Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Ban coffee? Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:39:15 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <67e9a08a$0$5281$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <2jjGP.1547893$zz8b.619911@fx09.iad> <67ea03a3$2$3833$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:39:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b68e08be8612f29fdc7066acb2eff3fa"; logging-data="1414197"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19pQkkF2xBhIWFuw+S0lQoF" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:UGimmJqJSIAaNCciJQ/JLyht1pY= On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:33:03 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton wrote: >On 2025-03-31, Janet wrote: >> In article , >> Bruce@invalid.invalid says... >>> >>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:55:38 -0600, Graham wrote: >>> >>> >On 2025-03-30 4:10 p.m., Dave Smith wrote: >>> >> On 2025-03-30 3:50 p.m., Graham wrote: >>> >>> On 2025-03-30 1:05 p.m., Bruce wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>>> Why do Scandinavia and the Netherlands always win everything? >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> Scandinavian countries are mostly secular. >>> >>>> >>> >>>> That shows, once again, that religion holds people back. It has a >>> >>>> retarding effect. >>> >>>> >>> >>> Stats show that the USA is increasingly secular but even if they >>> >>> were in the minority, the religious would still dominate. >>> >> >>> >> Secular has more to do with the official relationship between the church >>> >> and the state, or lack thereof. The church is still quite prominent in >>> >> Scandinavia. Denmark has a Evangelical Lutheran Church is the state church. >>> >> >>> >But how many attend? >>> >>> 3% regularly. This confirms my theory that the bigger a country is, >>> the more retarded its population is. My other theory is that the >>> further people live from the ocean, the more retarded they are. These >>> two theories combined explain fly-over Americans. >> >> Yolur theory is undermined by China. IQ in China is 7 >> points higher than in USA (104/97) > >Do they test everybody, or just the smart ones? > >I'm willing to believe they're smarter, but not on the basis >of 104 vs. 97. It's only a difference in mediocrity. -- Bruce