[quote]The prime minister designate thinks Belgians have nothing in common except ?the king, the football team, some beers?, and he describes their country as an ?accident of history?.[/quote]

[url]http://digg.com/political_opinion/If_Belgium_ceased_to_exist_would_anyone_notice_or_care[/url]

Kinky this one's for you. :p

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

I'd only miss the beer ;)

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

LMAO! Yeah, we have some sort of a political crisis between the South (French speaking) and the North (Dutch speaking): more than 90 days after the federal elections there's still no government.

Frankly, it's funny how the extreme right and nationalists are mouthing off and masturbating in public while using words like "declaration of independance" 'n' such. Complete bullshit. Belgium isn't going to bust, we just made the stupid mistake of electing politicians with small cocks and big mouths.

Our little shit country was already the laughing stock of the "civilized" world, I can only imagine how you guys must be wtf'ing overthere right now.

Btw Ruby, Belgian beer will never go away. If Belgium splits up, we'll colonize those fuckers in the South and you'll drink Flemish republican & colony beer :mrgreen:

As for your quote Res, that's not far from the truth. Hence our lack of patriotism. Yeah, I'm Belgian... so what? :D

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

[quote=KinKyJ;526467], we just made the stupid mistake of electing politicians with small cocks and big mouths. [/quote]

i'm surprised you haven't been elected into office yet via landslide...

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

[quote=KinKyJ;526467]LMAO! Yeah, we have some sort of a political crisis between the South (French speaking) and the North (Dutch speaking): more than 90 days after the federal elections there's still no government. [/quote]

Sounds very italian to me!

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

of course we would notice - the nonsense thread and sexy thread would be dramatically reduced in new posts.

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

[QUOTE=KinKyJ;526467]Btw Ruby, Belgian beer will never go away. If Belgium splits up, we'll colonize those fuckers in the South and you'll drink Flemish republican & colony beer :mrgreen:[/QUOTE] If that's the case, let em split it up ;)

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

CHIMAY, best beer!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

mmmmmm, trappist ales. of course i'd miss Belgium!

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

[QUOTE=diegoff;526486]CHIMAY, best beer!!!!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE] Mmmm, Chimay Grand Reserve......

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

Civil war imo, time to organise the liberation of the brewries.

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

ah to hell with it, just join it with holland :)

less for me to travel :lol:

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

[quote=red1;526540]ah to hell with it, just join it with holland :)[/quote]NEVER! We'd rather become a province of Pakistan :p

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

The Beer !! Need I say more ... what's up with the pissing boys ??

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

Belgium cannot disapear. On an international point of view, Belgium is a known reference. Our regions are not. And afterall, our motto is "L'union fait la force", which mean united we stand.

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

At the moment it's actually "L'union fait la farce"(*), n'est-ce pas? ;)

(*)United we make fools out of ourselves

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

[quote=KinKyJ;526544]NEVER! We'd rather become a province of Pakistan :p[/quote]

Hmmmm, I detect an air of patriotic passion behind that statement, KinKyJ.

Anyway it's common knowledge that Belgian chocolate is the best in the world so you've got something else to be proud of.

As for countries ceasing to exist, Greece has been almost burnt off the map and no-one noticed, least of all the sleazy and corrupt politicians who are heading for a general election this weekend

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

No matter how it turns out, as long as Flanders isn't joined to dorky Holland ... however, we would have a better national soccer team :twisted:

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

[quote=KinKyJ;526629]At the moment it's actually "L'union fait la farce"(*), n'est-ce pas? ;)

(*)United we make fools out of ourselves[/quote] True, true, true. [IMG]http://www.cba-fr.com/forum/images/smiles/mgreen.gif[/IMG]

Re: If Belgium ceased to exist, would anyone notice or care?

lmfao...I'm all for flanders joining Holland. Just for the fuck of it. Colonization/annexation revisited, bring back the good 'ole days of the V.O.C.!! A good way to ditch both king and queen as well, the Flemish will have to deal with only one police force instead of 5, they will learn to eat decent mayonaise, we get better fries, we'll have Rotterdam/Amsterdam/Antwerp ports and something like a monopoly position on trade ports :D.

Hell this could actually be a lot of fun, come to think of it...