SmOke, australian beers are crap. Fosters is crap and Castlemaine beer's too embarrased to sell it under it's own name.
Try a belgian beer and taste the difference.

oh, and 7 procent is to laugh at

I guess we agree......sort of.  The EU is a young alliance of OLD centuries old enemies.
100 years ago, Germany and France were building up for the big war.....60 years ago they were gearing up to do it all over again.
10 years ago, they form the EURO, and anchor a loose economic alliance.
The first sign of trouble, and a need to pull together, and they toss the EURO in the trash by all going their separate way.
As I stated before this was a critical time for the EURO as a currency, the European alliance to REALLY shine.....and they blew it.
All who mocked and laughed at Great Britain for not joining the system.........  THIS is why Great Britain didnt join the system.  They know."

I have trouble with the perspective that's been used here. I think the Great War is quite irrelevant. Europe has changed a lot after WWII, and continues to do so. There are more things that link us than there are things that seperate us. Although, I agree that the european answer is far from what it's should be.
Great Britain is another thing that should be looked at from a broader perspective. It did not refuse to join the EU because they thought it would be an economic disaster, but rather because they didn't find it necessary. Great Britain is not what we can call a dedicated member of the EU, and the reasons for that are quite diverse. It has it's commonwealth, and a sort of pride of it's former imperial glory. The UK has had quite an economic low time these last years too..

"But Barack is the second coming of Che"

Believe me, a bit more of socialism would do america good!

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EDIT: reopened

"2. Wouter you know Mexico makes some great lagers the old way and California has better stouts than Belgium, which tries to cover up by insisting dark beers arent necessary."

We have loads of dark beers Chris..

@avogadro, Duchesse is nothing special if you ask me..

Oh, and westmalle is indeed quite widely spread, I just named a few you could find easily..

"WFS, those beers arent really available outside the EU."

That doesn't make them less good though! And some are available, like Duvel and Chimay

I consider this as oobnoxious spam..

Horse steaks are by far superior though!

I'm sure this will help you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_(comics)