A new Amsterdam connection

Started by milnie, March 30, 2012, 10:00:31 AM

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milnie

To celebrate my 200rh post, good news :)
My family and I will be moving to holland later this year to the lovely city of Nijmegen.
It may have been a bridge too far for the allies but I am confident my dudelyness will pass in a pretty cool place.
Now if i can just find the right place for the rug ...
quod tendo non ut pallens adeo in terminus!

Caesar dude

Now that is cool.....it's so much nicer than Milngavie I assure you.

I used to hang out there when I was stationed in Germany...Overloon is another dudely town..

I'm pleased for you dude.

Peace
Love is like a butterfly it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes. :)

DigitalBuddha

Looks like an awesome place to abide, dude! A local dudetopia.


meekon5

My Dad was airforce, when he was posted to Wildenrath we lived on the Dutch German border in Leik near Heinzberg.

We used to go shopping on the weekends in Holland.

I also had a few very good Dutch friends at Uni, unfortunately I've lost contact with most of them.
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and  that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
Stephen Hawking

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DigitalBuddha

Quote from: meekon5 on March 30, 2012, 05:54:07 PM
My Dad was airforce, when he was posted to Wildenrath we lived on the Dutch German border in Leik near Heinzberg.

We used to go shopping on the weekends in Holland.

I also had a few very good Dutch friends at Uni, unfortunately I've lost contact with most of them.

If I were to move to Europe, Holland would be a place I would dig living in. Great culture! I'm really just a transplanted European (like many Americans). My background is British (both parents born there and went through the London blitz), I was born on this side of the "pond." I have relatives all over England. It's in my blood, I love a good ale at a pub! We have one in Santa Monica, CA; The King's Head Pub (a favorite hangout)..... http://www.yeoldekingshead.com/


BikerDude

Cool!
I hear they got some killer weed.

Cmon .... like that wasn't the first thing that came to everybody's mind.


Out here we are all his children


DigitalBuddha


meekon5

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on March 30, 2012, 06:27:40 PM
Quote from: meekon5 on March 30, 2012, 05:54:07 PM
My Dad was airforce, when he was posted to Wildenrath we lived on the Dutch German border in Leik near Heinzberg.

We used to go shopping on the weekends in Holland.

I also had a few very good Dutch friends at Uni, unfortunately I've lost contact with most of them.

If I were to move to Europe, Holland would be a place I would dig living in. Great culture! I'm really just a transplanted European (like many Americans). My background is British (both parents born there and went through the London blitz), I was born on this side of the "pond." I have relatives all over England. It's in my blood, I love a good ale at a pub!

I give the traditional british pub about another five to ten years before it's gone.

Big national chains greed has been slowly killing it but the new drink legislation will cause it a big problem (minimum price per unit), and wont solve the culture of binge drinking. People will do what they have always done in these situations, turn to illegal cheaper sources.
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and  that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
Stephen Hawking

Where are you Dude? Place your pin @ http://tinyurl.com/dudemap

DigitalBuddha

Quote from: meekon5 on March 31, 2012, 03:59:17 PM
Quote from: DigitalBuddha on March 30, 2012, 06:27:40 PM
Quote from: meekon5 on March 30, 2012, 05:54:07 PM
My Dad was airforce, when he was posted to Wildenrath we lived on the Dutch German border in Leik near Heinzberg.

We used to go shopping on the weekends in Holland.

I also had a few very good Dutch friends at Uni, unfortunately I've lost contact with most of them.

If I were to move to Europe, Holland would be a place I would dig living in. Great culture! I'm really just a transplanted European (like many Americans). My background is British (both parents born there and went through the London blitz), I was born on this side of the "pond." I have relatives all over England. It's in my blood, I love a good ale at a pub!

I give the traditional british pub about another five to ten years before it's gone.

Big national chains greed has been slowly killing it but the new drink legislation will cause it a big problem (minimum price per unit), and wont solve the culture of binge drinking. People will do what they have always done in these situations, turn to illegal cheaper sources.

Are they increasing the price so people won't drink? The dipshits who thought of that need to take a hint, we tried it in the 20's; "prohibition," was a massive disaster and more or less gave us modern organized crime. As if a government can tell a people they can't have a drink (or smoke, for that matter)! Really stupid! LOL, we did anyway. State after state in the US are passing laws legalizing hemp. The feds are having a shit fit over it!






milnie

Cheers dudes, will try to keep you all posted as matters develop. Use this as a bit of a blog if that's cool with the powers that be? I have a few months left in old blighty yet :)
quod tendo non ut pallens adeo in terminus!

DigitalBuddha

Quote from: milnie on March 31, 2012, 05:43:53 PM
Cheers dudes, will try to keep you all posted as matters develop. Use this as a bit of a blog if that's cool with the powers that be? I have a few months left in old blighty yet :)

Far fuckin' out, dude; let us know how it all abides.

Caesar dude

QuoteAre they increasing the price so people won't drink?

They're doing it so the "poorer" won't drink. It's aimed at the lower social class of people who buy cider at 3 pounds a plastic bottle...low in price but high in alcoholic content....as Meekon says it won't stop a thing....the black market in tobacco is as high as it's ever been and alcohol can be brought in by the van load from the continent...then sold on cheaply....it's a crock of shit!

Sales of home brew kits will sore and people will brew there own and sell it....it won't change anything...

Prohibition for the poor! :)
Love is like a butterfly it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes. :)

DigitalBuddha

Quote from: Caesar dude on April 01, 2012, 03:55:20 PM
QuoteAre they increasing the price so people won't drink?

Sales of home brew kits will sore and people will brew there own and sell it....it won't change anything...


;D Like this.....................



cookiemeat

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on April 01, 2012, 04:18:59 PM
Quote from: Caesar dude on April 01, 2012, 03:55:20 PM
QuoteAre they increasing the price so people won't drink?

Sales of home brew kits will sore and people will brew there own and sell it....it won't change anything...


;D Like this.....................




can you attach a reflux condenser to one of those kegs? get a three foot column running and make you some poteen

DigitalBuddha

Quote from: cookiemeat on April 01, 2012, 10:24:46 PM
Quote from: DigitalBuddha on April 01, 2012, 04:18:59 PM
Quote from: Caesar dude on April 01, 2012, 03:55:20 PM
QuoteAre they increasing the price so people won't drink?

Sales of home brew kits will sore and people will brew there own and sell it....it won't change anything...


;D Like this.....................




can you attach a reflux condenser to one of those kegs? get a three foot column running and make you some poteen

Fuckin' eh! Sounds like a damn good idea!