The boys and girls who casually pick fights, have sex and keep the emergency services fully occupied are often fueled by cheap booze. British youngsters drink their Continental European counterparts under the table: in 2003, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), 27% of British 15-year-olds had been drunk 20 times or more, compared to 12% of young Germans, 6% of Netherlands youth and only 3% of young French. British kids were also involved more frequently in fights (44% in the U.K. to 28% in Germany). They are more likely to try drugs or start smoking young. English girls are the most sexually active in Europe. More of them are having sex aged 15 or younger, and more than 15% fail to use contraception when they do — which means that Britain has high rates of both teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Small wonder, then, that a 2007 UNICEF study of child wellbeing in 21 industrialized countries placed Britain firmly at the bottom of the table.

Marsupialized wrote:I am not saying there aren't stupid people here, there are plenty.
All I am saying is the dumbest motherfucker you dredge up from the Mississippi back country will be WAY fucking dumber than the dumbest motherfucker you could ever find in Chicago. Like night and day. A whole different kind of dumb, like scary dumb. Mutant dumb.
Plus there will be a lot more dumb motherfuckers on average down there than up here. It would be extremely rare outside the big cities to find anyone NOT a dumb ignorant motherfucker down there. You could find plenty of intelligent people living away from the cities in the north.

Colonel Panic wrote: . . . they'll probably be able to grow all their own vegetables, tell you what kind of trees you have in your front yard, track a deer through the woods, fix just about any car problem you might have, and build a house from the ground up.

bwp wrote:I also recently saw some news special on 4 teenage Texas girls who committed 4 cocaine-fueled armed robberies and were tried as adults and pleaded with the jury to give them time served because they were just kids.