RagnaToad
Shake it like a polaroid picture

I was going to ask what you thought of the EU. I heard that the British and the Belgians were the biggest opponents to it, but I have no idea if that's accurate or not.

I like it how an apparently 'centre-right' politician is it's president. Shit, imagine a 'centre-right', non-European politician in a different union. Europe is awesome, and the EU represents all that I like about it.

Hey Rags, give my congratulations to van Rompuy, yo!

Basically in the last Chapter, Alex realizes that he wants to live a meaningful life, after seeing that Pete is Married now and doing something with his. I'm not sure if the movie included that last chapter or not, but it was the best part of the book, there's more you have to read it.

The novelist’s response
Anthony Burgess had mixed feelings about the cinema version of his novel, publicly saying he loved Malcolm McDowell and Michael Bates, and the use of music; he praised it as “brilliant”, even so brilliant, it might be dangerous. His initial response to the cinematic A Clockwork Orange was very enthusiastic; his only bother was the deletion of the story’s last chapter of redemption, an absence he blamed upon his U.S. publisher (this final chapter was omitted in all U.S. editions of the novel prior to 1986) and not director Kubrick.

From last Chapter:
"There was a like young couple at this table, peeting and smoking filter-tip cancers, and govoreeting and smecking very quietly between themselves, but I took no notice of them and just went on peeting away and like dreaming and wondering what was going to happen to me. But I viddied that the devotchka at this table who was with this chelloveck was real horrorshow, not the sort you would want to like throw down and give the old in-out in-out to, but with a horrorshow plott and litso and a smiling rot and very very fair voloss and all that cal. And then the veck with her, who had a hat on his gulliver and had his litso like turned away from me, swivelled round to viddy the boshy big clock they had on the wall in this mesto, and then I viddied who he was and then he viddied who I was. It was Pete, one of my three droogs from those days when it was Georgie and Dim and him and me. It was Pete like looking older though he could not now be more than nineteen and a bit, and he had a bit of a moustache and an ordinary day-suit and this hat on. I said:

'Well well well, droogie, what gives? Very very long time no viddy.' He said:

'It's little Alex, isn't it?'

'None other,' I said. 'A long long long time since those dead and gone good days. And now poor Georgie, they told me, is underground and old Dim is a brutal millicent, and here is thou and here is I, and what news hast thou, old droogie?'

'He talks funny, doesn't he?' said the devotchka, like giggling.

'This,' said Pete to the devotchka, 'is an old friend. His name is Alex. May I,' he said to me, 'introduce my wife?'

My rot fell wide open then. 'Wife?' I like gasped. 'Wife wife wife? Ah no, that cannot be. Too young art thou to be married, old droog. Impossible impossible.'
A Clockwork Orange | Last chapter | Anthony Burgess

I haven't talked to you in a while Ragna, ha

anyway,
Have you read the book A Clockwork Orange or have you only watched the movie? I need to watch the movie still, My English teacher said it's a must see but it's violent. In fact I might watch it tonight if I have time. You prbably knew this already, but I guess when the book was first released, they took out the last chapter of the book. I read through it and realized the book would have been different without it.

It completely changes the theme. It's my favorite book, I literally learned Nadsat from it.

Well.. Nostalgia Critic. Hm. ...Sounds like a person. o_o;
Angry Videogame Nerd.. ...Again, sounds like a person to me. o_o;

Oh well. Guess you just never heard of them before.

...Because the previous posts explain who they are? It's like you didn't bother reading the whole thread and was like "dur, who're you talking about?" when if you read the whole thread, you'd know. o_o;

Of cource I do.

After all, you did say it was just all for fun.

Does Belgium have a country with which it is intensely rivalrous, like Australia and New Zealand?

Uhu?

Thanks man! Lets hit up those pubs now, haha. CPC8!!!

It means our least intelligent go to Australia, and become their most intelligent.

We have a joke, that when a New Zealander emigrates to Australia, the IQ increases on both sides.

It's Belgian, because it has Belgian flags outside, and serves Belgian food. But I've never been to Belgium, so I have no idea if this is actual Belgian food.

I should start a New Zealand restaurant in Belgium. It would be a barbecue outside a supermarket, or in a backyard, and you'll smell it for hundreds of miles. When you get there, we'll all be wearing jandals, playing cricket, drinking cheap beer and making fun of Australians.



Take that Belgian food.

Oh my baby Reisling! It's the best white wine in Europe, no question. Ever tried it?

Absolutely. They have their own language in Alsace - Alsacien - which is basically just an arbitrary mix of German and French. All street signs are in French, and then Alsacien, which just looks like German. Have you studied much Franco-German history? Alsace has been traded backwards and forwards at least three times, and has spent time being fully German. The food here is also a Franco-German hybrid, and thus delicious, with the delicate French sauces accompanying strong German meats and so on. They eat stodgy German-esque cake for breakfast, not croissants.

I'm not sure we're close to Italy, but Switzerland, yes. Mulhouse, Freiburg and Basel (or Bale) share an airport which is murder to navigate. Basel is really close, only about 20 minutes by train, as is Freiburg. People regularly do their shopping in Freiburg because food and alcohol is cheaper.