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 That is lucky! Hopefully you don't have a downturn of luck soon to make up
for it. It always seems to go that way.
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Oh yeah! Well, I was surprised by a downpour when I had just returned from the supermarket... but that's never been too big a problem for me.
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And another lucky day today when I found 2 or 3 more of the paintings in the GK Gallery.
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Today's been bizarre... It's our national holiday when the birthday of the queen is celebrated. The queen and her following visit some town where they
have some celebration kinda, and in most cities there's an open market where everyone can put down a tablecloth and sell their possessions.
I had a nice day for it, bought 2 Curry-related videos and 3 comic books. And when we got home, we heard that the queen had been attacked during her
parade. Some man drove into the crowd with his car. This far there are 4 casualties and 13 injuries. The royal family got away in their bus unharmed.
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odd how there was at least a 12 hour gap between when I saw you talk about this and when the national news here broadcast it, thru the bbc!
Surprised because it seems they can't stop talking about it when something similar happens here.
Do they know why?
was the driver dutch, an immigrant, a tourist?
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Dutch 38 year old male. Karst T. * He was not unfriendly but not very social either. He had just lost his job and had also ended his rent and was
moving stuff around in boxes. We may never know his motive now, because he passed away from his injuries last night.
*In Netherlands it's not allowed to name criminals by their last name. (As in Belgium and Germany it is permitted, it's never hard to find out the
name of a criminal.) It can turn quite bizarre. One day a man escaped from a penitentiary psychiatric department, and the police warned us to look out
for Wim Schippers. When he was caught and he had murdered a man during his escapade, he was apprehended and in the media he was suddenly called
Wilhelm S. Or take that boxing champ, Regilio Tuur. Everyone knew his name, but when he beat up his girlfriend and was apprehended he became Regilio
T. in the newspapers.
Edit: Tates! His last name was Tates!
There are now 7 casualties including Tates.
[Edited on 1-5-09 by BBP]
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By printing his name, that makes you a criminal. Doesn't it, Bonny P?
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Nah... really no. I think this website is American. Also Dutch bloggers will just use his last name. The only ones who may have issues are TV shows
when they forget to bleep away his name.
Anyway I'm off to visit my blind friend today. Maybe I can record another song.
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Do it!
Today i went to a birthday party/get-together in honour of my former music teacher at my old high school. She turned 64! So we sang 'When I'm 64'
instead of happy birthday. I had a wonderful time.
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Aw that's nice!
Unfortunately I didn't have the chance to record her, we hadn't spoken in such a long time, so we talked a lot and the other guests didn't arrive much
later...
One of the other guests was a nice young lady from Apeldoorn. That's the city (it has the largest area and the largest amount of train stations of The
Netherlands) where that guy drove in the parade. Not just that: she also works at a police call centre where she takes in all the non-urgent phone
calls. You know, of people who complain about the neighbor's geraniums.
Anyway she had a lot of distraught phone calls, and tips and the like... but even with all the chaos, she even got a phonecall like"I locked myself
out, can you come and help?"
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| Quote: | | Originally posted by BBPI think this website is American. |
I was wondering what .ws means, so I looked it up. It's the country code for Samoa, which is a territory of the US. So you're right: technically, it's
American.
The site could be hosted anywhere, but the domain is registered out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean...
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And today we went to some Belgian friends. They're awfully nice and stuffed us. I made a lot of nice pictures again, will upload them soon.
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Havin another national holiday today... bored sick.
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why do YOU sell-ebrate with a fifth of may?
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Liberation Day. On May 5th 1945 the German troops in The Netherlands capitulated.
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OH! that's good.
I also learned about 'Children's Day' in Japan for this day.
Honors children and by extension mothers.
They used to call it Boy's Day because they're like that but changed it to be less discriminating.
Curiously I could only find Hydroc (or Hydoc) as the saint for this day.
I never heard of him, a Cornish hermit, either.
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I learned about Mexico Day for this day. Isn't it bizarre? OK, not nearly as bizarre as November 11, but anyway...
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what's 11November?
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Saint Martin.
It's when the Brits remember the end of WW1. In the weeks before they wear those red poppys on their chests, and on the day itself there's a parade
with veterans.
It's also the day when children in the middle section (not near me) of The Netherlands make their own lampoons and knock on doors and sing off-key,
trying to collect candy.
But it's also the 11th of the 11th, and as 11 is the number of madness, it's when Prins Carnaval is elected. This prince will lead the town during the
pre-Lent festivities. This happens in the south of The Netherlands, and in Germany.
So if you watch the television, there's nothing but long faces on the BBC, and nothing but drunk partygoers at WDR.
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wow!
now that you explain, we do have Nov 11 as a holiday and I should have remembered. While technically a national and state holiday it is not widely
observed as such by most people unless you work for the state or gov and even then it depends on what you do. In the regular world, businesses stay
open and people do what they normally do. Some go to the park or the cemetery, some towns will have patriotic shindigs
I had never heard of a pre-Lent Prince designated the year before (doublethanx!) but recognize that most people use holidays as an excuse to socialize
and drink.
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