What is the worst looking capital city in Western Europe?

[Isamu]

@psychonaut

Officially they don’t have an army, since their constitution explicitly forbids it:

I don’t know what you think “officially” means, so it’s hard for me to understand what you wrote.

Do you mean, they have an army, but they’re not telling anyone about it? Just being all coy, acting like maybe they do, maybe they don’t.

Or, they have an army, but only because someone gave it to them and they’re hiding it down their pants?

Or they have one but it’s illegal in terms of their constitution, which, by the way, you seem to think is written in English? :dubious:

[psychonaut]

@Isamu

I don’t know what you think “officially” means, so it’s hard for me to understand what you wrote. […]
Or they have one but it’s illegal in terms of their constitution, which, by the way, you seem to think is written in English? :dubious:

If you want to insult my intelligence, then open a Pit thread. I’m not going to respond to questions posted in bad faith here.

[Isamu]

@psychonaut

If you want to insult my intelligence, then open a Pit thread. I’m not going to respond to questions posted in bad faith here.

OK, I’m glad we could both learn something from each-other.

[Novelty_Bobble]

@ElvisL1ves

If someone there wants to travel elsewhere, whose passport do they have to use?

A European Union passport…why? what relevance does that have.

[septimus]

@AK84

No one seriously considers Scotland or England or Wales or N Ireland to be a nation state which is what most people mean when they say “country”.

The U.K. and the old U.S.S.R. didn’t meet the definition of “nation-state” but were considered “countries.”
And according to Wikipedia, the “Kingdom of the Netherlands [is not a nation-state but] consists of four countries.”

Speaking of Wikipedia, this clarification might be helpful:

[QUOTE=Nation state - Wikipedia]

The United Kingdom is a country whereas Scotland and England are Countries.
[/QUOTE]

[up_the_junction]

@Donpeyote

Londonistan should top all lists

This is as racist as calling New York ‘Kike town’.

Which is to say either it isn’t or it’s enough to be banned - in my non-moderating opinion.

[Ulf_the_Unwashed]

@pulykamell

Not my experience. Greenland, for instance, is usually called a “country” when I talk to people here in the US. Same with Aruba. Do you really not refer to those two as countries? That would be surprising to me.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard either of these referred to as countries. Lifelong USAian here. “Islands,” yes; “possessions,” I think so. But “countries,” I don’t believe so. I certainly wouldn’t call them that.

As others have said. In the US it really is very simple: country DOES equal nation-state.

[pulykamell]

@Ulf_the_Unwashed

I don’t think I’ve ever heard either of these referred to as countries. Lifelong USAian here. “Islands,” yes; “possessions,” I think so. But “countries,” I don’t believe so. I certainly wouldn’t call them that.
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Ok, I find that surprising.

[Chefguy]

@Ulf_the_Unwashed

I don’t think I’ve ever heard either of these referred to as countries. Lifelong USAian here. “Islands,” yes; “possessions,” I think so. But “countries,” I don’t believe so. I certainly wouldn’t call them that.

As others have said. In the US it really is very simple: country DOES equal nation-state.

According to Wiki: “Greenland is an autonomous country within the Danish Realm.” Seems pretty clear to me. It also has a capital, Nuuk.

[buddha_david]

You know, for all this page-long hijack about what is/isn’t country, can’t help but notice that nobody’s objected to my description of Glasgow, Scotland as “dreary”.

[Staggerlee]

@up_the_junction

This is as racist as calling New York ‘Kike town’.

Which is to say either it isn’t or it’s enough to be banned - in my non-moderating opinion.

I’d just pity that fool; he probably thinks London is a ‘no-go zone’ for infidels, now they have a Muslim mayor.

And Scotland is a country.

And Paris is the most dismal, dirty, sprawling crap-hole I’ve visited, of Euro capitals (though the Eiffel Tower is pretty good).

[pulykamell]

@buddha_david

You know, for all this page-long hijack about what is/isn’t country, can’t help but notice that nobody’s objected to my description of Glasgow, Scotland as “dreary”.

Well, it’s not a capital, jackass. Glasgow does indeed have its dreary elements, but I find it beautiful in its own way. One of my friends has a heart-felt photo documentation of the city called “Disappearing Glasgow”. Wonderful photos and chronicle of a changing city. Perhaps this has to do with my fondness for the place.