On Tuesday 04 December 2007 16:38, Russell Jones wrote: > Hans Witvliet wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 07:56 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> I live in the Netherlands, ... > >> > >> Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job > >> offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made to me in the late 80s. > > > > Don't. > > > > If you did accept it, there is a more than fair chance you would be out > > of a job and got a drinking-habbit > > > > It a nice country I live in: > > Last couple of weeks it was several times in the news that a bunch of > > yougsters attended a drinking party and went on untill they pass out. > > Kids of 12 years old. Permanent brain damage. > > > > I would almost opt for the Scandinavian mechanism: extremely strict and > > horrible expensive. > > JOOI, I looked this up: > http://www.eurocare.org/profiles/index.html > > http://www.eurocare.org/pdf/profiles/netherlands/netherlands.pdf > http://www.eurocare.org/pdf/profiles/norway.pdf > http://www.eurocare.org/pdf/profiles/finland.pdf > http://www.eurocare.org/pdf/profiles/sweden.pdf > http://www.eurocare.org/pdf/profiles/uk.pdf > > The rate of boozing does seem to be higher in the Netherlands. It's > higher even than in the UK, though it did start out a lot lower.
Booze is very much cheaper in Spain and Italy than in either the Netherlands or the UK, and there public drunkenness is generally frowned on and binge drinking is relatively rare, despite being far less regulated. The key is that wine is seen as part of a meal and part of your nutrition, not classed as a drug with a capital 'D' and fussed over to the point where it acquires too high a social value. My pet theory is that it's the weather - generally awful here in the UK and in the Netherlands, generally far, far pleasanter in the Mediterranean. You may well feel like a nice cold beer on a sunny day, but you're far more likely to lock yourself in with a bottle of whisky when it goes dark at three thirty in the afternoon as it will here today :-( -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: 0161 834 7961 Fax: 0161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
