Are Europeans smarter/ more responsible than Americans?

[samsonite2100]

Visit the UK/Ireland and then tell me Europeans are more intelligent or responsible about alcohol than Americans.

[bkholdem]

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Visit the UK/Ireland and then tell me Europeans are more intelligent or responsible about alcohol than Americans.

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How do these countries polices and practices compare to the other contries' policies and practices in eastern and western europe with respect to alcohol?

[HeavilyArmed]

Just wait two more generations. Europistan will be comfortably under Sharia and, well, no worries.

[Barfunkel]

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Although I have never been to Europe, I have heard that several contries have a lower legal drinking age than in the US. I have also heard that there is less alcohol abuse in those contries.

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Err... what? In Finland you see tons of teenagers (as in 12-17...) drinking in the parks every day and no one cares... I've never heard of such a thing happening in the States, from what I've heard you got like police raids when 19-year olds have home parties.

[surftheiop]

What is a high tech thing that an European invented and is used world wide?
The internet

[surftheiop]

WTF ??? i know several guys from UK and they say alcohol abuse is absurd there.

[bkholdem]

I just googled countries legal drinking ages:

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/LegalDrinkingAge.html

It seems there are a handful of countries with no minimum age, a few more than that with an age of 16 (some with exceptions, albeit unspecificed), a boatload of countries with the age 18, south korea 19, Japan and Iceland 20, and the land of the free stands alone at the highest minimum age of 21 LOL

[[Phill]]

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What is a high tech thing that an European invented and is used world wide?
The internet

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And we invented the first programable computer during world war two.

Anyway, as someone alluded to there is a lot of achohol problems in the UK - so count us out on this one issue of Europe > USA.

[pvn]

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What is a high tech thing that an European invented and is used world wide?
The internet

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What is a post that this has to do with?
Not the OP


PS: A european didn't invent the internet.

[[Phill]]

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What is a high tech thing that an European invented and is used world wide?
The internet

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What is a post that this has to do with?
Not the OP


PS: A european didn't invent the internet.

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It is a direct reply to Rock69 or whatever he is called.

Ps, i was pretty sure the internet was invented by the US military as a means of communications during the cold war. I found this link after 1 min of googling - http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventednet.html.
Pps, Al Gore invented the internet [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Ppps, the world wide web was created by two Europeans apparently, or at least whilst they worked for a european body - http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedweb.html

Cant be bothered to research further, this is unrelated to the OP.