Backroom-Where did it go?

[Marshal Murat]

I logged on, and poof, no Backroom.
Has it been deleted because of content?
Have I been banned from discussion there and why? I have recieved no PM, so I am curious.

[Husar]

Tosa announced a closing of the backroom for four days...

[AntiochusIII]

Tosa announced a closing of the backroom for four days...

So people who'd get angry over the damnable cur of a cousin that they see once a year stealing that last piece of turkey would not go there and flame their hearts out at random victims, I believe.

[lancelot]

^What are we talking about here? Where is the backroom???

[Marshal Murat]

Tosa closed it for 4 days (maelstrom of anger and hate has been closed, I feel, free)

[Adrian II]

I told you! It's because of the Dutch elections. [cracklign sounds] Aaargh!...
Head 'em off at the tower!
Oh my God! Incomiiing!!
I can't hold out much longer... I'm up to my ankles in blood here... The horror! The horror!...

*fades*

[Kralizec]

You're still up? It's past 2:30...

I voted for Rutte

[Adrian II]

I voted for Rutte

You're the only one!
Now shut up and twist that tourniquet, maybe we can stop this poor guy from bleeding to death. I hear they scuttled the warship in the harbour, she was lost anyway. Poor sobs, they'll never make it ashore...
You there, cover the rear window! Let me see if I can walk on my one good leg. It'll have to do.
Charge on the count of three! One! Tw...


*white noise*

[Kralizec]

You lost me at tourniquet....possibly a few beers before that.

[Stig]

mmm Pechtold for me, tbh I wonder what Tosa voted, my guess is Verdonk, you have to vote Verdonk if you want to be a forum admin

[The Spartan (Returns)]

no wonder why i cant find it.

[Adrian II]

You lost me at tourniquet....possibly a few beers before that.

tourniquet
n. device to stop bleeding, as a bandage twisted tight by a stick, etc.

From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia, Helicon Publishing LTD, 2006

[Kralizec]

Ah I see, did he make it?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

And who'd you vote for anyway

[Adrian II]

Ah I see, did he make it?

He's hanging in there, can't be sure yet.

And who'd you vote for anyway

Who cares about votes, man? This is election time! What's important is that the other side are running out of ammunition. I guess the worst will be over by tomorrow morning.

Watch your back now!

[Gawain of Orkeny]

I told you! It's because of the Dutch elections

This has to be the biggest and most wide reaching effect of these elections. To think the rest of the world has to close down because of them. Who ever imagined the Dutch elections to be so important.

[Ice]

Ha, I was wondering why they closed the backroom.

[Andres]

Need... Backroom... now...



Need... Backroom...

[Mount Suribachi]

Hey, Gawain! You're back!

I'm perma-banned from the Backroom, so you could've been back months and I wouldn't know, but still, good to see you :wave:

[Adrian II]

This has to be the biggest and most wide reaching effect of these elections.

Today, as we bury our dead and our camp-sites gradually overflow with valiant but exhausted fighters eager to devour their first hot meal or drink in days, I solemnly declare that the Dutch elections have once more been hugely successful. Last night the opposition ran out of ammunition and we managed to chase them into the snow-capped Dutch mountains where some will die from hunger and sub-zero temperatures, while others will perish at the hands of the native cannibals.

Who ever imagined the Dutch elections to be so important.

The honourable TosaInu obviously did. I trust he is alive and well in his hillside abode and pondering his next move, though we have heard no signals on his radio frequency yet.

[Vladimir]

Oh Dear. The very event that caused its closure has somehow spilled over to the Watchtower . It seems that Pindar was right and that no one can truly contain the Dutch menace. Dark days lie ahead for us all.






Damn Adrian; I really need to take a vacation to Dutchland (and maybe bring a platoon of my own) to see what this is all about (hilarious ). Of course I'm an American and am having a hard time finding Dutchland on a map.

[Andres]

"Dutchland" *sigh*

Try looking for the "Netherlands".

But if you're looking for the superior Dutch-speakers, look for Flanders instead.

We have the best beer in the world.

[Prodigal]

Dutch...Is that, like, a type of cheese?

Something I've been wondering about, & I've asked about 5 people who live in the Netherlands this, who staterd building the dykes in Holland?

Apparently it's trained moles, based on the consenus of their responses

Its not a trick question either, does anyone know?

[naut]

Something I've been wondering about, & I've asked about 5 people who live in the Netherlands this, who started building the dykes in Holland?

Apparently it's trained moles, based on the consenus of their responses

Knowing the Dutch, it wouldn't surprise me.

[Reverend Joe]

You're the only one!
Now shut up and twist that tourniquet, maybe we can stop this poor guy from bleeding to death. I hear they scuttled the warship in the harbour, she was lost anyway. Poor sobs, they'll never make it ashore...
You there, cover the rear window! Let me see if I can walk on my one good leg. It'll have to do.
Charge on the count of three! One! Tw...


*white noise*

"Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees."

[Lucjan]

When the American platoon lands in the Netherlands, Vladimir is not allowed to be the navigator. *Snatches away all maps, the compass, and any other ww2-ish looking navigational paraphanelia, yes, including the nifty binoculars.....then confiscates his cell phone with the fancy gps tracking system.*

[TosaInu]

Dutch...Is that, like, a type of cheese?

There's Dutch cheese yes. Gouda should ring a bell.

Something I've been wondering about, & I've asked about 5 people who live in the Netherlands this, who staterd building the dykes in Holland?

I guess it was the sea herself who started it. People then extended her work.

The Netherlands also has 'terpen'. Basically artificial hills. Houses and even entire villages were built on top of these. The land around could flood.

Apparently it's trained moles, based on the consenus of their responses

Moles are not marine.

[Adrian II]

Something I've been wondering about, & I've asked about 5 people who live in the Netherlands this, who staterd building the dykes in Holland?

There are lots of myths and very few extant sources on the earliest dykes, polders and related hydraulic engineering in The Netherlands.

Probably the greatest myth is that the Dutch dykes were originally built by semi-democratic associations of citizens called 'waterships' who are supposed to be at the origin of Dutch egalitarian democracy.

Historically speaking, the construction of Dutch dykes began in the early Middle Ages, around 950. The first available texts date from the high Middle Ages. They mention dykes being built at the initiative of religious orders, the higher nobility and successive sovereigns intent on enlarging their own territories and securing their yearly yield in taxable goods. The first truly 'strategic' work, the 126 kilometer long Westfriesian Ringdyke, was finished in 1250. About that time the first mills were constructed as well. Poldering took off, reinforced by a gradual process of political unification under Burgundy and Habsburg control.

[Fragony]

Bit of a difference between the history of the 'dykes' and the 'polders', the latter is what we call the reclaimed lands, it started with the invention of the windmill by a chap called Cornelissen(?) which allowed us to drain the water and create new lands. Dykes have always been here to some extent, I believe the first record is much older then the date AdrianII gives, but not exactly sure and he is smarter.

[Lucjan]

I would say that the dutch were master of polder construction long before the reformation. As during the reformation the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth invited specifically Dutch settlers to Gdansk to help with the draining of the marshes around the Vistula and polder construction in exchange for religious tolerance.

[KukriKhan]

Assuming this thread will be thrown to either the BR or the Monastery soon, I'll say this:

If we (US) haven't hired Dutch dike engineers to advise on the reconstruction of New Orleans... heads should roll. Windmills on Bourbon Street would be a way cool sight, IMO. How is the Dutch taste for Dixieland Jazz?