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The answer's Nee

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Yes or rather "nee", the Dutch have also said "nee" to the Constitutional Treaty.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4601439.stm

Provisional final results indicated that 61.6% of voters said "No" to the charter and 38.4% approved it.

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That now makes it 2 "nee" and 10 "yes".

The yes countries:

Austria
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain

The no countries:

France
Netherlands


There's a good BBC site on what is actually planeed to happen:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3954327.stm
 
asthmatic camel said:
Yippeeeeeee!!! I've always liked the Dutch. :D :D :D
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I think as a sign of solidarity and respect we should drop the boring English "no" and adopt the Dutch "nee" as our official negative.
 
Underemployed said:
Somebody please come up with a 'Knights of Nee' joke.
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If we ever have a referendum I know that I'll vote Ekke ekke ekke ptang zoo boing.



Ugh I feel dirty now.
 
H'ethetheth said:
...Except it's pronounced "nay" (or nuuuuuuwom! in some parts of the country).
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Oh that is just typical, I bet this was an imposed EU regulation! Some bureaucrat realised that “nee” was funny and people would vote “nee” to anything just so they could have a giggle and say “Nee!”
 
Greece is not a "yes" country. All polls I've seen indicate that we are a "no" country with f****** "yes" politicians. Exactly like the Netherlands, only we don't get to vote. The last poll I saw was 43% "no", 30% "yes", 27% "don't know".
 
El Greco said:
Greece is not a "yes" country. All polls I've seen indicate that we are a "no" country with f****** "yes" politicians. Exactly like the Netherlands, only we don't get to vote. The last poll I saw was 43% "no", 30% "yes", 27% "don't know".
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Oh dear... Well I suppose it was a bit naive to think the creators of democracy would understand democracy! ;)
 
Darat said:
Oh that is just typical, I bet this was an imposed EU regulation! Some bureaucrat realised that “nee” was funny and people would vote “nee” to anything just so they could have a giggle and say “Nee!”
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Believe me, if I could have voted ni or ekke ekke ptang zoo boing, I would have. I'm not all that much against Europe, but they're asking for black or white, so I voted "nee".
 
Darat said:
Oh dear... Well I suppose it was a bit naive to think the creators of democracy would understand democracy! ;)
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Well, we did have our fair share of tyrants, and it looks like we still do :(
 
Underemployed said:
Somebody please come up with a 'Knights of Nee' joke.
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EU: Oh, Knights of Nee, here is your constitution. May we go now?

DUTCH KNIGHT: But there is one small problem. We are now no longer the Knights Who Say Nee! We are now the Knights Who Go "Nay Nuuuuuuwom!!"

Therefore ... we are no longer contractually bound by any agreements previously entered into by the Knights Who Say Nee!

FRENCH KNIGHT: Nee!

IRISH KNIGHT: Peng!

GERMAN KNIGHT: Sh!

DUTCH KNIGHT: Shut up!


(to EU)


Therefore, we must give you a test, a Test to satisfy the Knights who say Nay Nuuuuuuwom!!

OTHERS (terrific chorus) Nay Nuuuuuuwom!!

DUTCH KNIGHT: Firstly. You must bring us a better social charter!

OTHER KNIGHTS More economic support! More gay rights and drugs for the ex-Knights of Nee!

DUTCH KNIGHT When you have reformulated the social aspects, then you must cut down the power of France and Germany ... with a redraft.

OTHER KNIGHTS Yes! With a redraft! With a redraft! Cut down with a redraft!

EU Cut down the power of France and Germany with a redraft? It can't be done!

OTHER KNIGHTS (they all recoil in horror)

TONY BLAIR and GORDON BROWN appear in the clearing. GORDON is going on cheerfully as usual and TONY walks in front of him, continually embarrassed at his presence.


GORDON ... and his kidneys burnt and his nipples skewered off ...

TONY holds his hand up for silence.

EU Sir Tony!

He shakes his hand warmly.

TONY Commissioner! It's good to have found you again ...

EU Where are you going good Sir Tony?

GORDON: (starting up again)

He was going home ... he was giving up,

He was throwing in the sponge.

TONY (to GORDON) Shut up! No ... er ... no ... I ... er ... I ... er ... I certainly wasn't giving up ... I was actually looking for the referendum ... er thing ... in this forest.

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H'ethetheth said:
I'm not all that much against Europe, but they're asking for black or white, so I voted "nee".
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Same here. We're probably the most pro-Europe nation, but this is too much even for us.
 
El Greco said:
Same here. We're probably the most pro-Europe nation, but this is too much even for us.
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Nah, Luxemborg beats you hands down, Italians are rather fond of the union too.
 
Kerberos said:
I don't know I don't understand what "ekke ekke ptang zoo boing" means.
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:D It's from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. It's one of the sacred words kept by the "knights who say: Nee!"
With this knowledge, would you?
 
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