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België is een apeland! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Gal ... Explain that mysterious remark ^ <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/question.gif" alt="" />

I think it was an answer to part of my post.
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She said:
"Belgium is a monkey country"

I don't understand the problem... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Man Gives Up On Women
April 10, 2003 - Atlanta, USA
Atlanta native auto mechanic Michael Ross publicly declares that he has given up the life long struggle to figure out what women really want. This came after a recently published report estimating American corporations had spent over $1 billion dollars in 2001 to determine what want women want from their products and marketing, and had largely failed. "If combining rooms full of highly skilled experts and truckloads of money can't figure these women out, how on earth is the typical blue collar man with $28,000 after tax dollars a year supposed to?" said Mr. Ross during an interview with Atlanta news reporters. "It may be that these women themselves have no idea what they are looking for or what will win them over. Many admit to having the exact same qualities in one man be endearing, while in another, off-putting." Mr. Ross's web site has generated over 32,000 letters of support from other men in its guest book since his announcement earlier in the day.

Maybe Michael Ross never saw "What women want"? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

@ Mea
About my remark, sorry I forgot the translation. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

[color:"orange"] About my remark, sorry I forgot the translation. [/color]
Oh I have no problem reading Dutch/ Flemish or Afrikaans for that matter, I just couldn't see the context <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

En als ik er hard over denk, dan kan ik nog net een beetje in Hollands praten <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

There is a fitting song by the Bangles : "If she knew what she wants ..." <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

(You can find the Lyrics of it on http://www.thebangles.com -> Music -> Different Light -> If she knew what she wants)

I would give a lot to [color:"red"]hear [/color] you say that!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />

The Health Hazards Of Low-Riding Pants
PALO ALTO, Calif. (Wireless Flash) – Fashionable short skirts and baggy jeans that hang below the belt are turning the current generation of youngsters into prime candidates for hip replacement surgery.
According to posture expert Jean Couch of the Balance Center in Palo Alto, California, the low-rise fashions have “ruined the structure of the human body.”

She says young boys who wear baggy jeans have to spread their legs wide to keep their drawers from falling down, changing the alignment between their hips and legs in a way which wears out the hip socket and could cause arthritis later in life.

Short skirts are no better, because girls have to keep their knees together and that throws their leg bones and hips out of alignment in a similar way.

Couch calls the trend “a catastrophic problem” especially because it’s harder to correct bad posture in young people because their bones are so malleable.

Her solution? “I propose they get different pants,” Couch says, adding, “someone needs to change what’s cool.”

Atlantis is real! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Husband rejects million-dollar offer to keep brain-damaged wife alive

MIAMI : The husband of a brain-damaged woman Friday rejected a one-million-dollar offer for him to reverse his decision to remove the feeding tube that has kept his wife alive for the past 15 years, his lawyer said.

After years of legal wrangling, a Florida judge this month has ordered the removal on March 18 of the feeding and hydration tubes that keep Terri Schiavo, 41, alive.



This week, a California businessman said he would give Michael Schiavo one million dollars to change his mind about having the tubes removed.

"Mr Schiavo categorically refused that offer," his lawyer, George Felos, told AFP.

"He has received many offers of money to walk away from this case. He's refused them all," the lawyer said, adding that one of the offers was for 10 million dollars.

"He has made a promise to Terri not to keep her alive artificially if something like this happened to her and there is no amount of money that anyone can offer that is going to cause him to turn his back on her, betray that promise," he said.

Michael Schiavo has been involved in a lengthy legal feud with his wife's parents who want to keep their daughter alive, rejecting doctors' claims that she is in a permanent vegetative state.

The parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have filed several motions seeking to delay removal of the tubes, but Pinellas County Judge George Greer this week rejected their request to have further medical evaluations performed and another to hand feed her if she is taken off life support.

Several Christian and conservative organizations, as well as politicians have joined the Schindlers' fight to keep their daughter alive.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a brother of the US president, is among those who have sought to prevent implementation of court orders to remove the tubes.

Earlier this week, two Republican lawmakers introduced a bill that would give Schiavo and others in similar situations the right to a special federal court hearing and to be "afforded independent counsel to speak on their behalf."

Last month the US Supreme Court refused to hear arguments in the controversial case. - AFP

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" /> The gigantic medical progress of the last decades have brought such puzzles of ethic and moral! Where should we set the limit in our attempts to save lives? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" /> This is a so delicate question... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

I’ll share a bit of my personnal experience with you, lucky ones. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

A few years ago, I had an accident; I came close to death twice that day. The first time I quite got drown. When we’re in the water, the body has a natural reflex to make us hold our breath; but when oxygen is lacking, another reflex fights agaist it to make us breath in, and eventually wins. I had already breath water when somebody succeeded to tafe me off of the water; That has been a fery traumatic experience, physically and mentally.

A few minutes later an ambulance arrived and paramedics srtapped me on a rescue plank (kind of tough stretcher) and took me to the hospital. The water I had breathen still had not gotten out at that time. It happened a few minutes after arriving at the hospital; I began retching but was still strapped on that damned plank and had a cervical collar so I was stuck on my back and couldn’t turn my head to vomit. Curiouslly, there were a lot of people around me, making all kinds of medical acts on and around me, but nobody noticed I was chocking and suffocating to death before I was about losing conciousness. It has been a pretty similar and as much traumatic exerience as the previous one.

I don’t remember much of the hours, days and even weeks later; I was transferd to a hospital in a far city and had several health complications. I only know I was in a very bad shape, and seemed to be having a very bad time.

This experience has thaught me much about pain and about our attitude towards death. As we don’t know what comes after life, we fear death and refuse to look forward to it. It’s something normal and is good to be, as it’s the surviving instinct; and our body is made to fight for life until the end. Don’t fear the pain; know that your body will never let you suffer something you can’t bear. You’ll either fall unconcious or just won’t remember anything. And pain is a good thing, and has its reason to be, because it prevents you from making injuries and thus “damaging yourself” too much. Also, as death is something we can’t avoid, pain can be a way to ease the passing away process.

Before that accident, I would have said the same thing than this woman: don’t keep me alive artificially if something like this happens to me. Now I don’t think so anymore: I would prefer to be kept alive, as long as it doesn’t cause trouble to poeple around me. I don’t want to die brutally or violently, and in panic; my experience has shown me how terrible it can be. I wish to recieve my death as a gift, a liberation, and I wish I can be prepared when I’ll meet it, with acceptation and serenity in mind. It’s something I’wouldn’t have considered before this happened to me. It made me understand that that wish is often greatly motivated by ignorance and by the fear of suffering.

So guys, don’t be too categoric when you talk to people close to you about such decisions. You could pay the price of your life <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> if you discover you were wrong or change your mind...

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" />
*LaFille claps her hands and shout: Ok, friends, I've finished! You can wake up now!* <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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The end of the world is coming
Why would they do that? WHY?

Now, back on topic. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepey.gif" alt="" /> A few mornings ago, I was awoke by a great BANG noise. I first thought it was my roof fan that had began to drop down, as it already happened, but it was not. Then it made me think about something that happened a couple of years ago on a town on Montreal’s southern shore that I saw on the TV news. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

It was a woman, showing the outside of her house to the reporter; the house was covered of excrements. Nobody around knew who’d done that, and nobody saw what happened. The woman came home and found the house like that. They and the people from the neighbouhood were absolutely stunned and were complaining about the smell, and how’d they wash that, etc... A bit later, they found what had happened; it was a plane, that passing near the house, that had mistakenly released the content of its toilet reservoirs. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> And it all fell on that poor lady’s house. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />
I’ve been searching for a copy of this story on the net, but didn’t find it either. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> I’ll add the link later if I can find it, someday...

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" /> But my BANG of that morning wasn’t due to excrements falling from the sky. When I woke up, I found a pile of feathers in front of the backyard door. And later found some more (very much more) feathers on the ground on another side of the house. So the BANG was finally the noise of a pigeon, chased by the hawk that visits my backyard these days, that had crashed on a wall of the house. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> Now we have a pigeon’s remains to get off the roof, cause spring shall be there soon, and it will stink a bit I think... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/idea.gif" alt="" /> But those feather piles had reminded me another TV news. It was during a professional baseball game; the player threw the ball as a dove was passing by, right between he and the guy at the bat. Guess what? I foud a link to this one! And it’s a video! Enjoy what happens when a bird wants to intervene in a baseball game! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
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Edit: Lews, you got me by a second or two... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" />

how about this????
It is not the most bizar...but...maybe once you read the circumstances to this!!!!!! And, the fact it has not happened in more that 200 or so years...

Man dies after drinking contest




SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - The 21-year-old winner of a competition to drink the most tequila died Monday and three other contestants were gravely ill in the hospital, officials said.

Ricardo Garcia drank more than 50 shots of tequila Sunday night at a Santo Domingo disco to win the prize worth $400 Cdn at a Mexican night celebration.

But he was taken ill, hospitalized and died within hours, apparently from heart failure brought on by alcohol poisoning, said public prosecutor Jose Hernandez Peguero.

Three other contestants remained in serious condition in the hospital, family members said.

"The doctors told me that they were reserving their prognosis but that all his vital signs were under control," said Santiago Abreu, father of contestant Edilberto Abreu.

a friend of mine from school is emigrating to Tazmania at the end of the year.. This made the new york times as well as some dutch newspapers.

What happened? They got interviewed by the NYT and their entire story got twisted. The NYT wrote that they were migrating because of the increasing number of foreigners that were coming into the neighbourhood (maroc, etc.)
This however, is NOT true at all, and they are really shocked by what is written in the newspapers.

They are not hostile in any way to people of different countries and religions, and the guy in my class has the same maroccan and antillian (sp?) friends as I do.. So I guess he's not a racist.

I personally am really shocked by this twisting of facts and interviews.

p.s. They are not going to do anything about it, because they know it is of no use.


peace,
jvb

Hey jvb <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />
The ancient dragon is still alive. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

did you ever doubt that? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />