Is America the greatest country in the world?

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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,410
    YaY number 17!!


  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    edited February 2019
    Bentleyspop said:
    YaY number 17!!


    Commie Canada #1?  gotta question that.

    /s

    Get that wall built Canada
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Bentleyspop said:
    YaY number 17!!



    Canada number 1? Wow.

    Kinda cool I guess, but we have many things we really need to improve upon. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Meltdown99 said:
    brianlux said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    brianlux said:
    lastexitlondon said:
    Lots of fat people in the NHS staff here
     We were giving blood and the woman taking it must have been 20 stone or more. Could barely walk. Not right
    NHS- is that a hospital?

    National Health Service

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service

    It the UK's health system.  I have sympathy for people who are overweight.  It's becoming a problem in Canada as well.  We are leading a more sedentary lifestyle than ever before...
    Sedentary is part of it for sure, but diet is major.  Way to much sugar, especially corn syrup*, way too much bread, way to much grease, and way to much meat from animals injected with hormones, thus the advent of the 7 foot Chinese basketball player  (growth hormones finding their way through the food chain). 

    * Here's how f'd up corn syrup is:



    I can not argue with any of that.  If you get a chance google Canada's new food guide, let me know what you think.  I think you might like it.
    I like it.  Very sensible!
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  • brianlux
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    Bentleyspop said:
    YaY number 17!!


    And the mystery  number 11 is...  (drum roll)...  _______________________________ (fill in blank).
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    Belgium?


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    lastexitlondon said:
    Belgium?
    Quite possibly. 

    Italy, maybe?

    Wait, I got it.  Fiji!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    It would seem if your country places anywhere in the top 17, then that's not too shabby.  All countries can improve.  I would never place Canada above Switzerland or Norway...

    But I never place in value in a list like this, visit our first nation reserves, downtowns of larges cities, small-town Ontario where people struggle daily...
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    The problem with the World Index is that it doesn't take into account that there really are no countries, there are only bio-regions, and all of the bio-regions are interrelated as a part of the whole, planet Earth.  On a list of our cosmological local planets, planet Earth ranks #1 as best planet to live on.  Yet we trash it and drive it to becoming inhospitable to human life.  We are a very strange species.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    brianlux said:
    The problem with the World Index is that it doesn't take into account that there really are no countries, there are only bio-regions, and all of the bio-regions are interrelated as a part of the whole, planet Earth.  On a list of our cosmological local planets, planet Earth ranks #1 as best planet to live on.  Yet we trash it and drive it to becoming inhospitable to human life.  We are a very strange species.
    I am in no way knocking Canada.  I know I live in a good country.  I know you may not believe it right now, but you live in a good country as well.  All Countries can improve, just as people can improve... these lists really mean nothing to me though.  I pointed out a couple of problems that need addressing, also these problems can sometimes only been seen from the inside of our borders.  Other than France and Japan, I could live in the rest of the top 17, easily...but my preference is Switzerland, then Norway.  Sorry SC, Maybe Sweden 3.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    brianlux said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    YaY number 17!!


    And the mystery  number 11 is...  (drum roll)...  _______________________________ (fill in blank).
    Unsungistan?
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    brianlux said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    YaY number 17!!


    And the mystery  number 11 is...  (drum roll)...  _______________________________ (fill in blank).
    Unsungistan?
    An interesting libertarianopolis it is, but not what one would normally call a country. And not seen around these parts lately.

     

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    -Roberto Benigni

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,470
    edited February 2019
    Why isn't the US on top of the "least corrupt countries list" ? I thought it was THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ?




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    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,410
       
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Why isn't the US on top of the "least corrupt countries list" ? I thought it was THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ?




    Corruption is the driving force for what some see as greatness.  I think this can be said to be true for all empires throughout history.  I can't even remotely think of an empire in any period of history that wasn't driven by (and eventually brought down by) corruption.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,667
    edited February 2019
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    YaY number 17!!



    Canada number 1? Wow.

    Kinda cool I guess, but we have many things we really need to improve upon. 
    Yes, this tells us that ALL countries have things that need improvement. No such thing as a perfect country obviously, and there is always room for improvement. It also tells me that a lot of Canadians need to get a grip and consider their lives in more relative terms, rather than expecting utopia and for everything to work exactly as they personally want it to, and then feeling angry when their expectations aren't reality. I think it's better to appreciate things in relative terms, while at the same time always thinking about how things could be even better.
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,667
    edited February 2019
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Why isn't the US on top of the "least corrupt countries list" ? I thought it was THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ?




    I'm actually surprised that the USA is this high on the list TBH. But good for it? It makes me sad that the world is so fucking corrupt.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,470

    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,834
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    Oh yea? Oh yea? We have better dentists! 
    hippiemom = goodness
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    cincybearcat said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    Oh yea? Oh yea? We have better dentists! 
    even your ketchup bottle is fatter. LOL
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