Another lovely legacy
As we sift through the smoking wreckage of this once-great nation, wondering where our liberties have gone, we can at least take one crumb of comfort.
We're still number one at something! Mind you, everyone is, according to David MacCandless, over here. He's built this great diagram, 'International Number Ones' which shows what every nation in the in the world can proudly claim to be 'number one' at:
Botswana has the most diamonds; Peru has the most butterflies; France has more sugar beet than anyone else; no-one has as many figs as Turkey, and Burma is number one for Rubies.
Iceland has the most female graduates, South Korea has the most web users and Paraguay is number one for hydroelectricity.
And what of us? This sceptred isle? Where do we top the tables? What are we number one at? Squint carefully; what does it say?
CCTV.
Oh.
Says it all, really.
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USA: Serial Killers
Snk!
I'm going to have to be the pedant, Uraguay is wrong, Brazil hold the honour of most world cup wins.
I KNEW you'd like that site!
I misread the Burma one - thought they were number one for rabies...
Car thefts Australia???
Surely he meant Poland???
Or Liverpool ...
Britain has to be No 1 for Illegal Immigrants & Benefits scroungers...
The stats that attempt to show that the UK has the most CCTVs are based on dodgy assumptions. The original study looked at a single road in London and then extrapolated to the rest of the city. And then it's been extrapolated to the whole country. There is no record of the number of CCTV held so the number can't be disproved. But if a new study was carried out (good idea for anyone looking for some public money!) I suspect that the UK wil still end up pretty high up on the list, just not miles ahead of all other countries. Singapore comes to mind as a heavily monitored place that could equal or beat the UK.
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