What is Belgium actually for?

It is of no strategic value to anyone, and should no longer be sustained artificially
To paraphrase Rene Magritte, one of the few unquestionably famous Belgians, 'Ceci n'est pas une nation'. As the slow dissolution of their state continues, even Francophone Belgians, hitherto champions of the status quo, are casting around for alternatives. A poll in Le Soir suggests that 49 per cent of Walloons favour incorporation into France, up from 22 per cent at the end of last year.
The Flemish, for their part, tend to see Belgium as a mechanism for taking their taxes and subsidising the Walloons. (They are wrong: it is a mechanism for taking their taxes and subsidising the most bloated public sector in Europe. Ordinary Walloons do just as badly out of the racket as they do.)

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Illegitimate daughter aims poisoned art at Belgian king

Wasn't it just yesterday I mentioned supporting the King's illegitimate children with tax dollars..... I have a feeling he may wish he gave this "love child" a few more hugs. At least she's not stripping!

In a departure from Belgium’s usually reverent treatment of its royalty, the illegitimate daughter of King Albert II is about to publish a book attacking him for disowning her.
“We’ve never had a big-time daddy-daughter relationship,” she said last week in her Brussels studio. “The last time I saw him I was 25 years old.
I’m blamed for doing things that are a little vulgar,” said Boël, smiling at her model of the Manneken Pis, the famous Belgian statue of a little boy urinating. Her version includes a giant phallus in the colours of the national flag. STORY

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Belgians stream to London to watch a guy piss in a cup

In what has got to be one of the strangest ad campaigns i've ever seen, advertisements meant to draw Belgians to London, one depicting a shirtless skinhead, whose back is painted with the English flag, urinating into a tea cup, have drawn mixed reaction from train passengers in London and Belgium.
What is there really to say? The Brits are losing it? A skinhead is fun? Let me book the next flight to London I can't wait to hang out with some skinheads...

Does the fact that we have the Mannequin Piss lead the British to believe we all have a fascination with peeing?

Click here to read the full story and see pictures of the ads in the Daily Mail.

Pissing game banned by Belgium police

In the land of the Mannekin Pis, how can this be true? A urinal-based racing game was making the rounds this summer. The one you drive with your whizz, and warns you against drunk driving if you're not controlling your car too well? Well the Belgium police didn't seem to find it too amusing, and have banned the "Place to Pee" version of the game installed at GamePower Expo in Gent, Belgium as an indecency offence.

I'm guessing that's much more important than trying to find ways to keep prisoners from breaking out of jail every week.

Mannekin Pis drips for prostate awareness

The usual free-flowing stream coming from the Manneken Pis, slowed to a drip Friday to raise awareness about prostate cancer. For passers-by in the Belgian and European capital on what was European prostate awareness day, a banner was set up alongside marked: 'Having trouble urinating? Get your prostate checked in time.'