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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #14 on: December 16, 2004, 07:15:54 PM »
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Look at all the trouble about the EU over here in the UK, we don't mind trading with the EU but no one wants to stop being British and become Euroish? ;-)

tsk, as if we're not Dutch anymore


I'm not talking about being a member state of the EU.  I have no problem with that at all.

The way I see it:  The very-anti european parties in Britain like the Tory's and UKIP believe that one day the EU will become a country, not a collection of countries working together like it currently is.

To my point clear about the Cuban's I ask, what nationality are the natives of Hawaii?
 

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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #15 on: December 16, 2004, 08:48:35 PM »
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After centuries of beating off various parts of europe at one time or another (and loosing half the time, it has to be said) many brits feel like the EU is simply another way for Europe to rule the UK.
AHEM! it's really also vice versa
You British fought a 100 years for dominance over France.

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I think one way of putting it is this, if you ask a dutchman his or her nationality, they may say either dutch or european depending on who is asking. If a brit or a scott or welshman is asked, it will always be british, scottish or welsh respectively every time.

I think you're wrong on that one. Europe is a faraway thingy.

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I know, but I was more aiming at those who think that way.
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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #16 on: December 16, 2004, 08:51:27 PM »
In no particular order:

Lake Titicaca
Machu Pichu
Antarctica
Rub al-Khali
Mare Imbrium :-)
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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #17 on: December 16, 2004, 09:09:14 PM »
New Zealand, Ireland, and Patagonia (part of Argentina - assuming they ever get a safe and stable government).
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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #18 on: December 16, 2004, 09:13:03 PM »
Was New Zealand, but I've just come back from there (It's currently the country I would like to live in full time).  Next on the list is Peru and Chile - through Easter Island - to Fiji and back to NZ.  Although that's not going to be a while  :-)
 

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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #19 on: December 16, 2004, 09:29:12 PM »
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Mare Imbrium :-)


Hmm, mountain biking on the moon, just imagine the "air" (excuse pun) you'd get in 1/6 gravity?  

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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #20 on: December 16, 2004, 10:19:49 PM »
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New Zealand, Ireland, and Patagonia (part of Argentina - assuming they ever get a safe and stable government).


They are all Welsh in Patagonia

I assume it's because there are a lot of sheep there! ;-)
 

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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #21 on: December 16, 2004, 10:26:53 PM »
@ Blobzie

"Hum,
Antarctica,
before it melts...."

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Surely you mean the arctic?
(or do you mean 'before the ice on antarctica melts' ?)

 

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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #22 on: December 16, 2004, 10:33:13 PM »
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@ Blobzie

"Hum,
Antarctica,
before it melts...."

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Surely you mean the arctic?
(or do you mean 'before the ice on antarctica melts' ?)

That's a joke, x-ray
in the eccentric and likeable humourous way of Blobrana :-)
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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #23 on: December 16, 2004, 10:58:14 PM »
I would love to see the England, Scotland and Ireland, as well as New Zealand and Hawaii, probably won't get there for a while yet, but it will happen eventually.
 

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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #24 on: December 16, 2004, 11:00:38 PM »
@ Toy Boy

Yup, isn't she great?  

(I do get the joke, but I thought it would be better if she didn't choose a continent for her 'melting' quip)
 

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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #25 on: December 16, 2004, 11:42:06 PM »
@PMC

Should've realised you were into biking (your avatar is a dead giveaway). I like to bike too, unfortunately, here in the neighbourhood there is not so much suitable terrain. There is supposed to be a very nice trail through the dunes about 40 km from here with a maximum height difference of *gasp* 50 meters! (Which is really a lot according to Dutch standards.) How do you fare where you live?
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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2004, 12:04:05 AM »
Hum, beach sand is the worst thing ever...

Gets everywhere, and mixed with oil becomes a fine abrasive destroying your chain....

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yeah, i meant to write `arctic`, but didnt bother editing...


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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2004, 05:26:23 AM »
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After centuries of beating off various parts of europe at one time or another (and loosing half the time, it has to be said) many brits feel like the EU is simply another way for Europe to rule the UK.
AHEM! it's really also vice versa
You British fought a 100 years for dominance over France.


Where did I say we didn't? Indeed I don't think theres a European country we haven't faught against at one time or other.

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I think one way of putting it is this, if you ask a dutchman his or her nationality, they may say either dutch or european depending on who is asking. If a brit or a scott or welshman is asked, it will always be british, scottish or welsh respectively every time.

I think you're wrong on that one. Europe is a faraway thingy.


I've yet to hear anyone on this island outside of polititians who openly go around saying "I'm european" over that of "I'm "

The ironic thing about all of this is that I feel that the UK has a more world centric view of the world compared to that of europe.
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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2004, 05:37:07 AM »
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The way I see it:  The very-anti european parties in Britain like the Tory's and UKIP believe that one day the EU will become a country, not a collection of countries working together like it currently is.


When the leaders of Germany and France are saying just that, which they have, and when the shyster who came up with the constitution that would put into practice a form of governance not seen since the fall of Soviet Russia is saying thats the aim, I take note.

I may be considered by some as a "Little Englander" (Which by the way I personally find highly offensive) but really, anyone who cannot see this comming into being really aught to look very carefully at the constitution that was written up (And before anyone asks, yes I have read it). Once you learn to decode beaurocrat speak, you're left with a picture of utter ineficiency and a breading ground for corruption on a superb scale, all run from Brussels with no recourse by national governments to oppose it. You want a system thats flexable and efficient (for the most part) look to the US, not the USSR. States can challenge federal law if they so wish I believe, the EU constitution offers countries no such power.
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Re: Your Dream Place Or Country That You Would Like To Visit
« Reply #29 from previous page: December 17, 2004, 05:41:21 AM »
Sorry for going completely off topic.

The falkland Islands, purely for the recent history of the place.

Other places I'd like to visit include Canada, Iceland and Greenland. Maybe Ireland as well... Been to Wales and Scotland.. France, Germany Spain and Denmark...

I'd visit Sweeden but for the fact that the beer is stupidly overpriced there :-D
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