Vojthas 949 Posted November 13, 2020 #1211 Share Posted November 13, 2020 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 15,145 Posted November 13, 2020 Author #1212 Share Posted November 13, 2020 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 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,210 Posted November 13, 2020 #1213 Share Posted November 13, 2020 1 minute ago, Vojthas said: Has there been any other? Vojthas 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 15,145 Posted November 13, 2020 Author #1214 Share Posted November 13, 2020 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. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 15,145 Posted November 13, 2020 Author #1215 Share Posted November 13, 2020 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 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vojthas 949 Posted November 13, 2020 #1216 Share Posted November 13, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 15,145 Posted November 13, 2020 Author #1217 Share Posted November 13, 2020 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. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungshamra71 892 Posted November 13, 2020 #1218 Share Posted November 13, 2020 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 14,835 Posted November 13, 2020 #1219 Share Posted November 13, 2020 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 15,145 Posted November 13, 2020 Author #1220 Share Posted November 13, 2020 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 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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