murder rates by country

Threedee said:
I am part Irish, Czech, and Slovene, 1/16 Native American... and part German as well (but I was raised by a father wo prefers the [Czech] Nativity over the German Tree at Christmas time!)
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OK, so apart from the sixteenth of you that's native American, what you're saying is that you're basically one of us. :D
 
Mottleydude said:
What cultural dfferences account for widely divergent murder rates in the USA? The south consistently has some of the highest murder rates. Higher than the north east seaboard which has a much higher population denity. What accounts for this?
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The south has a much more violent culture. It is probably one of the reasons people down here are so nice face to face; stepping on someones toes quickly leads to violent confrontation. We probably drags up the entire nations murder rate.
 
Superfreak said:
actually its your ignorance that is obvious.

In what ways are the UK, Germany and France 'less advanced' than the US?
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you stalking snake oil salesman.
How about in these ways, tech, Per Capita GDP, Football, and almost everything else. Save restraunts, wine and sports cars
 
charver said:
It's true that the days of the large scale protest are long gone (apart from the Iraq anti-war marches). Political parties are all but redundant and can't fund themselves from their own pitiful membership, the unions have been smashed, political awareness is (from my experience anyway) virtually nil amongst the general public.
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I think I know a lot more about British politics than the average Briton.

Which is a lot more pathetic on my part, now that I think about it.
 
charver said:
Unless there's a drastic change in the voting system, preventing a state of virtual elected dictatorship for a minimum 4 year term, then i can't see anything changing. Needless to say neither party is willing to change a system where they hold all the power.
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The Liberals are!

But they'll never hold power. I dunno, I read a report where they once predicted that they may have a shot of winning by 2050. Just cross your fingers.
 
tech, Sorry, mostly Indian/Pakistani. US is lagging

Per Capita GDP, not for much longer, American "wealth" was based on inflated property values and the almighty dollar is on it's way out

Football, who cares?
 
Watermarx said:
The Liberals are!

But they'll never hold power. I dunno, I read a report where they once predicted that they may have a shot of winning by 2050. Just cross your fingers.
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The polls say a hung parliament is still possible for next time round, seeing as the Tories still have no policies for the economic crisis and are as incompetent as the current lot. I don't suppose that hope will last forever though, especially as unemployment starts to creep up to 3 million plus.
 
DNC said:
tech, Sorry, mostly Indian/Pakistani. US is lagging

Per Capita GDP, not for much longer, American "wealth" was based on inflated property values and the almighty dollar is on it's way out

Football, who cares?
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beside you being gay with the football comment, do all democrats have to be retards on business and economics, can you read.
India your kiding right, data entry son
 
A hung parliament is possible; Conservative majority is more likely. I don't think a hung parliament would be able to get anything done anyway. They'd just refuse to cooperate with each other, nothing would get done, and they'd call another election when the polls were favorable.

And who knows, maybe if the Liberals did win in 2050, they'd put the electoral reform on the back burner, and forget about their promises to introduce an embedded constitution. The only thing that would really change it is if the people cared about curbing the massive powers of parliament, which they don't really seem to.
 
Topspin said:
you guys/questionable play what we call hear kickball
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Yes, it's just us and every other nation on earth which likes 'kickball'.

Which means when someone is a 'world champion' they haven't just beaten a team from Pittsburgh and a team from Boston to claim the honour.
 
Watermarx said:
A hung parliament is possible; Conservative majority is more likely. I don't think a hung parliament would be able to get anything done anyway. They'd just refuse to cooperate with each other, nothing would get done, and they'd call another election when the polls were favorable.

And who knows, maybe if the Liberals did win in 2050, they'd put the electoral reform on the back burner, and forget about their promises to introduce an embedded constitution. The only thing that would really change it is if the people cared about curbing the massive powers of parliament, which they don't really seem to.
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I don't hold out much hope.

I'm not sure if i'll even make it to 2050 at this rate. Every time we elect a new government it seems to be more ridiculous and incompetent than the last one.

So we've got a fat one-eyed idiot who lost all our money or an old Etonian PR man who wants to kill and eat the poor but in a nice, caring way.

We'd do better drawing lots like the bloody Greeks did.
 
charver said:
I'm a fickle sort. Last week i woke up and wanted to be Tahiti but this week i have to admit i'd love to be San Marino.

If i really envied America i'd just move there. There are planes that go there now and everything.
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Planes?? You are talking about those things that they claim will FLY?? And carry people all the way over from passed the edge of the world?

No Way!
 
Solitary said:
Planes?? You are talking about those things that they claim will FLY?? And carry people all the way over from passed the edge of the world?

No Way!
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Oh yes.

Once we harnessed the power of steam in the 1980s there was no stopping us.
 
charver said:
Oh yes.

Once we harnessed the power of steam in the 1980s there was no stopping us.
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I heard about that in school where they taught us all sorts of lies.

You can't put a harness on a bunch of steam. Thats as ridiculous as that evolution stuff, and saying that the earth is a big ball.

We'd all fall off.
 
Solitary said:
I heard about that in school where they taught us all sorts of lies.

You can't put a harness on a bunch of steam. Thats as ridiculous as that evolution stuff, and saying that the earth is a big ball.

We'd all fall off.
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Ah the reason why we don't fall off is that God sends down the angels to hold us up. That is why when we do something sinful, like drink to excess, the angels, having become angered by our wickedness, refuse to come to our aid leaving us floundering about on the great wobbly Earth.

Luckily, they are very forgiving beings. Mine has a fantastic pair on her to boot.
 
charver said:
Ah the reason why we don't fall off is that God sends down the angels to hold us up. That is why when we do something sinful, like drink to excess, the angels, having become angered by our wickedness, refuse to come to our aid leaving us floundering about on the great wobbly Earth.

Luckily, they are very forgiving beings. Mine has a fantastic pair on her to boot.
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So you got blown by a ghost while your angel (with a fantastic pair on her) watched?
 
Man, my angels have been falling down on the job! They haven't been coming to my aide much over the last two years. Good thing I have my doctors!
 
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