Stats, graphs, misc numbers on various countries - how do you rate?

[Angela Harlem]

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/mil_exp_dol_fig_cap

that's military spending, but there's lists for sport, education, most gun related deaths, violence...it's pretty interesting.


http://www.nationmaster.com/

 

[deep]

angela,


thank you for posting this site



there is a lot of information available.



I do not think we (Americans) are getting what we are paying for.



esp. in health care.

 

[Angela Harlem]

i agree your health care is a huge issue.

ive been engrossed in this site for...since a bit before posting it.
we all have many things to be proud of as well as ashamed i think.

 

[fah]

Thanks ....there is a ton of info here

 

[verte76]

Our health care is a great big rip-off.

 

[beli]

"They" have put Australia in Oceania not Asia. I wish "someone" would make "some kinda" ruling that decides WHICH section Australia is part of.

 

[beli]

People

Perth is generally an egalitarian and relaxed city which, although it has pockets of extreme wealth and poverty, is almost entirely middle class and suburban. The population is easy-going and friendly, but can be parochial, especially towards the "Eastern States" which are often viewed with deep suspicion.

So watch out Angie, Im suspicious of you

The 90 year-old University of Western Australia in particular is renowned for its monumental neo-classical architecture.... Many of the buildings are constructed from limestone, including the enormous Winthrop Hall with its Romanesque architecture.

(My workplace) Its Tuscan actually, and its a fire hazard. And the Union guy slammed his fingernail in the big stupid door and had to release the blood pressure by stabbing himself with a hot paper clip.



Better stop posting, lest people work out Im sitting in my suburban home, eating my middleclass Tic-Toc biscuits.

 

[fah]

Hey, I just read that they call Vancouver the 'Amsterdam of the North'.

Who knew?

 

[beli]

Hey, I just read that they call Vancouver the 'Amsterdam of the North'.

Who knew?

What does that mean? The foods salty?

 

[fah]

It is a reference to something that is smoked and I don't mean herring

 

[Angela Harlem]

I guess you aren't big on rollmops in Canuck land
Eww. Its funny how Australia and The Netherlands are always so close in these kinds of comparisons. We're more conservative in a lot of areas, but Canberra's move toward being the capital of porn, pot and legalised explosives must make some kind of difference lol.

 

[Salome]

yeah

minus the weather Australia and The Netherlands are about the same really

well

umm