Girls, girls, girls

[Bernie]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

And Valerie is living a few miles from here so I see her regularly in real life :D

You lucky dog you :D

BTW: for being a small country, Belgium has been heavily into the dance music scene what with New Beat and all those Byte releaes from the 90s.

How do you deal with all the different languages spoken?

[paul]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

Paul, I'm glad you like her. Too bad you can't watch Belgian television over there coz' she has a daily show.

Belgium is a small country with 11 million citizens and has 4 parts. Brussels (capital of Belgium and Europe- mixed language), Flanders (Flemish which is a sort of Dutch), Walloon (French) and a very small part where they speak German. I live in a town not far from Antwerp in the Flemish part. If you ever come to Belgium: the best clubs are in Antwerp and Gent.

The two members of technogroup Milk Inc. are living a few streets away from my house. And Praga Khan and Lords of Acid are also lliving in my region. And Valerie is living a few miles from here so I see her regularly in real life :D

Johan...you're neighbors with her too, damn :D
When you're striking up a conversation with her in you local supermarket kinda slip in she has a big fan in San Diego. That's of course after you're done flirting with her :lol: :lol:
Antwerp, Antwerp...there is something really historic about that place. Was it World War I?
I hope I don't seem too nosey Johan but I'm always fascinated by different cultures? Do you and many Belgians speak 3 or more languages because of the mix in that country? I didn't know Europe had a capital. Is it to eventually have a United States of Europe? Sorry for going off topic but I gotta have something to talk about after sex :D

[Videoskooter]

Brussels is where the European Institutions are and for that fact it's considered the capital. You can compare Brussels to Washington DC but on a much (!) smaller scale.

Yes, most of us even speak 4 languages: English too. Belgians are known for that fact. Flemish, French and German are official languages here and in school most kids learn those three and English . It's helpful because Flemish/Dutch is only spoken in Belgium, Holland and South-Africa.

Antwerp is one of the biggest harbours in Europe and is a beautiful city. Most tourists come to visit Bruges with its well-preserved and protected old houses.

Famous Belgians: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jacques Brel, René Margritte (painter), Audrey Hepburn (Born in Brussels!), Maurice Engelen (Praga Khan-Producers Hall of Fame).

I had one famous guy in the family and that was Colonel Tom Parker who I, sadly enough never met and I kissed Donna Summer when I was twelve and she gave a performance in a big local disco here :D

And I will say hello to Valérie when I see here ! (Yes-we are on topic again :D

[QUINNY]

Paul: Brussels is NOT the capital of Europe as such and yes I do think there will eventually be a united states of Europe. This will happen just before the oil runs out, so that we can fight for our share with you pesky Americans!!! :D The EU has much more to do with that than anything else. The French (de Gaulle) were mortified that you saved their asses in WW2 and vowed never to be in such a weak position again. The EU is currently 25 nations including some ex iron curtain countries and there's talk of further expansion, including Turkey and even Russia could be in it eventually. We're already bigger than the US in terms of population. Do I feel some quaking?

Sorry for the sideways movement off topic.

[Videoskooter]

OMG, yes Paul, the English and the European Union, it sometimes ..... :D
But Quinny is right, maybe I didn't explain it exactly enough.

Brussels is not an official capital but it is considered as the administrative capital. The European commission and parliament are there, headquarters of Nato (The military command also is in Belgium, in Mons). Now that the Union has expanded it's possible that they choose another location for all those institutions but until then all the leaders and even Tony Blair have to travel to our beloved Kingdom :D

But now, guys: I want girls, I'm a girl watcher. I want Fatback-moments. I want Moments & Whatnauts-stuff.

[paul]

Yes, we better get back to the girls. I wouldn't want to incite hostilities among my euro disco lovin' associates :D
Here is another of my longtime favorites, Angelle Brooks. I used to see her more often in the late '90s. She seems to have disappeared off the silver screen lately.

http://www.geocities.com/thedukescelebs/angellebrooks/

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Bernie

You lucky dog you :D

BTW: for being a small country, Belgium has been heavily into the dance music scene what with New Beat and all those Byte releaes from the 90s.

How do you deal with all the different languages spoken?

Yes indeed Bernie, Belgium is pretty big in dancemusic. Byte, Bonzai, NEWS, PIAS (play it again sam) were or are worldplayers. New Beat did start here (Lords of Acid!) and also our techhouse and technopop-releases sold worldwide (Milk Inc., Jessy, Sylver, Lasgo, Ian Van Dahl) and Trance and tribal (Buscemi, Sven Van Hees). We're doing our best :D

How do we manage all those languages? The biggest part is Flanders (Dutch), the second Wallonie(French) and only a very small part is German. Normally you speak the language of the part where you are living or where you are visiting. For instance, when I go to Wallonie I speak French. When they come to us in Flanders we speak....French :D , that's a little bit the problem and causes many political fights over here. Some Walloons consider Dutch as a second-rate language and refuse to speak it.

In Brussels people mostly speak French or English since it is a multicultural city (many members and employees from the European Union, a Turkish , Maroccan, African (mostly from Congo) and a Chinese community. We also have many Italian citizens but they generally live in Flanders.

And to conclude all this I let you guess how many governments we have :D

[Bernie]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

And to conclude all this I let you guess how many governments we have :D

I'll say three. In order they would be... national (whole country), regional (when you mentioned Flanders...(?)), and finally the individual city government. Am I right?

[Videoskooter]

No Bernie :oops:

SIX! Can you imagine that. What a waste of taxmoney :oops:

- National gov
- Flanders gov
- Brussels gov
- French gov
- Walloon gov
- German gov

And don't even ask how many ministers (secretary of state) we have because we stopped counting :) Almost no Belgian can answer that!

[Videoskooter]

Yes, we are back on topic. BTW I like Quinny and all the English so don't worry :D

Angela Brooks? Yes yes yes, beautiful woman, indeed!

I hope she is living in your neighbourhoud so we can exchange visits, you come to Valerie and I go to Angela, deal!

And since Bernie is the boss, he gets to visit all the girls.