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12 hours ago, Loiner said:
So long as some europosters in Thailand haven't read anything about their negotiator's failure, I suppose all will be well with them.
No news, good news.
And as Tofer wrote =
"PERCEIVED forecasts of failure "
We shall all ( E.U. & U.K. ) wait & see.
However I am personally not adopting a too optimistic attitude.
No man in the street in the E.U. & U.K. should.
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1 hour ago, Tofer said:
PERCEIVED forecasts of failure after we leave the transition period - very sad!
It is, in my opinion, better to have a too much pessimistic approach, than a to big optimistic one.
For the pessimist when indeed something bad come out, he isn't surprised.
When it appears to be good, he is happy.
For the optimist when good come out, he isn't surprised.
When bad, he is devastated.
Anyway everything is about belief.
The Law of Belief says that you do not necessarily believe what you see, but you see what you have already decided to believe.
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8 hours ago, Tofer said:
We weren't discussing your feelings. Feelings and facts are two completely different issues.
Is this particular case feelings and facts are synonym.
As a non-Belgian I don't expect you will understand, and it doesn't really matter to us, that you don't.
Of course you are entitled to continue to express your opinion of how we, Belgian, should feel and do.
Always interesting to read the way of thinking from others.
In fact the main purpose of a forum.
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21 minutes ago, xylophone said:
Add the beer as well as the wine, or instead of?
Instead of.
In fact it is more or less a variant of a French daube.
But as we are a beer country, we substitute the wine by beer.
In Flanders, more common to use dark beer, in Wallonia, amber or blond.
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3 minutes ago, xylophone said:
make a boeuf bourguignon, or as others might say, a beef stew.
On the nice recipe, just add a Belgian beer while cooking, and you get a :
" Gentse/Vlaamse Stoverij-/- Carbonnades Flamandes" ( Ghent/Flemish stew ).
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7 minutes ago, billd766 said:If fishing is worth nothing, then why is Macron getting his panties in a bunch?
Main reason :
Presidential Election in France in 2022.
Mr. Macron is not very popular, he can't afford to be more unpopular.
By pretending to be on the side of the French fishermen, he hopes it will improve his ratings.
It's all about politics.
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1 minute ago, Tofer said:
And then you gave it away, along with your sovereignty, to be a member of the EU.
You are as long as you are a member.
Not what we Belgian feel, and that's what count.
What a non-Belgian think, is of course his right,
but irrelevant for us.
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5 minutes ago, Tofer said:
Ah, but they're not "independent"...., still shackled to the EU!
The independence of Belgium was declared the 4th. October 1830.
We are not shackled at all.
We are for the moment member of an union, union we can leave in our own good time.
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Just now, CorpusChristie said:
There will be a lot less than that , if you come too close to UKs waters , in future
Assuming there is no last minute agreement.
If not, I believe the Belgian fishers, fishing in U.K. waters, will get compensations, surpassing what they may earn now for a hard working.
After all, seen the low number, it won't cost that much.
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4 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:
don't worry the UK RN will just give Belgium fishing boats a warning.
Hope so, there are only a total of 69 Belgian fishing boats ( fishing in national and international waters ) anymore.
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2 minutes ago, transam said:
But he's not French......????
Every nationality, at least once, took the decision it was more wise to surrender.
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5 minutes ago, transam said:
And I thought we were going to get away with no mention of Trump in this thread,
Shows how, in 4 years, Mr. Trump became one of the most influential people.
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10 hours ago, Tofer said:
a sovereign independent country, or do you need the word sovereign explaining for you as well?
To be sure I checked the list of Sovereign nations 2020.
191 countries have undisputed sovereignty, 15 with disputed sovereignty.
Belgium is among the 191 countries, so is the United Kingdom.
Maybe next year there will be another category added :
"Super sovereign" : The United Kingdom.
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Just now, vinny41 said:No the rest of my post is relevant some of your fellow countryman collaborated with the Nazis for "economic reasons" and I am sure some of your fellow countryman would do exactly the same today for "economic reasons"
Well we are unagreed here about what is relevant or not.
Economy plays a vital role in every country for the wellness of everyone, but it is nice to have principles.
The concept of principles is however in many times different from one individual to another.
We all know about collaboration in the occupied countries, and we all know that there are still people who will do anything for money.
Those who live here in Thailand know/experienced it very well.
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3 minutes ago, vinny41 said:
For some people its all about money and nothing else, for other people its about principle and doing what they believe is right
You can convince, for a very short time, the man in the street, that decisions are make out of principles, but may influence negatively his wellness.
You can't use that on and on. He won't buy it.
The rest of your post is irrelevant.
However I am agree there were good/brave people, but also others, during the occupation of Belgium.
It was the case in many occupied countries.
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So if the E.U. gives in about this fish thing, the U.K. will considered it as a triumph.
As it represents economical nothing, they should better do, and ask something really valuable/profitable for everyone in the E.U., in lieu of.
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4 hours ago, evadgib said:
Further to @billd766's answer; This caught my eye a few days ago and is rather more current than your link from 2016:
Damned.
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Watched again " Hard Boiled " from John Woo.
For me still the best choreographed action scenes.
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1 minute ago, vinny41 said:
It seems the EU has increased its offer now to 25% of fish stock so would it be fair if the UK retained 75% of its fishing stock and allowed the EU 25% of UK fishing stock
No idea without knowing all the factors involved.
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3 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:
well you don't really understand Englishmen
Correct.
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1 minute ago, vinny41 said:
Let me ask you do you think the EU offer to the UK of allowing the UK to keep 20% of the UK fishing stock is fair
20 % seems not much, when not knowing what is given in lieu of.
When knowing, it may represent a lot;
or than still not much.
All depending from which side it is considered.
Fair, non acceptable, are very relative concepts.
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1 minute ago, vogie said:
Are you suggesting that the EU may use submarines to catch our fish?
Flemish humor.
Hilarious there.
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12 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:and the UK Navy will get involved
Fishing with submarines ? ????
"The Royal Navy no longer possess maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) designed to track suspected submarines off British waters "
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54 minutes ago, Tofer said:
Well why raise the point of his leanings, as if it's some excuse for his opinion, when it's clearly, in your mind, irrelevant? Why not simply address his statements with an educated counter conviction. ????
Irrelevant !
Never wrote that.
Not representative, yes.
But I concede I should haven written, "not representative for everyone".
Some, in the European Parliament, if not many, will agree with him;
as some, if not many, will disagree.
About the promises/statements of Politicians, I consider them all as null and of no value.
What is real and concrete, are the final results.
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EU's Barnier says: just hours left for a Brexit trade deal
in World News
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The E.U. look out for its members, that's her task.
This may include that it has, in circumstances, to work against the U.K., a past member.