Tell us one thing you like about your country

Just one thing about your home country (or adopted country). Women? Weather? Sporting success? Women? Landscape? Artistic merits? Shopping? Women? Architecture? Freedom? Women?

I'm going to nominate Australia's thirst for beer as something I'm proud of. Our former Prime Minister Bob Hawke was a Rhodes Scholar. As part of the initiation, he had to drink a yard glass of ale (2 and a half pints). He did it alright. He did it in a world record 11 seconds. Sure that record has been broken... but not by a head of state.

Next we have Tasmanian cricketer David Boon. A man's man. He was famous for setting the record for number of beers consumed on the flight from Australia to the UK. 52 beers not out. That's a supreme athlete for you folks.

Check out more Aussie drinking facts here.

Of course we have more to be proud of, but I'll leave that to someone else.

I am proud of the freedom's enshrined in our Constitution. In spite of the recent revelations of domestic spying, talk of security vs. individual rights, and so forth, the freedom's we enjoy in the US are unprecedented. I have traveled to many different countries, and I have noted not only differences in the way news is reported, but how people in some of these countries are either unwilling or unable to speak their minds about most anything. I feel very fortunate to have these freedoms, and I shall never take them for granted.

I am proud of the permission from my country to leave whenever I want. What.... with the place full of immigrants claiming every benefit known to man, taking up all the housing, free health care all paid by us, the tax payer. Margaret Thatcher (the devil in disguise) sold off the Crown jewels ie.... BT, Gas, Electric, the mines etc... for a pittance and the labour government have been elected to continue her good work. Think I may take up that job offer in Auckland. Pity I'm too old for Oz.

Hey give her full credit, you forgot selling off the trains the buses and selling out our car making industry. We don't manufacture anything here anymore bacause we've forgotten how, we just assemble other peoples bits and pieces and label it British. The little lad down the street made a bogey last week. The only truly British vehicle to be built here this year.
Though the pram wheels he used were made in Taiwan and the orange box in south Africa. Though at least he's gaining practical experience for his future job in a call centre. Which we are now having to reopen because we refuse to talk to "Jimmy" in Mumbai about our telephone bill.

Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the......... Oh forget it.

What do i like about my country. Got it now. Some of those polish girls are really cute. And i now know the polish for "when hell freezes over" and "not if you were the last man on Earth".

I couldn't have put it better. We British, now a 3rd world country have over 350,000 leaving every year for pastures new. But.... over a million Kosovans, Turks, Pakistanis, Indians, Poles etc... enter freely every year. Someone has to create no-go areas in the country, build mosques everywhere, have Christmas nativity banned in schools, cover all their body in clothes other than a 3" x 1" slit for the eyes. Oh.... and don't forget now Turkey are joining the EU there will be half a million shit stabbers coming over every year.
Land of Hope and ..... oh forget it..

Still can't complain eh!


IDMyAvatar, like your avatar, is it scratch and sniff or is that my fingers.

2stevejc, the avatar your talking of is a photo I took of my wife whilst on vacation at the Blue Dolphin at Filey Brig last month.

Filey Brig eh!, classy. The scratch and sniff bit was aimed at IDMyAvatar, he's much further away than you, gives me more time to get away. I wouldn't dream of insulting you, your wife or Filey Brig

Bob Dylan

Best thing about America has nothing to do with the country itself -- its the fact that we currently occupy some of the most god-pounding incredible outdoor scenery on the skin of this whole dang rock.

I'm talking about the Western Third of the USA, and I'm talking scenic beauty and especially National Parks ... Grand Canyon ... Yosemite NP ... Glacier NP ... Yellowstone NP ... Grand Tetons ... Death Valley NP ... Mount Rainier ... Joshua Tree NP ... Zion NP ... Bryce Canyon NP ... Canyonlands NP ... Sequoia/King's Canyon NP ... Redwood NP ... Crater Lake NP ... Olympic NP ... North Cascades NP ... Badlands NP ... Mount Shasta ... Monument Valley (see my avatar) ... and so on. And 1000s of other places which are beautiful but not big enough to be a national park. Or hell, too big to be a national Park, like the entire western part of Colorado with the mountains (San Juans, mmmmm) ... or 400 miles of California Coastline, from Big Sur to Eureka ... etc etc ETC. I've had the good fortune to be ramblin' around in all of it.

Never mind how we got this land, THAT I'm not proud of at all. But, in the here and now, the above is my favorite part of "America". I've been hiking/trekking in many many places all around the world, and yes, there are a great many beautiful areas everywhere, too many to name. But nowhere else has so much with so much variety all contained therein IMRO.

Then again, if you're the kind of person who looks at the Grand Canyon as "just another big rocky hole in the ground" or just says "eh, not a big deal", then all of what I'm saying ain't worth a hill o' beans. Aint worth a hill o' beans, I say.

Good idea on the thread IDmyAvatar. It would totally cool to hear from some folks from other countries.

RM

p.s. Dylan does make the top 5, good call Roadie. So does Jessica Alba's beautiful bodacious blue-ribbon bewitching booty.

The main thing about The Republic of Ireland that i'm proud of is our contribution (if sometimes indirectly) to music, apart from U2 cause they're shite.

John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols (Irish Parents)

The Cranberries

Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis (Irish Parents)

They are just the ones i like there are many more like Rory Gallagher, The Thrills, Enya Etc.

But who cares about that I'm proud of our attitude - Fuck work - lets get drunk!

Totally agree Footsoldier!

But I do like U2 and Thin Lizzy and Van the Man and the Pogues, Shane MacGowan and whatever happened to Marilyn Bane

and Ian Dempsey Gift Grub (Today FM podcast great )

and Podge and Rodge

and Martin the weatherman

and the Dubs

im from the country of holland. Im 31 but I still can't make up my mind wether i like it here or not. I travelled quite a bit and you know, every country has got it's own identity. When I was 19 I travelled in Australia for a year and im still thinking about australia about every day. Man, I love the coastline the ocean and the waves, the sunshine and its adventureous people and nature. Great no-nonsense attitude.
U.s.a. got some great aspects as well, its an exceptional country which produces both, great things (music, some people, movies etc) but also many bad things (Bush, commercialisation etc)
Also I like ireland and scotland. Africans in Africa have a great exceptional vital and optimistic atiitude, Russians are so 'down to earth' themselves. blablabla
You wanted to know about women in Holland? Except from some exceptions a lot of them become chubby after 20. But ofcourse there are some beautiful women here as well

IDMyAvatar wrote:

The Tropics. Where even in winter Swedish backpackers with big bosoms still find it warm enough to prance around in bikinis.
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