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Old 04-10-2004, 12:51 PM   #32
Stroggy
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Sadly Belgians are too cowardly to laugha t them.

I remember a year or two ago (when the AEL was at its peak and there were violent protests nearly every few weeks) the most famous belgian stand-up comedian (who mainly makes jokes about the royal house and the politicians) made a joke about the AEL.
Nobody laughed, the entire room was silent.

And then he got angry, he said: "this is SO typical for us Belgians! You never get tired of my jokes about the royal house, I need to wait 5 minutes for the room to quiet down after I make my yearly joke about our king having parkinson... But when I make a joke about common hoodlums, this gang of political hotheads you don't dare to make a sound!" after this he walked off the stage and only came back after a few minutes (this break was not planned, he was really angry I think)

Anyway.
belgians are too cowardly to critisize out loud... they just elect the most extremist right wing party

anyway I'm drifitng off again
i get like that whenever I talk about politics.


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