parterre box

34 comments

• Drew80 says:

  The concentration camp nearest the UK border is Vught, in the Netherlands. Vught was both a transit camp AND a concentration camp. There may be purely transit camps that are even closer to the UK border, such as a couple of the notorious transit camps in France.

  There is now a museum in Vught. It contains many moving artifacts and descriptions of the horrors that occurred there.

  It is estimated that 700,000 persons connected with the Vught camp were sent to their deaths. That is more persons than the current population of Boston or Baltimore.

  on July 30, 2007 at 10:49 AM
• Maury D'annato says:

  It’s Godwin’s Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

  on July 30, 2007 at 11:01 AM
• Drew80 says:

  “The US is an intellectually barren cultureless cesspit.”

  “And as for Australia……….a bunch of fuckwits not good enough to live in the UK to begin with!! Oh, and by the way, I’m not British, I’m German!”

  “I am a German living in the UK as well, so the closest concentration camp for me is probably Guantanamo Bay!”

  Maury, those two individuals asked for it.

  on July 30, 2007 at 11:08 AM
• Anonymous says:

  Perhaps these cultural comparisons are now moving into Monty Python territory. As John Cleese said, “What have the Roman’s ever done for us?” ……….. “All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”

  on July 30, 2007 at 12:21 PM
• Kekszakallu says:

  I have sometimes thought that John Cleese was a misspelled member of the famous Cles family.

  The angry one … Testy Cles
  Andrew Cles and his lion
  Perry Cles the Tyresome Prince
  The bad-tempered Irish one .. Damn O’Cles + Sword
  The Irish philosopher Soph O’Cles

  …. never mind; it passes the time.

  on July 30, 2007 at 12:27 PM
• Henry Holland says:

  I am utterly bored by Handel, but as so many people love him, I must conclude that the problem is probably mine

  No, your instincts are correct, Handel’s opera are boring as all hell, they’re just canary singers music. All those florid aria’s strung together for hours on end, yikes. When the current generation of Handel singers fades away, those pieces will luckily return to the oblivion they so richly deserve.

  on July 30, 2007 at 3:53 PM
• Daniel says:

  I can understand Henry Holland and a few others must feel about Handel – while I love Handel I would rather sit there chewing my arm off than be subjected to almost anything Benjamin Britain ever wrote.

  Good one Kekszakallu! Love it!

  on July 31, 2007 at 4:35 AM
• hab mir's gelobt says:

  thank you drew for your ‘lecture’ … my comment on guatanamo bay was sarcasm!

  and maury its true, after a while hitler etc etc always has to start creeping in – dont ask me why though. at least i didnt start it!

  shame that parterre gets more and more into personal backstabbing, it really sucks. as if we have nothing else to do…

  so we had concentration camps coming up and dame elisabeth in something that started on critics contradicting themselves. interesting…and, of course, far fetched!

  on July 31, 2007 at 4:51 AM
• Daniel says:

  hab mir’s gelobt – relax dear boy! – I wouldn’t take things in here too seriously and if you don’t- I would think you might enjoy it more.
  Nothing’s changed- if you go back over the history files of parterre you will it is littered with supreme insults, insinuations, aspertions and outrageous slanders against artists and each other. It’s just all par for the course and indeed some of us might think it makes parterre the special place it is.

  How sad would it be if intelligent queens couldn’t (in here) at least, exercise that most basic “gay attribute” of spirited bitchiness? We know much of it is tongue in cheek- and sometimes its the best laugh in town.

  You don’t have to play the game yourself – but you can still enjoy the view

  on July 31, 2007 at 7:43 AM
• Kekszakallu says:

  That’s perhaps why, on the link to Parterre on one of my websites, I have put “bitchiness by the bucketload”

  on July 31, 2007 at 7:51 AM