We will have a queen with humor and I think that is a good prospect now that our country is making a somewhat overheated impression. Amalia said last week that she is extra grateful because, despite the tight housing market, she has been able to find a room in our capital. Despite the tight housing market! If that’s not funny?
Where did she find her student room? Given the speed with which she succeeded, I’m betting on Zuid-Oost or De Baarsjes. Just hope for her that she isn’t tucked away by some rogue slum landlord in a damp basement with no daylight. Or in a musty attic room without a toilet, which means she has to go down two flights of stairs every night to pee. Hope it goes well.
And now let’s hope that she will be drawn into the Amsterdam Student Corps. Because that seems to be quite difficult. But is it still fun there? The corps announced this week that nothing more can happen during the hazing with the zero-year students. They will only grow vegan macramé and organic quinoa. In the past they sometimes stood up to their necks in a dirty pond in the Vondelpark for a night, imitating a frog. Or they were dropped somewhere on the Veluwe in some hunting grounds. The latter had been fun for Amalia. Because she recently got a real hunting license. At her father’s insistence. She doesn’t seem to want to kill animals herself. But what to do with such a deed? Is she going to resuscitate the Bambis who had been shot by daddy? With the animal ambulance after him?
It remains such a witty fairytale family. I hope we can keep them for a while after the coming civil war. While a president also seems like something to me. Especially now that I read that with “I-am-the-fucking-president” Donald Trump the ketchup dripped off the wall. He threw his plate of food furiously. That’s top entertainment, isn’t it? He had also pulled the wheel of his limo, wanted to strangle one of his guards, and allowed his followers to walk up to the Capitol armed with machine guns. Wonderful husband.
Will our future Prime Minister Gideon van Meijeren ever do the same? Or will Caroline van der Plas intervene? Where is Thierry at that moment? He is then our president and is in the dacha clapping for Putin who is celebrating his 500th war crime.
Burning question: will our fragile democracy indeed end and a real civil war break out soon? It is not to be hoped, because the general practitioners are taking action and with their overcrowded office hours, they have absolutely no time for war victims.
Will those injured also cause so much red tape?
And I wouldn’t report to the heart department of the Isala in Zwolle for the time being. There are all the cheating touts in jail because they had more heart for the cause than for their patients. Everyone contributed. The interesting thing is that this criminal organization has been able to shamelessly exist within the hospital for years. It only gave some kinnesinne among the cardiologists themselves. One got a million more than the other. And that is indeed not fair.
Will an expensive diamond of 27 million occasionally be placed in a display case on the Tefaf for that kind of Sywerts? So that their lives still have some meaning. 27 Million! You will have it around your neck.
All ingredients for a civil war. Everyone is furious. Not just the farmers and the benefit parents and the students and the house hunters and the wappies and the gas station owners and…
The Groningen people are too. Had a NAM lawyer told an earthquake victim that the cracks in his house were caused by a too noisy stick blender? Or was it the screaming goldfish? Lawyer! Such a beautiful job!
Conclusion? I am gone. Long and far. Vacation? KLM, which is financially healthy again, calls it a flight. And that’s what I’m calling it this time. I’m already at Schiphol. When do I fly? Tuesday! The twelfth!
A version of this article also appeared in the newspaper of 2 July 2022