Sewers of Babel : shin

As much as I like to give my opinion on everything, this just leaves me speechless.

http://www.nbc4i.com/news/7302651/detail.html

Only in the Netherlands ladies and gentlemen. You know, that little insignificant country in western Europe with a whopping 16,341,925 inhabitants. The country of legal prostitution, frikandellen and kroketten, Jan-Peter Balkenende and a speed-skating fetish. More importantly, we are proudly the only country in the world with a softdrugs endorsement.

Just 3 weeks ago, we had the pleasure of getting our very first blowing-prohibition trafficsign for a small area in Amsterdam. Lovely sign, don't you agree? Other people seemed to think so, because it was stolen within 24 hours. Smart as Dutch politicians are, they had some unused taxes left so they ordered a whole bunch of extra signs. Almost 3 weeks later, all of the newly ordered signs were stolen too. Amsterdam had no signs left, so the prohibition is temporarily lifted untill new signs are placed. Because now how will all those innocent youngsters know that they are not allowed to smoke weed there? It's brilliant! If you don't like a certain sign, just keep stealing it till there are none left. Muhahaha!

Meanwhile, the politicians were smart enough to realize that these signs could probably be wanted by other people too. For only 90 euro's, you can now officially order your own sign (Feestborden -> Blowverbodsbord)! Cha-ching. Profit so far? Nearly 100.000 euro's. 65% of the signs has been ordered by Americans, who all somehow seem to think it's hilarious that you can smoke weed everywhere in the Netherlands, except for that one square. Well, have fun with the most useless trafficsign ever!

Anyway, it's now time to grab my orange wig and beertender and see how our boys win Gold, Silver & Bronze on the 1.500 meters speedskating and make Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick cry. And I will enjoy it.

Insta-skating update

OK, so the Dutch skaters ended 4th, 5th, 15th and 20st. At least Shani I will not talk to the press because you were overly critical on me Davis and Chad I will get gold on every distance Hedrick "only" got Silver & Bronze. Cheers Enrico Fabris.

Uh-oh. USA, get ready to close your embassies in Australia. Australian Bishops have found out about this season's last episode of Southpark, in which the holy virgin Mary is bleeding out of her rear. A miracle! Or is it? In the episode, Pope Benedictus XVI goes and checks it out. After getting blood sprayed in his face by the statue, he declares that 'all sheilas bleed'. In other words, all women have their period, this is nothing special.

Last Sunday, Australian Bishops stated that they find this 'repulsive and tasteless'. They requested all Catholics nationwide through a letter to boycott TV3 - the Australian TV channel which is going to broadcast the episode at a yet to be announced time.

The bloody episode

For more, read -

http://www.cathnews.com/news/512/119.php
http://www.nieuws.nl/184761 (Dutch)
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/Default.asp?id=59631 (New Zealandish)

When you say Netherlands, you think Hema. It's the McDonalds of chavs closing in on their midlife-crisis. When they are not too busy keepin' it real or bullying on the local elders, they are showing off their new gadgets. And Hema just happens to have the greatest new gadgets for them.

The iPod, iPod mini, iPod shuffle, iPod nano and iPod video have a new family-member! Apple just doesn't know it yet. Okay, you will have to buy an extra memory card for it - it has no actual memory in it. And the earplugs can take a one-way trip to the trashbin. The batteries aren't exactly stunning either. Not even mentioning the poor quality of the clicking wheel. But hey, it's only 15 euro's! Your friends will be so jealous.

Linky (Dutch)