@dumdristig Wow are you going for some kind of record? ;P
But please keep writing as you are, I'm always looking forward to reading it and writing back ;)
I can't remember what I wrote, and I can't look it up (unless you know a way). But I can assure you I didn't mean anything to upset you in any way. I like making jokes, even if they might not be funny, but there is the risk that people don't get it or get offended. So please ask me if you find yourself in that situation. I hate having people getting offended by me when I didn't intended it... ;)
So what are the languages you want to practice in?
I understand yes. It is never good if the "extra" (in this case sport) gets in the way of academics. And especially in the long-term. I can't be good when physically gifted people, who usually are able to work their chosen profession for a few years, get the privileges over people that will work decades and actually provide the things a society/country needs.
I don't get the hero-status some athletes have. I understand winning is a nice feeling, and watching sports is fun. But I am much more in awe of people that actually make useful things happen. The same goes for film and music artists. Entertainment is important and I like the fact that we have lots of it. But elevating an actor,musician or athlete to a god-like status is idiotic. I can like someones work, and might be a little interested in more, but it would never cross my mind to ambush a "celebrity" for a little scribble on a piece of paper, like thousands of other people have too...
Broomball seems like a very nice sport. I'm definitely going to see if we have anything like it here. Since winter is coming up there must be some ice rings that are organizing all kinds of ice-games.
Very interesting, that part about where it might come from. It does explain more about the sport.
Ow yeah, that makes it indeed more relaxing. I didn't think about that.
I can imagine. Today I was helping a friend who is fixing up the house she is going to live in. On the way there we had to use a highway with 4/5 lanes. When getting into the part with 4 lanes, a grey car was trying to get in the lane next to us. He was driving in such a straight diagonal line, coming so close to us that I got a fright. My friend hadn't seen the car but softly hit the break because she saw my reaction. At that point the grey car drove further diagonally and bumped us so hard that the whole car almost turned 45 degrees. Luckily there were hardly any other cars behind us and my friends car had very little damage. But It was so scary. My hart even starts beating a little faster writing this. So I really feel for you getting scared a bit when doing a spin.
Ah well you can't be good at everything. I imagine it would be very boring if you were. Never anything to learn, and everybody being jealous :P
I'm sorry, did I said "only" foreigners? I didn't mean that. It is the foreigners that use the most, or as you wrote "the rates are higher". But is also more people in a total that are foreigners. Usually foreigners that live here for a longer time.
We don't really have campuses in the Netherlands. Our country is small enough to travel, and people that do move closer to school pay for their own houses/apartments/rooms themselves (with a part paid by the government). So drinking is legal at 18 everywhere, you only have to follow the normal national alcohol laws. In my previous college, there even was a bar in-between two buildings of the college. It opened at 13:00 hours or earlier in summer. That is indeed a very common reaction. Since we've changed the legal drinking of alcohol age from 16 to 18 years, we have had a lot of 16-year-olds with alcohol-coma's and things like that.
A Scottish accent doesn't sound like a Dutch one, I agree. But the one that sounds like Sean Connery's does have a lot of similar sounds to a Dutch one. Especially the "s" is a very good example. I find that Bill Bailey and Adam Hills do quite a good Dutch accent in my opinion.
Yes I'm going to try something like that indeed. I will let you know. But I don't know when that will happen, as I just got word that he is leaving for Australia for some reason... But that shouldn't hold him from chatting online, although he is going to somewhere in the middle of the country, in rural area's. I'm already looking forward to pictures etc.
That leaves a lot of continents left. Goals do make things easier I agree. When I was in Ireland, I didn't have as much opportunity to travel, and goals were an important part when travelling. Even though I didn't reach most of them. That is not good at all. At the moment I only have an I.D. card that fits in my wallet easily, but I would really need to have a very good place when I get a passport. It must have been very disappointing. Yeah well indeed, look on the bright side.
I like reading books a lot as well. But I read most in Dutch, so you'll probably don't know them. You might know the Scottish writer Allistar MacLean, although he was more popular around the 1950/1960 when he wrote the most. I recently bought "Lord of the Flies" in English, and I had to read a lot of English in school. As a nation we love reading a lot. My father has the biggest reading-record in our family. He can easily read a whole book in two days. And he only reads in the evenings and during breakfast. But he spends his talent on Karl May books
I am more of a film fan.
Creating images of characters probably comes from that. I do "think in pictures" a lot. Seeing things on paper before drawing it or playing a scenario in my head wile people are telling a story, is very common for me. As I said "Locke" has a lot of dialogue, so I am quite curious what you would think of it. But don't watch it for me though. I'm happy you aren't going to see Noah, because it really is a waste.
I just like to know more about it when a historical book interests me. For me it adds to the book.
I agree. An author can make and break a various important elements. I like how you are mostly about plot and dialogue. I've never had such discussions/conversations with someone conceptualize the way you do.
Getting out of the busyness of kids is a very good thing. "Children are the sweetest when they sleep", is one of the most used phrases around our house when referring to kids. It must be a lot more difficult, changing from just you to five others in the house.
13 hours by car gets me in a country next to our neighboring countries, that is far away indeed.
I'm always the shoe. I've never been anything else since I started playing at 6 years old. It just makes sense stepping with a shoe instead of a hat or something. Playing with more made-up people is even lovelier, but also more difficult and it takes so incredibly long...
Ah great, another person that absolutely loves TBBT. I stopped watching everything that was similar to TBBT because everything seems like a bad knock-off compared to TBBT. Do you mean the episode which features the English Stephen Merchant? I think they will get back together to. But I like that they are making Amy a little more desirable, because since she grew so much under the hands of Penny and Bernadette, she was still set up as destined to be alone or only able to get someone weirder than her. So I hope they play out this scenario a little longer, but I might be better for Sheldon to get some consistency and certainty again. My eldest sister has a from of autism with some other things and I recognize so many things of her in Sheldon. Luckily my sister is the example of helpfulness and is very loud and happy most of the time.
Well thank you. The way our countries are build up differs a lot. But for some reason our countries seem to look up to the USA, but then we also call you stupid behind your back. So weird.
Right... That is a long time, 10 years. At least it is for me, as I haven't had one job for longer than 4 years. It indeed is. But I was slowly going into that direction. Maybe by our 75th message I would have had a certain guess :P. These days I find "working in ICT/computers" is always a good guess. So that means you traveled mostly for pleasure, that makes it even better.
At the moment I am looking for a job. And I really need to get one, because I want to travel as well and I don't have enough funds to get anywhere right now.
I have a diploma (how we call it) in Interior design/architecture. Before that I got a diploma in construction and carpentry. When I started the diploma's there were a lot of small businesses coming up. By the time I finished, everything was collapsed and I couldn't find a job. So I worked a company that sold high-class furniture. I had an internship there and I took them up on the promises that I could come back if i needed work :P. The only job they had was in Deliveries and Customer Service. So I did that for four years and for the last one and a half I took night-classes to become an teacher. I wanted to go for English teacher. I got very sick and quit my job to go to school every day. But I can't get anymore funding from the government, and I can't get a job at a school. I have no time to go to school, internships, homework and work at the same time. So I had to quit school and am trying to find a job, move out and picking up school if I don't find anything that I like doing.
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@dumdristig Wow are you going for some kind of record? ;P
But please keep writing as you are, I'm always looking forward to reading it and writing back ;)
I can't remember what I wrote, and I can't look it up (unless you know a way). But I can assure you I didn't mean anything to upset you in any way. I like making jokes, even if they might not be funny, but there is the risk that people don't get it or get offended. So please ask me if you find yourself in that situation. I hate having people getting offended by me when I didn't intended it... ;)
So what are the languages you want to practice in?
I understand yes. It is never good if the "extra" (in this case sport) gets in the way of academics. And especially in the long-term. I can't be good when physically gifted people, who usually are able to work their chosen profession for a few years, get the privileges over people that will work decades and actually provide the things a society/country needs.
I don't get the hero-status some athletes have. I understand winning is a nice feeling, and watching sports is fun. But I am much more in awe of people that actually make useful things happen. The same goes for film and music artists. Entertainment is important and I like the fact that we have lots of it. But elevating an actor,musician or athlete to a god-like status is idiotic. I can like someones work, and might be a little interested in more, but it would never cross my mind to ambush a "celebrity" for a little scribble on a piece of paper, like thousands of other people have too...
Broomball seems like a very nice sport. I'm definitely going to see if we have anything like it here. Since winter is coming up there must be some ice rings that are organizing all kinds of ice-games.
Very interesting, that part about where it might come from. It does explain more about the sport.
Ow yeah, that makes it indeed more relaxing. I didn't think about that.
I can imagine. Today I was helping a friend who is fixing up the house she is going to live in. On the way there we had to use a highway with 4/5 lanes. When getting into the part with 4 lanes, a grey car was trying to get in the lane next to us. He was driving in such a straight diagonal line, coming so close to us that I got a fright. My friend hadn't seen the car but softly hit the break because she saw my reaction. At that point the grey car drove further diagonally and bumped us so hard that the whole car almost turned 45 degrees. Luckily there were hardly any other cars behind us and my friends car had very little damage. But It was so scary. My hart even starts beating a little faster writing this. So I really feel for you getting scared a bit when doing a spin.
Ah well you can't be good at everything. I imagine it would be very boring if you were. Never anything to learn, and everybody being jealous :P
I'm sorry, did I said "only" foreigners? I didn't mean that. It is the foreigners that use the most, or as you wrote "the rates are higher". But is also more people in a total that are foreigners. Usually foreigners that live here for a longer time.
We don't really have campuses in the Netherlands. Our country is small enough to travel, and people that do move closer to school pay for their own houses/apartments/rooms themselves (with a part paid by the government). So drinking is legal at 18 everywhere, you only have to follow the normal national alcohol laws. In my previous college, there even was a bar in-between two buildings of the college. It opened at 13:00 hours or earlier in summer. That is indeed a very common reaction. Since we've changed the legal drinking of alcohol age from 16 to 18 years, we have had a lot of 16-year-olds with alcohol-coma's and things like that.
A Scottish accent doesn't sound like a Dutch one, I agree. But the one that sounds like Sean Connery's does have a lot of similar sounds to a Dutch one. Especially the "s" is a very good example. I find that Bill Bailey and Adam Hills do quite a good Dutch accent in my opinion.
Yes I'm going to try something like that indeed. I will let you know. But I don't know when that will happen, as I just got word that he is leaving for Australia for some reason... But that shouldn't hold him from chatting online, although he is going to somewhere in the middle of the country, in rural area's. I'm already looking forward to pictures etc.
That leaves a lot of continents left. Goals do make things easier I agree. When I was in Ireland, I didn't have as much opportunity to travel, and goals were an important part when travelling. Even though I didn't reach most of them. That is not good at all. At the moment I only have an I.D. card that fits in my wallet easily, but I would really need to have a very good place when I get a passport. It must have been very disappointing. Yeah well indeed, look on the bright side.
I like reading books a lot as well. But I read most in Dutch, so you'll probably don't know them. You might know the Scottish writer Allistar MacLean, although he was more popular around the 1950/1960 when he wrote the most. I recently bought "Lord of the Flies" in English, and I had to read a lot of English in school. As a nation we love reading a lot. My father has the biggest reading-record in our family. He can easily read a whole book in two days. And he only reads in the evenings and during breakfast. But he spends his talent on Karl May books
I am more of a film fan.
Creating images of characters probably comes from that. I do "think in pictures" a lot. Seeing things on paper before drawing it or playing a scenario in my head wile people are telling a story, is very common for me. As I said "Locke" has a lot of dialogue, so I am quite curious what you would think of it. But don't watch it for me though. I'm happy you aren't going to see Noah, because it really is a waste.
I just like to know more about it when a historical book interests me. For me it adds to the book.
I agree. An author can make and break a various important elements. I like how you are mostly about plot and dialogue. I've never had such discussions/conversations with someone conceptualize the way you do.
Getting out of the busyness of kids is a very good thing. "Children are the sweetest when they sleep", is one of the most used phrases around our house when referring to kids. It must be a lot more difficult, changing from just you to five others in the house.
13 hours by car gets me in a country next to our neighboring countries, that is far away indeed.
I'm always the shoe. I've never been anything else since I started playing at 6 years old. It just makes sense stepping with a shoe instead of a hat or something. Playing with more made-up people is even lovelier, but also more difficult and it takes so incredibly long...
Ah great, another person that absolutely loves TBBT. I stopped watching everything that was similar to TBBT because everything seems like a bad knock-off compared to TBBT. Do you mean the episode which features the English Stephen Merchant? I think they will get back together to. But I like that they are making Amy a little more desirable, because since she grew so much under the hands of Penny and Bernadette, she was still set up as destined to be alone or only able to get someone weirder than her. So I hope they play out this scenario a little longer, but I might be better for Sheldon to get some consistency and certainty again. My eldest sister has a from of autism with some other things and I recognize so many things of her in Sheldon. Luckily my sister is the example of helpfulness and is very loud and happy most of the time.
Well thank you. The way our countries are build up differs a lot. But for some reason our countries seem to look up to the USA, but then we also call you stupid behind your back. So weird.
Right... That is a long time, 10 years. At least it is for me, as I haven't had one job for longer than 4 years. It indeed is. But I was slowly going into that direction. Maybe by our 75th message I would have had a certain guess :P. These days I find "working in ICT/computers" is always a good guess. So that means you traveled mostly for pleasure, that makes it even better.
At the moment I am looking for a job. And I really need to get one, because I want to travel as well and I don't have enough funds to get anywhere right now.
I have a diploma (how we call it) in Interior design/architecture. Before that I got a diploma in construction and carpentry. When I started the diploma's there were a lot of small businesses coming up. By the time I finished, everything was collapsed and I couldn't find a job. So I worked a company that sold high-class furniture. I had an internship there and I took them up on the promises that I could come back if i needed work :P. The only job they had was in Deliveries and Customer Service. So I did that for four years and for the last one and a half I took night-classes to become an teacher. I wanted to go for English teacher. I got very sick and quit my job to go to school every day. But I can't get anymore funding from the government, and I can't get a job at a school. I have no time to go to school, internships, homework and work at the same time. So I had to quit school and am trying to find a job, move out and picking up school if I don't find anything that I like doing.