GREATEST COUNTRY on the planet

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Vote amongst the many countries of the world. Which one really is best n' shit?

(incl. representative, but by no means all-encompassing, examples)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
America (pro-wrestling, cheeseburgers, rhythm n' blues, the Wipers, James Coburn, Steve McQueen)	8
China(and Hong Kong) (kung fu, chinese food, Bruce Lee)	5
UK (Oliver Reed, anglophilia, Creation/Rough Trade/Mute Records, ale, Blackadder, Nathan Barley, The Prisoner, Charlotte	5
Other	2
Germany (beer, Krautrock, weird-ass internet sex vids, engineering, schnitzel)	2
Sweden (60's-era sexual popularity, Bergmann flicks)	2
Mexico (luchadors/El Santo, Sabado Gigante, mexican food, Alfonso Cuaron)	1
Japan (sushi, anime, pachinko, Ultraman, Jonathon Ross TV specials)	1
France (cheese, Alain Delon, wine)	1
Australia (Comical accents, George Miller, beer sold in 'oil cans')	1
Finland (odd internet exports, 19 verb tenses, successfully fought off the Red Army)	1
Hungary (goulash, Peter Lorre, Attila making all the way to Rome just to check the place out and leave soon thereafter)	0
South Korea (radish kimchi, Starcraft as national sport, professional video gamers in 22nd Century-looking flightsuits)	0
Canada (hockey, universal health care, canadian bacon, the Arcade Fire)	0

― kingfish, Friday, 8 February 2008 07:06 (seventeen years ago)

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u22/Essj_Chicana/flagvirgin.jpg

― chaki, Friday, 8 February 2008 07:20 (seventeen years ago)

sweden's looking pretty good there

― s1ocki, Friday, 8 February 2008 07:26 (seventeen years ago)

so is south korea.

surprised you didn't put russia on the list.

― s1ocki, Friday, 8 February 2008 07:27 (seventeen years ago)

I thought about it. I almost did so and listed Stanislaw Lem, before remembering that dude was polish. Maybe an Russian entry would work, with vodka, Tarkovsky, Dosteovsky, cosmonauts, and Rachmaninoff as the associated positives.

― kingfish, Friday, 8 February 2008 07:37 (seventeen years ago)

Also was going to break up the UK into 4 different options, but was too lazy, so there you go.

― kingfish, Friday, 8 February 2008 07:43 (seventeen years ago)

germany w close #2 australia

― jergïns, Friday, 8 February 2008 07:48 (seventeen years ago)

mexican food

― J0rdan S., Friday, 8 February 2008 07:50 (seventeen years ago)

GERMANY.

― Pashmina, Friday, 8 February 2008 10:04 (seventeen years ago)

I should not answer this poll on an empty stomach

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 8 February 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

good poll! there is only one right answer though

― sleep, Friday, 8 February 2008 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

Sushilunch

― Laurel, Friday, 8 February 2008 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

― Laurel, Friday, 8 February 2008 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/goodwill/japan_ai_large.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 8 February 2008 21:31 (seventeen years ago)

italy and spain totally gypped here.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 February 2008 21:33 (seventeen years ago)

Yea, I like Spain a lot but the music is shit.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 8 February 2008 21:42 (seventeen years ago)

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/9973/eagle20eye20american20fqz5.jpg

― sleep, Friday, 8 February 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

WHY U FORGET NETHERLANDS?

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d177/alexs_girl_4ever/I%20Want%20To%20Meet/tiesto.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 8 February 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

needs italy, egypt, india, senegal

― and what, Friday, 8 February 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

Argentina dudes

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 8 February 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

i was going to say, i can't vouch for india personally but the food and music is a+.

― Jordan, Friday, 8 February 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

Indonesia
Brasil
Donostia (Basque)
New Zealand
Cuba

― Steve Shasta, Friday, 8 February 2008 22:36 (seventeen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/TEE_LIQB/11104~Stars-Stripes-Posters.jpg

― El Tomboto, Friday, 8 February 2008 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

You Forgot Poland.

― murderdogger, Friday, 8 February 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

BRASIL (booty, bass, beach & feijoada)

― jaxon, Friday, 8 February 2008 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

srsly, brasil and argentina got ROBBED

― gbx, Friday, 8 February 2008 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

which of you bastards voted China

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:06 (seventeen years ago)

Hong Kong is cool but everyone I met from Shanghai or Beijing have been utter knobs.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

I have a couple of issues with their government.

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

I am not very impressed with the technical skills of their graduate students. Also, whenever there were 3 PRC-Chinese students in a graduate class the (Indian) professor let them have a project team of three.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:26 (seventeen years ago)

Tom, remember when we talked about scales of 1 to 10 for how awesome stuff you've seen that you can't talk about? Scale of 1 to 10, how shocking is stuff you know about the PRC?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:27 (seventeen years ago)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120147963641320851.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 9 February 2008 01:46 (seventeen years ago)

really they barely rate a 4

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 9 February 2008 01:46 (seventeen years ago)

my issues stem more from environmental and human rights issues and other hippie bullshit like that. I hope the three gorges dam collapses before they finish filling the reservoir

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 9 February 2008 01:47 (seventeen years ago)

I saw stuff in the 90s that rated a 5 or 6 then....

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 9 February 2008 01:50 (seventeen years ago)

that's because you aren't aware of anything about our very own govt that rates a real honest to god 9 or 10

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 9 February 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

anyway the real reason America Is #1 is because that is where all my favorite noize boreders live!!

http://www.achewood.com/rsrc/img/philippe_blog.gif

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 9 February 2008 02:23 (seventeen years ago)

im also pissed that the arcade fire were listed in the canada entry.

― s1ocki, Saturday, 9 February 2008 02:36 (seventeen years ago)

move to america eh

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 9 February 2008 02:37 (seventeen years ago)

USA! USA! USA!

― sleep, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:16 (seventeen years ago)

America (pro-wrestling, cheeseburgers, rhythm n' blues, the Wipers, James Coburn, The Decemberists)

― s1ocki, Saturday, 9 February 2008 04:00 (seventeen years ago)

you forgot HUEY LEWIS

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 9 February 2008 04:09 (seventeen years ago)

you forgot THE NEWS

― s1ocki, Saturday, 9 February 2008 04:11 (seventeen years ago)

you forgot NEWSIES

― tehresa, Saturday, 9 February 2008 04:13 (seventeen years ago)

you forgot SUZY

― s1ocki, Saturday, 9 February 2008 04:16 (seventeen years ago)

HUEY SIOUXSIE AND THE NEWSIES

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 9 February 2008 04:17 (seventeen years ago)

DUCKTALES!!!!

― max, Saturday, 9 February 2008 04:22 (seventeen years ago)

A WOO HOO

― max, Saturday, 9 February 2008 04:22 (seventeen years ago)

MAKE YOUR OWN POLL THEN IF YOURE UNHAPPY AND SUCK IT

truth be told, i'm surprised at the results. Who knew that Charlotte Rampling would be undersupported in the final polls?

also, i would have included more countries, but this was the extent that my drunked ass could come up with last night.

And I like the Arcade Fire, but i figured it would be safer listing them in there rather than DOA. And the only canadian-associated foods that my michigan-born ass can readily conjust up are poutine and canadian bacon. Kraft dinner doesn't count.

― kingfish, Saturday, 9 February 2008 09:05 (seventeen years ago)

And most of the entries depended on if i could come up with a good representative food at that time or not

― kingfish, Saturday, 9 February 2008 09:06 (seventeen years ago)

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