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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #195 on: 18-02-2011, 22:02:53 »
Don't be an idiot. Holland is a mess and the Netherlands in a whole is not that fun either. Plus you have to sell your rifles. And then do a year training at a sporting school, pay alot of cash, wait for license, buy rifles back.  :-X

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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #196 on: 18-02-2011, 22:02:18 »
Those who don't vote, shouldn't whine is what my grandfather used to say.

in belgium you have to go to the booth, and its up to you if you select a party or not.
so i do go.
but when there are 16 parties that are retarded, i wont vote for any of them, cause when i do vote i am not allowed to whine about the consequences.

so no offense to your grandad, but that line is complete false.
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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #197 on: 19-02-2011, 13:02:13 »
Ah ok, so in your logic it is the voters who should shut up about the government and the non-voters should talk about how bad everything is and how much it sucks?

No offense to you but thats even more false.
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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #198 on: 19-02-2011, 13:02:24 »
Don't be an idiot. Holland is a mess and the Netherlands in a whole is not that fun either. Plus you have to sell your rifles. And then do a year training at a sporting school, pay alot of cash, wait for license, buy rifles back.  :-X


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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #199 on: 19-02-2011, 15:02:37 »
Ah ok, so in your logic it is the voters who should shut up about the government and the non-voters should talk about how bad everything is and how much it sucks?

No offense to you but thats even more false.

what ... ?
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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #200 on: 19-02-2011, 23:02:52 »
in belgium you have to go to the booth, and its up to you if you select a party or not.
so i do go.
but when there are 16 parties that are retarded, i wont vote for any of them, cause when i do vote i am not allowed to whine about the consequences.
When in doubt, do what every skeptical Finn does. Vote for The Phantom. Call the Phantom anywhere, and he will hear (old jungle saying).

To vote for The Phantom, simply draw the ininity sign ∞ instead of writing a number (or checking a box, don't know what kind of ballots you have to fill in) to symbolize his mask.

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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #201 on: 20-02-2011, 00:02:23 »
in belgium you have to go to the booth, and its up to you if you select a party or not.
so i do go.
but when there are 16 parties that are retarded, i wont vote for any of them, cause when i do vote i am not allowed to whine about the consequences.
When in doubt, do what every skeptical Finn does. Vote for The Phantom. Call the Phantom anywhere, and he will hear (old jungle saying).

To vote for The Phantom, simply draw the ininity sign ∞ instead of writing a number (or checking a box, don't know what kind of ballots you have to fill in) to symbolize his mask.

we vote on computers now so you cant do that, but back when we voted on paper and you would write something like "fuck voting" or anything else not accepted as official vote or non vote, your ballot would count automaticly as a vote for the party with the most votes as default to discourage it.
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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #202 on: 20-02-2011, 12:02:30 »

we vote on computers now so you cant do that, but back when we voted on paper and you would write something like "fuck voting" or anything else not accepted as official vote or non vote, your ballot would count automaticly as a vote for the party with the most votes as default to discourage it.
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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #203 on: 20-02-2011, 12:02:54 »
only in the cities votes are held with computers. Most Belgians still vote on paper.

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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #204 on: 20-02-2011, 13:02:13 »
only in the cities votes are held with computers. Most Belgians still vote on paper.

A rather big paper, and they usually give a blunt pencil with it aswell.

Voting for me is always fun, the place i have to go to has a lot of different offices to go and vote, there are always big lines, but on mine there is never someone else. so funny. I am in and out in less then 3 minutes.

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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #205 on: 21-02-2011, 00:02:57 »
I'm walloon, but I studied in Flanders for quite some time, so I guess I have a pretty accurate view of what people think of each other on both sides of this preposterous language frontier. The observations are frightening, really : some political parties on both sides have succeeded, with the helping hand of the media in search of communitarian sensationalism, into creating false images of the walloons and flemish people. Stereotypes, if you will, that are so strong they are anchored in most of the common people's minds by now. Unfortunately, most people are too lazy/stubborn to confront those stereotypes with the reality.

Let me give you some examples:

Walloons are greedy, lazy and profit from a very generous amount of money earned by the hard-working Flemish people. That's the kind of thing you would hear from De Wever's filthy mouth...
Flemish are frustrated farmers, and xenophobic too. They want to make the walloons pay for what's been done to them in the past. That's the kind of thing you would from a moron like Maingain or Happart...
Those stereotypes are so far from the truth that I won't even try to spend energy to debunk them.

Now, how can we still efficiently functionate as one country when the people's trust in each other is blasted away by such words ? We still don't have a government, and frankly, it doesn't surprise me. It's gonna make things worse, though... Voters on both sides will tend to be more radical the next time they'll send us to the voting booth, that's what I'm afraid of.

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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #206 on: 21-02-2011, 01:02:23 »
Those who don't vote, shouldn't whine is what my grandfather used to say.

just refer to the giant douche/turd sandwich south park episode.

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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #207 on: 21-02-2011, 09:02:17 »
Hehe, that was a great example of voting..
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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #208 on: 21-02-2011, 10:02:36 »
I'm walloon, but I studied in Flanders for quite some time, so I guess I have a pretty accurate view of what people think of each other on both sides of this preposterous language frontier. The observations are frightening, really : some political parties on both sides have succeeded, with the helping hand of the media in search of communitarian sensationalism, into creating false images of the walloons and flemish people. Stereotypes, if you will, that are so strong they are anchored in most of the common people's minds by now. Unfortunately, most people are too lazy/stubborn to confront those stereotypes with the reality.

Let me give you some examples:

Walloons are greedy, lazy and profit from a very generous amount of money earned by the hard-working Flemish people. That's the kind of thing you would hear from De Wever's filthy mouth...
Flemish are frustrated farmers, and xenophobic too. They want to make the walloons pay for what's been done to them in the past. That's the kind of thing you would from a moron like Maingain or Happart...
Those stereotypes are so far from the truth that I won't even try to spend energy to debunk them.

Now, how can we still efficiently functionate as one country when the people's trust in each other is blasted away by such words ? We still don't have a government, and frankly, it doesn't surprise me. It's gonna make things worse, though... Voters on both sides will tend to be more radical the next time they'll send us to the voting booth, that's what I'm afraid of.
Stereotypes are indeed what ruins the relation between us flemish people and you walloons.

These stereotypes are mostly created by both our political parties and people high up in the chain
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Re: Dutch (and Belgian) parliamentary elections
« Reply #209 on: 05-04-2011, 20:04:23 »
Whoopy, almost to 300 days! just a week or so to go.

My demands for the politicians, Back to the original borders!



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