I'm on a boat

But if there were no extremists, life would be so boring.

 

Well exactly. A bored and irritated Japes would be a truly nightmarish force. You'd never catch him, there'd just be random violent of stupid people.

 

So the best way to keep Japes happy is to keep some of the extremists alive?

 

Exactly! Gosh, it's nice when someone actually catches on. (I'm suffering from a serious case of 'fuck you people, you're supposed to be smarter than that!' thanks to my course. Can you tell?)

 

Dear god. That really is fucking stupid. I've heard some pretty pathetic bullshit in my life, but that is definately in the top ten incredibly fucking retarded things I've ever heard.

 

I have the same problem. When I go to the west of the Netherlands, to the city of Amsterdam, and I tell them that I come from Friesland (Fryslan), they think:

1. That I come there with the night train.

2. That I must be backward, stubborn, a nationalist, and prejudiced.

3. That I still live in the 50's.

 

*applauds* Vorak, that is classic, and a beautiful way of shutting a bitch up. I am so proud! (And let's face it, while we may want to slap a bitch sometimes, it's much better to hoist them by their own petard. But, oooooh lordy, some bitches need a good slap.)

 

Well, exactly. And besides it's far more entertaining to get them at their own game. Mweheeheeheehee.

 

There is a similar prejudice toward people from the Southeastern US. A friend of mine griefs me over how good my vocabulary is considering my place of birth.

 

I know how that feels, because if I speak Dutch, they all say to me" Wow...you can speak our language!"

 

I get the 'Omigosh, you're Tasmanian? How can you be Tasmanian?' one quite a bit. Apparently living in Tasmania includes a prerequisite of being a mutant and/or moron. *mutters obsceneties*

 

I assume you're talking about the Greens party fella? Cause I've met him, and he drives me round the bleeding bend.

 

Yes, I can. (Oh no...Obamaitish! *runs to get some fresh air, and then eat some meat*) English is my third language.

They probably saying that out of jealousy.

The native born Tasmanians still have those four arms, right?

 

read "Delay, Denial, and Dilution" by Laura Casper and David Green. It's a study about the nationalized health-care in Britain being one of the worst in the world.

Or read the Spring 2008 issue of Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. In it is an article by Sven Larson called "Lesson from Sweden's Universal Health System: Tales from the Health-care Crypt."

Or here is an article talking about both studies.

That's just talking about health-care but expand its principles to all aspects of a nation.