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Name the ****iest countries in the world

Well the crappiest place I've been.......would have been Lima Peru 20 years ago. They had open air meat markets with indigenous persons swatting fly's with long feathers. Meat sitting outside in the sun and heat, doesn't do much for me. Some of the public markets had holes in the floor for bathroom breaks that they actually charged you to use, no toilet, just a hole in the floor. Happy to say that things have improved there over the past 2 decades, I can't say everything has improved but overall it has picked up as their economy has too.

South Africa used to be a great place, today, not so much and I would not step foot there unless they went back to the old way of doing things or at least got some sense of law and order.

One member here mentioned the Philippines, from the sounds of it, the place hasn't changed and I will never go there either. My father was there during parts of his service in WWII and he said it and it's people were savage, that Japan looked down upon them for a reason. With the description from this mentioned member I can see I still have no desire to go.

Why someone would mark Germany as a ****hole I don't know, it's not the same as a few decades ago, but it's still beautiful IMO and the people are friendly.
 
Iraq sucked. Kuwait was warmer but at least it didn't suck. Iraq sucked.
 
One doesn't need to "hate" America to see that the nation has problems but for the majority of the residents, it ain't so bad.

7. Ireland
> Population: 4.7 million
> GNI per capita: $39,568
> Life expectancy at birth: 80.9 years
> Pct. of pop. with at least some high school: 79.6%

8. United States
> Population: 322.6 million
> GNI per capita: $52,947
> Life expectancy at birth: 79.1 years
> Pct. of pop. with at least some high school: 95.0%

9. Canada
> Population: 35.5 million
> GNI per capita: $42,155
> Life expectancy at birth: 82.0 years
> Pct. of pop. with at least some high school: 99.9%

rankings from The World's 25 Most Livable Countries

Damn, I've been to 21 of those 25 countries....although a few of them are airport stops/overnights!

Glad to see Ireland so high, I could easily live there (dual citizen). Although, me and the missus are working a 5 year plan to retire in Costa Rica or Nicaragua or Panama. My ideal would be a few months in Ireland, a few in Central America, and a few in SE Asia every year.
 
Well the crappiest place I've been.......would have been Lima Peru 20 years ago. They had open air meat markets with indigenous persons swatting fly's with long feathers. Meat sitting outside in the sun and heat, doesn't do much for me. Some of the public markets had holes in the floor for bathroom breaks that they actually charged you to use, no toilet, just a hole in the floor. Happy to say that things have improved there over the past 2 decades, I can't say everything has improved but overall it has picked up as their economy has too.

South Africa used to be a great place, today, not so much and I would not step foot there unless they went back to the old way of doing things or at least got some sense of law and order.

One member here mentioned the Philippines, from the sounds of it, the place hasn't changed and I will never go there either. My father was there during parts of his service in WWII and he said it and it's people were savage, that Japan looked down upon them for a reason. With the description from this mentioned member I can see I still have no desire to go.

Why someone would mark Germany as a ****hole I don't know, it's not the same as a few decades ago, but it's still beautiful IMO and the people are friendly.

I've been to Lima, not too bad compared to some places. Not the safest place. I never had any problems in South Africa, I was in Durban and Capetown. But, Phillipines, oy....no thanks, not an ounce of culture. Some good scuba, but I can get that in a lot of nice places.
 
Have at it:

Some may think of the USA and Canada as being crappy places compared to the way native America's lived. So may go the traditional route and say sub Saharan Africa is the crappiest place in the world, some will say places like Venezuela holds a spot, what do you say?

Will there be a consensus?

Somalia.

\Drops the mike.
 
Somalia.

\Drops the mike.

Eh, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Chad beat Somalia any day.

I've been to a few really poor places that I liked, Laos and Cambodia...destitute, but great.
 
Eh, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Chad beat Somalia any day.

I've been to a few really poor places that I liked, Laos and Cambodia...destitute, but great.

Opinions (as are mine)... I got a taste of Somalia during the UN missions...

Our inbrief about the flora and fauna (paraphrased)... There are 17 species of trees. 16 of which are either poisonous or sport thorns. Expect every snake to be venomous. Of the scorpions, the big black ones hurt, the small brown ones can kill, and the tailless ones are scary.

Laos and Cambodia sound interesting.


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Somalia.

\Drops the mike.

I bet it does, but I haven't been and really don't even think of it as a country, it's more like a bomb dropped there and it wasn't quite big enough.
 
This is reply is demonstrative of what passes for leftist intelligence.

On the other hand, I don't trust government water sources and have lived only where I can either manage my own water or buy it from a private water company that submits to independent testing.

I'll let readers decide who between the two of us is suffering a severe case of brain flatulence.

flatulence affect the other end...unless......you think with your buttocks!
 
Germany & Scotland are ****hole countries ............ I have that on good account .......

the US is gaining quickly ........

Ever been to either?
 
(Sigh) :roll:

Anyone who thinks the United States is a crappy place to live mustn't have done much world traveling.

Some people live in places so bad our trash dumps are considered gold mines for food and resources, and the fact we have clean running water on tap is a modern miracle. :coffeepap:

That isn't what makes the USA a ****hole country. It's the long stunningly hypocritical history of its genocides, its war crimes, its war mongering, its world leading terrorism, its total disdain for the right of others, its heinous crimes, its brutality, its incredible penchant for lying, especially about itself.
 
Have at it:

Some may think of the USA and Canada as being crappy places compared to the way native America's lived. So may go the traditional route and say sub Saharan Africa is the crappiest place in the world, some will say places like Venezuela holds a spot, what do you say?

Will there be a consensus?

Really? Wanna know how they wash their babies in Africa? They spray them with breast milk and let the goats lick them clean.

Be glad you are in a country with values that came down from British Anglo-Saxon laws and values.
 
That isn't what makes the USA a ****hole country. It's the long stunningly hypocritical history of its genocides, its war crimes, its war mongering, its world leading terrorism, its total disdain for the right of others, its heinous crimes, its brutality, its incredible penchant for lying, especially about itself.

That MUST be why so many want to immigrate here. Your entire post is a clown car of propaganda failure.
 
This is purely subjective so my vote is for Haiti. I believe I heard that over 90% of the kids there have intestinal parasites or waterborn diseases.

Because European countries and then the USA raped and pillaged Haiti. If the US gave back all the immense wealth it has stolen, the world would be a much better place. But the USA has always been satisfied to murder children both actively and by stealing wealth that belongs to them.
 
That MUST be why so many want to immigrate here. Your entire post is a clown car of propaganda failure.

That is so their children aren't murdered by invading hordes of Americans in their own countries. Plus that only illustrates how great US propaganda is.
 
That is so their children aren't murdered by invading hordes of Americans in their own countries. Plus that only illustrates how great US propaganda is.

Circular conspiracy theory thinking hard at work there.
 
Because European countries and then the USA raped and pillaged Haiti. If the US gave back all the immense wealth it has stolen, the world would be a much better place. But the USA has always been satisfied to murder children both actively and by stealing wealth that belongs to them.

Yup, people need to know what happened to Haiti...https://kottke.org/18/01/how-haiti-became-poor
 
Be glad you are in a country with values that came down from British Anglo-Saxon laws and values.

Yeah, right. Those are the values that had UK and now the USA raping and pillaging the planet. At least the UK wasn't so damn hypocritical as the US. The US makes a grand pretense about "All men are created equal" and the USA has never followed that notion right from the get go to today.
 
That isn't what makes the USA a ****hole country. It's the long stunningly hypocritical history of its genocides, its war crimes, its war mongering, its world leading terrorism, its total disdain for the right of others, its heinous crimes, its brutality, its incredible penchant for lying, especially about itself.

I take it then that you are not an American? Or do you just hate your home country so much thanks perhaps to a progressive indoctrination that you can only see the ills and fail to see the good?
 
I take it then that you are not an American? Or do you just hate your home country so much thanks perhaps to a progressive indoctrination that you can only see the ills and fail to see the good?

Why is honesty always met with these exceedingly lame propagandist memes? Is it really too much to ask that you folks try thinking for a change?
 
Circular conspiracy theory thinking hard at work there.

The same shallow propagandist memes. This is what happens to people who get brainwashed by their "education" system. All they have are pat, empty replies.
 
Why is honesty always met with these exceedingly lame propagandist memes? Is it really too much to ask that you folks try thinking for a change?

You listed a lot of memes and you question the response? :roll:
 
You listed a lot of memes and you question the response? :roll:

This is not a new meme either. Read Beefheart's two links and then maybe you will be able to rationally discuss the US's long and sordid history.

You don't actually think that the Monroe Doctrine was intended to protect South and Central American countries, do you?
 
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