Oy_the_Great

Do you have to be a statistician these days to calculate that 13,983,816 divided by 5,000 years, so 260,000 weeks is 50 tickets a week? Anyway, of course it's a friggin rip-off. Of course they make a lot more money than they give away. I can't believe people would buy a ticket other than for the suspense. Thinking you might win is not thinking at all. :|

Nothing that requires time is free. But if you do something useful, that'll enhance your chances of earning money, like studying, you can definately say the benefits outweigh the 'lost time'. Plus, it's fun to learn new things.

yep the dutch do that (my GF is half-dutch, so yea she has them with mayo and yea it does look dirty lol. and oy: with german as your 3rd language and dutch as your 1st, how "different" or "similar" do you find em. i dont really know much dutch, but i know theres quite a bit of similarities. just call em chips * :-) German is basically the mother of Dutch. So if I put on my German accent and speak Dutch, it really sounds like German, even to true Germans :) In the music and movies part, Nadril made a request about translating some Norwegian text. I did it, on gut feeling, and when I compared it to Azvareth's, it was pretty accurate. All Germanic languages are very alike. English is a mixture of different ancient Germanic languages as well, btw. That, and a little French.

Yeah, most good football players were already better than everyone else around them, even much older guys, at age 14. A friend of mine plays in Zulte-Waregem (not the first squad though), a team that plays in the Belgian premier league, and he used to play with The guys that now determine Belgian football, like Vincent Kompany. Whe Komany was 14, he was already mature (physically at least) and he was such a talent that he could practically be in the first team of Anderlecht already. When he was 16 he was in the team. These players aren't just incredibly talented though, they're also devout to their sport, truly living with just the thought of how to become better and what to do with the ball. I know Ronaldinho once said he sleeps with a football in his bed. That, and extraordinary talent and physical ability (you need to be heavy built too) allows you to become good.

I hope Blake makes it to the finals, he's a promising player and I hope he can face Roger the Demi-God soon :) And I don't think Nadal's out yet, but he's fantastic on gravel, not on hard court.

It does: Flemish: friet :D And of course you can't forget the mayonaise like we love. Ketchup messes up the taste. I even like fries without sauce, just a pinch of salt.

I'll let it go this time, but start paying more attention at school. Dude, you blame a foreigner, whose native language is Dutch, his second language French, his thrid language German and his *fourth* language English for misspelling something?? How about you go to school and learn that not everyone is perfect. Unless you didn't notice him being Belgian, like myself, you have no right of saying that. How many languages do you fluently write then hm?

I'll give it a shot: Norwegian ressemblences Dutch quite a lot so: You are a listless predator Stop at the road Gash up At the journey Dressed up as a human being Tattood as ??? A hunter of existence, paintd with war colours On your invisible mission Hey, I think I did pretty darn well, it makes sense :) edit: damn, while posting Azva was quicker.

That's why J.K. Rowling invented the Galleon. Although it might be misinterpreted as a gallon :P

I think MPC was serious, but a better way of expressing his feelings would've been: 'I wouldn't ever want to live anywhere else than here in the US of A!' You can't say something's better than something else if it's abouit something as complicated as a country. What standards to use?

Within Temptation? :|

Ow my, did I just spell 'head' as 'hat'? #-o Must've been confused. And I think we all agree the 99% of the swastikas used in the western world aren't there to bring joy to the people :(

Ah thanks for the explanation, I've learned something useful on TIF today. Also, the peace-sign known from the hippies actually is the rune of death from Germanic tribes : And don't pat a child on the hat in Indonesia, it's very denigrating apparently...

You spelled FRIES wrong. -.- It's 'des frittes' in French and 'frieten' in Dutch, so it's a forgiveable mistake.

Yeah well don't go by me, i'm no great songwriter by any means, but I think I heard someone like Paul McCartney once say that he sometimes wrote the lyrics first, sometimes the melody. I was always curious if there was a set pattern, there isn't, but it's probably easier to do the melody first to create a better overall song. How much poetry has been transformed into a song? And most good songs are poetry. I think it's easier to come up with some good lyrics, then when you're certain what the song is about, think of a cheerful/sad/calm melody that fits with the lyrics than doing it vice versa.

If that ever happens, report the post, please. I think the reason he and other Christians get on your cases for calling us that is because it's rather one-sided. The Christian takes the hit 99 times out of 100 on these boards. It's not really my style to report every grudge people hold against me, in fact I've never done it before, but I will if you want me to. Besides, I know I can trust you :)

Of course you did not read what he said. The sign was used to for good whishing in the Hindu rituals. Hitler stole it, why; I still haven't heard from the creator of the topic, and then it became the symbol of the Nazi rule. Of course 95% of the people throughout the world don't realise that it originated in India and you're right that that's why it's considered bad. That's what the entire topic is about: to broaden your mind and to change that narrow point of view.

Along with ravioli...It comes from Chinese dumplings...My music teacher said that French horns weren't French, I don'tknow if that's true. It's just one of those things that don't make sense... Of course, most things that are affiliated with a country are foreign. The Statue of Liberty is French.

That's bs. the real story, according to English WWI soldiers: in WWI, when the English, Belgian and Frnech soldiers were trenched in Flanders, the local housewives prepared them something greasy, to keep them from losing too much bodyweight. This greasy stuff were potatoes baked in boiling fat, which the Belgians, the nation that consumed the most potatoes in Europe per inhabitant next to Ireland, had been doing for a long time. These Flemish inhabitants lived near the border with France, and the English soldiers thought they were all Frnech, because they spoke French in that region, they still do, although the official language there is Dutch. Because of that, the English called the fries 'French' though in fact they were Belgian. It was only after WWI that fries became popular throughout the world, and that was because the English (and American) soldiers brought the concept with them to their homelands. It can't be proven however, that we Belgians invented them, we definately got the potatoe from the Spanish in the 18th century, but whether or not we were the first to fry them, no one knows. Perhaps it was common usage to fry everything to consume enough fat back then, so it's likely fries have existed next to eachother in both France, Spain, Belgium and other nations without them knowing about eachother's fries.

Ooo...sorry, I think I forgot to mention this. Hitler believed that having Aryan heritage was noble and that the Jews, who did not have this heritage, did not deserve to live in his land. Something like that. Oh, all right, so the Aryans were a race of Hindu people or something? :|

You can consider the time spent in creatin the ball as lost money; the time could have been used to earn money. That way it is not entirely free, also the material could have been sold, or the ball itself. But if I keep going on about details like this, nothing of course is free.

I agree with almost everything you said, so everything I quoted. I'd like to add that I do not find the Harry Potter films, succesful as they may be, overrated. They're exactely the kind of movies I would have loved when I was younger, and even now they're... guilty pleasures. I do find the Godfather series a tad bit overrated. They're good, absolutley, but they're widely considered to be the best movies ever. And I disagree there. I find Shawnshank, the first Matrix, Citizen Kane, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the Usual Suspects, the Lotr films and a bunch of others a lot better. And in the comedy genre no movie has ever outclassed the Holy Grail. Brittish humour is miles ahead of all other humour. I'm very happy Canvas, a Belgian TV post, broadcasts an episode of one of the best Brittish series every evening these days; Blackadder. I suppose I'm being unrealistic now when I say they ought to make a movie about it? I would really look forward to it then.

This is going to be funny. You challenge the single most witty person here -a respected mod even- who knows probably what the size of Cruyf's shoes were when he was 16. Phil can talk you home whenever he wishes, and if there would be a chance he couldn't, he still has his evil modding powers. *awaits Phil's disturbingly calm reaction*

Lol its a freaking wristband. Grow the hell up. (just got up from a nap little cranky.) And yet again, people fail to realize what they are saying. They are saying people are taking advantage of your beliefs and charging you money to show them. Do you think this money goes to churches or charity? No. It goes straight to some guys Ferarri fund and he laughs to the bank. Do you think he believes Jesus is the key? No, he believes you are. And you confirm his thoughts. Yet you still buy these things. I completely agree, though corporate leaders aren't all that evil. The company making those wrist bands most likely wouldn't mind making the same type of wrist bands with 'Atheism is the only true key' if they got a large order of those. And MPC, if you like carrying out the message that you believe in Jesus, make sure the company isn't one of those I just described. I, for example, don't buy shoes and clothing from certain companies, because I don't like what they're doing to the world. this is what I mean: http://christianjourney.com/christian/wristbands.html http://www.giftscatholic.com/catholic-wristbands.htm http://www.holylandmall.net/bacusiwr.html 'Holy Land Mall'. Right. Jesus and God routing for consuming? Oh and if you're so easily offended by posts of non-believers MPC, try to realise how we are feeling when so many Christians tell us we're fools too? It's exactely the same.

Thanks, that'll keep the people from doing follies.