Magere Hein
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On the list : Prince. Someone will tread on him or pull his head out of his bony arse, hence deflating his ego..
And a rude noise.
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Is there still a small part of your nation that believes that the Belgians are all just treacherous bastards who should be forcibly brought back into the fold and swear fealty to your King or were you glad to see the back of the dull equine devouring pen pushers?
I´m not aware of adherents of such irredentism, but such sentiments lived well into the 20th century. Belgian territorial claims after 1918 caused some anti-Belgian sentiment in the Netherlands, but that died PDQ.
There are people on both sides of the border who subscribe to the idea of a Greater Netherlands. Ever since WWII this idea has become strongly associated with the far-right, in Belgium as well as in the Netherlands. The Dutch government position on the matter was expressed well by former Dutch PM Balkenende: "the fate of Belgium is not for us to decide".
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At least the twat didn't call him MaigretOn a point of pedantry it's Magere not Margeire.
I wouldn't mind that.
(damn, wrong hat)So that's why you stole that smilie
Of course. I read several Maigret novels in Dutch translation, my dad had a bookshelf full of 'm.
BTW, Maigret's author, Georges Simenon, had an interesting sex life, if we´re to believe him.
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Who were the Belgians rebelling against?Today in 1831 Dutch naval lieutenant Jan van Speijk, aged 29, blew up his gunboat rather than surrender it to Belgian rebels, when it was blown into Antwerp by a gale.
Dan liever de lucht in!
This is an area of history I know nothing of.
The Dutch. In 1815 what are now The Netherlands and Belgium were united in one Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Belgians rebelled against the Kingdom in 1830 in what´s known to English speakers as the Belgian Revolution. On 7 February 1831, the Belgian Constitution was proclaimed and the separation from the Dutch was a fact. The war continued on and off until in 1839 the separation was settled in the Treaty of London.
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On a point of pedantry it's Magere not Margeire.
At least the twat didn't call him Maigret
I wouldn't mind that.
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I've just removed that "Dear Dr. Zorders" topic. It served no reasonable purpose that this one doesn't.
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Great video; watched it all.She's naw the best right enough....
In other news, one for all the weegies in the house.
The construction of the Erskine bridge.
So did I, it's strangely moving. It was made in the time that the future was very bright indeed.
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They're religious , so a bunch of fruitcakes, yet not quite as bammy as the Orange fruit cakes.
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Today in 1831 Dutch naval lieutenant Jan van Speijk, aged 29, blew up his gunboat rather than surrender it to Belgian rebels, when it was blown into Antwerp by a gale.
Dan liever de lucht in!
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None of the books I did at school were on the list. I did The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, A Kind of Loving, Lark Rise to Candleford and Billy Liar and the wretched Kes in English Lang.
Books I read for my exam in English language and literature:
- Kiss Kiss - Roald Dahl
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- The Third Man - Graham Greene
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
- The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy - JRR Tolkien
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Yes)
- 1984 - George Orwell (Yes)
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy - JRR Tolkien (Yes)
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (No)
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (No)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (Some of them, not all)
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (No)
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (Started reading a Dutch translation, but abandoned the read after some 100 pages)
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (No)
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (No)
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens (No)
- Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (I read most of them. They get worse as they get thicker. I gave up after the Half-Blood Prince)
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (No)
- The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank (Yes, in Dutch)
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (No)
- Fifty Shades trilogy - EL James (No)
- And Then There were None - Agatha Christie (Yes)
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (No)
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (Yes)
- The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (No, but all Salinger's other books)
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Trump accusing Cruz of fraud over the Iowa caucus.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35486983
I'm not sure why he's so bothered, he got 1 delegate less than Cruz, and the rest of the country generally votes a lot differently than Iowans.
Is Trump from Florida?
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I never thought I'd feel like a luddite for using a keyboard and mouse, but sometimes, just sometimes....
I am since a few weeks the embarrassed owner of a smartphone (I think a jellyfish is smarter, but let's not go there). Embarrassed, 'cause even a basic function like answering a call gives me trouble. I missed several ones because the bloody thing wouldn't pick it up. Me previous dumbphone was smart enough to have a clearly labeled push button for that.
Anyway, what most annoys me is the lack of keyboard and mouse.
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Here's a silly lawsuit 2009
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/09/toy-yoda.htm
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — A former waitress has settled her lawsuit against Hooters, the restaurant that gave her a toy Yoda doll instead of the Toyota she thought she had won.
Jodee Berry, 27, won a beer sales contest last May at the Panama City Beach Hooters. She believed she had won a new Toyota and happily was escorted to the restaurant's parking lot in a blindfold.
But when the blindfold was removed, she found she had won a new toy Yoda — the little green character from the Star Wars movies.
David Noll, her attorney, said Wednesday that he could not disclose the settlement's details, although he said Berry can now go to a local car dealership and "pick out whatever type of Toyota she wants."
After the stunt, Berry quit the restaurant and filed a lawsuit against Gulf Coast Wings, the restaurant's corporate owner, alleging breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation.
The restaurant's manager, Jared Blair, has said the whole contest was an April Fools' joke.
Obviously she's using her religion to sway the court's decision to win a settlement. Oh wait, there's no mention of religion in the article.
Obviously a closet Halibut.
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Many years ago I was a big supporter of the EU. My reasons for that (integration, rather than war to solve political problems) are still valid, but what the Union has become has diminished my enthusiasm quite a bit. I think leaving the Union won't solve Britain's ills, nor those of the Union. I also think that leaving the Union won't make much of a difference for the UK and the EU: after all, the UK has for many years been the Special Child in the class.
What the Union should do, with or without the UK, is reinvent itself along much more democratic lines and with a strict delineation of what are Union and what are national matters. A European Parliament that has actual power and isn't afraid to use it would also be nice. We should think about how countries become members. A referendum for that would be nice. After all, should the UK defect, we might not want them back in.
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Trump needs to stop using "fair" as a barometer. Life ain't fair, and politics less so.
You know that, I know that, Trump knows that, but do his voters?
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A former reporter for The Daily News in New York, Michael J. Feeney, (32) was about to start his dream job as an entertainment reporter with CNN when he became sick last week. On Sunday, Mr. Feeney died in a New Jersey hospital of complications from a staph infection in his kidneys.
SC
Ehrm, ironic? For Alanis Morissette values of ironic, then.
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Halibuts are like, so much classier than us decadent cheap tacky western swine innit
From that article:
Nestle has yet to comment on the matter.I'm not Nestle, but my comment would be: fuck off.
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If Charlie Sheen continues seeing this doctor for treatment, stick him on the 2017 list:
If he did indeed inject himself with Charlie Sheen's HIV positive blood, chalk up Charlie's charlatan as well.
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She got a visit from some cute puppies the other day
Oh dear, the cute puppies stage. That's serious.
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Sweet coincidence. Earlier today I had a conversation about a former world chess champion, whose name, my partner was certain, was Gorbachev.
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If Guest is her brother then he must be either Ian or Adam (there were two other sisters). Hi Ian or Adam if indeed it is one of you.
It's possible, but I have strong reasons to believe YHBT.
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My knowledge of English law is contrary, I mean non-existent, so I'm confused. I presume that, even for sex crimes, criminal proceedings in England need a live accused, so no luck there. Under Dutch law, seeking damages from heirs of a dead defendant is difficult anyway, but after such a period any judge would summarily throw such a case out.
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Demjanjuk gambit, anyone?