Lottery of Life

[Harb]

Interesting site from 'Save the Children' that highlights the problems of countries around the world where you could have been born in different circumstances.

Be thankful we live where do

http://www.thelotteryoflife.co.uk/

 

[Alexander Ostmann]

God dammit, I keep getting born in Africa....

 

[dextronaut]

I am so confused haha, 70% of the time i was waiting for loading, and then i finally got to the wheel, tried spinning it, and it wouldnt, kept trying, finally it did, and it put me in Iraq (is that even a country?!). So confused!!

 

[Olivier]

Thailand!

 

[Alexander Ostmann]

I can proudly say after 48 tries, I got America.

 

[smokeythebear]

Spain. Not bad. Not really great either. I guess they won that soccer thing that people seem to care about.

 

[Fedorov]

Spain. Not bad. Not really great either. I guess they won that soccer thing that people seem to care about.

I spun that **** round a million times before it puts me in a real country (more or less), but I wanted to see Spain, wondering what problems children could possibly have here (apart from being completely retarded) as IMO, they are over protected here.

What did the page say?

Edit:
BTW, I got Japan, and it said:

Poverty
Illiteracy (of course, they have a language that is virtually impossible to learn completely)
Bullying
Corporal punishment allowed

 

[reyalpOR]

Fun...

You were born in
CHINA

Problems in your new country:
-Malnutrition 9%
-Corporal Punishment Allowed
-Extensive Trafficking of Children
-High Risk Natural Disasters

. I wonder what country has the "worst problems" in this little game.

How do they figure the size of the pieces of the pie?

 

[Reddog]

United States, first roll

Edit: I'd bet money that Somalia would have the worst problems.

 

[Fedorov]

United States, first roll

Edit: I'd bet money that Somalia would have the worst problems.

and what were the problems in the USA?

 

[The Masta]

and what were the problems in the USA?

-Bullying
-Illiteracy
-Corporal punishment allowed
-Obesity

Germany:
-Bullying
-Illiteracy
-Corporal punishment

 

[UncleDrax]

"Bullying" and "Corporal Punishment".. really? Are those the things we think make a country horrible now?

And half the countries they seem to list 'Illiteracy' for even they cite it as uncommon. (Like France.. where apparently the 3 things I listed would be my biggest issues...)

On an aside.. they really need to do some optimization on that site or something.. it takes forever to load.. true, i'm in the US, and using a public wifi point just now.. but seriously...

 

[DraKon2k]

Lol I was born into Philippines. Could've been worse. It's a nice idea, but generally I'm against those 59345 "donate for children in africa" letters you get when half of the money goes to corrupt african goverments who prefer to buy new guns.

 

[mamoo]

Uzbekistan, awesome!

 

[C_Gibby]

I am a Chinese baby.

I wanna know what they say about UK. :IS2:

EDIT: I am starting again with a Level 0 Tunisian with 26% illiteracy skill and I also have the "Corporal punishment" special skill.

 

[The Masta]

EDIT: I am starting again with a Level 0 Tunisian with 26% illiteracy skill and I also have the "Corporal punishment" special skill.

How many XP do you need till lvl1 and how is your skill tree?


:IS2::IS2:

 

[Peter.Steele]

How many XP do you need till lvl1 and hoe is your skill tree?


:IS2::IS2:

I think there's a lot of digging with a stick, and maybe waiting for a Coke bottle to fall from the sky.

 

[Shepherd]

Illiteracy and corporal punishment are issues in first world countries

whathe****amireading.bmp

 

[LemoN]

LOL I was born in Austria.
Second try: Italy
Third try: France

 

[fiftyone]

Malaysia and then India, I don't like mosquitoes, I'll stay were I am thanks.

Actually, hitting kids because they can't read and then bullying them because they got hit, because they couldn't read has (unfortunately) been around since GameOne.