"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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Been there, saw them in action, they are a disgusting lot, make me number
three.


I too have been there, as well as a few other places, and I have also seen
them in action. I found them to be warm, friendly, helpful, and generous.
Sometimes a bit stubborn, but not compared to my wife. :-)

I found the local people to be warm, friendly, helpful, and generous in the
following places among others not mentioned.

France, England, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, Ireland, Norway,
Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Germany, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium,
Switzerland, Spain, Andorra, Greece, Italy, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa,
Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Botswana, Sudan, Kenya, Swaziland, Australia, New
Zealand, Indonesia, China, Japan, Chili, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Canada,
and even many places in the USA.

While I have encountered an occaisional obnoxious lout in several of the
above places, the highest percentage of such louts was in the USA and the
next largest percentage in Japan. Ireland was a distant third in the lout
competition and after that it is such a minor scattering as to be relatively
insignificant.

What can I say. We certainly do not have a monopoly on boors and louts in
the USA but we seem to produce more than our fair share. In fact there
seems to be a high correlation with the number of lawyers in the population!
Do you suppose there is a linkage here or just a spurious correlation? :-)

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