Our Romantic View Of Countries: Clearing Up The Confusion

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sugar daddy said:
I'm from the UK and imho it's rubbish.

lots of restrictions on what you can get and do and the weathers mostly crap.

Add in to that crappy jobs that are hard to get and land/property prices only the already wealthy can consider and you have a very dissatisfied population imho.

Yeah, it's not all "Downton Abbey" or "Miss Marple", is it?

although we do have good human rights and nobody is really that poor so it swings and roundabouts!

:): Also a lot of surveillance, security bollox, and cover-ups....

I can't think of anywhere else I'd actually prefer to live though. Just possibly Germany or France, which both have a lot going for them in different ways, while not being quite perfect.
 

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sugar daddy said:
I'm from the UK and imho it's rubbish.

lots of restrictions on what you can get and do and the weathers mostly crap.

Add in to that crappy jobs that are hard to get and land/property prices only the already wealthy can consider and you have a very dissatisfied population imho.

although we do have good human rights and nobody is really that poor so it swings and roundabouts!

Hanging in a quiet desperation?

No, we got rid of hanging in the 1960s... :):
Some people would like to bring it back, of course.
I wouldn't, except for, say, once a year, and hang one politician "pour encourager les autres".
(Could possibly add one mainstream doctor to that... :): ).
 
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montmorency said:
Amazoniac said:
sugar daddy said:
I'm from the UK and imho it's rubbish.

lots of restrictions on what you can get and do and the weathers mostly crap.

Add in to that crappy jobs that are hard to get and land/property prices only the already wealthy can consider and you have a very dissatisfied population imho.

although we do have good human rights and nobody is really that poor so it swings and roundabouts!

Hanging in a quiet desperation?

No, we got rid of hanging in the 1960s... :):
Some people would like to bring it back, of course.
I wouldn't, except for, say, once a year, and hang one politician "pour encourager les autres".
(Could possibly add one mainstream doctor to that... :): ).

What about food quality?
 

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I'm not sure about Australia. What are the typical romantic notions held by foreigners regarding Australia?

I will say our food is superb, especially our lamb and beef and in summer, fruit is various, abundant and ripe.
 

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What about food quality?

In the UK? I'd say not too bad if you have time and money to shop carefully.
Good beef and lamb (the latter surprisingly dear).
(liver is very cheap, but you don't often seem to see beef liver...I use lamb liver, and/or kidney).

We obviously don't have any native tropical fruit, but there is usually a good supply of imported fruit.
Good British cherries around at the moment, plus strawberries and raspberries (but the last two not very Peatish I suppose).

There are quite a few good unpasteurised cheeses, and even unpasteurised butter (from Brittany).
(Recently found a place where you can buy raw milk, as well as raw butter online, delivered by courier in insulated containers; it costs of course; can get it in some farmers markets in London; too far for me realistically; maybe some other places, but not near me; however local farmer's markets do have some nice meat).

Some nice honeys and loads of imported ones. (BTW, is Manouka just an overpriced con or is it worth the extra?).
 

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Some nice honeys and loads of imported ones. (BTW, is Manouka just an overpriced con or is it worth the extra?).

I've not researched this, but my understanding of manuka honey is that it contains small amounts of some antibacterial chemicals (and maybe antifungal), that may be helpful in some situations - possibly against heliobactor pylori if you eat it, and maybe for external wound healing. Don't know if would do anything to candida or not. Apart from this kind of specific use, I have no reason to believe it is nutritionally superior to other honeys, unless you happen to like it better. I think there are certified brands that guarantee a certain level of the active constituent. Other manuka honeys may have had the bees browsing manuka along with other flowers, and be may be less potent. Manuka is is a tea tree relative.

Personally, I have some in my cupboard and eat it occasionally, but I get tired of it if I eat it all the time, so I have other honey too.
 

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tara said:
montmorency said:
Some nice honeys and loads of imported ones. (BTW, is Manouka just an overpriced con or is it worth the extra?).

I've not researched this, but my understanding of manuka honey is that it contains small amounts of some antibacterial chemicals (and maybe antifungal), that may be helpful in some situations - possibly against heliobactor pylori if you eat it, and maybe for external wound healing. Don't know if would do anything to candida or not. Apart from this kind of specific use, I have no reason to believe it is nutritionally superior to other honeys, unless you happen to like it better. I think there are certified brands that guarantee a certain level of the active constituent. Other manuka honeys may have had the bees browsing manuka along with other flowers, and be may be less potent. Manuka is is a tea tree relative.

Personally, I have some in my cupboard and eat it occasionally, but I get tired of it if I eat it all the time, so I have other honey too.

Thanks Tara.
 

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A bit late, but Czech Rep. here.
The bad:
Food quality in supermarkets is like a tip, the stuff that gets rejected by Germany, UK, etc. Forget organic, forget variety.
The good:
Healthcare, we go directly to specialists.
Hubby is English and when we lived in the UK we both had a verruca on our feet. Had to go to a gp who told us to put cello tape over it and by depriving it of oxygen it should then die. Laughable!
In CR you go directly to dermatologist who takes care of it. I also had a birth on NHS in the UK and a birth on Czech national insurance and again giving birth in the UK was like third world country when compared with level of care in the CR. That includes both pregnancy care and postpartum.
Saying all this I'm deeply jealous of UK supermarkets.
 

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There's a trope that what's great about a country is also the thing that sucks.

For example, the great thing about Brazil is they're laid back and ready to party. The thing that sucks about Brazil is it's hard to get anything done, because they're laid back and ready to party.

The thing people like about Denmark is the communitarianism and social equality doesn't let people fall through the cracks. At the same time a number of Danes I've met fled the place and b**** about it because it's hyper conformist and does not treat individualists well.

The great thing about America is it's so easy to make money and buy whatever you want. The thing that sucks is everything is about money.
 

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US. Basically 1984, Chelsea Clinton is condemning hate speech like that's even a crime, i.e. Thoughtcrime, we focus on stuff like microaggression and who can go in whose bathroom. so, preschool.
 

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Canada is not a eutopian USA. Our politicians are just as ****88 and the people aren't any nicer. The weather is and economy are better in USA. I think this is just as much of Canada being overrated as USA being underated (by non americans anyway). But maybe my romanization of other countries distorts my view of Canada. I've only been employed here.

Agreed. With the exception of the province of Quebec (and even then, half of Montreal sounds like the ROC, Rest Of Canada) and the mandatory knee-jerk hockey references, it's Anglo-Saxon influence and American culture all over. Not that surprising considering who's fueling the TV content.
 

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US. Basically 1984, Chelsea Clinton is condemning hate speech like that's even a crime, i.e. Thoughtcrime, we focus on stuff like microaggression and who can go in whose bathroom. so, preschool.

Lol, yeah the MSM sure loves that stuff--but do you?

I don't find the mainstream news or entertainment to be any sort of reflection at all of either myself or my friends. In my particular subculture we could really care less.

Which I think is something misunderstood around the world about Americans: we're not all Fox News, american football, and hotdogs. This country is so big that there is a subculture for every conceivable type of person where they can fit in and thrive. Everyone can find encouragement in something if they try. Yes, our government and news and corporations tends to continually try to squash everything that could be thought of as "classically" American (freedom of speech, individuality, personal responsibility, etc.), but that's no reflection on the people of this country on an individual level, and in fact there's pockets of beautiful, intelligent, courageous, and loving people all over this country quietly doing their own thing to better their lives, their family's lives, and community's lives. You just won't likely hear about any of them in the news.
 
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But there are some things that are common, for example, if you are invited by someone to a dinner, and you enjoyed the meal, it's polite around here to throw the plate in the air and shoot it, and if it ricochets to a glass it means that you'll have a great year ahead. The media shows only the crimes that are commited to people, never to plates, even less to glasses. Regardless of the subculture, we all know that it's part of our etiquette.
Another example is Dopamine, he would be bullied around here because we're just not used to attaching brooms to our helmets, it's not so common; something that's complety acceptable on a daily basis in his beloved Rome..
 

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I've not researched this, but my understanding of manuka honey is that it contains small amounts of some antibacterial chemicals (and maybe antifungal), that may be helpful in some situations - possibly against heliobactor pylori if you eat it, and maybe for external wound healing. Don't know if would do anything to candida or not. Apart from this kind of specific use, I have no reason to believe it is nutritionally superior to other honeys, unless you happen to like it better. I think there are certified brands that guarantee a certain level of the active constituent. Other manuka honeys may have had the bees browsing manuka along with other flowers, and be may be less potent. Manuka is is a tea tree relative.

Personally, I have some in my cupboard and eat it occasionally, but I get tired of it if I eat it all the time, so I have other honey too.
I'm with you here Tara. Manuka tastes good, has a distinct flavor or essence to it, but that's where its superiority ends for me. As long as the honey is real, it is good enough for me. Even better, I rather have local honey. If I can make my own honey in my own backyard, that to me is the best honey. Because the bees make honey from nectar, and the nectar comes from the same flowers where pollen comes from, and because many allergies are associated with pollens, the honey that helps counter these allergies is the honey that came from nectar that is common with the pollen. Manuka honey, since it comes from a far away place, is not as helpful as honey that is local to me.

But as far as fructose content goes, all honey are the same.

Fake honey abounds. I have two ways to test. One is to put the honey in the freezer. If it freezes, it's fake. Or you can dip a matchstick in honey, and try to light the matchstick afterwards. If the matchstick still lights up, the honey is real. If someone has managed to hack fake honey to pass these tests, I'd be happy to know about it.
 

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