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Originally Posted by Goofle
You live in a better country than mine by any metric so it doesn't really matter.
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^ I don't know what you base that opinion on, Goofle, but it can't be on the statistics I've just gleaned from Wikipedia:-
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United Nations figures for homicide rates (2013) per 100, 000 people:-
USA : 3.9
UK : 0.9
Incarceration rates per 100,000 people (2016):-
USA : 693
UK : 122
Life expectancy - male/female figures averaged out (2015) :-
USA : 69.1
UK : 71.4
Obesity rates - male/female figures averaged out (2007/8):-
USA : 34.5 % of total poulation
UK : 23 % of ditto
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Yes, the USA invented jazz and Bob Dylan, and they put a man on the moon, but that shouldn't cloud our judgement. Also, let's not forget that they still owe us the tax on all that tea they threw into Boston Harbour!