Where In The World...

[orb85750]

I know, but we do allow for the American education system here, and therefore let you off with that line of thinking...

That's why we don't lump Americans & Canadians together, a far better education system here....

The general education system here is not good, and it is getting worse, but we still have several of the top higher education and research institutions in the world.  And it's so much easier to get your Ph.D. in the UK than here in the US -- it's really quite an astonishing difference in the physical sciences!  I think that's true for the rest of Europe too.  ;-)

[runequester]

From Scandinavia and proud of it, though Ive lived in the US for the past 8 years

[jj]

         Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;
Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra mad,
Tros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.




Cytgan
Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad,
Tra môr yn fur
I'r bur hoffbau,
O bydded i'r heniaith barhau.



Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd,
Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn, i'm golwg sydd hardd;
Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si
Ei nentydd, afonydd, i mi.


Cytgan



Os treisiodd y gelyn fy ngwlad dan ei droed,
Mae hen iaith y Gymry mor fyw ag erioed,
Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad,
Na thelyn berseiniol fy ngwlad.


Cytgan

[Franko]

The general education system here is not good, and it is getting worse, but we still have several of the top higher education and research institutions in the world.  And it's so much easier to get your Ph.D. in the UK than here in the US -- it's really quite an astonishing difference in the physical sciences!  I think that's true for the rest of Europe too.  ;-)

The education system in the UK is not much better to be honest. The lack of discipline in schools along with the dumbing down of all levels of exams in recent years just to achieve higher pass rate figures in government league tables, has only led to the sorry state of this country which is rapidly being overrun by the Neds & Chavs culture that has come of all this dumbing down & Political Correctness.

I think it's the same in most countries these day's but here in the UK it's a really big problem and not getting any better.

@ JJ
Love that Anthem...
(especially at the end of ZULU...)

[jj]

We have the best sounding anthem.  Other uk ones are dull, most world ones are dull, ours is really uplifiting

[Buzzfuzz]

We have the best sounding anthem. Other uk ones are dull, most world ones are dull, ours is really uplifiting

I know the song.
How ? Beki Onslow, she's from Swansea and yes I really know a bit more about her than other fans :lol:
She did sing it a bit of it once.

[motrucker]

May as well say Washington D.C. - the worse traffic in the country! Ah, 495, 270, Rt 50 (either one) and the mixing bowl (RIP?)
I actually live closer to Annapolis, so I have a few miles of relative driving sanity.  There are a lot of pluses though, theatre, music/concerts, art shows, drag strips, etc..

[tone007]

The education system in the UK is not much better to be honest.

HEY! TEACHER! Leave those kids alone!


..and I live close enough to motrucker to bring Amigas to and fro.

[djrikki]

Hehe

More like.. HEY TEACHER! Keep those kids up the f*****g ass!

[lunithy]

Greetings from Australia!
 

[Orkin]

Wisconsin... which I guess some people consider to be part of the USA.

[Drummerboy]

San José -  Costa Rica  in Central America... but sometimes in Argentina South America..


It is important to know that the American continent is divided into North America, Central America,Caribean Islands and South America  .. Not North and South America only..

[Buzzfuzz]

Wisconsin... which I guess some people consider to be part of the USA.

It's not then ? :laughing:

[pVC]

Well.. if this poll is about geographical location, then UK and Scandinavia could well be with Europe. I don't know why some of you think EU here...

[cha05e90]

Well.. if this poll is about geographical location, then UK and Scandinavia could well be with Europe. I don't know why some of you think EU here...

Of course - geographically - UK and scandinavia are part of Europe. As well as the left part of Russia and the northern continental part of Turkey. Gosh. And - by the way - the usual "EU bashing" is getting really boring. Even the brits work with the € since more than 20 years, everything you do, everything you sell, the whole british economy is based on the € since middle/end of the 80's. This has indeed nothing to do with that more or less funny coloured paper you use as money in the streets.

I really hope the EU fails - we are better off as separate countries looking after our own affairs.

I won't - and, we won't. In the end this would mean some kind of national state'ism from pre-World-War-II. Our more or less high economic outcome in the EU (not "Europe") is based on the "EWG" from the late 50's/early 60's. Since then we are not "separate" anymore. Funny enough during the cold war Breshnew called the EWG/EU the "fourth reich" - they were well aware of the united economical (not political) strength of an associated western europe.

[Orkin]

It's not then ? :laughing:

Well, it is, but Constitutionally speaking, it's an independent state that voluntarily participates in the union. Really, though, I just wanted to jump on the bandwagon and declare our land as uniquely unafiliated with its land mass. It seemed like the popular thing to do in this poll.:roflmao: