I would just like to big it up for the Belgians and their veto, whoever would have thought it?! I don't like the way some people seem to think in terms of either-or on this board. I personally thought the demonstration in London was brilliant because it didn't turn into a call for Intifada, as most ...

Morning everyone. Paula, I agree that emoticons are sometimes necessary, particularly as none of you can actually see me constantly winking at the screen! :wink: Looking forward to the jokes, and honestly. when I said I was offended I didn't mean that people should not write what they feel or mean o...

Yes I was being serious - though I shall now consider joining a relevant revolutionary organisation since my old-fashioned views seem so marginalistic in the light of everyone's outrage at my offence. Don't you people know that taking offence is the new black? Perhaps I am too easily offended, I don...

Now come on everyone! Everybody enjoys a laugh and a joke but I this is going too far. My remark was definitely not of the militant feminist persuasion. Personally I am fed up of being told that I have to be mysterious to be interesting and so perhaps this was a little vitriolic of me and of course ...

Kush,
I'm sorry but I find your comparison rather offensive. I won't go on about it, but were you being serious?

Hey Tomislav, My Croatian lecturer was a real sadist, who could not get over the fact that an English person wanted to learn Croatian at a German university. When he asked me to decline a verb, I explained that I didn't know what it meant, and besides, I didn't know how to decline anything in Croati...

Where is my gypsy wife tonight?

Dear Lizzie, Jahnn is also unknown in Germany because of the hegemonial popularity of Thomas Mann at the same time - Jahnn was antithetical to Mann (don't ask me why, I've never read Mann). He disappeared through a lack of recognition of genius by publishers and readers alike, and did not write abou...

By the way Lizzie, Raffzahn is the name of the ship's cook from a fantastic epic novel by Hans Henny Jahnn called 'The wooden ship' which was tragically never translated from German into English. One of those writers who 'disappeared' into obscurity during WW2.

Dobro jutro Tomislav. I know Serbo-Croat isn't really a language. Žao mi je, u pravu ste. Are you from Croatia then? I went to Trogir and Split once and loved it. By the way, hoceš li me povesti kuci? :wink: bog, Raffzahn P.S. that is the limit of my Croatian. I tried to learn it once but the lectur...

Hello everyone, thanks for replying. 'Strch prst skrz krk' is indeed Czech (possibly also Serbo-Croat, dunno) and means 'stick the finger through the neck' which is a brilliant phrase, I think but also it was the only thing that occurred to me when a signature was requested. Actually it's a tongue t...

I am the 29100th Louise from VP board. No one writes there anymore! Hello everyone, be nice please.