33 posts tagged “dutchies”
Oh it should be a great news day for junkies like me, Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I can't wait to see the reaction from his, erm, *cough* "fans" on the far right. I think he's failing in many ways, but I do agree with the premise of the award -- "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future"
Also, as I said on Twitter, bombing the moon seems wrong to me. BOMBING the friggin moon. It's not ours. We bomb everything else though I guess, why not the moon. My mom wanted to know if they'd found weapons of mass destruction there. No no, we destroy everything here, might as go looking for water there to get an early start on it.
Also as I said on Twitter, I love Anouk even more today. She uploaded her whole album on her YouTube channel. I tried to support her by running off to buy it. However, I don't love her enough because as usual Americans get screwed when trying to import anything. My foreign friends who get our stuff easily, consider yourselves lucky. If we want your stuff -- not so easy. Her latest album isn't available in mp3 format on Amazon so to get the cd = $46. Pass. I'm not paying that much for one cd. Off to iTunes, it's available on iTunes. But if you're American, you can't order it since it's not in the American store. Oh well, it'll show up there sooner or later, hers always do. Usually a year or so after they do in the Europe store I think. Until then she friggin uploaded the WHOLE cd for free on YouTube. Big American artists would never and she is big in the Netherlands. In fact, while not big here, she is a little known here, so w00t! And yet I'd still pay for her. So take that record companies. In fact I want to pay for her more now. She makes music that I love. I hardly love any artists. Her, Tom Petty, Conor Oberst. Those are really the only three I listen to ALL of their stuff. Everyone else is hit and miss. The reason I'm not running out buying everything is because everything sucks. Except Anouk -- who uploads her album for free and then I can't even go buy it unless I want to spend $46 instead of waiting for the US release.
Lookie a break from my rants. Yay, she's got a new album soon. Happy me! Somewhere I have the concert DVDs of her that one of my Dutchie friends sent me, I should break those out someday.
[A Dutchie] wanna learn a new dutch word?
[Me] sure
[A Dutchie] poep
[Me] lol
[Me] I learned that ages ago: http://picasaweb.google.com/delusionalangel/Etc#5242256969678319042
[A Dutchie] :o
[Me] even my bf walks around saying that still
[A Dutchie] lolol
[A Dutchie] okay uhm well I don't know any other words in dutch
[Me] bad Dutchie!
[A Dutchie] Ik ben geen slecht dutchie
[A Dutchie] ik heb alleen een kleine woordenschat
[A Dutchie] :D
[Me] I am no bad Dutchie, I have only a small word... something
[Me] I'm soooo Dutch!
[A Dutchie] :o
[A Dutchie] small vocabulary
[Me] ehh well damn I was close'ish!
* A Dutchie nods
[A Dutchie] Your dutch is better then my english!
[Me] lol not even close! but thanks, not bad since I've failed at trying to learn *nods* imagine if I tried! I'd rock at Dutch by now
And then let us not forget my recent FB post -- I always said I needed a Dutch book for idiots, this isn't what I had in mind: Of the following verbs give the form which goes with hij and zij. b. bevallen - to give birth (only for zij!)
*update to my FB post* Go ahead and run bevallen through an online translator. I assure you it also means to give birth. Ahh that's why I wanted to attempt to at least learn a little itty bit bit of Dutch, so I'd understand the basics when the Dutchies speak it. Cannot trust the online translators at all ;)
Congrats to NH for understanding the difference between church and state marriages.
They're now the 6th state to understand this. I thought California would be one of the first and we were for awhile anyway. We'll be there again... someday. My Dutchies understood this ages ago. They're wise, my Dutchies.
We interrupt the regularly scheduled post (no really I was typing something else) for these lyrics! I'd post a video, but there isn't one. I'd make one but erm the only videos I make are my cheesy art videos when I get bored and I'm not THAT bored and can't think of what to draw! And this song is my must play song of the night and has me saying YEAH to myself so I'm sharing, lucky you! I'd like to dedicate it to the next person who wants to make a stupid statement about who is anti-America, doesn't live in the right pro-America part of the country, etc etc etc. And yes it's by a Dutchie so add that to the list of reasons why I'm a bad American, I listen to music that *gasp* isn't just from here! Hell I even listen to music that IS in Dutch and I have no idea WTF they're saying, oops guess I shouldn't admit that! It could be anti-American! Actually... Ali B - Bij Bosjes is actually anti-Bush, but the version on YouTube is different from the version I have, it doesn't have all of the George Bush sampling in it making him sound really evil. I'd post it, but trust me you'd all hate me if I made you listen to Dutch rap. Actually some of it is ok, but uhh... yeah ;) hmm ohh I know I can post het pizzalied instead, that's some odd Dutch music. *browses her Dutch music*. Oh my. Some Dutchie is gonna find this post someday and think I'd nuts. Anouk, Ali B, and Het Pizzalied in one post! La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la something something I can't understand PIZZA! heh Wow this post took on a life of its own. oops! Ohh yeah the Anouk lyrics..
Body Brain By: Anouk
Well you know I've got this problem '
Cause there is you
No matter how I try to tell you you just can't see
Oh no, I won't get through
You've got a body and a brain
Instead of pointing to another
Take a look at yourself
Why don't you just use that thing inside your head
And try to tell me why
You've got a body and a brain
You're free to speak, could you explain
The reason for your narrow mind
You're thinking medieval times
Your ignorance just gets you scared
Of everything and I don't know
Which way the wind is blowing
Hoping it will blow your fears away
I'm sure I'll never solve this problem
But I hope you will
I'll speak my mind and tell you
Time and time again
Though I won't get through
You've got a body and a brain
You're free to speak, could you explain
The reason for your narrow mind
You're thinking medieval times
Your ignorance just gets you scared
Of everything and I don't know
Which way the wind is blowing
Hoping it will blow your fears away
Blow your fears away
Time and time and time and time again
But I can't get through baby
Let me explain
You've got a body and a brain
You're free to speak, could you explain
The reason for your narrow mind
You're thinking medieval times
Your ignorance just gets you scared
Of everything and I don't know
Which way the wind is blowing
Hoping it will blow your fears away
Hoping it will blow your fears away
You've got a body and a brain
You've got a body and a brain
"Liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God." Republican congressman Robin Hayes to McCain supporters. But hey at least he was smart enough to deny it until the tape surfaced.
ENOUGH ALREADY. Pro-American.... Celebrity land... REAL Americans.... blah blah blah.
I always thought I am a REAL American yet every day I'm being told by someone new, I'm not. Basically I'm Anti-American, therefore I'm what? A traitor? So to be a real American I have to think what you do period or else I'm a traitor... Anti-America. Etc. I can't think for myself?
If that's what it takes to be an American, I have to agree with you OR ELSE, then yup you got it. I'm Anti-America. You judgmental assholes. I totally disagree with you politically, I NEVER called you anti-American except here when you dare to call the rest of us anti-American for disagreeing with YOU. That is the most Anti-American bullshit I can imagine.
Those of you who hold yourselves out as leaders and who keep doing this... you've gone too far in calling those of us who disagree with you traitors. And yes, that IS what you're calling us.
If I'm not welcome here say so. Ohh wait I have no money to move with, sorry. You're stuck with me. I'm clearly not welcome here, in YOUR America, even though I've never left this soil, I don't even have a passport. I've never even been to Canada or Mexico. Yeah... But I'm not an American. So what am I? I mean clearly my ID, birth certificate, well they can't be real since I'm not a real American. I'm a woman without a home it seems. So you ohh so real Americans tell me, what am I exactly?
Perhaps my Dutchies can elevate my joke "Dutchie wannabe" status to something else quickly. I mean I don't speak Dutch still, but they speak English and I need a home since I'm not welcome here. If Republicans keep telling angry mobs that *I* am the enemy I'll only be safe here in celebrity land, a few other states, or I'll have to move to Dutchieland. You know places where Liberals are allowed to live out in the open. Maybe you want me in the closet with those evil gay people? I mean I don't mind sharing it with them, but we shouldn't have to. Of course the closet might soon be the only safe place to be as "REAL America" will be quite the dangerous place if this keeps up.
Drill baby drill eh? Like maybe drilling thoughts into the minds of crazy people who believe the enemy of America needs to be stopped at all costs? And ohh yeah by the way Anti-Americans, the Enemy, ohh that's them bad Liberals, get 'em. No? That's not what you're doing? Really? Stop and look at yourselves. You're leaders.... fueling the flames of people who believe that we have to get anyone who is anti-America and you're telling that *I* am... you're telling that we liberal Americans ARE the enemy... Just what do you think will happen?
Link stolen from Dak: West Virginia voters say machines flip their votes when they vote Obama. Let the fun begin.
McCain camp dismisses Powell and calls small donors into question again... "And I only say secret because I have no doubt that there are sort of -- the vast majority of those are probably legitimate," Davis explained. "But they're being kept secret by the Obama campaign, for no good reason." Ok Rick Davis, I admit it, my $5 was some sneaky erm umm... I... Yeah.. no there was nothing sneaky about it.... it was $5 freaking dollars and it was legit and why you want my info plastered all over the place over $5 is beyond me. $5 donations don't have to be itemized and posted all over the damn place. And I'd prefer my info not be in your hands as my $5 whole dollars is none of your business, Brian gives more to homesless people on the streets to be honest. It just happened to be all *I* had to give of my own personal money, literally it was all I had and now you want my info out there public despite the rules that say it doesn't have to be.
Now how about you illegally asking a Russian official to donate $5k to your campaign? Or how about hiring someone accused of voter registration fraud? HYPOCRITES.... Ohh or how about announcing yeah McCain said he won't use Wright but now we might because of Lewis? As if Palin's visiting witch hunting pastor she praised isn't a psycho? Ohh and your robocalls are scaring kids, good job! Our campaign isn't negative, my ass.
Me and my Dutchie discuss politics ;)
[Me] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/30/huffposts-real-time-elect_n_130640.html
[Me] that's what the current map / vote according to current polls looks like!
[Mijn Favoriet] is it anti-POW?!
[Me] is Obama winning by a landslide and having enough electoral votes to be president anti-POW? :P
[Mijn Favoriet] YES!
[Mijn Favoriet] BLASPHEMY!
[Me] Then don't look ;)
[Mijn Favoriet] too late! :(
[Me] I'm trying to prep you now! for when the world turns an unfortunate way :( *note* this is a reference to a FOX news quote about if McCain loses which I cut as this log is long
[Mijn Favoriet] :(
[Me] It's ok you'll be watching V for Vendetta that day! It'll cheer you up!
[Mijn Favoriet] I will?!
[Me] Weren't you gonna watch it on Nov 5th? :P The day I'm cheering your POW's loss? :P
[Mijn Favoriet] oh yeah!
[Mijn Favoriet] no
[Mijn Favoriet] I'll be watching
[Mijn Favoriet] but not to celebrate the POW's loss :(
[Me] He'll still be in the senate!
[Me] He'll just have damaged his reputation a lot
[Mijn Favoriet] pft
[Mijn Favoriet] you can damage him or his reputation all you like!
[Mijn Favoriet] but he's a POW, if he survived that, he'll survive a loss!
[Me] Me!!! Hey I used to like him! I didn't damage his rep :( He did! :P
[Mijn Favoriet] :P
[Me] <3
[Mijn Favoriet] <3
[Me] There if we can <3 each other other Obama and McCain supporters need to learn from us! :P
[Me] hrmph! so it doesn't bother you that your POW compares Obama to Europeans like it's a bad word? !!!
[Mijn Favoriet] ?!!?!
[Mijn Favoriet] he does what/!
[Me] "At least in Europe, the Socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are upfront about their objectives," McCain said in a radio address.
[Me] he keeps bringing up Europe
[Mijn Favoriet] he's jealous of europe
[Me] and making it sound bad if Obama gets elected that he's gonna be a European styled Socialist leader etc
[Me] he doesn't seem to like you guys :P
[Mijn Favoriet] he probably doesn't know dutchies are in europe too
[Mijn Favoriet] so can't blame him!
[Me] You guys have gay marriage... sorry he knows... he just doesn't like you :P
[Me] But he's a POW... so it's ok ;)
[Mijn Favoriet] hmmm
[Mijn Favoriet] lemme reconsider
[Mijn Favoriet] still like 2 weeks before election
[Mijn Favoriet] so maybe I can change my mind
[Me] OMG you're one of those undecided voters now! I thought they were a myth!
[Mijn Favoriet] :O
[Mijn Favoriet] I'm not undecided!
[Mijn Favoriet] I'll just vote green!
[Me] ahhh Probably ok! Since we don't have that Animal party you guys have ;)
[Mijn Favoriet] lol
[Me] I actually know a few people voting for or considering the green candidate
[Mijn Favoriet] yeah
[Mijn Favoriet] you know me
* Me nods
[Me] Poor McCain and his anti-Europe comments
[Me] see now how can I stand for a Anti-Dutchie as President? :(
[Mijn Favoriet] yeah :(
[Me] Don't even know why you'd be like OMG Obama gonna be a European Socialist! EVIL EVIL EVIL!
[Me] as if you guys have it so bad
[Mijn Favoriet] we do :(
[Me] your money worth more, you have health insurance, you all always get to go on vacations, etc sounds pretty good
[Mijn Favoriet] our banks keep collapsing :O
[Me] ahh yeah you copy us now
[Me] forgot sometimes you do copy us for some reason, dunno why :(
[Mijn Favoriet] :(
[Me] Sil told me once, it seems like slowly your politics going more and more like ours :P
[Mijn Favoriet] looks like it :(
[Me] another Dutchie friend of mine too said it too... getting more conservative over there eh?
[Me] poor Dutchies :(
[Mijn Favoriet] yes:(
[Mijn Favoriet] we're poor :(
[Me] Awww so you really are copying us then :(
[Mijn Favoriet] :(
[Me] 1.00 USD
[Me] =
[Me] 0.750087 EUR
[Me] not quite copying us
[Mijn Favoriet] not yet!
I <3 Mijn Favoriet but he called me a terrorist! He also said he'd support McCain if he could vote here because McCain's a POW! He's mijn favoriet for a reason ;) Maybe he can write political ads, sneaky Dutchie...
[Me] The Republican National Committee plans to file a complaint on Monday against Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign raising questions about the legitimacy of its small contributions and donations from overseas.
[Me] lol
[Me] bad obama getting small donations! I sent him $5 guess they wanna audit that :P
[Mijn Favoriet] yeah!
[Mijn Favoriet] maybe you're a terrorist witch now!
[Me] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Me] funding him with $5?
[Mijn Favoriet] yes!
[Mijn Favoriet] enough to errrr
[Me] that won't even buy a firework let alone a bomb!
[Mijn Favoriet] enough to errrr
[Mijn Favoriet] pay er
[Mijn Favoriet] hm
[Mijn Favoriet] maybe to buy er
[Me] it'll buy a flyer!
[Mijn Favoriet] paper!
[Me] to spready the word on!
[Me] spread*
[Mijn Favoriet] yeah
[Mijn Favoriet] or to give people papercuts!
[Mijn Favoriet] hijack a plane!
[Me] with $5? he won't buy a plane ticket with $5
[Mijn Favoriet] hm no
[Mijn Favoriet] but he can threaten the customs with the paper
[Mijn Favoriet] so he can board the plane, then hijack it
[Mijn Favoriet] everyone hates paper cuts
[Mijn Favoriet] so it might work
[Me] someone did something when he was 8 so he's a terrorist!
[Me] I don't think I even knew what a terrorist was when I was 8 heh
[Mijn Favoriet] not?
[Mijn Favoriet] you do know!
[Mijn Favoriet] you sent them 5 dollar!
[Me] hmm so you think I'm on the terrorist watch list now?
[Mijn Favoriet] yes
[Me] good thing I never fly!
Then while watching the Dow drop
[Me] pretty soon the american dollar will be worth nothing
[Mijn Favoriet] oh
[Mijn Favoriet] I thought that happened already :D
[Me] we're still worth more than the peso I think
[Mijn Favoriet] haha
[Mijn Favoriet] that's something
[Me] I'd prefer the value of your money I think ;)
[Mijn Favoriet] lol yeah
Banking news:
Wachovia being bought by Citigroup. How many more to come? hmm...
Orphan Works not just US it seems:
[08:10:53] [Mijn Favoriet] Verweesde werken (orphan works) is een wereldwijd probleem als het gaat om digitalisering van cultureel erfgoed.
[08:11:25] [Mijn Favoriet] they mentioned orphans works too! we in europe are going to change something as well
[08:12:01] [Me] copycats!
[08:12:28] [Mijn Favoriet] hehe
[08:12:35] [Me] You're supposed to be cooler than us though, don't do it! :P
[08:13:33] [Mijn Favoriet] I'm reading the memo now
[08:14:40] [Mijn Favoriet] hm
[08:15:27] [Mijn Favoriet] it's to enhance the digitalising (is that a real word? :P) of culturul heritage
[08:17:34] [Me] if it isn't should be a word ;) but hmm that's an odd way to explain it, they did imply in trying to make ours sound good... like...
[08:17:58] [Me] umm you can have the picture right in there so it could just compare at some point trying to find it
[08:17:59] [Mijn Favoriet] ah
[08:18:16] [Me] when technology can handle that kind of search, don't think it'd work yet
[08:18:41] [Me] right now it'd be more like keywords and hope they find you as the owner of that pic
[08:19:09] [Mijn Favoriet] libraries, museums and archives have a hard time finding the owners of the rights to orphan works, and that makes it hard for them to put those works online
[08:19:37] [Mijn Favoriet] so what they're gonna do, is try to find a way to make it possible for them to put those works online, without having to worry about copyright infringments
[08:19:44] [Mijn Favoriet] kinda like the reason for your new law
[08:24:40] [Me] yeah if it was just libraries, museums, educational, historical types of things I could see it
[08:25:10] [Me] just the way they're doing it here... it's general for like anything that could be art, photos, online, whatever
[08:25:39] [Mijn Favoriet] yeah
[08:25:48] [Mijn Favoriet] maybe they'll do it here too
[08:25:58] [Mijn Favoriet] or maybe they'll do it more limited to what it's meant for
[08:27:17] [Me] I'd hope so, so you guys can still be cooler! ;) Well I'll always <3 my Dutchies, but ugh stop copying us :(
[08:27:26] [Mijn Favoriet] :P
[08:27:29] [Me] you'll lose some of your coolness this way ! :P
[08:27:34] [Mijn Favoriet] it's not us
[08:27:38] [Mijn Favoriet] it's the EU!
[08:28:07] [Me] oooh phew sorry thought you meant Netherlands was doing it, clearly I'm no longer alert
[08:28:20] [Mijn Favoriet] well
[08:28:23] [Mijn Favoriet] we would follow
The Attorney firing case isn't over it seems:
Investigator named in Attorney firings.
Me:
Talked law talk with Mijn Favoriet, he has a copyright class! Perfect timing all of this Orphan works stuff. He's perfect for law classes I must say, he's bright and well I wouldn't want to debate the man. I'm gonna go zzzz I think, now that we've established why legal speak exists.
Well here's one way to make me feel better, all of this MS'y, tingly, blech... And don't even get me started on how the McCain camp is still being stupid on the sexist front.... But, a COOL woman, Anouk, she has a new video online! w00t for that! She rocks.
