrease of jobs which even pay the various social taxes like the pension tax (or however it is called in english, my dictionary didnt find a word for it XD"). because the government increases the amount of minor, precarious jobs which dont pay any considerable taxes (jobs below a certain income are freed of various taxes in germany), the burden on the few left with "good jobs" will increase even further.
to sum it up: everything is going to shit. sort of....
On September 06 2010 02:30 Lebesgue wrote: Totally agree with this.
I would add also a few other things that make me annoying: 1. Church has way too much power and they keep getting involved into politics. "Vote for him as he is a good catholic" shit going on almost every election. 2. We have no good politicians. All of them are so bad it is beyond imagination. You have to vote for lesser evil if you feel like voting at all. 3. Division into "good" patriots who are catholic and "bad" people who do not support all that madness. 4. Out super nationalistic right-wing party, PiS (or Law and Justice) is really socialistic. However, their claim they are anti-socialists. 5. Lots of people think that liberal economics or as a matter of fact capitalism is bad and root of all evil. 6. I hate as the past is still used in politics. Half the news is about who was an undercovered communist agent and who wasn't. Noone is looking at the real credential of politicians, if they are educated or capable of governing the country, rather everyone looks if they were fighting against communism which collapsed 20 years ago. As if the fact that someone was a leader of the resistance movement makes him immediately qualified to get a top spot in government. 7. Our football association is corrupted and full of old jerks who have no education except for primary school or at most high school and they keep their jobs because they support each other. As a result football in Poland sucks so badly I can't even watch it right now. 8. No one encourages hard work. If you are hard-worker you are called "kujon" (a nerd but who is not very intelligent and he has to study more than average person to get a good grade). And everyone is "talented but lazy". 9. Most of the people think that our education is top notch and make fun of American universities. But they forget that our best university is ranked around 400-500 in the world. We have almost no good scientist working in our country at universities. And Manit0u explains well why it is.
There are many more but this should be enough for now.
Lol for a moment there I thought you were from my country except #9, but then I realized that you were from Poland.
I hate how if we had continued on the budget (with respect to inflation each year) that we had under bill clinton, then we would both have not had 2 unnecessary wars AND have our debt paid off in 2010.
Denmark is pure awesomeness imo so I cant really "bash" that much. To give an example of this we had a whale that stranded on a shore some month´s back and it was a headline story in the medias.
I guess we do drink quite a lot and we also have an intellectual hippie-elite that truely belives that we can rid the world of poverty by opening our borders for all the muslims and eastern european trash that come to leech on our welfare society.
Also the extreme feminism in Norway and Sweden looks like it will make its apperance on the political scene in Denmark as well. To non-scandinavians, extreme feminism is when a new law dictates companies to fire men from their jobs to make room for more women. Its fucking retarded.
Its also REALLY expensive to buy -and own a car and get a house or appartment close to Copenhagen.
90% of korean tv show sucks ASS, why can't they be more like japanese shows? Shitty traffic Shitty pop music blaring everywhere (literally) Some of our laws are a complete joke
I was going to save my first post for something noobish but this thread is too epic. Both educational and funny :D. Its probably a good exercise as well to lament your own country a bit, as an anti-nationalist thing i mean.
I didnt know racism/immigration was such an issue in australia. I thought it was just europe.
Regarding drinking i think its a north european thing. I have seen a few frat parties here in the states where people went crazy but generally its my impression that there are far more people that only drink very moderately or not at all.
On September 06 2010 03:26 jimbob615 wrote: internet is very slow, 56k maximum
every day is a struggle to survive
crack cocaine is a big problem... most of the general population uses it regularly... leads to a lot of violence and poverty on our society.
that is so harsh, I could never survive on a 56k modem.
vouch. must be hell.
kinda ridiculous though, the difference in priorities between the countries. he writes about daily struggle to survive and what catches our attention in his post is the 56k internet.
In denmark 1/4 of all hospital accidents is caused by alcohol (and its legal to buy when youre 16, even though people who dont drink at that age is considered weird, peer pressure anyone?)
Our election system starts to look like the american, where its about trust and reliabillity other than the right ideals which they fought for in the first place...
I hate bashing my country because it's so damn popular to bash, but then there are plenty of asshole contrarians like me who refuse to do anything that everyone else is doing.
We wash our cars in the rain while drinking plastic bottled water and we have a government that does next to no work most of the time but remains in power because the only other option are some smug corrupt party that's been in power for too much of the past century.
On September 06 2010 04:06 DaCruise wrote: Denmark is pure awesomeness imo so I cant really "bash" that much. To give an example of this we had a whale that stranded on a shore some month´s back and it was a headline story in the medias.
I guess we do drink quite a lot and we also have an intellectual hippie-elite that truely belives that we can rid the world of poverty by opening our borders for all the muslims and eastern european trash that come to leech on our welfare society.
Also the extreme feminism in Norway and Sweden looks like it will make its apperance on the political scene in Denmark as well. To non-scandinavians, extreme feminism is when a new law dictates companies to fire men from their jobs to make room for more women. Its fucking retarded.
Its also REALLY expensive to buy -and own a car and get a house or appartment close to Copenhagen.
I couldn't agree more. I live in Denmark aswell. One of the things I hate most about Denmark is whenever someone get's into something that they're really proud of, like for instance me being into StarCraft and spending plenty of time playing the game and following the scene, they often get bashed by other people. I just hate when people are so ignorant that they don't seem to understand other things that's different from what they like.
I also don't like the fact that you have to get drunk every fucking weekend in order to be socially accepted.
No, I don't listen to your stupid fucking music, or read your celebrity rags, or eat your fast food. And can you blame me? In a country where the norm is illiteracy, obesity, and celebrity status, why the fuck would i want to listen to popular radio. Yes, I hate popular media because its popular. I think I'm justified as well.
America has a great country side to drive through though. A majority of people will ruin the experience for you though. Also, marijuana is not legal in my state yet.
Germans complain too much. They complain that we lose our identity, yet the average woman has 1,3 kids. There is no one else to blame than our self. They complain that everything is getting worse and that we are poor. WTF poor...so fucking spoiled...80% of the worlds population would probably love to change living standards with them. In general they complain too much without actually taking action.
Full of gypsies , the politicians are corrupt pieces of shit that rip out our wallets . we are in an economic collaps . ALOT of people are rednecks and gypsie lovers . Everything works the other way around than it should . Educational system sucks , health system sucks , we have tons of holes in our roads , hole that ruin our cars . We spend alot of money on superficial things like clothes , car , mobile phones , but live in flats with 2 rooms ( and have like 5 family members ) . People are content with their lifestyle , they dont even try to better themselves by reading a fucking book/watching a documentary , stop being gypsyfags . After last grade of highschool we take a test and depending on the results we may choose to go to college ; HALF of the fucking kids this year failed miserably at this test ( got a marks so low they failed the exam -> THEY DID NOTHING IN SCHOOL 12 FUCKING YEARS ). I attended highschool in one of the best ones in this shit hole , we were allowed to cheat at those exams , the supervising teacher said "go ahead , do whatever you want to , i'm not seeing anything".( they were bribed ) . All the richfags will go abroad to study further , we the less fortunate hate to remain in this dump and HOPE we can make something of our lives . This is only a part of my rant , please excuse me for grammar mistakes , weird exposure of ideas . P.S. I HATE THIS PLACE ........................................ + Show Spoiler +
On September 05 2010 16:49 hoppipolla wrote: The rampant racism against Africans, Aborigines, Asians and Muslims is disgusting in Australia. It's not uncommon to watch a news program attack Asians "taking our jobs" and the rise in bashing of Indian students and the belief that it's their fault makes me sick. Our two major political parties are almost exactly the same and pander to the ridiculous far right extremists.
I've always wanted to go to Australia and work. Is the racism directed at backpackers and Europeans as well?
Nope, you'll be fine. All whites are generally accepted and most Europeans are thought well of. Some countries more than others, but Scandinavians are definitely liked here.
As for what's wrong with Australia I'd say-
The media: Right-wing with a small number of powerful owners (FOX news owner Rupert Murdoch being one).
The voting public: Most people spend their time complaining that voting is mandatory rather than investigating anything to do with politics. A lack of interest in real issues means that politicians and the media dumb down the debate to the trivial and unimportant.
Public spending: Health/Eduction/Welfare/Transport are all under-funded but while people maintain they want improvements they are severely against tax increases.
Racism: This one's tricky. We have a strong multicultural sentiment in Australia but also a disgusting racist one. It varies from place to place. Generally we're not terrible but it could be a lot better too.
They complain that everything is getting worse and that we are poor. WTF poor...so fucking spoiled...80% of the worlds population would probably love to change living standards with them.
you mean 90% + of the worlds population , like all africa / most asia / all latin america / a big portion of the americans / canadafags / all slavig population from europe / alot of eurogfags / me / i dont think aussies would like it there , no kangaroos to ride to work there
On September 06 2010 05:04 Laforge wrote: So many Socialist, so little freedom.
Denmark is definitely infested by Germany
surveys among the german population say that a majority of the germans think that Socialism is still a good idea and that 20 years after the fall of the berlin wall
okay maybe not, but still. most of the korean adults that live in either korea or america have this blatant, racist view against africans/chinese/japanese/insert other race other than korean people. like wtf? grow up, you're like 40+ years old.
On September 06 2010 05:04 Laforge wrote: So many Socialist, so little freedom.
Denmark is definitely infested by Germany
surveys among the german population say that a majority of the germans think that Socialism is still a good idea and that after 20years of the fall of the berlin wall
how stupid is that ffs
there is a difference between an idea and its execution in reality. the basic idea of socialism is still interesting and might be a good one, but history showed that it was turned into just another version of dictatorship by its leaders. power corrupts, this is one of the most essential truths to life. many good social utopies are not realistic because of this.
racism is getting to be a big problem here. 1,5m people voted on pvv(or party for peace and safety) which is led by geert wilders who thinks he should insult ALL muslims ALL the time because there are (some) terrorists among them. i just can't understand someone like him
I think it's really bad that things like the ground-zero mosque become so huge here in the States. I also find it really sad that such a large percentage of people here still think that Obama is Muslim. =/
Nepal: The politicians are stupid. i mean Failed and dropped out at grade 9 stupid. We have communist uprisings and now leading the country. Maoists FTL. The only way ppl remmeber Nepal is either, Mount Everest or THE ROYAL MASSACRE where our psycho prince gunned down his dad, mom, grand mom aunt uncle brother sister pretty much the whole family except for the kings brother. sigh OH and one idiot who explained to the international news agency how the price gun downed the family by making the sound of the auto rifle WITH HIS MOUTH! he went RAT-a-tat-tat-tat ON BBC!!! sigh anyway
We do have a Beautiful country but are raped SO hard by Indian politicians buying out the nepali politicians by giving them like $1500 seriously..... YES even YOU can get ur bill passed in nepal if u want. just skip school for a year and work. sigh
We literally have no Justice system, people get away with murder, rape anything really luckily mob justice is awesome and vigilantes crop up in places. Sadly not in a batman costume.
Gurkhas are the toughest warriors on earth one of the things we are proud of. But again the effing BRITS screwed that up too..
Other then that its the best holiday destination. OH and i have cannabis growing on my soccer field back in nepal. Police distribute weed in one holy day in nepal called "shiva ratri". (one of the gods smoked weed quite a lot) O and everything is pirated and cheap $20 bucks for a hooker.
Canada: GOD DAMN its cold.. and this is coming from some1 who lived in the FREAKING HIMALAYAS! O god the tax... its not as crazy as Scandinavia but holy hell.. gst pst hst a LOT of ST's No good beaches and no Wassauga is not a beach u Torontonians. otherwise its awesome
France is the most hypocritical country in the world.
- There is a ton of racist but most of them keep it for themselves scared to get their ass kicked - You can't find a job if you don't know the adequate people (not true for Paris) - People are fucking lazzy - We still think that stuff like mma (UFC - Pride ....) are for skinhead retards that can't do anything else of their lives - Media are scaring people to keep them entertained while the politics do stupid stuff not shown by media - French think that france is some kind of "special" despite the nice things you can find in paris, the country has literally nothing. - Our soccer team is a shame
To summarize despite few things and few people in Paris, France is a big joke
It seems like everyone and their uncles can immigrate here at will without bringing anything to the table.
Don't get me wrong, though. I like immigration, and every developed country needs it to keep a stable population, but I wish Canada would find a way to increase its immigrant standards without having to compromise our decent population growth.
- We got compulsory military service for no reason except for wasting money. - Still very conservative and narrow minded. - Not very good connections to other countries. - 4 languages but none is english or something else that's cool. - Very expensive (our own products are cheaper in neighbour countries).
1. Horrible health system. Its free, but its horrible. My grandmother waited 16 hours to see a god damn doctor in the emergency room. Call it anecdotal if you want, but the fact remains.
2. Cell phone prices are ridiculous, I pay close to 90$ a month for 500mb data plan. Sure its an iphone, but im pretty sure Europe pays alot less for cell phones.
3. Immigration standards are horrible. We let close to anyone in and expulse almost no one out. All the immigrants are encouraged to keep their own cultures instead of adapting themselves to our lifestyle. This causes sub-communities to pop up in some towns. Alot of government funding goes towards helping these immigrants who benefit from our society and bring little in return. We also help out countries way too much. We will rencently be accomodating close to 5000 haitians just because they have relatives here. We also gave haiti a shit ton of money, when we have hospitals closing down entire wings because of the lack of doctors and nurses.
4. The whole quebec-rest of canada dilemma. I was born in Nova Scotia and now live in quebec and i don't see the importance of the so called " culture" quebec fights so dearly to preserve. Both my parents are french canadians, i also speak fluent french and english. I really dont get why its so important to retain the quebecer identity. To me it seems like poutine and the french language is the only this selerating quebec from being identical to the other provinces.
I emigrated from Europe to the United States as a small child. That said, I was raised with a more European world view that most US children. I live in backwater Pennsylvania now, though my immediate (read 2 square mile area) is mostly minorities, and I like that. My opinions will reflect this.
Since the Bush years, it seems like white people I live around seem constantly to fear being "overrun" by something. Whether it's "illegal aliens" from Latin America (they typically just say Mexicans, even though most of the hispanic people in my immediate area are Honduran or Guatemalan) taking all our jobs, welfare, or overrunning out culture, or Muslim/Indian (most of the "Indians" are actually Pakistani or Sri Lanki) "terrorists" in our midst; local whites seem absolutely ingrained to fear some sort of external force threatening their ridiculously protected (particularly financially) lives. It bothers me so much.
At the same time, it does bother me that a lot of minorities resist assimilation in the United States. I would never ask anyone to abandon their heritage, religion, or some other sort of culture. Ever. But living where I do, I really wish a lot of the minorities where much more open to people outside of their encapsulated circles. Yes, as a white fella in the US saying he feels isolated by Arab/Near Asian/Far Asian/Latin American communities he lives within, I see the irony. I just see the potential for a very vibrant community in my area, but everyone is so insular. I know that many places are like this. Being white (or trying to be white) isn't what it means to be American, and I don't want the people in my community to stive for that. The common ground is what makes us American, and I feel like the people around me have enough of it.
My final gripe about the US is much more general. Everything is geared towards protecting the wealthy and preventing most people from bettering themselves in a significant way with regards to standards of living. When legislation like giving more options to allow workers to unionize (instead of the previous single option, the "secret ballet" which was incredibly easy to influence on the owner's behalf) or socialized medicine to give healthcare to the country's impoverished people, are introduced, conservative Americans rail against it. It disgusts me to see the lower middle class of my country fight to keep itself from having affordable healthcare. Don't they realize most of them will need it when they retire almost penniless, having never been able to save enough money for said retirement?
I feel like America is currently embattled in it's own "cold" civil war. =/
1. Movies and Series from other countries get translated into German with horrific results. (Movie "Murder by Death" becomes "Eine Leiche zum Dessert" [Sorry for German i know the board language is English but I try to make a point] which is literally translated as "A Corpse as Dessert" in a movie than doesn´t even feature a Main course)
1a. The Only Dr. Pepper we got is a special German kind with different taste (disgusting) so you have to import it from the Netherlands or so
2. We Got Good Laws which have horrible results (Freedom of Speech --> Having a politician who claims Arabic immigrants are all stupid)
3. People who vote for more freedom of the economy after economical crisis
4. A President who overlooked a budged hole of more than half a billion Euro prior his time as President.
America is so afraid of tyranny and oppressive big government that will ban books and conceal information from us that we don't realize that nobody reads books anymore and information doesn't need to be concealed from us so much as it's being drowned out by massive amount of garbage media (and I'm sorry to say a massive amount of game playing is one of them). It's happening anyway just not in the way we expected.
People care more about celebrities acting stupid, being a dumbass know-nothing, and generally making a fool of themselves than what's actually happening in the world. At the same time good journalism is dead, all of safeguard of democracy are being curtailed, and the message is becoming more and more extremist in the other direction in reaction to events.
Americans are being reduced to a state of egotism and passivity cus we indulged too much for far too long, spent too much money we don't have on things we don't need, and since WWII fought in wars neither entirely just nor have they benefited the majority of us.
On September 06 2010 08:04 Masamune wrote: It seems like everyone and their uncles can immigrate here at will without bringing anything to the table.
Don't get me wrong, though. I like immigration, and every developed country needs it to keep a stable population, but I wish Canada would find a way to increase its immigrant standards without having to compromise our decent population growth.
Say that about US and you're racist. Or are you still racist? I don't think Canada cares for how skilled the immigrants are, they just want more people. Aren't you an immigrant yourself (or a child of an immigrant)? Be nice, someone might be saying this same thing about you.
I'm from America, which I think at this point has been bashed enough, so I won't throw fuel on the fire. (Even though we may deserve quite a bit of it)
On September 06 2010 ilovesin wrote: 1. Movies and Series from other countries get translated into German with horrific results. (Movie "Murder by Death" becomes "Eine Leiche zum Dessert" [Sorry for German i know the board language is English but I try to make a point] which is literally translated as "A Corpse as Dessert" in a movie than doesn´t even feature a Main course) ....
Translations of movie titles in German are very often terrible. Here are some of my favorites: Original title - translation "Stripes" - "Ich glaub' mich knutscht ein Elch" (meaning: "I think a moose gave me a smooch") "Brave New World" - "Geklonte Zukunft" (meaning: "cloned future")
Then there are of course the great English to English translations that movie titles get in Germany xD: Original title - translation "Cradle 2 the Grave" - "Born 2 die" "A man apart" - "Endless Rage" "Scissors" - "Final Instinct" "Midnight Cowboy" - "Asphalt-Cowboy" "Black Eagle" - "Red Eagle"
And then of course the epic fail: The Italian title "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo" translated as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" in English got the German title: "Zwei glorreiche Halunken" (meaning: "TWO glorious scoundrels") I guess the German translator failed to count the three main characters in the movie...
I totally agree ggrrg i did just remember one of my favourite moments in "the Simpsons" It´s in the episode where Homer gets on a nuclear-sub and the Captain asks him what he wants out of life an Homer, reaching for the peas answers "I want peas" I laughted so hard and its completly gone in German.
We pass ourselves off as a clean, green country when we're actually quite polluted. We're racist. Towards every race, including our own natives. From my experiences I see Maori and Asians cop it the worst.
On September 06 2010 08:59 deViation- wrote: Canada:
1. Horrible health system. Its free, but its horrible. My grandmother waited 16 hours to see a god damn doctor in the emergency room. Call it anecdotal if you want, but the fact remains.
2. Cell phone prices are ridiculous, I pay close to 90$ a month for 500mb data plan. Sure its an iphone, but im pretty sure Europe pays alot less for cell phones.
3. Immigration standards are horrible. We let close to anyone in and expulse almost no one out. All the immigrants are encouraged to keep their own cultures instead of adapting themselves to our lifestyle. This causes sub-communities to pop up in some towns. Alot of government funding goes towards helping these immigrants who benefit from our society and bring little in return. We also help out countries way too much. We will rencently be accomodating close to 5000 haitians just because they have relatives here. We also gave haiti a shit ton of money, when we have hospitals closing down entire wings because of the lack of doctors and nurses.
4. The whole quebec-rest of canada dilemma. I was born in Nova Scotia and now live in quebec and i don't see the importance of the so called " culture" quebec fights so dearly to preserve. Both my parents are french canadians, i also speak fluent french and english. I really dont get why its so important to retain the quebecer identity. To me it seems like poutine and the french language is the only this selerating quebec from being identical to the other provinces.
5. Stupid politicians, like everywhere else.
6. Religion is not outlawed.
As a wannabe Immigrant to Canada this does not deter me for some reason.
Logged into Youtube one day and see that my country... Had an epic response to a question on Miss Universe... and managed to kill some chinese people in a hostage situation...
2. Cell phone prices are ridiculous, I pay close to 90$ a month for 500mb data plan. Sure its an iphone, but im pretty sure Europe pays alot less for cell phones.
You're doing something wrong. Granted prices are ridiculous, but $90s is far too much for a 500mb plan. Unless you have some sort of international calling add on the only reasonable explanation is that you keep going over on your data. Most of the service providers let you make accounts that you can track that information, you should probably check it out, because for 500mb you shouldn't be paying more than like $60 a month.
On September 06 2010 16:11 thedeadhaji wrote: I'm sure this has been said 100 times in this thread, but we're seriously way way way too overweight in the States.
thank god I'm at least in an area that appreciates locally grown natural stuff though...
I'm from Singapore. Most of my fellow teenagers talk in a mash-up of Mandarin, English, Singlish and Chinese dialects that makes standard communication impossible. And they're all effin' stupid.
I live in Sydney Australia and I have nothing really bad to say about this place except that our internet infrastructure is a joke. Although it is getting better, it is much, much better than what it was 5 years ago. And the trains here are bad, overcrowded and run late.
I also hate that Aussies are SO SO SO stereotyped across the world, it's bloody stupid. WE AREN'T ALL STEVE IRWINS.
And finally, we currently have a caretaker government because we failed to elect a god damn prime minister in our recent election.
But besides those things, this is a cool place to live.
I live in Sofia, Bulgaria. My country is relatively poor but I hate it when people whine about it. Many people say "this is the worst country in the world" and yet this is far from truth. Also I hate it when people tell me to leave to coutry. How are we supposed to fix it if we leave it? I don't like the gypsies! I'm not racist but those guys are like parasites. They do no good for the country! I hate it when people are being aholes in their cars! I don't like the local music at all! It makes the teenagers go insane!
On September 06 2010 17:09 BrutalDon0Bg wrote: I live in Sofia, Bulgaria. ... I hate it when people are being aholes in their cars! I don't like the local music at all! It makes the teenagers go insane!
Why do we need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new airplanes (f-35) when the planes we made in the 90s are still the strongest in the world?
Blows my mind how frivolously we spend money on unnecessary shit.
I hate my country's college selection/application system, but I say that knowing full well that it's a lot worse for [most of] the rest of the world.
We spend way too much money on random things that don't matter. Capitalism is fine and all that, but there needs to be some limit so that people don't end up wasting away.
Actually, I think what I dislike most about my country is the self-loathing. So much time is spent trying to define what negative qualities define swedes: we're boring, we're introverted, we're rude. The last part is actually sort of true, swedes generally won't apologize if they bump into you on the street for example. The other side of the coin is that so much time is spent praising other cultures in the media that "not being swedish" has become a career path somehow. Our politicians are importing american debate methods (it comes down to acting smug, making sarcastic comments about your opponent rather than discussing the issue).
Some people will say our taxes are too high, but I personally disagree. I think those taxes are one of the reasons why we have such a healthy, happy population compared to a lot of other countries. That is not to say a lot of stuff aren't exactly working as well as they could. While corruption is low, incompetence (especially locally) runs rampant, causing schools, hospitals and other services not exactly work as well as they could.
What I hate about the Danish government (and practically all goverments) is that they are scared of making tough decisions. It seems like all governments keep trying to please their electors instead of making decisions that may hurt now but will be worth it in the long run. Those guys that will talk to the electors intelligens instead of their feelings and desires.
Though there's a lot of the good ol' Protestant work ethic in my country, everything not directly related to getting paid gets complained about. Every second grown up person in this ex-communist country of mine seems to be at least partially racist or homophobic, utterly retarded on topics related to government or anything that's going on outside their specialized field of interest and/or complaining about everyone else being stupid. You'd think complaining without doing anything is a national sport. Newspaper articles online have unfathomable amounts of support for ludicrous conspiracy theories, downright racism or discrimination, religious hatred, and if that fails, stupid bickering. Nothing special, I guess, but the whole idea of my nation seems to be to hold the ideals of this stupid form of nationalism alive. It makes me ashamed to be Estonian every other week.
There is basically nothing interesting that happens in Norway. Our "scandals" and stuff are the most boring shit ever. We are badly spoilt and will start crying as soon as we don't get shit our way. We expect everything without working, and a growing trend is to live off welfare for a few years (as its piss easy to get and you can easily live a decent life on it). All off our political parties are basically the same, and there is basically no changes when a new party takes power. We are super dull.
On September 06 2010 18:13 Mikkerthebhu wrote: What I hate about the Danish government (and practically all goverments) is that they are scared of making tough decisions. It seems like all governments keep trying to please their electors instead of making decisions that may hurt now but will be worth it in the long run. Those guys that will talk to the electors intelligens instead of their feelings and desires.
Can't complain about that, actually. Kind of happy about my government, and even popular support is rather high, because the main opposition is hated even more than the fiscal hawks in power at the moment. Very unpopular ideas, yet somehow, they seem to bring some sort of positive effect. (though I'll admit, our government is out of touch with the "average" Estonian.)
The Bad - road infrastructure is bad - general government services (police, healthcare, etc are bad) - gypsies. For all the "anti-racists" here, I'd just say once thing - they are like the Zerg. I wish you have once of those moment when a family of 100 (this is the size of their average family, they start to breed at 12 and easily have 10 children by 30 while staying unemployed) just "plants" themselves in front of your yard. Cause they do that, as French dudes recently found out. Let's see your openness and anti-racist opinion then.
Other than that, reading what the developed countries have as issues, I'd say we are a pretty good place to live:
- very cheap. With a mid, even low-to-mid average European salary you can live really really well and have access to everything you typically have in a developed country. - the girls are really pretty. I mean, really, really pretty. Also easily accessible and you can get them to bed fairly easily. - the legal age for having sex is 14 - alcohol is really cheap. Like 0.50-1 Euro for draft beer even at some very good and high-end pubs. Hard liquor is also very cheap. - great nature. You can ski and go to the beach, great mountains and everything. - people in large cities are very open, almost all young people speak european languages and are pretty open to foreigners - relatively low crime rate, pretty safe to be on the streets (if you avoid the gypsy settlements, that is)
Having this in mind, I am not at all surprised by the HORDES of young Scandinavians (Swedes mostly) invading Bulgaria's seaside every summer. These dudes NEVER get sober and generally think they are in heaven. Which could be true.
Incompetent, overgrown and of course corrupt political body coupled with a police of similar qualities. Nonexistant army, powerless foreign relations, especially towards Slovakia. Outdated, idiotic socialist policies with an unfair tax system and ineffective, highly abused redistribution. Disgusting bias towards pensioners remaining from commie times, and against the taxpayer, especially visible in politics. We have what, like 4M people working for a 10M country? Overgrown public sector, ineffective money-burning public spending with absolutely no accountability. Highly questionable, slow and expensive procurement procedures and projects. Deliberate hindrance of SMEs, employees and the private sector in general. And then they wonder why the economy is in shambles. Retarded health care financing, badly managed state owned hospitals. Complete mishandling of minorities and immigrants (who the hell comes here anyway). Everything is expensive, people living in parts close enough, routinely go to Austria or Slovakia to buy things. Envy, hatred, hindrance at every step.
Absolutely not a country fitting to work and live in.
> governments keep trying to please their electors instead of making decisions that may hurt now but will be worth it WELL, DUH.
> Cause they do that, as French dudes recently found out. Let's see your openness and anti-racist opinion then We had some gypsy families leaving Hungary for Canada, asking for asylum due to "persecution". Yeah sure. They were offered easy, high-paying jobs, but didn't do it cause y'know, it involved work. So they were put onto some planes and brought back to Hungary. At the expense of the hungarian government of course. Also, in my experience the most staunch anti-racists and hug-your-poor-oppressed-minority socialists are the ones screaming most loudly if a gypsy or other minority family moves into their sheltered neighborhood, or otherwise have to deal with them personally.
Oh, forgot one: The outright hostile treatment of hungarians living outside of Hungary due to the treaty of trianon, by our own government.
I'm from New Zealand where things are quite cheap so living in Norway now the prices (taxes) scare the crap outta me especially when you go out to drink... of course you earn more but daaam... it's crazy!... and it's way to cold for me... summer is too short :p BUT....The woman are worth all the pain tho gents :D
Oh man, Norway is such a /fail country. We got so much oil money (we're the third richest country in the world), and yet:
- Our roads crumble and kill drivers. - Schools are falling apart and producing toxic fumes in worst cases. - Our politicians argue like 6-year olds in the kindergarten. - Our "Jante Law" ensures that nobody ever strives for great things because "we ain't worth crap". - It costs around $130 in customs fee alone for a carton of 200 cigarettes from abroad. - Customs charge approx. $250 for a box of 50 cigars (the box itself cost around $50). - Americans use 1 year on a project, while we use 1 year debating whether we're gonna start or not. - In Norway, everyone are experts at knowing what's wrong. Too bad nobody knows what's right. - Norway is currently harboring the terrorist Mullah Krekar. - In Norway, farmers shove 3 hen into a 1 sq. ft. cage. The eggs are coming! :D - Poor rapists must be defended from the harsh accusations of rape victims. The nerve! - In Norway, we just democratically constructed an Opera house that nobody wanted.
- Welcome to Norway, but only if you can afford the ridiculous prices.
On September 06 2010 08:59 deViation- wrote: Canada:
1. Horrible health system. Its free, but its horrible. My grandmother waited 16 hours to see a god damn doctor in the emergency room. Call it anecdotal if you want, but the fact remains.
2. Cell phone prices are ridiculous, I pay close to 90$ a month for 500mb data plan. Sure its an iphone, but im pretty sure Europe pays alot less for cell phones.
3. Immigration standards are horrible. We let close to anyone in and expulse almost no one out. All the immigrants are encouraged to keep their own cultures instead of adapting themselves to our lifestyle. This causes sub-communities to pop up in some towns. Alot of government funding goes towards helping these immigrants who benefit from our society and bring little in return. We also help out countries way too much. We will rencently be accomodating close to 5000 haitians just because they have relatives here. We also gave haiti a shit ton of money, when we have hospitals closing down entire wings because of the lack of doctors and nurses.
4. The whole quebec-rest of canada dilemma. I was born in Nova Scotia and now live in quebec and i don't see the importance of the so called " culture" quebec fights so dearly to preserve. Both my parents are french canadians, i also speak fluent french and english. I really dont get why its so important to retain the quebecer identity. To me it seems like poutine and the french language is the only this selerating quebec from being identical to the other provinces.
5. Stupid politicians, like everywhere else.
6. Religion is not outlawed.
As a wannabe Immigrant to Canada this does not deter me for some reason.
Hear hear. It's almost like an advertisement depending on your outlook
Race Riots The BNP, The EDL, The UAF (all wankers) Corrupt politicians Uncontrolled Imigration SHITE weather Boring as hell Digusting captital (London is a total shithole, I dont care what anyone says). Benefits (Basically all the lazy bastards get paid for doing fuck all). Extremist Muslims The IRA Shit value for money...
I could really go on but I cant be bothered. I still like the country even though this suggests that I dont :O
Government: Inefficient everything - From government programs on healthcare, to spending, to its lethargic bureaucracy - Religious leaders becoming a political pain (our population control programs needs some serious overhaul but we can’t even get started) - Politicians jumping from one party to the next like locusts on crops - And of course, corruption. . .we can’t seem to live without it The people - lack of environmental sensitivity -- don't even have the patience to distinguish biodegradable from non-biodegradable (let alone throw it in the trash)/ illegal logging here, illegal fishing there - excessive glorification of foreign lifestyle, culture and brands . . . they would wear cheap imitations, but they have to be a Nike or Adidas or . . . - Our entertainment industry ain’t so entertaining. so many talented singers performing soooo many revised songs, our performers copying many western and other popular asian acts . . . - many people have the habit of incurring debts for worthless/unneeded items or causes despite soaring interests all the while bitching about taxes and other important expenses
We fail at every big infrastrcture project. Thanks to our culture of talking things out we usealy end up with a plan everybody mildy dislikes. Weather sucks. We have no nature to speak of. Very crowded.
Religious and political zealots piss me off. People who claim to be an authority on an issue, yet have no idea wtf they are talking about. Don't claim to have an opinion if you have absolutely no idea what your talking about.
2. Cell phone prices are ridiculous, I pay close to 90$ a month for 500mb data plan. Sure its an iphone, but im pretty sure Europe pays alot less for cell phones.
You're doing something wrong. Granted prices are ridiculous, but $90s is far too much for a 500mb plan. Unless you have some sort of international calling add on the only reasonable explanation is that you keep going over on your data. Most of the service providers let you make accounts that you can track that information, you should probably check it out, because for 500mb you shouldn't be paying more than like $60 a month.
Rogers. If i want caller id, voicemail and 500mb of data, it adds like 25$ to the cost of the plan, which is 50$ minimum base cost. Plus tax, this adds up to about 90$
On September 06 2010 17:09 BrutalDon0Bg wrote: I don't like the gypsies! I'm not racist but those guys are like parasites.
Priceless
Yeah seriously why does France keep sending them back to us, we don't want them and they obviously aren't gonna stay long in Bulgaria or Romania given they are citizens of the European Union and can go back to you the next day.
2. Cell phone prices are ridiculous, I pay close to 90$ a month for 500mb data plan. Sure its an iphone, but im pretty sure Europe pays alot less for cell phones.
You're doing something wrong. Granted prices are ridiculous, but $90s is far too much for a 500mb plan. Unless you have some sort of international calling add on the only reasonable explanation is that you keep going over on your data. Most of the service providers let you make accounts that you can track that information, you should probably check it out, because for 500mb you shouldn't be paying more than like $60 a month.
Rogers. If i want caller id, voicemail and 500mb of data, it adds like 25$ to the cost of the plan, which is 50$ minimum base cost. Plus tax, this adds up to about 90$
you did something wrong man. i pay 100 bucks a month with a 6GB data plan...also with rodgers..its pretty kick ass actually. but i hopped on the iphoine bandwagon right away, they raise prices like every 6 months
i live in romania so: -unstable government, i think the 4th government is about to collapse in the last 2 years, funny thing is the same person is its head every time, i dont think this could happen anywhere else -terrible roads -manele : an awfully annoying noise which some people call music -dirt, aside from a couple of towns in Transilvania most of the towns/cities look terrible -lot of religious zealots, supercticions and whatnot. for example: A nune with epilepsy got crucified because they thought it's possessed by the devil - people at TL make fun of romanians for having no sense of sarcasm. actually taht's one of the reason i changed my country to my nationality
there s a lot more, i think that's enough for now
oh i forgot the worse, gypsies, a tone of them, millions really, it s hard to track cuz usually they dont consider themselfs officialy rroma but they are so many and cause so much trouble it's unspeakble. Im part of a minority myself, so you cant say i'm a racist or narrow minded against minorities but if suddenly every gypsy would disappear it would be a blessing to the country. They also ruin the image of romania as they go in wstern countries and continue what they do here, bagging, mocking, stealing, beating etc... and people quickly say that romanians = gypsies
-When you have to choose between Obama or McCain, you know it's rough. -Our countries government literally cares more about arguing, backstabbing eachother, and pressing through shit like ACTA than they do actually fixing our country. -Universal healthcare is a terrible idea right now. The main reason being 80+% of Americans literally don't even WANT to care about their health, and until that changes it really won't help much. -The media controls everything. From destroying lives of people to presenting ONLY what they want shown on TV to ignoring stories that are important to be documented. And then there's Fox News, I won't even start on them. -40% of our country are bible thumpers who have ideals that are 100 years old, and 40% of our country are flaming liberals that scare me just as much as the bible thumpers. 20% are okay...ish. -The middle class white male is one of the most discriminated against, although being one I really don't complain when there's still a ridiculous amount of racism throughout both our country and the world. -Going back to health, it costs 5x as much to live a healthy lifestyle here than to just eat unhealthy foods. -Rap music. Seriously, some of it is good. Some of it makes me want to know how this person will make more in a year than I ever will in my life. -Not enough stress to go to a university. People don't seem to care if you go to college or not.
Most americans are too self-centered and live in a subjective reality. People here think they're special and that they're always right. Arguing with one of these idiots is totally pointless. I live in the bible-belt and I'm constantly surrounded by them. (cough: fox news.. tea party..)
Too many american women are disgusting biatches. They spend their whole lives being pampered and worshipped. They have no sense of accountibility and use lies to get through life. Calling out a woman on her BS is as taboo as a white guy using the "N" word.... YOU ARE NOT TO JUDGE WOMEN, THEY ARE TO BE ACCEPTED AND LOVED AND YOU NEED TO REALIZE WOMEN ARE BETTER THAN MEN. Outside of sex I have no interest whatsoever in being around a good chunk of the female population here.
On September 07 2010 01:17 Melt wrote: In switzerland, everyone just hurries and minds his own business. If someone you don't know starts talking to you, its usually a tourist or a beggar.
in america, if you just want to go about your business and be efficient, you're labeled as socially awkward and loner.
the biggest external debt in the world have you heard of us? we are some lying sons of bitches and everyday there are roadblocks over protests and civil unrest.
- just spent almost 400 million on an event 50% of the world has not heard of (Youth Olympic Games fyi) - world thinks our press freedom is north korean level and our judicial system great for suing international news papers. government tells us the world is an idiot. - tagline = "gateway to asia" uncyclopedia claims we are actually the ejaculation of asia's penis - everyone has the impression presentation = read off powerpoint slides. from high school - the workplace is little wonder why no one can remember a presentation done by a singaporean. - TV shows are sponsored by government agencies with subliminal messages, the last one was about a bunch of women trying to find true love... guess which country has one of the lowest birthrates in the world. - people walk so fast it is impossible to pick up the girls here.
France : the countryside sucks! Nazi-like policies lately Downloading is bad and worth a year of internet ban! (hm hm hm) english? Is it a language? you kidding? wi just spik French ir! OMG it s expensive! (Paris)
On September 07 2010 02:41 Ryuu314 wrote: Glen Beck.
And Nancy Grace.
Also our food stamp/welfare system, I grew up with it, and can easily say its the most idiotic system ever. It has good potential to help, but it really should be more controlled and more restrictive of what you can do with it. Working at a grocery store, I see plenty of people that buy 200$ worth of snack foods and soda and pay for it with food stamps.
The press scaremongers like you wouldn't believe. Girls diet to reach unhealthy sizes to look like photoshopped images of models. People are scared that around every corner there's a paedophile waiting to take their kids - if a kid is crying and lost in a supermarket, men have to ignore them or else risk potentially being called a paedophile. Also, a lot of older people are irrationally scared of younger people. Often people cross the road to avoid me, just because I'm young (18).
Also, people have a habit of blaming problems on immigration rather than on the lazy Brits who're at home on benefits. People ignore what hard working immigrants do and focus on the exceptions. To this end, there are quite a lot of racist groups that pretend to not be - the BNP and the EDL spring to mind.
There are more, but I can't be bothered to type more
2. Cell phone prices are ridiculous, I pay close to 90$ a month for 500mb data plan. Sure its an iphone, but im pretty sure Europe pays alot less for cell phones.
You're doing something wrong. Granted prices are ridiculous, but $90s is far too much for a 500mb plan. Unless you have some sort of international calling add on the only reasonable explanation is that you keep going over on your data. Most of the service providers let you make accounts that you can track that information, you should probably check it out, because for 500mb you shouldn't be paying more than like $60 a month.
Rogers. If i want caller id, voicemail and 500mb of data, it adds like 25$ to the cost of the plan, which is 50$ minimum base cost. Plus tax, this adds up to about 90$
you did something wrong man. i pay 100 bucks a month with a 6GB data plan...also with rodgers..its pretty kick ass actually. but i hopped on the iphoine bandwagon right away, they raise prices like every 6 months
To my knowledge, you got the iphone right when yhe 3g came out for rogers, at first it was 6gb but now its only 500mb for the same price.
Everything in our country revolve around the needs of a single individual. LOL. You can't even have an idea, you're just for him or against him. With the television being always about him, you basically create an internal fracture in the country, with people that believe the TV on one side, and people who don't on the others, and there's no middle way.
About the positive? - Fantastic Weather. All the times i go to northern europe it's a trauma for me. - People like to eat here. I mean, going to restaurants and such. Sitting down and eating 2-3 even 4 hours sometimes. I do that at least once a month, and it's one of the best thing you can do. Fast food are inexistent compared to most western countries. - Eating/Drinking culture. People drink from a really early age, but it's rare to see drunk people outside compared to germany, england or such, because we have a culture that teach us how to enjoy food and drinks. - Scenery and arts. There aren't many country in europe that can argue that. I've gone to Rome 5 or 6 times, for a month total time probably, and i've seen maybe a fourth of the important things you have to see there. Seeing Caravaggio's paintings have no price for me.
On February 02 2005 13:51 ssidengi wrote: hm... can anyone tell me which countries are actually not in debt? ... I was thinking if there was one country that wouldn't be in debt, it'd be the states
i think the states have the world's biggest debt..
of course per capita canada's is bigger.
Canadas national debt is less than what the US has spent on the war in iraq so that's not true -_-;;
There are too many aboriginals where I live. Or should I say to many drunk/homeless/violent drain on the economy aboriginals where I live.
On September 07 2010 02:41 Ryuu314 wrote: Glen Beck.
And Nancy Grace.
Also our food stamp/welfare system, I grew up with it, and can easily say its the most idiotic system ever. It has good potential to help, but it really should be more controlled and more restrictive of what you can do with it. Working at a grocery store, I see plenty of people that buy 200$ worth of snack foods and soda and pay for it with food stamps.
Yea thats some fuckin bullshit man there should be a 50$/week max on those thing. I buy a decent amount of food for one person and i spend like 60$/week if that..
I dont like how materialistic America is and how much ADVERTISING AND STUPID NEWS there is. Seriously 99.9% of the shit you can watch on TV is fake/biased in an extreme way and if you even step outside you will get smashed by a wall of target advertising it makes me SICK.
I even work for a bullshit marketing company that makes me sick. But I still need money cuz America is like that..
-Ridiculous amount of unemployment at the moment. Wages have plummeted to absolutely pathetic levels because of the 2008/2009 crisis. Companies (especially the larger ones) are getting really comfortable offering just temporary employment, making sure that the wage is low, clearly abusing the system. Job Agencies need a LOT more regulation.
-Being a British student and not being rich/supported by your family must be one of the most difficult situations to be in these days. They pay £3,000+ a year just on the fees and are supposed to survive for 3 years... They rack debts of £20,000 to £30,000 after they graduate. Great way to enter working life huh...
-Way too many fucking homeless beggars in every town. These are mostly "career homeless" in that they will never even attempt to pick themselves up from the mess they're in.
-Hard to find a decent girl with a good balance of looks and personality. Either she is drop dead gorgeous and mentally retarded or really interesting and fat/ugly.
-Too many immigrants who come here and hate(d) it. The economy is fucked at the moment, yet you see these people wandering around town looking for any job and understandably getting frustrated. Most end up either in a factory or a bar. This isn't 2002-2004 where you could literally pick any job you liked.
-The English are too scared of political correctness. People abuse this to the full extent yet nobody has the guts to say anything to fix this mess. Pathetic.
-Young people for some reason feel the urge to leave home as soon as possible. They are clearly not prepared and rack up debts on stupid decisions. How can someone be 18-19 have 1000s of £ worth of debt is beyond me. Parents should care more and not just wave goodbye as soon as their son/daughter hits 18.
-Labour (the former government) has fucked this country up bigtime.
I don't like that the education system is being watered down as we try to get more and more into higher education and thus creates more and more small shitty universities/colleges everywhere.
NOT ENOUGH COVERAGE on football Ridiculous taxis (99% Indians) who don't know the way and go the wrong way even with GPS. Too many brits in the recruitment industry. Jumping through hoops to get a rental apartment, its more difficult than finding a job! Too many speed fines/parking ticket rules.
Otherwise no complaints the weather and girls are just lovely.
On September 08 2010 04:42 SlyinZ wrote: When you talk video games to a french its 2 ways : -OH YO R FAT & NERD YOU MAD -yeh i liek call of duty 4 its da best hardcor game eva.
Also our politics sucks, they do everything for rich & poor people. mid class get less money than the "poor" class.
So many muslim extremist here( im not racist or stuff like this :p ). They block streets for pray.
People from other countries bash us everytime too, lol french white flag^^^^^^. Soooo boring to be french guys.
Well, at least you have the women, the food and wine to make up for it
On September 08 2010 04:42 SlyinZ wrote: When you talk video games to a french its 2 ways : -OH YO R FAT & NERD YOU MAD -yeh i liek call of duty 4 its da best hardcor game eva.
Also our politics sucks, they do everything for rich & poor people. mid class get less money than the "poor" class.
So many muslim extremist here( im not racist or stuff like this :p ). They block streets for pray.
People from other countries bash us everytime too, lol french white flag^^^^^^. Soooo boring to be french guys.
Well, at least you have the women, the food and wine to make up for it
I hate that everything is forbidden if its not allowed.
I hate that constant blame of no clue politicans over violent PC games if just anything bad comes form someone who plays pc games.
I hate our fucking extremists... Nazis as car-burning anarchists alike.
our stupid political culture of talking endless but saying nothing.... but i must say compared to what i see in other countrys ... i should be happy :>
That Germans always complain about stuff ... there is never something good enough...
Deficit spending is a norm. The government wants to reduce the tax burden, but then creates new regulations increasing the cost of compliance for businesses. The government also thinks digging a ditch and then refilling it is a value added job.
people are scared shitless daring to say anything about religion, and anyone who doesn´t like the status quo is a ignorant discriminating racist. its bullshit.
Also no Airsoft here. NO AIRSOFT! we are the only country in the world were the possession of airsoft weapons is FORBIDDEN.
My main gripe is the damn news media from both sides not allowing for intelligent discussion over issues nor do they allow for the wide variety of presidential canidates to be able to express their issues without it being twisted. Hardball questions are great but not this crap.
School system doesn't seem to allow for kids to explore/experiment what they want to do in college or elsewhere in life. Also, no preparation on how to manage finances.
The court system in terms of divorce cases are very sexist towards both men and women.
On September 08 2010 05:20 TymerA wrote: people are scared shitless daring to say anything about religion, and anyone who doesn´t like the status quo is a ignorant discriminating racist. its bullshit.
Also no Airsoft here. NO AIRSOFT! we are the only country in the world were the possession of airsoft weapons is FORBIDDEN.
But you ARE allowed to have like the biggest fireworks in the world lol :p (Vlinders and whatnot)
people in america really dont vote based on knowledge of the candidates..... ex: schwarzenegger(governor of california) and bush. in california nothing gets done because of the political deadlock: you r either republican or democratic, anyone else probly wont have a job for very long. and since republican and democrats cant agree with anything nothing happens which idiots wanted a movie star as a governor..... seriously...... health system twice the cost of most european countries for the same quality. for schools, instead improving teaching curriculum for schools because not enough children pass, they lower standards we claim to always support democracy, but we support tyrannical governments when it helps our economy.
so many stupid people a few days ago in my phylosophy class a girl thought that the USA were a Communists... but atleast gothenburg is a beautiful city to live in.
we spend billions on the drug war as government yet spend the most as consumers on "illegal" drugs. you would think history would teach us prohibition doesn't work. you would think.
On September 08 2010 04:36 Apexplayer wrote: A little less than half of our country is zealous bigots but the rest that are normal don't care enough to vote to change anything.
I hate the typical German renunciation, self-loathing and denunciation. German people have a serious problem with their national pride and no one dares to speak up and point out the obvious problems in our society because one needs to fear to be pictured as an extremist or lunatic.
I am a Spanish student studying in Switzerland (lived here for 19 years, aka my whole life)
Spain:
- ETA - Government not giving the right for the Basque/Catalonian people to choose their nationality - unemployment - lack of education - bullfighting -corruption - GYPSIES - Southern Spanish accent is equivalent to swiss german. - The Spanish government allows Fascist groups to be able to present themselves to elections, doesn't allow Basque Left wing nationalists due to being associated with ETA. (not very fair imo) - racist (worked in a hotel for internship, met lots of racists there -.-)
Switzerland - Too fucking expensive (McDonalds menu costs 12 SFR (12$) - Xenophobic - Military service - Girls are fugly. - Trains are never late (for a person who runs late often, this fucking sucks :D)
- Population decreases (ok, common problem of most industrial countries)
- Many immigrants have a hard time here. It's really a big problem which is leading to the missgouverment in the past 30-40 years. Foreign people were brought to Germany for working here. But only for some months or years. But instead of returning to their homecountry after their time is "over" here they stayed in G without having proper language skills or keeping their job. And now here's the thirth generation of many of these people with the same problems: no proper language, no motivation for education and most important: they'r somewhat isolated within their culture area. (note: t.sarrazin is a horrible idiot and those who agree with him even bigger ones) At least it's not that bad like in France. But still...
- School system not being modern enough. But still okay. Grammar and secondary school at least. But here's also a two class society problem. On average rich ones can accomplish a good degree easier than less rich ones.
- Weather
- People who live from the state and loyal tax payers on unemployment benefits on purpose which is not very hard to accomplish. Lazy parasites...
Well, otherwise there are many good things, too.
- Very clean.
- Good infrastructure.
- Healthcare, also some two class society struggle but still fine.
- Worst/most overrated soccer team EVER. Also useless at every other sport. - Crappy public transport, if its not delayed its broken down. - Ugly ugly ugly ugly women. Thank god I'm moving to asia soon. - ISPs have shitty upload speeds. - Too close to France
On September 08 2010 07:30 petered wrote: One of the biggest sports in the United States is Nascar.
Does it get much more embarrassing than that?
Bulgaria just lost to Montenegro in football. Do YOU even know where the hell Montenegro is? It's the size of a freaking dust particle on the world map!
all the IT stuff here cost like twice more than in any other country in Europe and salaries are around 5-10 times smaller than any other country in Europe. All goverment ever does is throwing trash onto each other (not literaly), stealing money from budget and pretending that they are very busy solving all the shit they caused. We are also probably the only country in the world that increased taxes during the economic crisis, 25% of companies bankrupt, another 25% started hiding taxes and level of corruption increased significantly. Then we didn't collected enough money to the budget, you know what they did? They decided that we have to borrow shit ton of money from other countries with insane dividends, increase taxes even more, higher the prices of everything they're in control and cut stuff like pension etc by 20-70%... That's beyond ridiculous.
So... i'll speak mostly of Quebec (French province in canada)
every quebecois is proud of being one... and to celebrate... drink beer and act stupid saying fuck the english even if they saved our ass several time in the past. Quebecois thinking quebec = better than all the canada mostly because we speak french and we got water and electricity... Frenchys fighting to keep the langage but changes every single rules of the dictionnary to make it easier to understand because everybody dont want to put to much effort in french.
Quebecois always thinking they are better than american when they are pretty much the same.
Btw: im a french quebecois... so its really not biased
The Bad: - Traffic congestion in Sydney - Quite a few racists (noobs) - Football (soccer) coverage. Seriously noone else in the world cares about rugby league or AFL. The World Game FTW! - Games and Tech is rather expensive here - Pretty crappy interwebz (hopefully that will change in the next few years) - Public Transport - The Aussie Accent. AFAIK I don't really have an accent. But a strong Aussie accent kind of annoys me lol. - Perhaps a tad too many immigrants
The Good: - Healthcare - Education - Girls =D - Weather - Multicultural - Lack of pollution - The love of Sport
England has grown men who live around football even though they haven't played it for decades. They're convinced they're part of a team by replacing their supported team name with "we". e.g. "Man Utd are playing." tonight becomes "We're playing tonight."
On September 08 2010 06:41 uga wrote: we spend billions on the drug war as government yet spend the most as consumers on "illegal" drugs. you would think history would teach us prohibition doesn't work. you would think.
The war on drugs was started by drug dealers to drive up the price of drugs artificially to increase profits and use the police force to destroy competition and gain monopolies on drug running.
You will find the war on drugs was immensely successful at achieving its real objective, to maximize the profits of organized crime.
Worst thing about Australia at the moment is that our environmentalists havent figured out what the rest of the world has, climate change has nothing to do with carbon emissions at all. These maniacs will impoverish every one of us over a fraud.
Australian politics overall is woeful (very bad news for any country).
Run by a man accused of raping his cousin and corruption a few times. Higher death due to crime in a hole year that in the total "anti terrorist" war. No police to call and if you dont have allot of money no hospital to go to.
Just some of the bigger points that lead me to move to Australia.
Australia. Only problem i find is they complain about small stuff and think it is so BAD... LOL
Guess the rest of Australia dont like me being here but who cares!
On September 08 2010 10:10 Tharros wrote: - Quite a few racists (noobs) - Perhaps a tad too many immigrants
I found this funny.
Lol I probably shouldn't have put them so close together. I mean I see how it looks kind of ironic ;D
But in my defense just because I think there are to many Immigrants doesn't make me racist. I like the multicultural aspect of my country. Our universities need paying overseas students or they wouldn't survive.But there also needs to be a balance.
On September 08 2010 12:10 Choros wrote: The war on drugs was started by drug dealers to drive up the price of drugs artificially to increase profits and use the police force to destroy competition and gain monopolies on drug running.
You will find the war on drugs was immensely successful at achieving its real objective, to maximize the profits of organized crime. .
with all due respect, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about; you are talking out of your ass.
On September 08 2010 12:10 Choros wrote: The war on drugs was started by drug dealers to drive up the price of drugs artificially to increase profits and use the police force to destroy competition and gain monopolies on drug running.
You will find the war on drugs was immensely successful at achieving its real objective, to maximize the profits of organized crime. .
with all due respect, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about; you are talking out of your ass.
Agreeing with uga.
Started? I don't believe it at all, supports it? definitely.
To the guy who said "50% of my country are hicks" for USA
Try living in Canada, approx 75% of our population are hicks/rednecks/mouth breathers. They even make it into the cities and create dirty hippie ghettos...
I hate how canadians think they're so much more progressive and enlightened then americans when in reality we're very close to being the exact same culture.
Our two major parties in government are both unlikeable. The arcade scene is almost dead, and so I can't play the music games I would like to (Jubeat, IIDX, etc.) There is an "Australian game tax". A new release game in the US is $50/60, in Australia it's $100/120. So we're paying $90/110 USD for the same goddamn games, thank god for Digital Distribution. Oh wait, 2K games and Activision price their games EXACTLY the same as retail. Am I paying for the shipping of the data through the tubes? Goddamn.
Yeah, no real glaring social issues, just like Snake007 said, but damn it's bad to be an Australian and a gamer.
On September 08 2010 06:40 xylos wrote: badthings: -we have no ocean -2 many immigrants
good things: -gun laws, probably the best in europe -girls -snow
Haha, wtf? You serious? Switzerland has like 4 immigrants per year! The country is tiny! And dont come and say that your economy cant support them, Switzerland is like one of the richest countries in the world?!
On September 08 2010 07:17 GORKAZ wrote: I am a Spanish student studying in Switzerland (lived here for 19 years, aka my whole life)
Spain:
- ETA - Government not giving the right for the Basque/Catalonian people to choose their nationality - unemployment - lack of education - bullfighting -corruption - GYPSIES - Southern Spanish accent is equivalent to swiss german. - The Spanish government allows Fascist groups to be able to present themselves to elections, doesn't allow Basque Left wing nationalists due to being associated with ETA. (not very fair imo) - racist (worked in a hotel for internship, met lots of racists there -.-)
Switzerland - Too fucking expensive (McDonalds menu costs 12 SFR (12$) - Xenophobic - Military service - Girls are fugly. - Trains are never late (for a person who runs late often, this fucking sucks :D)
I cant see how you can complain about gypsies and then complain about Racists?
However I do agree on the Fascist-part. I am an Antifa-member myself and I have a lot of respect for the Spanish movement.
We hunt down any decent politician and stake them over small minute details like bringing carpets from Afghanistan.
And we`re way too full of ourselves and obsess over whoever makes it abroad in whatever capacity possible. "Jan Gustavsen is making it big in remote Mongolia playing his delightful mix of Death-Trance and melodious contemporary accapello. Read our 250 page interview about it here!"
Our prime minister our corrupted prime minister our over-fanatic-religionist prime minister the people who think that we have a good prime minister over-religionist people (they are in Turkey too, not just Iran) %60 of the country no single failure of the theory that '%60 of the country being stupid' every single fucking thing about football is in the hands of "pay to view" channels inability to watch champions league, copa libertadores, turkish super league matches without paying the channels stolen sit-coms stolen scenarios for tv-series bm drivers, especially drivers of public transportation vehicles kurdish seperatists people who think that kurdish people are suppressed a party whose name contains the words "peace" and "democracy" takes unpeaceful and anti-democratic precautions to boycott public voting people who think that eu is good people who vote for new laws without even reading them people who vote for new laws without even understanding them people who vote for new laws without either reading or understanding them are %60 of the country abused democracy concept people who suck up the current governors, eu, imf, us, anyone people who think that our country can never be better than european countries the biggest lie of the century: armenian genocide
On September 08 2010 10:37 Fantistic wrote: England has grown men who live around football even though they haven't played it for decades. They're convinced they're part of a team by replacing their supported team name with "we". e.g. "Man Utd are playing." tonight becomes "We're playing tonight."
funny, this happens as well in America. Only they're obsessed with american football instead...
On February 02 2005 13:40 FroZZoR wrote: and yes we do spend too much on the military.
yeah stupid military and gop...but i dont mind working for a defense company
also its annoying how americans think the whole world is america. oh i mean "united states".
Everyone blames a countries people for what its retarted government does, your just as powerless about what your governemnt does as we are ^^ Democracy my ass
My prob with the US is all the lieing all politicians and the media do, the medias only agenda seems to be to keep people scared all day every day so they seek out protection, strengthening the governemnts hold. And every single politician campaigns around how pure they are and how much good they are going to do and it turns out they are a low life elitest scum bag, 100% of the time. Hell you gotta vote for somebody right? for example our last election you could vote for scum bag or a puppet, ill let u figure out whos who
On September 05 2010 09:18 Clearout wrote: I hate that in Norway you have to pay more than in any country for a beer or a pack of cigarettes.
it was smth like 9 euro for a pack of Marlboro; this should really be the most expensive pack at least in Europe.
yet you have:
- best black metal bands - fiords - Lofoten islands - midnight sun / northern lights - beautiful mountains
in contrast Bulgaria has: - a few semi-decent bm bands - no fiords - no lofoten - no midnight sun / northern lights - beautiful mountains is what we do have
- Immigration policies make it so that whole cities are basically from the same area in another country (we don't ask questions, just come on in) - We're know as the "Mini-States" - Our education system produces failures (also related to point #1) - Our politicians are morons. - We bring in more people from other countries that our country/economy can really afford to support.
- Edit: After reading the American's post, I'm adding fat people... I don't hate them on a personal level... well.. at least not most of them ... some of them are lazy and worthless, though.
I hate how my entire country plays the blame game and no one takes responsibility for anything. I didn't get this job because of racism/sexism/whateverism, I can't lose weight because of obscure medical condition no one has ever heard of.
On September 15 2010 01:51 Relickey wrote: I hate how my entire country plays the blame game and no one takes responsibility for anything. I didn't get this job because of racism/sexism/whateverism, I can't lose weight because of obscure medical condition no one has ever heard of.
Yeah... I had a guy apply for a job at my office... got turned down. Job required a college or university education (we wanted someone educated, go figure). He claimed racism because he was brown. HE BARELY PASSED HIGH SCHOOL!
Going to get a lot of hate from people that already posted here:
-People that say politicians are 'the' problem, yet doing nothing about it. Here in the U.S. there is no excuse for that. Use your first amendment rights and get some rallies started. Change some minds. There is also a lot of irony in the "politicians are so stupid" when in reality they are the ones fucking you because you are too lazy to get anything done. In my mind the politicians would be saying something like "man these people are so stupid. Just look at all money I am making from lobbies, bribes, or whatever, and they aren't even trying to do anything about it!" I can understand people who don't have the power to change anything, such as in North Korea where you'd be killed. -Religion.
On September 15 2010 01:51 Relickey wrote: I hate how my entire country plays the blame game and no one takes responsibility for anything. I didn't get this job because of racism/sexism/whateverism, I can't lose weight because of obscure medical condition no one has ever heard of.
-Also this, probably a lot of overlap with the people who don't do anything about politicians.
There are many other problems, but I think the vast majority of them can be summed up as an extension of these three in some way or another. "Education system sucks!" --> because people aren't doing anything about it, and the "there is no loser, you were just the last winner!" mentality.
my country thinks it needs to police the world.. and start unnecessary wars in the name of "defense", while killing many innocent civilians in the process.
When I see americans and Canadians spelling "lose" as "loose".
This isn't really about Canada in particular but more so the internet.
Nothing annoys me more than when somebody gets proven wrong and then says "lol trolled omg you got trolled" stuff like that annoys me more than anything else. Nobody is willing to admit when they make a mistake they act like it never happened, make excuses or act as though you made that mistake.
Canada:
Stupid drivers! I have a cross-walk that I walk past 4 times a day, it has blinking lights that go off when somebody presses the button. 4 times a day I press the button, 2 times a day somebody speeds past right in front of me because they can't wait 10 more seconds while I get across. I have even started waiting for everybody to slow down or even stop, sometimes people still go shortly after I start walking.
No manners. I can be in a store and somebody bumps into me, I say sorry and they reply with a "watch where you are going" or "grumblegrumblegrumble"
simple minded people, corruption is part of our way of life, u dont wanna get sick and depend on the health care system, ur kids better be studying abroad - germany pref, our football sux, rich people dont give a shit about the country, pick a random street in our capitol city - in 10 minutes there will be cars worth of 2-3m euro passing by, roads sux hard, heavy industry is non existent, import is 3-5x more than export, EU is quite stoopid to have us lol, absurd urbanization. there is more but im tired.
I knew this guy who was turkish, didn't have an education, couldn't speak propper Dutch and is now freeloading of the governement because "working in a supermarket is to low for him"
Freedom of speech, oh man, that should have its own thread
Weather. Holy fuck the weather, is 6am here and is so freaking hot , at 1pm is like 35 degrees, welcome to the dessert folks
Being a foreign (ive succesfully blended with the cuban society which im not one for them buwajjaj) most cubans think all foreigns have big fat bank accounts and try to just to squeeze money.
Music, this fuckers hear only "regueton"shit, which is extremely cool, until you here the cuban regueton, ppl here hear you listening to...dunno.....trance or some hardcore rock and call you freak (i listen to trance like 99% of the day)
Communism here, oh yeah, i went there. How the fuck can you call a country comunist without economicla and soccial classes diferences when the GRANdson of some asshole in the governemnt drives 3 cars to school (a rexton, a hyundai something and a FUCKIN 2010 MERCEDES, really, WTF?) dont get me wrong, comunis is great for people wit low income and resources, because it helps them, but i get so fucking mad when the grandgrand sons of fuckers in the government drive around in fucking dream cars that just makes me wanna puke (oh, and Fidel castro´s old fucking rolex, which he switch to a shitty casio after ppl went WTF?) In this country the diference of classes is so notable is disgusting, then you watch TV and everything is for the sake of everybody(which reminds me of
TV, OH MY FUCKING GOD, cuban TV has.....no IT IS, the worst TV in the whole damn fucking globe. Check this shit: 4 channels (it used to be 2), only 2 of those channels are on air 24/7, and they repete the same shit 3 times a day (from 8-4-4-12-12-8), and thats the best channel of all four. The whole fucking day, 2 other channels just air some stupid "tv classes" for school, instead of giving each school a set of dvds or cassettes or whatever they just air the teaching, which leaves other folks drooling like idiots after watching for 40 minutes. The cartoon channel, sweet mother of jesus, ok, i said that wrong, the channel that aires cartoons 3 hours a day, takes their cartoons from THE FUCKING BABY CHANEL, the most mature cartoon here is dora the explorer, so kids around 14-15 are fucked.
Journalism here is a JOKE. If you are a journalist and, say, make a documentary about a school which sells tests, or dirty cops, or anything that could damage the public view of something State related then holy shit, first, it wont get aired anywhere, and YOU could get penally sanctioned for having the documental. TV news are a joke, they only talk about global problems (In todays newe, shooting in an american school, SO WHAT? A MONTH AGO, SOME FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL GUY ((13-14 YEARS BEFORE YOU ASK)) STABBED OTHER GUY JUST BECAUSE) and this isnt fucking rare here, if you see a guy with an "eribanga" tatooed then you better dont fucking bump him. Thats a saint shit and their code is to "be a man" which has been stupidly associated with stabing any fucker who look funny at them. The TV journalists only talk about how great and cool cuba is....it doesnt havy problems!, oh, yeah, there was a small problem that noone gives a fuck about and bam, we are critical (who the fuck cares if some stupid food shipo that sells fried shit (literally) should sell more.
Transport, oh man, i cant believe i forgot about this one. This has to hbe the only place in the world WHERE YOU ASK THE CAB DRIVERS WHERE ARE THEY GOING, like they are a bus...they only charge 10 cubanpesos but still, if you get the "yellow cabs" then youre going bankrrupt. Now, to the matter, public transport.......holy shit. Ive never taken a bus because thankfully a have a car (A MUSTANG GT FUCKERS*) but i used to when i had like 14m and there are a few important thing there:
1- There are so few, that you could be standing waiting for one for more than an hour, if its AM then fuck it, its called "the confronta" which technically means there arent many bus drivers working (who knows) which means no busses
2- The hot weather makes people agressive, and, ofc, public transport is a transport way for ppl with low income or ppl who most go to work far away every day. The fights are daily, i mean it, google for vods of "bronca guagua" or cuban bus fight and youll see so many entries you could think is a movie.
*obviusly, i dont own a fucking mustang, but i just like thinking i do.
I just remembered another point which im pretty sure every country has:
The girls. Not every girls, cuban people are just awesome, i love them so much that seeing such a fucked up government makes me so sad. I mean the hot/pretty girls. Those bitches are fucked, MOST of them go for the money, i consider myself a handsome, funny guy, and capable of being with a cheerleader, but here its just impossible, they go after the money fellas, there is so much interest in girls that are hot and pretty that is hilarious, i have a female friend that asks me who this guy is (for example) and the first time she asked i went "oh yeah hes cool, hes studying something blah blah", now, i know what she wants to hear "hes the son of ____ drives a ___ has a big house in ____ likes going out to ___. And the funny part SHE DOESNT EVEN NEED MONEY, she just does because fuck it.
This isnt really general but still, im a a strong member of the ADEC, and we organize all the major BW events in the countrym we have a lot of ppl support and shit, and in 4 years, we aint "legal", they just dont want to. Why? oh man, there are so many many ridicolous explanations.
On February 02 2005 23:42 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: What the fuck is so great about Baseball?!
uhhh you should NOT say that here. LOL
On February 02 2005 13:33 ssidengi wrote:
As for Korea, for starters, the mandatory service in the military for men. The immense stress put on grade school students to enter an elite university.. but then having a low chance of being employed once you graduate from university.. there're many more which I can probably think of later
what about your own country?
Oh my dear friend. You DO NOT WANT to see the mandatory military service here
Actors, Cuba has so many great actors, really, cuban movies are actually very good, but they get paid so low is sad. In the US, for example, the Elite are the actors, no doubt. Here, the elite is the stupid talentless regueton singers. Actors are often seen taking the bus, i mean, really, wtf? only the truly best of the best have a stable economic life, and still, it isn near elite here. And please, its often due to contracts with foreign companies or something.
Turkey would suck if you were to live there. Everybody smokes, everyone is reckless and or doesn't give a shit, everyone has a mustache! Whenever something goes wrong the national catch phrase "this is Turkey" solves all.
There's lots of things I don't like (which I won't get into here) but something that really does irritate me to no end, is how silly and pathetic we get when it comes to slightly bad weather. 1 centimetre of snow and the country shuts down. I have a nice video here:
On September 08 2010 09:52 Yokoblue wrote: Im from Canada + Quebec
So... i'll speak mostly of Quebec (French province in canada)
every quebecois is proud of being one... and to celebrate... drink beer and act stupid saying fuck the english even if they saved our ass several time in the past. Quebecois thinking quebec = better than all the canada mostly because we speak french and we got water and electricity... Frenchys fighting to keep the langage but changes every single rules of the dictionnary to make it easier to understand because everybody dont want to put to much effort in french.
Quebecois always thinking they are better than american when they are pretty much the same.
Btw: im a french quebecois... so its really not biased
Im also from Quebec and here's what I hate the most.
1. It's true that many people (mostly outside Montreal) hates english ppl for no reason and never bother about talking/understanding english.
2. The generation above us (40yrs+) have fought all their lives to make Quebec a country and failed 2 times but they still wont let it go. There nationalist as fuck, wanna preserve language and they overdo it and it's leading to stupid laws (can't sign up in most to tournaments/contest)
3. It's one of the most taxed placed in NA
4. Most french ppl english accent sound horrible, it's so easy to recognize them.
5. The rest of the Canada (mostly ontario) have a bad perpection about us cause were french.
On September 18 2010 23:04 XeliN wrote: In the UK i get judged and discriminated against all the time for having a sexual relationship with my sister. It makes me so angry sometimes that people are so closed minded.
If it makes me happy why does it matter to anyone else.
On September 18 2010 23:04 XeliN wrote: In the UK i get judged and discriminated against all the time for having a sexual relationship with my sister. It makes me so angry sometimes that people are so closed minded.
If it makes me happy why does it matter to anyone else.
On September 18 2010 23:04 XeliN wrote: In the UK i get judged and discriminated against all the time for having a sexual relationship with my sister. It makes me so angry sometimes that people are so closed minded.
If it makes me happy why does it matter to anyone else.
On February 02 2005 14:54 orzhady wrote: taxes are way too high, 33% i think... so if i make 10 000kr one month, i will only keep 6666kr?
Ok then, denmark 38% + exstra taxes the more you earn, up till around 65%!
myself pay 48%
You think you have it bad? Come to norway and live in the most expensive ("normal") town on the earth. Still good to be a socialist.
Up here in the north we.... Shit. Dont have anything to coplain about. It is easy to live in the nr. 1 ranked country, in best place to live. The only problem is that it is to few girls here :\
first i love aussie!!! ive been there a couple of times, but... arent australia founded on immigrants not too long ago?... and not an attack just a pondering from me. unless you ofcause are an aboriginee, then i understand completely
We are dumb enough to buy the F-35 even though it doesn't have the range needed to defending our massive airspace, just so we can play nicely with the rest of the NATO members.
ye I was gonna complain again, but then i read that guy from cubas post, and I decided to shut up
Hows the crime rate in Cuba?
Just curious, here in the west its like you guys don't even fucking exist. Especially in America. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable with whats going on in the world, from close to home to fucking idk, Pakistan, the only two exceptions really being Cuba and NK.
Seriously if an Earthquake hit you guys I don't even think the US media would report it :/.
germany. bashing and complaining culture, own culture, is so common, on any rates rankings or what so ever, germany will never ever rank themself high. (always afraid of beeing good, because of history)
I hate our stereotypes, among other things, but fucking hate how everyone sees us. I was watching NCIS and there was this chapter where 2 of the guys go to Mexico, the whole fucking chapter was about unclean water, unpasteurized yogurt, colonial buildings, drugdealers and mariachis at every corner I mean what the fuck? Then a guy from school I know just came back from a student exchange in Russia, a teacher told him he would introduce him to meat and wine since we don't know them here. I don't know why the hell but it seems like europeans and such think we're still on our horses and pistols.
French Canadians - I apologize for them Health care waits Maritimers that are unintelligible (they gave us the aboot) BC for pot Alberta for the redneck heritage Umm The Yukon NW territories and Nunavut for igloo stereotype Ontario for incompetent politicians
Canada : - People whinning about how olympics had too much "french" in it, althought olympics ARE french (the guy who leads it is), so then you blame french even thought they should have been more present. - Harper. - Having a lick-usonian-asses government. - Ignatieff. Being too fag to not want to counter the current government even if he whine & whined about it. - People whinning about taxes. There are higher and we have free health care. And I highly doubt they would like to have KFC's colonel faces on their street. I like how freemind we can be in Quebec, Ontario and some others provinces, compare to U.S. were it is : SPONSORED BY POTATO INC !! BUY US 10 KILOS OF POTATO !! - The confederation acting like a federation. At the beginning the 1867 constitution was to protect & make trade easy. Now everyone is under Canada's joug. An exemple of this is that annual taxes or taxes on consumption (not sure of the good one) was reserved to provinces. Because of WW I & II Canada's got it so we have double taxes. Dumb. I respect U.S. for their laws regarding solely states. This applicate to laws too. And a provinces law < a federal law. This is the main reason of Quebec's separatist movement. - French-only speaking people being looked by a lot of people like "wtf you don't speak english ?". Go see Europe omg... - Having all our politics geared toward economy. Wanting mines company to give us job for 5 years then completly devastate a terrain.
Québec : - Quebec's being recognised as a nation but being loled at by the federal government. - Quebec's having vote 49,6 (49,8 ?) % for separation in 1995 because of a cheating "no" camp using 10 times "yes" money and federal allowing tons of immigrant to come so they vote no. If you think those two things canno't buy 1% of the votes you didn't think enough. - Quebec's people being lazy about their independance. - Having a 60% turnout rate at our last election in Quebec. GG dumb uneducated population. - Having a majority government although it didn't get 50% of the votes... - VOTE SYSTEM !! wtf simple turn... gimme France/German/semi-proportional representation omg ! - People being afraid of referendums because it costs money... (wtf ! food costs money too....). - People being afraid to talk their own native language. F* y*. Respect and assume yourself...
At this rate, Basque country will be independant before us -_-'.
On September 05 2010 03:23 Slivered Skin wrote: I'm depressed that most of English Canada jumps to absurd conclusions about Quebec, and that they don't even try learning the causes behind the separatist movement or why certain Quebecers fight to protect their language with such gusto. I'm also annoyed whenever I become targeted by said English Canadians just because of the fact that I speak French and live in this province.
I'm also annoyed by the ignorant Quebecers that hate all Anglophones for no good reason. I despise how some of them believe that certain beliefs and cultures shouldn't be prevalent in Quebec, all while promoting Francophone supremacy.
1) That we have let corporations coerce us into identifying ourselves almost exclusively with beer.
2) Tim Hortons.
3) That one of our provinces is even allowed to have a separatist party - when any other sane country would string them out as traitors.
3b) That said province is so utterly butthurt about the past that it is hell-bent on believing that all anglophones have it in for them and disrespect their culture - which is totally untrue.
3c) That said province doesn't recognize the cultural significance of virtually any other province.
3d) That the whole separatist issue can't just be put to rest and everyone get back to working together for the benefit of all - because quite honestly, it makes me a little sad.
4) That we allow ourselves to be so brutally influenced by American political and corporate motives.
5) Winter. I've lived in places where your spit freezes before it hits the ground.
I would add though, that I have also lived in places where you can snowboard a single run for over 30 minutes. So I guess winter isn't always that bad.
On February 02 2005 14:54 orzhady wrote: taxes are way too high, 33% i think... so if i make 10 000kr one month, i will only keep 6666kr?
Ok then, denmark 38% + exstra taxes the more you earn, up till around 65%!
myself pay 48%
You think you have it bad? Come to norway and live in the most expensive ("normal") town on the earth. Still good to be a socialist.
Up here in the north we.... Shit. Dont have anything to coplain about. It is easy to live in the nr. 1 ranked country, in best place to live. The only problem is that it is to few girls here :\
Well, I have something to complain about: FrP. What a bunch of idiots. I really can't explain how much I hate them.
Socialists have ruled Sweden for 68 of the last 75 years... we have to high taxes, people think it's ok to live on welfare for as long as they want, people look, talk and have the same opinions on pretty much every topic. It's like living with a population of bots. And of course, if you make alot of money, you're an asshole.
in Norway we got a political party which openly admires the tea party movement (basically the same us and them policy + free markets), and got 21% of votes at the last election
1) Socialism, god damn it. The taxes for upper middle class people reaches 60% when you count in indirect taxes, it's crazy. Some of our ministers studied in Soviet Russia and East-Germany, I don't even need to tell you what they think about freedom or the free market.
2) Totalitarianism is everywhere, strip clubs (banned), tanning salons for younger than 18 (banned), prostitution (banned), all foreign snuff tobacco (banned), nationalised alcohol market (check), property tax (check)
3) Schools are becoming easier by the years, schools below university level are getting worse, it seems that the majority of this country wants schools to be easier so that retards can get through them.
4) Crime has been going up, rapes are becoming a common thing and so are random attacks downtown. When my parents were younger it was a front page headline if someone was raped, now it's barely newsworthy at page 16. I don't know why the crime rate is getting higher but the following might have something to do with it -drugs -influx of Lithuanian workers who are usually criminals in Lithuania -but mostly because of retarded Icelanders
5) Having to be 21 to buy alcohol, WTF IS THAT. Lower it to 18, immediately. I started drinking at 16, as did almost everyone else, this shit pre-1970 mega Christian law needs to be abolished.
6) THE WEATHER, HOW COULD I FORGET THAT. It's hot for - perhaps 2 weeks each year. There's always wind, always. Bar those 2 weeks each year it's relatively cold, you need at least a jacket, in most cases a coat, to be able to be outside for more than 2 minutes.
People are constantly complaing about taxes like som kind of mantra even when they aren't that high at all. (30% on income up to $51k, ~50% on income in excess of that.) I feel like people are more and more adopting some kind of every man for himself philosophy. Universities are bad and have low standards, probably because they get money from the governement for each person they graduate. The weather is so bad that I can honestly say "It's worse back home" when English people ask me how I can stand their shitty weather.
On September 19 2010 20:32 KlaCkoN wrote: People are constantly complaing about taxes like som kind of mantra even when they aren't that high at all. (30% on income up to $51k, ~50% on income in excess of that.)
This just shows how ignorant you are. Here you have a list for taxes as % gdp. And you can be forced to pay as much as 70-80% of your income if you earn enough, you think that is ok? Get your facts straight next time kid.
Source: OECD
2008 Percent Denmark 48.3 Sweden** 46.9 Belgium 44.3 Italy 43.2 France 43.1 Austria 42.9 Finland 42.8 Norway 42.1 Hungary 40.1 EU-15* 39.7 Luxembourg 38.3 Netherlands 37.5 Czech Republic 36.6 Portugal 36.5 Germany 36.4 Iceland 36.0 OECD* 35.8 United Kingdom 35.7 Poland* 34.9 New Zealand 34.5 Spain 33.0 Canada 32.2 Greece 31.3 Australia* 30.8 Switzerland 29.4 Slovakia 29.3 Japan* 28.3 Ireland 28.3 USA 26.9 South Korea 26.6 Turkey 23.5 Mexico 20.4
On September 19 2010 20:32 KlaCkoN wrote: People are constantly complaing about taxes like som kind of mantra even when they aren't that high at all. (30% on income up to $51k, ~50% on income in excess of that.)
This just shows how ignorant you are. Here you have a list for taxes as % gdp. And you can be forced to pay as much as 70-80% of your income if you earn enough, you think that is ok? Get your facts straight next time kid.
Source: OECD
2008 Percent Denmark 48.3 Sweden** 46.9 Belgium 44.3 Italy 43.2 France 43.1 Austria 42.9 Finland 42.8 Norway 42.1 Hungary 40.1 EU-15* 39.7 Luxembourg 38.3 Netherlands 37.5 Czech Republic 36.6 Portugal 36.5 Germany 36.4 Iceland 36.0 OECD* 35.8 United Kingdom 35.7 Poland* 34.9 New Zealand 34.5 Spain 33.0 Canada 32.2 Greece 31.3 Australia* 30.8 Switzerland 29.4 Slovakia 29.3 Japan* 28.3 Ireland 28.3 USA 26.9 South Korea 26.6 Turkey 23.5 Mexico 20.4
On September 19 2010 20:32 KlaCkoN wrote: People are constantly complaing about taxes like som kind of mantra even when they aren't that high at all. (30% on income up to $51k, ~50% on income in excess of that.)
This just shows how ignorant you are. Here you have a list for taxes as % gdp. And you can be forced to pay as much as 70-80% of your income if you earn enough, you think that is ok? Get your facts straight next time kid.
Source: OECD
2008 Percent Denmark 48.3 Sweden** 46.9 Belgium 44.3 Italy 43.2 France 43.1 Austria 42.9 Finland 42.8 Norway 42.1 Hungary 40.1 EU-15* 39.7 Luxembourg 38.3 Netherlands 37.5 Czech Republic 36.6 Portugal 36.5 Germany 36.4 Iceland 36.0 OECD* 35.8 United Kingdom 35.7 Poland* 34.9 New Zealand 34.5 Spain 33.0 Canada 32.2 Greece 31.3 Australia* 30.8 Switzerland 29.4 Slovakia 29.3 Japan* 28.3 Ireland 28.3 USA 26.9 South Korea 26.6 Turkey 23.5 Mexico 20.4
Scratch an Australian and often you'll find a bigot. There is a widespread contempt for indigenous Australians, and there was some very inappropriate outrage at ex-PM Kevin Rudd's apology to the Aboriginal community for the abuses committed by British settlers. In my mind the issue wasn't that 'it wasn't OUR fault' but rather that it meant quite a lot to the Aboriginals. Even so, there were (are) many that hold the view that the indigenous didn't deserve the gesture.
I have also found there is an attitude present in many Aussies that is along the lines of 'Everyone loves Australians, because we are so friendly'. This assumption on the part of many young Aussies is in itself very arrogant. I suppose an extension with that is the rivalry between Australia and New Zealand.
The list of problems with my country is too long to mention but the major ones must.be our spineless prime minister and an opposition who is as right extreme as US politicians mix this with an increasing crime rate and immigrants who don't speak English and you got Norway
1- Bad Mannered Drivers: I don't know about that in other countries, but in Turkey, bus, taxi or truck drivers act like they are above the traffic rules.
2- Football Whatsoever: We got a team called Fenerbahçe. Every single ref, even the football federation and central association of referees do everything they can so that Fenerbahçe can win. But they still can't. Last year they even celebrated the second place like crazy:
Note that I'm not a fan of Fenerbahçe, I'm a proud Galatasaray fan. But there is one thing: They can't complete a match with 11 people whenever these guys play with a foreign referee, but when they play with Turkish refs, they rarely get cards. Whenever a Turkish referee shows a red card to a Fenerbahçe player (even if the card is right), he's criticised for the whole week. But whatever happens against Galatasaray (especially Galatasaray, and also Beşiktaş) is legit. This is not football. It's butchery.
And, Turkish channels demand 25$ for a season to allow you to watch that thing.
3- High school students online: If you're in Turkey, this is the worst thing in the whole internet. They always swear like battle.net or iccup raging pussies who always blame the winner for every game they lose. Think about a few millions of people who call every single person in the internet "son of a bitch". Welcome to Turkey.
4- RTUK: Its english is Superior Association of Radio and TV. They basically ban everything that's good on TV. They even banned pokemon because a kid jumped from the balcony of his house thinking that he's charizard. Is that enough?
5- Mandatory Religious Islamic Education: Tell me another country (which is not Iran, UAE or KSA) where all school from elementary until university have mandatory religious courses which only teach Islam and the curriculum has Namaz, fasting, memorization of islamic prayers etc. (note that they really make you perform a namaz in those classes). Well, I'm a muslim, but this is still a joke.
6- International Flights: Basically most of the good countries ask for visa to a Turkish citizen who is not also a citizen of usa or another european country; but Turkey basically asks no countries for visa.
7- Girls Bitches: Yep, this is a good one to bash.
On September 17 2010 19:29 oo_xerox wrote: I mean the hot/pretty girls. Those bitches are fucked, MOST of them go for the money, there is so much interest in girls that are hot and pretty that is hilarious, i have a female friend that asks me who this guy is (for example) and the first time she asked i went "oh yeah hes cool, hes studying something blah blah", now, i know what she wants to hear "hes the son of ____ drives a ___ has a big house in ____ likes going out to ___. And the funny part SHE DOESNT EVEN NEED MONEY, she just does because fuck it.
Just like Cuba, Turkish girls are the same too. Actually, bitches are better than those girls. At least they can say that they ask for money straight out.
8- Stupid education curricula: A student who wants to be an engineer has mandatory history, geography, philosophy, literature and religion classes. Period.
Sweden's autumn weather sucks. Sun, rain, Lots of rain, sunny again, raining while sunny, cloudy, rain, thunder.
You can never trust the weather to be good, even if it looks that way.
Example: I went out to have P.E in school. The weather was sunny with just a couple of small clouds. After like 20 minutes it was pouring rain and hailing at the same time.
The incompetence of our socialist politicans and our time of individualism, loss of solidarity and community.
I sincerely feel stressed and hurt by todays election since the right wing alliance will win it, a racist party will reach our congress.
We've forgotten the reasons we allow high taxes, help those immigrants who need help.
We haven't seen the issues that occur when the state doesn't care, when we live with wealth alone and have the possibility to help those in need.
In 1956 a hungarian family fled their country as Sovjet occupied it. The family came to Stockholm, where people waited. Thousands of Swedes, media and politicians welcomed them from a life without hope and a new start in our beloved Sweden.
Yet here we are today. Ignorant and prejudice. Unknowing of what a social democratic utopia we're living in compared to what Hjalmar Branting even could dream of when he won our first social democratic election majority.
Our time isn't the time of building a Utopia. It's living in it, taking it for granted and abusing it looking for something new to fight for.
As with a aristocratic british family. The first generation builds an empire. The second keeps it running. The third generation spends it all.
We are the third generation, we are egoists, unidealistic, individualists who vote for our own resturants tax reduction instead of voting for helping the homeless person outside the resturant.
In 1950's people spoke of the death of ideologys. They were wrong, vietnam and the 1968 radicalisation and a green collectivistic wave brought us together.
Now we're there again, there is no Nam to represent the faults of humans abusing power, no feelings for the human next door.
We defeated God, Nietszche. Sure we did. But we forgot what a belief in something gives the human, shaped our atheistic identities as a opposite of what was a religious life instead of keeping what kept us together and made human life a better journey.
Perhaps something will happen. When China has taken over as the only super power their Culture and Ideology brings something new to our lives. Probably much worse, but something to fight for, something that brings us together. Not sure what. But something new.
On September 19 2010 20:32 KlaCkoN wrote: People are constantly complaing about taxes like som kind of mantra even when they aren't that high at all. (30% on income up to $51k, ~50% on income in excess of that.) I feel like people are more and more adopting some kind of every man for himself philosophy. Universities are bad and have low standards, probably because they get money from the governement for each person they graduate. The weather is so bad that I can honestly say "It's worse back home" when English people ask me how I can stand their shitty weather.
haha I wish the US was more like that. Here you go up to 30% and then... basically the rich never pay any more than that. The super rich actually pay less.
I'm from Vietnam. The corruption here has gotten out of hand. We have a tremendous potential to become a new star of the world economy, but all the corruption just slowed the process down alot. Vietnamese country-side girls who think foreign countries are better and try to marry foreigners and only result in disaster or even death. The gorverment tried to build a high-speed train systems that cost around 50 billions dollars while the country is in need of hospitals more than ever...wtf!!! All the problems apart, Vietnam is still a cool place to live, though!
Students are forced to graduate in a pretty tight time period while practically have to work evening jobs to pay the high rents in Helsinki.
Retarded obligatory military service for 6-12 months where unmotivated slobs are "forged into men". You may choose something called civil service instead where you're forced to work 12 months in a (most likely) shitty goverment job for almost no pay.
The national football team is a sack of shit. Our "national sport" is a retarded variant of baseball that nobody watches anyway.
I hate the moronic selfish (wannabe) capitalists who claim that paying high taxes is a bad thing. I hate how reserved most of the people are, we aren't the most outgoing of people.
INDIA - too many poor people goverment need to either control the birth rate of poor people or give em some help - limited natural resources - being too nice to pakistan - corruption - its just not as clean as canada =/
I'm pretty much repeating what others have already written, because I'm not very creative right now,
England:
People believe everything in the media without thinking for even a second.
Its true what that guy said about everyone being scared of or scared of being accused of a pedo/molester.
Walking a street at night you are shit scared whenever anyone walks past, especially groups of young men. 50% of people (townies) on a night out adopt this super macho persona where they will shout at random strangers and threaten to knife you just for the thrill of it. Sooo many times I've considered keeping a knife on me or at least in my room incase some violent drunk tries to batter my door down.
I feel bad walking behind women because I always get the impression they think I'm a rapist. Um but maybe that's just me :3
The townie/chav culture is into 2nd generation now, which means the alcoholic jobless aggressive tracksuit-wearing kids now have alcoholic jobless aggressive tracksuit-wearing kids of their own. You will see tracksuit/hoodie-wearing people aged 25+ and later get attacked by their 13 year old kids at a bus station.
Trying to get a job is hell. You get paid £5.80/hour (a mcdonalds is £5) and there are so many people who want your job you're expected to take EVERY sort of shit and abuse else you get fired. I just quit my new job after 2 shifts because it was simply rediculous and the woman wouldn't even let me talk to her about anything, she just says "I don't want any excuses, you do what you're told and do it immediately or I'll fire you and find someone else". And this is me trying to TALK to her AFTER being absolutely PERFECT in every way.
Rich people abuse the benefits system. They buy a house and rent out TINY DIRTY rooms to jobless people on benefits, charging £92/week because the government will cover that much. It means that when you actually get a job you have to move out because £92/week is fucking crazy - or you just don't notify the government that you've got a job and start abusing the system yourself. At least until you can afford a security deposit to move into a new place with.
People are funnelled into university like you can't imagine. Many of the 1st year courses are 20x easier than A Levels (easier than GCSEs actually) and many kids just spend their £3k borrowed money on booze and drugs then drop out, or wait till they get the next £900 then drop out, now with £7k total debt or whatever.
Girls/women are 90% overweight. Which leads me to..
The culture of food is unlike anything you can imagine. Where I live there are around 14 fish-n-chip shops within 10 mins walking distance, and 1 chinese place that costs £7/meal presumeably because eveyones too busy scoffing chips to bother going there. I have literally gone months eating nothing but chips for every meal here. There is NO variety whatsoever. I'll spend 30 minutes in a superstore and just come out with a plastic box of ham that tastes of nothing but salt then maybe stop at mcdonalds just to have some different tasting chips for a change. I AM SICK TO DEATH OF BRITISH FUCKING FOOD!
Older (middle-aged+) british people are insanely set in certain ways. It's probably the same everywhere, but if you don't say or act a specific way infront of many older people, they will literally HATE you. If someone says "good morning" to you, and they don't hear your reply, they will walk back to you and say "I SAID GOODMORNING???" and you'll be like "wtf" and then they'll go round telling people that you're arrogant or some BS.
The gym where I used to live (within an hour of public transport) cost £77/month if you pay monthly. It is a shitty little village gym but because NO ONE fucking goes to the gym in this country they will charge the earth and act all elitist about it. On the other hand, the gym I currently go to is awesome family run and costs £15/month. But not one gym I have been to has any space to do deadlifts safely (or at all).
On February 02 2005 14:23 OctoPuSs wrote: Québec > Canada
This. Separatists are so lame and misguided for not realizing Quebec would never survive as an autonomous country. There's only so much maple syrup and arrogance will do for you. Take a look at things from an economic standpoint. Quebec would be so broke if it wasn't for other parts of Canada spewing money at them in an attempt to make them stfu with the separatist bs.
One of these days they might actually separate... then prepare to see lots of unemployment, poverty, and french-only signs.
Also the weather here changes too quickly. It can be like 30 Celsius one day and 10-15 the next.
Things are too far away. Even if you live in the biggest city (Toronto), you pretty much *neeed* a car and to constantly be driving to get anywhere. I prefer the setups in Bulgaria where you could just walk to wherever you needed to go (minus the poverty and laziness)
On February 02 2005 14:23 OctoPuSs wrote: Québec > Canada
This. Separatists are so lame and misguided for not realizing Quebec would never survive as an autonomous country. There's only so much maple syrup and arrogance will do for you. Take a look at things from an economic standpoint. Quebec would be so broke if it wasn't for other parts of Canada spewing money at them in an attempt to make them stfu with the separatist bs.
One of these days they might actually separate... then prepare to see lots of unemployment, poverty, and french-only signs.
Also the weather here changes too quickly. It can be like 30 Celsius one day and 10-15 the next.
Things are too far away. Even if you live in the biggest city (Toronto), you pretty much *neeed* a car and to constantly be driving to get anywhere. I prefer the setups in Bulgaria where you could just walk to wherever you needed to go (minus the poverty and laziness)
I agree entirely with this guy, although in Calgary you can get by without driving, you can take transit and the C-Train(For all that don't know, it's essentially an above-ground train system)
Basically a leech on the ass of America. Corruption. Cacos (annoying "gangsters" who ruin everything. Hogging the waves on BOOGY BOARDS. >:C) Fat girls think they are hot so they wear tight clothing... Ew.
1) That we have let corporations coerce us into identifying ourselves almost exclusively with beer.
2) Tim Hortons.
3) That one of our provinces is even allowed to have a separatist party - when any other sane country would string them out as traitors.
3b) That said province is so utterly butthurt about the past that it is hell-bent on believing that all anglophones have it in for them and disrespect their culture - which is totally untrue.
3c) That said province doesn't recognize the cultural significance of virtually any other province.
3d) That the whole separatist issue can't just be put to rest and everyone get back to working together for the benefit of all - because quite honestly, it makes me a little sad.
4) That we allow ourselves to be so brutally influenced by American political and corporate motives.
5) Winter. I've lived in places where your spit freezes before it hits the ground.
I would add though, that I have also lived in places where you can snowboard a single run for over 30 minutes. So I guess winter isn't always that bad.
You might not know that British Columbia, Alberta and another one (N-S I think, not sure thought) also have separatist movement.
To your 3rd point I respond Canada isn't what it initially was (1867 vs 2010), therefore french independance movement emerged.
- we spend too much money on the military for no apparent reason. - There are some quite popular right-wing parties that are completely out of their minds (you've probably seen the posters of the white sheep kicking out the black sheep and heard about the minarett-ban in switzerland and other crazy racist stuff like that). - Everything is so expensive here.
In my personal experience, Canada is a place where people have their heads on straight, and their bodies on backwards.
We will preach til sundown about the environment, human rights, the value of education, the dangers of capitalism, health, and our moral superiority on every other topic, but when you examine the facts, we're a polluting, capitalist bunch of a fatass hypocrites who wear their nikes and drink their lattes just like everyone else south of the border. We also feel fairly self-important because our media constantly tells us how great we are. This is why arguments between americans and canadians about which is a better place to live are so polarized. When you have 1231232 studies comparing various aspects of different countries, it's pretty easy to just present the 10 studies where you came out on top and declare yourself the winner. You've probably never even heard of the studies where you didn't do well.
Frankly, going to the "strip" in my city is a surefire way to lose your faith in humanity. Edmonton is a place where people have money, but no class. Their idea of a good time is getting shitfaced, doing coke, renting a limo, and sticking their head out the window going "WOOOO" as they drive up and down the street 8x. If you're not renting a limo, you're probably going to shitty clubs with your bros or your hoes to listen to with shitty DJs (they don't even mix...) who play even shittier top 40 music to meet other hoes/bros, picking fights in the lineups, and otherwise embarassing themselves. If you're lucky enough to not be edged off the sidewalk in a display of macho superiority, you might hear conversations full of angry whining, gossip, "omg im sooo fucked up", and male posturing "whatever man, if that guy says a fuckin word i'll just go to my car and get my crowbar". We have the distinction of being nicknamed "stabmonton". And these are not muggings, these are not gang fights (despite what the official media release says), this is simply that the entire population of 16-30 year olds in this city are basically city-hicks with nothing better to do than fight. For murders in canada, we were #1 i 2006, #2 in 2007, and somewhere in top 3 for the last few years.
On February 02 2005 13:35 FroZZoR wrote: I live in the USA and can confidently state from the election results that over 50% of our country are retarded hicks.
That's wrong use of statistical data (not everyone votes). But yes I agree that a lot of people in the US and lack common sense.
On February 02 2005 14:23 OctoPuSs wrote: Québec > Canada
This. Separatists are so lame and misguided for not realizing Quebec would never survive as an autonomous country. There's only so much maple syrup and arrogance will do for you. Take a look at things from an economic standpoint. Quebec would be so broke if it wasn't for other parts of Canada spewing money at them in an attempt to make them stfu with the separatist bs.
A lot of smaller countries does exist and survive.
Also in the last countries who became independant none did go back under its older's arm.
1) That we have let corporations coerce us into identifying ourselves almost exclusively with beer.
2) Tim Hortons.
3) That one of our provinces is even allowed to have a separatist party - when any other sane country would string them out as traitors.
3b) That said province is so utterly butthurt about the past that it is hell-bent on believing that all anglophones have it in for them and disrespect their culture - which is totally untrue.
3c) That said province doesn't recognize the cultural significance of virtually any other province.
3d) That the whole separatist issue can't just be put to rest and everyone get back to working together for the benefit of all - because quite honestly, it makes me a little sad.
4) That we allow ourselves to be so brutally influenced by American political and corporate motives.
5) Winter. I've lived in places where your spit freezes before it hits the ground.
I would add though, that I have also lived in places where you can snowboard a single run for over 30 minutes. So I guess winter isn't always that bad.
You might not know that British Columbia, Alberta and another one (N-S I think, not sure thought) also have separatist movement.
To your 3rd point I respond Canada isn't what it initially was (1867 vs 2010), therefore french independance movement emerged.
I'm aware of other movements. I think they're also stupid and more than anything a response to how everyone panders to Quebec since they started spouting off about wanting to leave. The notion of secession is foolish, and is emotionally driven more than anything. We have an amazing country, no need to stir the pot because you can't have everything your way.
On September 20 2010 02:45 ToxNub wrote: In my personal experience, Canada is a place where people have their heads on straight, and their bodies on backwards.
We will preach til sundown about the environment, human rights, the value of education, the dangers of capitalism, health, and our moral superiority on every other topic, but when you examine the facts, we're a polluting, capitalist bunch of a fatass hypocrites who wear their nikes and drink their lattes just like everyone else south of the border. We also feel fairly self-important because our media constantly tells us how great we are. This is why arguments between americans and canadians about which is a better place to live are so polarized. When you have 1231232 studies comparing various aspects of different countries, it's pretty easy to just present the 10 studies where you came out on top and declare yourself the winner. You've probably never even heard of the studies where you didn't do well.
Frankly, going to the "strip" in my city is a surefire way to lose your faith in humanity. Edmonton is a place where people have money, but no class. Their idea of a good time is getting shitfaced, doing coke, renting a limo, and sticking their head out the window going "WOOOO" as they drive up and down the street 8x. If you're not renting a limo, you're probably going to shitty clubs with your bros or your hoes to listen to with shitty DJs (they don't even mix...) who play even shittier top 40 music to meet other hoes/bros, picking fights in the lineups, and otherwise embarassing themselves. If you're lucky enough to not be edged off the sidewalk in a display of macho superiority, you might hear conversations full of angry whining, gossip, "omg im sooo fucked up", and male posturing "whatever man, if that guy says a fuckin word i'll just go to my car and get my crowbar". We have the distinction of being nicknamed "stabmonton". And these are not muggings, these are not gang fights (despite what the official media release says), this is simply that the entire population of 16-30 year olds in this city are basically city-hicks with nothing better to do than fight. For murders in canada, we were #1 i 2006, #2 in 2007, and somewhere in top 3 for the last few years.
Oh, also, people are really stupid.
Dude, that sounds like any large city.
I've lived in Edmonton, it's pretty isolated; but I promise you that it's like that everywhere. Your last line sums it up: "people are really stupid." Doesn't matter where you go, same kind of shit is everywhere. People all across North America have been socialized to think that: drinking + acting retarded = entertainment.
fucking geysers everywhere and the government refuses to clog them up to please the tourists. I'm not even going to mention the scheduling of the last eclipse in the middle of the week when everybody is at work, plain stupid.
The United States is becoming a shell of it's former glory. Ever since 9/11 the actions of our government and populace magnify our pathetic weakness. Our government is going bankrupt because of fruitless wars in the middle-east that have achieved nothing except perhaps procuring some extra oil so that we can prolong the status quo instead of attempting to fix the energy crisis by supporting research of renewable energy sources. Our political scene has become poisonous, hateful, and ignorant. Facts mean nothing in the public discourse. Conservatives are attempting to take the country's policies backwards by destroying the separation of church and state and by removing as much of our social safety net as possible. Our economy will not make much of a recovery when more of the population becomes poorer and yet services to help reverse that trend are made to look like communist plots in the media and have massive unpopular support.
Because of 9/11 and the wars in the middle east Americans have found excuses to hate muslims and to hate each other. Meanwhile the government has steadily removed basic rights from its citizens to be better equipped for fighting off future terrorist attacks.
In short, I can't help but think that Al-Queda got exactly what they wanted from 9/11. Their actions exposed the fragility of the USA's social and political systems, and now the country is tearing itself apart. We have allowed the attack at ground zero to become one of the most cost efficient attacks in the history of man-kind. Now that is embarrassing.
I agree with you in the thought that many Korean parents are too harsh with academics. Koreans (well asians in general, I suppose) have the stereotype of being good at math but not good at English, which annoys me since it's the opposite for me :D Koreans smoke and drink a LOT. They hack and cough out their spit on the ground. Gross.. Koreans are arrogant Korean guys are hot as hell but assholes :D
Note: I'm not speaking of 'ALL' Koreans of course. They are just a few recurring traits that I've seen :p These are my, and others', observations of the Koreans that live around me (Los Angeles).
French do not bash their own country; we let other, lesser countries do that.
Koreans are arrogant
Oh man. If that's your opinion on Korean people, you'd better not come here ever. Xenophobic behaviors are damn common : if it doesn't speak the language, then it'd better get back home.
As i lived in both Finland and Poland ill write about both.
Finland: They Drink too much kids are spoiled too much they slack off during crisis and government is just making it worse by giving them money so they just drink for it and ignore need of job which pay is similar to the unemployed support. Too much smoking and drinking everywhere after 18:00. Alcohol and Railway are Monopolized so they are very expensive.
Poland: People here are too impulsive, wont trust any1 and are not trustworthy themselves, they are tough to be on their own and they lack teamwork, they cheat on exams even in universities and their English is bad. Corruption and taxes are just at worlds peak and you cant really earn anything without illegal kind of job and you need to lie to employer for him to hire you. Girls are either too smart for you or too ugly.
United States: Everything is worked down to the lowest possible level and petty things are argued about 24\7 like mosques and whether or not its appropriate we accept gay people into our society (Like they will go away if we don't).
People like Peter Schiff are allowed to go on TV and be taken seriously.
Anti-science mentality, general ignorance, the religious right wing.
I've lived many years in both the USA and Spain, so I'll do those two:
USA: - People are way too religious here compared to European countries. It's actually quite scary. - About 90% of America is meant to be traveled by car.. and car alone. Public transportation sucks (unless you live in NYC or a similar minority of the cities that cares about their public transportation) and it is practically impossible to walk anywhere. To give you an example: from my house to my university it probably takes 20 minutes to get to in my car. If I were to walk... probably 2-3 hours. I mean really ridiculous. Related to this is that the traffic in my city at least (Miami) is insane. I hear L.A. is bad too, but someone I know from there says that we are still more aggressive than over there. - We have way too many wannabe gangsters. - America is a country that will NEVER abolish private fire arm use and then we have the nerve to complain about our high murder rates. We would have so many less killings in this country if we were to just get rid of these things. On a side note, our incarceration right is sky high as well.
Spain: - It's cool to be a socialist / progressive and it is looked down upon to want to be a successful entrepreneur making you into a fascist for some reason. - Spaniards are obsessed with reopening the old wounds of the civil war and franco dictatorship instead of looking towards the future. Also our problems with Catalonia and Basque country are incomprehensible to anyone looking from the outside and it just really seems like a silly and pointless dispute. Seriously, you can say you are a catalan or a vasco but that doesn't mean you have to play the victim and demand separation from the Spanish state. To me it just looks like a power struggle. - The university system is bizarre. Many careers are meant to be completed in 5 years but professors will flat out tell you that they expect most students to graduate in 6-7 years. Professors have so much power to fail their students, it's incredible. What a waste of time, and on top of that unemployed college grads are at record high unemployment rates >.< - Also, Spaniards are in a weird way somewhat racist. Other spanish speaking foreigners (latins) are rarely considered part of the Spanish population and there is an invisible barrier between the European Spanish ppl vs. the Latins - a weird twist to the immigration most other countries see given that these two groups both actually share a language and common heritage. Of course, being born in USA, the racism towards Americans is common, just like the rest of Europe, and is uncalled for. Especially since Spain is so obsessed with many aspects of USA culture. I swear I listen to more Spanish music on the radio in Miami than I ever did in Spain.
I've ranted quite a while and reading this makes it seem like I hate these countries. I'm looking forward to a similar thread where I can talk about the positives of both of these countries I love <3
I had two hopes for this election, that KD and SD would not make 4%, but I'm still surprised with peoples responses. It's as if it's the end of the world! I've probably read "Sweden is fucked", "Sweden is going to hell" twenty times. Several of my friends have joined the group "If you voted for SD you're no longer my friend" on Facebook. What the fuck? Voting on SD does not make a you a racist.
I'm so very disgusted with the people who support sabotaging the campaign of a democratic party. I'm disgusted with the people who are fighting this problem by yelling "racists" because it's not that simple.
I'm ashamed that a Swedish democratic party lacks candidates because people are afraid to be honest about their political views
Some of my friends voted on SD. None of them are racists or even close to be. They are just disappointed with how well the politicians are at integrating the ppl that comes here, and wants to highlight this issue (e.g. not learning swedish). I think this is the situation for most ppl that voted on SD. And it doesnt matter that some politicians of SD actually are racists since no other party will ever cooperate with SD so a vote for SD will always just be a way to highlight this question and nothing more.
I just find it extremely ridiculous how the whole Sweden just went madness over this, solve the source of the problem instead and better integrate the ppl we get, its bullshit to think that 5% of Sweden just suddenly turned racists/nazists.
And I am not even near to symphatize with SD, so I wont even bother to respond to any madness against me.
K Heres some of the things I hate about my country:
Quebec trying to separate from Canada, not only would they not be able to have a stable country in the economic aspects but I guarantee they would be asking for large amounts of money from Canada within one year of separating. For some reason French-Canadians have the misconception that everyone hates them, which obviously isn't true. Around my town the only people that seem to hate French-Canadians are the ones that dislike them from trying to separate from Canada.
The basis of a community and entertainment based almost purely on drinking, seems like the only thing to really do in Alberta is to drink.
The inability to force rules that the government or social services has implemented, such as maintenance fees.
People need to stop acting like Sweden is gonna turn into Nazi Germany 1940 (yeah sure this was not the outcome i hoped for, but neither was the last election)
its not the end of the world and its 4 years, settle down
Would any Bulgarians or Spanish like to go into more detail with how foreigners (non-language-speaking british to be specific) are looked upon or treated in their countries? What kind of things should I be aware of or look out for if I were to go to live there for 2++ weeks?
- Absurd level of corruption in politics. Everyone complains about that, but the same people complaining are the ones cutting lines, buying pirate products, stealing cable and internet, cheating on tests, offering bribes to cancel traffic infractions, parking on sidewalks, fakeing IDs to get discounts (students get 50% off on moviews, shows and sports tickets, so several people make fake student IDs) etc. Everyone is trying to be "smarter" than everyone else.
- Bureaucracy in public administration and legal system.
- High taxes on foreign hi-tech products, including games.
- Rapid growing of fervorous protestant religion, lead by manipulative bastards who exploits the poor and ignorant ("donate or go to Hell / lose your job / get sick / watch your family crumble", without exageration). I have nothing against religion, but watching reverends on TV extorting money makes me sick. The worse is, they are transforming the schem in an organized political force.
On September 20 2010 05:29 folke123 wrote: We from tomorrow and onward have a racist party in the parliament
Gz..about time you guys woke up.
Oh and btw: being against MASS immigration aint the same as being racist. Maybe some of them they are. Maybe they arent. I dont know that and neither do you.
I will follow the situation in Sweden the next couple of days closely from the other side of Øresund. Its gonna be really interesting.
On September 20 2010 05:29 folke123 wrote: We from tomorrow and onward have a racist party in the parliament
Gz..about time you guys woke up.
Oh and btw: being against MASS immigration aint the same as being racist. Maybe some of them they are. Maybe they arent. I dont know that and neither do you.
I will follow the situation in Sweden the next couple of days closely from the other side of Øresund. Its gonna be really interesting.
They're not against MASS immigration. They don't want ANY new immigrants. And it's not "some of them". It's LOTS of them.
EDIT: I would like for someone to try to argue against them not being racist if they think Wikipedia gives a fair picture of this party.
EDIT: People are especially worried about this party because Sweden now probably has a "minority parliament" where neither the right nor left block has the majority, because no side wants to work together with Sverigedemokraterna (SD). Therefore, SD are weighers and have much more political power than their 5,7% indicates.
when i looked at the link i thought i was reading about the PVV (of geert wilders)in the netherlands. they have a lot of the same points conserning immigration. they also use the freedom of speech to insult a complete group of people (ia the muslims). i would call it racist yes, although a large group in the netherlands wouldn't agree with me because many people voted for him. these political parties don't have solutions. they only make the problems bigger i think
On September 20 2010 09:42 NickC wrote: Would any Bulgarians or Spanish like to go into more detail with how foreigners (non-language-speaking british to be specific) are looked upon or treated in their countries? What kind of things should I be aware of or look out for if I were to go to live there for 2++ weeks?
Well people won't pay you much attention if you're white, maybe you'll get some awkward looks if you're from a different race. If you don't speak the language you're gonna have some trouble if you have to deal with any administration. If you're gonna travel around the country you have to prepare you self by translating the locations you want to go in cyrilic so you can show the note to bus/train station workers, because in general you're gonna have a tough time because of the lack of english signs on trains and bus stations (You won't have trouble like this in the grocery or other stores you go, because every body who works there speaks a little english at least.). It's very important that you are always vigilant for any gipsies (or roma as they like to call them now) because you're wallet and personal possesions will never be safe if there is any of them around. Traveling around in cities you will have to check the prices on taxi's because there are alot of fake taxi's that will charge you atleast 3x the price a normal taxi would. You can consider this as a part of this thread, because these are things I hate about my country. Also sorry for any mistakes, because I'm a little drunk while writing this.
On February 02 2005 13:33 ssidengi wrote: I believe everyone has an insurmountable pride of their own country and nationality to some extent
Oooooooh ho ho. I can think of some fully grown Americans who would beg differ and probably every slightly angsty high school student who "just have a feeling things aren't right." I'm not reading through this whole thread. This is just my chance to vent to one of the poor bastards who happened to jump onto this boat at page one. My apologies in advance.
On February 02 2005 13:35 FroZZoR wrote: I live in the USA and can confidently state from the election results that over 50% of our country are retarded hicks.
I live in the USA. In the southern half of Maryland to be precise; And I'll advise watching how you throw the word "redneck" around if you've the misfortune to ever cross me. I'm equidistant from "the sticks" and "the ghettos" and exposed and open to many viewpoints. You yuppy punks like to insult the "rednecks" just as much as they find your generation backward and confusing. You work against each other perfectly.
I live in the USA and can confidently state that election results are meaningless and mentalities like the above are 100% of our county's problem. Anybody in the USA who still thinks that either side (or even the majority of the third parties) are working for the interests of the people is a fool. We've been a kleptocracy for longer than myself or the poster I'm quoting have been alive. Keep complaining about the other half of the voters while tricking yourself into believing that you don't share more ideals than the few you're so sure you disagree upon. Neither side is working for you and they haven't been since before you could vote. To hell with McCain too but he's just an image of what you think you don't like. Obama is a figurehead too. If he wanted to impress me he'd have closed Gitmo by now and overturned the Patriot Act. Fact is no president in their right mind, on either side, is going to ever relinquish any newfound power.
Keep fighting for whatever it is you think you're fighting for Dunce-o-crat, Libertardian; Whatever viewpoint it is you subscribe to and believe to be correct.
Edit: Seems I kept quoting this half-wit as saying "redneck" when they actually wrote "retarded hicks." That is a lot less pleasant so I'll just leave my reply as it is.
User was warned for this post
Edit Deuce: Warned in the "Bash Your Own Country" thread for speaking out against the senseless fools on each side of the political spectrum (which is what I find most wrong with this country)? Or was it because my advice might have come across as a threat (it was, hatemongering disgusts me and isn't limited to "retarded hicks.")? It would have been nice if the PM included a reason. Anyhoo; Stay classy TL!
Edit Tres: Nix the second edit. Warned for arguing (had to reread). I suppose some of that does qualify as "arguing" or would if FroZZor decided to retaliate. That isn't my goal and I've no intent to take my reply any farther beyond what is written above. It *is* what I find wrong and I was only making an example of them. When you start lumping people into neat little categories it makes them easier to disregard as human beings with individual ideals and opinions. Hate is hate, no arguments.
our language sounds really stupid, i use it only when i have to, never on the internet
church has still too much to say, but we're starting to clear away from it
it's retarded how we can unite only when something tragic happens, it's really bullshit, like our president died in a plane crash, nobody i fucking knew liked that guy and he pretty much made our country look like a bunch of homophobic anti-german retards, but still you got people crying and shit, though this reflects my general idea on tragedies; MORE PEOPLE DIE OF CANCER AND CAR ACCIDENTS EACH DAY SO GET THE FUCK OVER IT, you asshole
we're way too much hold up on the past and can't get away from it, it's so hard to change anything in this country, where others would pull out of a crysis, we just fucking stagnate and no big, needed changes are done
oh and people hate communism, like if there's one thing they'd want multilated, burned and dead, it's the time between 1945 to 1989, even though we as a country were still the same people, doing our shit, working, having fun, now people just deny that, and you get people like Jaruzelsky, who's a really old man, being dragged into courts and stalked by idiots that don't know fucking shit about why he put martial law into motion, they just hate because of propaganda
-Best known as "pizza mandolino mafia mamma berlusconi" which is quite BAD because is quite REAL, imo. -Politician class sucks totally.You know they're all thieves, they change the laws to steal more, and...nothing you can do. -Bureaucracy, totally a failing system (fun fact for italy I'm dead since 31/10/09...oh yeah.) -School system totally fails.It's a derivative of bureaucracy+politics but still, most people are ignorant or either is a pure nightmare. I dare you study in any university and find a professor, or have the materials to study, or whatever.It's just a big failure.Infact most people have a degree but they don't fucking know anything about what they studied because in italy the studying method is probably based on corruption.If they legitimately study they just memorize everything but they don't understand what they do. -Technologically surpassed by basically any other country in the world.Most of the population doesn't care for technology if they got a TV. -Tv is shit.Boobs, reality show, people insulting eachother, corrupted government sources of information: they just tell what they want you to know.Most of the people ignore the real world they just have their tv and they're really dumb. -People are really dumb especially the younger generations, we have special names to identify them, tanslated it would go babydicks or something like that.You know uneducated bioys and girls ranging from 14-30 which are just a pain to see and hear.They could be classified as the 1337 noob wannabe lamer posers of the internet.If that makes sense. -No one really knows english, and in online communities we give our worst.We totally isolate and refuse to join people from the rest of the world.You speak english? GOTTA INSULT YOU BECAUSE I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU AND I HAVEN'T BOTHERED TO STUDY ENGLISH. -Mindset of 1300, thanks to the church (stato del vaticano we all love you...NOT.) and because there's a strong hate for "new things" even when they're clearly good.Internet computers are kinda nightmares of the italians, because they already got the awesome tv!
You know I could go on for hours, just describing where I live...(L'Aquila if you're wondering, and yes the situation is really bad.But guess what?Italy!)
I really hate my country, I live here just because I know few select people and I like the landscape.
On September 20 2010 09:22 Templar. wrote: Quebec trying to separate from Canada
On September 19 2010 15:37 RedSword wrote: - Quebec's people being lazy about their independance.
People around Canada think we wanna separate, which is a big misconception. Last referendum was 15 year ago and failed at 49/51. Since then, the separatist party (Parti Québecois) only lost votes and other governement have taken over. This particular party (which is still fairly strong and have others ideas than independance) doesn't even talk too much about it because they know it will never happend and make them loses votes.
People who still want to separate are all 40-50+ years old and know it will never happend but they fought all their life for it and yet wont let it go. There are alot of politicians in that mix which is why the rest of the Canada still see these shit in the news or whatever.
The 2 biggest citys (Montreal and Quebec city) vote conservative more than ever.
Please get that out of your minds, fellow canadians.
Canada *Car insurance is high *Nobody gives a shit about our own politics, everyone follows American politics more then Canada's(me included) *Way too high alchohol prices *Testie, just kidding *Not only do we have corrupt politicians, they are also dumb *Traffic, I thought Brampton was bad, then i saw Toronto, then i saw Montreal. *Fucking road repairs. Some Corrupt politician made some shitty, corrupt deal with some road repair company. Now we have some dumb fucking contract that lasts a long time and costs a lot of money and traffic problems. They build shitty roads that wither away and die quickly only to be replaced with fresh new roads from the same company. *Most of our exports are to the states. And our biggest industry/export is cars and car parts, to the states. They have a huge influence on out economy. *Complicated taxing system
Poland *Fgt's like this
On September 20 2010 08:00 ahleezay wrote: im from poland i avoid admitting that im polish, this country fucking sucks.
*Way too low alcohol prices :p *Religion plays too big of a role in politics and daily life. *Radio Maria - A radio channel that many from the older generation listen too. Makes them think everything is satanic. *Shitty internet in smaller cities *Polish hiphop - makes me dead inside. Sometimes I can't tell if its serious or some shitty/bad joke. *Pzpn, our shitty fifa football body. Full of old corrupt friends that back each other up. When one gets fired, he is just replaced by another "friend". Nothing changes. Our governments sport section wanted to get rid of all these bastards but fgt Platini stepped in and told us he'll kick us out of Euro if the government does anything. We've had 2 games in the last year where the fans have embargoed the game and no one showed up. Still wasn't enough to change anything. *Our global image *I immigrated too Canada when i was 3. The government sent my old address in poland, conscription papers. hahahahahaha *Poor infrastructure. (everything is getting upgraded because of Euro2012)
On September 19 2010 15:37 RedSword wrote: - Quebec's people being lazy about their independance.
People around Canada think we wanna separate, which is a big misconception. Last referendum was 15 year ago and failed at 49/51. Since then, the separatist party (Parti Québecois) only lost votes and other governement have taken over. This particular party (which is still fairly strong and have others ideas than independance) doesn't even talk too much about it because they know it will never happend and make them loses votes.
People who still want to separate are all 40-50+ years old and know it will never happend but they fought all their life for it and yet wont let it go. There are alot of politicians in that mix which is why the rest of the Canada still see these shit in the news or whatever.
The 2 biggest citys (Montreal and Quebec city) vote conservative more than ever.
Please get that out of your minds, fellow canadians.
I do know young people willing to vote for independance. People pro-canada in Quebec who have their citizenship are more rare then the pro-independance ones. I'm pretty sure OLD people are more pro-canada then young people.
And also if the question "Do you want independance" would be asked in a survey, I'm pretty sure the answer would be like YES 25%, NO like 10% and I'm scared of it/I don't know 65%.
Most Quebecers don't feel like belonging to Canada. In class we once asked (after a debate on the subject) 10 people if they'd like Quebec to be independant, like 2 people did agree, while no one agreed to stay forever in Canada. For the rest of them it was either the fear of unknown or some doubt about current Quebec's state. I did ask people around me to validate that theory and this seems pretty correct.
Canada's day isn't celebrated. We've our own [drunkard] party. Hundreds of thousand of people celebrate it. Much bigger then any solo Canada's day (not if you add all of them).
Also to you "fellow" canadians if you think we would be poor then you should be willing to let Quebec goes away, that way you'd be richer, lol.
Being independant doesn't mean communist... trade market would still exist between Qc/Ca. Free trade would probably be (and respected compared to US/CA one).
Personally I do not hate Canada nor Quebec, but I don't feel french is respected (and I hate Harper). So the only way to protect our language correctly would be independance (since federal are too g* to give us anything).
On September 19 2010 07:27 Half wrote: ye I was gonna complain again, but then i read that guy from cubas post, and I decided to shut up
Hows the crime rate in Cuba?
Just curious, here in the west its like you guys don't even fucking exist. Especially in America. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable with whats going on in the world, from close to home to fucking idk, Pakistan, the only two exceptions really being Cuba and NK.
Seriously if an Earthquake hit you guys I don't even think the US media would report it :/.
It is so incredibly low. I can walk at 3am in my neigbourg all full of gold and nothing will happen. There are some exception regions though.
I said all those bad thing about Cuba but there are a LOOOOT of good stuff.
What are the worst things about my country? There are a few but the people who live Sweden are the worst! Most of the swedish population choose to bury thier heads in the sand and listen to propganda from the media, bunch of fucking sheep who cant be botherd to find out whats really going on for themselfs. Then theres the swedish-english accent that just makes me want to cut my ears of. I also dislike the school system that refuses to reform and only gets worse and worse every year. Then theres the political leaders who act like a bunch of children, they also like to bury thier heads in the sand and go "lalalalala" problems go away if I ignore them. I might aswell move to denmark.
Personally I do not hate Canada nor Quebec, but I don't feel french is respected (and I hate Harper). So the only way to protect our language correctly would be independance (since federal are too g* to give us anything).
Protect your language ? What has it brought you so far, apart from isolation and making games/movies sales much more complicated ? I don't get why Quebec tries so hard. Speaking french in Canada brings you nothing but problems, and that would be true for most local languages (except spanish ones I guess).
corrupted government sources of information: they just tell what they want you to know.
That's what you get when your president owns most of the public television channels.
-No one really knows english, and in online communities we give our worst.We totally isolate and refuse to join people from the rest of the world.You speak english? GOTTA INSULT YOU BECAUSE I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU AND I HAVEN'T BOTHERED TO STUDY ENGLISH.
And that is where I feel we have the same problem. I'm not sure what makes french, italians, portuguese and other europeans suck so much at english. I guess it's because the TV programs are traduced in these countries ?
On September 19 2010 15:37 RedSword wrote: - Quebec's people being lazy about their independance.
People around Canada think we wanna separate, which is a big misconception. Last referendum was 15 year ago and failed at 49/51. Since then, the separatist party (Parti Québecois) only lost votes and other governement have taken over. This particular party (which is still fairly strong and have others ideas than independance) doesn't even talk too much about it because they know it will never happend and make them loses votes.
People who still want to separate are all 40-50+ years old and know it will never happend but they fought all their life for it and yet wont let it go. There are alot of politicians in that mix which is why the rest of the Canada still see these shit in the news or whatever.
The 2 biggest citys (Montreal and Quebec city) vote conservative more than ever.
Please get that out of your minds, fellow canadians.
Thanks for clarifying this. I can admit I was one of the people who thought the general consensus was that Quebec wanted to separate (still).
If what you say is accurate, I am happy to admit that I am wrong.
Some danes are insanely racist. I don't think that's neccessarily different from any country though. Got to have some extremists and racists so that everyone else can seem normal I suppose.
We still cling to the Danish Crown when it would just be much easier to discard it and get Euro's.
Marihuana and so on is not legal, and I think that making it legal would mean that there would not be this illegal underground business where men who kill other people get rich.
On September 20 2010 09:22 Templar. wrote: Quebec trying to separate from Canada
On September 19 2010 15:37 RedSword wrote: - Quebec's people being lazy about their independance.
People around Canada think we wanna separate, which is a big misconception. Last referendum was 15 year ago and failed at 49/51. Since then, the separatist party (Parti Québecois) only lost votes and other governement have taken over. This particular party (which is still fairly strong and have others ideas than independance) doesn't even talk too much about it because they know it will never happend and make them loses votes.
People who still want to separate are all 40-50+ years old and know it will never happend but they fought all their life for it and yet wont let it go. There are alot of politicians in that mix which is why the rest of the Canada still see these shit in the news or whatever.
The 2 biggest citys (Montreal and Quebec city) vote conservative more than ever.
Please get that out of your minds, fellow canadians.
I do know young people willing to vote for independance. People pro-canada in Quebec who have their citizenship are more rare then the pro-independance ones. I'm pretty sure OLD people are more pro-canada then young people.
And also if the question "Do you want independance" would be asked in a survey, I'm pretty sure the answer would be like YES 25%, NO like 10% and I'm scared of it/I don't know 65%.
Most Quebecers don't feel like belonging to Canada. In class we once asked (after a debate on the subject) 10 people if they'd like Quebec to be independant, like 2 people did agree, while no one agreed to stay forever in Canada. For the rest of them it was either the fear of unknown or some doubt about current Quebec's state. I did ask people around me to validate that theory and this seems pretty correct.
Canada's day isn't celebrated. We've our own [drunkard] party. Hundreds of thousand of people celebrate it. Much bigger then any solo Canada's day (not if you add all of them).
Also to you "fellow" canadians if you think we would be poor then you should be willing to let Quebec goes away, that way you'd be richer, lol.
Being independant doesn't mean communist... trade market would still exist between Qc/Ca. Free trade would probably be (and respected compared to US/CA one).
Personally I do not hate Canada nor Quebec, but I don't feel french is respected (and I hate Harper). So the only way to protect our language correctly would be independance (since federal are too g* to give us anything).
I love how you put "fellow" Canadians in quotations implying we have an actual problem between us. That is such an uneducated opinion you hold, it's amazing. Do you really think it will ever happen? You say the trade market will still exist, free trade, etc... but that will only create more problems for both parties, more things to think about and have sanctions on. You have the wrong mindset about this, as does most of the population. That's what the leaders want you to be thinking/doing. Fighting with each other over everything, religion, race, language...etc. Who gives a fuck? We should be looking to better our country with a shard effort towards betterment.
You say you don't hate Canada, yet here you are saying French is not respected???? What is that even supposed to mean? IT'S OUR SECOND OFFICIAL LANGUAGE. What more do you want? It's taught in school's, on menu's, buildings, government documentations.... everything. The only way to protect your language is independence? Come on man, seriously? "YOUR" language is not under attack, we are not voting to get rid of it, we are not in an uproar about it, nothing is being done to get rid of it. Do you see English speaking Canadians banning all french in places of business or not even trying to respond to someone trying to order something while speaking French? NO, you don't. Do you see that in Quebec? YES, you do. So maybe if you don't want problems in this area, don't create them?
Seriously, it's such a joke. Anglo-Canadians do not think about getting rid of French, or any ill-will towards it as a general consensus. What we do have a problem with is hearing people say they want to change and separate our amazing country just to save a language that is not being attacked.
When SC2 came out, stores had to sell french versions (EU) along with english versions(US).
So alot of people didn't knew about the servers segregation and bought EU version. Stores doesn't want to take them back (obviously) so alot of people who know each other IRL cannot play with each others. I think you can mail blizzard support for a server change but most ppl won't do that. This made me so angry when I learned that.
Not even gonna talk about latency here, were in fucking NA why would we play on EU servers WTF!!!
On September 22 2010 05:18 EniraM(CA) wrote: I love how you put "fellow" Canadians in quotations implying we have an actual problem between us. That is such an uneducated opinion
You say you don't hate Canada, yet here you are saying French is not respected???? What is that even supposed to mean? IT'S OUR SECOND OFFICIAL LANGUAGE. What more do you want? It's taught in school's, on menu's, buildings, government documentations.... everything.
Seriously, it's such a joke. Anglo-Canadians do not think about getting rid of French, or any ill-will towards it as a general consensus. What we do have a problem with is hearing people say they want to change and separate our amazing country just to save a language that is not being attacked.
I second that. I've travelled in western Canada when I was 18 (lived 6 month in Banff, AB) and it was really mind opening. There is alot of french community around Canada. Streets sign on the highway are in 2 languages, people generally have nothing against french ppl themselves.
It's the same on both sides, there's french ppl who hates english ppl (which is pretty stupid and close-minded) and there is english ppl who hates frenchys but theses guy are the same close-minded cowboys.
In conclusion, 1. There will always be stupid ppl, wherever you'll be on earth. 2. Quebec doesn't want to separate from Canada.
What do I dislike with living in Sweden? That everyone seems to regard their Western opinions as The Truth (TM) and that the world should adapt to us (which it unfortunately does to a large extent). This goes for all of the Western countries!
Germany: We might have the most interesting tax system there is. Sales taxes are seperated into two classes: Normal (19%) and reduced (7%) Reduced taxes are for certain types of goods. The system became more and more complicated, the original idea was to make certain goods everyone needs, like food, cheaper. At the very beginning, the only definition was "reduced taxation on basic foods". The result nowadays is total confusion:
-Taxes on horses are reduced, but not on mules. Mule-drawns are reduced. -Living snails have reduced taxes, dead ones not. -G-rated movies and literature are reduced, adult-only not. -Reduced taxes on food to go, but full on food in a restaurant. Prime example made by a cabbaret artist: If I buy popcorn for a movie, I only pay 7%. In the bistro of the same cinema, I pay 19% taxes. So, what if I leave the movie and eat the rest at the bistro? Is it tax fraud then? -7% on spiny lobsters, 19% on truffles -7% on domestic pigs, 19% on wild boars -7% on milk mix drinks with more than 75% milk - if it's less, the taxes are 19% -7% on ethanoic acid, 19% on mineral water -reduced taxes on cut flowers, ornamental plants, cows, goats and fish, but full taxes on dogs, cats, canary birds, goldfish - the food for these animals has reduced taxes again. -for an audio compact disc, the taxes are 7% if it's only an addendum to a book. If the cd content dominates, taxes are 19% -For no obvious reason, overnight stays in hotels have been reduced to 7% taxes this year, giving up 1 billion € a year. The actual reason, most germans agree on this, is that the FDP ("free democratic party") which is part of the new gouvernment simply is a clientele-only-party so they like giving useless advantages to hotels and pharmacies. It didn't take long for first brothels to use the overnight stay reduction as well, until the law was changed to prohibit that
Personally I do not hate Canada nor Quebec, but I don't feel french is respected (and I hate Harper). So the only way to protect our language correctly would be independance (since federal are too g* to give us anything).
Protect your language ? What has it brought you so far, apart from isolation and making games/movies sales much more complicated ? I don't get why Quebec tries so hard. Speaking french in Canada brings you nothing but problems, and that would be true for most local languages (except spanish ones I guess).
It's kinda funny how someone from France is questioning why someone from Quebec would try so hard to protect the French language. imo, Quebec preserved French too much to the point where their language is completely outdated and imo a little useless, especially when anything that actually matters in the US and Canada is conducted in English.
I guess this kinda brings me back to the topic of bashing my own country: Quebec feeling that the rest of Canada should be responsible for maintaining its culture and language.
Sorry to say this but here in Canada we are supposed to be bilingual when most non-French people outside of Quebec wouldn't be able to write a complete sentence in French even if their lives depended on it. The worst part is that even though having no knowledge in French has no impact whatsoever on anyone's life outside of Quebec, we still have it stuffed down our throats from a young age in school (wasted tax money anyone? All I learned was to conjugate etre and avoir for 9 fucking years) and in various other settings.
Take the Vancouver Olympics, for example. iirc, the Quebec premiere was disappointed that there wasn't enough French in the ceremonies. Why?!? The Olympics were held in British Columbia, not Quebec, and I fail to see why just as much French should be spoken as English when only 1/3 of the population speaks French. The ceremonies and any other world event held in Canada should have an equivalent amount of French used in it in relation to the proportion of their speakers. This half English, half French bs needs to stop.
Edit: Don't get me wrong. I like Quebec (very nice cities and great atmospheres) and think that they are an integral part to Canada. but I feel like this attitude of "what can Canada do for us" is starting to get out of hand.
United States. I'm currently disgusted that the bill to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell failed in the Senate today. Seems like no matter what the majority want, a bunch of homophobic ancients will control every decision.
- We have lost much control over the taxpayers money and budget overall, which needs to be refitted (we pay extremely high taxes in Denmark, but we got alot of stuff too)
- Our integration and foreign policy is a fucking JOKE, integration has totally failed in this country. There are ghettoes and there are an EXTREMELY high % of voters for what is similar to the swedish SD here in Denmark. Anti-muslim attitude and generally sceptism towards eastern countries.
- People still care too much about what others think about their life, about what they wear, and about getting happiness before everybody else. Everybody is in such a fucking rush all the time, we got high standards, but we got arrogants attitudes and elistism to follow up on that sometimes.
- The monarchy. Sure, we got the oldest living monarchy in the world... yeah that's fucking great, so WHO GIVES A SHIT? It's a fucking monarchy, it was popular in the dark ages in the middleage... wtf do we need some pretenious, predestined shit order of rank, making trillions every year for? Why can't we have true democracy? Why do we still cling to old orders of government, like monarchy? So just because you're born into royalty, you suddenly become better than everybody else? BULLSHIT... I'll be the first guy to drive a fucking bulldozer through our Royal Palace any day of the fucking week, twice on sunday
- Our infatuation with popular culture and fashion. We suck up to americans in a BIG BIG way, and we watch reality shows and we LOVE to slander eachother any chance we got. We get worked up about little things too much, and too often do we fail to just mind our own fucking business
- Danes are very private and anti-social, WHENEVER, there is no alcohol involved. On the streets and busses, we are very reserved, we don't normally greet people, and if you say hey to a stranger, the person just looks at you like.. "O_o WTF?".. like you need a fucking permit to say HI and smile now !
-We drink, fuck and utterly do too much drugs in this country. Young people especially has overflown into the nightlife with masses of uncontrollable substances. We are like the 2nd og 3rd rated country of young people who drink the most in Europe.. if not no. 1... scary ... and Of course, I'm no exeption.. i'm guilty like the rest..... we have a very liberal drinking culture to say the least.
- We have insanely high internet prices and slow speed compared to like sweden and the states, and our E-business and IT strategies are a joke. Our prime minister wants Denmark to be the top leading IT nation in Europe.... yea.... that will happen soon... or ? :D
- We have a lax military army standards. We spend too much tax money on a military that we never fully use, instead of just having our professional army of SEALS that actually do very good.
There's more, but generally I wouldn't wanna live anywhere else in the world. Denmarks great, but...
It's a little bizarre for me to see this English/French problem the Canadians seem to have :p. Some other 2 language Countries seem to have similar problems while in Switzerland it's really not an issue.
Seems like its easyer if you have 3(4) languages, everyone is more defensive when it's free for all ^^.
Gah.. I have so much to say about our country, but I think this one definitely takes the cake.
South Korea
While this is highly subjective from person to person, in my humble opinion, it is much true in Korea as a societal structure.
Confucianism, while great in ideology, has manifested in a very twisted manner in Korean society. Added with the influence of Japanese occupation during the World War 2 era, it has only become worse, plaguing the nation to a point of no return.
Throughout history, the theme of "respecting one's elders" has always been a very powerful idea in Korean society. However, this concept has gotten very twisted and wicked as of late, and it has gotten much worse in the last decade. "Seniorship" has become so powerful that two persons who's difference in age is only a year (or less) cannot possibly become friends due to the "age difference" which is completely ludicrous in Western standards.
Often times, a younger person's opinion is not respected amongst the older crowd of people. Better yet, speaking one's opinion out loud can often be considered rude and disrespectful, regardless of how valid or constructive it was. In many cases, the younger person will be ridiculed, and some severe cases, roughened up (this has gotten worse in the last ten years). Korean kids at a very young age will learn to be careful of what they say in front of seniors, keeping their opinion to themselves.
The "age wall" that restricts the communication between various ages become progressively worse as you grow older, making it impossible for both younger and older generation to communicate in any productive manner. The lack of communication brings stress to all parties and since you cannot address this in a healthy manner, it is very much a standard in Korean society for Korean males in the same company to (regularly) go on an insane drinking run.
Every Korean male is to serve the military for up to 1.5years. During these times, people will experience perhaps the most brutal and unjust power of "seniorship". Ironically, these times (both rough and joyful) are most cherished amongst most Korean male as they will always talk about their military experience over a glass of soju.
If it had ended there, it would have been no problem. However, after the military service comes being a functional member of the society. What's troublesome is that most people carry over what they had learned from army into their professional career. It would not be a gross generalization to say that most of Korean businesses are heavily influenced by the military system.
Perhaps what's even worse is that these adults take this for what it is, and they pass it on to their children. And it gets worse with every generation. Sadly, I do not see this getting better at any point in time for Korea as it's already such an important part of Korean culture.
Beyond anything else, I think it's mighty sad that two persons of different age cannot become friends and share their thoughts with one another. Although it's not an absolute, the if the two men were to become friends, the older person has to be unbelievably open minded, forgiving and accepting to the younger person.
On September 22 2010 13:50 Freezy3 wrote: New Zealand has the worst internet in the world.
Cuba has the WORST internet in the world. A country that none one knows about, full of lies and corruption. I remember when i was living there, i used to play BW by "Modem"...calling a lot of strange and cool people at the same time... so funny.
On September 13 2010 08:49 Defeat wrote: USA We use a terrible measuring system that no one else uses and for some reason we call what the rest of the world calls football, soccer.
On September 13 2010 08:49 Defeat wrote: USA We use a terrible measuring system that no one else uses and for some reason we call what the rest of the world calls football, soccer.
Japan calls it soccer as far as i know lol
ironically soccer is a word invented by the English
On February 02 2005 13:44 Frits wrote: We're too racist. We have bad leadership.
we are not racist enough, over 50% of our population is not even dutch. in my opinion a country should excist out of people with that nationality and not be overrun by a lot of foreigners that get accepted anyways because we are so damn soft.
I'd be depressed if no one else already did Sweden, but hey. Why not while I'm still here right?
Sweden
Bastards is growing Liberal, I was perfectly fine with us under an Socialist rulership. But NOOOOOOO, Liberalism and freedom just sounds too nice to pass out on apparently. (Ohh god what was I thinking? talking about Liberalism like this, I'm dead.)
Most of the media, ranging from all the free television service is owned by leaders and the government, and their advertising as well as the news are written catering to their interests. Many top journalist and news anchormen (and women) have publicly apologized or resigned their places while on air as an act of protest. Our over-70 year old premier has made himself into Italy's ideal man and rolemodel through open financial, political and personal life cheating while taking turns in advocating catholic and egoistical values, and still retains most of the country's votes and most people's support. It is not allowed for a person to build a barbecue or remove any walls in his house without the examination of the project, tax payment and subsequent approval by an authorized architect working for the town hall. A self-employed person's tax toll over anything he or she earns is 54%, that is before applying any other expenses which will in turn later be taxed. The popularity of transvestites is the only thing hampering the legalization of prostitution, a move that the media have been preparing us for years. Italy is also one of the most racist countries on earth, we can easily be compared to denmark and south korea.
Germany's middle class is full of short-sighted idiots who value comfort and seemingly low prices over anything and just hurt our whole society that way in the long run. They support jobs with low wages, they support low quality products and they pretty much kill specialized shops by going to supermarkets like Aldi. Sure there are people that benefit from such markets, but the sad truth is that our middle class has more then enough money to buy somewhere else. It's not only about food, they shop everything they can there. But they are of course the first to bitch about pretty much everything.
Everybody thinks that the gov has to do something about our problems, while we cause most of them and we are the ones that can do something about them.
Kindergarten is not free, how stupid is that? Integration starts with little children, and a fee(sometimes it's more than 200€ for a month, which is just too much for not so well off families) just supports segregation.
Temporary employment companies are ridicoulus, who allowed that? It is ok for them to force their employees to not get picked by the companies they get sent to, WTF? That is modern slavery.
Sorry that my english is not nearly good enough to elaborate those points
On February 02 2005 13:44 Frits wrote: We're too racist. We have bad leadership.
we are not racist enough, over 50% of our population is not even dutch. in my opinion a country should excist out of people with that nationality and not be overrun by a lot of foreigners that get accepted anyways because we are so damn soft.
(i'm not a racist just to be clear)
bs, wikipedia states that the ethnic dutch population is 79.71%, so I'm quite sure that over 50% of your population IS of dutch nationality.
and btw, you are racist, or at least have severe racist tendencies. You even state that the netherlands isn't racist enough because of x y z and then go on to give your opinion of why x y z is bad.
but the thing that rings the alarm bells in my head is that you can so easily fugde up facts to try and make a point on the heavily contested issue of dutch immigration policies. It makes you sound like the racist republicans in the usa who can't fathom that they have a black president so they resort to calling him anything but a nigger and still question if he really was born in america.
Living in Quebec I could go on forever on how stupid this french/english animosity goes ....
English hate the French because the French hate the English and vise versa. I hate how french people get pissed if I say "Hi / Bonjour " instead of Bonjour / Hi . (we're supposed to greet everyone first in french). Does it really make that much of a damn difference??? How sensitive can you be!! I hate how seperatist pricks in the 70ties scared away big businesses away from Montreal (biggest city in Que if you didn't know...) and now they all reside in Toronto. Thanks FLQ, you fucked your own province, at what cost???? I hate how I can't be as friendly as I really want to be because my french isn't 100% fluent, and if I was in a more forgiven province which accepted the fact not everyone speaks like a quebecois then I wouldn't be hesistant. We have really high taxes and yet our roads are still, complete SHIT. I hate how to suceed in business in Quebec your french needs to be spot on, yet when you're good enough in the business industry, you'll eventually move.
I hate how I'm 100% quebecois yet feel like outsider within my own province.
Once I pay off my debts, I'm packing up my shit and moving.
Shitty, shitty ass software. I'm not exactly sure why, but I've heard a rumor that all of this shitty software everyone uses in Korea is due to the Korean government taking bribes from shitty software companies. One example is the fact that pretty much every single fucking web site that's more complicated than just serving up text and pictures requires IE. Want to post on the local Facebook? Need IE. Want to watch a video? Need IE. Internet banking? IE. Of course, IE is only required because it's the only dumbass browser that lets the user click "Install ActiveX control and let anyone who wants to rootkit my computer to do so". Since all the Korean sites require you to do this before offering any kind of functionality, it's taken for granted around here.
More shitty software: Ahnlab V3 Virus Protection. This shit rootkits your computer. It's impossible to get rid of. It's government sponsored, which means that any government site you go to will try to install it on your computer. (The site won't function if you don't allow it.) It's a resource-heavy program, is very poor at detecting malware, and you CAN'T GET RID OF IT.
I was going to add GameGuard to this list, but it doesn't belong. It's pretty much the same thing as Ahnlab, but it keeps people from running "cheat software" (as opposed to malware) while playing games, and the other difference is that it does its job effectively.
Hangeul. Not the alphabet; I love the alphabet's simplicity. Fuck the software. Since Korea got into this NIH mindset, of course they had to make their own shitty word processor. It sucks, it's closed, and it's government sponsored. My school is a national school, which means every official document from my school (and from any other government organization) is released in this hangeul file format. Want to read your homework? Pay up.
Okay, enough with the software. Spitting. Koreans love to spit. All ages, both genders, any time, any place. Pass 20 people on the street, chances are you saw someone turn his head and spit on the sidewalk. Not in the bushes that line the road, he just turned his head enough that he isn't spitting on his own shoe. I worked at a bar for about a year. We give out these little glass cups filled with coffee grinds for ashtrays. They come back half the time filled to the brim with someone's gob. I think what needs to happen is that Korea has to discover spittoons, use them for about a century, and figure out that spitting is really actually gross, and stop.
Phones. I have multiple friends, as well as my mom, who spend almost $100/month on their cell phone plans. If you go and look up what the $80/month plan offers, it's something like 20,000 SMS messages and 1,000 minutes of phone conversation. Okay, they're not getting ripped off there more than usual, but who the fuck uses his phone that much? 20k SMS messages per month is like 600 per day. You can't send that many unless you aren't doing anything else, and how are you going to fill the 20 hours of voice calls you got left? Then these people complain that they don't have enough time to do what they want, or money to buy what they want.
^ | | A lot of people I know are laid off and unemployed, including me. The money I get from the Gov't barely doesn't even cover my rent and bills (my dues are like $625), The only way I am surviving is because I sold my car to my mom who pays me 100$ every month for it, and she brings over food and shit for me which really isn't even enough, I eat like 1-2 small meals a day.
I went into Social Services and it literally took like 10 hours (first one in, last one out) and then I got EBT for 1 month and then they canceled it because of some class I had to go to or something I wasn't aware of.
On top of that, I got a suspended license last year because I got a fix it ticket (expired registration, which I did fix) that I didn't go to court for. When I finally went there they told me I had to pay 960$ in 3 months or do some slave labor camp for 300+ hours plus pay 40$ in fees and 160$ to the court still.
I've got no job, no car, no money, and my gf is on the verge of dumping me because we never do anything because all of the above.
If I lived on the streets, I would probably be better off.
On September 28 2010 03:21 CharlieMurphy wrote: ^ | | A lot of people I know are laid off and unemployed, including me. The money I get from the Gov't barely doesn't even cover my rent and bills (my dues are like $625), The only way I am surviving is because I sold my car to my mom who pays me 100$ every month for it, and she brings over food and shit for me which really isn't even enough, I eat like 1-2 small meals a day.
I went into Social Services and it literally took like 10 hours (first one in, last one out) and then I got EBT for 1 month and then they canceled it because of some class I had to go to or something I wasn't aware of.
On top of that, I got a suspended license last year because I got a fix it ticket (expired registration, which I did fix) that I didn't go to court for. When I finally went there they told me I had to pay 960$ in 3 months or do some slave labor camp for 300+ hours plus pay 40$ in fees and 160$ to the court still.
I've got no job, no car, no money, and my gf is on the verge of dumping me because we never do anything because all of the above.
If I lived on the streets, I would probably be better off.
Yeah and everybody in America is fat too.
Wait, what was this thread about?
Oh yeah, and everybody in America has an uninformed opinion about EVERYTHING. In fact, it seems like the less educated Americans are, the more opinions they have. Most of it stems from the horrible media that I've never really watched more than clips of on youtube.
Every American politician spews some generic non-arguable bullshit that doesn't actually have any content what-so-ever because anything that might be labeled objectionable will instantly be blown out of proportion by the opposing party, which will the circulate on the media outlets for a few days until all the num-nuts who watch that crap are saturated with bullshit.
Even now the political parties here in America have somehow found a way to take the non-objectionable, generic, content-less speech by the other party and turn it over on it's head until it hits a soft spot with some demographic that will then suddenly form a favorable opinion about it for said party.
I think most people should keep their damn opinions to themselves. Sure, you can vote. Good for you. That doesn't mean you're right about everything.
^ What's so wrong about that? Maybe they exagerate things a little, but there's always room to improve no matter where you live and constructive criticism should always be welcomed.
I really do believe that Canada is one of the top 5 places in the world to live in, but there are still things that we can change or improve upon as well.
I think the biggest problem is when someone sees no flaws in their country because that just stagnates growth.
Whilst the Dutch had the good name of the most tolerant country in the world and probably thank most of our wealth to it. We are currently very intolerant against foreigners.
Our Nazis have more then 5 % in some parts of the country and the gov is not doing anything about it. Sad, because we would have history as a banhammer argument.
Edit : More then 5% means they get to be part of the Parliament in that region.
My background is Filipino but was raised mostly in Canada. My gripes with the Philippines having lived there for a few years and visiting from time to time:
- The Philippines have an infatuation with interjecting whole english sentences into their conversations. Some people don't mind, but it drives me nuts sometimes. Of course, other countries are like this, India for example.
- traffic. Okay, I haven't been back to Manila in a few years. Do they still manage to fit 8 lanes of traffic in a 4 lane road?
- Skin lightening products. I thought this was a joke but having seen them myself I can honestly say they really exist. Can you imagine have commercials aired that advertise having whiter skin is beautiful? It's interesting to note that 98% of all filipino celebrities are of the lighter skinned faction. The closer you are to chinese/korean/japanese complexion the more beautiful you are. Meanwhile the general population is nowhere near that light-skinned. And when darker skinned filipinos are in movies or tv shows they are generally either the hired help, a villian, or comedy relief. Google something like "filipino celebrities" or "sexiest filipinos" and see if you can find more than 3 images of dark skinned filipinos in the first 20 pages.
Americans eat too much! And they eat shit for most the of day! (Sugar, salts, and fats = no nutrition!)
We are more concerned about how we look then how we act! BMWs and thugs anyone?!
It's overloaded with commercialism, overzealous consumerism and lacks basic food for it's people. There's a lack of common marketplaces with vegetables, fruits, fresh chicken and beef, eggs, nuts, and herbs.
The majority needs vehicles, and this is sickening when we cannot make a decent one here.
You cannot farm the land...without inevitably becoming a large scale operation for distribution.
There is no labor party for people without higher educations.
We cannot admit we have a flexible but readily apparent social class system. Sectarian and transformative, but yet unfavorably cruel to the recent immigrants or impoverished.
(Central Minnesota, has a larger % population of East Africans especially Somalians because of our welfare system then other states in the Midwest or U.S.A.and yet a lot of these people find many woes & throes in the economic ladder and their social upbringing.)
Most of our time as citizens is wasted on trivial information (celebrities, fundamental whining in politics, the Fox news propaganda war, research in erection science) that cannot help us further our lives.
Large banks ruin our capitalistic entreprise...betting against the market with retirees pensions to make money for the very rich...short sellers...ponzi schemers...golden parachutes for failed institutions and their CEOS...the American concept of progress is reaching skyward on a pile of debt...
Many people cannot fully express themselves in English.
They're too many distractions here! (Television, gaming {retro, next-gens, PC}, hobbies, extra-curricular sports, golf..., hollywood cinema, gambling, car modification, body modification, our news in general is wasted breath...social drinking/smoking, self-prescription, ATV'ing, snowmobiling, Nascar, fishing-hunting[borderline], snowboarding, skiing, wake boarding, jet skiing, aviation, fashion, hyper sexuality, home improvement, animal competitions, hip-hop/metal/indie culture, home gardening, DIY kitsch shits and whirlibops for the WHOLE FUCKING FAMILY TO HATE!
People abuse prescription medications and most Americans are overprescribed because they're unable to maintain preventive care to their physical, mental and spiritual health.
The majority is : Confused Overweight Lazy or apathetic due to drug use, cheap entertainment, lack of preparation needed to survive.
Tense Insensitive about their body-image, or has little self-respect for their mind/body/spirit.
Uneducated and overwhelmed with debt! Unaware about our political process and it's oligarchical control over our "free press."
Forced into education "machines" designed to conform everyone to the lowest "common denominator" and eliminate the pursuit of self-governed states, cities, and counties. ----------- We over-govern our states with federal laws. We don't have hard money any more, we just print more paper money and transfer the concept over... We attack the world and pillage what we can... We support corrupt governments if they grant favors to us... We don't give a fuck about cyberspace or outer-space collectively as a nation anymore...
We overshoot our goals in the service industry... you can complain and whine everywhere now! We use bpo's (business process outsourcing) to fuck over our U.S.A.-made- competitors, and then take advantage of the federal government whenever we can...
We cannot believe our banks did so bad...and we cannot let them fail. (common sense anyone?!)
Our popular music sucks now-a-days...
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It is a Guilded Age in the U.S.A... and the rich 1% are distracting/confusing us to death!
The American southwest is running out water from the Colorado River too. California is going bankrupt. Enron ffs! People have too many possessions to manage from day to day...
Bulgaria is not even existing according to a lot of companies.
Microsoft is a good example, the Xbox 360 does sell here but once you start it up and have to select your locale, there is no "Bulgaria" option at all. You have to pretend that you're from Britain or something.
You can not buy Microsoft points or Live Gold subscription with a credit card that has its billing address in Bulgaria on the official x-box site, so your only legit option remains the comparatively more expensive cards sold at retail shops.
You can not buy a Zune HD here at all.
Turns out that you can actually buy a Microsoft Technet subscription if you dig deep enough in the help section and find the correct URL, but the button that's supposed to be the simple and obvious way for this on the technet frontpage does not work for Bulgaria. Also, once you find the correct URL, the base prices are higher than in USA or other places even for the digital-only version, which should not really depend on your location. And the coupon codes and discounts that are almost always running for USA are not valid here.
Apple, Dell and many other tech companies are like this also, their products are either impossible to find here, or they are at much inflated prices compared to the real world. I don't mean just the retarded 1 dollar -> 1 euro conversion that's valid for a lot of American goods in the EU, but even greater prices than that.
In italy only one out of 7 italians is not related to their employer. This means that most jobs are given based on family relationships between people, curricula basically don't mean shit.
Italians consider Poland a 3rd world country, but our internet connections are worse than theirs.
Amazon does not exist in Italy, neither do starbucks, dunkin donuts, honey dew, cupcakes (whenever I think about them I feel like a heroin addict on abstinence) or any foreign fast food or restaurant franchises besides mcdonald's and burger king.
You are not allowed to eat non-light food products. Actually scratch that, THEY DON'T EVEN FUCKING EXIST. The needed calories intake an Italian ingests comes from flour or milk-based products, in northern italy (where the 3rd most popular element of italian cuisine, tomato, is less used) one out of 4 women will statistically develop breast cancer, which scientists are currently linking to milk-based products. Celiac disease in northern Italy is spreading like salmonella in a tray of mayo left in the open. In case you don't know what that means it makes people intolerant to pasta and flour-based alimentary products.
The italian standards when approaching subjects like sex, pornography, racism and gaming are exactly like they were in the US 40 years ago.
I just bought 6 doughnuts from Krispy Kreme, it's all I will need and I can enjoy it over the weekend. Im about to pay and the lady says "For another dollar you can get six more." I stand there, looking at her, knowing there is no way I need twelve doughnuts, and say "Fine" as I wave my hand.
On October 01 2010 17:11 Apexplayer wrote: I just bought 6 doughnuts from Krispy Kreme, it's all I will need and I can enjoy it over the weekend. Im about to pay and the lady says "For another dollar you can get six more." I stand there, looking at her, knowing there is no way I need twelve doughnuts, and say "Fine" as I wave my hand.
God I hate America.
How the fuck can you not eat 12 donuts. Srsly, try living having to eat the classic ones, fried and covered in sugar, except that they are pre-made and frozen, and are miniature sized because of fucking "health concerns". And they cost 3 times as much. And glazing does not exist in Italy. It is fucking illegal to glaze anything and sell it.
On September 28 2010 04:47 Kleinmuuhg wrote: Our Nazis have more then 5 % in some parts of the country and the gov is not doing anything about it. Sad, because we would have history as a banhammer argument.
Edit : More then 5% means they get to be part of the Parliament in that region.
I hate nazi scumfucks, but what you wrote makes no sense at all. The banhammer argument is just plain stupid because it bans discussions with the argument of political correctness that must be made. "We might have some problems with turkish people (high criminality rates, high unemployment and social costs)" BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMM - you are not allowed to say that because we have all seen what happened in this country because of racism.
On September 28 2010 04:47 Kleinmuuhg wrote: Our Nazis have more then 5 % in some parts of the country and the gov is not doing anything about it. Sad, because we would have history as a banhammer argument.
Edit : More then 5% means they get to be part of the Parliament in that region.
I hate nazi scumfucks, but what you wrote makes no sense at all. The banhammer argument is just plain stupid because it bans discussions with the argument of political correctness that must be made. "We might have some problems with turkish people (high criminality rates, high unemployment and social costs)" BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMM - you are not allowed to say that because we have all seen what happened in this country because of racism.
I guess he was talking about our history as a banhammer argument against rightwing extremism and not against people who critisice our current migration policy.
On September 28 2010 03:21 CharlieMurphy wrote: ^ | | A lot of people I know are laid off and unemployed, including me. The money I get from the Gov't barely doesn't even cover my rent and bills (my dues are like $625), The only way I am surviving is because I sold my car to my mom who pays me 100$ every month for it, and she brings over food and shit for me which really isn't even enough, I eat like 1-2 small meals a day.
I went into Social Services and it literally took like 10 hours (first one in, last one out) and then I got EBT for 1 month and then they canceled it because of some class I had to go to or something I wasn't aware of.
On top of that, I got a suspended license last year because I got a fix it ticket (expired registration, which I did fix) that I didn't go to court for. When I finally went there they told me I had to pay 960$ in 3 months or do some slave labor camp for 300+ hours plus pay 40$ in fees and 160$ to the court still.
I've got no job, no car, no money, and my gf is on the verge of dumping me because we never do anything because all of the above.
If I lived on the streets, I would probably be better off.
I'm italian too, here the situation is getting worse and worse every day. Our governement is not already fallen only because Berlusconi bribed many politician in the parliaments to vote laws in his favour, in order to avoid prison (in case you don't know loyer David Mills is already in prison for being bribed by Berlusconi to lie to a public minister).
5 of 7 national televisions are controlled also by Berlusconi, it's barely impossibile to a person who is not using internet to be informed upon facts wich can lay a shadow upon our governement, also secret services are used to make false evidences about people from the left side parties.
Mafia rules the entire nation.
Yeah, we are pretty messed up.
Edit: the english i know comes 20% from school 40% from tv series such as heroes, house and others 40% from day9 and djwheat :D
I'm sorry if my vocabulary is so small, I wish I'll improve that in the future :D
On September 28 2010 04:47 Kleinmuuhg wrote: Our Nazis have more then 5 % in some parts of the country and the gov is not doing anything about it. Sad, because we would have history as a banhammer argument.
Edit : More then 5% means they get to be part of the Parliament in that region.
I hate nazi scumfucks, but what you wrote makes no sense at all. The banhammer argument is just plain stupid because it bans discussions with the argument of political correctness that must be made. "We might have some problems with turkish people (high criminality rates, high unemployment and social costs)" BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMM - you are not allowed to say that because we have all seen what happened in this country because of racism.
I guess he was talking about our history as a banhammer argument against rightwing extremism and not against people who critisice our current migration policy.
sure, but the banhammer works in both ways, it can also be negative.
On September 20 2010 21:43 soultwister wrote: our language sounds really stupid, i use it only when i have to, never on the internet
I'm the same, i don't like the Swedish language and avoid saying i am Swedish to other Swedes. Also, most Swedish people on the internet are retarded and immature - especially on MMORPGs.
It happens daily that i see Swedes so fucking stupid that they ask people if they are from Sweden IN SWEDISH. I mean, c'mon...
We work a little much (42+h Week/4 Weeks of Holydays/Year)... But most people live lives here whiteout to much monetary worrys at least not with *big* Issues. The public votings often don't go the way i want them to :p... But direct deomcracy rules, just the people don't. We are a little to reserved (me to, nearly every swiss guy is). Summer is to short.
On September 28 2010 04:47 e4e5nf3 wrote: My background is Filipino but was raised mostly in Canada. My gripes with the Philippines having lived there for a few years and visiting from time to time:
- The Philippines have an infatuation with interjecting whole english sentences into their conversations. Some people don't mind, but it drives me nuts sometimes. Of course, other countries are like this, India for example.
- traffic. Okay, I haven't been back to Manila in a few years. Do they still manage to fit 8 lanes of traffic in a 4 lane road?
- Skin lightening products. I thought this was a joke but having seen them myself I can honestly say they really exist. Can you imagine have commercials aired that advertise having whiter skin is beautiful? It's interesting to note that 98% of all filipino celebrities are of the lighter skinned faction. The closer you are to chinese/korean/japanese complexion the more beautiful you are. Meanwhile the general population is nowhere near that light-skinned. And when darker skinned filipinos are in movies or tv shows they are generally either the hired help, a villian, or comedy relief. Google something like "filipino celebrities" or "sexiest filipinos" and see if you can find more than 3 images of dark skinned filipinos in the first 20 pages.
[QUOTE]On September 19 2010 22:52 Metalwing wrote: Going with Turkey:
7- Girls Bitches: Yep, this is a good one to bash.
[QUOTE]On September 17 2010 19:29 oo_xerox wrote: I mean the hot/pretty girls. Those bitches are fucked, MOST of them go for the money, there is so much interest in girls that are hot and pretty that is hilarious, i have a female friend that asks me who this guy is (for example) and the first time she asked i went "oh yeah hes cool, hes studying something blah blah", now, i know what she wants to hear "hes the son of ____ drives a ___ has a big house in ____ likes going out to ___. And the funny part SHE DOESNT EVEN NEED MONEY, she just does because fuck it. [/QUOTE]
Just like Cuba, Turkish girls are the same too. Actually, bitches are better than those girls. At least they can say that they ask for money straight out.
This monday the first year students arrived at the university, i was hitting on a girl that just didnt looked at me.........then i left like 3 hours later and when i was getting into my car she came and said "oh so thats your car, you look a lot pretier now, just sitting there" i fuck you not.
On September 06 2010 03:26 jimbob615 wrote: internet is very slow, 56k maximum
every day is a struggle to survive
crack cocaine is a big problem... most of the general population uses it regularly... leads to a lot of violence and poverty on our society.
that is so harsh, I could never survive on a 56k modem.
vouch. must be hell.
kinda ridiculous though, the difference in priorities between the countries. he writes about daily struggle to survive and what catches our attention in his post is the 56k internet.
My interenet right now (and all of cuban internet btw) is trough a 56k modem, and im on 50k right now.......sup?
Tehre are good people in this world, who do good deeds, and there are bad people in ths world, who do bad deeds. There are no other barriers. Fuck everyone who believes this bullfuck discrimintaing muslims.
Sweden is a prime example of unsuccessful integration. We take in more foreigners than most countries and we just stick them all in to projects (or miljonprogram, as they are called in swedish) and leave them there. We don't take the people's differences in to account and we don't give them consequences for not integrating and thus we manage to establish ghettos. In one of the wealthiest countries in the world! CBN report about the swedish distric Rosengård
Swedish politics are also in the bottom of the barrel, atm. Now that we've had an election the only thing the politicians have done is simply throw dirt at their opponents and loiter the cities with election-posters. And now many swedes demand a re-election, because a "rascist" party got elected in a democratic fashion.
So yeah, Sweden's youth is pretty much dumb too since they can't even understand the democratic principle.
Now I need my lunch, I am in no means rascist and only complain at the politics of Sweden.
It happens daily that i see Swedes so fucking stupid that they ask people if they are from Sweden IN SWEDISH. I mean, c'mon...
I'm confused. How is that stupid? Anyone who doesn't understand it doesn't really need to.
It's stupid cause any person with average levels of intelligence would understand that the chances of the person understanding is small. But i guess i'm the only one who thinks that
Sweden is a prime example of unsuccessful integration. We take in more foreigners than most countries and we just stick them all in to projects (or miljonprogram, as they are called in swedish) and leave them there. We don't take the people's differences in to account and we don't give them consequences for not integrating and thus we manage to establish ghettos. In one of the wealthiest countries in the world! CBN report about the swedish distric Rosengård
Swedish politics are also in the bottom of the barrel, atm. Now that we've had an election the only thing the politicians have done is simply throw dirt at their opponents and loiter the cities with election-posters. And now many swedes demand a re-election, because a "rascist" party got elected in a democratic fashion.
So yeah, Sweden's youth is pretty much dumb too since they can't even understand the democratic principle.
Now I need my lunch, I am in no means rascist and only complain at the politics of Sweden.
I live in Södertälje and i can tell you that a huge chunk of the population here isn't of Swedish ethnicy. I'm not racist, but the people here do alot of dumb shit. Everything from shooting at police stations cause the police stopped conflicts to dumb teens throwing rocks at security guards "cause they got nothing better to do".
We got immigration problems in Sweden, and now that we have gotten a party that wants to cut down on it everyone goes fucking nuts and wants a reelection calling them racist (which they probably are from what i've heard, but i do support some of the things they want to do in the country.)
It's stupid cause any person with average levels of intelligence would understand that the chances of the person understanding is small. But i guess i'm the only one who thinks that
Yeah but if they don't understand it they don't need to lol, because it means they're not swedish.
ROMANIA Corruption to the levels of soviet russia. Doctors won't look at you unless you're paying them money or you go directly to the ER. Teachers will fail you unless you take private tutoring classes with them. Cops(or any other kind of authority - customs, train conductors, etc) will pull you over and hint for you to bribe them. Politicians suck up 80% of the budget, including European funds and World Bank Funds. Then they ask for more.
Agriculture is still to the middle age levels. You get a college degree but you won't get hired. There is no equal opportunity. It REALLY matters WHO you know, not WHAT you know. Nepotism: people in power(any position of power) will hire their relatives.
Huge gap between upper class and low class citizens. We have a Ferrari dealership while we have no roads. Seriously, there are only one lane roads in Romania(one for each side). This means you are obligated to pass the car (or the horse powered carriage in front of you). Passing is dangerous, and results in accidents. Traffic backs up for half a day. Railroads are not much better.
Gypsies are 3% of the population. Most of them (90%) live in so much poverty that they make 10+ children whose only purpose is to beg/steal money. It's like the black problem in US, only much worse. They tried to relocate them into apartments, but the gypsies are nomads, so the brought their horses inside.
NOW GET READY FOR THIS: We got Bechtel(an US company) to make highways in Romania. Bechtel did good work outside Romania, but once they came to Romania, they became as corrput as everyone else. They accused "lack of funding" and delayed it. They were building the most overpriced highway in the world - look it up! They were supposed to build highways 2,3, and 4 by last month. Only 2 and 3 are started. On Google Maps, Romania has 4 highways while the 4th one isn't even started!!! DON'T TRUST YOUR GPS, you'll end up in a river!
All the president does is complain how the Republicans were denying progress even though Democrats had a majority for a long time. If you're not going to get shit done, please leave. Republicans had no problem screwing us when Democrats had power.
EPT
and nobody except old folks gives a fuck 'bout 
Our foreign policy has never made much sense in the past, but this is just getting to the point of ridiculousness. 
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