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  • It’s just a really old meme that all bri’ish people are ugly. Also a stereotype that they’re always looking for hot Baltic women (mostly prostitutes, really) when they’re having stag dos or whatever.

    As for attractive Estonians - idk where you’re located, but I see tons of them. Granted, I’m looking at women. I hear men on dating apps are, eh… particularly horrible here. I’ve been shown some profiles. So if you’re looking at Estonian men on dating apps, I’ll have to agree, we’re pretty ugly. All the classically attractive male friends I have are in happy 10+ year relationships at this point, pretty much nobody’s even used Tinder.


  • If someone’s going >10% over the speed limit, that means other people have to pass them, which is a dangerous maneuver. If they’re going the speed limit, only selfish people will pass them.

    Police are literally allowed stop you for going 50-60 on a 90 km/h road here in the middle of the summer. It’s suspicious and a completely valid reason to check if you’re drunk.

    around every turn that’s going 5 mph.

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    You can if it’s slippery or when there’s a corner. Not on a straight dry road with good visibility.

    I literally said that corners (tight ones anyway) and poor visibility (which corners can cause) in general are valid excuses, in addition to the aforementioned ice. “I was scared of doing 90” is not. I think you’re lacking a little bit of reading comprehension. Must be the famously excellent American school system.




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    That’s over a much longer time period tbf. In the last 1000 years alone we’ve had the Swedes, the Danes, the Poles, the Holy Roman Empire, Russians (both in imperial and soviet variants), nazi Germany for 3 years, etc.

    If we go back as far as the Younger Dryas nobody knows for sure what happened here because so little is known about the different cultures that lived here. Written history mostly starts with the crusade in the 13th century. Before that there’s only mentions of conflicts with Scandinavians. Go back further and we’re talking about comb ceramic culture and corded ware culture which apparently come with their own genetic markers due to the fact that the cultures themselves were brought by the movement of Yamnaya people for corded and fuck knows what people for comb - genetically it was a mixture of mostly eastern hunter-gatherer with some western hunter-gatherer and western steppe herder thrown in, but the actual people don’t have name. Narva culture and earlier was more western hunter-gatherer genetically. It’s a huge mess. But same could be said for most continental people, real genetic isolation only really happened on remote islands.


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    Genetic diversity actually makes people look better which is why brits are so ugly* on their fairly isolated (other than some vikings a while ago) island while us Estonians have some very beautiful people after having at least half a dozen empires run train on us over the last 2 millennia. I mean I’m not one of those beautiful people, but there are a lot of them! lmao

    Also it makes for a healthier population, not just a better looking one. So the genetic isolation Trump seems to want, eh… not good.

    * Okay I’m just taking the piss on y’all, that British teeth thing is an American stereotype, I’ve never seen it IRL lmao



  • Yea but the rest of us will still benefit. The US is like 5% of the world’s population, give or take. Okay there’s other countries with shitty health care systems (developing ones where they just haven’t gotten there yet), but I’d reckon like 80% of the world’s population would have easy and cheap or free access to it through government funded healthcare, or at least a better private system than the US. That’s still a net good. Y’all just need to get your shit in order, but unfortunately at this point it’s going to be harder and harder to do it without violence.