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Egroeg Evoli said

meanmistermustard said
Now theres an idea. Lets cancel christmas, replace it with Dooms Day and for 1 day a year we are all allowed to live like there is no tomorrow without fear. You still cant break the law and kill people etc (why waste time on that) but there is no having to conform to what is expected and go thru the same boring rigmarole. Actually live for today for there is no tomorrow.

Who cares if society crumbles, nothing gets done, and companies lose billions of dollars? Worry about that some other time. And all commercialisation of the day is forbidden on pain of being stuffed like a chicken, turkey or some vegetarian dish.

 

Good idea!

What to do first…

Maybe invent a time machine?

One year? You mean five days? If we replace Christmas with doomsday, then it will have to be okay to go around killing people, because Christmas is happiness. You would be getting rid of more than just Christmas. you would be replacing happiness with sadness, hope with fear, and life with death. Anyways, what’s the problem with killing somebody if they’re about to die anyways? People wouldn’t care anymore. The world would fall into shambles.

I was on tv today. It was awesome.

We have this thing called ”Serious Request”, in which 3 dj’s of a radiostation called 3fm, which happens to be my favourite radiostation, have to stay in a Glass House for a week, without food, just fruit and vegetable juices. People can request songs and donate money for them. That way a lot of money is being raised for charity. There’s also a lot of sportclubs, schools, hospitals and stuff like that who donate money. A lot of stores join in too, with actions like ”Buy this and all money will go to Serious Request”. It’s quite fun. This year the house is in Enschede, which happens to be close to where I live and which also happens to be the town in which my school is. This year they’re raising money for babies, because the rate of babies dying is still very high in a lot of countries and it often has to do with the way the mothers are taken care of. They’ve already raised 1.75 million euros.

Anyway, I was there and I was front row, singing along and stuff. And the camera KEPT ON FILMING ME. I kinda freaked out so I stuck out my tongue at one point, because the guy wouldn’t stop filming and I felt awkward and didn’t know what to do xD So I just started waving and sticking my tongue out and things like that. And my parents saw me on tv. And my phone exploded with texts from friends telling me they saw me on tv. Pretty cool I guess.

Hahaha, of course not. Would you like an autograph? JK.

Fun fact: One of the dj’s sons is called Lennon. Yes, he is named after John.

Also, I have been told by 5, yes FIVE people, there was something at Serious Request who looked exactly like me, but not with straight bangs. Poor girl.

I have to find her though. It would be soooo weird meeting someone who looks like me. Poor girl.

Imagine how that would go: ”Hey, you’re me, only…you’re not!”

Funny Paper said
Thanks Linde.  Interesting information.  That show seems to be quite a phenomenon.  In the USA, we don’t really have a TV show like that, which travels around from town to town and region to region with large live audiences; it’s almost like a traveling circus (without the animals).  When you first mentioned the “glass booth” it reminded me of the American magician David Blaine, who has done many public stunts (though I never heard he donated money to charities).

So the Twentse dialect is in the south?

I just looked at a map, and I didn’t realize Germany was to the south and east and even a bit northeast of Netherlands (I thought it was only south).  I also didn’t realize the coastline curves so much upward almost parallel to England as one goes north and east.  A lot of Americans I think don’t distinguish Holland from Belgium too much, but I’m sure the people of each region think there’s quite a difference, no?

I also noticed that the actress Carice van Houten spoke with a different accent than everyone else — is she considered “high class”?

It doesn’t really travel, it just stays in one place for a whole week and then it just returns the next year in another town with different dj’s. Next year it will be in Friesland, which is in the north.

No no no, Twente is in the east. It’s close to Germany, like I said. 

Look. The yellow bit is Twente, which is part of Overijssel.

It isn’t that strange, since Belgium is quite similar to Holland. In the upper half of Belgium they also speak Dutch, only they call it ”Vlaams”. And yeah it’s very close to England, it’s only a few hours away. I believe you can even drive there through a special tunnel which goes all the way over the North Sea. That’s a huge benefit of a small country; within a few hours you can get to London or Berlin! 

Carice van Houten is from the West of our country. She’s from Amsterdam and over there they just speak like that. The dj’s are originally from Almelo, Utrecht and Haarlem. Utrecht is in the middle and I’m actually not quite sure what accent they have over there. It’s not really specific. Haarlem is in the west too, which means the accent should be quite similar to Carice’s. Almelo is in Twente so that accent is, well, the one I’ve been talking about. I’m not really sure what you mean with high class, but she IS very succesful and rich.

Anyway, yesterday I went to the closing show with my best friend and it was awesome. We waited for 3 hours before we could run to the front, but just at the point the security guy told us we could run, the shoulder strap of my bag broke! Just my luck. Anyway, I just pushed everyone aside and ran to the front anyway. The show was great and we were on tv again. Very strange. I came home and the show hadn’t been broadcasted yet, that happened about an hour later. So I saw my own face on tv.

They raised over 12 million euros! The crowd went mad. 

When we left, everyone had the same idea. The trainstation was super crowded and security men stopped everyone from going through the doors to the trains. It was ridiculous. If it hasn’t been on the news yet here, I’m sure it will. I don’t get why they didn’t set up extra trains for this occasion, I mean, they could’ve expected this. Eventually a group just started running, so everyone ran. We got to a train and even got to sit. Unfortunately there were a lot of drunks in the train. One guy was smoking. In the friggin train. And I got hit with an umbrella. I was so glad when I came home.