# Best & Worst Things About Your Country

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 19, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011 "2004-08-19T21:06:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Maxtr0sity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maxtr0sity](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maxtr0sity)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011/21 "2004-08-20T16:46:11Z")

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> [@Voetsjoeba](#):
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> Yeah, Group94 is one of the major belgian webdesign companies. And they work a few blocks away from here, and they’re just cool people :love:
> 
> Marc Dutroux is a Belgian who took children with him, put them in his basement, raped them, let them die of starvation or murdered them. Wim Durdin and Yoko Maesen took their child to the park, tried to break it’s neck, stabbed it with a knife and buried it in the park. They just went home and watched Big Brother for the rest of the evening. And Gellingen is the place where the gas blast recently occured.

Big Brother strikes again. :-/

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**Author:** ![minimalistik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@minimalistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/minimalistik)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011/22 "2004-08-21T13:57:50Z")

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> 

And they work a few blocks away from here, and they’re just cool people

cool 🙂

Sydney Australia  
Likes

- Chicks (cant get better than aussie chicks :love: )
- Atmosphere
- Surroundings
- Away from the world since were down under
- Crime ratings, murders are low
- School (much easier compared to others)
- Home of Neostream
- Sport
- Culture
- Food
- People
- Have had no civil war

Dislikes

- Stupid road signs and rules (they just cant keep a road simple with a yellow line separating the left and right lane like in the usa)
- GST
- Mark Latham and his antics
- CityRail (Poor Trains = Government Responsibility)
- Music (Too much american influence, need more clubbing scenes and better international music stars such as anne savage)
- Crap tv (tv dramas are boring, no new concepts)
- Football: Where the f\*\*ken love for soccer? Its no wonder why australia is crap at soccer. Wheres all the funding? It all goes to swimming, nrl, afl…

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**Author:** ![Rockstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@Rockstar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rockstar)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011/23 "2004-08-21T14:36:24Z")

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Indonesia:

BAD:  
-Discrimination against minors [both in religion and race] \<- hate this most!!  
-chaos happenf, we minors suffer the consequence.  
-Low salary [1-3 years of experience: less than $300 a month, you’re lucky if you get $300]  
-Corrupt goverment [we are in the top 3 of the world’s most corrupt countries]  
-high level of pollution [try our capital Jakarta for air pollution]  
-traffic [if you think bay area has traffic issue… you don’t know anything yet]  
-MOSQUITOZ  
-technology idiot  
-bribe is everywhere  
-almost everywhere you go you gotta pay for parking.  
-stupid politicians [morons]  
-soccer team sucks [so freaking crap I remember they made an own goal in purpose]

GOOD  
-Everything is soooooooo freaking cheap… oh except import cars [if you got dollar $$$, you’re the king]  
-Food 🙂  
-my best friends and family live there  
-although bribing is bad, but it’s useful sometimes if you accidentally run over the red light :sen:  
-girls

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**Author:** ![Jasninder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Jasninder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jasninder)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011/24 "2004-08-21T15:19:08Z")

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**Thiland**  
i visit bangkok very freequently, we get ladies tops and lot more clothing from there for our store in delhi, [www.jasninder.com/base21](http://www.jasninder.com/base21) i  
bangkok is a great place to shop…dont connect to the food though, massages are yummy…rest i m not gona talk about on here, everyone who has visited the place knows 😜

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**Author:** ![Coppertop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@Coppertop](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Coppertop)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011/25 "2004-08-21T15:24:35Z")

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That reminds me, something to add to Canada:  
(bad)  
-Mosquitos and Black Flies. (Black flies are best described as teeth with wings. They bite and leave HUGE welts.)

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**Author:** ![El\_Thierro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@El\_Thierro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/El_Thierro)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011/26 "2004-08-21T15:39:01Z")

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> [@Jasninder](#):
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> **Thiland**  
> i visit bangkok very freequently, we get ladies tops and lot more clothing from there for our store in delhi, [www.jasninder.com/base21](http://www.jasninder.com/base21) i  
> bangkok is a great place to shop…dont connect to the food though, massages are yummy…rest i m not gona talk about on here, everyone who has visited the place knows 😜

Aaah, you’re one of _those tourists._

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**Author:** ![Jasninder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Jasninder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jasninder)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011/27 "2004-08-21T16:01:24Z")

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uhm…i dont go further then massages 😜

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**Author:** ![Rockstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@Rockstar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rockstar)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011/28 "2004-08-21T20:45:36Z")

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actually when I was on the plane, I met a couple of americans that went to Indonesia purely for shirt shopping 🙂 I heard bangkok is really cheap too… but I’m not sure if it’s cheaper than in Indonesia.

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**Author:** ![paddy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e36b37/32.png) [@paddy1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/paddy1)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-worst-things-about-your-country/120011/29 "2004-08-21T21:12:18Z")

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> [@Zak](#):
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> [size=3] **USA** [/size]
> 
> Likes:  
> 1.Freedom, being able to protest people of power w/o getting you head cut off…

Yeah, you just get ‘quietly taken care of’. :sure: :whistle:

**[size=4]UK (Northern Ireland)[/size]**

**Likes**  
+Food: Mince and spuds, yum! ::snug:  
+Imported Food: We have some excellent Chinese and Italian restaurants.  
+Pretty Girls: but not those spide-y sluts (spide is a Northern Irish word for a pop culture trend follower. You know, hard lads and slags)  
+Proximity to the Republic of Ireland: Are southern neighbours are politically neutral and friendly.  
+Music: Snow Patrol and Ash are both from Northern Ireland and there are some excellent unsigned bands here right now.

**Dislikes**  
-Little Racial Diversity: We don’t have many immigrants except the owners of Chinese, Indian and Italian restaurants.  
-Sectarianism: The Protestants hate the Catholics and vice versa.  
-Violence: Stems from sectarianism  
-Terrorist Groups: Also due to sectarianism  
-Weather: It has rained for a bout 70% of this year so far.  
-Corrupt/Useless Politicians: The old Minister for Education used to be a leader of the IRA, a terrorist organisation, and Sinn Fein, one of Ireland’s largest political parties is backed by the IRA. The DUP, rival party to Sinn Fein, is backed by the UVF, yet another terrorist organisation. Since the 60s Ireland has had three ceasefires and all have failed to lead to arms decommisioning.

That’s about it for now. I’ll add more if I remember anything.

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