The prime minister designate thinks Belgians have nothing in common except “the king, the football team, some beers”, and he describes their country as an “accident of history”.
What about ze famous pedophiles and ze chocolate and mAus?
Well of course people think about that when Germany is mentioned. The average US citizen only knows Hitler, the Oktoberfest (maybe) and the cars from Germany.
if you had said "hitler, cars, butchji" you wouldve striked back on the comment butchji posted, this way you just showed that youre lacking humor and a sense for stereotypes
thats not the point. the point is that were having to deal with being reduced to "like hitler" at least as often as you are said to "have pedos" in your country. its just a fuckin stereotype you have to cope with, and its not just pointing out bad things that butchji did
by doomrat 11 hours ago
Brussels is one of the funnest cities in the world. That alone makes it a country worth existing. They don't threaten anyone, they make amazing food, they know how to have a good time. Wait...it's starting to sound even better than most countries. Maybe Belgiam is awesome and other countries are useless.
actually the person who is meant here isn't the prime minister, he's a member of an extremist party with whom no other politicians want to form a coalition making him a bitter person :(
As a thought exercise (I'm not seriously advocating this, but it's interesting):
Split Brussels into a separate city-state as the capital of the EU, thus retaining the capital of Europe status. National sports wouldn't be a problem if the two factions merged with the Netherlands and France, and in the case of a split into microstates they couldn't really get much worse. The separated countries would either be ruled by NL and FR or would logically have immediate elections to form two new separate governments. Money is being phased in and out all the time, a gradual reissuing, if needed, isn't a major problem. And Congo is probably quite happy to govern themselves without caring about some political split thousands of miles away.
Lol it was on a report made by experts in these things and congo is very related to us , they are uber happy to be related with us
And they also said that if belgium doesnt exist anymore that Brussel is worthless as capital of the EU , dont know the exact reason behind this (cant remember xD)
Prolly to do with Belgium being with the EU when it was little and Belgium was centerilised and logically it followed by Brussels being the capital of the EU , without Belgium , why keep Brussels as capital ? Yeh its a nice city , true , but the history behind it will vanish
Anyhow , I dont care what you say about what I wrote , cuz Belgium wont seperate , impossible job to do , our ministers cant agree about the most common things and i doubt they will agree about this
Dont forget that 300 000 flemish people lives in brussels and they would pay taxes in the new EU city district Brussels. Also all those companies who work there = less money for Flandres.
Also most flemish people dont want to be with the netherlands cause we only share a common language but actually we differ much more with them than with the wallons and France doesnt want Wallon actually.
_2 kinds of euro's , while anyone with a little understanding would think they would keep the ones in the running still going and just make another design for 2 country's...
_Football ? world's most important issue , Servie and montenegro did it , so why can't we?...
I love the way the autor of the article uses decent sources, obviously heard a lot of oppinions of the Belgians themselves, took a good look in history books, knows who our prime minister is and the way he looks at our king is just so marvelous!
would make this world a better place to live in!
Same with :
If you would be banned from xfire or #cpma.et , would someone care ?
edit: oh sorry, misread, thought it said "if I would die, would anyone care" :(
Why rage? :(
What about the waffles?! Dear god, the waffles!!
- I'd miss the waffles and most of the retards who spam and try to flame here in xfire. (hi vilango, lio & co)
What about ze famous pedophiles and ze chocolate and mAus?
What about the famous Hitler ?
What has Germans common? They like hitler or smth?
"If Belgium Ceased to exist, would anybody notice or care?"
What about ze famous pedophiles and ze chocolate and mAus?
That we like that dutroux or smth?
First of all. Mr Dewinter isnt our prime minister.
You just say we are an accident of history but what about Dutroux in that case...
Oh pls. Be glad we forgave Germany their mistakes of the past.
"You just say we are an accident of history..." Where did I say that?
but saying belgium will be remembered as dutroux is like saying germany will be rememberd as willem II and hitler.
nice edit
Do you think we like child molesters ?
You guess we like to be compared with pedophiles ?
altijd als er iets over belgie wordt gezegd is er wel ergens een grapjas die afkomt met Dutroux...
The moar you know!
Brussels is one of the funnest cities in the world. That alone makes it a country worth existing. They don't threaten anyone, they make amazing food, they know how to have a good time. Wait...it's starting to sound even better than most countries. Maybe Belgiam is awesome and other countries are useless.
and maybe if we put a little effort into it, we can ban that soft "g" they always use
Half should be in france and half in netherlands.
Its way to complicated to split Flanders and Walloon
Example: What about the capital Brussels ? Its located in Flanders , yes , but they speak but French and Dutch ...
Another thing: It would mean every national sport competition has to be remade (means an even bigger quality drop in football)
Who will be in charge of the seperated country's ?
Brussels wont be the capital of Europe anymore , that's for sure ...
And what about the Euro's ? They will need a new design too , one for Flanders and one for Walloon ...
And it would be a bad example for our colony Congo ...
What will happen there ?
And this is just the top from the never ending mountain ...
So , I really , really doubt it will happen , Flanders and Walloon cant agree now , and they will need to negotiate even more if we split up ...
It wont happen , never ...
brush up on your history, colonies are behind us for quite some time now
Even on the news they talk about our colony ...
And they celebrated 75 years Belgium aswell ,so go and get that dictionary :>
HAHAHAHAHA
Split Brussels into a separate city-state as the capital of the EU, thus retaining the capital of Europe status. National sports wouldn't be a problem if the two factions merged with the Netherlands and France, and in the case of a split into microstates they couldn't really get much worse. The separated countries would either be ruled by NL and FR or would logically have immediate elections to form two new separate governments. Money is being phased in and out all the time, a gradual reissuing, if needed, isn't a major problem. And Congo is probably quite happy to govern themselves without caring about some political split thousands of miles away.
And they also said that if belgium doesnt exist anymore that Brussel is worthless as capital of the EU , dont know the exact reason behind this (cant remember xD)
Prolly to do with Belgium being with the EU when it was little and Belgium was centerilised and logically it followed by Brussels being the capital of the EU , without Belgium , why keep Brussels as capital ? Yeh its a nice city , true , but the history behind it will vanish
Anyhow , I dont care what you say about what I wrote , cuz Belgium wont seperate , impossible job to do , our ministers cant agree about the most common things and i doubt they will agree about this
Also most flemish people dont want to be with the netherlands cause we only share a common language but actually we differ much more with them than with the wallons and France doesnt want Wallon actually.
Oki , then its fine :D
_2 kinds of euro's , while anyone with a little understanding would think they would keep the ones in the running still going and just make another design for 2 country's...
_Football ? world's most important issue , Servie and montenegro did it , so why can't we?...
And I know this example is worthless , but its part of a big problem
If belgium splits up it means Flanders/Walloon wants to be independant and they will want their own coins (as in Britain btw)
What a great world it could be :)
the guy should get informed before acting smart.