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I'm completely against granting people any kind of freedoms in state services that are tied to their religion. Religion is a human invention and although it's structured and defined, etc. essentially every religious person has a subjective interpretation which makes its views an entirely unique world of My Little Pony. I don't give a frying fuck about what goes on in your head, do the job you're paid for.

I don't know the English word for a state service and a certified person that marries two people. So it's not a Church marriage. Can I enroll there for the job and then refuse to wed people because they didn't ask a permission from clergy first, and I'm a Christian?

The universal health care is both state (large part) and private (small part). While it should be 100% state. Did I say 100 percent? Sorry, I meant 101 percent, no profits from the human health. We used to have such a system, it was possible because we also had a comparatively large pharma and med equipment industries at home. There is no health insurance plan in liberalized health markets that would cover even a quarter of the projected costs for a treatment akin to what I had between roughly 1989 and 1996.
 
Debate going on here with our pending assisted law over whether faith-based hospitals should be forced to provide the service. Not individual doctors, just the facilities employing those willing to,perform the procedure.
 
Faith-based hospital? Is that like a homeopathic center, just without water?
 
Don't look at me, I think every faith-based hospital in Canada should be nationalized and forced to comply with the same standard of care.
 
Zare said:
I'm completely against granting people any kind of freedoms in state services that are tied to their religion. Religion is a human invention and although it's structured and defined, etc. essentially every religious person has a subjective interpretation which makes its views an entirely unique world of My Little Pony. I don't give a frying fuck about what goes on in your head, do the job you're paid for
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I'm trying to get my head around who is actually supposed to perform abortion procedures in Croatia. Are the physicians you're talking about specialists who are refusing to do a central part of their job, or general practitioners/general hospital doctors? As far as I know, abortions here, both medical and surgical, tend to be carried out by specialist clinics or specialist hospital units, and healthcare providers will recruit people specifically for this. Rules are also in place regarding general practitioners who refuse to refer a patient to a clinic. GPs and general hospital doctors aren't routinely required to carry out abortions, to my knowledge.
 
Brigantium said:
I'm trying to get my head around who is actually supposed to perform abortion procedures in Croatia. Are the physicians you're talking about specialists who are refusing to do a central part of their job, or general practitioners/general hospital doctors? As far as I know, abortions here, both medical and surgical, tend to be carried out by specialist clinics or specialist hospital units, and healthcare providers will recruit people specifically for this. Rules are also in place regarding general practitioners who refuse to refer a patient to a clinic. GPs and general hospital doctors aren't routinely required to carry out abortions, to my knowledge.
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Both. General gynecology units provide the service at state hospitals, procedure costs 250-350 eur depending on the city and, as one of my friends jokingly said, can be done within a lunch break.
This leaves not much of a market for specialized private centers, which are few. Since there are few, your privacy is heavily at risk because there's not much of a reason for lady to check in that kind of institution apart from the abortion. At state hospital, you're just queuing in the gyno unit, if somebody sees you, you can lie straight in their face if you want, there will be no stuff incriminating you. However now we got these data leaks so picketers know exactly against whom are they picketing among the patients. And of course, it's at state run hospitals that they can call on consciousness, obviously not at a specialized private clinic. Still there are locations and names of physicians on the net that will perform 100%, but then we're returning to same issue, why should a lady from Split travel up north just to check into a general gyno, in a far smaller hospital.
 
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Only the Italians joke the most about "themselves"? Probably because this country doesn't exist that long and has been divided in little "empires" for a long time. So I assume people from cities/regions joke about people from other cities/regions.

Hmm, the Hungarians joke about Scotland? This is odd, perhaps this should be moved to the funny topic.
 
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The impression I got from hearing people who are familiar with the country is that there's a massive cultural divide between the North and the South in Italy and they're not fond of each other.
 
Poland? Really? I would have expected the Austrians, Dutch, East Germans and East Frisians before them.
 
Poor Sweden, ganged up on by all her neighbours.

Maybe Hungarians are just racist against Scots?

There is no joking in Belarus.
 
Poor Sweden? Look at Bosnia :)
There are no jokes about stereotypical Croat, because we're subdivided in couple of geographical categories, each embodying a different trait (stiffness north, being lazy littoral south, cheapness islands south, etc.). I think it's same with Serbia.
While Bosnia and Montenegro have their national joke stereotypes. Bosnian humour is by far the most loved in ex-Yu, and it's, I'd say, 100% their own jokes, so I don't get how they joke most about Germany.

If you're interested in this topic there are nice articles on Wikipedia, for bigger countries, origins of jokes and such.
 
My favorite Balkan joke:

A Croat, a Serb, a Montenegrian and an American are sharing a compartment in a train.
After a while the Croat decides to eat something, so he takes out some pag cheese, blood sausages, prosciutto etc and starts eating.
He eats for like 5 minutes and while there's a lot of food left, he just throws the leftovers out of the window.
The American goes "Wtf, why are you throwing away all that food, don't you know how expensive it is and the starving children in Africa?"
The Croat responds "Eh, relax, we have a shitload of that in Croatia."
Some time later, the Montenegrian starts to eat too. He takes out some prosciutto, cheese and bacon and starts eating.
When he's had enough, he throws the leftovers out of the window.
American goes again "Wtf, why are you doing that, it's good food!"
Montenegrian says "Eh, it's OK, we have a shitload of that in Montenegro".

Some time later the Serb throws out the Montenegrian out of the window.
 
Night Prowler said:
My favorite Balkan joke:

A Croat, a Serb, a Montenegrian and an American are sharing a compartment in a train.
After a while the Croat decides to eat something, so he takes out some pag cheese, blood sausages, prosciutto etc and starts eating.
He eats for like 5 minutes and while there's a lot of food left, he just throws the leftovers out of the window.
The American goes "Wtf, why are you throwing away all that food, don't you know how expensive it is and the starving children in Africa?"
The Croat responds "Eh, relax, we have a shitload of that in Croatia."
Some time later, the Montenegrian starts to eat too. He takes out some prosciutto, cheese and bacon and starts eating.
When he's had enough, he throws the leftovers out of the window.
American goes again "Wtf, why are you doing that, it's good food!"
Montenegrian says "Eh, it's OK, we have a shitload of that in Montenegro".

Some time later the Serb throws out the Montenegrian out of the window.
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We have that one, the punchline is the German throws a Turk out.
 
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