I suppose that's true. Could just be that i'm a food traveller above all else.
And in that aspect Iceland is a bit same old. Except for that fermented shark thing ofc
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One day I will visit African regions….do stuff like try to figure out a geographic logic to the distribution of ethnic groups in Nigeria...what ends Yoruba areas, when does Hausa begin...just how terribly awfully artificial are some of those national borders..
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One day I will visit African regions….do stuff like try to figure out a geographic logic to the distribution of ethnic groups in Nigeria...what ends Yoruba areas, when does Hausa begin...just how terribly awfully artificial are some of those national borders..
But that's like the New World to my current first island on the Grand Line stage that this year is lol.When I was mapping the world, the artificial borders within Africa confused me more than anything else…
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When I was mapping the world, the artificial borders within Africa confused me more than anything else…
There's some geographical sense here and there, but rarely ethnic sense.
Even the one homegrown country that avoided foreign borders, Ethiopia, tragically was an empire in it's own time and has a lot of the exact same problems the rest do because of it (Ogaden, the Oromo, the racism against the Nilotic lowlanders).
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You guys! How are you having a discussion about iceland without me?
Oh and if ever someone from here visits Iceland mi casa su casa and all that.
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You guys! How are you having a discussion about iceland without me?
Oh and if ever someone from here visits Iceland mi casa su casa and all that.
I hope you mean this literally and that Foggy counts as your casa.
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@Monkey:
My sick burns from the New England thread still echoing around your head. Owned.
in no dimension is matt Damon ammunition. Fuck if anything you dug your own grave.
But yeah, the whole college thing you folks have is….erm...lol it's yours and you can have it. How you even developed that I will never know.
Where the heck are you from where "college drinking" = getting a buzz lol. Maybe it's a European thing, except Chrissie didn't need help understanding it so maybe it's a Brit thing.
how did you get from what I wrote to this? And what on earth does Greece know about fun?? Lol it's not even debatable. Sorry chrissie but you folks don't know how to party anymore…..once a long time ago, but now it's kind of just died with no hopes of being infamous.
ahahaha, like what. Bloomin' Onions?
The only thing Australia has that's exotic or adventurous is the wildlife.this is what it was solely about. Ie bull balls aren't extreme this side of the planet. Like fuck we are surrounded by Asian countries that eat insects and monkey brains, it's rubbed off on us. It's not even debatable.
Otherwise it's just another goddamn British diaspora immigrant ex-colony like we have over here in the States and Provinces.
no the difference is we actually have influence outside of the country that doesn't revolves solely from immigrants. Look at the location and tell me how you come close to the various influences we have. The US is getting pretty stagnant. Just be glad you have South America to carry you.
Your not gonna impress me with that lol. I mean shit, I don't even have to wait for the Balkans. Cyprus was waaaaaay more interesting and adventurous.
By comparison Australia would just be like visiting Arizona or something except with goofy accents and the threat of deadly spiders and sharks lol. Sounds fun braw.and yet you haven't really mentioned anything exciting about it. The best thing cypress has is chrissie. The rest of it is some overrun tourist resort that has nothing left to offer. Australia hasn't even begun to tap into its brilliance. But fuck I don't even know why you would try this when australia is hundreds of times bigger. Seriously just step back a second and absorb the enormity of this country, and the massive contrast each corner of its compass spews.
Starting from December 2012, here's my year's itinerary.
-Cyprus
-Greece stopover
-Iceland
-Greece
-Macedonia
-Serbia
-Bosnia
-Croatia
-Hungary
-Romania
-Bulgaria
-Turkeyrofl. Oh god it's just too easy to even bother, just lol zeph.
Or I can go drink with basically just the same bros from around here, except they say "mate".
oh so you haven't met the natives then? Haha.
Which sounds better to you lol.
really?
Southern Europe versus Australia hahahaha.
Bet they don't have Commanderia in "oz".south Europe, haha please don't say that's your trump card. An ear of the map that is rapidly being engulfed in debt, rioting and absolutely zero opportunities for the current and next three generations. It's like pitting Chernobyl off against Dubai. XD
The locals call you guys "Billies" lol.
ouch, I can feel the burn.
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how did you get from what I wrote to this? And what on earth does Greece know about fun?? Lol it's not even debatable. Sorry chrissie but you folks don't know how to party anymore…..once a long time ago, but now it's kind of just died with no hopes of being infamous.
Just shut up, Smudger. This is embarrassing to read.
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Oh Lord Smudgie! This must be the most ignorant post of yours yet!
how did you get from what I wrote to this? And what on earth does Greece know about fun?? Lol it's not even debatable. Sorry chrissie but you folks don't know how to party anymore…..once a long time ago, but now it's kind of just died with no hopes of being infamous.
You gotta be fucking kidding me! Ahahahaa~! First of all, get your facts straight already: I am from Cyprus, not Greece. We still set fire on huge piles of wood to burn Judas in Easter, we still throw enormous wedding parties with thousand of guests and break plates, we still shoot in the sky to welcome the new year, we still have huge rave parties by the beach and so on and so forth. Cyprus' night life, and especially in Limassol is as vibrant and colorful as ever~ And nothing you can say about your idea of partying can change that. Hell my preschoolers have more partying than you do daily.
And in regards to Greece, you are only describing Athens which is pretty much filled with immigrants and angry and sad city people. In the rest of the country the people there might be poor and tired, but they enjoy their life like always. GOOD drinks (not just good ol' wine), GOOD music, GOOD friends and above all: tight family bonds. They still enjoy their life and even with this shit going on in their country, they still laugh and make jokes about it because Greeks are people with strong spirits and good humor. This will in fact not break them or their ancient roots. If you think this bad economical situation even COMPARES to 400 years of slavery under the Ottomans, you are insane O:
this is what it was solely about. Ie bull balls aren't extreme this side of the planet. Like fuck we are surrounded by Asian countries that eat insects and monkey brains, it's rubbed off on us. It's not even debatable.
Have YOU eaten anything like that tho? You keep saying things about what others do and accusing Zeph of being boring, but… you haven't exactly dared to eat anything exciting yourself yes? Even if just 'boring bull balls'. And insects aren't all that extreme really. Or monkey brains. People eat what they find in their countries and that's that!
and yet you haven't really mentioned anything exciting about it. The best thing CYPRUS has is chrissie. The rest of it is some overrun tourist resort that has nothing left to offer. Australia hasn't even begun to tap into its brilliance. But fuck I don't even know why you would try this when australia is hundreds of times bigger. Seriously just step back a second and absorb the enormity of this country, and the massive contrast each corner of its compass spews.
Overrun tourist resort? You gotta be kidding me. Cyprus is not a tourist resort. That might go for Pafos which is a tourist town but the rest are lively all through the years. We have more history than all the countries the tourists come from have, COMBINED. The tourists are just visitors with money for us. They add nothing else but cash in our pockets. Also, the towns keep evolving and growing. Limassol's new marina will be an extra extended mini town in the sea basically, Larnaca's night life is flourishing and Nicosia keeps changing. And like hell we have nothing to offer. Like I said natural gas all around the island as well as oil and we have offers from countries right and left about getting some already. And when those run out? We have Sun all throughout the year. We only have to start using solar power and we are ok! :3 No sudden rains in the Summer or hails or snow. Perfect weather pretty much. And in the midst of that? Random ruins all over the country. Hundreds of cafeterias built around them and we don't even bat an eyelash while the foreigners stand and gape.
Also if Cyprus was just a tourist resort, Brits and Russians wouldn't be still flocking like crazy over here, buying houses right and left. Hell one recently approached my brother and asked him if he could rent his house for 3000 euro per month if not buy it. Got rejected of course. The Russian lady who is employing me? In the span of 4 months she bought 2 more houses and 2 apartments. Cyprus is tiny yes, but STILL has more life in it than you think. Life that will still carry on the traditions and culture of the island, immigrant numbers exceeding the natives' or not.
rofl. Oh god it's just too easy to even bother, just lol zeph.
south Europe, haha please don't say that's your trump card. An ear of the map that is rapidly being engulfed in debt, rioting and absolutely zero opportunities for the current and next three generations. It's like pitting Chernobyl off against Dubai. XD
So you have taken just your money and your passport and went country jumping through out Europe's most crazy and dangerous countries? Because that's what he was saying we are gonna do. We are not planning to live there. We are planning to go around and EXPERIENCE ourselves the reality and the people of each country. Not just group them together with ugly generalized characteristics like you are doing right now. So what if they are poor countries? That ain't their culture or how their people are. It's going to be an adventure and I can tell you right now that no bar-hopping can compare to this country-hopping we are gonna do. And that's more eye-opening and enriching than moving away to live in a town of an enormous country will ever be. A country which at a point we will visit too and ALL of it, because we said it from the beginning to each other: We are children of this world and we will experience most of it one piece at the time. I personally find sticking to one country alone, while not necessary bad, way less adventurous and interesting than going all over the world to study the different lives people are leading. Hear their songs, their stories, their language and witness their joy and sadness and whatever else there is to witness. I want to see all I can see in this short life and accusing of someone of being boring for wanting that, is kind of… close-minded and obnoxious.
So really I dunno whose views are more sheltered over here....Btw he was talking about the wine quality? What does the debt have to do with awesome booze? :U
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I hope you mean this literally and that Foggy counts as your casa.
sure but you can't leave with her!
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You guys and your nationalistic pride.
Can't we all just agree that Italy is the best food and wine country and shake on it
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@wolfwoof:
You guys and your nationalistic pride.
Can't we all just agree that Italy is the best food and wine country and shake on it
But I don't tell lies~ :) Besides… most of our foods are common with Italian foods. :U
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@wolfwoof:
You guys and your nationalistic pride.
Can't we all just agree that Italy is the best food and wine country and shake on it
Slovenian wine is better.
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in no dimension is matt Damon ammunition. Fuck if anything you dug your own grave.
Ain't a straight woman alive gonna read this and be like "yes, this reflects the reality of the world".
Ben Affleck for his part is on the road to some Oscars for Argo heh.But yeah, the whole college thing you folks have is….erm...lol it's yours and you can have it. How you even developed that I will never know.
We were talking about it, more of a drinking taboo in the states than in Europe. So kids when they get to school go crazy with it. Basically drinking behind peoples (the law, parents) backs is the first time for most Americans. Rather than the casual family affair it is for most of Euros.
Nobody beats Russia on drinking problems though, those dudes have a lower life expectancy than China and almost as bad as India. Drinking their livers out of their bodies up there.how did you get from what I wrote to this? And what on earth does Greece know about fun??
Dimension X: Matt Damon is pathetic!!! Greeks are glum and boring people, unlike the English!!! The sky is green!!!
Lol it's not even debatable. Sorry chrissie but you folks don't know how to party anymore…..once a long time ago, but now it's kind of just died with no hopes of being infamous.
Uhh, Smudge here's an easy test. I'm gonna ignore the social "atmosphere" of my Anglo kin fer a moment. Please tell us what your family did for New Years lol.
this is what it was solely about. Ie bull balls aren't extreme this side of the planet. Like fuck we are surrounded by Asian countries that eat insects and monkey brains, it's rubbed off on us. It's not even debatable.
Tsk tsk, you were outmaneuvered already here Smudge (yer fuckin with a chessmaster kid! Don't forget!).
See, I have a friend from Singapore I roomed with at college. The dude had stories to tell about foods lemme tell ya, but he dropped respect for the Balls.Also you can find chocolate covered insects in any random candy store in the US lol. It's the kind of gift you have weird cousins bringing over to show off. And if you're talking about immigrants to Australia? No count lol, need I remind you what I can do with a drive down the I-95? Name some Southeast Asian cuisine, and I'll find it in The City. But see that's not Australian food any more than it's NYC food, is it now.
no the difference is we actually have influence outside of the country that doesn't revolves solely from immigrants. Look at the location and tell me how you come close to the various influences we have. The US is getting pretty stagnant. Just be glad you have South America to carry you.
Who, Australia? lol
Pretty much zero international influence. Mostly just whining about immigrants coming over on boats, and some involvement in East Timor UN peacekeeping, which a bunch of countries did. Singapore for instance.
I mean jeez, you guys have less people than Canada. Wow.and yet you haven't really mentioned anything exciting about it.
You missed the post I made when I got back lol.
The best thing cypress has is chrissie.
Yes and?
The rest of it is some overrun tourist resort that has nothing left to offer.
The drunk British people do not go into the mountains lol. They stay on the shore. Cyprus's treasures that beat the snot out of "Oz" are up in the hills.
You all get expensive drinks and souvenirs, but me I had the backstage pass to the real gold.
They're squeezing your Billy pockets lol.Australia hasn't even begun to tap into its brilliance.
Australia is a big ponzi scheme for people who don't study geography and think "Whoooaa braw, look how big it is! Shawwww, potential brooo!".
And then they look at a map and
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/6oEq-BxqmXIUTSjibT2Us1TuApOcTyPGo_Yrqqlk7nvHuAn5EVvTCqqG7LZxKhIZWYPQe6YPiw8Lyi9NDhhxkfDiXs_8tVS_Jih73ITPxzz5S3Yau-w
Which means
http://www.mapsofworld.com/australia/maps/australia-population-density-map.jpgBut fuck I don't even know why you would try this when australia is hundreds of times bigger.
lol, if I took all of the midwestern US states. Let's say…Oklahoma, Kansas, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana and Missouri. And compared them to Cyprus, and expressed something like "It's hundreds of times bigger!! So much cooler!!"
Not a soul wouldn't laugh at me, and oh so rightully.Seriously just step back a second and absorb the enormity of this country, and the massive contrast each corner of its compass spews.
lives in much bigger country with very similar history
loloh so you haven't met the natives then? Haha.
Smudge, I'm from the US. We also have the sad poor (sometimes rich) remanents of a native population. This is not exotic or interesting to me in the slightest.
really?
Yes really. I mean past a point here it's like you don't even see what's getting compared.
There's some people who would travel the world to party. Those people are these people.
That's not even on the level of "Fat Tourist in Hawaiian Shirt Snapping Photo of Eeifel Tower". It's the lowest rung of traveling.
Nowhere goddamn near adventures, really getting out there.
There's whole other levels of life and travel.south Europe, haha please don't say that's your trump card. An ear of the map that is rapidly being engulfed in debt, rioting and absolutely zero opportunities for the current and next three generations. It's like pitting Chernobyl off against Dubai. XD
South Europe has endured dictatorship, Ottomans, spanish influenza, Barbary pirates, Persian invasions, Roman conquest, and Nazis.
And at no point during this history has it not been the best place on earth for RED WINE lol.Also I have read about Queensland Smudge, I know about that circus. Shit sounds worse than Mississippi lol.
ouch, I can feel the burn.
Recall these people bombed you guys into your eighteenth surrender of last centruy of colonial territory lol.
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It takes only seven Connecticut's to basically equal Australia's population!
Wow!Funner fact: India adds Australia's population each year.
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New York state is nearly the same population as Australia lol.
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Did Smudger just insinuate that Australia is superior to all of Southern Europe?
And what on earth does Greece know about fun??
Wut.
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I'm sure Australia is lovely. But i can't really peg any aussie delicacies.
What are the must eat things if you visit down under?
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@wolfwoof:
I'm sure Australia is lovely. But i can't really peg any aussie delicacies.
What are the must eat things if you visit down under?
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I like watching Poirot on Saturdays.
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Kangaroo barbecues
My podcast cohost is Australian and she keeps saying she'll treat me toa "kanga banga" lol
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@wolfwoof:
You guys and your nationalistic pride.
Can't we all just agree that Italy is the best food and wine country and shake on it
italy is pretty cool, but for me it's not about the country so much as it is the people. They know how to party.
Almost like a European version of brazil.
Empty your inbox parrot.
silly inbox.
Did Smudger just insinuate that Australia is superior to all of Southern Europe?
Wut.
any country I'm in is superior to Europe. Simply because I'm in it :P
@wolfwoof:
I'm sure Australia is lovely. But i can't really peg any aussie delicacies.
What are the must eat things if you visit down under?
well you have two sides of this, either you go full aboriginal and eat bugs and endangered animals, or you try some modern dishes which usually involve several tasty species of fish. Remember it's a relatively new country so it's pretty much taken a bit from everyone with not much room for originality outside the use of cooking using animals native only to oz.
Kangaroo barbecues
My podcast cohost is Australian and she keeps saying she'll treat me toa "kanga banga" lol
nah kangaroo is pretty bad on the BBQ, you need to slow cook it to keep it tender and juicy. But yeah it's insanely tasty if done right.
In fact I'm on a bit of a mission to try and eat all the strangest things this country has to offer. Next on my list is crocodile, and not just in a restaurant, I mean catch, kill and cut up into fillets. I'm kind of hoping it'll work well in one of my currys dishes. Hell even thought about using it in an English dish. Eg shepherds pie.
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holy shit how is this nationalistic banter still going on 1.5 years later
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holy shit how is this nationalistic banter still going on 1.5 years later
the world is so c4rrupt…
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To consider otherwise is to stick a pair of socks between your ears, mud in your eyes, and bury your head in the sand.
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i think england is better we have good books and we created you
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stick a pair of socks between your ears, mud in your eyes, and bury your head in the sand.
That sounds awfully painful
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i think england is better we have good books and we created you
All your good books were written forever ago, and the only sense that you created us was screwing up and pissing off the colonists to kick you out, and whose descendents only make up about a tenth of the population these days and shrinking.
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i think england is better we have good books and we created you
now I know what the opposite to burnsauce is.
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@Monkey:
All your good books were written forever ago, and the only sense that you created us was screwing up and pissing off the colonists to kick you out, and whose descendents only make up about a tenth of the population these days and shrinking.
New England
New England
New England
New England
New England
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You guys are making me seriously depressed that I've been stuck in the same damn spot my whole life.
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Unfortunately for you I'm a New Englander lol, born and raised.
New Ireland, New Italy, New Puerto Rico even (and in parts New Portugal or New Hispaniola). But the English up here are only out in the north woods, or in manors hidden away, or mixed in with the rest of the melting pot, as is my own background. I'm half English, but my last name's the Italian one, and my children are going to be swirled in even more with some Greek Cypriot, bring that English-Colonist blood down to a quarter.
Imagine my kids will bring home some Hispanic hunk or latina and mix it even more up lol. Haha, "English".Otherwise all the England we have still floating around is little stone farm walls, town greens, and the town names. Like a graveyard to your deadness lol. Just memories. Like the Celtic and Roman ruins you all stumble over now and again. Lest we forget "Londinium".
Paved over with the bustle of the Northeast Megalopolis and some 150 years of NYC's immigrant ports and northward African migration.Also you're going to need to edit the blue out of that flag soon champ.
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You guys are making me seriously depressed that I've been stuck in the same damn spot my whole life.
Come to Hong Kong!
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@Monkey:
All your good books were written forever ago, and the only sense that you created us was screwing up and pissing off the colonists to kick you out, and whose descendents only make up about a tenth of the population these days and shrinking.
uh hello Hitchhiker's, Harry Potter, Discworld
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@Monkey:
Unfortunately for you I'm a New Englander lol, born and raised.
New Ireland, New Italy, New Puerto Rico even (and in parts New Portugal or New Hispaniola). But the English up here are only out in the north woods, or in manors hidden away, or mixed in with the rest of the melting pot, as is my own background. I'm half English, but my last name's the Italian one, and my children are going to be swirled in even more with some Greek Cypriot, bring that English-Colonist blood down to a quarter.
Imagine my kids will bring home some Hispanic hunk or latina and mix it even more up lol. Haha, "English".Otherwise all the England we have still floating around is little stone farm walls, town greens, and the town names. Like a graveyard to your deadness lol. Just memories. Like the Celtic and Roman ruins you all stumble over now and again. Lest we forget "Londinium".
Paved over with the bustle of the Northeast Megalopolis and some 150 years of NYC's immigrant ports and northward African migration.oh no how will i sleep at night without knowing that British culture is still the dominant force in the world shit is this 1950 or what. Gotta keep hold of our colonies!
Oh wait I don't care, Post-Nationalism baby yeah!
Also you're going to need to edit the blue out of that flag soon champ.
All the latest polls show the majority of Scottish people want to stay in. Alex Salmond is a very divisive figure over there with many seeing him as dangerous for the country's future.
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oh no how will i sleep at night without knowing that British culture is still the dominant force in the world shit is this 1950 or what. Gotta keep hold of our colonies!
British culture? Dominant? hahahaha, no seriously you don't really think that's true right? I was IN one of your former colonies, like until 1960 we're talking, and American culture was still more prevalent.
Oh wait I don't care, Post-Nationalism baby yeah!
Being Post-National actually has a pretty serious meaning behind it. And the UK is struggling with it lol.
All the latest polls show the majority of Scottish people want to stay in. Alex Salmond is a very divisive figure over there with many seeing him as dangerous for the country's future.
The campaigning start yet? No it hasn't.
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@Monkey:
British culture? Dominant? hahahaha, no seriously you don't really think that's true right? I was IN one of your former colonies, like until 1960 we're talking, and American culture was still more prevalent.
I don't think it was dominant in 1950 lol but I do think there was a very real feeling in 1950s Britain that we losing our influence on the world and it worried a lot of middle age housewives and such. The Suez Crisis and what felt like our impotence in the growing "threat" from the USSR exemplified this. Was more a social commentary than a historically accurate one.
Also I'm impressed you were alive in one of our 60s colonies and can tell us about how american culture was more prevalent lol.
Being Post-National actually has a pretty serious meaning behind it. And the UK is struggling with it lol.
I'm not 12 lol. These are my personal views I don't claim to speak for the UK (and they're more ideological the whole is more than the sum of its parts type thing than a realist perspective I acknowledge the EU is an overly bureaucratic, inefficient mess of corruption at the moment).
The campaigning start yet? No it hasn't.
Oh however will those Celtic barbarians fend for themselves?campaigns can go both ways though and they have a 20 percent opinion poll deficit to surmount.
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Also I'm impressed you were alive in one of our 60s colonies and can tell us about how american culture was more prevalent lol.
It's pretty easy to be alive in one of your 60's colonies, less easy to be there in the 60's.
I'm not 12 lol. These are my personal views I don't claim to speak for the UK (and they're more ideological the whole is more than the sum of its parts type thing than a realist perspective I acknowledge the EU is an overly bureaucratic, inefficient mess of corruption at the moment).
Nothing to do with the EU, lots to do with UK's baby steps on being Post-National with the immigrant stuff.
campaigns can go both ways though and they have a 20 percent opinion poll deficit to surmount.
Last I heard it was only hard independence that was lagging with the lull in the news cycle since earlier, and that hell of autonomy from Angleland was still popular. Kind of a thin line there.
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Just come to Finland, everyone.
It's expensive, the language is a pain, the people are awkward, the landscapes are nothing spectacular and none of the national dishes have anything to brag about.
But still.
