Know the Facts- It's Important

[imported_Tenshi]

Great Britain New Zealand

population-59,778,002 population-3,908,037
lang-english,welsh,gaelic lang-english,maori
GDP-$1.47 trillion GDP-$75.4 billion
GDP per capita-$24,700 GDP per capita-$19,500
labour force-29.7 million labour force-1.92 million
exports-$287 billion exports-$14.2 billion
imports-$337 billion imports-$12.5 billion
telephones-13 million telephones-1.92 million
radios-84.5 million radios-3.75 million
televisions-30.5 million televisions-1.926 million
internet users-33 million internet users-1.78 million
merchant marine-212 ships merchant marine-8 ships
airports-470 airports-106
heliports-13 heliports-1
military manpower-14,632,418 military manpower-1,010,316

clearly, new zealand sucks!!! i apologise if i bored anybody.

[johnynz]

Great Britain......................New Zealand

LAND AREA 244100 sq kms...............269057 sq kms
POP DENSITY 241.4/ sq km(smelly!)....13.4/ sq km(spacious)
HIGHEST POINT 1343m..............................3764m
DEATH RATE 10.64/1000......................7.53/1000
AVG LIFE EXP 76.37................................77.82
INTERNET 15% of POP.....................42% of POP
PHONES 1 per 5.6 people............1 per 2 .3 people
TELEVISIONS 30.5 million....... Don't need em, too nice outside
DOCTORS 164/100000 ppl.............217/100000 ppl
NURSES 500/100000 ppl.............771/100000 ppl
CLIMATE we won't even go there!.........Lovely
QUALITY OF LIFE as above.........................2nd to none

You can make up your own mind, I know where I'd rather be!

[imported_Tenshi]

come off it. what has new zealand given the world apart from sheep? it's too small and insignificant to be a hit on the world stage. most brits know NOTHING about new zealand. i don't even know what the capital city is! most new zealanders know a lot about the UK though.


united kingdom inventions- computers, the world wide web, the train, the jet engine, democracy, football, rugby, cricket, darts, tennis, the telephone, the television, we are the world's first industrialised country therefore inventing the modern world, we gave the world good music and good fashion and good art, etc etc etc the list goes on and on. too many things we gave the world i can't even think of them all.

new zealand inventions- ???????????????????????????

[johnynz]

Exactly Tenshi

Kiwis know lots about UK (where not particually impressed)
UK know nothing about NZ (that's the way we prefer it actually)

Knowledge is power.

[zloom]

didn't a new zealander split the atom? wassn't new zealand the first country to give women the vote? didn't new zealand introduce the 40 hour working week? wassn't a new zealander one of the first people to make it to the top of mount everest? ... and didn't the greeks invent democracy? the fact that most britons don't know anything about new zealand is unsuprising considering in a poll last year 60% of british school children though mount everest was in briton. but let me be the first to thank your country for such classic tunes as bob the builder and the towering cultural achivement that was the spice girls.