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ColourofFire said:
I love how foreigners keep banging on about the clogs. I have never ever in my life wore any clogs :embarrassed:

I know just one person who actually wears them on his parents' farm.
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I work in Deepest Drenthe. I don't live there, because Deepest Drenthe, but friends of mine who did said it was completely normal for the locals to drive their tractors to the bank, in their clogs.

I've seen old people walking dogs in clogs around here too. Also: there really is a metric fuckbunch of (decorative, old) windmills around. And tulips.
 
vonbladet said:
I work in Deepest Drenthe. I don't live there, because Deepest Drenthe, but friends of mine who did said it was completely normal for the locals to drive their tractors to the bank, in their clogs.

I've seen old people walking dogs in clogs around here too. Also: there really is a metric fuckbunch of (decorative, old) windmills around. And tulips.
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Hehe, my grandmother lived in a small village Drenthe for quite some time. Never saw a lot of clogs there either, but I can certainly imagine farm villages especially towards the east being horribly cloggy :embarrassed:
 
I am from near Eindhoven and especially the farmers all wore clogs in the days. Regular people., not so much.

Now smoking funny Dutch cigarettes, that was something else :embarrassed:
 
wok said:
Now smoking funny Dutch cigarettes, that was something else :embarrassed:
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I've been here for eight years, now, and I still haven't puffed on a local jazz cigarette. A couple of weeks ago I popped down to Amsterdam and I was unpleasantly surprised by the prevailing odour of Stoned Tourist.
 
vonbladet said:
I've been here for eight years, now, and I still haven't puffed on a local jazz cigarette. A couple of weeks ago I popped down to Amsterdam and I was unpleasantly surprised by the prevailing odour of Stoned Tourist.
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I dont like Amsterdam all that much and drunk/stoned tourists dont help much.

Jazz cigarettes gave me panic attacks so I havent touched the stuff in about 20 years.
 
Morning all.

Fed up to the back teeth with cars at the moment. In the last 3 to 4 weeks, the wife's car needed a new wheel bearing, my car decided to bind the hand brake on due to a f*cked brake cable, the younger daughter's car needed a new coil pack (grateful that's all it was as we thought her arsehole partner had trashed the engine driving like a dickhead when he took the car out), the older daughter's car needed replacing so we had to buy a new one which she now needs to pay us back for, and now mine is playing up again with a suspected gearbox/clutch failure as the 2nd and 3rd gears are grinding like buggery!

AAAAAARGGGGGHH! :mad:

/rant
 
So...in another episode of "how stupid sports reporters are", one reporter asks a random guy in the street if he remembers the 1967 Merseyside derby.
"Yeah, I played". That random guy...Tommy Lawrence. :grin:

Not hard getting that kind of job apparently. :grin:
 
Afternoon folk who are working while I've got two days off in which I was planning on getting a tonne done around the house but as it stands I'm going to put some pants on at some stage and go to the pub :Wave:

Speaking of Ze Chermanz a buddy of mine has just accepted a job (well i say a job, he's one of those forever student types) in Mainz. Would be super cool to have a base so close to Frankfurt but he's a bit of a tit and I doubt he'll have the savvy to invite anyone over.

Which leads me to my next relevant point - I've messed up my Summer holidays by takign on too many gigs meaning we can't go a proper big holiday so me and the missus are probably going to head to Amsterdam for a few days :embarrassed: but she wants to check somewhere else out too that's in reasonable train or bus distance. Any ideas? I'd quite happily sit in my digs in the Dam for a week right enough :grin:
 
I used to have a Swiss bank account. I was living in Switzerland at the time so it wasn't unreasonable :embarrassed:
 
jbj said:
Afternoon folk who are working while I've got two days off in which I was planning on getting a tonne done around the house but as it stands I'm going to put some pants on at some stage and go to the pub :Wave:

Speaking of Ze Chermanz a buddy of mine has just accepted a job (well i say a job, he's one of those forever student types) in Mainz. Would be super cool to have a base so close to Frankfurt but he's a bit of a tit and I doubt he'll have the savvy to invite anyone over.

Which leads me to my next relevant point - I've messed up my Summer holidays by takign on too many gigs meaning we can't go a proper big holiday so me and the missus are probably going to head to Amsterdam for a few days :embarrassed: but she wants to check somewhere else out too that's in reasonable train or bus distance. Any ideas? I'd quite happily sit in my digs in the Dam for a week right enough :grin:
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Rotterdam is quite the place to be at the moment. It's 1:30 hours by normal train, 40 if you take the fast one. It was (relatively) crazy busy with tourists last summer, apparently it's architectural city of the world and the hot place to be or something.

I lived there for over 7 years, I liked it a lot, I have no idea what's so awesome about it as a tourist but well. If you want to go there and want some tips/places to go, let me know.



Just spent over an hour getting some code to work, couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. Just before I hit the point of throwing stuff at my screen there was a tiny blogpost somewhere on the 7th page of my google search that noted there's a bug in one of the libraries that's used to load openGL textures that causes memory errors in very specific circumstances :facepalm:
 
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So can one acquire jazz ciagerettes in Rotterdam?

More importantly. can one walk around there without hearing that stupid Beautiful South song?
 
jbj said:
So can one acquire jazz ciagerettes in Rotterdam?

More importantly. can one walk around there without hearing that stupid Beautiful South song?
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Ofcourse you can, there's more than enough coffeeshops. And what's the Beautiful South song?
 
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