Honest Facts about your country

[thespazicat]

Being scottish, not everyone wears a kilt, haggis hasn't been made with sheep's stomach for years, it isn't just hills and sheep and fish and chip shops are called "chippers" in most places.

any facts about where you live?

[Sevkat]

Despite popular belief, we don't live in igloos, eh.

[Freaki-boy92]

not everyone in england has met the queen
not everyone in england even cares about the queen

[thespazicat]

At 9/21/14 05:53 PM, Freaki-boy92 wrote: not everyone in england has met the queen
not everyone in england even cares about the queen

and unfortunately Scotland is the queens door mat

[Lich]

English seaside towns are fine as long as you don't make a complete spectacle of yourself.
Oh and the trashed scum in the low-town pubs on friday and saturday evenings always swing at people wide once they have their favorite brew of wife-beater a couple of times over. Give them a good ol' jab and they'll probably drop like a sack of shit.

[ManDeep]

Amsterdam is a cesspit of crime and drugs.

[CiviLies]

I once heard that the average supermarket in California wastes more-or-less 3000 pounds of food per market per year. Dunno if it's legit though.

[yurgenburgen]

At 9/21/14 05:38 PM, thespazicat wrote: any facts about where you live?

British Columbia, Canada.

The standards of employment here are much lower than in the UK (where I am from originally).
This is good and bad.
It's good in that it makes it easier to find work.
It's bad in that you end up working alongside incompetent morons.

[UVSoaked]

At 9/21/14 05:53 PM, Freaki-boy92 wrote: not everyone in england even cares about the queen

Blasphemy!

[Phobotech]

Our highways are pretty consistently jammed up.

There's too much traffic.

If the wind is calm and you get some altitude up in the air, you can see the thick brown line of smog across the horizon that is the pollution from all of these cars and trucks.

There are churches everywhere.

Guns can be used as currency for goods and services by trade and bartering. Ammunition too.

There is so much food.

Oh my god...

...but they aren't created equal.

Om nom nom.

[AtlasTheGaurdian]

Not everyone in america is fat.

:: just most

[thespazicat]

At 9/21/14 07:06 PM, AtlasTheGaurdian wrote: Not everyone in america is fat.

just most

and Scotland has some of the highest obesity rates in Europe, high five

[AtlasTheGaurdian]

At 9/21/14 07:08 PM, thespazicat wrote:

At 9/21/14 07:06 PM, AtlasTheGaurdian wrote: Not everyone in america is fat.

just most

and Scotland has some of the highest obesity rates in Europe, high five

#TeamMcdonalds

[thespazicat]

At 9/21/14 07:15 PM, AtlasTheGaurdian wrote:

#TeamMcdonalds

#MackieD's4lifemin

[AtlasTheGaurdian]

At 9/21/14 07:17 PM, thespazicat wrote:

At 9/21/14 07:15 PM, AtlasTheGaurdian wrote:

#TeamMcdonalds

#MackieD's4lifemin

#TeamDollarMenu

[thespazicat]

At 9/21/14 07:19 PM, AtlasTheGaurdian wrote:

#TeamDollarMenu

#Teamwedon'thavethedollarsowehavetocompensatewiththepoundthanksbutanyhowbacktothesubject

[DM692]

Our winters are shitty balls.

Canada

[Inplosion]

Portugal isn't Spain . It just isn't .
And not everyone here is a 40 year old fisherman with a mustache . (there are quite a few)

[X-Gary-Gigax-X]

Anyone remember this pic from like 2007?

[Idiot-Finder]

People have a love-hate relationship with my country so when you hear them whine about the problems and threatens to leave, they'll always stay no matter what.

Even if they can afford to leave in the first place.

This in turn leads to staunch defenders who spews out the cliche that went something like this, "If you don't like it then you can get out!"

I could have typed it like how the rednecks would say it but whatever.

[Alexborn]

At 9/21/14 05:59 PM, ManDeep wrote: Amsterdam is a cesspit of crime and drugs.

so is my where i live buddy

[BrokenDeck]

In my country (Canada) not everyone says "eh" on a regular basis.

[vixuzar]

i guess the only honest fact about my country is that everyone smokes shisha (very popular in the middle east)

even i do

[gamejunkie]

Everything in Australia will kill you, everything.

[Boomstick]

Number one producer of Childhood Obesity

[Ilssm]

Florida's not a country, but we are technically the most progressive state in the south.

But we also have crazy shit happen all the time.

[SansNumbers]

We are a punchline with nuclear weapons.

[SentForMe]

Despite all the lovely natural spaces like the Outback or the Great Barrier reef associated with our country we are one of the largest polluters per capita in the world. We even beat out the USA.

[aListers]

At 9/21/14 05:38 PM, thespazicat wrote: and chip shops are called "chippers" in most places.

Really? Everywhere I've been they've been called "chippies."

[Bit]

At 9/21/14 06:15 PM, CiviLies wrote: I once heard that the average supermarket in California wastes more-or-less 3000 pounds of food per market per year. Dunno if it's legit though.

That's probably not far from the truth. Some people get all of their food by diving through supermarket dumpsters looking for day-old fruits, vegetables, and meats which are still in their packages. The term is "Freegan".