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manu1959
12-17-2007, 05:24 PM
sorry i couldn't resist the sensationalized headline.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7148307.stm

Miss Belgium fails her first test

The smiles may be wearing thin for Alizee Poulicek
The language divide that has led to Belgium's political deadlock has also spread to its Miss Belgium contest.

French-speaking Miss Belgium winner Alizee Poulicek, 20, was booed by parts of a 3,400-strong Antwerp audience when she revealed she could not speak Dutch.

The organiser of the contest, Darlene Davos, said it could have been far worse.

"It is the least painful thing," she said. "I would consider it different if they had said: 'Miss Belgium is an ugly girl'."
Said1
12-17-2007, 05:32 PM
"It is the least painful thing," she said. "I would consider it different if they had said: 'Miss Belgium is an ugly girl'."

:lol:
Pale Rider
12-17-2007, 05:36 PM
Hmmm... so this phenomenon of people wanting immigrants to learn their native language isn't limited to just America... imagine that.
manu1959
12-17-2007, 05:41 PM
Hmmm... so this phenomenon of people wanting immigrants to learn their native language isn't limited to just America... imagine that.

it is more interesting than you think....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7133315.stm

Belgium is in the throes of one of the biggest political crises since it was established as an independent sovereign state in 1831. On 1 December, Yves Leterme, leader of the Flemish Christian-Democrats, and the man charged since elections in June of this year with setting up a coalition government in Belgium, gave up trying to do so, and handed his resignation as potential prime minister to the Belgian king, Albert II.
Pale Rider
12-17-2007, 05:43 PM
it is more interesting than you think....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7133315.stm

Belgium is in the throes of one of the biggest political crises since it was established as an independent sovereign state in 1831. On 1 December, Yves Leterme, leader of the Flemish Christian-Democrats, and the man charged since elections in June of this year with setting up a coalition government in Belgium, gave up trying to do so, and handed his resignation as potential prime minister to the Belgian king, Albert II.

And I thought the EU was a model of perfection... since they're so quick to criticize...
manu1959
12-17-2007, 05:54 PM
And I thought the EU was a model of perfection... since they're so quick to criticize...

the guilty tend to throw stones.....