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Who is worse, America, or the Muslim countries?

  • 04-05-2015 9:41pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭


    Pretty self explanatory.

    They each mark each other out as the villain.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭s15r330


    *sits back with popcorn in hand*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Which would you rather live in?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    the ones over ---> there on a standard map you buy in the shops or can view for free online. Likewise, if you have a friend who owns a map, you may borrow that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Who'd win between King Kong and Justin Bieber?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Carlow


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    s15r330 wrote: »
    *sits back with popcorn in hand*

    Why do you think I created the thread :):):)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭s15r330


    Tough call, in America i'd have to listen to Americans, in a Muslim country...well ya know! I reckon i'll stick with good old Longford! (Did I just say that?!)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    s15r330 wrote: »
    Tough call, in America i'd have to listen to Americans, in a Muslim country...well ya know! I reckon i'll stick with good old Longford! (Did I just say that?!)

    Yes you did.......hang your head in shame.

    You could have at least said Leitrim


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    USA, in a progressive state. And have lots of gay sex without fear of being executed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I'm somewhere in the middle.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    s15r330 wrote: »
    *sits back with popcorn in hand*

    People who say this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Forget about the Americans and the muslims Ffs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    My question is not of quality of living (because its pretty obvious who wins there).

    Who is more transparent? Who is the evilest?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    My question is not of quality of living (because its pretty obvious who wins there).

    Who is more transparent? Who is the evilest?

    The ones who want me to die


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Carlow

    Oi!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    At least you won't be flogged,stoned,beheaded or whatnot for starting a thread like this.Just sayin..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭ArtyM


    Who'd win between King Kong and Justin Bieber?

    That fight is never going to happen, too much politics!
    Bieber needs to fight Selena Gomez first before he has any hope of a shot at the Kong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    ArtyM wrote: »
    That fight is never going to happen, too much politics!
    Bieber needs to fight Selena Gomez first before he has any hope of a shot at the Kong.

    If Bieber is getting knocked down by Orlando fecking Bloom then he has no chance against Selena Gomez


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    So bieber is who, the Muslim?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    I've seen some stupid threads over the years but this one takes the biscuit


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    I've seen some stupid threads over the years but this one takes the biscuit

    Yep this thread would have its hand chopped off in a few Muslim states.

    (what?!)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Careful now, we don't want the extremists hacking boards do we?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Hack Infidel
    Hack Boards
    Hacked Off
    Hacked Off the Infidels Head


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Tough call nowadays.

    1950's USA. Now that's my idea of paradise!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Massimo Cassagrande


    Worse at what? Golf?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    In the pantheon of stupid threads… this one is eating chicken dinner.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,769 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Neither.
    America for all its faults, alot of which are self-reported and others being of course more serious such as the NSA, is basically a stable democratic system where quite an amount of progessive (admittedly not a fan) though has originated from.
    For Muslim countries, they is centuries of historical development within their own traditions which have crafted (again I respectivefully disagree with) a cogent world view that for eras have been a dominent force on the planet.

    What is worse is the simple binary choices in a grey world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Which is better, a picnic basket full of delicious fresh sandwiches or a train?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    mad muffin wrote: »
    In the pantheon of stupid threads… this one is eating chicken dinner.

    But is it Halal chicken or Kentucky Fried Chicken?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,828 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Which is better, a picnic basket full of delicious fresh sandwiches or a train?

    Does the train have a dining car?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    stimpson wrote: »
    Does the train have a dining car?

    No it's just the engine and drivers cabin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭mackerski


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Pretty self explanatory.

    They each mark each other out as the villain.

    I'm more curious which is better, Ireland or one of those hot countries. Choose between, um, "both" options.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,450 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    My question is not of quality of living (because its pretty obvious who wins there).

    Who is more transparent? Who is the evilest?


    It is?

    Depends upon a number of different criteria tbh, I sure as hell wouldn't mind living in a palace with a harem of women at my beck and call with a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce Phantom for when I don't feel like taking the chrome plated BMW out for a spin! :D

    Contrast that with living in some Southern State redneck shìthole in a trailer park with the KKK for neighbours...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    It is?

    Depends upon a number of different criteria tbh, I sure as hell wouldn't mind living in a palace with a harem of women at my beck and call with a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce Phantom for when I don't feel like taking the chrome plated BMW out for a spin! :D

    Contrast that with living in some Southern State redneck shìthole in a trailer park with the KKK for neighbours...

    The quality of living of a country is taken as the quality of living for an average citizen.

    So who is better off, a fat taxi-driver in the U.S.A or the smelly taxi-driver in the U.A.E


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭mackerski


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    So who is better off, a fat taxi-driver in the U.S.A or the smelly taxi-driver in the U.A.E

    To come to an objective conclusion we'd really need to know more about the smell of the American and the girth of the Arab driver.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Among Afghans, farting is far more embarrassing and shameful than it is in the West. There’s a folktale about a man who farts by mistake in front of his family and out of shame leaves home for twenty years.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭ALiasEX


    Which is better, a picnic basket full of delicious fresh sandwiches or a train?

    Depends if your target is civilians or a president.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Among Afghans, farting is far more embarrassing and shameful than it is in the West. There’s a folktale about a man who farts by mistake in front of his family and out of shame leaves home for twenty years.

    In that case, my family would never see me again!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭ALiasEX


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Which would you rather live in?

    That's easy. I don't want to be killed by a drone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,450 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    The quality of living of a country is taken as the quality of living for an average citizen.

    So who is better off, a fat taxi-driver in the U.S.A or the smelly taxi-driver in the U.A.E


    I was going to say I'd sooner be the smelly taxi driver (everyone loves their own brand :D), but after reading this -

    Among Afghans, farting is far more embarrassing and shameful than it is in the West. There’s a folktale about a man who farts by mistake in front of his family and out of shame leaves home for twenty years.


    USA! USA! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 358 ✭✭irishlad12345


    one lets you drink alcohol the other doesn't. you decide


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭mark13


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    So who is better off, a fat taxi-driver in the U.S.A or the smelly taxi-driver in the U.A.E

    This is the U.A.E were gang-rape victims are jailed and you need a license to drink alcohol...oohh tough choice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    Northern California is nicer than Fallujah and Raqqa. But then again the Maldives are nicer than East St. Louis.

    A draw!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭nc19


    America is worse in general in terms of being the obnoxious popular child that thinks everyone needs to hear what they have to say and all its friends pander to them cos they have the PS4

    A Muslim country is worse in terms of beheading people over whether or not they believe in fairy stories


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭nc19


    efb wrote:
    The ones who want me to die


    Maybe you deserve to die??? Not because of your sexual preferences but maybe you support Man Utd or something.........there's always someone who wants you dead for something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Ugh I hate questions like this. Women are educated in america, women aren't completely subjugated by the men, you don't get executed for being gay, america isn't a complete ****hole of a place that creates laws based on the writings of an ancient book. But apparently those countries are the way they are because of america..racism..islamapohbia..oil....white supremacy...colonialism..something something something. its everyones fault but the muslim people


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    My question again was not, whose people are better off, who has the best laws, but more on the political side of it. Who is more transparent? American intelligence agencies have been monitoring people everwhere in the world and are rarely caught. The big Muslim terrorist groups who terrorise many places and are always caught.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,741 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    I would be pro-democracy, but America started meddling in international affairs since the Reagan era, and it has cast a cloud over them too. I'm pro the ordinary Iraqi, Syrian and Iranian people whose lives have been wrecked by American interference followed by Islamic lunatics


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭ConstantJoe


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Ugh I hate questions like this. Women are educated in america, women aren't completely subjugated by the men, you don't get executed for being gay, america isn't a complete ****hole of a place that creates laws based on the writings of an ancient book. But apparently those countries are the way they are because of america..racism..islamapohbia..oil....white supremacy...colonialism..something something something. its everyones fault but the muslim people


    I hate questions like this because its just a stupid question - not all Muslim countries are the same (and obviously, not all of America is the same - I don't think many people would be choosing East St. Louis over the Maldives). Homosexuality has been decriminalized in Turkey since 1858, which is just a tad bit longer than here. Iran and Afghanistan weren't exactly bad places to be back in the 60's. And Beirut wasn't called "the Paris of the Middle East" for nothing. Not every Muslim country is Saudi Arabia - and not a lot of non-Saudis are great fans of there either.

    Also:
    bb1234567 wrote: »
    that creates laws based on the writings of an ancient book.
    Really? You want to make this argument?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Such an ignorant thread... well done OP...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 374 ✭✭Jjiipp79


    In a word .... Americans

    In two words..... The Muslims


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