#19 - I was in a pub in Edinburgh in '97 that had about 150 beers on tap. All the locals were drinking MGD. So I finally asked one of them why they would drink that cr#p with all the good beers on tap and the answer was "because it comes in a bottle."

#2 Actually, the best selling literature in America is in total number even less than in the Netherlands. The number of bookstores per inhabitant is the biggest in Island.

#19... I landed in USA 1981. The beer was cr#p. I almost quit until Heineken became available mid 80's.
Forward 40 years and most of the my local bars have 10 times the selection of pubs back in UK. So I quit drinking Heineken for IPA's.... How things change.....

#8 nobody believes that, at least not in Europe. It's the opposite: we think you are all really poor, with barely enough money for food and rent. With no money left to pay medical bills. Except for the billionaires, of course.