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Roland Out Today Press Release 23 Aug 2018

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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,021
    Weegie Addick said:

    Just accessed the article in Het Nieuwsblad. The mayor says, roughly: we live in a democracy. Anyone can do it. If people want to set up a political party in this town, who am I to stop them?

    Good for him ... but he won’t be invited to any more of Roland’s cocktail parties :wink:
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,540
    stonemuse said:

    Weegie Addick said:

    Just accessed the article in Het Nieuwsblad. The mayor says, roughly: we live in a democracy. Anyone can do it. If people want to set up a political party in this town, who am I to stop them?

    Good for him ... but he won’t be invited to any more of Roland’s cocktail parties :wink:
    The mayor in Sint Truiden is a woman.
  • Big in Brasov
    Big in Brasov Posts: 743
    Weegie Addick said:

    stonemuse said:

    Weegie Addick said:

    Just accessed the article in Het Nieuwsblad. The mayor says, roughly: we live in a democracy. Anyone can do it. If people want to set up a political party in this town, who am I to stop them?

    Good for him ... but he won’t be invited to any more of Roland’s cocktail parties :wink:
    The mayor in Sint Truiden is a woman.
    Mayor Veerle Heeren; she and her CD&V party have been political allies of Duchâtelet in the past.

    The statement from her may be sincere but she may just be paying lip-service
  • N01R4M
    N01R4M Posts: 2,577
    De Standaard
    http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20180829_03690332
    De zakenman die zich verslikt in de voetbalbusiness
    Enkel en alleen om Roland Duchâtelet te pesten, willen supporters van Charlton in Sint-Truiden een politieke partij oprichten: Roland Out Today. Het zoveelste bewijs dat zijn voetbalavonturen geen groot succes zijn. ‘Het geld dat hij in Charlton stak, zal hij nooit terugverdienen.’
    (..... There is more, but you have to “sign up” to see it.
    Has a nice picture of the Unity March which I’ve not seen before    .)

    The businessman who chokes in the football business
    Just to bully Roland Duchâtelet, Charlton supporters in Sint-Truiden want to set up a political party: Roland Out Today. Yet another proof that his football adventures are not a great success. 'He will never recoup the money he spent in Charlton.'
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    Weegie Addick said:

    Just accessed the article in Het Nieuwsblad. The mayor says, roughly: we live in a democracy. Anyone can do it. If people want to set up a political party in this town, who am I to stop them?

    Make him/her an honorary member of ROT !!!
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,366
    Weegie Addick said:

    soapy_jones said:

    Well played lads, your continued efforts are much appreciated. Now, IF you could play football, we would be top four Premiership!

    And lassies.
    BUT gender does not matter in this wonderful world we live in!
  • N01R4M
    N01R4M Posts: 2,577
    soapy_jones said:

    Weegie Addick said:

    soapy_jones said:

    Well played lads, your continued efforts are much appreciated. Now, IF you could play football, we would be top four Premiership!

    And lassies.
    BUT gender does not matter in this wonderful world we live in!
    It does if you belong to the half of the human race (note I did not say mankind!) which is frequently excluded when specifically male gender terms are used.

    I think you would begin to feel a little peeved if all the women who post on CL only spoke about she, her, and gals, when their statements equally applied to he, him, and guys!
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Guys is non specific. I wouldn't feel in the slightest bit peeved if the fairer sex on here only spoke about she or her.

    I just prefer 'we'.
  • N01R4M
    N01R4M Posts: 2,577
    Addickted said:

    Guys is non specific. I wouldn't feel in the slightest bit peeved if the fairer sex on here only spoke about she or her.

    I just prefer 'we'.

    There is some truth in this, although I think it is a generational thing.

    Younger women seem to have bowed to the inevitable and appropriated the term "guys" to include themselves - although in my experience (and I was a secondary school teacher until I retired) young women use it less in single sex company than in mixed company.

    It's the stroppy older birds like me, who remember the fight for equality in the second half of the 20th century, who still do not feel included within "guys". However, we know you mean well really!

    Interestingly, this exchange has grown out of the (incorrect) assumption that the mayor of St Truiden is a man. I wonder if that assumption about mayors' gender will change if London gets a female mayor? I think the City has already had a female Lord Mayor...
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Lady Mayoress surely?

    :wink:

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  • N01R4M
    N01R4M Posts: 2,577
    Mayoress is the consort of the Mayor - dates from times when the mayor was always a man, and the female (usually his wife) who accompanied him to social events was the mayoress.

    These days, if the mayor is female her male companion id not normally called the mayoress, but is given some other title such as the Mayor's companion (varies from place to place)

    Wikipedia says:
    Almost 700 people have served as Lord Mayor. Dame Mary Donaldson GBE, elected in 1983, and Dame Fiona Woolf DBE, elected in 2013, are the only women to have held the office. ... Since 1435, the Lord Mayor has been chosen from amongst the Aldermen of the City of London.

    So not only were Mary & Fiona LORD Mayors, they were probably also AlderMEN.
    Such is the power of male-dominated HIStory. :smile:

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