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IamQ

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The people in Sweden that don't have any jobs and live on welfare are still ranked in the top #3 in the world when it comes to living conditions.
 

DRSH1989

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It's one of the most corrupted countries on the planet. Corrupt politicians, corrupt policemen, bribes, back stabbing politics, politicians meddling in the economy for personal gain, et cetera.
 

Adrian Madhog

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SaltyOrange said:
My country has the biggest neck-tie...Yes,we're that boring.

Adrian Madhog said:
Italy is run by Mafia, television and corrupted politicians who fancy their vices in front of everyone... and get elected four times. Let me stop at that. Oh, and our culture is dead.
It's not all that bad,you have excellent sky slopes,fast cars and gorgeous ladies :)
... really? It's that what they have been telling you? Tourist crap? Airlines don't work (as well as everything else), we have more foreign cars than "homemade" ones (btw, gasoline is the most expensive here) and as for the "gorgeous ladies"... well, they are basically television strip-dancers for horribly retarded variety shows... and they all must have sex with someone important by law. And we're also the most backwater country in Europe, thanks to the Church, government-owned TV and left wing extremists being so darn popular... helluva place for immigrants, indeed.
So, it sucks.
 

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artanis_neravar said:
Furious Styles said:
I come from the UK, the land of weird idiosyncrasies

We are one of only three countries to have an uncodified constitution.

Can anyone name the other two?
Izreal and New Zealand!
[sub]note i did not look that up -_-[/sub]
Yeah, us Kiwis just have a poorly translated document which everyone disagrees about and that's the closest we've got to a constitution.
We also have a habit of inventing things and not recording it or saying anything until someone overseas invents something similar and then we cry out "Hey! We invented that first!"
 

Kegsen

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As a nation proud of their skijumpers and downhill-skiers, it was only logical that Norway actually outlawed skateboards (the ban was lifted in `89) due to fear of injuries.
 

SaltyOrange

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Adrian Madhog said:
SaltyOrange said:
My country has the biggest neck-tie...Yes,we're that boring.

Adrian Madhog said:
Italy is run by Mafia, television and corrupted politicians who fancy their vices in front of everyone... and get elected four times. Let me stop at that. Oh, and our culture is dead.
It's not all that bad,you have excellent sky slopes,fast cars and gorgeous ladies :)
... really? It's that what they have been telling you? Tourist crap? Airlines don't work (as well as everything else), we have more foreign cars than "homemade" ones (btw, gasoline is the most expensive here) and as for the "gorgeous ladies"... well, they are basically television strip-dancers for horribly retarded variety shows... and they all must have sex with someone important by law. And we're also the most backwater country in Europe, thanks to the Church, government-owned TV and left wing extremists being so darn popular... helluva place for immigrants, indeed.
So, it sucks.
They haven't been telling me nothing,I've been to Italy a lot of times myself and the sky slopes are really well maintained.The cars I'm talking about are the really expensive ones mostly made for export.The girls can't all be strip-dancers,that's just generalization on your part.
 

Rafael Dera

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Furious Styles said:
I come from the UK, the land of weird idiosyncrasies

We are one of only three countries to have an uncodified constitution.

Can anyone name the other two?
Israel and New zealand?

OT: I'm from Belgium. We haven't had a federal government for about a year now. This is some kind of record, apparently. It's no big deal, because we still have about 5 governments left.
 

matt_newgrove

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Our constitution states that we do, in fact, have two native languages, finnish and swedish. It also states that you ought to recieve service in the one that's listed as your mother tounge.
Problem is, you're bound to get yourself a beatdown if you speak swedish in certain areas... Go Finland!
 

Forlorn Guardian

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Despite being a large part of Scottish national identity, neither kilts nor bagpipes were actually invented in Scotland.

Kilts are usually credited as an Irish invention, and bagpipes are recorded as being used by the pre-Roman Persians, nearly 1,000 years before their adoption by the Scots.
 

Agayek

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The United States is the world's largest exporter of pornographic material.
 

Bre2nan

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Plenty has already been said about the US, so I'll narrow it down to my home state:

OREGON!!! The filler state in between Washington and California, the place where most of our country's wood comes from, and the state with the most mispronounced name of them all (It's not Ore-GONE, people, it's Ore-GIN!!!)
 

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IsraelRocks said:
Crazycat690 said:
Finland, first female president :) I think... we also were one of the first countries to give women the right to vote, second to New Zealand I believe. Also, when Finland became a independent country we were going to be a monarch, and make some prince from Germany our first king, but since they were blamded for WW1 we instead chose a president.
I'm going to assume that the president in Finland is the executive branch, so by that comparison Israel had a female PM( Israel's executive branch) in the early 70's
Right o_O well I wasn't sure so thanks for the correction, but the other stuff is still fairly accurate I think =)
 

Archemetis

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Y'know that whole 'America invented Baseball' thing?

Yeah, turns out, it was really England. Who knew?
 

Meight08

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The most important thing the Netherlands have done is make the killzone series
And the ps3 wont sell here
Yay for ex-patriotism!
 

theravensclaw

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I'm from australia. we have a creature named dropbears that kill so many people each week the government has covered it up, but australians know.


Also we arent allowed to have an 18+ rating on videogames so we get crappy watered down games here
 

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INeedAName said:
In Sweden the selling of sexual services is allowed, but the purchase of said services is illegal.

True story.
In the netherlands you may download but not upload pirated games and you may buy/sell softdrugs but not make/import them
 

Matt-Sama

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The rulers of my country are so fixed on multiculturalism and giving foreigners extras when they come here because they have an 'empire guilt' for ruling half the world at one point.

UK, hate or love it.