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TSR69
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Mar 2018 17:57    Post subject: voting in the Netherlands
The polling station is about 200 meters from where I live.



Yeah it is a church.



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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Mar 2018 18:28    Post subject:
Like in Belgium, just way cleaner Laughing

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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Mar 2018 18:57    Post subject:
*duller

Say what you want about Belgium but I find no country in Western Europe as dull as the Netherlands. Dull tidy streets, dull tidy front gardens, dull dull dull. Every time I need to go to Netherlands for work, I get depressed just seeing those dull dull dull towns and streets. It's like a bureaucrat designed their towns. Belgium at least has character in its ugly houses.
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Mar 2018 19:14    Post subject:
Living abroad I just get a letter in my mailbox (which happened today ) and get 500 different options how to vote... meanwhile I'm thinking if I even want to vote since I don't follow Belgian politics as I used to.

I'd be triggered if it were in a church back when I was still living in Belgique though, I only experienced it in a school, sports complex and city hall. Razz
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Mar 2018 20:26    Post subject:
That's nothing, here we had a polling station which is normally a wedding restaurant.

https://www.blic.rs/vesti/beograd/kao-da-smo-dosli-na-svadbu-glasanje-u-kaluderici-sa-svecanim-stolnjacima-i-masnama/dnkyfrd
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Mar 2018 22:30    Post subject:
Haha Very Happy *Democrazia Cristiana likes this*

The standard designated spot for us when it comes to voting are schools (elementary one in my area, which has ~8k people), though it's not uncommon that other public buildings such as gyms or town hall spaces are used as well.
Never heard of churches being used here, but the Vatican still has a huge power and probably considers the whole thing inappropriate and unethical. Either that or priests just need to use those rooms for other not-so-clerical grooming reasons instead Cool Face
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Mar 2018 00:34    Post subject:
Morphineus wrote:
Living abroad I just get a letter in my mailbox (which happened today ) and get 500 different options how to vote... meanwhile I'm thinking if I even want to vote since I don't follow Belgian politics as I used to.

I'd be triggered if it were in a church back when I was still living in Belgique though, I only experienced it in a school, sports complex and city hall. Razz


I stopped voting in 2007. Not that I was too lazy about going to the voting boot - I actually still go to the school where the voting takes place to chat, but I just don't believe in voting anymore. Politicians just do whatever they want - big corporations pay them off and in the end, you just get fucked in the ass regardless. On town level, it may have some merit but on national level? Fuck no. We don't even get to vote for the entire country - just the Flemish side of it.
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Mar 2018 02:18    Post subject:
In Belgium, there's a dose of chaos in everything. It's distilled into the fabric of our Proud™ Brusseleers' identity.
I like a bit of chaos, I'm not gonna lie.

But yeah, like you (funny, we had the same experience Very Happy ), I stopped voting around 2007 ("you gotta vote, you'll be punished if you don't". Yeah, sure Laughing ), I still went to the polls (schools, as always, cheap bastards Laughing), also to just ask questions to people, just being in line (when it was my turn, I just left[ just did it once, tbh]).

Belgian politics seems like the same people take their commission out of a hat, litteraly. "You've been the minister of agriculture? Ok, now it's *drumroll* education! Congrats!"

And I wish I was lying.


At random (really)
Laurette Onkelinx:
Vice-Première ministre de Belgique (15 years)
Ministre fédérale des Affaires sociales et de la Santé publique (7 years)
Ministre fédérale de la Justice (4.5 years)
Ministre fédérale de l'Emploi (4 years)

VP of Belgium, check
Health, check
Justice, check
Employment, check

And that was RANDOM, check for yourself.

EDIT: (took me 15 secs, that's how fucked and corrupt we are)

A WILD CURRENT (2014 -> * ) MINISTER OF HEALTH APPEARED!
WEIGHT LOSS IS NOT EFFECTIVE!
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She's a fucking monster, and anyone saying "but maybe she's qualif--- gnagnagna ... fuck off. Why don't you actually get a health specialist on board? Why this fucking disgusting land whale?
Does "corrupt", in fact, mind and soul show already?

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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Mar 2018 03:21    Post subject:
Thanks for putting that in a spoiler!
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