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Rick - Nov 07, 2007 11:05:30 am PST #992 of 10001

Norway?

Yes, I would say that the closest thing would be Norway and Finland. Small, open societies with strong cultures of communal responsibility.

It's difficult to study whole societies, but there was a fun study done a couple of years ago, looking at the parking tickets received by UN staff from different countries. It's a good variable because no one ever demands payment of tickets from foreign diplomats. You can get tickets forever without any consequences, so the usual sanctions have no influence over the behavior. It's kind of a measure of what people would do if they couldn't be caught. If you don't park illegally, it has to be due to something other than tickets.

Diplomats from most developing countries and those from eastern Europe got tickets almost every day. Diplomats from most western European countries got occasional tickets. Diplomats from the Scandiavian countries and Finland never got tickets. Don't they understand? They have a free pass!

No, they never learned. They just plodded along doing the right thing.

Jesse - Nov 07, 2007 11:13:10 am PST #993 of 10001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Someone just suggested to me that I should "get" Anita Roddick for an event. Anita Roddick who founded the Body Shop.

Anita Roddick who died in September.

Yeah, maybe not...

Theodosia - Nov 07, 2007 11:15:09 am PST #994 of 10001

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I really like Bill Richardson, who is reasonable, experienced, personable, and doesn't seem to have a chance in hell.

amych - Nov 07, 2007 11:16:22 am PST #995 of 10001

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Freedonia!

Land of the spree!

Tom Scola - Nov 07, 2007 11:21:10 am PST #996 of 10001

Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

And the home of the knave!

Dana - Nov 07, 2007 11:22:04 am PST #997 of 10001

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Yeah, maybe not...

I doubt Jesse's committment to Sparkle Motion.

§ ita § - Nov 07, 2007 11:24:54 am PST #998 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My dad would go ballistic on my mother if she got parking tickets. Ballistic. The numbers were posted yearly in London, and I think it was his mission (har) to get Jamaica in the zeroes every time.

Normal people get tickets every now and again, though. But that wasn't good enough for my father.

Dana - Nov 07, 2007 11:30:50 am PST #999 of 10001

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

The past half hour has been the slowest in the history of recorded time. The clock has stopped moving.

I can go home in half an hour, but I don't think it will ever get here.

Nora Deirdre - Nov 07, 2007 11:37:36 am PST #1000 of 10001

I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I feel much the same way, Dana. Bleh!

tommyrot - Nov 07, 2007 11:42:29 am PST #1001 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'm working on a project that's late. I really want to get it done today. So I sorta' want time to go slow so I can finish it. OTOH I'm stressed from the thing, so going home would be nice.

I think I need a massage and some time in a jacuzzi....

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