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  • #16
    Bah!
    Speaking of Erith:

    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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      • #18
        That one caveat is a pretty big one, and the attitudes that fostered it still exist today.
        “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.â€

        ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man​

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Space05us
          USA is better than all.
          USA isn't even close

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Oerdin
            Low wages and long working hours.
            Working hard is highly valued but wages aren't low.
            Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

            Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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            • #21
              USA is better than all.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


                Working hard is highly valued but wages aren't low.
                In the UK wages are good and working too hard is laughed at

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                • #23
                  Re: Re: Australia is the proper model society

                  Originally posted by KrazyHorse


                  Aussieland is a close second to Canada in all of the above.

                  Less snow, no ursine human eating mammals, no raccoons, no French Canadians, fewer Americans, more sunshine...


                  no indigenous maple syrup though. Hmmm....
                  Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                  ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Space05us
                    USA is better than all.
                    Better than all but 7 countries according to official stats. But I wouldn't live in the others.
                    I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                    For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
                      Working hard is highly valued but wages aren't low.
                      How's the job market in Darwin?
                      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                      • #26
                        Re: Australia is the proper model society

                        Originally posted by Ted Striker
                        Except for that whole genocide of the Aborignees,
                        OMG the dead are putting up web sites



                        If you're talking about the Tasmanian aborigines, they are still very upset about claims of their extinction in that now infamous documentary about Truganini.

                        Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                        Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by DinoDoc
                          Better than all but 7 countries according to official stats. But I wouldn't live in the others.
                          I wouldn't live anywhere that 2 weeks paid holiday a year was considered reasonable

                          Capitalist slave drivers

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by reds4ever


                            I wouldn't live anywhere that 2 weeks paid holiday a year was considered reasonable

                            Capitalist slave drivers
                            Says a person living in a country 4 rungs down from us.
                            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                            For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                            • #29
                              Well partial genocide then

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                              • #30
                                USA

                                USA

                                USA


                                I wouldn't live anywhere that 2 weeks paid holiday a year was considered reasonable
                                pssst, thats why you get a union job.

                                /me runs from the other Americans on 'Poly

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