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[Syt]

http://www.thelocal.at/20150424/anzac-dawn-service-to-be-held-at-karlsplatz

Anzac Dawn Service to be held at Karlsplatz

The Australian and New Zealand embassies are holding a Dawn Service in front of Vienna's Karlskirche on Saturday 25 April, to mark the centenary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) on the Turkish shores of Gallipoli in 1915.

Anyone wishing to attend is asked to arrive by 5.30am at Karlsplatz for the ceremony which will begin at 5.45am.

Anzac Day is one of the most important national occasions for Australia and New Zealand.

The Gallipoli campaign was one of the bloodiest of World War One. About 131,000 died in the campaign, including 55,000 Allied forces and 86,000 from Turkey. Ten thousand soldiers from Australia and New Zealand died.

The battles produced the legend of the courageous Anzac soldier who was able to endure an eight-month ordeal with good humour and comradeship.

By joining the global conflict, Australia and New Zealand helped establish themselves on the international stage.

At the outbreak of World War One they were both fledgling countries. Australia had only become an independent nation 13 years earlier in 1901, while New Zealand was granted effective independence from Britain in 1907.

Neat.

[Valmy]

Women from the Balkans are unbeliveably hottttttt

I don't have much experience with the Balkans overall, but this is definitely true of Romanians.

To be fair, as Americans our standards are not super high. Are you not overweight and not a total slob? HOTT!

[Valmy]

Nah. For example Poland has hot women, ugly guys on average.

I saw a poll on OK Cupid where only 17% of men were judged to be 'above average' in appearance by straight women so on average women find us ugly. Gay men might be more forgiving

[Eddie Teach]

I saw a poll on OK Cupid where only 17% of men were judged to be 'above average' in appearance by straight women so on average women find us ugly.

I think part of that is the scale gets set when we're teenagers. Some people give more forgiving grades as they get older, but many don't.

[Malthus]

Nah. For example Poland has hot women, ugly guys on average.

I saw a poll on OK Cupid where only 17% of men were judged to be 'above average' in appearance by straight women so on average women find us ugly. Gay men might be more forgiving

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"Average" isn't "ugly". 

[Valmy]

"Average" isn't "ugly". 

Um dude the 'average' here being a subjective term not a mathematical average. The mathematical average was 'below average'.

And further your statement is nonsensical. The average warthog is pretty ugly.

[Malthus]

"Average" isn't "ugly". 

Um dude the 'average' here being a subjective term not a mathematical average. The mathematical average was 'below average'.

And further your statement is nonsensical. The average warthog is pretty ugly.

I'm sorry, I did not know you were looking at a dating site specifically for Warthogs. 

For humans, the scale usually runs "above average - average - below average", any typically the strong term "ugly" indicates, at least, "below average".

So knowing that 17% of the population is considerred "above average" isn't the equivalent of knowing that the remaining 83% of the population is "ugly".

[Valmy]

I did not say 83% were judged to be ugly. Rather that 1/6 was judged to be 'above average'. And the actual average was squarely in 'below average'.

Though granted my source is not a personal careful examination of data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43w7rcYPUnI at 6:22

[Tamas]

Romanians tend to be very capitalist in their looks. They're either super hot or ugly. Girls who are merely ok are rare.

You commie bastard the sharp division between poor and rich ie the distinct lack of a middle class is entirely a socialist/communist phenomenom.

[Admiral Yi]

 

I'm on your side so don't go all mad Hungarian on me dude.

[Caliga]

Romanians tend to be very capitalist in their looks. They're either super hot or ugly. Girls who are merely ok are rare.

Maybe, but I've yet to meet an ugly Romanian woman.

[Valmy]

The only Romanian woman I know is in her 70s so I don't judge her too harshly.

[Grey Fox]

There is a 51 year old Romanian woman next to me right as we speak. She is still pretty smoking hot. I've seen pictures, at 19, she was very very hot.

[Josquius]

Romanians tend to be very capitalist in their looks. They're either super hot or ugly. Girls who are merely ok are rare.

You commie bastard the sharp division between poor and rich ie the distinct lack of a middle class is entirely a socialist/communist phenomenom.

Yes... Sweden is a far more unequal country than the US....

[Valmy]

Yes... Sweden is a far more unequal country than the US....

I keep forgetting that Sweden is the only socialist country ever. And socialist versus capitalist economies is entirely determined by tax rates and nothing else.

But really our Ginis are not that different.