The USA isn't last!

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Sandman
More seriously, the constant screeching of the tabloids about the state of the NHS, schools, immigrants, yobbery etc probably plays a part in this. Brits are materially better off then ever before, but are also quite convinced that society is crumbling around them.

QFT. I expect this 'survey' says more about miserablism in the UK than living standards.

[pchang]

so, what you're really saying

is that this survey is an accurate, inverse measure of the state of tabloid journalism in those countries?

[Cort Haus]

Personally I'm not saying anything about other countries. Just about Britain.

[Wernazuma III]

Re: so, what you're really saying

Originally posted by pchang
is that this survey is an accurate, inverse measure of the state of tabloid journalism in those countries?

Could be. Austria has something like a monopolized boulevard journalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronen_Zeitung


I don't know about Hungary, however, and Germany would have to score worse when it comes to that.

[Lazerus]

Well atleast we're best at something for a change

[Maquiladora]

Thats the spirit.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Asmodean
So children in Poland are generally more well off than children in the States. Food for thought.

That's just one aspect. Don't worry. Overall, the U.S. remains the industrialized nation with the shortest lifespans and the highest healthcare costs. --But it's okay, because our health insurance companies are raking in the profits.

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Sorry, most of us think they ought to be mutually exclusive.

Without Utah's 5 Electoral votes, Bush would have lost to Gore in 2000... Deseret

(We'd rank higher than the USA on this list too!)

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Aeson
Without Utah's 5 Electoral votes, Bush would have lost to Gore in 2000... Deseret

If by you mean Utah sucks, correct.

(We'd rank higher than the USA on this list too!)

Only 'cause you're all brainwashed. Though I think Tassi would even it out, really.

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
If by you mean Utah sucks, correct.

Deseret... you can't keep calling it Utah if you want it out of the US... it's counterproductive. Come on now, make up your mind.

And the 3 thumbs were obviously a reference to the nuclear testing that occurred here, duh! (EDIT: "inbreeding" would also have been an acceptable answer.)

Though I think Tassi would even it out, really.

The brainwashing? Or the ranking?

Tassi fits right in here... You know Mormons tried communism (sorta) already? Maybe that's why some of the first westerners allowed into the USSR and communist China were LDS missionaries?

[Kuciwalker]

I meant in the ranking by kid satisfaction or whatever it was they were measuring (by bringing it down).

And why would you be on the list, anyway? It's for first-world countries.

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by VJ
Heh. UN study.

Worthless.

Indeed



UN is worthless

read the facts of how the information made the US at the bottom

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I meant in the ranking by kid satisfaction or whatever it was they were measuring (by bringing it down).

You have really weird age limits for "kid"...

And why would you be on the list, anyway? It's for first-world countries.

Utah's economy is capitalist, government is Democratic, and the standard of living in Utah is higher than the US average. Deseret would be first-world if the US is... (At least until we revolted to a Mormon Theocracy.)

[Aeson]

Oh... and we get (the nice part of) SoCal!

[Verto]

Originally posted by Tacc
I am a citizen of the United States of America and of the State of Utah.
Deal with it.

Your skin is brown. Deal with it, furriner.