Recent content by Brett142

The thing is, if people wanted to, they could retire at 40 or 50. If people choose to be a 9-5 slave all their life then expect to work later, of course. It makes sense if our population is getting older and there's not enough working people to support them.

In terms of international tourists Paris' number falls to 15.2 million (I guess the French must love visiting their own capital city, figures) with London only 500,000 behind with 14.7 million. Still Paris and London have for a long time and probably will dominate the city tourist industry...

As far as I'm aware these changes haven't happened. Regardless, if you look at the past crests for Real Madrid, a cross didn't appear on it until 1942. Anyway, these changes aren't anything to do with Islamification, more secularisation.

Hispanic people was a term coined by the US government - I'm not sure when - to identify the growing immigration from Central, Southern America and the Caribbean, essentially if you came from any Spanish speaking country, regardless of your race you were/are classed as Hispanic. Nowadays...

If you look at alcohol, especially in the UK where binge drinking is a problem, look at how people act, how they speak to others, and how they compose themselves in public. They abuse people verbally, physically and mentally, they seem to lose all respect for their surroundings and themselves...

Remember when the US and a lot of other countries didn't allow Black people to marry white people? You go ask a kid in British school these days and I bet you they wouldn't have even thought such laws existed. I think (and hope) that in the next couple of decades, especially in countries where...

I am a native English speaker, I've learned French since I was 11, German since I was 12, Spanish in university and Italian for a year during university. SPANISH - By far my most favourite foreign language. I love how you could teach Spanish pronunciation to an (intelligent) person in like 10...

I don't think the 'Israel is not geographically part of Europe' argument is valid. I see the E.U. one day expanding beyond the traditional 'European' borders. I mean look at turkey, 97% of it is in Asia. I personally wouldn't mind Israel one day being part of the EU, but it has a hell of a lot...

The British royal family is also the Scottish royal family, so how could they break away from the UK completely? It most certainly is not going to be a repeat of Yugoslavia....we're civilised people. To be completely honest I really don't see Scotland voting for full independence, much like...

Very Surprised by the Spain statistic, would have expected a lot more of them to know English, at least more than France!

I find this idea of a 'fat tax' absolutely insane! Just because some idiots out there who eat themselves until they're 300 pounds in weight, doesn't mean everyone else should suffer. What about the people who eat healthily all week then want to have say a cake on the weekend - why should they be...

Yeah it really really really does NOT rain that much in England - evidence? - they have issued yet another hose pipe ban in southern England because of DROUGHT. I think the reason most people think it rains loads here is because A) British people always complain about the weather B)It might...

I think the best of France has to be the food, wine and romantic image. Also the language, the second most learned language - and I get the feeling people learn French because they want to, as opposed to people learning English because they have to, or because it betters their economic...

First of all the question doesn't make sense in English. It should be "What makes Europeans similar to each other", between each other doesn't make sense. To put it in the smallest nutshell, continental Europeans seem to be very similar, especially to their neighbouring countries i.e...

I think given geographical closeness, these two countries are bound to be very similar.