SomewhereOverTheTARDIS's Topics (127)

Nop, thanks for saying that ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ

Oh, you're welcome then! ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~

DOCTOR WHO FAN AAAAGH. finally met one.

Oh hello. :)

Don't get all worked up over a manga balloon, Somewhere. It's just something the mangaka made up in order to have an excuse to get the mother out of the picture, so the fater/child- situation would make the character more sympathetic. Everybody knows that in Japan, children are sacred and no mother would ever say a thing like that. Plus, homosexuality is not at all a taboo in Japan, it never has!
I do think sometimes, you guys are getting too wrapped up in these stories...

Sorry, I had a lot of cake that night and cake makes me a bit manic. So yeah it was kind silly of me to to get so absorbed. ^~^

If something like that REALLY happened, it would definitely be awful. But in Japan, it would be nearly impossible. Most gay men in Japan get married to a woman first, by the way. And tell their wife they are BEFORE they get married. They have a baby, or more, and then after a while get divorced and split the custody in an amicable way. There is no Gay Marriage Law yet in Japan, but Japanese gay couples have a solution to this: the oldest in the couple simply adopts the youngest. (you can do that no matter what age you are, in Japan). That way, they both are each others heirs and nobody can throw a gay "widower" out of his own house after the death of his spouse, and denying him the right to take care of his children: since he's adopted by their father, they're officially his "siblings", so he's the first legal custodian. Without the Bible hanging over your head, life is much easier, isn't it...
Cake, huh? It never does that to me. Maybe our Belgian cake is better? :-P

Don't knock American cake lol
And I didn't know that, very interesting :)

You American? Nice to meet you (I can't see your flag). I don't know anything about American cake, except that Belgian tourist back from America tell, they find the icings to have rather unnatural colors, like blue or purple or stuff like that. We don't have that, since artificial coloring isn't allowed in Europe. I don't think I'd like purple or blue cake... :-ç We only use natural ingredients. You should come visit Belgium and taste our cakes, and more than that, our waffles and chocolates!
I bet you'd be in a good mood for the rest of your life :-) And you'd be more than wellcome. Even if youre a real fujoshi :-P
Maybe you're ADHD, because of the artificial colourings?
What's the Tardis? (just curious, very)
About Japan: it's true, I can tell you more about it if you want.

I've actually had multi colored cake, it's really good, and really sweet, like DAMN, and colored icing is harmless, and usually not absurdly flavored. They have food coloring in them and that's why we have some crazy color combos. And yep, I live in Texas, I just set it to mars on my profile because it sounded cool. Much fun as it would be to go to Europe, I'm still a sophomore in high school.
As far as I know I'm not ADHD, I am pretty fidgety though. And icing's not my thing, because much as I love cake, I can't stand the goopiness of icing.
The TARDIS is from Dr Who, it's a time-traveling device shaped like a blue police box, it's a great show, definitely recommend it if you haven't seen it.
And I'd love to hear more about Japan.

Ah, oh, I see. (if I was Japanese, I'd say: "A soo desu ka!" (soo is long, and you don't pronounce the "u", so 'a soo dess'ka').
No, I meant there's a medical theory that artificial food coloring -even if it's harmless- play a role in causing certain types of ADHD.
If you study hard at school, you might get yourself a good job and be able to travel around the world, and visit Europe.
In Japan, love or sex aren't always intrinsically linked. Sex is part of culture, not of morals. That's actually why there are yaoi and bara manga: Japanese culture isn't influenced by Moses and his Old Testament, so both free hetero- or homosexuality is quite normal, nothing to do with "sin". In the west, there are no comics about sex, certainly not gay sex, let alone among the teenage-targeted comics! It would be totally unthinkable in Texas, or in many other countries. They always say: "we can't have these things in movies or tv series or comics, because we have to protect the youth". In Japan, there are no taboos around sex, gay or otherwise, and still the kids there are just as happy and well loved as they are anywhere else. They're not traumatized any more than other kids anywhere in the world.
So if you like yaoi, thank the Japanese civilisation! If you want more, just ask me questions.
(and about dr Who: I watched that aaaaaages ago, I'm more a Star Trek lover.)

Very interesting indeed, thank you :)

If in Japan somebody thanks you, you answer "Doo itashimashite".
The two first i's are short and sharp, like in "pitch", and the last i you don't pronounce. The ending e is a bit like a French è, sort of the e in "levvy" Doo itashimash'tè, kind of.
It's rather hard to explain Japanese pronounciation to English speakers, because you guys pronounce all the vowels so differently compared to the rest of the world... Once it took us weeks to make an American kid understand how he had to pronounce "kawaii" (that means "cute" in Japanese). Keeweeh-wy? Kehwuy? Kheeew? ... :-{
In the end, some of us had the bright idea to come up with this: "Try to say Hawaii, but with a K instead of an H!" Then finally, he understood he had to pronounce the a's like a's are supposed to, and i's as well, the Roman way...
English is actually a lot weirder than Japanese, you know!

I agreed with you! English is a really weird language XDD for me was more easy to learn how to speak in Japanese than in English...

You originally Japanese, then? Or you learned Japanese in school or elsewhere?

The problem with English is, it was never conceived to be written with Roman letters. Roman letters are meant to write Latin, aren't they. And in Latin, an 'a' is an 'a', and not an ee, the way it is in English. An 'i' is an' i', and not an aai, the way it is in English. Etcetera.
English was written in some sort of Rune-script, before the Roman Empire conquered the whole of Europe and a big part of the world. The people in the British Islands had two scripts (that we know of): a type or Runes, and a code-script called "Ogham", that was still used up till the 7th century in Ireland to write Gaëlic. You can read about that and many other interesting things in the books about Sister Fidelma, written by an Irish professor called Peter Tremayne. It's about a young woman who's a cleric and a lawyer, in 7the century Ireland. It's designed as a series of murder mysteries, but in fact mr. Tremayne wants to teach you about the History of Ireland. Its really interesting, and fun to read too! If you girls like reading and are curious about other cultures, I'd recommend it wholeheartedly. In Gaelic, o's are supposed to be pronounced i's with an accent, if they're before a consonant, or behind, I don't remember, it's really bizarre. You can clearly tell the 26 Roman letters aren't meant at all to be used for that sort of languages. Welsh is even worse... You guys ever seen Welsh written down? I'd rather learn Japanese anytime!! :-O

Oh no, I am from Argentima so I am used to an a being an a (≧▽≦) and I am learning japanese on my own....
I am impressed of how much you know and thanks for the booms I will read them (๑•ㅂ•)و✧

Ah. I see. You're from the country of the Dutch queen. And in Argentina, a's are a's and i's are i's. Ha ha ha! Much easier to learn Japanese. My first language is Dutch, and a's are a's in Dutch too. I'm not from the Netherlands, but we speak Dutch too, in Belgium. The Dutch are our neighbours. For someone who's first language is Dutch, it is much easier to learn Japanese than for those who speak English and even French: I have a French textbook for learning Japanese, and they also have troubles at certain sound: ai for instance. In French, ai would be pronounced like è, Je vais (I go). So, in that book they explain to the French readers to pronounce ai this way: "aïlle" In Dutch, ai is ai, not è. No explanation necessary.
Japanese r's also sound a lot more like Dutch r's than French or English r's, so that's simple too.
The only problem in learning Japanese, in my eyes, is that enormous amount of kanji you have to learn. I keep hoping the Japanese government will one day declare kanji out of fashion and make the children at school learn nothing but hiragana and katakana from now on! That would be so great for us gaijins! Ne?

hahha yeah that would be great (๑•ㅂ•)و✧, for me it is also the most difficult part of learning Japanese although they are interesting but yeah there are a lot of them
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there are differences between Japanese and Spanish but they are not many, for example they don't use the l and c likes us...Spanish r's sound more stronger and Japanese h is not mute like in Spanish and there are others but the vowels are the same.
in Belgium the people speak in Dutch an French or just one of them?

Both. Belgium is a little country, roughly the shape of a diamond. Right through the middle iss an invisible "linguistic" frontier: The top half, called Flanders, we speak Dutch. In the lower half, a former chunk of France, the people speak French. It is called Wallonia.
So in Flanders, the fist language we learn at school is French, and in Wallonia it's Dutch. They have it harder than us: we Flemish are known for our knack for languages.
But those kanji... that's really not a matter of linguistic gift, it's a huge memory chore! I know a bit more than a 100, but to read a Japanese book you need 1.945 kanji.
Oosugi da naaaa! (you understand that?)

Ah yes I understand, it means that they are too many right? I am not sure how many I know but I still have a lot to learn.
so you French is like your second languagethat is great XD
here in school we learn English and another language like in my case Portuguese
but they teach only the basics (that is why I don't remember anything about Portuguese (￣∇￣") )

No offense taken from this reader. My cousin was married for many years and finally came out to his wife. She fold him that she knew as he was one of the biggest flamers she knew. She stayed with him for their kid's sake, even though the kid was adopted and not biological as in this case.(●￣(ｴ)￣●)

Yeah, a kid's a kid, whether it's adopted or not, it still needs it's mother, doesn't it. If you're a bit of a mother, you're not going to drop it just because the man that goes with it doesn't fit! ;-P
Besides, for many women, being married to a gay man doesn't seem to be a torture. I know a woman who's married to a gay man, a colleague of ours, whom she loves a lot; she's not going to leave him if they payed her for it. She knows he's gay and she doesn't mind. They've got cute kids and he loves them to bits. They look like the perfect couple. We call him "Oscar Wilde", because Oscar Wilde was married to a woman who loved him too and had cute children whom he adored.
I do am happy he can't get into the trouble the real Oscar Wilde got into, though...
(if you're curious, ask me what trouble, or else Google "Oscar Wilde" and be sad :-( )
Anyway, we have no idea if that colleaghe of ours has male relationships besides his marriage. None of our business.

People just need to grow up, stop being prejudice, and stop being an idiot. Any mother that would give up her child for a stupid reason like this fictional mother did, should never have kids in the first place. (︶︿︶)＝凸

Relax, there's little chance that 'll happen a lot, since people who are homophobic consider homosexuality as a voluntary thing, a sin, a choice to make, or sometimes a disease. That means the problem a homophobic woman will have will be with the man, not with the kid. The first thing a mother like that would do is to get her kid away from that "sinner" or "sick person" ╮(￣▽￣)╭ in order to save it from getting "perverted" or "diseased" by him... So their way of thinking will at least save the kid from being abandoned by his mother; but it will get him separated by force from his dad for sure :-(
This mangaka made the mother react in a rather unnatural way, which very few real mothers will have, since it would imply there is somehow something wrong with a child, conceived by a gay man. And everybody knows that isn't so. The mangaka just invented a rather poor excuse to "erase" the mother figure from the story. I could have come up with better ones, I think, if I 'd put myself up to it.

I agree. Yet I know of mothers who abandon their children because they are gay. I think this is an extreme of what we both said. Father's gay ... therefore any child of his genes must be gay or "diseased“ from both. ┑(￣Д ￣)┍

Nah, parents dropping their kid when he/she turns out to be gay is normal for homophobes. Mind you, that happens when the kid is grown up, doesn't it. Not when they're a baby.
They always seem to see it as a voluntary thing, something you choose to be. They never think that through though: if that were so, howcome in countries where it can cost you your life in a horrible way to be accused of homosexuality, there are just as many gay people as in countries like mine, where they can get married and adopt children and go about their lives as they want? If it were a voluntary decision "I am going to become gay from now on" (sounds ridiculous when you say it like that, doesn't it), in those countries nobody would make that dangerous decision, don't you think? So over there, like in Iran or Russia, nobody would be gay, if it's nothing but a choice to make! Right? But still, there are gays over there. I wonder how homophobes explain that.

I hear you. Recently here gay marriage has been approved. In historical time, it was not uncommon to "frolick" with the same sex for men. Especially during wars.

As for mothers giving up their children. I have know children as young as 12 being kicked out of the house for being gag. There have been cases of children in elementary school killing themselves because of being gay. They get no understanding from peers and family and see no way out, other than death. It is sad but true.

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Wow! Where is that, you're talking of? You're writing under the American Flag. Are you talking about the U.S.??? Is it still that bad?
You should move over here, Spinka. That scary clown Trump may have said Belgium is a hell hole, but he doesn't know what he's talking about. Sounds to me he must have his Hells confused...
Surely it's just in some parts of the States, not everywhere?

Im from upper US and I theres some gay people where I live and its isnt really bad at all from what I know I have some friends who are BI or are dating the same gender.... Its like who cares?

I'm from Portugal and we don't really have any problems about same sex couples. However, if you go to small towns, to the islands or to the north of the mainland they tend to be more conservative. And there you can have some problems, or some stories I've heard/read about taxi drivers.

I have friends, both guys and girls, who are gay or bi. And I know manny more.
Some of them have some stories about homophobic people, but mostly they are seen as just regular people.

Trump sees that wonderful Belgium as hell because it's hell for him. I mean, some place where all that hate of his isn't accepted?

In here we also have to learn at least two languages at school. I took english and french.
Then at college I added spanish, japanese (that I had already started to learn by myself), ancient greek, latin, and history of the english language (not a language by itself, but I learned a bit of old an middle english). And I still want more!
What'll be next? Korean, chinese, persian, finnish, italian, catalan, dutch, ...

If you want I can help you with the portuguese (⌒▽⌒)

I dont understand why does he hate Belgium? and all those other places? I dont really follow politics but how can someone hate places they havent lived in?

Portuguese are also known for having a knack for languages. And also for a knack for acquiring an already existing accent of the target language, instead of the obvious foreigner accent.
I think portuguese being my mother language has helped me learning other languages. And the more languages I learn, the easier it becomes (but that can be explained by the intralanguage theory and psycholinguistics).

I actually find kanji to be quite fun to learn, I like them. I don't exactly know how many I know, they're also only a few compared to what is needed. I haven't really been studying or reading japanese for the past year so it's a little rusty (￣∇￣")

I'm not sure, @Cyrano was the first to mention that Trump called Belgium a hell hole.
I think it's about one of Trump's typical bullsh*t. Probably because of the terrorist attacks that happened in march at the Zaventem airport and Brussels subway.

THE HELL? Thats so stupid! Thats like saying America is a hell hole after the 911 attacks we couldnt do shit it happened and that happened in Belgium terrorist attacks happen it sucks but Belgium probably isnt as bad ans the US I mean I dont go outside when its dark unless I have a knife I know kids who do drugs at my school! There was even a few girls and guys who have run away from there families here! IVE BEEN SHOT AT HERE! God Ive been hit by adults B4! And im only 16! Thats so stupid....INSTEAD OF DISRESPECTING OTHER COUNTRIES TAKE A DAMN GOOD LOOK AT YOUR OWN!

Wow, so much response :-D
I'll answer all of you one by one
@Unoriginal Artist: He heard something about the attacks in Brussels airport and subway, and he used it in his typically over-exaggerated way, in order to make his followers even more fanatical towards all foreigners, both Europeans and muslims and anything else, they don't need to be specific, they don't know anything about geography anyway. They couldn't point where Belgium is on a map if their life depended on it. So he can tell them what he wants. Those terrorist didn't want to do their attack in Brussels to begin with, by the way; they were a French Salafist ring, and they wanted to throw their bombs during the World Soccer Cup in Paris. But long before that, ours and the French police (our neighbours) had them pointed out and they decided to do something in Brussels before they were cayght. They're all caught and in prison or dead, now, anyway. Our police doesn't waste much time. Yeah, he doesn't know what he's saying. But he dopes the mob by bellowing, and apparently it works :-(

As soon as your box gets a bit long, it starts jumping up and down, does it do that with you guys too? So annoying!
@PRak: I like the sound of Portugese a lot, especially the way Brazilians speak it: it's so much softer than Spanish, eventhough on paper, it looks a lot alike, doesn't it?
In fact, Belgium has 3 linguistic communities: there's a tiny part on the top of the diamond where people speak German. It's two cities where the people all answered "yes" to a referendum after WW2 where they were asked whether they wanted to go back to Germany or stay Belgian... And they seemed to like us better than the Germans, so from that day our country was a teeny-tiney little bit larger :-D
Kanji are fun, indeed, but it's the mere amount that's a problem. Hiragana is a breeze, but the list of kanji, there's no end to it! Maybe with your young brain... (in case you're young, of course)
The Interlanguage theory you're talking of is correct, by the way; but mainly for toddlers. If you teach a baby 2 languages or 3 at a time, he gets to master all 3 of them perfectly, and it makes him smarter, because from a young age, he learns to think over a choice, and make the right decision at every word he speaks.

Yes, it does. So annoying (-.-)

Portuguese and Spanish are very similar graphically, it's the pronunciation that really gives it away. But the huge amount o false friends, words that have opposite geners in each language, and grammatical differences make it really easy to make bad mistakes.
Most portuguese people try to speak Spanish without learning it and end up using what we call 'portunhol' or 'espanholês' (mixing 'Português'/Portuguese and 'Espanhol'/Spanish). It turns out funny, understandable by both (portuguese people easily understand Spanish, but spanish people usually have a hard time understanding Portuguese), and strangely similar to Galego.

Who wouldn't like Belgium? I've been there a few times and I loved it right away.(▰˘◡˘▰) One time I went to the three borders and drove through those German speaking towns. It was really interesting how all the signs an everything were suddenly in another language. And I also liked to see how you could tell which area you were in, not only thanks to the language, but also the changes in scenery, architecture, and even the way people interacted (but they were all very nice).
In Portugal we also have a second language, which is little known, called Mirandês. But both countries have completely iferent llanguage policies. Here it is almost impossible to learn it outside the area, and you won't really find signs written in it. It's almost forgotten, even in Portugal.

I'm still young, in my early twenties, nearing the middle. But I am already way over the age linguists say to be the ideal age for foreign/second language acquisition and learning (although recent studies have said this factor is not as relevant as initially thought, and others such as motivation may be more important). And yes, the interlanguage theory really is stronger with children since their brains are still forming, but it is just as valid for all other ages.

yeas my box does that.

Hey girls (I assume you're all girls, right?) If you want to avoid the Jumping-Jack-flash-box and ask or tell me stuff use [email protected] that way you can go as long as you want. I am a comic drawer myself, a mangaka as the Japanese would say, (that's obviously why I am here at this site), I'm an old man but I get along fine with young people. And of course, I need lots of feedback from youngsters about what they like and dislike in comics and books in general; and I want youngsters to learn to think on their own, in order to avoid them to get brainwashed by "leaders" like the Salafists or Trumps of this world. I have seen the troubles in the world come and go a few times in my lifetime, and I see it come back again and again. Generations need to talk to each other, over all borders and in all languages. There's the Planet to save for you guys' future, and peace to make, and homophobia to fight, and all sorts of art forms to develop, and lots of fun to have, which the Bad ones try to refuse us, etcetera... HOp! there it goes again, I can't see what I'm typing anymore. Good thing I learned to type blind when I was a kid.
So, how about it? You're all welcome! (and it's not to seduce you, if you're suspicious- my, that's a hard word to type without seeing what you're doing!)

Yes it is, like almost everything he says (￣∇￣") And that's why all around the world people call him a clown. Or call him a new Hitler, since Trump's speech is so earily similar to his. When I was your age I also couldn't care less about politics, it's normal. Just don't become one o those adults who vote blindly or don't vote at all, it never helps.
You've gone through all that. I hope it will get better for you from now on.

So.... yes it can be that bad around the united states. It can be that bad anywhere in the world. You just have to know what you are looking for. I know the negatives because I tend to end up helping out those people, even if it is just to lend an ear or shoulder to cry on. Shit! I knew a girl that was just 13 and kicked out of her house. This was because she was pregnant AFTER SHE WAS RAPED. If you are not apart of the network I am you do not hear about these PATHETIC stories all that much.

Now about Trump..... IF HE WINS THE ELECTION MANY OF US ARE LEAVING THIS PLACE. He is an anti gay, sexist, piece of shit. He made derogatory comments about so many things. Did you know he said that women should be at home not working... THEN MADE HIS WIFE APOLOGIZE FOR HIM. Yeah, I hate his guts. (╬￣皿￣)凸

If he gets elected, kids, the whole world is going to suffer from it: it won't be enough to move to Europe (though you're all very wellcome as far as I'm concerned), since this creep keeps ranting about "I'll make America great again!!" And we all know he doesn't mean he's going to make it geographically larger (as if Obama had made it shrink, lol), but he means he's going to make a war somewhere. And that will make the people in the countries he'll send the Army to get even angrier than they already are, and start attacking us and you and everybody! That's what caused this situation we're in to start in the first place... So you American kids better tell your parents not to vote Rep, or if you're older, not do it yourself! One would think American voters would have learned by now, after Bush senior and Bush junior, but no... it gets worse... PRak is right: Hitler was elected democratically, by the German people, who didn't realise his discourse was dangerous and would leave their country in shambles. They ended up regretting it, but too late...

I know it can be bad anywhere in the world. My country is very calm an peacefull, yet there always are those bad 'hoods' and some very bad people.
I grew up to the sound of shots, from an abandoned area near my house (it's stopped since). I witnessed so many drug deals I can't count. I heard countless stories of people who got mugged, and sometimes got injured from it (fortunately I never was). Both my sister and I have countless stories from school - fights, drugs, pregnancies, domestic violence, deaths, people with a prize on their heads, ... - I walked around school and saw syringes, condoms, and people sharpening their knives right beside me. Once a group of classmates brought beer to class and started drinking it. I had a classmate who beat the mother. I had a classmate drop out of high school to work and get out of the house. Once my homeroom teacher went out for a bit and when they came back just calmly said 'kids, a scoolmate of yours was just stabbed in the neck at the school gate. Now let's resume our lesson.' Even just a couple years ago I went to university smelling of blood for the whole day because I couldn't avoid the blood pool on the bus.
And those are just a few stories.

And Trump didn't only say that about women. Also, women's only worth are their looks.
The other day I saw a clip of the Letterman show with him an I just laughed. Trump: 'Mexicans are stealing our poor american's jobs! Let's ship them all back to Mexico!'. Letterman (grabbing a few of Trump's products): 'Let's see, where are these shirts made?' Trump:'I don't know.' Letterman: 'Bangladesh. They're made in Bangladesh. How about...' Trump: 'Isn't that good, we're making jobs in Bangladesh.' Letterman: 'What about these ties? Are they made in China? ... Well, they really are made in China!' Trump was just getting more and more nervous and I could swear I saw some sweat.

And I'll stop my Trump runt here since I didn't even want to get into politics here.

The whole world is politics, darling. You can't escape it. Whether some bad leader is elected or not, affects your life: you've just told us that. The things you've described are not caused by some random bad people, but by bad leadership in a country! Crime, corruption, poverty, unemployment, bad social security, ruined environment, etcetera etcetera... all caused by bad leadership. So everyone who goes "I don't care about politics 'cause it's boring" is actually doing himself and the others no favor...
Apart from this (sorry) sermon, I still wonder about your description, pRak! Are you saying all that happened in Portugal when you were young? How long ago was that?

Cyrano, it did happen. I'm still in my early twenties and the most recent event (the bus thing) I told here was about 4 years ago.
But don't think it's all that bleak in here, I just picked some of the worst stories and the way I put them may have made some of them look worse than they were. And it's not like it's a daily thing, even during the time it was at its worst.

But it was a bad area, actually a good area (not the best one though) that was in the middle of a few bad areas, and the school had several students from social neighbourhoods and some of them belonged to gangs. Like I said, everywhere in the world you can find troublesome neighborhoods, or even just specific streets you'd never go through. In the Lisbon area you can find some of them in some places in the south side of the river and Amadora, You can also find some degraded and social neighbourhoods in Oporto, and other cities. And most of them originate from poverty and bad policies.

Portugal itself is a very good place to live in and visit (specially to visit since our minimal wage is not even 600euros but the prices for everything are nearly the same as in Belgium). It's just that there are a few bad areas, even just specific streets (and I know there also are some there in Belgium, at least at Brussels and Wallonia).

One big problem I see not only here but in other countries is how the govements deal with really poor people. Instead of helping them become a part of the community, they separate them (sometimes even by ethnicities or religion) in neighbourhoods specially made for them. It creates isolated communities (sometimes those places are even away from the cities and towns), which are then forgotten, their problems then increase and they develop their own systems. Many times goverments create what unintencionally become ghettos. I believe many problems with crime worldwide could be solved if, instead, those people were housed within the community (spread so you wouldn't have a new 'hood) and be integrated. I know it isn't that simple, but I see this as a basic.

The gunshots I usually heard when I was little (the last one being probably 10 years ago) came from abandoned buildings that were illegaly occupied. They stopped because those people were relocated into social neighbourhoods. But they went all together to the same place. The problem didn't end, it just moved locations.

Indeed. I understand. Yeah, in Brussels, there are some neighborhoods where there is crime, mostly due to the fact that we have many illegal immigrants, people who won't go to any public institution, be it to the police, the fire brigade, the social security office, the Employment office, for fear to be discovered as "illegal" and be relocated to the place they came from. In the mean time, they don't have a home, a job, an allowance, an income, their kids don't go to school, in short they behave like they don't exist. Anything rather than be sent back to where they come from, for some reason we don't know. But while they're in that state, the City can't do anything for them, and they're easy targets for criminals who use them and exploit them for sweatshops, drug traffic, theft and other crime.
So the problem doesn't really lie in Belgium, but in all those countries out there, where life is so impossible to live that you are willing to lead a life of misery and anonymity in the streets of Brussels rather than stay there.
And what you tell me about Portugal is also a result of bad politics, isn't it?
It's not so easy to be a good leader, and it's even harder to stay good, I think.

YES!!!!

Me too ( ╥_╥ )

room for one more?

Oh let me join you!

Rock crying party! Let's make it a rave.

fuck yeah!

I'll get glow sticks.

Get us some tissues too while ur at it.

i've got the ice cream!

I've got popcorn. The extra-buttery kind.

Tissues, fat food and people for cry with. All settled, lets read the last two chapters again till we run dry (/ ;ω; )/

*reads* - *begins ugly sobbing*