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Do not recommend. Russia is full of radioactive bears, questionable doctor's sausage (is that dyed with beet juice or antifreeze?), and My Little Pony carnivals. Dilbert might enjoy it, but Uzique would end up leaving such a place with a brand new set of Adidas.

They're not all stooped babushkas. Some of them are hulking dead lifters named Nataliya or something to that effect. They would literally wear you like a scarf.

I think as long as you stick to the usual tourist destinations, Central American countries are probably fine to visit. If you're backpacking, why would you even be in one of the capital cities. Also things like dental/medical tourism are popular south of the border for US citizens because the costs here are too damn high.

As an American living in America, being warned about occasional shootings down there isn't exactly impactful. On the other hand, some of the critters living down there are ten pounds of nope in a five pound bag.

Larssen wrote:

I don't think uziq has ever really set foot outside Europe. 'Central american murder hole' lol.

er most of the countries with the highest murder rate in the world are in central america?

1     El Salvador     61.80     2017
2     Jamaica     57.00     2017
3     Venezuela     56.30     2016
4     Honduras     41.70     2017
5     Lesotho     41.20     2015
6     Belize     37.90     2017
7     St. Vincent and the Grenadines     36.50     2016
8     South Africa     35.90     2017
9     St. Kitts and Nevis     34.20     2012
10     Trinidad and Tobago     30.90     2015
10     The Bahamas     30.90     2017
12     Brazil     30.50     2017
13     St. Lucia     29.60     2017
14     Guatemala     26.10     2017
15     Dominica     25.70     2017
16     Colombia     24.90     2017
17     Mexico     24.80     2017
18     Central African Republic     19.80     2016
19     Tuvalu     18.60     2012
20     Puerto Rico     18.50     2017

it was a joke, in any case. though i'd also stereotype brazil as 'dangerous', for the sake of the joke i already covered south america in my 'cocaine' comment (next you'll tell me not all of south america is involved in the production and consumption of cocaine: wow! CIA fact book larssen!)

love that you come in, totally stony-faced, ignore the joke and proceed to say 'now BRAZIL is dangerous', despite it being below about 6 central american states in the murder statistics. what a fucking fail lmao.

i haven't been to south america, asia (which is a big omission at this point), or australasia. discussed this here before.

been to quite a lot of north america, africa (including SA, several times), and of course all over europe.

so you've been to china and brazil and i haven't. wow. i've read the world's great works of literature, consumed the history of film, indulged in the canon of classical and contemporary musics, can hold my knife and fork properly and hold forth in witty repartee with art collectors and part-time superheroes, and am evidently more cultured than you in just about every way. maybe you should stay home and refine yourself a bit, you vulgar pleb?

Last edited by uziq (2021-01-11 02:47:03)

Not to belabor a point, but from what I've read a lot of the crime in some of those countries seems focused in the capital cities, and sometimes in specific districts. You're probably safer in the tourist towns or districts than you are in some areas of the US or UK. I wouldn't trust to my complete safety getting blasted at a club and stumbling back to my house in my own town.

That isn't to say that violence isn't still a Central American problem. The people are still feeling the aftershocks of the Central American Crisis. But like 10 million people tour there yearly.

I haven't been myself, but that doesn't really prove or disprove anything.

i'm still amused that my joke was taken totally literally and at flat face-value, and yet we get this about south africa:

SA because you can just see the hatred in people's eyes

because every single person there is still burning with hatred from apartheid

uziq wrote:

i'm still amused that my joke was taken totally literally and at flat face-value, and yet we get this about south africa:

SA because you can just see the hatred in people's eyes

because every single person there is still burning with hatred from apartheid

I sense the malign influence of Saruman at work.

Your ruined arm after you're "done" with all that ungodly filth:

someone is determined to be a dum dum today.

Googled "Man of the house" in order to do some research on adulting. I was looking for some older guy to give me advice to become the man I was always meant to be. Not next year. Not tomorrow. Now.

So the first and only results from that Google search were old bad movies titled "Man of the House".


So I Googled "man of the house advice" And Google then decided to give me nothing but cheat codes and walkthroughs for an adult of dating game titled "man of the house"

At this point I just gave up. First World Problem: society rather sell me digital goods than have me become the man I was always meant to be.

You sound like you don't like the Greatest Generation.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

In a FWP of FWPs, my parents' cat supposedly had its TV privileges revoked today. Apparently kept pawing at the birds on the screen and acking its head off.

Probably a pretty distracting thing for a work-at-home environment.

Cats need to get their murder out or they get neurotic, can't you get the cat a laptop or an ipad?
There are tons of cat games for the ipad.
A grape will keep my cat amused for hours.