And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Damn, I wish I could still do fun things like that without breaking something. Maybe she will do it again for all of us used to do crazy things old farts.
Relax, these are athletes competing in a contest. It is called fierljeppen (far leaping). The Dutch countryside has a lot of ditches to manage the water. When crossing the fields you use a tall walkingstick to jump the ditches. normal jumping is too far and walking around is almost impossible.
Damn, I wish I could still do fun things like that without breaking something. Maybe she will do it again for all of us used to do crazy things old farts.
ReplyDeleteI'm old, CW, but I might be able to pull that one off... or it would splash me. Still fun.
ReplyDeleteRelax, these are athletes competing in a contest. It is called fierljeppen (far leaping). The Dutch countryside has a lot of ditches to manage the water. When crossing the fields you use a tall walkingstick to jump the ditches. normal jumping is too far and walking around is almost impossible.
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