Your sarcasm requires an answer tightslot. Yes you're right about my perceptions. This is because I live on the continent and (regularly using airports/airlines in Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium) personally experience many aspects of travel differently to you. Seems to me that you are reluctant to see beyond your own tunneled perceptions, many of which are based purely on British experiences and that of the carrier you work for - but which you blatantly pass on as being strict worldwide practices. "Not so" tightslot. We don't all live on an island you know.
