Revolting Uniting

[Surfbird]

Only reason I am not going to study History is because of the unsecure situation on the job market. A friend studies History and Middle Eastern culture or something like that. Not sure how it's exactly called. Hes doing fine and happy with this. He was not really interested in the theme, but he is by now, because it turned out to be pretty exciting to him and he says it's indeed one of the best ways to have chances on the job market when you are interested in History and do not want to end up in an archive.

(Did a practicum for school in an archive 2 years ago. You can watch really nice pictures and get to work with great stuff, but it's totally boring and the people there were strange =D)

I am going to study Geosciences this fall. Simply because I am very interested in it and like to be out there in the nature a little. I'm gonna have Maths, Chemistry and Physics the first 2 terms, but it's fine. I'm not too talanted at that, but I'll work a lot and after that I don' have any of these subjects again. It's just needed as a basis.

Good thing is that Geoscience is really widespread, so I have a lot of choices during the studies, but probably have to switch the university half way, because each of it is specialized on some themes more than the other. But I'm fine with that. Looking forward to that time

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

Going to Ohio State University in Columbus, which is a pretty good school.  I'll see if I can get the parents to take a side trip to Mechelen, haha!  But yeah I am hoping the jobs situation improves and if not, there's always law school.

[VonMudra]

I have graduated the high school.  Time to join the French Foreign Legion.

Congratulations! I presume you jest about the legion?

Haha thanks, and yeah not going to the legion.  Off to university to study history and political science.  And going to Belgium tomorrow.

Whatever you do, don't underestimate the history course, historical method (source criticism, interdisciplinarity) is a hard one. Most likely, if you fail that class, you probably have to do your year again. Other than that, it's going to be fun, you'll meet a lot of like-minded people for you to discuss with etc etc. Also you will get to grip with some very obscure terms such as nicolaism, defenestration of Prague, the Winter King... One more thing: the classes of History of the Modern Period (1789-1945) are rather socialistically inspired at my uni, probably at yours as well.

We did those obscure terms in 9th grade at my high school.   And it would be hard pressed to find Polish history classes at american universities...very few eastern european professors even exist here (part of the reason I want to do my PhD in it).  Mostly, at least in california, history departments focus on chicano, minority, and women's studies, followed by asian studies, and european studies is sort of a forgotten realm.  Some universities are even canceling their graduate european studies programs due to lack of interest.

[th_battleaxe]

We did those obscure terms in 9th grade at my high school.   And it would be hard pressed to find Polish history classes at american universities...very few eastern european professors even exist here (part of the reason I want to do my PhD in it).  Mostly, at least in california, history departments focus on chicano, minority, and women's studies, followed by asian studies, and european studies is sort of a forgotten realm.  Some universities are even canceling their graduate european studies programs due to lack of interest.

Well, it's Thirty years war, but you must have seen something on Habsburg and other Louis XIV's. We haven't exactly seen a lot on American history apart from the obvious War for Independence, but IIRC there will be a course in one of the following years specializing in the US. We rarely saw any real conflict in the 19th and 20th century in much detail. We didn't even see WWII and everything past that, Napoleon was just several powerpoint slides and WWI was not much better. On the opposing side: socialism was a subject we quite literally turned upside down.
It seems that war is a subject that is best avoided for the more recent history in European uni's, though I cannot state this with any certainty.

[Fuchs]

Hope it will be different when I go to university. I need more Napoleon than socialism to suppress my cravings and Hulk-feelings.

[THeTA0123]

myth confirmed

The AK47 magazine is a out-fucking-standing bottle opener

[THeTA0123]

at first i could only acces steam and no internets

now it is the bloody OPPOSITE

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

Belgium is silly. I want to learn Flemish though.

[THeTA0123]

flemish language does not exist. Its hundreds of versions of the dutch language

[th_battleaxe]

Belgium is silly. I want to learn Flemish though.

Belgium=Ministry of Silly Laws. Where else in the world can you make a deal with a prosecutor, a deal in which you have to pay a certain sum of money, as defined by the aforementioned prosecutor, to buy yourself out of a conviction, even if the evidence against you is rock solid, walk away as a free man, even without a criminal record. Only applies for sentences up to 20 years imprisonment...

[Kelmola]

It's just called Flemish to quell Dutch nationalism in Flanders. The same reason why the Swedes count a pidgin dialect of Finnish called "meänkieli" as a distinct language, so that Finnish as a whole would not show up as a significant minority language. (Oh well. Even the Swedish taught in Finnish schools is not "standard" Swedish, it's a local dialect thereof.) Or why the Russians claim that the East Karelian dialect is a actually language called "Karelian".

However, why Afrikaans is then considered a separate language? Once I had a chat with a South African (natively bilingual Afrikaans/English speaker) who claimed that it's mutually intelligible to Dutch (and Flemish).

All this will be so much simpler once English finally manages to extinguish all the other silly national languages. It just needs to get rid of strong verbs and apostrophes, and then forum dwellers will already be fully fluent as theyve always writed that way.

[DLFReporter]

Well everything above 20years is a capital crime, so it ain't that silly.

Edit: There has been a major move towards simplifying English, just read below:

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!

[th_battleaxe]

However, why Afrikaans is then considered a separate language? Once I had a chat with a South African (natively bilingual Afrikaans/English speaker) who claimed that it's mutually intelligible to Dutch (and Flemish).

It is, if you don't count in the accent and some of the words, it's pretty much all the same.

@DLF: it still leaves drug dealers, homejackers, etc..., the most invasive criminal kinds are in the clear if they managed to steal/deal/scam enough money. And every punishment under 3 years is never executed due to overpopulation in the prisons, life sentence is 30 years, unless you're someone like Dutroux or Ronald Janssen.

[THeTA0123]

the problem in belgium wet le jeune

If a burglar breaks into a house and he gets arrested, he is RELEASED a few hours later. After months and months and MONTHS he MIGHT get a trail in wich the judge says=now be a good boy and dont do that again!

and he gets released

Another story

A man gets arrested for=possing dozens of illegal firearms, including .50CAL sniper and a RPG7 with 12 rockets, explosives,a huge weed growing plantage, possessing 30 000 illegal weapons part, hundreds of thousands of illegal ammo, dealing in stolen goods,providing arms to crimenal gangs and criminal conspiracy.

This man recieved a sentence of 4 years of wich he did 3 years! AND he gets released.... Later he grabs a FN FAL,Smith & Wesson Model 27 and 24 hand grenades and he kills 7 people and wounds 125 people last year in Liege.

[Zoologic]

Because it is a civilized country no?

If capital punishment is prohibited, is exiling somebody classifies as capital punishment?

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!

Fourth Reich masterplan as pre-sighted by Bouras!!!!