yea, i agree. theres no challenge. but thats where weed comes in. i smoke in public all the time, during lunch hour downtown, at the beach....
Well thats a negative way to say we have interactive games that can get you killed or robbed for real, we prefer the let you learn by the seat of your pants, and we have excellent healthcare, you just have to choose from the 2 plans, the rich plan gets you cared for so you will live and the poor plan is thru farmers, you get hurt and they shoot you and bury you out back. Our goverment is the best, its entertaining, always leaves ya guessing whats next and just when you think they could have not done any worse they show you they can. As for a dumbed down culture well what do you expect, a group of spoiled slackers with no motivation at all.
America has a good standard of living, and great culture. The Netherlands has a good standard of living, a few good DJ's and nightclubs, and I guess if you like visiting dams while high it's great. Netherlands doesn't stand out much though. If it weren't for drugs and prostitues, the Netherlands would be like Denmark. Old Europe.
Ok maybe I was a little harsh. Netherlands wouldn't be as unimportant as Denmark. Netherlands is at least a Belgium.
America brought laughter to the world by electing George Bush. I don't know who's in charge in the Netherlands (Queen Whilimena's dead right?) but I'll bet they're not nearly as funny.
I think Bush beats Hitler simply becuase Hitler did take a starving third world country and took it to a super power status in a short period of time, he had sight just his methods were not very correct. Bush on the other hand has no goal, no directive and he seems to aimlessly screw up anything he touches, hell look at his personal business ventures in his past. If not for his daddy he would be sleeping in a gutter. So Bush achieves the award for the biggest joke.
Russia for vodka, Israel for the lovely peace we have, and Honduras because of the jungles and beaches.
~ We have our own vodka as well (Bols Vodka) and it is fucking great. ~ As for peace, Israel wins hands down. ~Jungles we have none, but beaches are all topless here so the Netherlands wins on that point.
i know nothing about anyplace. i'm just depressed by fences, keep out signs and idiots with guns 'protecting' them. so i stay in my house and play with my computer because most of what i'm surrounded by outside is crap. not as bad crap as i'm always hearing about and have even seen myself. but still crap. is there any place that doesn't worship the automobile or isn't in the proccess of being persuaded to? is there any place that doesn't pay lip service to a monotheistic belief as an excuse for people to beat each other over the head? i've never been to the netherlands, but i'm pretty sure there is no spot on this planet that wouldn't be a relative paradise if there were no human people living there. i like mountains and trees and little narrow gauge railways, but i don't know of anyplace people live the way of dream of living inside my head. and i could give a flying rat about organized sports. i guess what i'm saying is that while i know almost nothing about the netherlands, other then a lot of it is below sea level and they do still have some trains, and a lot of bycycles and bike trails, or did the last i heard anything about it, open legal selling of the herb in coffee houses, or again so i've heard but could really give a rats ass less about that either, i do know what i don't like about where i do live. and that is in the u.s. (and you don't have to love marxism to have no use in hell for the suffering and harm that is being caused as a matter of policy by the corporate mafia) =^^= .../\...
I had the same problem, but if they legalized cocaine I'd have no probablem doing enough of it for it to lose some of its luster.