29 Jun '10 - 19:02 Wat Nu?
Morgen; eerste voetballoze woensdag. Meteen gevolgd door een voetballoze donderdag ... ik verwacht over 9 maanden veel extra kindjes.
27 Jun '10 - 20:01 Vorsprung Durch Technik
It is clearly silly. The whole world can see a goal is either legitimate or not, except the referee because he cannot watch the footage .... first in the Germany vs England game (a clear goal disallowed, it was 30cm over the line at least) and just now with Argentina vs Mexico (a clear off-side goal given). Time for change. Video-refereeing. Either Blatter gives in or he should be 'removed from office'.
24 Jun '10 - 18:25 It Ain't Me Babe
Well finally, the Boomchickas Video is online .... make sure you switch to HD.
15 Jun '10 - 21:20 Proost!
What a scream. First FIFA/Budweiser ejects 36 very healthy looking Dutch girls for wearing orange mini-skirts (granted, it was clear a certain beer-producing company was behind it, but still very well done) and then some poor English pundit looses his job over it! * ROTFL *
Bavaria 1 - Budwater 0
14 Jun '10 - 20:46 A Day At The Office
There could be worse places to work I suppose. Watching football AND getting paid ...
13 Jun '10 - 11:15 Wurde Auch Mal Zeit
Kann Ich endlich mal mein nr. 1 Jugend-Kultklassiker Die Vorstadtkrokodile (1977) an meiner DVD Kollektion hinzufuegen.
Einfach nicht zu kriegen auf DVD. Aber jetzt dank Einsfestival und der DVD-rekorder meines Vaters ...
Und hier noch die Musik die dazu gehoert ...
"Gerade bei Erwachsenen, die in den siebziger Jahren Kind waren, sind die Vorstadtkrokodile nach wie vor beliebt; in entsprechenden Foren erscheint der Titel immer wieder auf der Wunschliste der Filme, die wieder einmal im Fernsehen gezeigt werden sollten. Eine Kopie des im 16-mm-Format gedrehten Filmes wurde von "Matthias-Film" auf DVD vornehmlich für pädagogische Zwecke herausgegeben. Dies ist momentan die einzige Möglichkeit, den Originalfilm außerhalb der TV-Wiederholungen zu sichten. Für die Filmbildstellen wurden im Originalformat nur 20 Kopien gezogen. Eine Kopie befindet sich (allerdings in mangelhafter Bild-und Tonqualität) im "Landesfilmdienst NRW".
09 Jun '10 - 21:37 Election Night Special
Elections in The Netherlands.
Likely outcome: Conservatives (VVD) and Labour (PvdA) going head to head with no clear majority, various smaller parties needed to form any sort of government. In other words, we'll not have a government for months and likely to have new elections very soon.
The political Blunder of the Century sofar: the reigning CDA party choosing JP Balkenende again as their main man straight after the government fell in March. He's just cost them at least 20 seats ... after 8 years and 4 governments we sort of got tired of him. Everybody knew that except a few people at CDA-HQ.
We'll wait and see who will be our new PM. It's either Mark Rutte (VVD) or Job Cohen (PvdA). Interesting detail; many PvdA-voters are muslim-immigrants; Job Cohen is of Jewish descent.
And to show the paradox: the PVV of our national anti-more-muslim-immigration troublemaker Wilders is winning big time and might become the third largest party. What a wonderful country.
22.15: Breaking: Balkenende has resigned as party-leader. He's not even going to Parliament. Nice for all who voted for him ....
23.15: Amazing: we only have a few exit-polls and all party leaders are treating it as if these are definitive results ....
23.20: Amazing 2: we had to vote with paper and pencil again this year ... welcome in 2010 ...
23.25: Cool: Twitter is down due to the whole Dutch nation twattering ...
23:40: Quote of the Day: "Job Cohen looks exactly like the British Gas Service Engineer who looks after my boiler. In fact you never see them together so it could be the same chap - although over here he calls himself Peter."
06 Jun '10 - 12:36 And Here We Go
Football itself doesn't interest me all that much, but I do like the majority of silly humor surrounding major championships ...
Those poor Germans always have to suffer in Dutch commercials ...
05 Jun '10 - 12:45 The World Is Orange
