Silly news, silly newspaper
Mar. 30th, 2007 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzIn the catagory "everyone's gone mad and thinks everything's normal" ('iedereen is gek geworden en vindt alles maar normaal') we have yesterday's news. In one of our leading papers, the Algemeen Dagblad yesterday:
- The Teletubbies will have a tulip named after them. Page 3.
- Zoetermeer, a city-suburb of The Hague, has invested € 25.000,- for a virtual city hall in Second Life. From the article: "We have invested 25.000 euro in this virtual city hall. A bargain. With all this publicity of the last few weeks we saved tons of money."
Maybe someone should tell him it's not real.
Also, streakers disturbed the press conference in Second Life and started stripping. They were removed from the virtual city hall. Page 4.
- Dutch politicians insist that there will be an agression test for large dogs. From the article: "Usually the problem is not with the dog, but with the owner who made the dog vicious."
I saw what the test did. Let me tell you, any well-trained dog that's a bit smart is going to attack three people who try to approach their masters in a menacing way. Any well-trained dog that's smart enough, anyway. I like wolf-like dogs, and I'm pretty sure if I ever trained one he'd never pass that test. As much fun as a drooling bag of fur that follows you around is, I got pretty hooked on smart dogs that think for themselves when we had Curly (Bouvier de Flandres)
Another good example of a bad idea and a waste of money. Page 9.
- This one takes the cake. In the town Vlaardingen, a sub-urb of Rotterdam, three mosques have asked permission to hang up speakers so they can summon the faithful to their Friday prayers. The Dutch political party VVD (right-conservative businessfucks)'s Henk Kamp said "This is a testament of putting oneself forward that is not normal. People will look upon this as a disturbing factor, because those calls to the faithful are in a different language and on unusual times."
VVD is backed by PVV (Partij Voor Vrijheid - almost extreme right-wing) and SGP (extreme christian party, no women allowed to take a seat in parliament for this party).
What it's all about: two calls of maybe two minutes, from the mosque: one to call the faithful to the lectures, one afterwards. On Friday afternoon. Around one o'clock in the afternoon. This according to the Mayor of Vlaardingen, who spoke to Radio Rijnmond in their news show. He also rightly pointed out that there's no law against this, and that he thought it was very polite that the mosques actually asked permission to do so.
I was visiting an old friend Necktar in Tilburg a few years back, who lives maybe 200 meters from a mosque. Yes, we could hear the call from the mosque that afternoon. No, I didn't find it disturbing.
When I was sleeping over at JJ's house in Ede a few years back, I found it much more disturbing that I was awoken by 26 churches in that town tolling their bells for ten minutes long. Sunday, 10 am.
It's a sure sign that we're losing all tolerance. We brought those people here. We asked for the Turks, the Maroccans and everyone, we opened the borders to fugitives. Now they live here, and we have - whether you like it or not - a multi-cultural society. We also enjoy the Freedom Of Belief, it's in our constitution. So, if the Christians can toll their fucking bells for ten minutes while most sensible people should still be asleep, then the Islamic people should be able to call their faithful to the Mosque for the most important prayers of the week. Yes, Christianty is in our history (look at what 'good' that did us). Cultures change, and most muslims are more peace-loving than us Dutchies ever were.
- Let's close down this rant with a few disasters. No disaster so great or we westerners can make profit of it. Nicolas Cage's movie about the WTC is a good, yet tragic, example of this. In moments of Dutch 'glory', we will now also get a movie about the train-jacking of 1975, a movie called "Wijster".
Oh. And Frans Bauer (ongewenst zanger) will sing in the RTL's Dancing With The Stars. Two more great reasons why I am glad we don't own a television.
- The Teletubbies will have a tulip named after them. Page 3.
- Zoetermeer, a city-suburb of The Hague, has invested € 25.000,- for a virtual city hall in Second Life. From the article: "We have invested 25.000 euro in this virtual city hall. A bargain. With all this publicity of the last few weeks we saved tons of money."
Maybe someone should tell him it's not real.
Also, streakers disturbed the press conference in Second Life and started stripping. They were removed from the virtual city hall. Page 4.
- Dutch politicians insist that there will be an agression test for large dogs. From the article: "Usually the problem is not with the dog, but with the owner who made the dog vicious."
I saw what the test did. Let me tell you, any well-trained dog that's a bit smart is going to attack three people who try to approach their masters in a menacing way. Any well-trained dog that's smart enough, anyway. I like wolf-like dogs, and I'm pretty sure if I ever trained one he'd never pass that test. As much fun as a drooling bag of fur that follows you around is, I got pretty hooked on smart dogs that think for themselves when we had Curly (Bouvier de Flandres)
Another good example of a bad idea and a waste of money. Page 9.
- This one takes the cake. In the town Vlaardingen, a sub-urb of Rotterdam, three mosques have asked permission to hang up speakers so they can summon the faithful to their Friday prayers. The Dutch political party VVD (right-conservative businessfucks)'s Henk Kamp said "This is a testament of putting oneself forward that is not normal. People will look upon this as a disturbing factor, because those calls to the faithful are in a different language and on unusual times."
VVD is backed by PVV (Partij Voor Vrijheid - almost extreme right-wing) and SGP (extreme christian party, no women allowed to take a seat in parliament for this party).
What it's all about: two calls of maybe two minutes, from the mosque: one to call the faithful to the lectures, one afterwards. On Friday afternoon. Around one o'clock in the afternoon. This according to the Mayor of Vlaardingen, who spoke to Radio Rijnmond in their news show. He also rightly pointed out that there's no law against this, and that he thought it was very polite that the mosques actually asked permission to do so.
I was visiting an old friend Necktar in Tilburg a few years back, who lives maybe 200 meters from a mosque. Yes, we could hear the call from the mosque that afternoon. No, I didn't find it disturbing.
When I was sleeping over at JJ's house in Ede a few years back, I found it much more disturbing that I was awoken by 26 churches in that town tolling their bells for ten minutes long. Sunday, 10 am.
It's a sure sign that we're losing all tolerance. We brought those people here. We asked for the Turks, the Maroccans and everyone, we opened the borders to fugitives. Now they live here, and we have - whether you like it or not - a multi-cultural society. We also enjoy the Freedom Of Belief, it's in our constitution. So, if the Christians can toll their fucking bells for ten minutes while most sensible people should still be asleep, then the Islamic people should be able to call their faithful to the Mosque for the most important prayers of the week. Yes, Christianty is in our history (look at what 'good' that did us). Cultures change, and most muslims are more peace-loving than us Dutchies ever were.
- Let's close down this rant with a few disasters. No disaster so great or we westerners can make profit of it. Nicolas Cage's movie about the WTC is a good, yet tragic, example of this. In moments of Dutch 'glory', we will now also get a movie about the train-jacking of 1975, a movie called "Wijster".
Oh. And Frans Bauer (ongewenst zanger) will sing in the RTL's Dancing With The Stars. Two more great reasons why I am glad we don't own a television.
