Maybe it's a specific thing at my uni but bloody everyone plays/talks about basketball.


Also: Racial rationing in parliament. Bascially if you are a Maori (the indigeneous people of NZ) you can either be on the general electoral roll or the Maori roll. Basically there are a certain number of seats in parliament reserved for Maori and only Maori can vote for these seats. While its an ok idea in theory it is unneccesary because A) Maori are overrepresented in parliament already and B) It causes havoc with our MMP system and means that strategic voting is far more important than voting for the party you actually like.


Also In reference to Canada: NZ had a FPTP system as well for many years. We dumped it in the 90s for MMP and haven't looked backed. FPTP is a ridiculous system.

It's such an idiotic system but the 2 major parties love it and the bloc love it cause it gives them 35 seats even though they only get like 2% of the popular vote that none of them want to give it up. IT FREAKING SUCKS! FPTP makes you question the "every vote counts" they try to teach you as you grow up. It's like excuse me? If I vote for Liberal while in Alberta my vote wont count because goddamnit 75% of the province votes conservative so the place is pretty much always blue. Even though if they did it the other way it wouldn't be. But thats why they don't want to switch, it would fuck up their power base.

It's goddamn Germany.

Oh, gods. Another sane person! I thought I was the only one still left!
Yeah, seriously. Geert Wilders.
EVERY point he brings up, he spins towards his... hatred of the Islam.
His latest joke? A tax on Hijabs. (or whatever the plural for it is)
Pay €1000 per year, and you're allowed to wear one. Why does he want this tax? Because it's a pollution of the street image.


Geert Wilders is what's wrong with the Netherlands.

Everywhere I go I see Tim Hortons cups littered along the sidewalk. They are literally trails that will lead you to said restaurant. It is impossible to go on a 20+ min. drive without coming across one.

Their coffee is watery and their doughnuts stale. Yet, a disturbingly large number of Ontarions chant "I need my timmies!" on a daily basis.

Oh, did I mention I work at Tim Hortons? e_e I hope it goes out of business sometime soon, although I doubt that'll happen...

It's not enough for Tim Hortons to invade every corner of Ontario, though. They started opening up a bunch of stores in the US. THERE IS NO ESCAPE. ;_;

Edit: Oh, and the TTC and garbage workers strike. Torontonians have thorns up their butts. (No offense to any Torontonians here.)

Holy shit, it's just like the United States!
That's awful.

Whaaaaaat... th' hell?

EDIT: Oh! Oh I get it. Wow, very obscure.

Don't worry, Torontonian's are already offensive :p

God bless Finland!
 

Some people say that Finland is little America, and I guess that's totally relevant.

There was one little piece of news in yesterday's newspaper where one of Finland's most richest men said that rich people could be left from our healthcare system and some suspect that this would lead same kind of system that US is trying to get rid off.
Basically they're flirting with the idea of health insurance, because they don't give shit about poor people.

And because nobody doesn't give shit about them they wont vote in elections and surprisingly there's ain't party who would take care of them! Whoops!
And now, Finland's biggest political news are about how untrustworthy polticians are, because the got money back up from bank, labor union, rich men, companies and so on. One minister get his money by "selling" his paintings. The problem isn't the back up as much as that they kept it secret!
Such a jolly men those polticians.

It's not itself that inmoral. But those, who would vote left parties probably wont because those polticians just are so darn untrustworthy. Just caring about money and not them. Grr, now I won't vote any of them, they're all just the same!

And then that jolly good man, who could turn Finland to paraside is wondering that why people didn't vote him and why those youngsters stole his bike.


You know, our economy is pretty fucked up too. In my hometown, and in others too, teachers are laid off because towns don't have money at all.
Finns are richer than ever (probably only the rich though), but our nation ain't because rightwing politicians are no no about using taxes to get some money, 'cause it would hurt their wallets.
And without those taxes our social welfare is getting worser and worser.

The saddest thing about them is (if newspapers are to trust) that some of them think that their leader is little bit too soft about the immigrant policy.
But ha ha, without their leader, they wouldn't have got any votes, I guess.

But hah, that party did win my hometowns elections you know. The funny, which means sad, thing is that one of their methods to get votes was to afford beer anybody who voted them, they would even drive them to the voting place! You gotta be proud of those boys.

And we have quite much firearms too. I'm very thankful they are getting laws stricter about getting gun. That's probably one of the few good things politicians managed to do properly.

Rant, now with text that nobody will understand!

Well there is the For the Poor (Köyhien asialla) -party. They actually had one of the most coherent political programs. They barely get any votes though, of course.