queens day 2005

i agree totally guys.......guess i used the word "locals" too loosely.
but this poster is a first time amsterdam tourist and will go to some touristy places for the sake of ease if none other. ie restaurants by the leidseplein

please also note that i didn't exclusively mean "dutch" people when i said locals...70+% of amsterdams population is of non-dutch heritage. (lot of people seeking political amnisty / asylm sp? move to holland as well)

i just wanted to alert the poster to some subtle differences that exist so that such differences don't take away from the posters overall first experience! personally i found that the more you go the better of an experience you have. You know what your doing....and this fact CHANGES both

the people you meet and interact with
and the way you are treated.

its human nature.....you wouldn't speak long-windedly about a Van-Gogh painting to a 4 week old child, but 2 art majors could debate about it for days. likewise, a local (for the sake of keeping the conversation flowing) will talk to you about european culture on a level that you, the tourist, can appreciate. the more you've been there and the more you know, the finer the details contributed in subsequent interactions become.

some locals look after the "baby lambs" with protective motives, others with friendly agendas, and unfortunately others with unfriendly agendas.......its all about interacting with the right people.

 

So how many times have you been Koopa.?

 

4x's.....leaving for trip 5 next week

 

#5 for me also koopa. not to many days to go

 

i agree that at times people seem rude but thats probably cuz they playa hatin on your vacation. fuck em. i also believe its becuase they got tight gun control. nothing makes you say i'm sorry faster than the possibility that the guy whose shoes you just scuffed might be packin.

 

hey everybody a FEBO straight ahead!!!! ha ha ha ha

 

Mopperm - No worries about whether your governmment are popular over here at the moment. Anyone who judges you based on opinion of them really ain't worth dealing with; to me you're just a dude from somewhere else (and a friendly one at that)

mafuman - you've got to be kidding right? Lack of gun control makes people nicer to each other? A very interesting concept! Does that happen in you neighbourhood? People blowing each others head off for stepping on someones toe? You live in the wild west I assume? Sounds terrifying!

This will be my fourth time over - we'll try and drop into De Kuil but won't be joining you at the boat party (good thing -might be v. crowded!) as we've been invited to another one.

 

i was kidding (a little), but i do hear gunfire every weekend (in the summer). I'm not sure how common that is for the rest of y'all.
i seen signs at the febo in amsterdam saying no guns or knifes allowed inside. gotta keep the krokets safe.

 

Gun Control Shmun control, in all my travels Amsterdam was the only place I've ever been mugged, and that was with a knife. But I still love the city and hold no grudges.

 

see you'da been safe if you had just stayed in the FEBO

 

So those are my choices? A loaded gun or a loaded Kroket, I wonder which one would kill you faster.

 

the gun is faster.................but only gives you a stomach ache if your shot in the belly

 

either way you're gonna shit your pants

 

Had a bad experience on previostrip when caned out of my tree.Almost got run over in cycle lane by guy on scooter,how embarressing,and then when i got back to hotel and realising how lucky i was to get away injury free some poor bastard got shot dead outside hotel by an assasin...... did i shit myself or what.Hope theres better karma on this trip.
thats the reason its my first jaunt to adam for six years guess the place wont have changed much......cant wait till next thursday

 

wassup mafuman,

when are we going back to the motherland?
i'm down to try a kroket.

next cubicle

 

Maybe that's what the Dutch Riot Police use - Kroket guns?

Who remembers Spud guns (or know what one is)? They're about as close as most of us Europeans get to 'packing heat' !!

 

kid i knew in highschool made a thing called an ether cannon....it was a potato launcher!

 

something very satisfying bout sticking barrel of gun into a murphy , nice and soft.

thats a spud not an irishman........

 

talkin about potatoes and violence...


scurvy, brought on by a deficiency in vitamin c, did not only effect sailors. it was common for land lubbers to get it to due to shitty diets. when the potatoe was invented and brought to europe it led to a decrease in scurvy amongst the land dwellers cuz potatoes have vitamin c.

now if there was some kinda potato shortage, people would get pretty riled, not only did they have nothing to eat but now they got to worry about their teeth fallin out. anyways potato shortages would bring people out to the streets where they would pry up cobblestones to chuck at the cops.

so eventually all the streets became paved, especially in bad neighborhoods.

the last potato riot in amsterdam was in the early 1900's.

there have been no known kroket riots.

 

LOL.......

no known amstel or heineken riots either!!!!!!