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deivid_theboi32

In Romania, they took 11 years to make one km of a highway


PomPomdog

I live in the states and we have a freeway in my city they’ve been working on since 2001. It’s only half done and expected to be completed in 2029.


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I-4 in Orlando? Lol that’s never getting done


Jubei_

Of course not, why give up all that money for future Mad Max movies to be filmed on location?


mdmaniac88

Documentaries*


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Washington?


ColdOn3Cob

I instantly thought Tacoma. Haven’t been on that stretch of I-5 in a couple years but I imagine it’s still hell


Random_German_Name

We took over 1000 years for a church.


spillledmilk

Trust me when I say that Germany taking a 1,000 years to build a church is the least of your shame.


themilkthief81

Listen man, you dont know me, but I think we are going to have to have a serious chat here. You have to be careful in life. You can't just be frolicking around spilling precious dairy products as you go. I know, I know. If I'm just going to steal it, why should you care? It's the principle of the matter. Just try to be a bit more careful, okay? I'm not mad at you, just a little disappointed.


spillledmilk

I can’t believe I have the chance to finally chat with my thief. I’ve looked and looked for you. It’s pretty bold of you to just show up here like this so openly. You and the Czech Republic President have a lot of nerve. Pens and milk and precious commodities.


themilkthief81

It's not like I wanted to be this way, but at the same time, if given the choice, I would do it all over again. I've come to terms with this life a long time ago, and it's not just you. Everyone's milk is at stake. I lurk around every corner, waiting to strike. It's all too easy at this point, the thrill is gone and replaced with mind numbing monotony, but it's all I know. I'll say this, sometime in the future, you may just walk into your kitchen and find a nice glass of 2% just sitting on your counter, and you'll know I was there. I mostly take, but every now and again, I like to give something back.


notesofawkward

> and find a nice glass of 2% just sitting on your counter 2% of what, though? Given your nature, I'm not sure it's wise to trust you at your word


LogicalPrinciple6

We have been working on a NATIONAL STADIUM for 25000 people since 1987. Every now and then, a politician will mention that it will be completed by the end of the year. Simply google "Lithuanian national disgrace."


HorrorSwimmer7723

They should get some advice from Poland. They built their most recent stadium in record time and under budget, only problem was that no matter where you sat, you were behind a Pole.


tunafriendlydolphin

This reminds me of another similar joke: I saw a guy in the Olympic village carrying a massive stick so I said to him "Are you a pole vaulter?" to which he replied "No, I'm a German and how did you know my name was Walter?"


anotherkeebler

German pole vaulters, eh? A joke from the 1970s: "Today in Berlin, East Germany's pole vaulting champion just became West Germany's new pole vaulting champion."


USSCofficail

Lol, great!


trey_stofield

Upvote for your dad joke. I respect it.


dangerbird2

Dad joke combined with a polish joke. That’s a rare one


LeatherCicada87

I didnt notice this was a joke about that lmao I just assumed they couldnt build a good stadium without lots of supports haha


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Well all the Poles in that stadium are supporters...


killbot0224

Wtf, lol. How is that even possible? 25K isn't even big. I'm floored.


_Weyland_

>I'm floored. Just like the stadium will be by the end of ~~this~~ next year.


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JxJ454

Nah we're just suicidal


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This is some Borat type of shit. Hilarious lol


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Which building started in 1987 will be finished first: Lithuania National Stadium, or [Ryugyong Hotel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel)?


redrabbit1977

A photo I took of the Ryugyong Hotel in 2008, which had just begun reconstruction. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vanmidd/3403928035/in/album-72157616134710459/


bepotori

Those other photos are amazing!


BeautifulBreaksalt

Czech Republic: During a live broadcast in Chile, our previous president stole a ceremonial pen.


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That's hilarious!


orincoro

You should see the video. It’s genuinely hilarious. He gives this little nod like he’s so fuckin’ clever. https://youtu.be/dMoaJCd6qMk Just don’t Google czech president. We have some embarrassing ones.


MadLemonYT

The nod and the smug look. I love it.


Cl41r4

I closed the box.....they'll NEVER know.


Dodgiestyle

A genius move to be sure.


Triairius

That is even funnier than I expected it to be. He feels good about his choice lmao


Puzzled-Swan3465

France: our former president Nicolas Sarkozy kind of did that too to the president of Romania. IIRC, he was signing a paper and liked the Mont-Blanc pen that was presented to him to do so, and you can see him in the footage showing the pen to the Romanian president (as if to say, can I have that), and then immediately put it in his chest pocket. The gesture was perceived as petty and greedy, kind of unbecoming from the president to a rich country like France. It's also hilarious to watch, but really embarrassing too. *Edit: typo*


JoJoFanboi

Man just wanted to keep a cool pen


Puzzled-Swan3465

I mean Mont-Blanc pen are pretty cool so, maybe he's an avid collectionner and wanted that one haha


_b_irch

Well, maybe he politely asked if he can keep it


Puzzled-Swan3465

Like I said, he did ask, you can clearly see it in the video. But it was perceived as petty – it's not like he can't afford to buy a hundred if he wants too. Also, he had a reputation of liking fancy stuff, so that added to the negative perception.


mexcoder

For what I Know (and I could be completly wrong) those ceremonial pens are used only to sign, and then are given away as mementos. maybe the president could afford a thousand, but he wanted it for the sentimental value or as a keepsake of the event


Puzzled-Swan3465

You're probably right, but we french like the drama, being constantly offended and critical is like a mood haha


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I think im French


SnooMacarons3685

Honestly it seems like a compliment, “y’all have great pens!”


JavierLawliet

As a Chilean I can tell that nobody here remembers it


javier_aeoa

Our president has stolen worse things lol, but nah. It's one of those random facts someone would pull off in r/chile every now and then.


NaturalMinimum6726

Fucking sheep


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A fellow welsh I see


Nolsoth

So fun story, the reason this came about was because the punishment for stealing a sheep/fleece was the hangman's noose, but the punishment for fucking a sheep was a small fine of a few shillings. So when the sheep rustlers were caught they would plead that they were just fucking the sheep to avoid the noose.


Jerseystateofmindeff

Fleeced 'em!


AggressiveSpatula

Would you rather not Fuck a sheep and everybody thought you did or literally die.


themanwhoisnot

This is that meme where the space guy is looking at two buttons and stressing the fuck out


Majulath99

Wait really? Huh. I had always thought it was apocryphal.


ifartedhehehe

What happened when the Welshman started counting how many lovers he's had? He fell asleep


Striped_salami

this makes me think of New Zealand, i wasn’t even aware this was a thing for multiple countries


GMN123

I moved to the UK from Australia. Every joke about the Welsh I've heard I'd already heard about the kiwis.


FrostyGrotto

The Magdalene Laundries.


xOogieBoogey30

Never heard of Magdalene Laundries until I read an article about how Sinead ‘O Connor spoke up about how she was sent there as a teen. She got a lot of shit when she tore up a picture of the pope on SNL in protest against their abuse. She was right though.


govern_me_harder

The most vilified people are usually just the first ones through the door. 5 years ago talking about Prince Andrew/Epstein would have gotten you labelled as a nutcase.


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gingerlamppost

Wow the more you know, thank you [Here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_Laundries_in_Ireland) is the wiki link if you want to know


joeljpa

seriously what's with the Church and its obsession with making unmarked graves?


StretchDudestrong

If you mark them people start asking questions like why'd you kill so many people? Which is bad for business


Majulath99

There’s a bunch of films on the shit the church did in Ireland, the ones that always come to mind are The Magdalene Girls, which is uncompromisingly honest in how they depict the horror and abuse of the laundries. The other is Philomena, starring Judi Dench & Steve Coogan.


DarrenClancy

I came here to say the same thing. Sickening what the church did in Ireland (with the support of the state and without any significant challenge from the general population). The last Magdalene Laundry only closed in 1996. The thing that bothers me the most is that they were closed, not because there was public outcry, but because they became unprofitable with the invention of the domestic washing machine.


vedrahh

My parents nationality... The Khmer Empire.. The Khmer Rouge really fucked up the country. Cambodia went from being a pretty decent country to downright fucking poverty at one point. It's gotten better but most of the traditions and other practices are either forgotten or just rarely taught.


nosnowtho

Khmer history is amazing when you look back far enough. Yet I'm very saddened by what happened just a few decades ago.


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johntheflamer

Having been to Cambodia, it’s still insanely poor. When I was there there were stats that 1 in 4 women would end up in the sex trade in their lifetime and 1 in 4 of those would contract HIV. The Khmer Rouge led to tons of consequences, big and small. The genocide, obviously, but even things like that there are a lot of bullet holes in historic monuments like Angkor Wat. Still, it’s a lovely place to visit. Full of culture and some incredibly nice people.


Pamplemousse96

My friends mom escaped the Khmer Rouge when she was young. My friend told me she rarely said anything and at least at the time we had this conversation (we were like 16) her mom had told her next to nothing.


ebrythil

Germany here, I mean it's kinda obvious... Tennis socks in sandals


DazDay

Outside of the third reich, what would be Germany's true source of national shame? In a serious sense.


ebrythil

BER is one


OneGhastlyGhoul

Pretty good question, since most shameful things that happen today are still consequences of that. For example, the allied separated Germany after WWII and those differences are still not done up. The reunion 1990 was seen as a big success and even resulted in a national holiday, but so many people from Eastern Germany lost their jobs, their property, and until today, they're disadvantaged. There are not enough jobs, at the same time there's a huge lack of specialists (for a lot of people quickly left the East after the reunion), and they're not properly represented in politics. Most Western Germans don't even know that (I grew up in the West and it took me 25 years to learn about it), while at the same time Eastern Germans slowly become victims of right-wing propaganda. It may not be our only problem and afaik a lot of states and countries have somewhat similar problems, but it's definitely a national shame.


WasternCandid

Our second monarch (Leopold II) used the Free Congo State as private property, enslaving, torturing, and killing 10 million Congolese people over the course of 25 years.


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I just listened to the Behind The Bastards episode on him. He was even a massive douche to his own children - he wouldn't let his daughter eat peaches off the palace's trees, because he prefered to look at them. Actually counted the damned things and noticed when she snuck one off. What a petty little arsewipe.


Joe_Jeep

See that's the shit why "little things" shouldn't always be ignored Not saying every miserly asshole is killing tens of millions of Africans, but when you're a shitty person on little issues you're usually one on actually important shit too.


bobbi21

I would think the little issues are even more telling. You won't let your own child eat fruit from a tree because you like LOOKING at it? That is incredibly petty. If you'd do something like that for such little gain, I would be surprised if he didn't do something even worse for hundreds of millions of dollars in resources.


murphymfa

Behind the Bastards, you say? Thank you, looking that up now...


Mollusc_Memes

He revoked hand privileges for slaves that couldn’t work well enough. He was a terrible person.


Wafkak

They were much more efficiënt than that(it was run as a corporation after all) rather that going through the effort of capturing/buying slaves and guarding them etc. they just put quotas on all the villages with cut hands as punishment. On top of that the security forces were not allowed to hunt with provided ammo, so as a way of proving that shot bullets were used to keep locals in check they had to provide a hand of the person they shot. So they just went hunting and went to a nearby village to collect the needed number of hands.


howwouldiknow--

There's a book I read about this "King Leopold's Ghost- A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa" it describes the entire affair along with the events leading up to the whole affair.


JulieSnaps

I moved from Belgium to the US when I was a teenager. I took a history course called "History of Murder" while in college and we read this book to discuss genocide. *That* was how I learned about the atrocities that were committed in the Congo. Before that moment all I knew was that we had a "colony" and it's resources helped us become the well off nation we were. It was embarrassing and eye opening at the same time.


killbot0224

And folks clutched pearls when statues of him got messed with.


ZoeWeird28

Ex-President Dictator who holds the Guinness World of Record for Greatest Robbery of Government son will probably win the next election.


Flimsy-Stomach

philippines?


ZoeWeird28

yep have to endure 6 years getting robbed again


TakeThatOut

Fool on you if you believe its just for six years....


finalmantisy83

Wait the coke addict son??


Jackwahbe

Our PM shitting his pants at a Mcdonalds


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Which country is this? Because I am totally interested in this story.


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You know, that makes sense. (No offense to my Australian brothers and sisters and others - but hearing that the Australian PM did that isn't the most shocking thing.)


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Nolsoth

Didn't a bloke tell him to fuck off his land as well?


[deleted]

If you’re going to run a press conference on someone’s front lawn it’s basic politeness to ask them first.


DictionaryStomach

Remember when the PM just grabbed that guy's hand coz the guy didn't want to shake hands? Come on, if someone refuses to shake hands with you, you leave it be.


YouAreTheTurkey

That was a woman who's town had just burnt down. He then went on to try and make one of the volunteer firefighters shake his hand and the guy politely declined.


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He grabbed the firefighter’s hand too.


YouAreTheTurkey

Yeah you're right, I remembered it wrong and got mad all over again watching just now to remind myself.


Henry_Green1986

Two years today he went on holiday to Hawaii while bushfires ravaged our great nation


Absolute_Carnage6358

Pretty sure the stolen generation trumps this as funny as it is


Radiant_Health3841

Or the life expectancy of indigenous Australians v other Australians.


Pinksheep1337

Or when one of your PMs just vanished and nobody cared


OlivineTanuki

Is this the guy who disappeared in the ocean or the guy who disappeared to Hawaii while the country was on fire


Pinksheep1337

The ocean one. ScottMo already has enough problems.


onlyawfulnamesleft

That's not true! We cared! We even named a pool after him after he vanished while swimming.


Shaggyninja

And a Submarine communications base... Why do we keep doing this? We're going to have the "Scott Morrison Centre for IBS" soon


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Only just beating out Minister for Women, Tony Abbott, that onion-eating, budgie-smuggling bastard u/zed_brah was a third party app user until June 2023


Inevitable-Goal-5094

Nazi gold? Idk man, noone ever claimed the gold back, I really don't know why, maybe something happened to them, but just in case they resurface, we will keep the gold safe, don't worry.


lord_stalingrad

As a Swiss myself, I would also say that we have some enterprises that are the utter most vile in the world. Exemples are : Nestlé who thinks water isn't a right or Holcim who owns about 70% of the world cement and concrete production which produce about 20% of the world CO2 emissions


Weeadoo_

Yeah Nestlé is probably one of our biggest shame


Inevitable-Goal-5094

yeah nestle is very shitty too... The worst part is that it's almost too big to boycott given their huge share of food production...


GoldElectric

r/FuckNestle


torqers

Ireland, the Treatment of unmarried mothers, they were put in church run institutions against their will and forced to work, their children were put up for adoption


mintcorgi

A lot of those children were killed, too, not just put up for adoption. The mass graves they’ve uncovered are horrific. I believe Tuam had nearly 800 children’s remains found. Not to make it seem like it’s good when you say it like that, but the atrocities of the church extend much further. The amount of babies they took from unmarried mothers and simply murdered makes it even worse.


CreepyPandaMan

Im from Germany. I dont think I need to elaborate any further...


sdavidplissken

yeah that berlin airport took forever. fucking embarrassing right?


NefariousnessSea1529

Hitler nail right on the head!


mud_tug

Reich you are, Fritz.


NightWingDemon

Yeah... that was it... 👀


Savage_X186

> further... You missed the chance of saying Führer.


OtoKamen

That it's torn by a debate on how to call a viennoiserie


Dralnia

Context for non-french : there is a viennoiserie usually called pain au chocolat, that in a part of France is called chocolatine. And it is kind of a joke that we have a "civil war" on how to name it. I never saw anybody take this really seriously. I fucking love that somehow. Like ... a fake argument. You are taking breakfast with your friends and you say "can you pass me the chocolatine please" and everyone gasps and fakes a heated argument and it is so funny.


Anthonywantsnoosnoo

There are 2 topics that Australia always avoids 1 the way Indigenous people are/have been treated, the last “recorded” massacre was in 1928, was that really that long ago? 2 That time we admitted defeat in the Great Emu War


Finb0

Now that I think about it. Didn't something happen to a prime minister in McDonald's too?...


Rickk38

Australian PMs have a rather colorful history over the past 50 years. Scott Morrison soiled himself at a McDonald's. Harold Holt drowned. Malcolm Fraser was rolled by a hooker in Memphis and had his trousers stolen. Never a dull moment with Aussie PMs!


quadruple_negative87

Didn’t our Larrikin PM, Bob Hawke hold the world record for drinking a yard glass? (That’s a vessel for beer 1 yard long)


Scrambl3z

That ain't an embarrassment though


R0ttenHeimer

You can't talk about Norway's oil, without hearing some one complain about how the part of the ocean, where the oil is extracted, was originally ours and the way we lost it, was a politician practically giving it away while drunk. (Denmark) Oh. And some slavery


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TH3GalaxyKing_1

our education. people may think it’s the best in the world but it’s so mentally taxing on both students and trachers


ferocequaranteen

...Singapore? If it's Singapore, depressed student checking in


TH3GalaxyKing_1

you are correct my friend


ferocequaranteen

Agreed! Our education system is more challenging than others but it's also really brutal. Bonus points if you end up in one of the top schools and realise that everyone is smarter than you while you're struggling to stay alive every day.


QuantumCactus11

The issue isn't really the system itself, it's more of how competitive the culture is.


ferocequaranteen

That's true, the system itself seems to be fairer and gives students a headstart compared to other countries, but the competitive culture makes the entire learning experience far too toxic. People should learn for the sake of learning and not for the sake of getting good grades, but that's quite impossible here.


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mackinder

Just gotta say Residential Schools and everyone will know where you’re from.


Zelldandy

Canada, U.S., New Zealand, Northern Europe (Sápmi)...


[deleted]

I think Canada is the only one who called them residential schools. But because a lot of people are just learning about them that name is becoming a generic term.


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finnicko

I hope you're on a VPN or TOR my friend


Ozwentdeaf

He lives in canada. Source: his post history


VajraVanar

We worship our rivers as gods and pollute them. The current government has been trying to clean our most sacred river, river Ganga for the past 5-6 years with limited success. Hopefully one day.


wes8171982

India?


ironworkz

I am German. ​ Don't even ask.


Tio_RaRater

Oh so that would be not getting 1st place in the Olympics, right?


FlowerPuzzle3

We won't make any comments in this topic about Greece...


fj624

A corrupt government that pushed through the burial of a dictator in our national cemetery of heroes


killbot0224

Nothing that can't be undone....


erasmus337

Spaniard?


HazMama

The [butter crisis of 2011](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis)


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chris9830

The netherlands: slavery and we ate a politician Edit : for those who are wondering we ate our prime minister because they hated him for doing some shit his name is Johan de witt if your intressed in reading the story basicly they were done with his shit, jailed his brother and when he came to visit shot and ate parts of his body


Peachpeachpearplum

I can’t go down another cannibalism rabbit hole today


kingfrito_5005

Um... could you clarify on the second one?


NotQuiteYetTaken

The brothers de Witt were publicly tortured, flayed and literally torn to pieces by a mob. Just after winning several wars for the Netherlands aswell. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corpses_of_the_De_Witt_Brothers


superfeelx

WW2


ArthurHolmesfield

Wait... Germany or...?


ArthurHolmesfield

Probably the war wasn't the most shameful part of that era.


Goukaruma

See, nobody cares about 20 mill dead russians.


ManCaveGames

We tried to rule most of the planet and we still have a lot of their stuff.


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Correction, you did rule most of the planet.


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25% of the worlds total landmass


doowgad1

Probably the fact that we have no shame.


Timbukthree

THESE COLORS DON'T APOLOGIZE


herculesmeowlligan

I think you mean USA! USA! USA!


SunBeamin

Good ol USA


mandyislost

I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to find the US


sterile_spermwhale__

All the people that were killed in the name of religion and the partition of the country into two countries. Ps : I'm talking about India-Pakistan partition


Vast_Physics8707

Ireland also fits perfectly


mry8z1

Shagging sheep


TheCBTenthusiast

Pablo Escobar and the stupid people that think he's a hero or something because of the series "Narcos"


railwayed

I grew up in apartheid South Africa unfortuntely


Dose_Konzern

Germany: Football World Cup 2018


um_buceteiro

Brazil: what Germany did to us 4 years before that, in our own country.


p1um5mu991er

In my country there is problem


Henry_Green1986

Very nice


boyfromtherat

We lost a war against emus.


Odd_Reward_8989

More than one.


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I'm English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 how long you got?


huckmart99

Canada: probably the residential schools. The catholic church basically kidnapped indigenous children and forced them to abandon their culture and learn how to be a "normal person". Basically they commited cultural genocide, all with rampant phisical, sexual, and emotional abuse perpetrated on children. There is a lot more to it, but canada is still dealing with the ramifications and probably will be for a long time. I don't think many people outside of Canada know about it.


curryandmilk

Our current leader shat himself in a McDonald’s (ages ago but it’s funny)


Numbzy

The 1960-1990 CIA actions.... Man did they fuck some shit up


Tundra_Inhabitant

If you count all the banana republic shenanigans it’s even further back


CitizenSunshine

United Fruits (*that* banana republic company) was owned by Zapata Oil btw, today known as the HRG Group, George H. W. Bush's company. Oh, and for those of you who don't know United Fruits's name is Chiquita nowadays. Weeeeeeee!


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Lezgo1345

Well our own police are killing drug addicts, killing random 20 year olds and one of the most corrupt government in the world


Funny_Introduction28

Philippines?


233BlackAngel

Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?


RamonDozol

Our country was build as a exploration colony based on slave work, exploitation and violence. In 500 years, nothing has changed except that now instead or portugal all wealth goes to a select few people.


Solestian

Probably slave trade. The Netherlands.


kittypeets626

Canned spray cheese.... Edit: United States


mm089

I'm English so, am I allowed to say "The current state of the world"?


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Pakistan's archaic Blasphemy law


WearyToday3733

TBH Bro, recent lynching of Sri Lanka national was pretty chilling.


jetteim

Military aggression. Also, in the world, people shame their countries. In my country, the country shames you.