Still No Governement

[franceslievens]

Our votes on June 10th have still brought us nothing. The media can only go on saying that the governement is only in formation stage, and isn't fully formed just yet. The same news every day. The only fun thing about it are the media trying to wrap the same message up in different words. Journalists stretch themselves in finding the best metaphore to describe a situation of inertia, lack of confidence and quibbling. On the radio today I heard the best yet: "Het lijkt erop dat de oranje-blauwe appelsien meer weg heeft van een mandarineke." [It seems the orange-blue* orange starts to look like a tangerine.]

*Orange stands for the (Christian) Democrats (Flemish CD&V is still Christian, Francophone CDH calls itself "humanist") and blue for the liberal parties.

Comments

[lijability.livejournal.com]

Everytime I've seen blue on an orange, it was mold.
Which is perhaps an apt description also.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

LOL

Our mold is usualy green...

Maybe it turns blue on oranges. I've never actualy seen a moldy orange. They tend to lie in the fruit basket and shrivel away, sometimes turning into a pulp (but that's usualy the pears).