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, Immanuel Kant, 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
Some special things about Vietnam: 1. Our country looks like a S on the world map + Show Spoiler +
2. You can't do shit in Vietnam w/o a motorcycle and everything can be transported by motorcycle + Show Spoiler +
3. We have the best soup/noddle in the whole world. + Show Spoiler +
Pho, the champion of noddle
4. I don't consider this special but its good to know something about the past + Show Spoiler +
Over 7 millions tons of bombs had been dropped by the US in Vietnam war, 4 times the tonnage of bomb drop in WW2. There are still alot of un-detonated bomb laying under the Vietnam soil and causing tragic every now and then
1. Free and compulsory education. Singaporean students are ranked 1st in math and science scores globally. + Show Spoiler +
actually it's just spoon feeding and rote memorisation lol
2. Death sentence for possessing more than 15g of certain hard drugs such as heroin.
3. Singapore is rated a hybrid regime in the democracy index by the Economist Intelligence Unit, and the ruling party PAP has always been in power since independence.
4. Despite 3, Singapore is the country with the least corrupt public sector.
5. World number 1 in myopia.
6. Legal system that has an inverse responsibility on the defendant to provide proof for certain offences.
7. Public swearing is against the law.
8. Compulsory conscription of 22 months, or more, for males. This is the longest out of all countries that are not in a state of war, i.e. excluding Israel and South Korea.
9. Fertility rate of 1.16 children per women, one of the lowest in the world.
10. One of the top centres for money laundering in Asia.
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.
Its just decriminalized, so coffeeshops aren't allowed to buy weed but they are allowed to grow a couple of plants and sell. Production and trading is as illegal as anywhere.
anyway some stuff about nl:
The first multinational was created in NL ( VOC, the dutch east indian company ).
The first stocks also come out of NL from the same company ( the oldest share on this world is also dutch :p)
A dutch 'stadhouder' kind of like a king at that time in our history was the last one to 'invade' England :p.
Belgium: special about my country: We don't have a governement for 1 year. But it doesn't change anything. I am starting to think we don't need a governement at all...
Seriously, the US is the least unique or original country on the planet. Wish I could be French.
Wasn't Greece the first free, democratic country, like 3000 years ago? >.> I think Sweden has the least amount of religious people in the western world, high taxes, etc. That's about it I think. Nothing special at all really. We also share the "uniqueness" with Belgium that it's illegal not to go to school under the age of 18 lmao.
Isn't it 16 years old? After 9th grade you can drop out of school if you want.
Australia we 2 need to vote at 18 we have a huge ass rock that people come and climb for some reason... and we have a unique animal called...... (wait for it) THE KANGAROO
1. While 50.8% of our male population is overweight (highest in EU), only 8.6 % are obese (4th lowest). And if you want to have slim woman, only 20.3% of our female population is overweight (EU lowest) and 8.5% is obese (EU LOWEST.)
This may have to do with part 2.
2. Austria has the highest number of smokers between the age of 12-40 world wide while also maintaining the #1 spot in highest alcohol consume between 14-26 worldwide. Not the highest alcohol consume overall, only in this category.
3. We absolutely love soccer.We watch soccer, we talk about soccer, we play soccer. Why is this a unique thing about your country ? Because our national team might be one of the worst teams worldwide and the last prideful moment might have been when we beat Germany back in 1978.
4.Technically Austria is still "neutral" so we cannot join the NATO.
France : It's the most bashed country in the world, we beat USA because we bash ourselves a lot too. That's what make us really unique. Don't speak about strike, it's about bashing the owners and government (don't understand why you don't it that much elsewhere, it really piss them). Ah and a last thing : holydays! We are the country with the most holydays in the entire world, and this is a true gift!
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.
Seriously. This over and over again.
You guys suck at even reading thread titles.
To be fair, just because it's common knowledge doesn't mean it's not unusual.
Seriously, the US is the least unique or original country on the planet. Wish I could be French.
Wasn't Greece the first free, democratic country, like 3000 years ago? >.> I think Sweden has the least amount of religious people in the western world, high taxes, etc. That's about it I think. Nothing special at all really. We also share the "uniqueness" with Belgium that it's illegal not to go to school under the age of 18 lmao.
Greece had like 80% of the population in slavery. It was free and democratic as long as you were a Greek citizen and male.
It's in no way illegal to not go to school in Sweden, don't know where you got that from.
On June 21 2011 19:41 Superpower wrote: Australia we 2 need to vote at 18 we have a huge ass rock that people come and climb for some reason... and we have a unique animal called...... (wait for it) THE KANGAROO
that's not unique, cuz now France is the only country besides Australia that has WILD Kangaroos!! That's right, WILD as in not in a zoo, not someone's pets but in the wild. How is that possible you ask? in 1999 there was a massive storm in France and a bunch of Kangaroos escaped from the zoo and they went and ran to the Forest of Rambouillet. Now there's a community of them, and they've thrived! YOU CAN SEE THE 'BEWARE KANGAROOS' SIGNS IN FRANCE! :O lol.
On June 21 2011 19:41 Superpower wrote: Australia we 2 need to vote at 18 we have a huge ass rock that people come and climb for some reason... and we have a unique animal called...... (wait for it) THE KANGAROO
that's not unique, cuz now France is the only country besides Australia that has WILD Kangaroos!! That's right, WILD as in not in a zoo, not someone's pets but in the wild. How is that possible you ask? in 1999 there was a massive storm in France and a bunch of Kangaroos escaped from the zoo and they went and ran to the Forest of Rambouillet. Now there's a community of them, and they've thrived! YOU CAN SEE THE 'BEWARE KANGAROOS' SIGNS IN FRANCE! :O lol.
Yeah, he should of said nearly any other Australian animal, Koalas, Platypi, Numbats, Wombats, Thorny Devils, Tassie Devils, Dingoes, etc.
On June 21 2011 19:41 Superpower wrote: Australia we 2 need to vote at 18 we have a huge ass rock that people come and climb for some reason... and we have a unique animal called...... (wait for it) THE KANGAROO
that's not unique, cuz now France is the only country besides Australia that has WILD Kangaroos!! That's right, WILD as in not in a zoo, not someone's pets but in the wild. How is that possible you ask? in 1999 there was a massive storm in France and a bunch of Kangaroos escaped from the zoo and they went and ran to the Forest of Rambouillet. Now there's a community of them, and they've thrived! YOU CAN SEE THE 'BEWARE KANGAROOS' SIGNS IN FRANCE! :O lol.
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