On June 21 2011 03:11 bonifaceviii wrote: We buy milk in plastic bags, which Americans think is the weirdest thing ever.
...yeah, that's about it really.
Man, that is such a weird phenomenon. It only happens in Ontario that I know of. I had never even heard of bagged milk until I moved East, and when I brought word back to BC and Alberta nobody believed me.
What?! you guys don't have bagged milk? how inconvienent is that?
the best part of canada is you really live through 4 different seasons every year
We have the most beautiful city in the world, which no other can come close to matching. Its quiet sophistication in its modern district, its distinct class in the older areas. Buildings hundreds of years old. Roofs and bridges inlaid with gold leaf. Monuments galore.
We have one of the worst football league in Europe, but still somehow have one of the best national teams in the world (ever since Domenech left)
We have an unusual and unique situation where a minority of the population often tends to fuck stuff up for the majority by going on ridiculous and inconvenient strikes (the truck driver strike not being one of those, they actually were deserving of their demands) while the rest of the population just wants to go about their lives.
We have the most Glamour city in the world with St. Tropez and the French Riviera is a haven for celebrities.
We have the most prestigious film festival in the world, with Cannes.
We are the foremost experts on nuclear power and are actively studying fusion reaction
We have a rich and varying history, going from the Conquests of Charlemagne to Napoleon's Empire and the French Resistance under De Gaulle.
Our language is one of the more beautiful of the world, we have the language that is associated with love and romance as is our capital, which i talked about in my first point
On June 21 2011 16:12 Serelitz wrote: Weed is legal here, I guess that's pretty cool.
it's not legal in the Netherlands...it's just not at all enforced for the most part it's not criminal to own weed but the production and transportation of it is to some extent and the punishment is a slap on the wrist when it is enforced.
On June 21 2011 13:05 True_Spike wrote: It's amusing how a funny idea quickly turned into "list all the things everybody knows (or can easily find online) about your country". Some people seem to have a tad of a problem with the word "unusual".
Not to mention the unnecessary "political" debate. Way to ruin a fun thread, guys, congratulations.
On June 21 2011 01:55 Q.E.D. wrote: Germany There are many, let me just cite one closest to my heart. No other country can boast the depth, magnitude, and sheer volume of German thinkers:
Georg Cantor, David Hilbert, Karl Gustav Jacobi, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Hannah Arendt, Erich Fromm, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Benjamin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ludwig Feuerbach, Max Horkheimer, Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gottlob Frege, Martin Heidegger, Walter Schulz, Jürgen Habermas, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, etc. etc. etc.
Mygad! With our thinkers we can already populate a country! If we add our musicians, scientists, inventors, and all world renowned Germans, we can already form a medium-sized continent. :p
This is a little ethnocentric to say the least . . .
You are a fool. Germany is the seat of intellectualism from the 18th century onward. If you could name the achievements of half of those men you would not post such ignorant drivel.
QED left out Immanuel Kant, the single most important thinker of the modern era.
And IIRC the founder of General Moters/Chevrolet was swiss.
We use the words "bitch" to make adjectives "stronger" (also damn, but damn is boring).
You can't build a Minarette here... (yeah... it's kinda a speciality...)
Aromat (some Herb/Stalt/EXXX mixture )... Aromat is nearly as important to "basic/fast" swiss cuisine as Kimchi to Korean food . Boiled eggs whiteout it even taste "strange" or downright bad for a MANY swiss.
During and before WW2 we basically "digged out" the Alps and especially the Gotthard... No one knows how many Bunkers there really are, not even we.
If you want to get into a Newspaper you just have to drive 200Kmh on our Autobahn and get caught (no accident required).
Our Rivers, even in the Cities, are so clean that people go swimming in them (the public baths are located at these Rivers). You can Drink out of the Lake Zurich (Zurich is built around it) whiteout a problem.
Einstein did his most revolutionary research here.
In Switzerland and for the Swiss travelling for over an hour is "long/far". Swiss people rarely travel over 3-4 hours whiteout staying at the place for the night .
Swiss people actually most often don't speak even 2 of the 3 (big) main languages... Most go with just their mother tongue and eventually English... Probably thats the reason we never had a war between the language parts .
It is (or was, dunno if this is still in effect) illegal for Swiss people to become mercenaries due to the history of swiss mercenaries ending up fighting each other.
A Swiss guy/girl that is earning under 50'000$ a year is probably not working full time.
A "normal" Meal (not especially cheap, but also not expensive, no wine and fancy extras) costs around 30-40$ per Person.
You really see every person twice and for sure as hell everyone you see knows someone you know...
We invented these to get rid of Dogshit: [url=http://www.robidog.ch/img/shop/1001-10_big.jpg]http://www.robidog.ch/img/shop/1001-10_big.jpg[/url]
On June 21 2011 01:55 Q.E.D. wrote: Germany There are many, let me just cite one closest to my heart. No other country can boast the depth, magnitude, and sheer volume of German thinkers:
Georg Cantor, David Hilbert, Karl Gustav Jacobi, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Hannah Arendt, Erich Fromm, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Benjamin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ludwig Feuerbach, Max Horkheimer, Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gottlob Frege, Martin Heidegger, Walter Schulz, Jürgen Habermas, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, etc. etc. etc.
Mygad! With our thinkers we can already populate a country! If we add our musicians, scientists, inventors, and all world renowned Germans, we can already form a medium-sized continent. :p
This is a little ethnocentric to say the least . . .
You are a fool. Germany is the seat of intellectualism from the 18th century onward. If you could name the achievements of half of those men you would not post such ignorant drivel.
QED left out Immanuel Kant, the single most important thinker of the modern era.
I have already atoned for it. How can you not tremble in awe and forget a few things as you recall all the great thinkers of our country.
On June 21 2011 03:11 bonifaceviii wrote: We buy milk in plastic bags, which Americans think is the weirdest thing ever.
...yeah, that's about it really.
Man, that is such a weird phenomenon. It only happens in Ontario that I know of. I had never even heard of bagged milk until I moved East, and when I brought word back to BC and Alberta nobody believed me.
What?! you guys don't have bagged milk? how inconvienent is that?
the best part of canada is you really live through 4 different seasons every year
I'm the same, I'd never seen bagged milk until I started school in Ontario. WHY WOULD YOU BAG MILK? WHY
What? Still none about our Great Mother Russia? 1. We defeated the German's by sheer size of geography. If I recall my grade school lessons right, It took them months since the start of their campaign before reaching a Russian city to plunder, and they were not even 30% on their way to Moscow yet lol 2. We intelectualized film: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, Aleksandr Sokurov, Andrei Tarkovsky, etc. Hollywood films? Piranha 3D! Jackass 3D. LOL. 3. The Russian girls. What more can you say! 4. The Helicopter was invented in Russia. 5. We were the first to reach space, and the moon, legitimately. 6. We drink vodka before breakfast, as a breaker in the middle of the day, afternoon refreshment, before dinner, after dinner, before going to bed. 7. Its cool to be topless in Russia.
We have taken Martial Arts, and actually put them in practice, with the gracie boldly cocking around trying to beat anyone but damn they made a fortune and a sport out of it.
There were already illegal MMA matches where uh ... people took more damage than necessary and riots were common, i dont have footage of that time, but It was a golden time for martial arts, the Gracie basically entered any gym, kickboxing, wrestling, karate, muay thai, etc..
They challenged them all to a no hold bar fight, and won, convincingly, I dont recall any storie of a gracie losing one of those matches in their time, they reigned supreme, they did this for two reasons
1 - First and foremost to show their style was superior, to boast their family art, for glory
2 - To get those students in that academy to fall into the inevitability of jiu jitsu rather sooner and when they were willing to train and pay, therefore stealing other peoples clients.
All masters of martial arts, kung fu, muay thai etc, were getting taken down and submitted, wrestlers couldnt navigate their guard.
By this point there were many black belts (more than a dozen) and more than one dojo teaching BJJ, while at the same time, muay thai, and younger BJJ and whatelse fighters still did this Dojo raids all around town picking fights and stuff
It was a dangerous time in some senses because a lot of fight became deep grudges and ended in rematches in a bar with revolvers...
then began the UFC!
Shit was good, but the gracie just wanted it as a propaganda, didnt seem like they wanted any trouble, so Rorion sold it after mismanaging it for a bit, Brazilians can be very incompetent when they are prone to.
Then we finally got to have some "sanctioned" MMA fights with judges and doctors.
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)... Aromat is nearly as important to "basic/fast" swiss cuisine as Kimchi to Korean food 
