Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020

[Vojthas 947]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Are you telling us there will be a special column for the mail-in ballots?

Has there been any other?

[heywoodu 13,663]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

Are you telling us there will be a special column for the mail-in ballots?

I am not telling you that  

[dcro 10,191]

1 minute ago, Vojthas said:

Has there been any other?

[heywoodu 13,663]

4 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

Wait.. what? She's the Queen Consort, as the female spouse of the monarch is a Queen, while it's the other way around with female monarch having a male spouse, who's then called "Prince Consort". She even has the title of Her Majesty, instead of prince consorts being addressed to "only" as "His Royal Highness".

Nope. She has actually kept the titles she had before Willem-Alexander was crowned king and so, offically speaking, she is Princess of The Netherlands. This was made clear even in 2011 by one of the ministers: "She will not be queen, but she will be called queen." It's a courtesy title and by far the one used most (basically everywhere), but deep down and officially, the Netherlands has a king and his wife, the princess, much like before him there was a queen and her husband, the prince.

[heywoodu 13,663]

7 minutes ago, dcro said:

Incidentally (or not), the first thing I did at work today was listening to The Night Like This on Spotify.

The freakshow starts a day early  

[Vojthas 947]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Nope. She has actually kept the titles she had before Willem-Alexander was crowned king and so, offically speaking, she is Princess of The Netherlands. This was made clear even in 2011 by one of the ministers: "She will not be queen, but she will be called queen." It's a courtesy title and by far the one used most (basically everywhere), but deep down and officially, the Netherlands has a king and his wife, the princess, much like before him there was a queen and her husband, the prince.

I'd rather say the other way - she is the queen consort and "she is called queen", just being titled "Princess of the Netherlands". Just like HRH Prince Philip, the Prince Consort is titled the "Duke of Edinburgh", which doesn't mean he is duke instead of prince.

[heywoodu 13,663]

Just now, Vojthas said:

I'd rather say the other way - she is the queen consort and "she is called queen", just being titled "Princess of the Netherlands". Just like HRH Prince Philip, the Prince Consort is titled the "Duke of Edinburgh", which doesn't mean he is duke instead of prince.

Well, whatever we call it, she is princess and she is called queen, that's just how it is  It doesn't matter much and I think 95% of the Dutch people don't know it, that's how little it matters.

[kungshamra71 695]

5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Wait until there's a real winter and the lakes freeze over instead of just the 'easy' canals  

 

Skating on the Veluwe Lake, now that's some childhood memories  

 

 

Several years ago the Dutch marathon championships on natural ice (there's also one on artificial ice) where on the Veluwe Lake near Elburg, that was awesome  

Actually so far the lakes (the ones in the parks and forest here in amsterdam) are the "easy" ones, the canals, since they get water from the big Amstel river, i had never seen frozen. In fact, i think they had to close some barriers between the Amstel and the IJ for the canals to froze.

 

But, even though i hate cold, i wish it could be cold enough so that I could witness the mythical Elfstedentocht around the cities in Friesland!

[hckošice 13,338]

Certain unspecified difficulties...hic... caused our speakercan not speak... have to cancel the press conference ... so I will just mention as a novelty that our country is so persuated of success this year that despite the high costs we procured ourselves a completely new display case for Czechoslovak trophy(-i-es).

 

Spoiler

 

 

[heywoodu 13,663]

Just now, kungshamra71 said:

Actually so far the lakes (the ones in the parks and forest here in amsterdam) are the "easy" ones, the canals, since they get water from the big Amstel river, i had never seen frozen. In fact, i think they had to close some barriers between the Amstel and the IJ for the canals to froze.

 

But, even though i hate cold, i wish it could be cold enough so that I could witness the mythical Elfstedentocht around the cities in Friesland!

I mean the real lakes, not the small ponds inside parks and cities  Yeah, those are definitely the easiest to freeze