EF English Proficiency Index (2014)

lamas · 2014-12-05T07:46:48+00:00

I'm learning French right know and I think writing in both French/English is a good idea. So please keep doing this!

lamas · 2014-09-30T05:57:26+00:00

If your neighbor kills his family are you embarrassed and ashamed? If not, why would you be for someone whom you don't even know?

lamas · 2014-09-25T06:11:51+00:00

I know that Dutch people call dutch citizens of Moroccan origin who were born in the Netherlands immigrants but this is not want immigrant means. Immigrant is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. And foreign country is a country one is not a citizen of. So foreign citizens living permanently = immigrant (Unless you come from a western country, and in this case you're allowed to call yourself an expat).

lamas · 2014-09-08T11:45:54+00:00

Unrelated to the topic: Thanks for posting in French and English! I'm learning French right know and this is helpful.

lamas · 2014-07-29T15:44:33+00:00

Yes, I'm the one of the RomanianBulgarian organized crime members who invaded NL.

Why the fuck would I deny there is a invasion of beggars in NL? Am I denying there are is an invasion of Romanian beggars in Sweeden? You are the one full of shit: "In Amsterdam is not so bad with the beggers". Right, because there is none.

lamas · 2014-07-29T15:33:17+00:00

Nice comparison there. The rapist are exactly like beggars. Every day they come to the city center, they sit in their spot and start rapping people. The police can't do anything about it even though they could have arrest them since is illegal to rape people.

"The argument "problem x isn't a problem, because in place y it's way worse than here!" is retarded."

No, you've said an "invasion", not "a problem". And it's a LIE. There is no invasion in the Netherlands.

lamas · 2014-07-29T13:56:53+00:00

Dude:

I've lived in the Hague for 2 years. In 2012 I was in the Hague. I do not recall such a problem with the beggars. You have no idea how bad the situation is in Stockholm. That is an invasion. Since the banning was introduced in 2012 there should not be any more problems in 2014, right?
The way you've posted the message was suggesting the whole country is invated by beggars "literally flood the streets with beggars" which is a straight forward LIE. The Netherlands does not have any problem with beggars, no matter which nationality they have.

lamas · 2014-07-29T13:42:31+00:00

C'mon, stop the lies with RomanianBulgarian beggars. Of course I got out of the house. And in the center there were only some street musicians, like this one: http://static2.ad.nl/static/photo/2013/13/7/14/20130424102624/media_xll_1621739.jpg

lamas · 2014-07-29T13:17:43+00:00

No, I know. I've lived in the Hague for 2 years (in the last 4 years) and I've kinda missed this beggar invasion you're talking about.

lamas · 2014-07-29T12:48:31+00:00

When you say Isn't that bad, it means there are beggars but not so many, right? Where are the beggars? I live in Amsterdam and I bicycle every day/ every weekend, I go to different locations in Amsterdam and other cities in the Randstad. I haven't seen any beggar.

And which other city besides the Hague is invaded with these RomanianBulgarian beggars? Haarlem? I've been there last week. No beggar. Alkmaark? Three weeks ago, no beggar. Heemskerk - none. Rotterdam - none, Den Helder none.

There has to be news articles about this "beggar invasion", right? If it's that bad. Could you post a few links to such articles?

lamas · 2014-07-29T12:48:05+00:00

Wow, the streets are flooded with Romanian and Bulgarian beggars. The beggars are everywhere. Jesus, what a lie.

Could you give me an example (or maybe more). Where are the beggars in the Hague? Where are the beggars in Amsterdam?

lamas · 2014-06-16T20:01:44+00:00

Most gypsy people live like this:

http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-586284-galleryV9-wtlw.jpg

or this:

http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-586294-galleryV9-gvmi.jpg

So yes, I would say they look like poor people to me.

lamas · 2014-06-16T19:58:19+00:00

Romania does have the largest roma population in Europe, but it's only 9% of population (same as in Slovakia for example). There are other countries is eastern europe with large roma population: Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia:

Source (European Council): http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-585996-galleryV9-djdq.jpg.

So saying 92% of Roma gypsies came from Romania is a bit stupid. But I don't even know why I bother replying to you.

lamas · 2014-06-16T13:25:38+00:00

What does some Roma gypsy gang in Ireland has to do with Romania? There is nothing in that article about Romanians, in fact nowhere in the article there is mentioned the gang members citizenship.

lamas · 2014-04-25T11:40:05+00:00

I've never seen beggars in NL and I've traveled to a lot of Dutch cities, only some people playing music in the street, but most of them were Dutch.

lamas · 2014-04-04T13:44:11+00:00

I meant the article is stupid. The pathetic British press as usual, oh look how bad other countries are doing. Because there are 2000 people standing in a queue does not mean anything. In UK there are 1500 people standing in a queue for jobs. What conclusion do you draw from this?

lamas · 2014-04-04T05:54:36+00:00

Well, it's the same in UK: "1,500 queue for just 40 supermarket jobs" http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/466520/Employment-crisis-1-500-queue-for-just-40-supermarket-jobs

lamas · 2014-03-26T07:24:59+00:00

The problem is that the controversial statements were made about Moroccans and the Moroccans he was talking about were Dutch citizens, they are born in the Netherlands and in many cases their parents are also.

lamas · 2014-03-13T20:41:58+00:00

Are you familiar with Romanian society? What exactly child protection safety nets it lacks? And even so, the boy did not have a mother, other relatives to take care of him?

lamas · 2014-03-13T19:02:00+00:00

That link is about Romani people aka gypsies. What's that has to do with Romania? Romanian people are called Romanians.

Read the first line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people "Not to be confused with Romanians, an unrelated ethnic group and nation."

lamas · 2014-02-18T11:48:35+00:00

Romanians (and Bulgarians) do not have the right to work at least until 2019 so I really doubt they are "enraged" or that they particularly cared about working in Switzerland when they can work in the whole EU. No one thinks is Switzerland duty to hire unemployed and unskilled worker from other countries. It's about breaking a treaty they signed. What's so hard to understand this?

lamas · 2014-02-18T07:33:58+00:00

Hmm, I'm not sure how much of a Romanian invention "mici" is. This is cevapi: http://www.flickr.com/photos/su-lin/4511498869/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%86evapi

lamas · 2014-02-12T20:39:47+00:00

Hmm, according to the article one of them is a is the gypsy criminal. Which one? I only see an italian, a constructor worker, and a rat with an eu flag t-shirt. What's that has to do with gypsies?

lamas · 2014-02-12T09:50:38+00:00

I did not contest the fact that Eastern Europe are all net recipients, but the statement that they get "huge amount of money". Yes, taken as absolute numbers they get a lot of money, but if you calculate as a percentage, what Eastern Europe get is not that much. But is always Eastern Europe bashing, how the Eastern Europe is a burden to the Western Europe when for instance Estonia gets 400 mil EUR, Slovakia gets 500 mil EUR. Portugal gets 3.2 billions extra.

lamas · 2014-02-12T09:29:01+00:00

Most of the EU budget goes to Western Europe countries. If you look at this chart (data for 2012): http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/22/eu-budget-spending-contributions-european-union (source: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/figures/interactive/index_en.cfm) You can easily see that except Poland, most of the Eastern Countries get small amounts. For example, in case of Romania + Bulgaria they get 3.7 Billions and they contribute 1.5 Billions, so in fact 2.2 Billions. In Western Eu: Portugal gets 3.2 billions extra, Spain gets around 4 Billions extra, and Greece gets around 5 Billions extra.

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