Originally posted by Trev33I was a diplomtic representative to Teabagistan, until there was a massive Typhoon. 🙂
N. Ireland is crapper than everywhere, i haven't been everywhere but I've got around a bit. I'd rather live in Teabagistan... hadn't heard of it until this thread but it sounds like a lovely place.
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I guess it all depends on how much of a country you have seen and which angle you first see it from. My first visit to France was appalling but that was 5 days of nothing but hitchhiking on the motorways there. Service stations and public toilets were our accommodation, hairy lorry drivers our chaperones. Our first drop off was a public toilet in the north of France, our second, a horrible little town called 'Bapaulme'. I never intend to go back to Bapaulme again.
We thought that Nirvana were terribly popular in France as that is all we heard on the radio an in the service stations all week. On our return we discovered that Kurt Cobain had committed suicide that week. That's another story however...
Three months in the Ukraine '91, Odessa and surrounding areas, and short breaks to Moscow. Poor, hostile, paranoid, corrupt to the bone and you could not count on anything; housewarming systems went on and off, mostly off, and you never could tell when that happened. Same with running water, hot or cold and mostly nothing. That was not funny in December. The food was horrible. Shortages on everything. Queues for bread, queues for a 'supermarket' and all they had was one brand of shampoo. Nothing else, just shampoo.
Never ever again to a former iron curtain country.
Originally posted by SakeNo wonder they had nothing, all that money went into heavy duty, bullet proof window curtains. 😕
Three months in the Ukraine '91, Odessa and surrounding areas, and short breaks to Moscow. Poor, hostile, paranoid, corrupt to the bone and you could not count on anything; housewarming systems went on and off, mostly off, and you never could tell when that happened. Same with running water, hot or cold and mostly nothing. That was not funny in December. The fo ...[text shortened]... d of shampoo. Nothing else, just shampoo.
Never ever again to a former iron curtain country.
Mixed feelings about that. It was just after the Jeltsin coup. Inflation was rising. The old people suddenly could only buy one sausage of their pension a month and that was it, while the Mercedes were rolling into the country. Being a part of the SU, they had spaceprograms, nuclear submarines, you know, just sad. There was no joy whatsoever in that country. None.
Originally posted by Trev33I'm pretty sure it's not crapper than everywhere...hear those others speak of the eastern block? I grew up in Hungary til I was 6 and visited 3 times since. It has gotten better, but if you think that Hungary is prolly the best of the former Soviet union east block countries, then you really start to get a real taste of what crap is
N. Ireland is crapper than everywhere, i haven't been everywhere but I've got around a bit. I'd rather live in Teabagistan... hadn't heard of it until this thread but it sounds like a lovely place.
in short: crap or no tv
Things that dont work
Guitar string you cant tune
Milk comes in plastic bags you have to cut the corner off
Metal nail clippers break on your nails after a few uses
Chicken fat on bread is considered a delicacy
The cigarrettes I roll from others discarded butts make a better smoke than a hungarian cigarette
Cars made of plastic with two stroke engines
Red wine and coke (50/50) is the most popular young persons drink (the only way to stomach that drop)
Highest rate of suicides, car crashes and unemployment
....just off the top of my head. It got a bit better since then but still, to this day, every second thing accosiated with Hungary turns out crap (for example,my mum just sent me a present from hungary- a bottle oppener fridge magnet.
The magnet came off after 36 hours on the fridge.
Originally posted by Sakeha, I was in odessa in 85 I think. it was pretty weird compared to west, but I didn't get any bad memories. pepsi was out every second day, but that's okay. it's not like I was expecting everything to be just like in finland.
Three months in the Ukraine '91, Odessa and surrounding areas, and short breaks to Moscow. Poor, hostile, paranoid, corrupt to the bone and you could not count on anything; housewarming systems went on and off, mostly off, and you never could tell when that happened. Same with running water, hot or cold and mostly nothing. That was not funny in December. The fo ...[text shortened]... d of shampoo. Nothing else, just shampoo.
Never ever again to a former iron curtain country.
customs at the airport was a bitch until someone figured out to bribe them.
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Originally posted by karoly aczelStop living in the past. We're talking about now. I sincerely hope that this was a publicity stunt, if not - concrete evidence as to why N.I is the worse country in the world.
I'm pretty sure it's not crapper than everywhere...hear those others speak of the eastern block? I grew up in Hungary til I was 6 and visited 3 times since. It has gotten better, but if you think that Hungary is prolly the best of the former Soviet union east block countries, then you really start to get a real taste of what crap is
in short: crap or ...[text shortened]... ungary- a bottle oppener fridge magnet.
The magnet came off after 36 hours on the fridge.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/topless-rihanna-rattles-northern-ireland-farmer-with-risque-video-shoot-16055569.html
Originally posted by wormwoodI have to admit, it was a potentially beautiful city. Lots of old buildings, a beautiful opera with an acoustic hard to be found on the planet, a sweet tramsystem, the Black Sea. Hitch hiking in a city was new to me and a fast way to get around.
ha, I was in odessa in 85 I think. it was pretty weird compared to west, but I didn't get any bad memories. pepsi was out every second day, but that's okay. it's not like I was expecting everything to be just like in finland.
customs at the airport was a bitch until someone figured out to bribe them.
It was that grim atmosphere, nothing matters, not just bitchy customs, everybody working in a shop, driving a bus, working at the station, they were all so hostile. A feeling like; This is the first and last time I buy bread in your bakery. And then find out, it's the only bakery around in the nearby area. And 'nearby' was a pretty hardworking word. And they knew it and didn't give a damn.
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Originally posted by mikelomI'm sure there are worse, but Croatia made me sad. Vukovar still has many buildings that are either totally uninhabitable or heavily damaged but lived-in, from the 1990's war of independence. You see little kids walking to school past this kind of wreckage. Its population is about 1/3 what it was pre-war. In the countryside, one sees tracts of cultivated land punctuated by overgrown patches with signs warning of land mines. We had lunch with a local inn owner who missed the orderly state of affairs when Tito was in power.
What's the worst country you have been to?
This is relative to your own, obviously.
Untapped country that has a great opportunity to invest in and rape financially, totally disgusting country, disrespectful country, scary country with unsavourable laws?
All are applicable.
I just visited Laos, again, for 3 days. It has massive untapped resources ...[text shortened]... US?
I think not.
Laos? I am investing, after my trip...... anybody interested? 😉
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