Posts made by myrea

@uzuzjh:

i thought the hotter the climate, the less people "work"…

there is a relation ship yes… quite logic, it's unbearable to work in +45ºc simple as that, you would have to be paying a ton of AC to compensate... in those regions there is also or oil in extreme, or in mild heat a lot of natural food, so when you have plenty of crop, and no need to work for it, you do tend to work less for it because it's already available... if you live at the beach you are not working to retire and live in there, since you already do.

@Louism:

Just read thru the whole article. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2012/07/18/the-laziest-countries-in-the-world-u-s-not-even-close/

I think you are right. I was thinking about the economic terms. Then, in case of Japan, it must have something to do with growing urbanisation, their lifestyle and work ethics that makes them less physically active or stuck at work until very late at night.

take a look how they defined inactivity japan has a lot of service oriented jobs, most work is desk related and tends for long shifts…

I'm a kind of spiritual that hates the words "faith" "belief" and "dogma" so not really religeous, just a wanderer really

The question is albeit freewill might exist, in a dogmatic view the path, and choice of path, and circumstance that make you chose said path, is always guided or predestined by a diety in some way… hence (god fault ) this in typical monotheist culture, I'd could easily argue that christianiaty is  not monotheistic and that god is unperfect in the bible, so freewill might actually exist around faulted dieties...

@raphjd:

Of course it's all about themselves.   Unlike believers, they don't have god or gods to worship and carry on about.

If I get into a car accident, it was either the other person's fault or mine, not gods or demons that caused it.

:true: :bravo: :thx:

light hair, trimmed… i like men well groomed  >:D

At least you did not get a feeder like my ex… He expected me to love him as he was, but could not wait to change me.

Be welcomed to the forum hope you have a good experience

I never said 62 was high for retirement, it's just not exceedigly low as you putted it (specially for people that started working at 14 tops)… I do not aim to convince you that our taxes are higher than yours... tho comparatively you have benefits and higher salaries (which is normal), I was pointing that the situation was far from easy as you labeled it. And if you stopped and actually researched you'd know that in some countries you can't drive a car which is not insured, it's illegal.

Coming out isn't really about your sexuality, it's about you reaching a state inside of you, you do not care about who tries to put you down you advance forward with found serenity and respect, you build a path you want and not the one people think is best for you.

@raphjd:

We need good (emotionless) debates going on here to liven up the forums.

I believe this was not your intention, but this could never be an emotionless debate, you are talking about the lifes of people ruined, entire generations in poverty… they are not numbered statistics that go up or down in a screen.

And the thought those lifes ruin is used to liven up a forum is utterly insulting.

And I believe you did not meant this but be aware of how it could be interpreted.

You have benefits for those taxes tho, how much do you pay from hospital and medical care again? Buying a car means paying three times it's price, we have the insurance and the normal buying tax and a tax just to put the car on a public road. And our social security income was used to rescue banks so ahem…

Look I do not want to come across as whining... but unless you actually lived in some of those places you do not know where the money went and how enrage the people was at the spending... like the euro 2004 and the tgv idea...

Imagine scandinavian crowned houses spending 10 times what they spend now... sounds hilarious right? Now live with it for a decade or two.

@raphjd:

who do not know how easy they had it.

Notice that it is past tense, not present tense. He's referring to before the bailouts.

We already talked about this; ie the gray economies where people didn't pay taxes on goods and services, extremely early retirements, etc, etc.

That was not the case to all the countries before stated…  62 was extremely early? The average of people started working at 11 to 14 remeber that, we reformed this country after the 70's from almost nothing to average, the finances took hard times surely, but in all other areas it was a huge leap. And I am sorry we had our taxes at least in PT at level of europe with a fraction of your salaries, less than a third and we managed with prices climbing to almost the same... I get that argument for others but for us is a bit off, our current tax is around 23% for most food. (most restoration has trouble handling it)

Imagine doing your life with 525€ month, where most housing goes for 300€ minimum, and you have to pay all the bills taxes and buy food. Granted you can get a double job and with luck get to 1200€ with a partner and all. This was what we dealed with before, now the housing is 500€ the salaries are less and the taxes cut half your pay basically. The people had nothing to do with the grey economics in PT that is all our government spending on "personal"

Well all things pondered it's not in the 10 commandements given, apparently god is way more pissed at other things people do… making out with the same gender is at the level of wearing gold jewelry or eating shrimp.

@nordicblue:

You have been the only one making personal attacks.  I posted general news that is completely true.  Germany and "responsible" countries have bailed out "irresponsible" ones.  Responsible being the keyword here.  Why is it that the UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Belgium and the Netherlands are doing well, while Spain, Greece, Portugal and Cyprus flounder and spend themselves into an apparent oblivion of tax debt set at 170%+ of their GDP.  If you think Greece deserves to do this, why don't you pay my tax bill when I abscond with funds.  I didn't think so.  This shouldn't have to happen.  I don't know why you are standing up for the politicians who have apparently robbed you blind.  The taxpayers of these responsible countries pay high taxes, have much fewer government funded amenities than Greece and have a higher retirement age to boot.  That is what is takes to finance them.  They especially do not enjoy having their tax dollars rerouting to foreign countries who do not know how easy they had it.

First of all, that is what he finds offensive, the bold part, do you think it was easy… you have no clue... the unemployement, the massive poverty, the struggling with 3 jobs? The majority of cash went to the banks it never reached to help the people, yes because under those numbers there are faces and lifes destroyed. Do not ever say we got it easy, because it wasn't and it isn't. Two thirds of the active youth fled the country to survive, you label that easy? And now imagine seeing the way the government spends money like if there was no tomorrow... a elected government with less than 10% of the population votes, it's a circus, it's all a huge joke... and we're just waiting to put them all in jail. Now how is the people responsible for that bad management again?

Belgium in that list, you obviously do not know how they were just about to be rescued some years ago when the whole mess was on, Norway has oil so surely it is where it is.

Lack of memory much huh… just check the news in the 70's and see how germany was doing... and where the mney came from to help it

@nordicblue:

I am also impressed that they can do so much with so little.  They are a superpower, while other countries with more land and natural resources can't ever hope to produce as much as they do.  Rock on Japan!  :cheers:

ahem… Singapore... actually China has surpassed them also... all a country would need is investment in the correct area, just like finland did too. And marketing. I see Japan slowly going down the list of superpowers in near future, they are stong and smart but have a lot on their plate right now.

@raphjd:

I'm not against bailing others out, but I want you and other in those bailed out countries to understand that bailing you out hasn't been easy on us, when you complain about the bailout.  On various forums, I've seen people in the bailed out countries getting nasty toward the people in the countries that bailed them out.  THIS IS COMPLETELY WRONG.

My standard of living has crashed due to the UK bailing out other countries and constantly having to help top up the Euro.

I understand and empathise with your points, you are completely right in what you are saying, let me just point where those worse reactions were coming from, imagine a country like portugal who was average and not at it's best when finland actually needed support some decades ago, we gave to them the support at our own cost (like you are doing now)… this time when we needed the first help they were the stronger opposition if you remenber, so it was coming from there too, and in the case of greece and germany it's the same, greece funded germany when it was broke, they never had to pay it back... so again conflict. Surely it did not became overly dramatic and was dealt with, again it's not a hate on the people but more on the institutions, in my particular case it's a clear see-how-this-idiots-don't-have-a-clue-about-what-they-are-doing specially the bank system... the country had to sold what actually gave it profit, to follow troika guidelines... that is no way to run or help a country in the long term. A bunch of shitty short term ways to get cash to pay up by empoverishment athat helped noone, surely it made people hate furthermore... if they actually managed instead of killing inner markets to make the jobs and companies stronger and more secure and destroy the grey economics and reduce the state fat, it all would change, surely a country like mine can't have what our politics get in salaries pensions and benefits neither the whole luxury car fleet and so on... did they cut that? NO THEY MULTIPLIED. Sorry we do get your point because we felt it also, but it's so frustating to have to basically wait to get most of our political class in jail.

That has absolutely nothing to do with what I commented about, a country does not need scale to be successful, only good long term plans… I was speacking about how culturally they have this ideal of a submissive obedient women, which in a way makes being a woman a bit less great there... look at several indicators of youth cases of rape and so on... however they do give great respect to the grandmother figure so...

you can use both terms but "otaku" has nothing to do with shut-ins or lock-ins, shut-ins might range from people who can't function socially to monks, culturally they also have an expression for that, an "otaku" is someone with an obcession over something, not around the geeky or nerdy way but close, the vast majority of "otaku" do work only a few being shut-in.