Just heard on the radio on the way back home in the car that A mother and farther are to be jailed for 2 years each for serving alcohol and there son's birthday party.
Bloody Ridiculous, I can just about tolerate this being a crime, but surely a slap on the wrist would be sufficent. And compare this to Paris Hilton, caught drink driving, a very very dangerous offence. THEN having the nerve to drive under a ban, and she gets a couple of weeks. How ****ed up is that country.
The parents even made sure that the kids all handed in there car keys before they served them!
Jeremy Clarkson on America
Everybody is very fat, everybody is very stupid and everybody is very rude
What are the odds of you missing a part of the story? Like one of the drunk children at the party ending up hurting someone or getting hurt as a result of the alcohol?
Well, Fat: This is a well documented fact Stupid: Average IQ in the US is below most European countries, I can probably find a link if you don't believe me.
Well, Fat: This is a well documented fact Stupid: Average IQ in the US is below most European countries, I can probably find a link if you don't believe me.
Fair enough if that was a one off, as admittedly they aren't great. but the fact that the US is routinely near the bottom of developed countries isnt a great sign. Do you think on average Americans are as intelligent as Europeans?
But any chance to bash the US must be taken, right?
Meh, Id normally go for France, but yeah it must.
Id attack any country which made a ruling that ridiculous.
Fair enough if that was a one off, as admittedly they aren't great. but the fact that the US is routinely near the bottom of developed countries isnt a great sign. Do you think on average Americans are as intelligent as Europeans?
There is variation in countries genetically in many ways. E.g. African people are generally larger, and more heavily muscled than Chinese people.
Why is it so unfathomable that in some countries the populace is marginally more intelligent than others.
It's not unfathomable. It's hard to deny that there may be small average intelligence differences between races (even if they are purely statistical), but it's just as hard to prove their significance.
The problem comes when you try to quantify this. It's easy to see and measure physical racial differences e.g. height, but there exists no reliable way of measuring someone's intelligence. The definition of intelligence is not even widely agreed, and different people score differently when 'tested' in different 'areas' of intelligence.
Thus, there are no arguments that can 'prove' whether or not there are intelligence differences between groups of people.
Just heard on the radio on the way back home in the car that A mother and farther are to be jailed for 2 years each for serving alcohol and there son's birthday party.
Bloody Ridiculous, I can just about tolerate this being a crime, but surely a slap on the wrist would be sufficent. And compare this to Paris Hilton, caught drink driving, a very very dangerous offence. THEN having the nerve to drive under a ban, and she gets a couple of weeks. How ****ed up is that country.
The parents even made sure that the kids all handed in there car keys before they served them!