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On June 21 2011 22:44 Opera wrote:
France :
- Best food in the world. No country can even THINK of competing with us. Even the everyday classic food tastes better than your country most sophisticated dish.
Couldn't be more wrong. Just because France has a lot of highly sophisticated restaurants, all French people believe that their food is the best in the world. Well guess what, after living there for 12 years, I can tell you, 99% of people buy their food at Carrefour or Intermarche and eat crappy low quality food all year long.
Seriously you people need to stop showing off your culinary skills, because they really aren't that impressive.
Also, the worst ever living conditions experienced by humans are believed to have existed in Victorian London. Rape, murder, torture, prostitution, diseases, famine, filth, no other place has be known to be as horrendous on a daily basis.
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United States41471 Posts
On June 22 2011 00:00 Maxquatre wrote:
France
- We had the balls to tell Bush and Powell that Irak didn't have WMD and we're getting bashed for it.
I don't know about other countries but it's pretty much accepted in the UK that you guys made the correct call (along with Brits like Robin Cook).
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On June 22 2011 00:01 Nqsty wrote:Show nested quote +On June 21 2011 22:44 Opera wrote:
France :
- Best food in the world. No country can even THINK of competing with us. Even the everyday classic food tastes better than your country most sophisticated dish.
Couldn't be more wrong. Just because France has a lot of highly sophisticated restaurants, all French people believe that their food is the best in the world. Well guess what, after living there for 12 years, I can tell you, 99% of people buy their food at Carrefour or Intermarche and eat crappy low quality food all year long. Seriously you people need to stop showing off your culinary skills, because they really aren't that impressive.
I'd like to weigh in.
I agree that most of the french people don't know shit about food, aren't able to cook, can't choose wine according to what they are eating.
I can even say that a majority eat can food, junk food as a daily routine.
Still, there are a minority that knows how to properly cook and have a wide variety of skills in that regard.
I won't say we have the best food in the world because it's everyone's own taste, still we are recognized for our food and wine, it's a fact.
Who is really able to say which country has the best food really 
On June 22 2011 00:02 KwarK wrote:Show nested quote +On June 22 2011 00:00 Maxquatre wrote:
France
- We had the balls to tell Bush and Powell that Irak didn't have WMD and we're getting bashed for it. I don't know about other countries but it's pretty much accepted in the UK that you guys made the correct call (along with Brits like Robin Cook).
They may agree but the US still have a grudge on us about that ;p
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On June 21 2011 01:55 Q.E.D. wrote:GermanyThere 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
Germany could also apparently populate a country of conceited people 
While I want to say that the US is unique for a whole slew of patriotic reasons, I'm not sure that we are truly the only "defenders of freedom" and such. I don't know of any other country that has four major sports, however (or any other country where football/soccer isn't a main sport). We also have a relatively high quality of living, and some BANGIN music. While music from other countries is awesome, American music seems to be popular everywhere (except possible Kashmir, where anything American is reviled. Oh, and in the entire Middle East I suppose. And everywhere else the US is hated...)
We also came up with fast food. But let's not forget the most important thing of all. Guess what company is based in the US? BLIZZARD!!!
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On June 21 2011 23:48 Velr wrote:
Italy > France when it comes to food.
Sorry france, but you lose out on sheer variety? The italian cuisine as a whole is just sooo varied, nothing compares, worldwide.
You clearly dont know the french kitchen, since its very varied. The funny thing is that most comon things you eat are from the french kitchen but one of they most famous things (croisant) isn't french.
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EGYPT
poets picture it as a women beautiful ....but not so much
loved even when she is hurt and weak.
shy but also strong
decent but not hidden.
a mother that gives her children every thing not waiting any.
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On June 22 2011 00:07 Madoga wrote:Show nested quote +On June 21 2011 23:48 Velr wrote:
Italy > France when it comes to food.
Sorry france, but you lose out on sheer variety? The italian cuisine as a whole is just sooo varied, nothing compares, worldwide. You clearly dont know the french kitchen, since its very varied. The funny thing is that most comon things you eat are from the french kitchen but one of they most famous things (croisant) isn't french.
Fries aren't either.
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On June 21 2011 06:13 NexUmbra wrote:
Edinburgh was the first city in the world which had its own fire-brigade.
Really? Cool, I didn't know that and I've lived here all my life :O
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I am always overwhelmed with how rubbish England is. Since the fall of the British Empire it seems like the whole country stagnated while the rest of the world developed and became good.
I swear for the amount of tax the country pulls in everything is just so bad! Still we had fun talking about the badness of London over hotpot/steamboat. Turns out its one of the only places nobody would want to go to again ^^
Some highlights included
How come the food was so bad and expensive?
How come everything is dirty?
How come everywhere smells like toilet?
How is your public transport so expensive yet the tube and bus has no air con?
Lol your roads are full of potholes
The air stinks
Well ok its not all bad, but I hope to leave the city for good soon
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In the epic empire of Norway we have alot of various traditions, the most commong being the bear wrestling.
The Polar bear wrestling is required by every child reaching the age of 10 to show that he/she is a real norwegian, if by any circumstances the boy/girl can't wrestle the bear they get voted as a pussy and sent over the sweden. To complete the challenge you must slay the bear and eat the entire liver. Dying counts as being a pussy aswell.
Have nice trip to Norway everyone!
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On June 22 2011 00:07 Madoga wrote:Show nested quote +On June 21 2011 23:48 Velr wrote:
Italy > France when it comes to food.
Sorry france, but you lose out on sheer variety? The italian cuisine as a whole is just sooo varied, nothing compares, worldwide. You clearly dont know the french kitchen, since its very varied. The funny thing is that most comon things you eat are from the french kitchen but one of they most famous things (croisant) isn't french.
I was there, over 3 Months and tryed about everything i could get my hands on.
I never said French cuisine was bad or "not varied", its awesome, i love(d) it. I just think, from what i know, that the Italian cuisine is even more varied and therefore "better".
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On June 22 2011 00:13 MoonfireSpam wrote:I am always overwhelmed with how rubbish England is. Since the fall of the British Empire it seems like the whole country stagnated while the rest of the world developed and became good. I swear for the amount of tax the country pulls in everything is just so bad! Still we had fun talking about the badness of London over hotpot/steamboat. Turns out its one of the only places nobody would want to go to again ^^ Some highlights included How come the food was so bad and expensive? How come everything is dirty? How come everywhere smells like toilet? How is your public transport so expensive yet the tube and bus has no air con? Lol your roads are full of potholes The air stinks Well ok its not all bad, but I hope to leave the city for good soon
Interesting, but you are too negative about your country man. I heard that it rains non-stop is that true O_O. And bus with no air con, that must suck.
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Kyrgyz Republic1462 Posts
We have had two violent revolutions in the last six years and the capital city was ruined twice by the looters and marauders. Yet still the government is the very definition of corruption.
On June 22 2011 00:13 MoonfireSpam wrote:I am always overwhelmed with how rubbish England is. Since the fall of the British Empire it seems like the whole country stagnated while the rest of the world developed and became good. I swear for the amount of tax the country pulls in everything is just so bad! Still we had fun talking about the badness of London over hotpot/steamboat. Turns out its one of the only places nobody would want to go to again ^^ Some highlights included How come the food was so bad and expensive? How come everything is dirty? How come everywhere smells like toilet? How is your public transport so expensive yet the tube and bus has no air con? Lol your roads are full of potholes The air stinks Well ok its not all bad, but I hope to leave the city for good soon
Heh, I've been living in the North-East (Newcastle) for the last four years and I think it's nothing like that, quite the contrary :-)
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In switzerland an artificial language was created called "rumantsch grischun" to keep the 4th official language alive, but noone talks that language its just used for tv and radio. The people talking "rumantsch" talk all in their dialects (5 different kinds).
In switzerland you don't really talk about money, we tend to say "you have it, you don't talk about it". Thats why we have all that bank secrecy n shit :D
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On June 22 2011 00:00 Maxquatre wrote:
France
- We had the balls to tell Bush and Powell that Irak didn't have WMD and we're getting bashed for it.
I've never heard anybody "bash" France for that? And I am pretty sure it was more of a "lets exhaust all options and give the weapons inspectors more time" instead of how you put it.
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On June 22 2011 00:31 BlackJack wrote:Show nested quote +On June 22 2011 00:00 Maxquatre wrote:
France
- We had the balls to tell Bush and Powell that Irak didn't have WMD and we're getting bashed for it. I've never heard anybody "bash" France for that? And I am pretty sure it was more of a "lets exhaust all options and give the weapons inspectors more time" instead of how you put it.
Not that i have grudges about it nor i care at all but no one would deny the huge bashing that occured after De Villepin made his speech at the UN. Obviously he didn't say it like I did but he said there were no proofs that there were any WMD and we had to let the inspectors do their job. He also said that war wasn't the solution, that it would be difficult to have "peace" in Irak and well, we see where we are now.
Powell was saying that day that Al Qaida was tied up to Sadam's Regime and we should go at war.
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On June 21 2011 23:37 Gantritor wrote:Show nested quote +On June 21 2011 23:03 FlopTurnReaver wrote:On June 21 2011 21:25 frogurt wrote:Also, ![[image loading]](http://www.typeboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/vegemite.jpg) Vegemite sandwiches are my ultimate gaming food. So easy to whip up like 4 or 5 at 4 am after a long session. Disgusting :s This is one of the worst things I have ever tried^^ Some other short facts about us: We have the steepiest(?) cog railway in the world with a gradiant of 48% We have the highest waterfall in Europe with 700m We have the oldest mountain lodge in the world (1832) We also posess the highest situated cabin in Europe, containing the highest situated ATM in Europe (4554m) ![[image loading]](http://static.go-abroad.pl/tp/galery/th/th1_3186_capanna_regina_margherita.jpg) Dude, Capanna Regina Margherita it's half in Italy, not just in Switzerland.
Sorry if that's true, I only checked on Google Maps where it shows this:
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Also, why would I mention something that makes it sound worse for us? 
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On June 22 2011 00:13 MoonfireSpam wrote:I am always overwhelmed with how rubbish England is. Since the fall of the British Empire it seems like the whole country stagnated while the rest of the world developed and became good. I swear for the amount of tax the country pulls in everything is just so bad! Still we had fun talking about the badness of London over hotpot/steamboat. Turns out its one of the only places nobody would want to go to again ^^ Some highlights included How come the food was so bad and expensive? How come everything is dirty? How come everywhere smells like toilet? How is your public transport so expensive yet the tube and bus has no air con? Lol your roads are full of potholes The air stinks Well ok its not all bad, but I hope to leave the city for good soon
England probably has the most dialects per square mile than anywhere else on earth, though. I grew up there and left as soon as I was able after getting my degree. I just couldn't stand the country. Thank god for dual English/American citizenship.
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Ok, if talking about gaming industry:
- polish do not censore games becouse of nudity, violence or strong language (rotfl at G. and A-a. - sorry guys)
- polish do not ban violent games (rotfl at A-a. and some other countries)
- polish do not making games with sex in underpants and dryads/lake nympths with undergardment (rotfl at C. & neighbour - sorry guys)
- polish DO NOT think that swearing and boobs in cRPG's = game is for immature people (rotfl at most of western countries)
- polish still PC-biased in majority (less and less with every year thou)
- most of polish knows Geralt of Rivia and only few heared about Eric of Melnibone
- majority of polish games sucks balls anyway
- one game (it was Achtung Panzer if I remmember correctly) was charged by conservative idiot becouse of "showing polish as cowards and drunkers". Idiot lost, thank God.
- in Poland war between PC and console holders gone into epic proportions
Miscalculus about Poland:
- polish cartoon "Bolek i Lolek" was only european TV production allowed in Iran after revolution of Khomeini (in AD 1973)
- polish soldiers got the wakiest salute i ever saw: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/OddawanieHonorow.png
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