Hallo, On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Maarten Vermeulen <netraa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-12-24 20:31 GMT+01:00 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com>: >> >> I was going to ramble about a lot of things. First of all, King >> Willem-Alexander is related to the British monarchs, right? > > Could be, but I hate him. Yes, I as his citizen hate him. > He gets that money from our taxes, and he doesn't have to pay taxes.
Well, doesn't everybody hate their government leaders?? Certainly the U.S. is no exception. Better to ignore the vitriol (which is almost all lies) from the press. Even comedy, when dealing with politics, can become tiresome. (I'm apolitical, I try to avoid it all, but it still annoys me. They really overexaggerate everything. I'm sure you've heard of Trump [Drumpf, a German name]. The press literally loves to hate him. They refuse to just ignore literally any little snippet he says. It's very tiring. BTW, the election is *still* roughly a year away, ugh. I'm already fed up.) Regarding taxes, please don't take this the wrong way, but aren't you too young to pay taxes anyways? ;-) So don't worry. Besides, even the U.K. is infamous for being high on taxes. Many famous people were tax exiles due to that. And even the Queen (now) allegedly pays taxes. (Honestly, I don't follow such boring political stuff, I'm more interested in linguistics, only barely.) The whole U.S. revolution was, in part, due to high taxes (which aren't so low here anymore either). I just find it funny how it's all related (people, languages, etc). >> Although I hate politics, did you know that the eighth U.S. president >> was Martin Van Buren? (Wikipedia says he was born in New York, >> baptized as "Maarten"! Also, "most of the townsfolk, including the Van >> Burens, spoke Dutch at home"!) > > No, I didn't know that. > My country (Netherlands, of course) is usually known in the U.S. as 'soft > drugs are allowed' and I heard something about 'being drunk is allowed'. > Yes, soft drugs are allowed and being drunk is allowed but of course you > aren't allowed to drive at that moment (wait 1 hour for 1 bear). LONG LIVE > EDUCATION!!!!!!!!!!! Like I said, that one t.v. show (for kids) said Gouda cheese and windmills. Of course, I can buy imported Gouda, but I'll never see a windmill, so I find that strange to mention. Otherwise, what else could we know? Art? Van Gogh. Computers? Python (Van Rossum). Music? Van Halen (my fav). Actress? Famke Janssen (X-Men). Honestly, I never spent more than two seconds thinking about President Van Buren (long since dead). Then again, things like Old English fascinate me, even if I never bothered to learn it (and I presume modern Dutch is closer to modern English than it is to that!). Oh, I almost forgot, UEA is located in the .nl, but I never became an official member or anything (only E-USA and some EU-based periodicals): http://www.uea.org/ > Here are some things that you amaricans probably find strange: > http://www.weekendnotes.com/interesting-facts-about-netherlands/ > >> So yes, it's a small world. > > Indeed :) It's a strange paradox: things converge and diverge seemingly at random. One guy (regarding programming languages) even mentioned the word "balkanization". It's strange how nobody can get along (but so many so-called united groups/organizations exist). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
