[Sealobo]

Tell me~!

[iNub]

collect unemployment

[Mac Zealot]

make fun of/argue with the government, publicly.

Make fun of a specific person, like the president, again, in public.

Apparently you could call him "Hey george!" and not get in trouble.

In some countries this type of thing is illegal, not many, just a few.

If you go to england, for example, and yell something nasty about the queen in public, chances aren't good you'll be going back to your hotel/home that night.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Drink at the age of 19.

[Mastrap]

Originally posted by Mac Zealot:


If you go to england, for example, and yell something nasty about the queen in public, chances aren't good you'll be going back to your hotel/home that night.

Rubbish. People can say anything they like about the queen - and frequently do. It's a free country, you know.

Edited to add: I can become a peer of the realm. Unlikely, I know, but possible.

[simonjames]

All the things listed for the States we can do here in Australia.

Actually Australia is a horrible place - full of pollution and rude Aussies. The seas are oil slicks and the land is barren. If I lived overseas and know what I know I would never even *think* of coming to Australia for a holiday. Especially not Sydney. Tintub will back me up - Sydney is just bad news.

[Ozmodiar]

I really want to visit Down Under. The only thing keeping me back is your frickin mutant spiders.

I pose a question to the U.K. people: In the U.S, celebrities endorse political parties and agendas with limited affect on the outcome. What would happen if the Queen got in the middle of politics, and told people to vote for the Labor Party (or something)?

[D'Espice]

Germany:
Drink when you're 16
Drive as fast as you want on the Autobahn

I think these are two things you cannot do everywhere... at least the first is only allowed in Germany, nowhere else IIRC.

[fourstarcltv]

Originally posted by simonjames:
All the things listed for the States we can do here in Australia.

Actually Australia is a horrible place - full of pollution and rude Aussies. The seas are oil slicks and the land is barren. If I lived overseas and know what I know I would never even *think* of coming to Australia for a holiday. Especially not Sydney. Tintub will back me up - Sydney is just bad news.

sounds like you're enjoying yourself here in australia. question is, why are you still here?

[mrfrost]

Originally posted by D'Espice:
Germany:
Drink when you're 16
Drive as fast as you want on the Autobahn

I think these are two things you cannot do everywhere... at least the first is only allowed in Germany, nowhere else IIRC.

The first is the same overhere in Belgium.

We can't drive as fast as we want on the highways though. ( 120 km/hour speed limit)

[Judge_Fire]

Have a child, take a few months off my job while getting adequate financial compensation, then get my job back without a prob. Regardless of my gender; dad can stay home if mom wants to return to work earlier.

She might even be the president, an unlikely situation in surprisingly many 'modern' countries.

Have that child grow up in a society, where other individuals aren't divided into classes by fencing them into high- income/low- income neighboroughhoods. Though those neighborhoods exist, all schools (even universitites) are public, shared and free, which guarantees a social mix, in the good and in the bad.

All the while having a great view on the rest of the world, opened up by highly valued language education and the fact that most of the TV shows, music, web sites, movies, magazines and other people in the world are foreign.

Most of these things apply to most of the nordic countries, of course.

Oh, did I mention faster downloads from the US than inside the US itself (used to be a prob for local mirrors, when people from the US opted for faster downloads from here!)

J

[ok, so the weather sucks half the year and I was seriously considering Australia, but with all those oil slicks and rude people and dunny- based sanitation standards, I'm not so sure ]

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by Ozmodiar:
I really want to visit Down Under. The only thing keeping me back is your frickin mutant spiders.

I pose a question to the U.K. people: In the U.S, celebrities endorse political parties and agendas with limited affect on the outcome. What would happen if the Queen got in the middle of politics, and told people to vote for the Labor Party (or something)?

What, these little things?

Aww... they're so cute!

[simonjames]

that big whooshing sound you just heard was sarcasm flying over fourstarcity's head - and you're Australian?

[Mediaman_12]

Originally posted by Ozmodiar:
I really want to visit Down Under. The only thing keeping me back is your frickin mutant spiders.

I pose a question to the U.K. people: In the U.S, celebrities endorse political parties and agendas with limited affect on the outcome. What would happen if the Queen got in the middle of politics, and told people to vote for the Labor Party (or something)?

Celebrities do endorse political parties, but nobody cares.
The Queen can't and isn't alowed to get involved in the policical process, The Royal Family dosen't even have a vote.
After the election the winiing leader has to go the the Queen and ask if they can lead her government.

[tintub]

good idea for a thread!!!

Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
make fun of/argue with the government, publicly.

Make fun of a specific person, like the president, again, in public.

Apparently you could call him "Hey george!" and not get in trouble.

In some countries this type of thing is illegal, not many, just a few.

If you go to england, for example, and yell something nasty about the queen in public, chances aren't good you'll be going back to your hotel/home that night.

you are talking out of your stinking unwiped ass here You can shout out whatever you like about the queen. I doubt anyone would give a sh*t.

Originally posted by
fourstarcltv:
sounds like you're enjoying yourself here in australia. question is, why are you still here?

??? he was being FUNNY ...

Originally posted by D'Espice:
Germany:
Drink when you're 16
Drive as fast as you want on the Autobahn

I think these are two things you cannot do everywhere... at least the first is only allowed in Germany, nowhere else IIRC.

I think there are places without speed limits in the Northern Territory (Oz) - however, the roads aren't quite up to the standard of the German Autobahns.


Something you can do in Australia:

Go to a drive-through (a.k.a. 'thru') bottle shop (a.k.a. off licence, liquor store)

Something you can do in England:

Watch really good quality TV without constant advertisements interrupting you, and without signing up for cable/satellite etc.

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by tintub:
I think there are places without speed limits in the Northern Territory (Oz) - however, the roads aren't quite up to the standard of the German Autobahns.

Roads?



That's what your average NT road looks like Except without all the greenery... hehe.

Originally posted by tintub:
Something you can do in Australia:

Go to a drive-through (a.k.a. 'thru') bottle shop (a.k.a. off licence, liquor store)

I love Australia...

[gadster]

Originally posted by simonjames:
All the things listed for the States we can do here in Australia.

Actually Australia is a horrible place - full of pollution and rude Aussies. The seas are oil slicks and the land is barren. If I lived overseas and know what I know I would never even *think* of coming to Australia for a holiday. Especially not Sydney. Tintub will back me up - Sydney is just bad news.

If tintub won't I will. You forgot the cockoaches, sunburn, crocs, snakes, killer jellyfish, shellfish and octopi. Not to mention the dropbears, bushfires, sharks and dingos (wild dogs). Oh, and all the Pommy tourists...

If you know what's good for you, stay away!

[willed]

Originally posted by Ozmodiar:

I pose a question to the U.K. people: In the U.S, celebrities endorse political parties and agendas with limited affect on the outcome. What would happen if the Queen got in the middle of politics, and told people to vote for the Labor Party (or something)?

I seriously reckon that (hypothetically) it would have an effect on many people. But the monarchy would be abolished a week later if the Queen did something that stupid.

[Logic]

I can vote in the oldest democracy in the world.

I can vote for president in the country where the first female president was.

I can go to the next river and or spring and drink from it(without the fear of getting poisoned) except in the Reykjav�k area.

I can walk from America to Europe in a few seconds. That is the Eurasian intercontinental shell to the American.

I can in one hour get to the point where the oldest democracy in the world had its meetings, aka Althingi.

I'll let that do for now

[Gene Jockey]

I can say "I am currently in the United States of America." Try that in Britain.

Seriously, that was the first thing I thought of. How about...only here can I visit our national Air and Space Museum and see a spacecraft that carried men to the moon and back?

--Josh

[Montezuma58]

Own guns. Which is a good thing.

[Sealobo]

I ate an owl in China few years ago.

[OreoCookie]

1. Drink beer when 16.
2. Speak freely.
3. Don't have to wait for surgery.
4. Study without paying off my education for a third of my life.

[KaptainKaya]

Sue McDonald's because I'm fat and thought their food was healthy.

[Developer]

I can't feel at home in any other country.

That's about it. You can pretty much do the same things in all European countries.

[Judge_Fire]

Originally posted by Montezuma58:
Own guns. Which is a good thing.

There aren't that many places where you can NOT own guns. Hunting and recreational handgun shooting, or sports, are quite popular in many places outside New Mongolia.

J

[davesimondotcom]

Visit the beauty of Glacier, Yellowstone and Teton National Parks.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Logic:
I can go to the next river and or spring and drink from it(without the fear of getting poisoned) except in the Reykjav�k area.

Heh, excepts don't count I am afraid

[D'Espice]

Originally posted by KaptainKaya:
Sue McDonald's because I'm fat and thought their food was healthy.

Uh yeah, that _IS_ a good thing to do

[talisker]

Originally posted by Ozmodiar:
What would happen if the Queen got in the middle of politics, and told people to vote for the Labor Party (or something)?

There would be an outcry in parliament and in certain parts of the press because, as Mediaman said, she's not allowed to directly influence the political process. But in general, the average person in the street wouldnt give a toss. As far as I can tell, apart from some people over 60, and visiting American tourists, pretty much everyone in Britain finds the royal family to be completely irrelevant.

[bradoesch]

We can smoke at 16, but it's illegel to give or buy cigarettes to anyone under 19.

[Vanquish]

We can:

-have the best education around
-drink at 16 (ah well everybody does it when they are WAY younger we can even buy it !)
-smoke weed
-have the best beer in the world (Duvel) in enourmous quantities

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Find poutine at a lot of fast food places.

[theolein]

Start an initiative on any law in the country and if enough people sign up and vote for it, it becomes law. i.e. I can make a difference. (Very illusory though, most initiatives don't go through)

[andymcdeee]

You can ski down a mountain then go surfing all in the space of fifteen minutes.

24 hours a day, 7 days a week beer outlets.

Drive through snow in a desert.

Go to a beautiful beach in the middle of summer - and be the only person there.

Ahhhh....New Zealand. Lonely Planets #1 place to go for 2003.

Oh, and no spiders, snakes or dumb aussies like Australia has.

[D'Espice]

Oh yeah I forgot that, legal age for smoking is 16 in Germany. So basically, you can legally get drunk while smoking when you're 16, which makes it kinda boring

[simonjames]

New Zealand's biggest mistake is that they pulled out of joining the Commonwealth of Australia just before January 1901. And now the NZ government wants the two countries to 'join' together. Somehow I don't think that'll ever happen.

[talisker]

Originally posted by andymcdeee:
You can ski down a mountain then go surfing all in the space of fifteen minutes.

Where's that then? God you'd have to ski fast at Whakapapa to hit Raglan in 15 minutes.

[Moderator]

Montana doesn't have a daytime speed limit in rural areas (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by sealobo:
I ate an owl in China few years ago.

You bastard!

-Owl

[daimoni]

.

[kiwibabe]

Originally posted by simonjames:
New Zealand's biggest mistake is that they pulled out of joining the Commonwealth of Australia just before January 1901. And now the NZ government wants the two countries to 'join' together.

I happen to disagree with you on both counts.

We like our country just the way it is.

[DaKiwi2788]

Drive for 7 straight hours and see nothing but corn fields!

[DaKiwi2788]

Oh yea, and still be in the same state!

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by andymcdeee:
You can ski down a mountain then go surfing all in the space of fifteen minutes.

24 hours a day, 7 days a week beer outlets.

Drive through snow in a desert.

Go to a beautiful beach in the middle of summer - and be the only person there.

Ahhhh....New Zealand. Lonely Planets #1 place to go for 2003.

Oh, and no spiders, snakes or dumb aussies like Australia has.

And plenty of sheep. Don't forget the sheep.

Originally posted by simonjames:
New Zealand's biggest mistake is that they pulled out of joining the Commonwealth of Australia just before January 1901. And now the NZ government wants the two countries to 'join' together. Somehow I don't think that'll ever happen.

They do? Hahaha - like we'd ever let THAT happen!

[mac-at-kearsarge]

Be deeply ashamed of the current state of things around the world.

[mac-at-kearsarge]

Sorry! Double post.

[Sealobo]

Watch school campus gun shooting event on TV, reported from the other side of the planet.

[Miniryu]

Originally posted by D'Espice:
Germany:
Drink when you're 16
Drive as fast as you want on the Autobahn

I think these are two things you cannot do everywhere... at least the first is only allowed in Germany, nowhere else IIRC.

What do you mean? People under 16 drink all of the time over here in the U.S.!

[DBursey]

- Attend Toronto Maple Leaf home games.

- Enjoy the many benefits of life in the true north strong and free!</waxing patriotic>