What a shock!

[mbarrick]

You're Canada!
People make fun of you a lot, but they're stupid because you've got a much better life than they do.  In fact, they're probably just jealous. You believe in crazy things like human rights and health care and not dying in the streets, and you end up securing these rights for yourself and others.  If it weren't for your weird affection for ice hockey, you'd be the perfect person.
Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

Actually I fudged it to get that. This is what I really got:

You're the United Nations!
Most people think you're ineffective, but you are trying to completely save the world from itself, so there's always going to be a long way to go.  You're always the one trying to get friends to talk to each other, enemies to talk to each other, anyone who can to just talk instead of beating each other about the head and torso.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and you get very schizophrenic as a result.  But your heart is in the right place, and sometimes also in New York.
Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

That last line is perfect!

Comments

Re: Curious

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

No offense taken, or intended.

Re: Curious

[pernod.livejournal.com]

now i feel bad.
i'm just fascinated by viewpoints of people outside of the US. i'm used to the whole "the US is a bully" stuff; and to some degree we are. but the UN has always struck me a pretty ineffectual and if anything, just a bunch of petty dicators (except Russia, who had 3 seats on the UN..very pro US?) who just complain and ask for money.

i'm sure that where business is concerned, we may have joined interests. i just never saw much out of them. if anything they are a huge disappointment to me and need to be replaced by something else. unfortunately, it looks like they are being replaced, and by a 'Pax Americana'... not something i'm interested seeing.

Re: Curious

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Maybe we're not so far apart politically. But really, arguing politics on the Internet is almost completely useless. The only conclusion I've ever seen from a political argument is both sides giving up believing the other is an intractable ass.

Actually, come to think of it, the same could be said for just about any political "discussion", including those between real politicians - only when kings (and their modern day equivalents) decide another king is an intractable ass, armies get called out.

Re: Curious

[pernod.livejournal.com]

at least we haven't reduced ourselves to electing a king...well, almost anyway.