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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009 edited
    Aaah, elections today (and the past couple of days) in Europe! You all of course voted for change and the greens.

    But I just read that only 14% of the Cypriot people voted! shocked Demetris!

    The results in The Netherlands are a bit odd too, and I suppose that if you had national elections, it would've been crazy. In Belgium there are national elections as well, on Flemish and Wallon level (which is not really national), and while I hope a little more variation, I guess the Christen-Democrats will reign again. That would be a joke, since they (and the Liberals) haven't been able to organize themselves for the past TWO years.

    Green to the power!
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    I voted; but there's a huge abstinence in Cyprus 'cause of the governments objectionable handlings of matters having to do with our "friends" the Turks and in Greece, where i live now, there's an even bigger abstinence due to the financial mess our country (and obviously the entire European Union) is in. Are you voting?
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    WTF, I read the thread as "European Electronics" and got really confused after reading Bregt's post. confused biggrin
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Thanks for explaining that. smile

    I have to vote, since it's an obligation here. I'd vote anyway though. Lets be a big Europe!
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorStavroula
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    The elections in Greece are today. U haven't voted yet but I'll go later on. The situation is exactly as Demetris described it. The percentage of abstinence is going to be huge. Financial mess, lack of new ideas and a general feeling of being fed up with all of them (the political parites I mean) is the answer to why people in Greece choose to go to the beach today and not to vote.
    Whatever you gaze rests on,do not use your vision, but the eyes of your soul...She knows better...
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009 edited
    Anthony wrote
    WTF, I read the thread as "European Electronics" and got really confused after reading Bregt's post. confused biggrin


    lol

    Btw, the situation here in Greece and Cyprus is all in favor or the big parties, 2 at each time: the governing party that is right wing and the opposition who are socialist; everyone else (left radicals, right radicals, communists and ecologists) come sweating far behind the 2 parties. People are polarized sadly and all the other votes have little impact on the final result.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009 edited
    Stavroula wrote
    The elections in Greece are today. U haven't voted yet but I'll go later on. The situation is exactly as Demetris described it. The percentage of abstinence is going to be huge. Financial mess, lack of new ideas and a general feeling of being fed up with all of them (the political parites I mean) is the answer to why people in Greece choose to go to the beach today and not to vote.


    AND NASTY, HUGE POLITICAL SCANDALS in UNTHIKABLE FREQUENCY! At the moment, i think there isn't a worst government in the entire Europe than ours and Britain's Gordon Brown's!
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorStavroula
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    I absolutely second that!
    Whatever you gaze rests on,do not use your vision, but the eyes of your soul...She knows better...
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Anthony wrote
    WTF, I read the thread as "European Electronics" and got really confused after reading Bregt's post. confused biggrin

    So I take it you haven't voted?

    Oh right, you are not part of the EU.
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Christodoulides wrote
    Stavroula wrote
    The elections in Greece are today. U haven't voted yet but I'll go later on. The situation is exactly as Demetris described it. The percentage of abstinence is going to be huge. Financial mess, lack of new ideas and a general feeling of being fed up with all of them (the political parites I mean) is the answer to why people in Greece choose to go to the beach today and not to vote.


    AND NASTY, HUGE POLITICAL SCANDALS in UNTHIKABLE FREQUENCY! At the moment, i think there isn't a worst government in the entire Europe than hours and Britain's Gordon Brown's!

    Shouldn't that be a reason to vote for something different?
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Bregt wrote
    Anthony wrote
    WTF, I read the thread as "European Electronics" and got really confused after reading Bregt's post. confused biggrin

    So I take it you haven't voted?

    Oh right, you are not part of the EU.


    It was evident and expected that a British citizen would read "electronics" instead of elections, wasn't it? wink
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Bregt wrote
    Anthony wrote
    WTF, I read the thread as "European Electronics" and got really confused after reading Bregt's post. confused biggrin

    So I take it you haven't voted?

    Oh right, you are not part of the EU.


    Of course I didn't vote.

    I decided to go for a run instead.

    That trip to the EU Parliament in Belgium in school clearly didn't interest me. wink
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Christodoulides wrote
    Bregt wrote
    Anthony wrote
    WTF, I read the thread as "European Electronics" and got really confused after reading Bregt's post. confused biggrin

    So I take it you haven't voted?

    Oh right, you are not part of the EU.


    It was evident and expected that a British citizen would read "electronics" instead of elections, wasn't it? wink


    Shut up, we're awesome. uhm
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009 edited
    Bregt wrote
    Christodoulides wrote
    Stavroula wrote
    The elections in Greece are today. U haven't voted yet but I'll go later on. The situation is exactly as Demetris described it. The percentage of abstinence is going to be huge. Financial mess, lack of new ideas and a general feeling of being fed up with all of them (the political parites I mean) is the answer to why people in Greece choose to go to the beach today and not to vote.


    AND NASTY, HUGE POLITICAL SCANDALS in UNTHIKABLE FREQUENCY! At the moment, i think there isn't a worst government in the entire Europe than ours and Britain's Gordon Brown's!

    Shouldn't that be a reason to vote for something different?


    Read my post above. The difference between the 2 first parties which are both deep in shit, and the rest of the smaller ones, is vast and cannot be covered. Plus the smaller ones aren't promising either, filled with show-off, incapable politicians or with celebrities-turned-politicians at a blink of an eye at the last moment.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Anthony wrote
    Christodoulides wrote
    Bregt wrote
    Anthony wrote
    WTF, I read the thread as "European Electronics" and got really confused after reading Bregt's post. confused biggrin

    So I take it you haven't voted?

    Oh right, you are not part of the EU.


    It was evident and expected that a British citizen would read "electronics" instead of elections, wasn't it? wink


    Shut up, we're awesome. uhm

    beer
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Christodoulides wrote
    Anthony wrote
    Christodoulides wrote
    Bregt wrote
    Anthony wrote
    WTF, I read the thread as "European Electronics" and got really confused after reading Bregt's post. confused biggrin

    So I take it you haven't voted?

    Oh right, you are not part of the EU.


    It was evident and expected that a British citizen would read "electronics" instead of elections, wasn't it? wink


    Shut up, we're awesome. uhm

    beer


    Everyone loves you Anthony; they even use your own language.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009 edited
    Christodoulides wrote
    Stavroula wrote
    The elections in Greece are today. U haven't voted yet but I'll go later on. The situation is exactly as Demetris described it. The percentage of abstinence is going to be huge. Financial mess, lack of new ideas and a general feeling of being fed up with all of them (the political parites I mean) is the answer to why people in Greece choose to go to the beach today and not to vote.


    AND NASTY, HUGE POLITICAL SCANDALS in UNTHIKABLE FREQUENCY! At the moment, i think there isn't a worst government in the entire Europe than ours and Britain's Gordon Brown's!

    Include Spain in the list.

    The rate of non participation here will be historical. And I´ll contribute to it.
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    I'd contribute if i voted in Greece too; but i vote for Cyprus, where the situation is slightly better. All my greek friends including my g/f, and colleagues aren't voting either.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Actually same here, Catalonia is a bit different than the rest of Spain, but the election campaign has been so nasty and vomit inducing that I won´t vote. Let´s see if they get the message loud and crystal.
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    But ... that's not the way to change something? Although, yeah, you make a statement, but the ones who eventually will end up in the government, will forget soon.
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Are you guys talking about EU elections or your respective countries' elections?

    Norway is not part of EU, as you all know (for which I'm thankful), but our general election is held this upcoming autumn. That is customary for most countries, right?
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Thor wrote
    Are you guys talking about EU elections or your respective countries' elections?

    EU elections.

    Thor wrote
    Norway is not part of EU, as you all know (for which I'm thankful), but our general election is held this upcoming autumn. That is customary for most countries, right?

    They are customary as far as I know. In Spain the general elections were last year.
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
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      CommentAuthorDemonStar
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    We had our elections last month out here too. I wasn't able to get my elector ID card made in time but luckily the party I was rooting for (Indian National Congress) came to power. Though not perfect, IMO these people are much better than all the people in the some hundred other parties here combined.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Bregt wrote
    But ... that's not the way to change something? Although, yeah, you make a statement, but the ones who eventually will end up in the government, will forget soon.


    Well, if despite everything nasty they do, people still all come down and vote them, then that's something to consider too?
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Thor wrote
    Norway is not part of EU, as you all know (for which I'm thankful)

    Why is that? Not insinuating you have to, I just want to know why, since I don't know why. smile

    The Flemish elections fall together with the EU elections, and sometimes also our national elections fall together with EU elections.
    Kazoo
    • CommentAuthorColSharpe
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009 edited
    Christodoulides wrote
    AND NASTY, HUGE POLITICAL SCANDALS in UNTHIKABLE FREQUENCY! At the moment, i think there isn't a worst government in the entire Europe than ours and Britain's Gordon Brown's!


    Worst? Oh really? Is that so? biggrin


    Christodoulides wrote

    Read my post above. The difference between the 2 first parties which are both deep in shit, and the rest of the smaller ones, is vast and cannot be covered. Plus the smaller ones aren't promising either, filled with show-off, incapable politicians or with celebrities-turned-politicians at a blink of an eye at the last moment.


    Sounds like situation in my country dizzy


    Anyway here is my vote moon
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009 edited
    Bregt wrote
    Why is that? Not insinuating you have to, I just want to know why, since I don't know why. smile


    Norway has a long tradition - or "national trauma", if you will - of being in an involuntary union with other countries, first Denmark, then Sweden. We really only got full autonomy in 1905, when we were finally separated from Sweden (although we celebrate our independence day from Denmark in 1814 on May 17th each year). As such, we are naturally skeptical towards any external force that meddles in our national policies. On the other hand, we have always been split down the middle on this issue, both in the 1972 and 1994 referendi, the "No" side just BARELY winning each time. So I'm curious to how it would turn out if they held a referendum today. I honestly think the "Yes" side is stronger these days.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorMiya
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    I vote for Gandalf
    Labels are for cans, not people. - Anthony Rapp
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009
    Miya wrote
    I vote for Gandalf


    Is he European? wink
    I am extremely serious.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2009 edited
    edit
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt

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