Dutch monarchy

[pscocoa]

I may need to try and check this is true but the source is serious even if on the wrong side of a few glasses of wine.

Apparently there is a serious but  unreported clamp down on anti monarchy sentiment in Netherlands and not Dutch -like at all.

Someone who threw a lighter into the carriage of the Queen a couple of years ago and  was imprisoned and has just been arrested again in advance of the celebrations on Monday!!

Someone holding an anti monarchy placard was arrested and kept in police jail for a day.

Thought the Dutch would be more laid back!!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I may need to try and check this is true but the source is serious even if on the wrong side of a few glasses of wine.

Apparently there is a serious but  unreported clamp down on anti monarchy sentiment in Netherlands and not Dutch -like at all.

Someone who threw a lighter into the carriage of the Queen a couple of years ago and  was imprisoned and has just been arrested again in advance of the celebrations on Monday!!

Someone holding an anti monarchy placard was arrested and kept in police jail for a day.

Thought the Dutch would be more laid back!!

Me, too.

[mantahatch]

Have worked with a number of Dutchmen over the years. Like most countries they range from really nice to really awful. Sadly working with one at the moment who could be a concentration camp guard, add to that the fact he is extremely lazy and he earns about £32k a year 

Sorry if that sounds like I have a downer on the Dutch. It is not meant to be like that. The last Dutchman before this one was about 2 to 3 years ago and he was really good bloke, "worked to live" but did both really well  He has now moved back home and is doing really well. We catch up from time to time.

[tigers_gonads]

For many years, the cloggies were the most laid back people on the planet.
Warm and friendly (especially if you was British)

Sadly today, they are just as much wound up about life as everybody else.
There attitude to politics seem to be getting polarised either left or hard right with a lot of resentment to there monarchy or there immigrant problem.

Shame because I came within a whisker of staying and working there when I left the mob back in 1989.
In those days, it was a brilliant place to be.
Even without the herbs 

[Sir Tigger KC]

A friend of mine used to work for one of the big banks in The Hague and he used to get so wound up because the Cloggies were so laid back, he had to visit the coffee shop on the way home every day to unwind....   

Had some brilliant weekends there!!