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7 dead 16 wounded at attack on Dutch queensday.
shardian:
--- Quote from: jamesjones626 on May 01, 2009, 04:45:53 pm ---i belive pinballsjim is jokin about the royalty deal and not dead people, so as the pic reads my friends.........
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Oh, to be new and naive. ;)
There is a history here you are missing.
Edgedamage:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on April 30, 2009, 04:22:53 pm ---You guys have a royal family?
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What's the french word for shower? pinballjim's middle name.
Blanka:
The media coverage was the worst I have seen in years. I ignored it all, and waited for the late-night NRC paper to read quietly some decent journalism. Even the NRC was biased quite a bit!
First of all, it was no assault on the Royal family. Hey! driving a 600kg Suzuki Swift into a double-decker BUS? That's gonna hurt plenty! If he planned to do that and figured out the complete scenario of that day, guess he would be smart enough to rent a Hummer.
It was an attack on people like you and me WATCHING the royal family, by a fired unknown lonely sad man. And THAT is really really sad.
Blanka:
--- Quote from: Level42 on April 30, 2009, 08:24:51 am ---All festivities have been cancelled.
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In Eindhoven they only cancelled Felix da Housecat at 22.30 in the Evening. And even by then the majority of the crowd did not know what happened. Felix was very surprised. They paid him so much, he did not get it. I wonder where the 2.3 million people who saw it on TV were? Not in the south of the Netherlands at least. The weather was too good to go inside for dumb talk on the TV.
Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 02, 2009, 12:36:01 pm ---No disrespect intended towards the innocent victims, but I think it's sad people congregated to watch the 'royal' family.
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No more so than the President.
--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 02, 2009, 12:36:01 pm ---Can't wait until the next time a Dutch person tells me how much more enlightened and progressive their society is than America.
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Ok, now you've just struck my curiosity......... what's your point ?
Some of us "Americans" have close ties to folks in Holland. (immediate family)
All be it this may not be the best place to discuss pro and cons of each society, but I'm certain Hollands 'royal' family has been doing a much better job at it than we have in more ways than one. Ya know the whole "for the people" phrase that gets thrown around here a lot..... well, it does actually mean something in other places.
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