And we think our country's mad ......

Jon · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:05 pm **Posts:** 2807

From the BBC:

Quote:

Members of the Dutch Olympic squad are facing government fines -- because they have taken too long to finish their degrees. About 50 of the athletes competing at the Games in London are still at university or college. For many, Olympic training has interrupted their studies.

geezer466 · **Joined:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:06 pm **Posts:** 1307

Jon wrote:

From the BBC:

Quote:

Members of the Dutch Olympic squad are facing government fines -- because they have taken too long to finish their degrees. About 50 of the athletes competing at the Games in London are still at university or college. For many, Olympic training has interrupted their studies.

No doubt it will be some sort of super Euro rules that these athletes have transgressed.

The sooner the federal ambitions of certain persona's in the EU are consigned to history the better off everyone across Europe will be...

Yes lets have a trading and mutual co-operation block!! No one here signed up to government from Brussels..

jim · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:10 pm **Posts:** 1461

HAVE NOT HEARD IT PUT BETTER!!!!!!!!

The son of an immigrant asks his dad, "Dad, what's democracy?"
"Well, son, that's when whites work and we get all the benefits from
it!"
"But dad, aren't the white people unhappy about that?"
"Sure they are son, but that's called 'racism'"

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