What do you hate about your country?

[Zack McSleuthburger]

We've got all sorts of psychopaths and our politicians still blame video games and TV for violence.

Also, my country tries to teach blind nationalism from a young age.

 

[joshuaayt]

In Australia? THIS FUCKING YEARLY HEATWAVE. Apart from the fact that my school chooses a period of time in which 40+ degree days are commonplace to run compulsory sporting events, just keeping our poor ferret cool is proving a vastly difficult task.

Oh, and our treatment of refugees. And lack of R rating for videogames. And the rampant homophobia.
Our expensive games, our delayed game releases/poor old game availability (if it isn't on Ebay or in EB games, you ain't getting the PAL Shadow of the Colossus), our government's love affair with America, our lack of Retro arcades.

I'll add more as I think of it.

 

[ChaoticKraus]

- Having gloomy weather 70% of the year.
- The widespread depresssion and general downbeat attitude.
-The whininess of it's people
- The taxes
-The newfangled racism and immigration problems.

Other than that it's pretty good.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Australia

What the hell is with the government? Honestly, it's like they're a separate nation that lords over the real Australia. Major disconnect...they're not real Australians at all. Also they're absolutely horrible at keeping up with the rest of the world (hell, they're going backwards).

The handy 200-500% mark-up on all prices, and the complaints that people are shopping overseas to get around it. These companies have spent too long with no competition, and they're doing everything they can to get that advantage back. F**k this economy!

Also the heat. My God, the heat!

 

[kinapuffar]

Sweden

I hate the amount of ungrateful fucktards who don't appreciate what they've been given in life by simply being born in one of the top #5 countries in the world in all measurements of education, healthcare, political environment, economic dynamism, environmental concern, and all the other happy dwarves.
And instead opt to spend their days bitching and moaning about the weather like spoiled little children.

Grow a sack, and pick up a large carton of dignity next time you're in the store, because apparently you're all out.

 

[R0cklobster]

I hate how full of morons America is. Just watch any sort of curve when it's snowy. I also hate the management. It's all bipartisan bickering, bullshit, lobbies, and secretly it's all run by the corporations. Shut the fuck up and run the country, will ya?

Lax gun laws (Seriously, you don't need an Ak-47 with an extended magazine to protect yourself)

No, but we don't need big, throaty V8s either. But I don't see you clamoring for a ban on big blocks...


A Glock will do fine for home defense, but that doesn't mean we can't own a Kalashnakov we only shoot at a range because we enjoy shooting it. Guns are as much a hobby as stamp collecting and RC.

First off, I forgot to put down the lack of progress on alternative fuel, thanks for the reminder. Why though would you collect guns? They are weapons with the sole purpose of killing, not hanging in a cabinet. Why can't people collect other things like stamps or RC's?

That argument could just as easily go both ways. Why collect stamps? They were invented for proof of having being posted. Besides, stamps aren't cool... guns are!

 

[R0cklobster]

Australia

Pretty much ditto what everybody else has said. Everything that isn't made here is waaaaay overpriced for how much it costs to import for yourself, government continuing to try and treat everybody like children (Internet censorship in a free country? Gimme a goddamn break.)

 

[Randomologist]

UK

...The Nanny State. I can understand why my tax money is spent on the military or education, but why am I paying to have messages on the telly saying "Eat no more than a few grams of salt a day"? Or a bunch of plasticine stick figures eating fruit? I'll eat whatever I fucking well like, thanks.

Same as how you can't smoke in pubs- I don't smoke, but what was wrong with the usual house rules? If another customer asks you to put it out, do so or feel the landlord's wrath. Is it so vastly different in the cities, do you get stabbed or something?

 

[IsraelRocks]

Israel.
most of the people are loud, pushy uncivilized monkeys.

 

[R0cklobster]

The U.S. considering the amount of people from here I'm sure i'm just going to say something someone else already said.

So I am going to try to be original.

I fucking hate our currency, its not colorful enough!

nor durable enough!

 

[Velvo]

US
Also the poor educational standards.

YES. God, I hate that about the U.S. Also, the ever increasing tuition rates, the ridiculous amounts of taxation in pretty much everything they can contrive and the staggering number of racist bastards trying to humbly convert you to Catholicism.

Well, actually it's more common that people in the US will try to convert you to one form of protestantism or another than Catholicism. Evangelical movements are scary too.

I don't mind the taxation so much myself. We have a bunch of social policies (though not enough good ones if you ask me) and the people have to pay for it. The best places to live in the world have relatively high tax rates, and that's why.

But yes, tuition SUCKS. Fortunately me mum works at the university I attend, so I get CRAZY discounts.

 

[Batfred]

England - Chavs and ASBO culture. I would love to have kids one day, but I am so scared that even with the best parenting all they need is one bad friend and then they become hoody wearing louts hanging about intimidating old people. So very sad for a once great country.

 

[Con Carne]

The fact that the US HAS TO meddle in the affairs of other countries. WE can't just let them prosper or perish on their own. We gotta stick our noses in and play big brother.

 

[Steven True]

US (home country): huge portions of excessively greasy / salty / mediocre food

Japan (residing in): the weather
Winter: bitterly cold
Spring: Hope you like rain
Summer: Hope you like more rain, 35C / 95F temps, & 90% humidity all day & all night
Fall: typhoons

Weather hates Japan.

 

[Josho18]

Norway:
Idiot politicians who cant make decisions and always come up with idiotic propositions, like thinking about making so that every single time a cookie wishes to do something on your pc you have to click yes, do they even fucking know a little bit about how the Internet works? That way you have to click yes tenths of times every time you visit a god damn web page.
And americanized, stupid, spoiled, self centered, ignorant youth.
Thats mostly a problem in southern Norway though.
Northern Norway it is the problem of being under prioritized from the south, but its still better than living amongst the idiots.

 

[Mad1Cow]

PEOPLE I PRESENT TO YOU THE CHAV!!! Scum of society, they are a pack animal, often not travelling alone. There are very territorial and will attack when a passing creature feels threatened. Attacking randomly for no known reason, other then the fabled "cos I felt like it" line some police officers have heard uttered from their lips. The only known way to irradicate this vile plague of creatures is to lure them to a gas chamber with the smell of fish and chips and beer, with a further cup of tea outside of the gas chamber to filter out the confused gentleman, actually deemed endangered by the natural interesting stereotype organisation, otherwise known as NISO. However, no matter how many you get rid of, they multiply in such numbers, moreso then rabbits in spring. They are a menace, they are deadly and the UK would be so much better off without them...seriously, WHY DO WE LET THEM EXIST!?!

 

[Scarim Coral]

I have one word to say: Chav. Seriously they are the scum and why do they have to be mean to other people?

 

[darkstarangel]

Well lets see.

How about the fact that the workers of Australia are the only ones who keep it going & yet are the majorly sodomised people in the country. The harder we work, the more money we earn, the more we're taxed. The bogans & dole bludgers live of our tax money & its encouraged by the polititions who live like roman emperors of the working classes tax dollars. Oh yeah & we cant have a pension anymore yet polititions can & an exhorbitent one at that.

Universities make it compulsory for students to take up an extra elective course which is irrelevent to the chosen course but means more money for the uni.

Doctors prescribe the wrong medication after the first appointment to support the chemists & so you have to pay for a second visit.

Service stations are phasing out regular petrol for this crap with 10% ethanol because it burns up quicker so you have to fill up more often than usual. Plus it dilutes your fuel tank with water which rusts it (& not under waranty) & dries & cracks rubber seals making you pay for repairs & new parts.

And most of all, the Bogans. Their kids will have taken up smoking, covered themselves in tats, grown a mullet or rats tail, gotten drunk & knocked up, & swearing back at you before they finish pre-school. Aussie pride my arse, theres nothing left to be proud of.

 

[Wapox]

1: The Commercials...
2: The Weather...
3: The Language...


Denmark, small country - huge problems... lol

 

[Booze Zombie]

Wales.

I'm sick of the fucking wankers spitting everywhere.
I'm sick of "Welsh pride".