This is Lame! More Neutering of the American Male!

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Originally Posted by paco664

yeah.. that would never fly here..... in this country you aren't smart enough to decide what is best for your kids...

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Or yourself in some cases.

I remember the gasthaus in Germany, if a kid could put his pfenning on the bar he could have beer.

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Originally Posted by nun2sharp

I remember the gasthaus in Germany, if a kid could put his pfenning on the bar he could have beer.

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hmmm... i ain't sure my pfenning is long enough to reach the bar..........


luckily i am tall and it don't have far to reach...

I don't know that there are any laws restricting a parent from allowing their kid a glass of beer or wine (in the home, i.e.. I'm pretty certain that most restaurant managers would plotz if you tried to give your kid anything like that in his (or her) dining room, though).

I've always thought the drinking age for beer/wine should be 14, and the legal age for getting a driver's license should be 18. People seem to either agree with me or else think that every teen-ager will become an alcoholic. Not much middle ground on that one. But the facts support me on this, considering the percentage of teen-age kids who drink, and the accident rate for sober teen drivers.

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Originally Posted by ChesterCopperpot

Them's fightin' words! I don't think anyone here eats that stuff. Nobody that I've ever known, anyway.

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Sorry, I didn't intend to start a fight... :p But it is well-documented in the literature (eg Gormless, J. and Twittery, O., 2009) that in controlled trials of vegemite on toast, North Americans are 56.8 times more likely to over-use Vegemite than Australians, on average.

References:

Gormless, J. and Twittery, O. (2009) On the in situ Application of Yeast-based Extracts to super-heated Bread: Cross- Cultural normative Behaviours with Application to Savoury Hybridisation. Nature, 34 (3), 69-666.
Oxford University Press.

James.

I graduated high school in 1977, the woman who is now my mother in law hosted a party for her son, a fellow classmate, 300+ kids with free beer, partying all nite, no one hurt, no fights, just a lot of fun. It was so successful the school administrators asked her if she would host another one the following year. My, how things have changed.

We all had a knife in our pocket also.

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Originally Posted by 32t

We all had a knife in our pocket also.

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LOL, I graduated in '81, and where I lived, most of the boys carried knives on their belt.

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Originally Posted by joesixpack

LOL, I graduated in '81, and where I lived, most of the boys carried knives on their belt.

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and most of us had a can of skoal or copenhagen in our back pockets........

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Originally Posted by paco664

and most of us had a can of skoal or copenhagen in our back pockets........

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not to hijack this thread, but that stuff ought to be outlawed!