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Old 09-28-2007, 01:08 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Expat Canuck View Post
Captain, trust me when I say that Australia has nothing on the lazy bums that Europe has.

There was this one guy I used to skate with in Amsterdam who lived in a squat and just ripped around the local bowl. I offered to help him out with a job and he came up with every excuse as to why he couldn't do it. I met a lot of people like him over there. There are people like this everywhere of course but for some reason Continental Europe is rampant.
Generous welfare, nationalized medicine, free education, will do that to a man.
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