Norway is rated the most peaceful country in the world

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:44 pm

Willingness to fight:

Qualitative assessment of the willingness of citizens to fight in wars.

chromaX · Post by **chromaX** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:29 pm

Ok, so no punchy-responsey test. Still a rather elusive point. Willingness is diffuse.

thefool wrote:I mean COME ON they give switcherland (or how the... you spell it) higher rankings in freedom of the press. Thats not normal.. They don't even have what we call free press because of some restrictions on holocaust!

Switzerland, thank you.
Strange conceptions you have on free press though...

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 9:41 pm

YOU have the strange conceptions dude...

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:16 pm

I'm surprised:

United States of America = 96
Iraq = 121

shouldn't that be the other way around considering we created the mess in Iraq...

And no I did not vote for the idiot president that got us into this mess, I voted against him both times. I also voted against his father. They're both turds.

Hurga · Post by **Hurga** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:57 am

Yeah, it's official. We won't hurt a fly, we only make bombs and weapons, we don't use 'em Wink

Hm, Seems that they forgot the "Kill wales" - category

(Just joking - i like Norwya very much

)

Character · Post by **Character** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:58 am

Tipperton wrote:I'm surprised:
United States of America = 96
Iraq = 121
shouldn't that be the other way around considering we created the mess in Iraq...

And no I did not vote for the idiot president that got us into this mess, I voted against him both times. I also voted against his father. They're both turds.

I do not agree man.
Without the 'mistake' of Bush, Saddam would still be killing people every single day. Don't forget that.

B.t.w, the Netherlands is NOT peaceful.
We have had a good portion of political murders.
Also, due to the growing number of religious people, the freedom of speech is under pressure here. Not very nice.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:37 pm

Hurga wrote:
Yeah, it's official. We won't hurt a fly, we only make bombs and weapons, we don't use 'em Wink
Hm, Seems that they forgot the "Kill wales" - category

(Just joking - i like Norwya very much )

Killing whales, vikings, bombs, that's just nitpicking

hehehehe

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:01 pm

> Norway is rated the most peaceful country in the world

No wonder - it's so expensive no one can afford to live there! No people = No violence - it's SO simple...

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:49 pm

techjunkie wrote:> Norway is rated the most peaceful country in the world

No wonder - it's so expensive no one can afford to live there! No people = No violence - it's SO simple...

Peh. I enjoy norwegian vacations because its cheaper over there unless you drink

Nobody drinks in norway. Also they have a funny behaviour of putting people to jail if they had 1 beer and go driving (yeah. about 0 promille). Here in denmark its put at 0.5, and you just get a wild ticket if you're over. I know one getting busted at 2.8, driving into a cab that was NOT moving hehe. Of course he is not allowed to drive for 3 years and damn what a ticket.

I'm only in norway doing the winther vacation for skiing though. Now, this summer i'm going on a trip to cuba to relax on top of these examns (with the family..). Can't wait

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:04 pm

First Global Empire in the world...

Just lasted 6 centuries

MUAHAHAHAHAHAH

Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:50 pm

thefool wrote:Peh. I enjoy norwegian vacations because its cheaper over there unless you drink

That's true, but don't forget "smoke"... Ehhh... and "eat"... and "sleep"... and travel...

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:26 pm

techjunkie wrote:
thefool wrote:Peh. I enjoy norwegian vacations because its cheaper over there unless you drink
That's true, but don't forget "smoke"... Ehhh... and "eat"... and "sleep"... and travel...

I don't smoke, eating is not that expensive (depends of course where you go, but I have been up giving 700 dkr pr person here). Last time we was renting a 80 m2 apartment with sauna, LCD tv and so on, just for 4 people, at a nice skiing center rather close (you take the ski on and go a bit) only cost us around 15 000 dkr (for the apartment only, nothing else. Perhaps a bit more). Dining out and buying food etc was not that bad.

And it was not lousy quality. The apartment was stone-floored (heated, of course) and it had a fireplace and all that kind of stuff. Nice "antique" kictchen open in a part of the lounge, 2 bedrooms (1 for the parents, another for me and my little brother), bath with a sauna (4 person), extra room for the ski/clothes and so on.

At a place close to we had access to squash, swimming pools and more.

Compared to what the little trip to south africa costed us, the price for the apartment is barely even a flight ticket hehe

Right now we are looking for flight tickets to Havana, Cuba. Yeah, i'll bring some cigars hehe

Edit: Forgot to mention. No matter HOW much money you have to throw around its completely insane not to bring beer&wine from denmark. We imported some great wine from Italy earlier last year (and a few bottles from South africa), which we brang. Also a bottle of jaeger-meister (purchased in denmark. Probably at 300% less than the norwegian price heh) hehe

EDIT2:
I forgot to complain. In norway I couldnt buy alcohol because I was under 21!!! ON THE BOAT! I was purchasing a nice bottle of some great (swedish i think) vodka, and the man at the desk asked me for ID. I gave him my DRIVERS LICENSE and he just said no. NOW i asked my mother to come with me, she bought the bottle while i was standing a bit asside, and he asked my mom if she knew that buying alcohol for me was illegal

I mean who the hell do he think i am. Someone who goes around drinking all the time? Didn't it occour to him that we were customers, and he should mind his own business?

Next time a norwegian shop-thing does this to me i'll kick his sorry butt

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:15 pm

Character wrote:Without the 'mistake' of Bush, Saddam would still be killing people every single day.

Maybe so, but then without the "mistake" Iraq would be near civil war. Sadam may have been bad news, but while he was in power you never heard of problems with violence there, now its a daily occurance that some idiot blew up something and killed a bunch of people.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:30 pm

Tipperton wrote:Sadam may have been bad news, but while he was in power you never heard of problems with violence there, now its a daily occurance that some idiot blew up something and killed a bunch of people.

Except for the fact that he tested mustard gas on a smaller village.
http://www.republicanyouth.net/saddambo ... ims-09.jpg

I must warn you, the picture is not nice. And i did NOT choose the worst there is..

And lots of other stuff about torture and so on.

Michael Vogel · Post by **Michael Vogel** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:41 pm

The United States are also within the top 100, but where's the vatican?