The Warring States of NPF - What the LET'S BE NICE TO NIQUE is Wrong With Your Stupid Country?

The Warring States of NPF (http://www.nuklearforums.com/index.php)

- Dead threads (http://www.nuklearforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=91)

- - What the LET'S BE NICE TO NIQUE is Wrong With Your Stupid Country? (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?t=36031)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bells (Post 971231)

I'll put mine on Bullet point if you don't mind...

What's wrong with Brazil, by Bells:

1- I hate local TV here. It's stupid, formulaic, without any sense of passion for the work being done or any effort for it to be actually good... it's just enough to sell and rely entirely or repetitive bad jokes, tired formulas and silly drama. So, the main cultural vehicle of the country is clogged with stupid shit that people bath themselves into and absorb it's outdated cultural values.

What pisses me off the most is that i KNOW it dosen't have to be this way. We actually have the talent and the money to produce high quality material... there is just no need for it because the shit we have now sells just fine and nobody question that.

2- The people themselves seem to take pride on ignorance. The sheer amount of people who like to complaint about things they don't know... about things the CHOOSE not to learn about, about things they REFUSE to learn about and specially the way people ALWAYS complaint about tons of stuff but won't ever take any action to make something different or promote change.

As in, in politics and about the police, everybody assumes that all politicians are corrupt and every cop is as bad as any drug dealer... and therefor they take this as absolute truth and shout that out like they were some high level intellectuals... but ask them what they would do to change any of that... most don't know, many don't care.

For fuck sakes, this is a country where people (a lot of people) still firmly believe that Freemasonry is a satanical organization that does pacts with the devil and that they Inject themselves with Goat blood on their dark rituals... i've tried several times to explain to these people that this is the only country i know that thinks so massively and so firmly about that, and in most other countries if people have ANY worries regarding Freemasonry is actually regarding their political influence, just like tons of other "secret societies" that exist... and most of the time this very notion just fly right over their heads.

And now the short Bullet point barrage:

3- Extremely low scientific culture
4- Awful school system (i learned that you can't see the moon during the day when i was 17... let that one sink in)
5- Too much pride for stupid sports (people actually get killed over soccer matches between rival teams... )
6- Extremely low Technology culture

I love my Country, but DAMN some things about it pisses me off to no end.

Me, living in the south of Brazil, naturally, have a slighty different vision: There's a lot of corrupt politicians. There ARE good politicians. People don't see that. People don't also see that there are problems that can't be fixed in four years, and hey, an example: in my town we've noticed that the last mayor didn't do anything but the new mayor is doing a lot.. Care to guess how? The other mayor was saving up money for the exact purpose of something getting done, because nothing got done in 4 years in the previous terms and each new mayor just screwed everything the last one did. So he'd either get re-elected and do the stuff he wanted or another mayor would get elected and ask him what he wanted to do.

I'd like to mention: USA got Scientology, we have Universal Churches. Those bastards are rich. Rich. They make churches, convince people that their lives can be changed if they give them money and pretty much brainwash people into never leaving them. The ones that DO, end up not being able to talk about the whole thing for some reason or another and there's been quite a few who've entered the darn thing without believing anything and then got "exorcised" in the middle of a church with hundreds of people. And by "exorcised" I mean "beaten by five people until he/she stopped saying bad things about the church".

And, this will be incredibly redundant, but, hey guys, there's a lot of piracy here! They only exist because taxes are so incredibly high for no reason! A Wii costs US$700 or more!

Also, yes, our local TV is terrible. It's past terrible sometimes.

Quote:

We Americans bitch too much.

That is a matter for debate.

Arguably we don't bitch nearly enough.

...BUT we can start our own threads for that I don't wanna hijack the thread for non-United Statesians to bitch about their own countries or anything.

To clarify on the bitching front, I was refering the this community here. Americans on NPF spend a lot of time talking about how much we suck, but seeing as we have a lot to deal with right now (Health Care, Economy, Foregin Policy) and how if we fail, we are powerful enough to screw the rest of you guys, you can't really blame us.

krogoth, our government spends about $70 000 000 dollars an hour. An election isn't that pricey on the grand scheme of things.

What sucks about Canada? How about our political climate isn't mature enough to make a minority government viable? How about that white-collar crime is incredibly difficult to prosecute due to the Crown not getting involved with that kind of case until very late in the game (US, you definitely one-up us here)? How about how 75% of the time it's fucking freezing?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eltargrim (Post 971273)

Elections still cost money that could be spent elsewhere.

And whats wrong with the cold? I love the winter! Yeah, our Political Parties all want the power and to be in charge, Instead of working together, which is what Canada wants they spend the time trying to stop each other from doing anything. Its' pathetic, although on the bright side the political scandals seem pretty tame to the rest of the world. But we also haven't really had any over charismatic leaders in a long time.

Can I take it that you're overall opinion of Canada is "Eh."

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eltargrim (Post 971273)

How about our political climate isn't mature enough to make a minority government viable?

Is there any real reason for this?
As a former British colony who broke away at about the same time as Canada, it's the norm in NZ to have minority govs- in fact since we switched to MMP in the early 90s that is all we have had.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants (Post 971279)

It's mainly because the 2 big political parties wish to further their own agendas and don't want to promote the other parties. The NDP is to small to really have much of say at times, and one political party does whatever it feels like because it's main goal is to help Quebec separate from Canada. although that is what they claim but the rest of Canada feels its just the parties way of getting enough votes in Quebec to remain a viable party in the federal government. But Canada is divided almost evenly between Conservative supports and Liberal supports that we really do want them to get along and run the country smoothly but they both just want a majority government so they could just do what they want instead of having to compromise. The only reason we aren't going to another election right now is because the NDP and Bloc helped the conservatives stay in power.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eltargrim (Post 971273)

How about how 75% of the time it's fucking freezing?

Just to put the rest of your countries stupid problems in their place. :)