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Top countries for quality of life (spoiler the US and Venezuela not on it)

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  • greenbloodgreenblood Member Posts: 14,272
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    The OP sounds poor
  • SwayeSwaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,043
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    After the socialist revolution, these bourgeois timepieces will be seized from you greedy capitalists. The metals will be melted down to make new, free watches of equality for the proletariat.


    I laffed.
  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,781
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    2001400ex said:

    2001400ex said:

    Swaye said:

    Swaye said:

    Sledog said:

    I am not a big watch guy. Mine keep good time are usually titanium and contain a lot of tritium. I did however purchase a Rolex for the spousal unit. Damn thing has broken several times. $600.00 bucks to have Rolex turn it around. Rolex quit selling parts years ago so you usually have to send it to them. No more Rolex.

    Yeah, maintenance on luxury watches is a thing. It sucks.
    I'm dreading the day I gotta send mine in have is services. Seems to be OK for now and is only about 10 secs fast per day.
    The watch makers always recommend to have them serviced every 3-5 years, but fuck that. If it is still keeping good time let it roll imo. It's like 450 bucks for a standard service. Fuck that.
    If you can afford the watch, you should be able to afford the maintenance. That's like someone buying a BMW that can't afford $500 to change out the headlight.
    Because getting something is cool.

    Paying to just keep it working sucks.


    How do you not understand this?

    Do you like washing your car and getting oil changes?

    Or is it just something you have to do and it sucks because it gives you no value and is just money out of your pocket?
    You should do the research and know that when buying it. I personally wouldn't buy a watch that needs more maintenance than a battery every few years. But that's just me. That's why I don't own a BMW or Audi, I'd rather have the resale value and maintenance of a Toyota. (For wife's car, I have a Duramax.)
    Things poor people say.....
  • 2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
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    2001400ex said:

    2001400ex said:

    Swaye said:

    Swaye said:

    Sledog said:

    I am not a big watch guy. Mine keep good time are usually titanium and contain a lot of tritium. I did however purchase a Rolex for the spousal unit. Damn thing has broken several times. $600.00 bucks to have Rolex turn it around. Rolex quit selling parts years ago so you usually have to send it to them. No more Rolex.

    Yeah, maintenance on luxury watches is a thing. It sucks.
    I'm dreading the day I gotta send mine in have is services. Seems to be OK for now and is only about 10 secs fast per day.
    The watch makers always recommend to have them serviced every 3-5 years, but fuck that. If it is still keeping good time let it roll imo. It's like 450 bucks for a standard service. Fuck that.
    If you can afford the watch, you should be able to afford the maintenance. That's like someone buying a BMW that can't afford $500 to change out the headlight.
    Because getting something is cool.

    Paying to just keep it working sucks.


    How do you not understand this?

    Do you like washing your car and getting oil changes?

    Or is it just something you have to do and it sucks because it gives you no value and is just money out of your pocket?
    You should do the research and know that when buying it. I personally wouldn't buy a watch that needs more maintenance than a battery every few years. But that's just me. That's why I don't own a BMW or Audi, I'd rather have the resale value and maintenance of a Toyota. (For wife's car, I have a Duramax.)
    Things poor people say.....
    Or accountants.
  • Mosster47Mosster47 Member Posts: 6,246
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    Buying cheap shit with no reliability or resale is the M.O. of the poor. Smart people buy the best once and forget about it.

    People give me shit for driving an 05 Cummins. Come see me in ten years when your sunk cost car is in a scrap heap and I've still got 250k miles to go before my first rebuild.
  • 2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
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    Mosster47 said:

    Being cheap shit with no reliability or resale is the M.O. of the poor. Smart people buy the best once and forget about it.

    People give me shit for driving an 05 Cummins. Come see me in ten years when your sunk cost car is in a scrap heap and I've still got 250k miles to go before my first rebuild.

    I've got 165k on my tuned/deleted 08 Duramax. Little maintenance here and there like I'm doing the rear brakes And a glow plug Saturday. I've driven it 125k miles andit's still worth 2/3 what I paid for it.
  • PostGameOrangeSlicesPostGameOrangeSlices Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,465
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    Pretty easy to have a social security net and higher "quality of life" ranking when your country is non-diverse and has 1/40th the population
  • SquirtSquirt Member Posts: 485
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    Being the most homogenous large nation on Earth does wonders for social cohesion. They have no one to blame but themselves when shit goes wrong.

    I'm late to the party, but I gotta comment on this notion. Fuck off with this ethnic-cohesion shit. There's not a country on the planet that hasn't suffered from violent internal conflict despite ethnic "cohesion." Places like Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, etc. aren't timeless polities that have enjoyed internal harmony for centuries. Japan's social cohesion has as much to do with income equality, its social-safety net, and anime as anything else.

    I sound like I care. I'm going to look at pictures of boobs to calm myself down.
  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 26,538
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    Yeah no matter the shit people will figure out lines to squabble over

    I randomly watched some documentary on fuedal Japan and those motherfuckers have been fucking around with each other for like 3000 years. Only recently are they somewhat a single group.
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 33,792
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    Squirt said:

    Being the most homogenous large nation on Earth does wonders for social cohesion. They have no one to blame but themselves when shit goes wrong.

    I'm late to the party, but I gotta comment on this notion. Fuck off with this ethnic-cohesion shit. There's not a country on the planet that hasn't suffered from violent internal conflict despite ethnic "cohesion." Places like Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, etc. aren't timeless polities that have enjoyed internal harmony for centuries. Japan's social cohesion has as much to do with income equality, its social-safety net, and anime as anything else.

    I sound like I care. I'm going to look at pictures of boobs to calm myself down.
    My comment @Squirt was not an endorsement of Japan's policies.

    And piss off with comparing Japan to Italy, Spain, France, Germany, etc. Completely different history in terms of their development as a nation-state.

    is·land


    /ˈīlənd/


    noun

    noun: island; plural noun: islands



    1.


    a piece of land surrounded by water.


  • SquirtSquirt Member Posts: 485
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    My comment @Squirt was not an endorsement of Japan's policies.

    And piss off with comparing Japan to Italy, Spain, France, Germany, etc. Completely different history in terms of their development as a nation-state.

    is·land


    /ˈīlənd/


    noun

    noun: island; plural noun: islands



    1.


    a piece of land surrounded by water.

    FREE PUB!!!!1! Not sure if you meant the double meaning, but I laughed.

    Your original comment didn't say anything about Japan being an island nation.

    My point is that there are few, if any, historical examples of ethnic groups enjoying unbroken histories of political and social cohesion.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 41,649
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    Squirt said:

    Being the most homogenous large nation on Earth does wonders for social cohesion. They have no one to blame but themselves when shit goes wrong.

    I'm late to the party, but I gotta comment on this notion. Fuck off with this ethnic-cohesion shit. There's not a country on the planet that hasn't suffered from violent internal conflict despite ethnic "cohesion." Places like Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, etc. aren't timeless polities that have enjoyed internal harmony for centuries. Japan's social cohesion has as much to do with income equality, its social-safety net, and anime as anything else.

    I sound like I care. I'm going to look at pictures of boobs to calm myself down.
    Just on general principle, YKW.

  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 33,792
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    Squirt said:

    My comment @Squirt was not an endorsement of Japan's policies.

    And piss off with comparing Japan to Italy, Spain, France, Germany, etc. Completely different history in terms of their development as a nation-state.

    is·land


    /ˈīlənd/


    noun

    noun: island; plural noun: islands



    1.


    a piece of land surrounded by water.

    FREE PUB!!!!1! Not sure if you meant the double meaning, but I laughed.

    Your original comment didn't say anything about Japan being an island nation.

    My point is that there are few, if any, historical examples of ethnic groups enjoying unbroken histories of political and social cohesion.
    Imitation - i.e., piss handle - is the sincerest form of flattery. Thank you.

  • AZDuckAZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
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    Why do I get the feeling this thread is a setup and a socialism-in-Scandinavia argument is incoming?

    Hardy har har
  • AZDuckAZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
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    Swaye said:

    Grand Seiko watches rival anything the Swiss make. Post WW2 Japs are cool. Pre-WW2 Japs are little yellow bastards.

    Fuck you I wear a Breitling.
  • AZDuckAZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
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    Swaye said:

    Grand Seiko watches rival anything the Swiss make. Post WW2 Japs are cool. Pre-WW2 Japs are little yellow bastards.

    Fuck you I wear a Breitling.



    And yes my Mondaine Swiss Railways watch (backup) doesn't need to be wound. But that's not the point with one of these. My wife doesn't get it either.

    Anyway, I like the Crosseind Special because it's a Breitling without being over the top.
  • Mosster47Mosster47 Member Posts: 6,246
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    AZDuck said:

    Swaye said:

    Grand Seiko watches rival anything the Swiss make. Post WW2 Japs are cool. Pre-WW2 Japs are little yellow bastards.

    Fuck you I wear a Breitling.



    And yes my Mondaine Swiss Railways watch (backup) doesn't need to be wound. But that's not the point with one of these. My wife doesn't get it either.

    Anyway, I like the Crosseind Special because it's a Breitling without being over the top.
    That thing is so busy. Way too much shit going on.
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