NationStates Jolt Archive

150

150 days is Belgium now without a federal government.

And the country is working well, it looks like we don’t need a government at all. :)

Today will be an important day in the Belgian history, or the Walloons start to eat what is being served by the Flemish or the first steps will be taken to go independently.

The common people are not that interested, only in cafes some drunken people pretend they would do it all better, but I don’t believe in beer politics.

The media and the real politicians however are playing a hard game. They are polarizing the situation and making an agreement much more difficult.

No, I don’t think that Belgium will split up soon, but if it would occur it will not be peaceful, imho.

So, yes, I’m a little worried.

I would be quite worried if I were Belgian... To be honest I don't think Belgium will continue to exist as we know it for quite long...

Belgium must be full of n0oblet no0bs...

The USA should invade to bring democray and take your oil.:)

I would be quite worried if I were Belgian... To be honest I don't think Belgium will continue to exist as we know it for quite long...

I’m not worried that it would disappear, not even close. I don’t give a penny for Belgium or my Belgian nationality.

I’m worried about the used tone of the politicians and press.

The USA should invade to bring democray and take your oil.:)

If they can’t beat a bunch of Arab morons then they can’t beat 10 million übermenschen as well :p

Don’t forget that FN is producing the best guns in the world!

They will never invade us else we don’t export any chocolate anymore. And in that case, how are they presumed to get fat?

I was expecting Spartans.

What will happen to Belgian chocolates?

What will happen to Belgian chocolates?

You will get 3 types of chocolate:

* Flemish chocolate - the best quality
* Walloon chocolate - lower quality, but they'll try to sell it as Flemish chocolate
* Brussels chocolate - lowest quality, 'cause made in China by underpaid children

What will happen to Belgian chocolates?

Fuck the choc, what abut the beer?(we all know that English choc is the best)

* Flemish chocolate - the best quality
* Walloon chocolate - lower quality, but they'll try to sell it as Flemish chocolate
* Brussels chocolate - lowest quality, 'cause made in China by underpaid children
YES! More choices to choose from!

I like Swiss chocolate, anyway. And if there's anybody that can send me chocolates from Italy...

Fuck the choc, what abut the beer?(we all know that English choc is the best)

Belgium and Belgian will survive as marketing words.

And uh no, English choc is like ALL their food the worst in the world.

Belgium and Belgian will survive as marketing words.

And uh no, English choc is like ALL their food the worst in the world.

No no no you are quite mistaken. Cadburys choc IS the best in the world, better than any Belgian muck, better that that shitty Hersey's, better than any French rubbish.

And British food is great and veried coz we are mongrols, and we take the best from the world an make it our own.
Anyhow how can Steak & Kidney pudding, with mash spuds and gravy be anything other than wonderful?

No no no, you all got it wrong.. we all know that the neither belguim or british chocolate or food for that matter is worth anything :D Greek or Italian is much better, only surpassed by danish food :D

Is this the right thread to play 'Name 5 famous Belgians'?

No no no you are quite mistaken. Cadburys choc IS the best in the world, better than any Belgian muck, better that that shitty Hersey's, better than any French rubbish.
Yes. Cadbury Rich Milk Chocolate with Limited Edition Salmonella flavor. :D

No no no, you all got it wrong.. we all know that the neither belguim or british chocolate or food for that matter is worth anything :D Greek or Italian is much better, only surpassed by danish food :D

Danish food?

I demand examples for me to try

Is this the right thread to play 'Name 5 famous Belgians'?

I got nothin'

I got nothin'

Isn't there someone called Luxembourg or something from round about there? I don't know what he did, probably an artist or something.

ok Seriously, What's With The Huge Fucking Letters? Does It Make You Feel Special?

It's a new fad, like "300" and "the 4400"....

ok Seriously, What's With The Huge Fucking Letters? Does It Make You Feel Special?

Maybe I have a vision problem

I got nothin'

Luc Vandevelde, Chairman of Marks and Spencer
Edward de Smedt, chemist and inventor of modern-day road asphalt
Lambert Adolphe Quetelet, mathematician and inventor of the Body Mass Index
Gerardus Mercator, cartographer, mathematician and geographer
Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone
Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of the synthetic resin known as "bakelite"
Joseph Plateau, inventor of the stroboscope
Ernest Solvay, inventor of the Solvey process (ammonia)
Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt, inventor of the two-finger guitar playing technique
Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, inventor of the internal-combustion engine
Charles Van Depoele, inventor of the electric railway
Zénobe Gramme, inventor of the Gramme dynamo
Constant Loiseau, inventor of the optometer
Toots Thielemans, world-famous jazz musician
Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt, inventor of the two-finger guitar playing technique
Helmut Lotti, international pop singer
Plastic Bertrand, punk/rock singer of 'Ca Plane Pour Moi' fame
Herman Schueremans, organiser of the famous annual Werchter Rock Festival
Jacques Brel, legendary chansonnier / singer
Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone
Arthur Grumiaux, eminent violinist
Koen Wauters, leadsinger of the popular band "Clouseau"
Raymond van het Groenewoud, singer
Gilles Binchois, 15th century composer
Jef Denijn, campanology expert
César Auguste Franck, composer and organist
Orlando di Lasso, composer
Ivan Heylen, Flemish singer
Bobbejaan Schoepen, Flemish singer and owner of "Bobbejaanland" (real name Modest Schoepen)
Eddy Wally, world-famous Flemish singer also known as "The Voice of Europe"
Josquin des Prez, composer
Eugène Ysaýe, violinist, conductor and composer
Dani Klein, lead singer of Belgium's most successful band "Vaya Con Dios" (sold 10 million CD's)
Will Ferdi, singer and first Belgian personality to announce he is gay (real name Werner Ferdinande)
Henri Vieuxtemps, violinist and composer
André Grétry, composer
Cyprien de Rore, Belgian composer who produced the first score for voices
Esther Lambrechts, singer better known as "La Esterella"
Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer
Charles-Auguste de Bériot, violinist
Peter Benoit, composer and founder of the Royal Flemish Conservatory
Sandra Kim, youngest ever winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
Will Tura, Flemish singer (real name Arthur Blanckaert)

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Jean-Marc Bosman, footballer who changed the transfer rules
Justine Henin-Hardenne, world-class tennis player
Kim Clijsters, world-class tennis player
Eddy Merckx, best cyclist in the world, ever
Paul Van Himst, international football player and coach
Guy Thys, coach of the Belgian National Football Team for 15 years
Gaston Roelands, long-distance runner
Jacky Ickx, Formula 1 racing driver

Georges Simenon, writer

Rene Magritte, painter and theorist of surrealism
Peter Paul Rubens, painter
John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor
Jean Bologne, Flemish sculptor
Sir Anton van Dyck, painter
Peter Bruegel the Elder, painter
Paul Delvaux, surrealist painter
Adriaen Brouwer, painter
Jan Fyt, painter and etcher
Jacob Jordaens, painter

Edward de Smedt, chemist and inventor of modern-day road asphalt
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer, mathematician and geographer
Abraham Ortelius, Flemish geographer who produced the first modern atlas
Andreas Vesalius, famous anatomist and physician
Adrien de Gerlache, commander of the first scientific Antarctic expedition
Jules Bordet, bacteriologist who developed vaccine for whooping cough
Jan Baptista van Helmont, physician / chemist who showed that plants feed mostly on water, not soil
Georges Lemaître, astronomer who discovered the Big Bang theory
Lambert Adolphe Quetelet, mathematician and inventor of the Body Mass Index
Albert Claude, biochemist who was the first to isolate a cancer cell
Georges Cuisenaire, Belgian teacher famous for his method of teaching mathematics
Ilya Prigogine, chemical physicist famous for his theoretical framework on the origin of life
Simon Stevin, mathematician and engineer
Corneille Heymans, winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Physiology
Christian De Duve, winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology and discoverer of lysosomes and peixosomes
Charles Delstanche, pioneer in otology
Louis Zimmer, world-famous clockmaker

Jeanne Deckers (Soeur Sourire), the Singing Sun who had a number one hit in the US with 'Dominique'
Father Damien (Pater Damiaan), missionary on the leper island of Molokai, Hawaii

Victor Horta, Art Nouveau architect
Henri Clemens van de Velde, Art Nouveau architect
Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, designer of Antwerp Town Hall

Audrey Hepburn, actress and special ambassador to UNICEF

Hercule Poirot, Belgian detective
Liz Claiborne, fashion designer
Johann Tserclaes Tilly, field marshall
Louis Hennepin, first European to explore the upper Mississippi river
Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, the creator of "Tin Tin" (Kuifje)
Pierre Culliford, alias "Peyo", the creator of "The Smurfs"
Andre Franquin, creator of the "Guust Flater" and "Marsupilami" comic series
Henri-Marie Lafontaine, winner of the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize
Christophe Plantin, bookbinder and typography expert
Dominique Pire, winner of the 1958 Nobel Peace Prize
Dries Van Noten, fashion designer
Ann Demeulemeester, fashion designer
Dirk Frimout, the first Belgian astronaut


And I forgot a few thousand

SNIP

Never heard of 'em :p

Their inventions yeah but not them

Never heard of 'em :p

Their inventions yeah but not them

Wahaha!

Audrey Hepburn?
Rubbens?
Rene Magritte?
Zimmer?

We wanted famous people, not the entire Belgian telephone directory.

Also, Hercule Poirot? You forgot TinTin.

Both are on the list.

*snip*

We wanted famous people, not the entire Belgian telephone directory.

Also, Hercule Poirot? You forgot TinTin.

And in that case, how are they presumed to get fat?

With beer, of course!

Wahaha!

Audrey Hepburn?
Rubbens?
Rene Magritte?
Zimmer?

Yes - although she's the daughter of an Englishman and a Dutch woman and spent a small portion of her life in Belgium (YAY WIKI)
No
No
No

Wahaha!

Audrey Hepburn?
Rubbens?
Rene Magritte?
Zimmer?

Are you trying to frame Zimmer?

Both are on the list.

I'm not questioning his existence on the list, I'm questioning his existence full stop.

Regardless, there's some impressive people on there, I can imagine Belgians are used to this game :)

I was expecting Spartans.

Battle of Thermopylae lite?

Luc Vandevelde, Chairman of Marks and Spencer
Edward de Smedt, chemist and inventor of modern-day road asphalt
Lambert Adolphe Quetelet, mathematician and inventor of the Body Mass Index
Gerardus Mercator, cartographer, mathematician and geographer
Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone
Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of the synthetic resin known as "bakelite"
Joseph Plateau, inventor of the stroboscope
Ernest Solvay, inventor of the Solvey process (ammonia)
Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt, inventor of the two-finger guitar playing technique
Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, inventor of the internal-combustion engine
Charles Van Depoele, inventor of the electric railway
Zénobe Gramme, inventor of the Gramme dynamo
Constant Loiseau, inventor of the optometer
Toots Thielemans, world-famous jazz musician
Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt, inventor of the two-finger guitar playing technique
Helmut Lotti, international pop singer
Plastic Bertrand, punk/rock singer of 'Ca Plane Pour Moi' fame
Herman Schueremans, organiser of the famous annual Werchter Rock Festival
Jacques Brel, legendary chansonnier / singer
Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone
Arthur Grumiaux, eminent violinist
Koen Wauters, leadsinger of the popular band "Clouseau"
Raymond van het Groenewoud, singer
Gilles Binchois, 15th century composer
Jef Denijn, campanology expert
César Auguste Franck, composer and organist
Orlando di Lasso, composer
Ivan Heylen, Flemish singer
Bobbejaan Schoepen, Flemish singer and owner of "Bobbejaanland" (real name Modest Schoepen)
Eddy Wally, world-famous Flemish singer also known as "The Voice of Europe"
Josquin des Prez, composer
Eugène Ysaýe, violinist, conductor and composer
Dani Klein, lead singer of Belgium's most successful band "Vaya Con Dios" (sold 10 million CD's)
Will Ferdi, singer and first Belgian personality to announce he is gay (real name Werner Ferdinande)
Henri Vieuxtemps, violinist and composer
André Grétry, composer
Cyprien de Rore, Belgian composer who produced the first score for voices
Esther Lambrechts, singer better known as "La Esterella"
Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer
Charles-Auguste de Bériot, violinist
Peter Benoit, composer and founder of the Royal Flemish Conservatory
Sandra Kim, youngest ever winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
Will Tura, Flemish singer (real name Arthur Blanckaert)

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Jean-Marc Bosman, footballer who changed the transfer rules
Justine Henin-Hardenne, world-class tennis player
Kim Clijsters, world-class tennis player
Eddy Merckx, best cyclist in the world, ever
Paul Van Himst, international football player and coach
Guy Thys, coach of the Belgian National Football Team for 15 years
Gaston Roelands, long-distance runner
Jacky Ickx, Formula 1 racing driver

Georges Simenon, writer

Rene Magritte, painter and theorist of surrealism
Peter Paul Rubens, painter
John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor
Jean Bologne, Flemish sculptor
Sir Anton van Dyck, painter
Peter Bruegel the Elder, painter
Paul Delvaux, surrealist painter
Adriaen Brouwer, painter
Jan Fyt, painter and etcher
Jacob Jordaens, painter

Edward de Smedt, chemist and inventor of modern-day road asphalt
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer, mathematician and geographer
Abraham Ortelius, Flemish geographer who produced the first modern atlas
Andreas Vesalius, famous anatomist and physician
Adrien de Gerlache, commander of the first scientific Antarctic expedition
Jules Bordet, bacteriologist who developed vaccine for whooping cough
Jan Baptista van Helmont, physician / chemist who showed that plants feed mostly on water, not soil
Georges Lemaître, astronomer who discovered the Big Bang theory
Lambert Adolphe Quetelet, mathematician and inventor of the Body Mass Index
Albert Claude, biochemist who was the first to isolate a cancer cell
Georges Cuisenaire, Belgian teacher famous for his method of teaching mathematics
Ilya Prigogine, chemical physicist famous for his theoretical framework on the origin of life
Simon Stevin, mathematician and engineer
Corneille Heymans, winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Physiology
Christian De Duve, winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology and discoverer of lysosomes and peixosomes
Charles Delstanche, pioneer in otology
Louis Zimmer, world-famous clockmaker

Jeanne Deckers (Soeur Sourire), the Singing Sun who had a number one hit in the US with 'Dominique'
Father Damien (Pater Damiaan), missionary on the leper island of Molokai, Hawaii

Victor Horta, Art Nouveau architect
Henri Clemens van de Velde, Art Nouveau architect
Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, designer of Antwerp Town Hall

Audrey Hepburn, actress and special ambassador to UNICEF

Hercule Poirot, Belgian detective
Liz Claiborne, fashion designer
Johann Tserclaes Tilly, field marshall
Louis Hennepin, first European to explore the upper Mississippi river
Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, the creator of "Tin Tin" (Kuifje)
Pierre Culliford, alias "Peyo", the creator of "The Smurfs"
Andre Franquin, creator of the "Guust Flater" and "Marsupilami" comic series
Henri-Marie Lafontaine, winner of the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize
Christophe Plantin, bookbinder and typography expert
Dominique Pire, winner of the 1958 Nobel Peace Prize
Dries Van Noten, fashion designer
Ann Demeulemeester, fashion designer
Dirk Frimout, the first Belgian astronaut


And I forgot a few thousand

I see Adolph twice, Siemens invented the electric railway, a Scott invented modern day asphalt and after that I decided; tl;dr.

From what I glanced from the rest, they don't seem to have invented usefull things.