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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:18 PM Original message |
The idea that countries like Germany, Britain, France, Sweden etc. are bad places baffles me. |
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Stardust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. It baffles me, too. I've been to each of those countries and we should |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. I'd rather not conflate those two. They're very very different. |
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newfie11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 06:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. I totally totally agree with you. n/t |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. Also, I was researching Greece as a possible relocation country for myself. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 06:34 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. Cleita, you may want to scratch Greece. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. Americans are provincial idiots who will believe pretty much anything you tell them... |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. I don't know about us being especially idiotic, |
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Ishoutandscream2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. Absolutely brilliant! |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
5. Mmmm. Somebody seems to agree with the aforementioned idiocy |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. I've run into many people that thinks Europe is "socially degenerate" and similar garbage. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Ah, like what the Nazis thought of New Deal USA, huh? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 06:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Good point. |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 06:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. yup -- i've encountered that several times as well |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:20 AM Response to Reply #18 |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 02:54 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Completely missing the point. |
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mikeSchmuckabee (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
10. I find that most people who espouse these beliefs |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. To be fair, |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Thank you.....I hate it when we give ourselves blanket putdowns |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. I had French people tell me how bad socialized medicine is in that country... |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
12. It has been forty years since I was in Germany |
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era veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 10:42 AM Response to Reply #12 |
29. Thats funny, 44 years since Augusta, Army Brat, and 34 years since I lived in |
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MindandSoul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
13. I love it! Through its humor, it does make a strong point: |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
19. Funny, I'm thinking of going to grad school over there. |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
20. i prefer the way We are to the way THEY are |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-25-10 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
21. Where does this come from? |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
22. These countries have good and bad. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 07:12 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. True. There is no utopia. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
28. We could learn a lot from those countries, and others. |
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