What About Europe Makes You Mad?

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 7:11 am

well?

personally i dont have alot to add but i dont think europe gives enough to 3rd world countries and not enough is spent on research.

rapier · Post by **rapier** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 7:14 am

Originally posted by Tom:
 but i dont think europe gives enough to 3rd world countries

I'd better not say anything to that...

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 7:17 am

why not?

Happy Evil · Post by **Happy Evil** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 7:26 am

Warm beer.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 7:30 am

Originally posted by Happy Evil:
Warm beer.

That is only in england to my kownlegde - the rest of us drink beer cold (and in large quantaties

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Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 7:33 am

ROFL

My answer:

Europeans

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 7:36 am

The gas prices, I pay way to mutch to keep my car moving!!

Damn Shell

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 7:44 am

Europe's cool.

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 7:46 am

Football ain't football....hehe

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 2:01 pm

Posted by Rob-hin -

The gas prices, I pay way to mutch to keep my car moving!!
Damn Shell

I agree. I have mentioned petrol prices many a time on this board. In the UK there is no 'Shell' though - bought out by BP...

Posted by Bloodstalker -

Football ain't football....hehe

Grrrr

Don't get me angry - you wouldn't like me when I'm angry

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 4:11 pm

Ummm...

Other than rapier, I can't think of anything.

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 1:22 am

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Yshania:
I agree. I have mentioned petrol prices many a time on this board. In the UK there is no 'Shell' though - bought out by BP...
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Shell is marktleider, if they change there gas price, all brands change theire price.

They are a bunsh of piiieep(ony the really top bosses) , they say that prices are because of say the government but prices are high because they want it to be.

-Deke- · Post by **-Deke-** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 3:17 am

The idiots in the EC. They decided to move between Brussels and Strassburg every now and then. It's costing way too much money.

Further that damn dutch concession politics. Never daring to step up to the plate and taking a swing at a politically incorrect project (legalizing soft drugs for example).

Furthermore the fact that so little countries in Europe posses citizens that speak anything but their own language. Try English in France or Germany, well good luck...

And .....(way too little space here)

O, btw I'm Dutch

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 3:47 am

Originally posted by -Deke-:
Furthermore the fact that so little countries in Europe posses citizens that speak anything but their own language. Try English in France or Germany, well good luck...

Hmmm, but why should everyone speak English? Isn't it kind of arrogant of the English-speaking world to not bother even trying to learn other languages, because people assume everyone else will speak English?

Legalizing soft drugs... Well, it does seem kind of pointless to me that pot is still illegal when it is so readily available. Legalizing it wouldn't make everyone potheads, because anyone who wants it can get it anyway...

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 4:02 am

Originally posted by Georgi:
Hmmm, but why should everyone speak English? Isn't it kind of arrogant of the English-speaking world to not bother even trying to learn other languages, because people assume everyone else will speak English?

The French will love you, Georgi.

The thing I don't like about Europe... Well, I don't like people bracket whole Europe into one at any subject. "Europe is this", or "People in Europe do that" makes me mad! France, England, Italy, Germany, they are all different culture and history with something common being in Europe. It doesn't mean everthing has to be categorized as "Europe" or "European".

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 4:11 am

Originally posted by Minerva:
The French will love you, Georgi.

Ummm, maybe until they hear me trying to speak French... then they'll be begging me to just speak English

I agree, there's too much variation within Europe to generalize about it.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 3:47 pm

I guess it's really hard to visualize an entire continent filled with diverse cultures as something to be mad at. Might as well say, "What do you find makes you mad about the Americas?" Now, if you said, "What makes you angry about the Germans?" or the French, or the Brits, or the Finns (who must buy a license to get stinking drunk whenever they leave their homeland), well...

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 7:13 am

I agree with Fable and Minerva, it's almost impossible to answer what makes me mad about Europe, since the countries are so heterogenous.

I agree with Tom that most countries should spend more on both 3rd world help and research, but for countries like Albania (Europes poorest country) it's of course impossible.

Something about the EU that makes me really angry, is the recent idea that asylum seekers to EU countries, should not be able to seek asylum in another EU country if they have been rejected by one. This is outrageous

As you might know, people from Afghanistan is currently the world's largest group of refugees. About 2 million people have fled from the Taliban dictatorship. 50 000 Afghanistanians have applied for asylum in Sweden, and not a single person has got asylum here!

Why is this? Because they didn't have their papers in order!

Now, do you expect people who have fled head over heels from war zones and totalitarian systems to have their papers in order? Many of them has never had a passport in their life! Luckily, people who are rejected by Swedish bureucracy can still seek asylum in other EU countries, but I would hate if in the future, a common asylum is introduced.

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 7:44 am

What about Europe makes me mad....Hmmm (think think... aha)

I'm MAD THAT THE NETHERLANDS HAVE ONLY WON THE EUROPA CUP ONCE....ONCE!!!!

Aaaaaah, I feel better now.

WE had so many chances and we blew em all...

It has slipped trough our hands to many times.
<starts crying after thinking back to the years of Van Basten>