Today on 9 May "Europe Day"

[Dan D]

I was already wondering why there are so many EU-related topics here on subsim lately until I realised that today, May 9th, is "Europe Day"!

http://www.theeuros.eu/EU-celebrates...-Day,4847.html


"EU Boo hoo,

UN Sean Penn!"

[Jaguar]

Nice heads up.

Congrats to all our EU mates!

[Betonov]

I'll drink to that. People of the old world, our star may be shinning a bit dimmer, but she is stil shining

Skybird, leave the bad EU politics for tommorow, have a Bier und Pretzel and celebrate, it's afterall Europe Day (not EU day)

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I'll drink to that. People of the old world, our star may be shinning a bit dimmer, but she is stil shining

Skybird, leave the bad EU politics for tommorow, have a Bier und Pretzel and celebrate, it's afterall Europe Day (not EU day)

What is this Europe that people speak of?

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

What is this Europe that people speak of?

That thing that you are so scared of that you have been hiding on an island for millennia.

[Jaguar]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

What is this Europe that people speak of?

Man, try to live in an "emerging country"....

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

What is this Europe that people speak of?

It's this big piece of land on your side of the pond, populated mainly by foreigners.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It's this big piece of land on your side of the pond, populated mainly by foreigners.

Not any more, there all here claiming all the benefits they can get there grubby hands on.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

That thing that you are so scared of that you have been hiding on an island for millennia.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It's this big piece of land on your side of the pond, populated mainly by foreigners.

That'll be right

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I'll drink to that. People of the old world, our star may be shinning a bit dimmer, but she is stil shining

Skybird, leave the bad EU politics for tommorow, have a Bier und Pretzel and celebrate, it's afterall Europe Day (not EU day)

If it is about Europe, why is it that the flags everywherre show the EU symbol? Those twelve stars on blue ground are the official EU symbology. There is no Europe flag or symbol independent from that that I know of.

BTW, why is it that foreigners always say "Pretzel"? It is a "Bretzel", with a soft B. And no, I do not like them a bit.

Like most Germans also do not like "Sauerkraut".

So, now I am triple-pissed. Bäh!

[Respenus]

Originally Posted by Skybird

If it is about Europe, why is it that the flags everywherre show the EU symbol? Those twelve stars on blue ground are the official EU symbology. There is no Europe flag or symbol independent from that that I know of.

Cough, cough, Sky. Don't say I haven't warned you lot in advance about making non-substantial claims. It is true that Europe Day is linked to Bert Schuman and his declaration and so more to the EU than to the Council of Europe, but the flag was used by the later a good 30 years before the former decided to do so. In any case I do agree that there are many things that still need to be said and agreed upon concerning the EU, not all of the pleasant, at least for our political leaders and it the end, for ourselves.

[Betonov]

Come on Sky Have a beer and a saltstick then don't be a sauerpuss if you don't like Sauerkraut. I'll bring you some zaseka* and dry sausage.
It's Europe day, next week will have America day. Any excuse for a celebration in these troublesome times. Leave the politics in the trashbin until tommorow.
Respensus, you bring cevapcici* and ajvar* and I'll bring the spring onions and potatoes and we'll have a Subsim Europe day celebration at Skybird, to cheer him up. Everyone else bring the drinks



* zaseka, cevapcici and ajvar, popular food in our parts, no picnic is complete without cevapcici and ajvar

[Skybird]

I do not care what the flag once meant, but what it is used for TODAY. and today it is the official representing emblem of the EU institution. Also, the talk of today that I fetched up when being in town or reading newspaper, is not so much about a Europe independently seen from the EU, but the EU itself, and the conflictz between "Europe" and "EU".

That is the travesty I am complaining about: the the EU actually claims to be Europe, and that there cannot be a Europe without the EU managing it, and that it was the EU only that brought peace and freedom to Europe, which is the most hilarious of all their claims. Peace and freedom there have com in the ewake of WWII, the American presence, the Soviet threat, and the existence of NATO. Trading relations between countries that already bnefore had closer ties, had little to do wtih it.

There is nothing to celebrate today, but to cry about: the loss of democratic principles, the destruction of Europe, the erposion of freedom, the explicit ignoring of people'S will in many European countries by the EU, the cruel joke the currency has proven to turn into, and the establishing of an economic plutocracy in Europe that is been put there at the cost of the ordinary people.

To hell with this EU. A greeting to our neighjbours, and a wholeheartly toast to the EU falling-apart. May it happen before it is all being turned into a total and irreversible mess completely. Cheers!

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Skybird

BTW, why is it that foreigners always say "Pretzel"? It is a "Bretzel", with a soft B. And no, I do not like them a bit.

Probably has to do with the fact it is spelled with a P in English...

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Dan D

I was already wondering why there are so many EU-related topics here on subsim lately until I realised that today, May 9th, is "Europe Day"!

http://www.theeuros.eu/EU-celebrates...-Day,4847.html


"EU Boo hoo,

UN Sean Penn!"

Right!