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My link works ... now! thx
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After reading this report[^] earlier in the week about the best countries to live in I decided to move to Iceland, which came second, didn't want to seem pretentious by going for the first.
I've spent the rest of the week searching for jobs, but they only seem to want people to work on tills, stack shelves, or a few van drivers. 
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Would New Zealand be a thing ?
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You get extra points if you look like a hobbit!
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I'd LOVE to work for WETA workshop... but my skills revolve around completely different subjects 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Me too 
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I'm right there with ya. If you aren't happy where you are at, then it is worth a shot. You only live once.
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It gets worse than that[^]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Why is the USA in this list?
As far as I know (at least the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries) all get free or very cheap schooling, are insured for just about any calamity, have low crime rates, get quite a bit of free days a year, and then some.
Of course I can't speak for Americans, but I had expected it a little lower on the list.
This list[^] about happiness shows another image of the world 
Regarding your choice, I've been to Iceland and to Norway.
Both beautiful countries, but I'd be pretentious and go to Norway! 
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Yeah, the USA made most people go 'what?' I think.
Most of the top ten seem to be colder countries.
I'll be honest, I just made the post for the joke, realising it would only make sense to those in the UK, see my reply to the post above this.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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[Message updated, sensitized]
Weeks back, The highly respectable general manager of a company, who also happens to be my neighbour, started to look like a Jackass^ with his months old VW Jetta. 
Seriously, Got an inevitable tendency to look low on people owning VW.*
Any VW owners here? 
--Update--
I think I've raked the hearts of VM owners with the crude message above.
Please apologize if it did so.
I think I shouldn't have conveyed that as a joke. But put it as a plain fact, that I felt is happening. When I look at someone who can esaily afford to change his car for an eco-friendly one and not doing it, I felt there's some tilt (in me) towards the -ve end for his personality. As much as I feel the tilt towards the +ve end, for the owners who drive electric vehicles. Of course , by no means, the owners of VW have done a mistake here, it falls 100% on the maker. It's just a tendency , [I Don't get the better words to explain this].
So VieWers, please take it light!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
modified 6-Nov-15 9:11am.
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Vunic wrote: Seriously, Got a new tendency to look low on people owning VW.
Why? Simply because they did buy a car where the manufacturer cheated? Yes, that is something they should have checked, eh?
Vunic wrote: Any proud VW owners here?
I'm not allowed to drive, but I would go for a VW Beetle.
One of the first models.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Why? Simply because they did buy a car where the manufacturer cheated? Yes, that is something they should have checked, eh?
lol, helpless owners. Ended up looking losers/evil.
Losers - The one that bought the car and now scrambling to replace it with other Eco friendly , Honest maker.
Evil ones - The ones that bought the car and has no plans to change it any time soon.
Inevitably they are put in one of these categories.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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..so, you are attempting to lift yourself by making others look foolish, for something they had no hand in?
Vunic wrote: The ones that bought the car and has no plans to change it any time soon
So, not having enough money to replace a car that is faulty due to the factory, they are "evil"?
Take a good look in the mirror and categorize yourself.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The mirror shows me red with two horns on the head and one arrow type tail at the back.
There was one reason, I marked the thread as "Joke". Looks like you've completely missed it? Nevermind!
I do sympathize the owners. Unjustifiably, there's a dent on their image just because they own a brand that cheated on a serious subject - Environment.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: There was one reason, I marked the thread as "Joke".
The joke icon does not give you the freedom to put down others. It is there to mark stuff as "funny".
Vunic wrote: Unjustifiably, there's a dent on their image
No, there is not.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Peace[^]
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Accepted.
It is not because I like VW. It was because you are putting down their customers. Had you been attacked the company, managment, I'd agree. Not some customer who has no technical option to verify all claims made about the product.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Vunic wrote: there's a dent on their image
Not at all.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Not sure if I put the right words, but please read it again here[^]
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I have a farm more inquinating 1998 Fiat Seicento. I would be way less evil once you'd deposit on my bank account the 25000 € needed to buy myself a new, ecofriendly car.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Vunic wrote: Any proud VW owners here?
Not any more.
But my first own car was a Beetle (not the new one; it was build in 1974).
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A friend of mine drives nothing but VW Passats.
Ever since about 12 years ago he was in one that got clipped by a van, flipped over the central reservation of the motorway into oncoming traffic, on its roof, where it was hit by another van and sent spinning across the other lanes.
He climbed out without a scratch on him.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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So, you're saying they didn't cheat on the safety tests too?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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