Having done quite a bit of international travel during the Bush 2.0 years, I can certainly state that I came across a lot of Europeans who certainly had a lot of negative things to say. I can only imagine what the chatter would be like now.
Having done quite a bit of international travel during the Bush 2.0 years, I can certainly state that I came across a lot of Europeans who certainly had a lot of negative things to say. I can only imagine what the chatter would be like now.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Can we kill 2 birds with 1 stone and arm teachers with guns that shoot vaccines?
“Hey billy! Quiet down or you won’t be getting polio any time soon!!”
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I was just thinking about this the other day, how someday I'd like to have kids, but jesus, not here. I can't imagine raising a child into this environment.Quoting D_Davis (view post)
This. Traveling Europe was not fun in 2004.
Well it wasn't a nightmare-scape when we had kids. Now...fuck...
Also, you bastards are helping the idiocracy. You need to pump out a couple logical thinkers to balance the idiots.
I'd say the only country that Americans are moving to, seems to be New Zealand. The work visas make it easier to do so.
Outside of that, in my visit to Australia, people seem wary to visit USA right now. Euros/Australians/New Zealand all... Which is sad.
*Strangely enough, one of the places that interests people the most is the Grand Canyon. Hollywood/Las Vegas/Grand Canyon/New York
All three countries had no interest in trying out Canada though, lol
Yep. Oddly enough, my knowledge of US Patent Law is in demand in New Zealand.
Yeah, Canada isn’t too wonderful either.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I'd be totally down for a New Zealand move too, but Colorado's doing pretty well right now. If there were a type of job cut, I'd look into it.
When I was traveling a ton for work Denver and Seattle we're my two favorite cities.
I certainly don't think that America is the greatest country in the world, but I also think the entire notion of any place being the greatest country in the world is a fallacy -- so why is the (usually) liberal response to this stupid claim always to take a giant shit on the U.S.? Like it's not enough to just reject the premise? You have to list as many bad things about America as you can to prove to other people that you see its faults?
I dunno. It's just a weird reaction to me. Almost like a humblebrag. "Look at how enlightened I am compared to people who say we are the greatest; watch as I instead list all the reasons my country sucks." In a way, I get it. Those are all fair criticisms. But also...living here is good too? Why don't we talk about that? It's almost insulting to people who don't have it as good as most Americans do.
I gets this all the time with my colleagues. I'm a doctor, I know a lot of doctors, and all doctors do is piss and moan about their hardships. School loans, residency training as indentured servitude, disparities in physician pay, inhumanity in human medicine, the list goes on and on. And I agree with all of them. But nobody every just says, "Hey, it's not perfect, but it's a pretty damn good gig."
Because it is.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
I wonder if people who ever make statements like this ever step back for a second, take a look at it again, and think "Wow, that actually makes me sound like a completely arrogant and closeminded douche".
(EDIT: Please notice the use of "sound like"; I know duke is not "a completely arrogant and closeminded douche" having interacted with him for so long. But divorced of context....)
I mean, the very notion of even trying to rank countries to begin with is flawed and kind of a waste of time, but when I run across someone so confidently claiming that their country is the undisputed top of a completely bullshit list, it just makes them come across as a little insecure and not someone ever worth having a political discussion with.
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I suppose it wasn't obvious that I was trying to bait Meg.
To what end?
The LULZ?
USA is certainly better than Thailand (and I loved it when I was a high school exchange student there during 2008-2009) but in the past few rather terrifying years it has stopped being one of my go-to answers of countries you would like to escape to. Still would take a chance there than here if I got the opportunity.
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The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
Forget about which country is the best: It's awesome to be a white man everywhere on the planet, and the awesomeness of being white and male increases proportionally as the disparity widens between your racial and economic status and that of everyone around you. That's why white guys love the Philippines.
Just because...
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Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
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The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
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Hmm... I mean, I loved Australia, but I can easily see why people might dislike the area.
What's New Zealand's downfall?
Uppity hobbits.
Shitty pay (there is a reason I live and work in Korea), expensive imports (we are far away from everything), always compared to Old Zealand.
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Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
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Import/exporting makes sense.
I found Germans don't take Trump too seriously.
That speaks volumes.
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