I have the same problem with every country, why are they all so stupid? There's not a place on earth that I know of that doesn't have some easily solvable problem that's costing them ridiculous amounts of money and time to solve.
Stupid things you hate about countries
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Well I have a major problem with my countrymen. While tourists will often go how friendly and warm people are here, when they visit...
...no. Many people here are incredibly prone to gossip, meddling into one's neighbor's affairs, schadenfreude and hypocrisy and arbitrary circle drawing (and remember, if you're not in the circle, you are something despicable). However, that seems to be mostly the problem with the older folks so I'm hoping that such weirdness is going to die out...eventually.
Captcha: good riddance.
Dammit, creeping me out again.
...no. Many people here are incredibly prone to gossip, meddling into one's neighbor's affairs, schadenfreude and hypocrisy and arbitrary circle drawing (and remember, if you're not in the circle, you are something despicable). However, that seems to be mostly the problem with the older folks so I'm hoping that such weirdness is going to die out...eventually.
Captcha: good riddance.
Dammit, creeping me out again.
This statement, if placed in the wrong hands, would open up a can of worms that destroys half of America. That one poor girl who got slandered across America for testifying that birth control pills are a valid medical concern? That was messed up. America has problems.IRBaboon said:
My gripes:
Mexicans for inspiring the garishly colorful paper accessories and blaring music found in every cheesy fake Mexican restaurant in America.
Parisians for being unsufferably stuck up douches. (All you non-Parisians are fine)
Americans for supporting the Budweiser corporation.
Greeks.
Serbians for the inexcusable atrocity that was GTA IV.
North Koreans because we should blame the victim
Except that it isn't useful. For one thing, the pizza sauce typically used in school lunch pizza is pretty goddamn far removed from actually eating a tomato, and it's most certainly not good for you compared to an actual serving of vegetables. It may be "fixing" a funding problem, but it's sweeping a fairly major health problem, one that's getting worse and worse over time and will eventually cost us WAY more than those balanced lunches, under the rug. If you want people to actually eat healthier it doesn't help to classify foods that are ostensibly vegetables, dairy, grain, or whatever as healthy while completely ignoring all of the other aspects of the food that are horrible for you. By calling pizza sauce a vegetable, you're pretty much creating precedent to call almost anything a healthy food.wintercoat said:
Hmm I think Swedish people are pretty good at queuing since pretty much all places have a ticket machines and you simply get a number and then wait until its your turn but perhaps that varies a lot depending on where in Sweden you liveHollyday said:
http://www.thelocal.se/23570/20091130/
OT: I hate all the stupid politicians that exist in every single country and I fucking hate Russian players in MOBA games
Wales: Why do you not use the land you have? I've been there twice now, and I've only driven through a total of 3 small villages. Not bad to say that both times were to the coast. I mean, sure be eco-friendly and all, but it doesn't count if you're making people drive 5 miles to the nearest city for work. There are wayyy too many fields in Wales. Way too many. (On the up side, the coast is utterly b-e-a-utiful. Shame the locals are boring.)
Reading all the stuff that bothers other people about different countries is making me realize that all that shit bothers me too. I've come to the conclusion that its not individual countries that have things that bother, it's people as a whole. Fuck I hate people so much. I'm not anti social and I do leave my house if that comment made it seem otherwise, but holy fucking shit I hate people so much. I swear every time I play a video game online the one weak link between me and having fun is 100% of the time the people being fucking twats and just trolling in every way they can.
I also hate when people can't take responsibility over their own actions or just act childish and stupid when they don't get their way. Example: The people in the US who are constantly saying that "Obama hasn't done anything!", no you fucking morons, this country's political structure follows a series of checks and balances. Obama first has to go through the House and Congress to get shit passes, AND WHEN THE FUCKING REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE THAT ARE THROWING A ***** FIT THAT MCCAIN DIDN'T GET ELECTED DON'T WANT SOMETHING TO GET PASSED THEN THEY DON'T PASS IT BECAUSE A DEMOCRAT PROPOSED IT! SO TELL ME AGAIN HOW IT'S OBAMA'S DOING THAT NOTHING IS GETTING DONE AND NOT THE FUCKWADS WHO ARE THROWING A ***** FIT AND NOT PASSING LAWS JUST TO MAKE A POINT! Fuck me people are stupid.
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I also hate when people can't take responsibility over their own actions or just act childish and stupid when they don't get their way. Example: The people in the US who are constantly saying that "Obama hasn't done anything!", no you fucking morons, this country's political structure follows a series of checks and balances. Obama first has to go through the House and Congress to get shit passes, AND WHEN THE FUCKING REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE THAT ARE THROWING A ***** FIT THAT MCCAIN DIDN'T GET ELECTED DON'T WANT SOMETHING TO GET PASSED THEN THEY DON'T PASS IT BECAUSE A DEMOCRAT PROPOSED IT! SO TELL ME AGAIN HOW IT'S OBAMA'S DOING THAT NOTHING IS GETTING DONE AND NOT THE FUCKWADS WHO ARE THROWING A ***** FIT AND NOT PASSING LAWS JUST TO MAKE A POINT! Fuck me people are stupid.
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What do I hate about countries in general? I guess Patriotism, the divide.
It's all well and good being very comfertable and proud of the place you call home, but to call out other peoples countries in a negative way with nothing but shameful ignorance towards a fellow human being.
It's all well and good being very comfertable and proud of the place you call home, but to call out other peoples countries in a negative way with nothing but shameful ignorance towards a fellow human being.
England rotating a boat is not entertainment. Also "fireworks", "firework" learn the difference.
I was watching something on the queen of England's birthday or something and it was just sad. Although that could have been because it was on CNN. I am going with 50/50, you share some of the blame England.
I was watching something on the queen of England's birthday or something and it was just sad. Although that could have been because it was on CNN. I am going with 50/50, you share some of the blame England.
I keep forgetting you're Australian. The stereotype for you is you're all outgoing, and yet in you I've always seen an admirable amount of loathing of others.Vault101 said:
OT: My own: Britain. Not enough of us live up to our cool stereotypes these days.
As an American, I hate everything about our government. The two party system is trash that encourages petty competition and beating "them" over accomplishing anything.
The people are also pretty ignorant about the government, thinking the president can just wave his wand/scepter/staff and fix the economy in a year. Most people don't seem to realize that Congress has more power, and since Congress isn't a person, they don't think to blame it.
The government is somehow for the people, by the people, and doesn't give a damn about the people. I'm not even going to mention the lobbyists, they don't count as real people in my book. Parasites, yes. Not people.
Aside from the political stupidity, we don't use the utterly sensible metric system, and there's a load of bigots who think other people's private affairs affect them. Plus the whole "Christian Nation" thing is untrue in every way.
Plus, the fact that we cut spending everywhere except the military is just ridiculous. I want to go to space, not the Middle East. Even if we cut military spending for science, it still ends up benefiting the military. Cut 5% off the military, and we go to space. They don't notice the loss, and we go to space. Literally no downside whatsoever.
I prefer not to bash other countries because I don't know many of them well enough to think of stupid things about them. Good things would be easy. For example, the Brits make excellent TV.
The people are also pretty ignorant about the government, thinking the president can just wave his wand/scepter/staff and fix the economy in a year. Most people don't seem to realize that Congress has more power, and since Congress isn't a person, they don't think to blame it.
The government is somehow for the people, by the people, and doesn't give a damn about the people. I'm not even going to mention the lobbyists, they don't count as real people in my book. Parasites, yes. Not people.
Aside from the political stupidity, we don't use the utterly sensible metric system, and there's a load of bigots who think other people's private affairs affect them. Plus the whole "Christian Nation" thing is untrue in every way.
Plus, the fact that we cut spending everywhere except the military is just ridiculous. I want to go to space, not the Middle East. Even if we cut military spending for science, it still ends up benefiting the military. Cut 5% off the military, and we go to space. They don't notice the loss, and we go to space. Literally no downside whatsoever.
I prefer not to bash other countries because I don't know many of them well enough to think of stupid things about them. Good things would be easy. For example, the Brits make excellent TV.
I hate how the Mexican government and its law enforcement are so corrupt that it has cause such a huge problem with the drug cartels. As bad as it seems, I know that if the US decides to intervene, they would clear things up so fast people would have never have known that there was a problem in the first place.
One thing I hate about my own country is the vocal minority of religious extremeists, racists, homophobes, and overall idiots that give the rest of us in the U.S. a bad name.
It's just down to inertia, we started imperial and have been switching to metric when we can.Elementary - Dear Watson said:
People's hights/wieghts, TV sizes, pints, all things that our parents regularly reference at home in imperial units, so of course we're going to grow up with a familiarity with using imperial in those contexts. Although I've not seen milk served as pints in a supermarket in years, it's litre cartons now (although the milkman does still deliver pint bottles). A cricket pitch is a chain long because saying it's 20.12m is irritating.
Road signs are still in miles because changing them all to km would be fecking expensive and offer no real benefit aside from a few less confused continental drivers. (Also applies to driving on the left (also, we're Britain, we ruled half the world, if we want to drive on the left then screw you
))Ultimately, I don't have any issue with the continued use of imperial units in casual context, the only time it gets to me is when people start using them again for more serious things.
OT: applies to every country really I suppose: this fecking nonsense about gay marriage. Seriously, if you can't play nice and share with others then feck it, as far as the law is concerned, noone gets married. You can register a civil partnership at your local registras office, but that's it.
Here's 11 things that piss me off about my home country. The good ol' USA.
1. WHY THE HELL IS THE KFC DOUBLE DOWN A THING?
2. Why is the McGangBang not a thing?
3. Why do I have to see graffiti tainting up walls on old buildings and the backs of stop signs? Why the hell is spray paint even being sold to people under the age of 30?
4. Why is Florida apparently filled with zombies? You'd think we'd be a little more proactive about that.
5. Why are other parts of the country other than New England allowed to make clam chowder. I'm sorry Manhattan, but you do not get to call that stuff clam chowder.
6. Why do tornadoes have an inexplicable hatred of the midwest?
7. Why has NASA not colonized the moon by now. I wanna live on the moon, dammit!
8. Why do I see help wanted signs when I randomly pass by stores but when I go back to actually inquire for a job, they seemingly vanish?
9. Why have we made Jersey Shore so popular. Even if you watch it as a joke, you've still made the cast and everyone involved with that show, absolutely filthy with money.
10. Why are there bikinis made for 5 year olds?
11. Why does Detroit not have a real Robocop at this point?
1. WHY THE HELL IS THE KFC DOUBLE DOWN A THING?
2. Why is the McGangBang not a thing?
3. Why do I have to see graffiti tainting up walls on old buildings and the backs of stop signs? Why the hell is spray paint even being sold to people under the age of 30?
4. Why is Florida apparently filled with zombies? You'd think we'd be a little more proactive about that.
5. Why are other parts of the country other than New England allowed to make clam chowder. I'm sorry Manhattan, but you do not get to call that stuff clam chowder.
6. Why do tornadoes have an inexplicable hatred of the midwest?
7. Why has NASA not colonized the moon by now. I wanna live on the moon, dammit!
8. Why do I see help wanted signs when I randomly pass by stores but when I go back to actually inquire for a job, they seemingly vanish?
9. Why have we made Jersey Shore so popular. Even if you watch it as a joke, you've still made the cast and everyone involved with that show, absolutely filthy with money.
10. Why are there bikinis made for 5 year olds?
11. Why does Detroit not have a real Robocop at this point?
HEY! YOU! SHUT UP!Dangit2019 said:
How dare you bad mouth that amazing song you.....you.....song hater you!
*runs crying*
Oh, not misanthropy.Vault101 said:
God no, I despise misanthropes. I just meant you have a respectable amount of jaded cynicism going on