USA vs Europe
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Rabid Headbanger
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Mathiäs;6625004 said:
The internet is serious business.
If you laugh, then you're one sick fuck.
Matt
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Face it, attention whore: Your entire existence is based upon seeing that smiley emotion in response to a post you so cleverly devised.
Rabid Headbanger
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Mathiäs;6625016 said:
Minus the food and water consumption, social interaction, motivation for monetary advacement, sexual desires, ethics, heavy metal, desire to learn and enjoying laughing, not to mention day to day tasks, you pretty much nailed it.
Good job.
Matt
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You spend so much time on here it's hard to believe that you really do anything else besides eat. And jack off.
Rabid Headbanger
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Mathiäs;6625040 said:
You caught me.
I really sit in the basement jerking off and downloading anime porn while updating my myspace.
J.
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this thread has reached a new level of dumb.
i enjoyed blades of glory and felt pretty stupid for being entertained by schlock like that. but man, you folks with your "american culture sucks" and calling the usa a continent, as well as comparing an entire continent to one damn country have given me new perspective.
i am a genius.
i enjoyed blades of glory and felt pretty stupid for being entertained by schlock like that. but man, you folks with your "american culture sucks" and calling the usa a continent, as well as comparing an entire continent to one damn country have given me new perspective.
i am a genius.
Vilden
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Ok, on the public transport thing I know I'm a few pages late but anyway: I have not been to the US myself but from what I have heard that is one of the things that the US is lacking. In europe (atleast in Sweden) you can get anywhere you want without a car. Alot of people doesn't even get a drivers licence because it's not really needed, and if they do they often get it when they are 25 or so. In the US the car seems to be alot more needed and the transportation system is more based around that you own one. The good thing is though that you don't have ultra high taxes on gas so you CAN take the car everywhere. 
This is 100% based on what I've heard so point out if I'm wrong.
This is 100% based on what I've heard so point out if I'm wrong.
About the car and public transport, I think that America's road layout, although being less "artistic", is far more practical for a modern world. I Europe it's impossible to move around in a car, all the roads are eternally clogged and the price of the gas is mindboggling. Thumbs up for america on that one really :/
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Ok, on the public transport thing I know I'm a few pages late but anyway: I have not been to the US myself but from what I have heard that is one of the things that the US is lacking. In europe (atleast in Sweden) you can get anywhere you want without a car. Alot of people doesn't even get a drivers licence because it's not really needed, and if they do they often get it when they are 25 or so. In the US the car seems to be alot more needed and the transportation system is more based around that you own one. The good thing is though that you don't have ultra high taxes on gas so you CAN take the car everywhere.
This is 100% based on what I've heard so point out if I'm wrong.
Yeah, following WW2 the automotive industry began to have greater influence in the government, so ever since then everything has been designe to favor the car. It's crazy when you think of how huge a factors cars are in our way of life.
Thoth-Amon
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there are good and bad things about both the usa and europe. obviously not having lived in the later i can't speak from experience as i've only visited europe. i find europe to be much more interesting at least from a cultural/historical/visual aspect and they seem to be generally more sensible when it comes to politics and religion (or at least more aware when it comes to politics). i wouldn't mind living in europe but probably not permanently.... germany would be nice.
cookiecutter
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Also, in terms of scale, it is much harder to produce a mass transit system that can take you anywhere you want to go in America. Even a large European state like Germany is only the size of Montana.
Thoth-Amon
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That's not really accurate. Europe has a very difficult orography, there's damn mountains everywhere and building tracks is much more costly due to the immense amount of engineering there has to be. Tons of bridges and tunnels everywhere that inflate the building costs enormously.
By the other hand, America is generally flat, so the only thing that could burst the costs i the sheer amount of track you have to lie down, and of course, all the gas or electricity for the choo choo trains.
Thoth-Amon
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In the northern parts of Europa, especially, road and railroads are a financial nightmare, as water sinks into the earth, freezes and expands, then melts and contracts. To circumvent this, engineers have to build like a dozen different layers of all sort of crap, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per meter. This is of course also true in every country that physical laws applies to, including the US I hope, so not sure how relevant it is.
ThisIsACoolName
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The middle part of it is pretty flat, yes, but to say that the country as a whole is "generally flat" would be pretty innaccurate.
Zephyrus
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