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**KingCracker**

rubiksnoob wrote:
agroszkiewicz wrote:
rubiksnoob wrote:
- Stuff is cheaper here.

Ummmm, what? You kidding me....I pay $3.35 a gallon for gas and pay $995 a month for a STUDIO. I live in a nice area, but the cost of living is completely out of wack with wages and the current economic climate.

In Latvia, gas is about $1.60 a liter. Thats about 6 or 7 bucks a gallon. So, twice as much as what you're paying. Stuff in the US is almost always cheaper, regional prices may vary but overall, the US is cheaper.

HURRAY AMERICA!

But seriously I know it really depends on where you live and all that

**Stormrider**

The Grand Canyon.

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but, really the biggest thing about the US that I like is all of the stuff that you can do here. The American West is chock full of national parks and historical sites. The East has lots of Civil War battlefields (although not for much longer

, damn creeping civilization!

) You can own a machine gun which is nice... Hmm, what else, oh yes, Low (relatively) taxes.

**Peter Wiggin**

rubiksnoob wrote:
agroszkiewicz wrote:
rubiksnoob wrote:
- Stuff is cheaper here.

Ummmm, what? You kidding me....I pay $3.35 a gallon for gas and pay $995 a month for a STUDIO. I live in a nice area, but the cost of living is completely out of wack with wages and the current economic climate.

In Latvia, gas is about $1.60 a liter. Thats about 6 or 7 bucks a gallon. So, twice as much as what you're paying. Stuff in the US is almost always cheaper, regional prices may vary but overall, the US is cheaper.

Point taken. Europe has been paying through the nose for petrol for years.

They also have a much better mass transit infrastructure though and their population centers are far closer together than ours.

**rubiksnoob**

agroszkiewicz wrote:
rubiksnoob wrote:
agroszkiewicz wrote:
rubiksnoob wrote:
- Stuff is cheaper here.

Ummmm, what? You kidding me....I pay $3.35 a gallon for gas and pay $995 a month for a STUDIO. I live in a nice area, but the cost of living is completely out of wack with wages and the current economic climate.

In Latvia, gas is about $1.60 a liter. Thats about 6 or 7 bucks a gallon. So, twice as much as what you're paying. Stuff in the US is almost always cheaper, regional prices may vary but overall, the US is cheaper.

Point taken. Europe has been paying through the nose for petrol for years.

They also have a much better mass transit infrastructure though and their population centers are far closer together than ours.

This is true.

Cost of living over there also seems to be much higher than here. Again, this is just from personal experience -- I don't have oodles of data at my fingertips, but from what I've seen things there are generally more expensive. From food at the grocery store, to housing costs, to electronics, things just cost more. But again, I'm sure stuff varies depending on where you live, just like it does here.

But then things like BMWs and Mercedes don't cost as much because they are produced in Europe, and thus no import tax.

I'd rather have good food than German Engineering, but I guess it's a tradeoff.

**mattyrm**

Im not a patriot, i find the whole thing absurd, and im not usually very proud to be British.

But this chart makes me proud to be British.

Who can guess what the question is without checking the link?

And here is a clue, something else i like about Britain.

**dogma**

Shouldn't you be moving to Iceland, then?

**mattyrm**

Why? I think i would prefer Japan out the other 5.

Top 6 aint bad!

**whatwhat**

mattyrm wrote:Im not a patriot, i find the whole thing absurd, and im not usually very proud to be British.

But this chart makes me proud to be British.

Who can guess what the question is without checking the link?

And here is a clue, something else i like about Britain.

Do you think Charles Darwin needs a shave?

**mattyrm**

I think beards look kinda cool. Especially on auld blokes, so no i think he looks just fine with the fluff.

**whatwhat**

No that's my guess as to what the question was.

But thanks anyway.

**reds8n**

Who can guess what the question is without checking the link?

How much can you make this graph look like the French Flag ?

**Emperors Faithful**

reds8n wrote:
Who can guess what the question is without checking the link?

How much can you make this graph look like the French Flag ?

But...the poll didn't surrender! (Teehee

)

**mattyrm**

Or a sideways Dutch flag?

Name that movie!

Oh no thats another question...

**whatwhat**

It's the pepsi logo. No?

**KingCracker**

mattyrm wrote:Or a sideways Dutch flag?

Name that movie!

Oh no thats another question...

Lord of War?

**mattyrm**

Thats it KC.. Well done mate.

**whatwhat**

As a serious guess I would say the poll was do you think we descended from Apes or something, going by the Darwin clue.

**Asherian Command**

I like my country for its fantastic views,
Amazingly beautiful women, And cities.
Great food. Especially in Chicago.
Many types of people.
We have an American Ninja Warrior.
alot of free runners. (Best Sport EVER!)
Lots of varieties of food. The Women
The midly acceptable cops.
I can carry a sword as they might think I am doing a movie.
And there is great types of varieties of anything like housing
That and we 4 gamesdays in the US alone.
Seeing Sk8ters fail
Many types of shows.
The TV is great
I love the forests in my area. I go exploring them every day.
And This place is great for tracking and canoeing my two most favorite sports.

**KingCracker**

mattyrm wrote:Thats it KC.. Well done mate.

Kachow! I really liked that movie, odd because it has Nick Cage in it

**SilverMK2**

**Crantor**

KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Crantor wrote:Not necessarily in this order.

1. Maple syrup
2. Hockey
3. Punch above our weight (see WW1, WW2 and Afgh.)
4. Had the best pirate ever
5. we`re nice (probably why I like Ultras too)
6. We think we're the best at everything (because we are)
7. Modesty (see 6)
8. Poutine...mmmmm
9. Healthcare (broken but free)
10. Can go from 40 degrees celicius to -40 degrees celcius
11. Wolverine (He's Canadian)
12. Wooley Rhinos
13. Newfies (They are like fairies but with an accent)
14. We have a lot of water. In fact we have ALL of the water.
15. Our beer
16. Our whiskey
17. Our televison rules allow swearing and nudity
18. The Shat
19. Tree ents
20. Penicillin

Ha! What pirate are you speaking of?

Peter Easton the Pirate King. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Easton

**whatwhat**

Wasn't Peter Easton English. Anyway Sir Francis Drake trumps him to best pirate ever

.

SilverMK2 wrote:

Look at that poor indian slave there, he's about to get eaten by a tiger while his british enslavers gawk at a bunch of bare chested southern pacific women. Poor guy.

**Albatross**

That map looks to be missing most of Africa and Persia.

Ah yeah, 1886. That's why.

**ArtfcllyFlvrd**

rubiksnoob wrote:
Albatross wrote:These are MY favourite things, remember? Not a fan of 'ver Maiden or Stiff Little Fingers, sorry.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens.
Brown paper packages tied up with strings.
These are a few of my favourite things.

You need to be from Austria to like those things.

**SilverMK2**

Albatross wrote:That map looks to be missing most of Africa and Persia.

Ah yeah, 1886. That's why.

Yep, all the fun of putting it to the savages still to come. However, I chose that map simply because it was nice and decorative, rather than because of the time period it represented from the rise and fall of the British Empire.

**rodgers37**

England is actually pretty good when you think about it.... (although we could do with a better Football team....) (and i would rather be fully Irish

)

I'm going to add Dubstep to British music

I only started listening to it yesterday, and for some reason i really love it and have had various stuff on since....

Those photos in first post are amazing, i think i need to go to lake district again

**mattyrm**

I went to the lake district for a week last year, rented a nice cottage in Coniston. It was awesome. I spent an hour convincing the people in the pub that Middlesbrough was much nicer than the stereotypical town full of thugs and drunks, and all the people were all very good humoured and friendly.

Unfortunately on the way home i was taken ill and started aggressively vomitting out the window and up the side of the hire van (we crashed the car into a tree a few days earlier) as we drove through the village.

**Elmodiddly**

mattyrm wrote:I went to the lake district for a week last year, rented a nice cottage in Coniston. It was awesome. I spent an hour convincing the people in the pub that Middlesbrough was much nicer than the stereotypical town full of thugs and drunks, and all the people were all very good humoured and friendly.

Unfortunately on the way home i was taken ill and started aggressively vomitting out the window and up the side of the hire van (we crashed the car into a tree a few days earlier) as we drove through the village.

So......, you were pissed as a fart, crashed the car in a drunken haze, convinced the locals in the pub that you're not all lager louts then got in the hired van, pissed as a fart, then vomited all the way back to Middlesborough?

Good going.

**KamikazeCanuck**

Crantor wrote:
KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Crantor wrote:Not necessarily in this order.

1. Maple syrup
2. Hockey
3. Punch above our weight (see WW1, WW2 and Afgh.)
4. Had the best pirate ever
5. we`re nice (probably why I like Ultras too)
6. We think we're the best at everything (because we are)
7. Modesty (see 6)
8. Poutine...mmmmm
9. Healthcare (broken but free)
10. Can go from 40 degrees celicius to -40 degrees celcius
11. Wolverine (He's Canadian)
12. Wooley Rhinos
13. Newfies (They are like fairies but with an accent)
14. We have a lot of water. In fact we have ALL of the water.
15. Our beer
16. Our whiskey
17. Our televison rules allow swearing and nudity
18. The Shat
19. Tree ents
20. Penicillin

Ha! What pirate are you speaking of?

Peter Easton the Pirate King. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Easton

Huh, I totally learned something about my country today. The power of Dakka!