I have spent a great deal of time in the Netherlands. I love the people if not the cuisine and I find the coffee shops help immensely with my insomnia. I find that many of the Dutch have a bizarre sense of humour which over meshes with my own. One wonders if the "joke" that was De Grote Donorshow might have been a step too far. The show, which promised a terminally ill woman who would pick one of three contestants, all of them seriously ill, to receive her kidneys after death turned out to be a hoax intended to raise awareness of organ donation. The contestants, who were wish to the deception, were indeed all in need of donated kidneys but the supposedly terminal woman was really an actor. The show was produced by Endemol Nederlands who has given the world Big Brother and taken untold profits in return.
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