I was getting to the hookers, you know :lol:. At least I don't call it 'Holland', I know the distinction 
, the vast majority of Americans don't.
, the vast majority of Americans don't.Election Countdown
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The distinction is important...that's why it's important that Holland was a refuge for religious reformers during the Reformation. It's kind of like when they talk about "western separatism" in Canada when what they really mean is "Alberta oil-patch separatism."
It's important to have a special place for all the nuts, we sort of have this. Want a good idea how crazy the US is, look how big the red states are! :lol:
Yeah, Holland is very different from the Netherlands. When you say "Holland", you actually say "those few Protestant provinces who gained independence from the Spanish Crown in I-don't-know-what-century-exactly" ... As a Dutchman, I always feel a bit neglected in the common view foreigners have of the Dutch. I'm from the south, which only later became part of the Netherlands, they're all Catholic around here too, that's why we have a history of twohundred years of persecution by our oh-so-tolerant Protestant countrymen ... We don't have dikes around here; no polders; no tulips; no big rivers. Guess we look more like Belgium. Which doesn't mean I don't feel Dutch though...
You're lucky to feel like anything. America seems to be so diametrically opposed to everything that I believe in, and I didn't grow up anywhere else. That leaves me with practically no sense of national indentity. I'm just kind of here, and I want to disown my country.
You need to go buy a CD by the Violent Femmes called "Add 1+ Up (1981-1993)," Apollo. It's kind of a best of, but I'm listening to it right now and it's their best stuff. It'll make you happy...or at least confirm that you haven't been alone since 1980 or so.
*takes a long hard drag on his cigarette, and straitens his beret* I am an existentialist, which means I do what I want!
No it means you sit in cafes chain-smoking until somebody shows up to pay your tab. Been there, want to be there again.
