This seems like a good place to place a lighthearted post.
I have tended to get into quite some big fights recently on the board.
That it hardly gets me anywhere near changing someone's view on the matter has convinced me that I get further with sirup than vinegar (a saying here). However, I'm still young so there's enough fire in my spirit that sometimes results in flames.
I was born in a small city in the north of the Netherlands and when I was four years old, my parents moved to the village where my father had spent his youth. It's really small, with some 400 inhabitants, but I've had the best time being a small kid - the world was simple and if anyone knows anything of village life: it may be a bit awkward when you're an outsider, but everyone just knows what's going on, which gives it a very homely atmosphere.
Times changed of course, and after high scool I went to the University and started living on my own in the 'big city'. I study biology, love to draw and paint (although I hardly have the time for it) - mostly fantasy stuff, some cartoons as well.
In 1999 I left for a year to travel through Australia as a backpacker, working and travelling as I saw fit, or as the money would dictate. During these travels I have met many people from all over the world and I have shared a lot of love and happiness with them - all in all a great year that I would recommend anyone that still has the chance.
I have gotten my hands on a lovely German girl that started studying here as well, and we've been together now for one and a half year, and it's just great. Man, women are so sexy!
Anyways, besides all the juvenile namecalling on my part and that of others, I am really enjoying myself here, and for me it makes America more real by talking to the people there. And it's mostly for the best as well.
Well, that just needed to be said.
May we someday all mate and create a progeny, and in time, our differences will be forgotten.

God I love this dancing smiley.