A film to see:

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Ken Loach won the Golden Palm with it at Cannes...

Play the video: the song is played with it...
Haven't found it on my hard disk yet, though...

Oh, I think that's quite a popular one. I have it on my pc, i'll have a look -or better listen- and let you know... Grtz

Go Patrick! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) You're just right about him, no doubt about it. And Tom: people where just asking information about a song. There's another place on the forum where you can rant about politics. Look at your post. Just ridiculous. Weren't you claiming in some other post some time ago, you were interested in songs from both sides? Once in a while I cared reading your posts, but you're contradicting yourself constantly.
I suppose you don't learn to think in the BA? Just learn how to shoot? I suppose thinking before or when shooting is a luxury in the BA?

I can't agree more... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

De Vries does not exactly mean 'of Friesland' , otherwise your name would be Van Vries(land). Names beginning with 'De' or 'Van' are quite common in the Netherlands and Flanders.
De Vries means 'the Fries', like you say the Briton or so...
But I couldn't help you with the Irish bit though, perhaps you can ask Roidsear....

Well, Bj�rn, in any case, thanks a lot for keeping up this site for all those years... It was fun...

I see I'm enlisted from 13 april 2003... That's about the longest time I ever was enlisted in a forum... Almost three years... I can hardly believe it myself. And I never saw any of you guys, that's the strangest of all things. All other forums I post in is of people I know in non-virtual life... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Anyway:

Bj�rn and all the rest of you (Cairde)...

For everything:


THANKS

I suppose it isn't somebody from Cairde?

And who's the fortunate fellow?

Patrick and all the rest: best we do something of our own. I wouldn't like loosing the chance of a good talk with you guys/girls... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

"One which some of you have read where I hope I showed that I do love Ireland and despise the Orange order.
Where I stated that I hoped, in the future to see a united Ireland."

I read much of your posts and I must say you were never clear on that point. One moment you were effectively defending the thought of a united Ireland, the other moment defending the British troops in there and the British government.
I thought TOO you were member of the BA (or were), that's what I concluded out of your posts and as I said, those were never very clear... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

Patrick defends his country's troops... Now now, what a bad fellow he is... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Did you ever see him mentioning he defended the war in Iraq?
It's not because you defend the fellows who have the malchance to have to go to war because they're inlisted in army just to get a job, you defend their mission...
I abhor America and what it stands for, but I'm never condemning the common American...
You say he never condemned the war. No? Well, in discussions I had with him I know he does...
So just get of Patrick's 'tits'. You're just working on his nerves and I can perfectly understand why...
If there are two people in here who can whine about you two's imperialist countries in here, it's Charlotte and me... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Your troops are in Iraq: Our government was not so hypocritical as both yours...
Did you ever say 'Bliar'? Right... But that's about it...
I heard Patrick enough saying 'Hail to the thief'... (And right he is)
So???
Stop whining will ya...

"Always keep that scepticism."
I always will. You can't otherwise in this world... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

"A small point Christophe Sir. Sceptic is the noun- a person is a Sceptic. The correct adjective is sceptical."

Thank you for pointing that out. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'm always willing to learn. I know my English 'isn't bad', but mistakes are human, aren't they?
I probably translated it literally from Flemish (Dutch)/French. I'm sceptical equals 'Ik ben sceptisch' (Dutch) equals 'Je suis sceptique' (French). So, as you see, a mistake is easy to make in this case... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (It's even the same way in Spanish and German)...

"In fairness, your English is better than my French."

Well, my mothertongue is Flemish (Dutch), but as I'm a language border case with a third of my family speaking French, I can say I handle it very well too. I even once was totally bilingual (before I went studying to Ghent where I have far less occasion to speak French).
English? I learned it quite early myself really. TV and subtitling and reading e.a.

"my country got rid of it's empire" Shouldn't the phrase "The oppressed peoples got rid of my country's (military) presence and meddling?" be more appropriate, you think?
"I have yet to see Patrick condemn the slaughter of the Native Americans, Indeed he chided me for using that phrase." I don't know anything about that, but I would regard it natural to condemn ALL forms of imperialism/colonization...
"Nor have I seen him stand up against Yankee policy of support for the Zionists. Nor condemn Yankee intervention in Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua......................"
You can't sincerely demand of him he stands up for everything his country has done and does wrong? By the way, this forum tends to deal about one particular country's situation. I don't think we're supposed do discuss the whole imperialist history of the world's countries? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
Example: Did I ever condemn Belgium/Leopold II for the past in Congo in here? No. Why should I, it isn't the place for it. But of course I do condemn it, that's natural.

"You're saying that you find it akward when Patrick lectures me?"

Fact is Patrick doesn't stand for what his country is doing in other countries whereas you defend your's military presence in Ireland.

"The difference is that Britain has done her best to get rid of her imperial past".
All right, I could kinda agree with this, but there is still that last patch of imperialism, isn't it called IRELAND?

"a bit like Belgium" Well, I know my country's history quite well and colonizing Congo was not Belgium's initiative, but our late -megalomaniac- King 'Incorporated' Leopold II's. The state of Belgium 'inherited' it when the monarchy got 'a bit' too much critisized about it's brute 'policy' in Congo. I certainly never said I was a fan of monarchies... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I know I 'looked over' the word bullshit... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) I read quite a lot of news on the BBC site, actually. And listen to it. They've got good reports, that's a fact. I'm just sceptic when they're talking about their own country or when it is concerned...

If you insist on giving Patrick lessons in history, I'll complete the list, this time on America's big imperialist ally, GB:

National-Liberal uprises in Latin-America in 19th century: Countered as much as possible by the UK. UK delivers arms an all sides, but not one side too much so they could keep on fighting and the UK delivering of course...
South-Africa: The Boer war? East-Africa? India? UK thriving force of the Break-up of China in 1900's? Suez-war + indepence-war in Egypt? Palestina? The American war??? Last but not least: Ireland??

I always find it quite awkward when a Brit lectures an American about imperialism (or the way around)... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Let's not beat each other in 'who's got the most imperialist country'. I think GB and USA are just brothers in imperialism...

This is quite a funny one: A Brit lecturing an American about imperialism... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)
Difference between the two here is the latter doesn't agree with his country's policy and the former does...

Look at post #11 and #13... For more details I guess you'll have to contact Bj�rn...

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Religious extremism is getting worse every day.

I am certainly not a Marxist, but not everything he said is absolute bullshit...
"Religion is the opium of the masses." I would never contradict this. Why can't people accept the truth? Why? Because it is very difficult to accept for a human being this life is the only one.
Promess heaven, promess seven virgings, promess what you want and extremism is born...
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Offensive language?????

Thus far the objectiveness of the British Broadcasting Company... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Bloody hell... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
I've not been that active the last months due to school e.a. But hell...
Well, I think it's sad...
But let's not forget one thing:
Bj�rn: Thanks, you did a fine job...


For the rest: Even if I could spare the money, I wouldn't have a clue about the informatics...

I'll give you another example:

Here in Belgium (and in other countries) we students have 'always' had our traditions and culture: songs, evenings where there is singing but organised in a very special way called 'cantus'.
There is actually a description of it in in Wikipedia:
Cantus on Wikipedia
Although it's not quite accurate...

Now, to make my point: Some of these texts have been printed in a book that's has been copyrighted. No problem with that. But some of the songs were almost forgotten and somebody looked up how they were sung. He did a lot of work for that all right. But he copyrighted the melodies! I mean: It is our common heritage, it's not for sale! That's problem 1.
Problem 2 is that on those nights where we have a 'cantus' (we all sit along and drink and sing, so no music), we are actually susceptible to being fined!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) Why? Because we are singing songs with copyrighted melodies on a public event! It's 20-50 (mostly) people singing, drinking and having fun in a hall... All 'baptised' students are in principle mostly welcome, so they call it public.
I know a 'president' of a student's club who once had a visit by a controller of the music industry and was fined because they were singing copyrighted songs!!! I think that's outrageous...

Do you actually know that when you are singing a song in public (just think about football fans e.a.), you can actually be fined?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

I think it's a typical thing of our modern world and it's sick desire of commercialising every single thing on this globe and around. In developing countries, the WTO is forcing third world countries to privatise the distribution of drinking water. What's next? Pay for the last bit of unpolluted air you inhale because you emit CO2??

All right: Downloading is stealing, but the music industry is all so a bunch of conmen regarding how they deal with their artists and customers... Not to mention their mad prices...

There is also another point of view from the artist's side: In Belgium there is a popular pop/rock band (and many others in other countries) who's encouraging the downloading of their music, they even added a blank CD to their latest album. Just to make a statement: Copy our music. Let everybody hear it! Share it with everybody...

Culture should not only be for the minority that's able to pay for it... Sadly, everything in this world is about cash. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

That's for sure! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

Happy Birthday, pal... I hope Cate will give you the time of your life! :D With 'a' good Guinness... ;)

"G. Heilemans"? They must have Dutch -or even (much) better- Belgian (Flemish) ancestors... They must be good brewers then... ;)

I can't agree more... :lol:

Nothing more to add I see! Enjoy your Guinness(es)... :)