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Saskwach

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avykins said:
pff coming from a country thats national song is "tie me kangaroo down sport tie me kangaroo down"
Not to mention the australian accent makes me want to pop my ear drums with knitting needles ><

Anyway back on topic Im happy where I am however I would like to visit california and arkansas... for various reasons <.<;;;
I've never heard that song. What is it?
 

Jiminy

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Very few internet sites actually care where you come from, and if they did they could just find out without your input anyway. I recommend finding your actual country of origin on the dropdown menu, then selecting the one directly above or below it. It's stress-relieving and mildly educational. For example it's the only reason I know where Nicuragua is.
 
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I live in England, and I wouldn't swap it for the World.

I would agree with espics though that the English culture is eroding at a rapid rate, and it's tools like the BMP that are using it for their own end.

On the World scale, England has a LOT to be proud of. Scotland, Wales, Eire and Ireland too, but they get to be celebrate theirs. I put up a St. George flag and I'm condemned. :(

Baseball, Virtual Reality, Genetic Fingerprinting are all as English as Chicken Tikka Masala.


(Edit: THough Eire has the best countryside in the World)
 

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Fire Daemon said:
I would have to choose Australia. If you lived here I think you'll understand.
you mean large areas of desert, rampant censorship, droughts and discrimination against the native populace?
 

Voodoo Child

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Fire Daemon said:
I would have to choose Australia. If you lived here I think you'll understand.
I do (live here), and believe me, I don't (understand).

Then again, I want to live in Wales. I don't really know why, but it's always struck as a place I'd really enjoy living.

avykins said:
Not to mention the australian accent makes me want to pop my ear drums with knitting needles ><
Hey mate, what's ya phone number?
 
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nightfish said:
Fire Daemon said:
I would have to choose Australia. If you lived here I think you'll understand.
you mean large areas of desert, rampant censorship, droughts and discrimination against the native populace?
Now now, that's not the only country that can claim that, is it?
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
nightfish said:
Fire Daemon said:
I would have to choose Australia. If you lived here I think you'll understand.
you mean large areas of desert, rampant censorship, droughts and discrimination against the native populace?
Now now, that's not the only country that can claim that, is it?
i know its a nice place to live but I was in a particularly weird mood for a comeback.

but do tell - what is good about Australia? (not sarcastic)
 

Voodoo Child

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nightfish said:
but do tell - what is good about Australia? (not sarcastic)
Our legal drinking age is 18. You decide whether that's good or bad. Oh yes, and we don't need cars because we all ride kangaroos everywhere.
 

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Saskwach said:
avykins said:
pff coming from a country thats national song is "tie me kangaroo down sport tie me kangaroo down"
Not to mention the australian accent makes me want to pop my ear drums with knitting needles ><

Anyway back on topic Im happy where I am however I would like to visit california and arkansas... for various reasons <.<;;;
I've never heard that song. What is it?
Its a childrens song written in 1957 about a dying stockman telling people to take care of his affairs when he's dead. It was a hit at the time but I don't where avykins got the national anthem idea from.

On topic, I live in Australia and I love it here. Granted I've only been to two other countries (England and France 6 weeks total) but given a choice I'd stay here. The weather is never really that cold, at least where I live, nice people and our Government isn't AS pansy as before. Also we have great beaches.
 

Fire Daemon

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nightfish said:
but do tell - what is good about Australia? (not sarcastic)
It is a relaxed place, the weather is nice most of the time, pollution is minimal (when compared to other countries), the dollar is relatively good, plenty of job choices and wonderful beaches. Need I say everything I like about my home nation.

There are lots of places I would like to live (Cairo being one of them) but I would rather stay here.
 

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The country I want to live in?
The U.S.A of course, I was born and raised there. I know places like Ireland, Iceland, and New Zealand might be nice and green, a good break from the Los Angeles smog, but I have to stick with my native country.

Don't just pass this off as some uninformed person who thinks the U.S. is perfect. Far from it, but I live in China right now, I've also lived in Panama in the past. Those places might be an interesting adventure or vacation, but they lack government stability. I could get a beatdown from the local police, just to have it covered up so nobody knows about it.

There are still many beautiful places I want to visit, but I wouldn't give up my U.S. citizenship for permanent residence in a private villa in Italy if you begged me.
 

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I wouldn't say a specific country as much as a city, since when you get to the countryside, things often go a bit downhill.

I'm quite content in Copenhagen, but i'd love to live in Istanbul for some time, or maybe Barcelona. Some places in Canada sound interesting too, but haven't been there so can't really tell.
 

iamnotincompliance

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Okay, I think you missed my point... I was BORN in Minnesota, my GIRLFRIEND is from Iowa, and I lived in Indiana for the last year... Not everyone is a cow rapist in the mid west, as I am sure there are people in Indiana that don't fuck their cousins, or the deep south for that matter. I was saying that I want to distance myself from THOSE people. And you have just proven that you agree with me by arguing so vehemently against me. So why are you arguing against me? Because you misunderstood? Sorry, I did not mean to imply that everyone from these regions is the stereotype. I was just saying that in Identifying with ANY nation, there are negative connotations. I gladly specify that I come from Southern Los Angeles when people ask me where I am from. I lived in the Ghetto, not hollywood. So back off your defensiveness.

Secondly, I happen to like parts of the Mid-west, just not as a whole, because I have met too many people that were fucked up in the head and said I was abnormal... My ex-wife and in-laws come to mind... I have family there, including but not limited to my Daughter in Indiana, my Father, Step-mother, and two half brothers, as well as my Future in-laws who still live in Iowa. No offense was intended, it was supposed to be a joke. Just laugh and it will be better! If it wasn't funny to you, sorry. I know my Girlfriend would laugh at it...
Now if you'd have put it that way in the first place, I wouldn't have had to get all huffy. There was a distinct "LA is great, fuck everything else" tone that couldn't be ignored, and so... my tirade. I don't take it personally, in fact, I bet if you go back and reread whatever claptrap I put down with a sarcastic spin on it, up through... ah, "lashing out at those who deserve it," you'll find a different tone in what I say as well (although I'm still missing your point in the first one). I like the challenge of writing that way: sarcastic or serious depending on which angle you come at it from. As for actually leaving the area, I rather like it here. Maybe I could go another 10 miles west, get away from the traffic and people, but the area I live in isn't bad, and besides, "getting another 10 miles away" wouldn't exactly be leaving the country as the question asked, now would it? Okay, neither's Hawai'i, but... I lost my point there (and still fail to see the one you say is in the original post). Anyway, let's stop offending each other's sensibilities and get back to offending those who truly deserve it. Got any targets?

[EDIT] For the record, up through "...stop offending each other's sensibilities", read no sarcasm into it. After that, however, is the ambiguous whatever-angle-you-want-to-approach-it-with double talk I do so well.
 

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It's gotta be Canada for me. 30 million people, 10 million of them have guns
yet I don't think they have more than a thousand murders a year.
Plus I'd like to know how it feels to live in a "real" democracy (I live in Michigan.
I should've been able to vote for the first time in my life on Super Tuesday but nope
the DNP decided to shit on our right to vote and both of those snakes, Obama and Hiliary went along with it. Don't let her fool you, she said she agreed with them back when it looked like she had it without a fight.)

But rant aside Canada has a good economy, good healthcare and a low crimerate so that's good enough for me.
the vote thing was because the michigan and florida decided not to follow the rules of the dnp and even now with those votes it's doubtful she's still be in the lead

as for the canadian democratic system, it's not perfect and they almost screwed it up more and thankfully we didn't. there is a way for a party to get 40% of the votes across the board and get 100% of the seats

i personally like the dutch system where you get the amount of seats equal to the percentage of votes your party got, so if you got 40% of the vote, you'd get 40% of the seats

the murder stats are correct tho, less than 1000 a year, and more stabbing deaths than gun deaths for the most part too


oh and the biggest bonus, we got much better beer than in the states :)

nightfish said:
I want to get out. You can have my house if I can live where you are - deal? :D
i live in england light, aka canuckistan or canada
 

sammyfreak

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iamnotincompliance said:
Sweden (I like blondes, real blondes, unlike the vast majority of a state which shall remain nameless)
Sorry to break it to ya, the vast majority of the hot girls in Sweden är Persian/Bosnian immigrants.
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
cleverlymadeup said:
i live in england light, aka canuckistan or canada
LOL, I actually thought that was French lite.
That's more Quebec. Although its more like if France was combined with the world from 1984, or so I gather from an outside, pro-Commonwealth prospective. Take the recent tournament by Blizzard in their World of Warcraft arenas as a prime example: The French regions of Canada were not allowed to enter, due to the provisional government in those areas having a heavy hand when it even comes to light-hearted competitions which are not specifically pro-French; demanding some outrageous terms for entry to the competition, which Blizzard simply did not wish to put up with. Go look for the posts on the WoW forums for further information. Blizzard were wrongly blamed by the Quebec players for missing out, and suffered as a company because of the government's incompetence.

Ok, that was random.
 

nightfish

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cleverlymadeup said:
nightfish said:
I want to get out. You can have my house if I can live where you are - deal? :D
i live in england light, aka canuckistan or canada
well i live in england and i love canada - looks like i'm made then doesn't it :D