# Europe Versus America **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864 "2007-10-16T01:28:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/21 "2007-10-16T08:39:34Z")
Europe: Realism American: Optimism ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/22 "2007-10-16T09:36:13Z")
Europe: Speaking voice. America: Singing voice. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/23 "2007-10-16T10:03:08Z")
Europe: Edith Piaf America: Britney Spears What? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/24 "2007-10-16T10:18:11Z")
Europe: multi-lingualism America: lack of pretension ---
**Author:** ![papaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@papaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papaw)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/25 "2007-10-16T10:26:26Z")
America- opportunity Europe- history ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/26 "2007-10-16T10:50:29Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] Europe: More history. [/quote] For the record, we had history way before you guys came. 😉 Europe - Budapest America - The Declaration of Independence ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/27 "2007-10-16T11:06:47Z")
Europe (Western Europe, anyway): more social equality. USA: better service. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/28 "2007-10-16T11:10:06Z")
Europe: Most of my stuff is there. America: All my stuff that isn’t in Europe is there. Okay, for reals…ummm… Europe: long lunches. America: big breakfasts. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/29 "2007-10-16T11:14:26Z")
E: Those enormous squares in the center of major cities. Those are brilliant and should be emulated everywhere. A: The sense that anything’s possible. Whether good or bad, sane or not, SOMEone’s trying anything you can imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/30 "2007-10-16T19:01:25Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] [QUOTE=RandMcnally] Ice isn’t a given anywhere else? [/QUOTE] Have you ever BEEN anywhere else?!? [/QUOTE] There’s every chance that this was the entire point of that post, but I’d just like to note how wonderfuly ironic it is that **RandMcnally** is being accused of not being well-travelled. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/31 "2007-10-16T19:09:56Z")
Europe: You can into places like cathedral towers (Ulm) that would be off limits in America (“everybody stay with the group.”) America: Nature that’s still natural, not like a tended garden. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/32 "2007-10-16T19:11:24Z")
Europe: hotter men. America: hotter women. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/33 "2007-10-16T19:18:45Z")
Europe Euros America Dollars ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/34 "2007-10-16T19:20:35Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] Europe: hotter men. America: hotter women. [/QUOTE] Gotta disagree with that. Europe has some seriously hot women. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/35 "2007-10-16T19:25:43Z")
[QUOTE=Jolly Roger] Gotta disagree with that. Europe has some seriously hot women. 😃 [/QUOTE] It may be a matter of taste. I rarely have the same taste in women as woman-loving men do. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/36 "2007-10-16T19:34:19Z")
Europe: Canada America: Mexico ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/37 "2007-10-16T20:00:21Z")
Europe: F1 America: NHRA ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/38 "2007-10-16T20:08:04Z")
Europe: Beer America: Heck of a trading partner ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/39 "2007-10-17T01:52:30Z")
Ice is readily available here, although you won’t find ice machines in your hotel that often if ever. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europe-versus-america/422864/40 "2007-10-17T04:15:43Z")
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