What's the one thing you hate most about your home country?
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- Mustangmiha
There's too many to name but one I hate the most is nepotism.
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- Bratvegas
- GTP_Liquid
Being a Briton, we have the luxury of two countries to slate; both the sovereign state and the home nation.
Wales
Division
Infrastructurally, it is and always has been far easier to travel east-west in Wales than north-south and this has led to, in my view, a marginalisation of the north. While the south coast prospers with such metropolitan areas like Cardiff, Swansea and Neath-Port Talbot, Wrexham is the only place which comes close to behind a 'proper' town up north and very little has come our way in terms of investment or recognition in mainstream media. Fortunately, this has begun to change in recent years thanks to the internet and the advent of hyperlocal news.
Equally though, because of the ease of access travelling east-west there is also an east/west divide which is particularly strong where I live, right in the north east just 9 miles/14 kilometres from England. This puts us in the cultural catchment area of the English North West and while I have no problem with this, I do feel that people from Flintshire would rather identify with the smokestacks of Liverpool and Manchester than the emerald gems of Llangollen and Conwy.
So it's all a little bit Dic Sion Daffydd; we don't feel related to our southern counterparts, compounded by a language barrier in both English and especially Welsh, and instead of retaining a North Welsh identity, it's easier to diffuse to the land of the Saxons.
United Kingdom
Lack Of Interest In History/Politics
Apathy, generally. It infuriates me that I can have very few conversations about serious issues with people who are actually aware and know what the topic at hand is. There's a general feeling in my opinion that people simply don't care about where Britain is in the world, where we have come from and why the UK is what it is today.
It could very well be patronising on my part, but come the general election, I do not think a significant majority of people will really delve deep into parliamentary candidates and issues. They will take things at face value, albeit with a pinch of salt, without bothering to think about it too much.
Oh, and treating Wales as one county annoys the F out of me.
Wales
Division
Infrastructurally, it is and always has been far easier to travel east-west in Wales than north-south and this has led to, in my view, a marginalisation of the north. While the south coast prospers with such metropolitan areas like Cardiff, Swansea and Neath-Port Talbot, Wrexham is the only place which comes close to behind a 'proper' town up north and very little has come our way in terms of investment or recognition in mainstream media. Fortunately, this has begun to change in recent years thanks to the internet and the advent of hyperlocal news.
Equally though, because of the ease of access travelling east-west there is also an east/west divide which is particularly strong where I live, right in the north east just 9 miles/14 kilometres from England. This puts us in the cultural catchment area of the English North West and while I have no problem with this, I do feel that people from Flintshire would rather identify with the smokestacks of Liverpool and Manchester than the emerald gems of Llangollen and Conwy.
So it's all a little bit Dic Sion Daffydd; we don't feel related to our southern counterparts, compounded by a language barrier in both English and especially Welsh, and instead of retaining a North Welsh identity, it's easier to diffuse to the land of the Saxons.
United Kingdom
Lack Of Interest In History/Politics
Apathy, generally. It infuriates me that I can have very few conversations about serious issues with people who are actually aware and know what the topic at hand is. There's a general feeling in my opinion that people simply don't care about where Britain is in the world, where we have come from and why the UK is what it is today.
It could very well be patronising on my part, but come the general election, I do not think a significant majority of people will really delve deep into parliamentary candidates and issues. They will take things at face value, albeit with a pinch of salt, without bothering to think about it too much.
Oh, and treating Wales as one county annoys the F out of me.
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- Bakemono36
For me, its politics. Everyone is so closed-minded, thinks only their opinions are right and that anyone who opposes them wants to destroy America.
I mean, when people spend YEARS trying to spread lies about a certain president being a Communist and about supposed not being an American. Its like, do you REALLY think he would have made it this far if he werent actually born in America? Like they dont check, double check and triple check that stuff. Idiots.
I mean, when people spend YEARS trying to spread lies about a certain president being a Communist and about supposed not being an American. Its like, do you REALLY think he would have made it this far if he werent actually born in America? Like they dont check, double check and triple check that stuff. Idiots.
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- a6m5zero
Japan(my nationality) - Numerous things, but currently, off the top of my head, dolphin killing. I'm actually glad that law allows it, I just don't care for the tradition. Seriously, who doesn't like dolphins? 
We also get criticized for our text books & whale hunting, but I don't take them too seriously. Chinese government criticizing us for text book cover-up is a pure comedy & as long as overall whale population is protected from extinction, I personally don't see anything wrong with it.
United States(my residence) - Politics. I feel for people who get caught up in this left/right circus, as they respect your rights & values as long as they agree with them.
Constantly trying to either force it down your throat, or take them away completely.
We also get criticized for our text books & whale hunting, but I don't take them too seriously. Chinese government criticizing us for text book cover-up is a pure comedy & as long as overall whale population is protected from extinction, I personally don't see anything wrong with it.United States(my residence) - Politics. I feel for people who get caught up in this left/right circus, as they respect your rights & values as long as they agree with them.
Constantly trying to either force it down your throat, or take them away completely.
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- Wasilla, AK
I want to say the idiotic reverence with which catalytic converters are treated in federal law (can't even replace one with a better one that's still legal in every other way unless the previous cat is ruined first, and can't ruin it on purpose... it's a FELONY meaning you can't own a gun or vote ever again if you're caught doing either one of those things AFAIK), but really, that's small potatoes compared to the general patronizing trollery at the high levels. Our government and megacorporations pay lip service to 'MERICA and FREEDOM while wrecking the economy with ridiculous spending and borrowing, sending our jobs to Communist China, and constantly trying to grab more control over pretty much everything. Hey Chrysler, we know you're an Italian company now, stop puking red, white, and blue all over our TV screens as if that'll actually make us forget your new home. And Obama, we gave you an out on Obamacare when we tried to defund it. Don't engineer a needlessly painful gov't shutdown to get Obamacare funded and then start arbitrarily granting extensions (which only Congress is actually allowed to do) so the full horror of the law won't become obvious until after the midterm elections. I know that's why you're doing that.
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- race_emhard
Because It was OK for US emissions regulations to say the S15 Silvia produced too much CO2, but a dudebro that is rolling coal is just fine right?
Owning a gun is a privilege, not a right. And voting doesn't really matter anyway.
At least that makes some sense.
Chrysler = Italian
Jaguar = Indian
Land Rover = Indian
Vauxhall = American
Holden = American
Opel = American
Volvo = Chinese
Mini = German (I still think they're British!)
That doesn't look right to me.
Totally Obama's fault and not the assholes that are the Republican party.
I'm done here. *drops mic*
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- Wasilla, AK
No, that's stupid too.
If I had my way, the only obstacle a car would have to pass to get an emissions certification would be a sniffer test. You pass that, you're in. How you did or didn't do so wouldn't be an issue.
Correct, except for some language in a constitutional amendment that says otherwise. But that's not the point. The thing is, the reason we take guns and voting rights away from felons is because they're theiving murderers who would probably just stick up a bank or sell their vote. Not because they replaced a functioning catalytic converter with a better catalytic converter and that might make the planet explode somehow. It's just plain incredibly, monumentally idiotic to place the dreaded Catalytic Converter Replacer on the same level as real, violent criminals like that.
Chrysler = Italian
Jaguar = Indian
Land Rover = Indian
Vauxhall = American
Holden = American
Opel = American
Volvo = Chinese
Mini = German (I still think they're British!)
That doesn't look right to me.[/quote]
Well you have to admit, it is rather suspicious that they ran an ultrapatriotic Super Bowl ad just after the last bit of them went to Fiat.
I don't think the Republicans are the ones to blame here. They simply stood their ground to defund a genuinely egregious law that will make the economy beg for mercy even more than it already is. They even offered to give Obama every single thing he wanted except Obamacare, which he is now trying to get out from under so the economic strangulation that will reslut from it doesn't result in a complete rout of his Dem buddies later this year. But he wouldn't take that deal, instead opting to let the government shut down. And just so that people wouln't realize that life without 350 million flavors of government alphabet soup would actually be more or less business as usual, he sent down orders to make it hurt as much as possible. To that end, he and those following his orders shut down open-air monuments such as the WWII Memorial, preventing old WWII veterans from paying what for many of them could have been their last earthly remembrances to even though closing them cost more than keeping them open, locked Yellowstone tourists in their hotel under armed guard, threatened to arrest Catholic preists for saying Mass on millitary bases, even as unpaid volunteers, and in a shocking display of pettiness, ticketed a marathoner for running in a national park. Perhaps most despicably, they withheld payment to the families of five soldiers killed in Afghanistan. They tried to barricade Mount Vernon even though it's privately owned and run! But yeah, sure, whatever, Republicans are jerks because they won't just lay down and let the liberals wreck the country however they want. Apparently having a spine makes you a jerk now, who knew.
You're not done here. *throws mic at you*
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- Melbourne
The prime minister, or rather, the majority that voted him in.
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- haitch40
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We have that problem here as well. Although the majority never voted for him. Never even got the majority of the seats.
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- I_Grayson_Fox_I
You not from Ukraine mr soviet russia.
Feta cheese. I hate this 🤬
You monster, that stuff is not all that bad.
I like this type
INEEDNAWZZZ
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- DigitalLuke64DD
At the moment, its the pathetic car insurance costs and limitations for first time drivers (i.e. me). Had to take some stickers off of my car because they are 'unacceptable modifications', or else I would have been fined and risked getting my policy cancelled. So what do my insurance company send me after my payment goes through? A sticker for my car. 10/10, would use logic again.
Also, one company wanted just over £9,000 a year to cover my car. For context: my car is a faded, crummy little £500 Toyota hatchback. How many 17 year olds can spend 18 times more than their car is worth each year? Makes me wonder if they even want business.
Also, one company wanted just over £9,000 a year to cover my car. For context: my car is a faded, crummy little £500 Toyota hatchback. How many 17 year olds can spend 18 times more than their car is worth each year? Makes me wonder if they even want business.
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- ROBENDEN2
Wow, seriously? I was aware of the extremely high insurance costs for young drivers in the uk, but not allowing someone to have some stickers on his (or her) car seems totally pointless. But how did they find out about that in the first place? Do you have to send the insurance company photos of your car or something like that?
Ontopic: the general social beliefs & values in the Netherlands have undergone some major changes since the turn of century, and I feel I just can't identify myself with society anymore. For example, while in fact this is a very safe country, many people seem to believe it isn't. These kind of feelings are fed by the media (by covering incidents very intense) and misused by politics to come up with nannying laws and advices. It really annoys me and I'm seriously considering emigration.
INEEDNAWZZZ
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In order for my insurance costs to go down, most companies allow for a black box (which monitors how well you drive) to be installed. If I drive safely, the overall cost is lowered and the money I've saved is refunded. If I drive terribly, it will be even more expensive. Since the black box has to be installed by one of their employees, they're also responsible for finding out whether or not you have any modifications on it. They then take pictures so that they can compare them if I have an accident, and see if I've changed anything on the car.
To be fair, the guy who installed it even said that he doesn't see the point as stickers don't have any effect on the way the car drives. He told me that if it was up to him, he would let me keep them on, but because of the pictures, it had to be done.
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- ROBENDEN2
That are some pretty restrictive rules, then. I mean, I could understand it if an insurance company would not allow engine tuning, but as for optical modifications? Having a sticker will not increase the risk of crashing.
INEEDNAWZZZ
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Exactly. The list of 'unacceptable mods' they give when you apply doesn't mention anything about stickers, nor provide a reason. The guy who inspected my car said it was because lots of people put decals of aftermarket part companies (for example, K&N stickers that come with air filters). Since they're advertising performance parts (some which could be worth a lot of money), it makes it easier for theives to know which cars have more high-end stuff modified on them. Still stupid though.
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I agree. Since Tony Abbott has came in as PM this country has being slowing going under. Major manufacturing plants here are slowly coming to a close & thousands of Aussie jobs are being lost because of it. Soon we will hardly have any stuff made in Australia anymore. I miss the old days of where heaps of things were made in this country. Also since He is Prime Minster He axed the full blown National Broadband Network & in my area we will be getting a watered down version of it with the copper still coming through from the new NBN box instead of it coming through the fibre optics to every household like it was ment to when Labor was in power.
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