Who is the most nationalistic group on the Forums?

[skallben]

Well, I don't know if this guy was aware, but it's generally accepted- outside of the US- that Americans are the loudest people on the planet...

Yeah you can hear that "Ooh my gooood!" from a mile away

On a serious note though, my friend from Massachusets is like 40 yrs and he is allways the loudest person on the bus!

 

[JZ_UK]

So that doesn't surprise me at all. We're the scapegoat of Europe, but at least we have a good laugh from it.

Be fair though... if you were to ask, of all the countries in Europe (apart from Belarus, which we don't like to talk about...) in which are you most likely to see an animal pulling a car instead of an engine... you'd probably hear a Balkan country!

 

[Mirc]

Be fair though... if you were to ask, of all the countries in Europe (apart from Belarus, which we don't like to talk about...) in which are you most likely to see an animal pulling a car instead of an engine... you'd probably hear a Balkan country!

You are more likely to see an animal pulling a vehicle (not a car...) in a country that is poor. It is not that the Balkans are predisposed to this kind of transport, or that it is part of the Balkanic culture (if there is such a thing, considering how incredibly varied the peninsula is - home of 11 different languages and ethnic groups), but the countries with a less developed economy. Basically, you will see more animal-powered vehicles because most of the rest of Europe is better developed - and it is very debatable whether it is the fault of the Balkans that they are less developed, or if it is due to foreign factors (recent communism, recent Ottoman domination in southern Balkans, etc).

 

[jeps]

Belarus? What Belarus. They are still the USSR. Proof=the still have the KGB

 

[George2816]

Belarus? What Belarus. They are still the USSR. Proof=the still have the KGB

I meet someone once from belarus he didn't like that country that much. (Of course he was working the USA so i can see why he do like that country!) (He said something about the secert police was everywhere!)

 

[alex sword]

Just an excellent illustration to my previous posts. Viva Afghan democracy!

"Poppy Jihad" CNN report - http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/siu/shows/narco.state/

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"You can try to kill us, but we will still grow poppy," one farmer told CNN.

Afghan poppies, which start as flowers in farmers' fields and often wind up as heroin on U.S. streets, fuel a $3 billion a year industry in Afghanistan. The industry is filling the coffers of the Taliban, the group who gave safe haven to al Qaeda before and after 9/11, and it is destabilizing the Afghan government. Learn how poppies are turned into heroin »

"The Taliban pretty much were ancient history four years ago, and now they are back, because they are deriving money from the drug trade," said Peter Bergen, a CNN terrorism analyst.

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[JZ_UK]

You are more likely to see an animal pulling a vehicle (not a car...) in a country that is poor. It is not that the Balkans are predisposed to this kind of transport, or that it is part of the Balkanic culture (if there is such a thing, considering how incredibly varied the peninsula is - home of 11 different languages and ethnic groups), but the countries with a less developed economy. Basically, you will see more animal-powered vehicles because most of the rest of Europe is better developed - and it is very debatable whether it is the fault of the Balkans that they are less developed, or if it is due to foreign factors (recent communism, recent Ottoman domination in southern Balkans, etc).

Very true, but I would suggest from my blesséd position having grown up under democracy (in so far as the one party dictatorship goes) and raging capitalism, that there is probably a correlation between how carp a place is to live in and how poor it is.

Coincidently, I used the word "car" because I felt it would be more readily understood than "cab" which could be used with engine and animal, and I avoided "cart" which doesn't fit with engine...