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Latest tagged entries for 'NETHERLANDS'
A relocation from the cacophony
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 9:59 P GMT+01
From noise to more amenable people, the results confirm what would be an aggressive course of treatment, it is Day 9 at the hospital.
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The Netherlands rises above sea level
Monday, 28 April 2008 11:52 A GMT+01
We have all left the Netheralnds for at least a week, because holidays have given us a rare 2-day week.
Microsoft: Give me English in the Netherlands
Friday, 15 February 2008 6:03 P GMT+01
When Microsoft sends me email that acknowledges my professional use of trheir services, I want to be addressed in English regardless of the fact that live in the Dutch.
I want the option to choose as request, it is surely not a complaint.
Cricket World Cup 2007 - lbw - Ligature Butchers Woolmer
Friday, 23 March 2007 3:05 A GMT+01
The Cricket World Cup is gathering interest for the wrong reasons, the sudden death of the Pakistani coach in the weekend is now a murder.
I take this opportunity
Sunday, 27 August 2006 10:59 P GMT+01
This was the preamble to an invitation to the high table of a 50th Birthday party I attended and I think I am a lot less Nigerian than I thought I was.
Attack your castle
Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:52 P GMT+01
The more is see English translations in foreign countries, I wonder why they cannot find someone who attempts to speak English to help in correct translation.
A Dog's Dinner from your Grocery
Saturday, 5 August 2006 6:35 P GMT+01
My local supermarket has put a dula-purpose label on some ingredients I use for my cooking. The second purpose is it can be used for pet food - from my reckoning, it is no more fit for human consumption.
Mind that language
Thursday, 3 August 2006 9:08 A GMT+01
A study shows that the Dutch are not as proficient in other languages as we all assume them to be. In fact, other Europeans who speak other languages have a better grasp of the languages they speak than the Dutch. Could that be true?
Verdonk back with new controversy
Monday, 24 July 2006 4:13 P GMT+01
She made the last government fall, kept out of the public eye for a few weeks - she is now back to make it difficult for once illegal and consequently legal immigrants to gain re-entry to the Netherlands.
Losing every flicker of interest in Flickr
Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:59 P GMT+01
Annoyed does not begin to highlight my emotion with having to grapple with a simple payment mechanism and a smarty pants web interface. Every flicker of interest in Flickr is fluttering out.
Tone blind
Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:29 P GMT+01
Skin darkening (tanning) and skin lightening (toning) all get a look in as the sun tans some and the heat leads others to expose their toning mishaps. The Summer season is here at last.
6th of July - 1942, 1946 & 2006
Thursday, 6 July 2006 4:05 P GMT+01
On this day, Anne Frank's family sought refuge from the Nazi's in the Secret Annex and 4 years later this day George W. Bush arrived in the first tranche of baby-boomers - Does history have much to teach us?
No to Balkenende III
Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:44 P GMT+01
There is no reason to allow a second reincarnation of the lack-lustre Dutch government. Their inability to accept responsibility and consequence shows they are both unfit for government or electoral success.
Verdonk force fed humble pie
Wednesday, 28 June 2006 1:32 P GMT+01
Ayaan Hirsi Ali retains Dutch citizenship and we are also out of the World Cup - all thanks to Mrs Verdonk.
Singing in the (d)rain
Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:50 A GMT+01
My experience of standing under bus shelters only to find out that I might be dryer in the rain than under those funnels - they are an apology to functional design.
Recording the bad history of football
Monday, 26 June 2006 10:59 P GMT+01
Officiating in World Cup football reached a new low in the Holland - Portugal game - 16 yellow cards, 4 red cards - a match end with 9 a side. Who cards the referees?
Making an ass of the law
Wednesday, 21 June 2006 7:21 A GMT+01
Having to contend with the notion that the law is an ass is one thing, but when people who should know better deliberately advocate making an ass of the law for some sort of gain, one really should be concerned, very concerned.
Force-fed with Ones and Zeroes
Sunday, 11 June 2006 10:18 A GMT+01
Digital Television comes to my home by unsolicited post and enticing offer.
No Ethos at Etos
Friday, 9 June 2006 9:40 A GMT+01
Visiting a chemist this morning to find that they are run out of medication for hay fever in the high season of hay fever suffering leaves me seriously unimpressed at the failure of common sense logistic at the Etos outlet.
The Freedom of Association vs the Abhorence of Pederasty
Thursday, 8 June 2006 1:40 P GMT+01
After my comments yesterday, I revisit the issue again and wonder if preventing such an organisation from going underground would serve the purpose of knowing if there is support for those ideas.
Unisex Pederasty seeking a Dutch constituency
Wednesday, 7 June 2006 4:12 P GMT+01
The launch of a paedophile party last week has me looking for a civilised way of expressing my utter vehemence to such an outrage. I would defend many freedoms, but this one is well beyond my liberal disposition.
The Cacophony of Rules vs The Silence of the Indifferent
Saturday, 3 June 2006 9:01 A GMT+01
My Lady Oddjob series ends with this lament of Dutch ambivalence when it comes to juxtaposing rules with giving humanity the benefit of the doubt. Mrs Verdonk, symbolises this situation - We the non-indigenes lover the Netherlands nevertheless.
Advertising death to the living
Wednesday, 24 May 2006 12:29 P GMT+01
An innocuous road side advert boards gets wheels and a smiling girl . Death is on the market for customers
No nice words for Mrs Verdonk
Wednesday, 17 May 2006 10:59 P GMT+01
Mrs Verdonk has seriously miscalculated the consequences of her decision to revoke Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Dutch citizenship. She has been called to other and her support have dived in the quest for party leadership. That is the hole that dug for herself.
No harsh tongue for Mrs Verdonk
Monday, 23 January 2006 8:48 A GMT+01
The Dutch have come up with a very innovative public places ban; whist we are still trying to stomach the smoking ban in some public places, we now have the prospect of banning other languages but Dutch in public places.
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