@Cerberus yeah well. To their defense, Belgium kinda sucks and Poland is kinda awesome. And if you ever saw Putin on a horse and Willem-Alexander not on a horse, there's just no fair comparison, like. So it's just much more easier to be much more patriotic about Russia than Holland.

So what you're saying is, both will not work. One of them will only work if you change it.

@Cerberus: There's a Dutch guy in there who said he hates "Dutch carnival music." I'm unfamiliar with that genre. Do you know what he means?

I wondered about that one as well. But he sort of sang a bit of it.

I just took it to be your typical Kirmesmusik.

@RegDwigнt Both have glorious histories!

But, if Putin naked on a horse makes you patriotic, he's all yours.

@RegDwigнt There's another genre I'm unfamiliar with.

@Cerberus You never answered my question.

ready for the big game? @Robusto

RIP

@Robusto I was going to! When I had the time to watch your video.

@Robusto I was going to accompany my comment with a video, and YouTube has like tons, but the very first one that I checked out made me incontrollably vomit out of both my ears.

I'm only just finished now, sorry. Couldn't be done earlier.

So if you still want it, I can post it now.

Did I tell you how I went to the Oktoberfest once?

I believe I did, but the search is ever so unhelpful so here's just a quick sketch on a napkin as a reminder.

I went maybe fifteen years ago. Meaning to say, suitably young. And in a company of my very best friends of many years. Who fifteen years later are still my very best friends.

It was the filthiest, ugliest, most disgusting shitshow on Earth. Horrible, terrible, not good, very very worst.

Then I had a Maß. A one-litre glass of beer. And another.

And it was the most wonderful, funniest, happiest, loveliest night of my life.

To this day it very much is.

So now. With that little story I just told, imagine I was talking specifically about music.

Picture a genre of music that would fit that kind of description perfectly.

That's Kirmesmusik.

@Robusto I think his characterisation is accurate.

It is basically very bad Dutch Schlagers made specially for the carnival season in the South.

So I think two years ago the "big carnival hit" was basically three lines from a popular television series, put on standard Schlager/carnival music.

Sounds awesome. I go to bed, you go find a link.

This.

Oh fuck, tweened. Must go to bed faster now.

Cheerio!

The children are just there because the television series happened to be about a primary school: this is made for adults.

@RegDwigнt Buwaha.

Now you must click it.

No I must click on it tomorrow. Whenever that is. Thankfully tomorrow is never today.

I do appreciate how nonchalantly you mentioned "the South". Like it was some kind of bubonic-plague-ridden Ganges delta.

You toffee-nosed half-Brit, you.

Nighty-night.

@RegDwigнt Well, it is. Except it's worse: it's called "below the rivers".

shudders