From: tgpedersen
Message: 63230
Date: 2009-02-20
>wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@>
> > >Nah, I was just over-reacting because I felt you were deflecting the
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Judge for yourself.
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnskURpwASk
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMZkffx68Gs
> > > >
> > >
> > > The first one "Stupid Sick Mad Video" cracked me up, I thought
> > > it was hilarious, while the second "Insane" was so-so
> > > (evocative music though). But it's the same girl, Mirren the
> > > fun-loving and sometimes funny half Dutch half Scottish girl,
> > > i.e. not a typical Dutch person.
> >
> > First, I think I'll take exception to the term 'fun-loving',
> > which in the Christianity-based Anglophonic culture means
> > something like 'outside community protection', second (and this
> > is related to the first) if there is a double bottom in 'fun' so
> > that what you present is the unacceptable truth under the truce
> > of Narrenfreiheit, if you call it 'fun', you are missing the
> > point I was trying to make.
>
> I actually meant "fun-loving" as a good thing, someone who would be
> enjoyable to be around. I have no religion in my upbringing so
> unless I say so nothing I say is meant to have a religious
> connotation. I don't think Christianity has as much weight as it
> once did in Canada.
>
> I thought you had earlier made the point that Mirren and Joan were
> not typically Dutch, they had some Scottish, and that was why they
> were so funny. So I thought I was basically reiterating the point
> you had made, and therefore Mirren was not the best choice to
> determine whether the Dutch are funny, since you had pointed out
> that her humor stems from her special situation within the
> Netherlands.
>