Ask A Foreigner

The Batlord · 05-02-2011, 01:57 PM

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Very flat: I live in Limburg, which has quite some hills.

You mean like the stinky cheese?! Oh yeah, can't mention cheese. Sorry. I guess people are so obsessed with the Netherlands cause of the weed and hookers that everything of note in the country has already become a stereotype...Oh yeah! Severe Torture is a Dutch death metal band right? That's all I got.

s_k · 05-02-2011, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

Oh yeah, apparently the Dutch love Canadian tourists? I should go there someday.

Seriously? I like all Canadians here I believe.

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

The Dutch are now my enemies by association!!
CANADA!!!
*shakes fist violently to the sky*

Haha, I thought you wanted to visit me some time soon?

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

I actually disagree entirely with the removal of brothels, as they serve to provide a safe environment for working women to do what they're going to do dangerously on the street anyways.

You are 300% right.

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Originally Posted by Il Duce

when I think of the Netherlands, only Margo (the girl I met on Friday on the bus) springs to mind

Do you have a surname and any idea in which city she lives?

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

You mean like the stinky cheese?! Oh yeah, can't mention cheese. Sorry. I guess people are so obsessed with the Netherlands cause of the weed and hookers that everything of note in the country has already become a stereotype...Oh yeah! Severe Torture is a Dutch death metal band right? That's all I got.

Haha, the stinky Cheese comes from here, too. It tastes a damn lot better than it smells.
It's pretty surreal to see how hookers and drugs seem so interesting to most of you while I don't know much people who do drugs (I have just one friend who regularly does drugs...) and I don't think I know anyone who ever went to see a hooker. Neither of those things is all that common here. I think the tourists see a different The Netherlands than the Dutch do

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I never heard of Severe Torture, so I looked it up. And yes, it is.

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Howard the Duck · 05-02-2011, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by s_k

Do you have a surname and any idea in which city she lives?

She's from Amsterdam and is a medical student. didn't get her surname.

The Batlord · 05-03-2011, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by s_k

I never heard of Severe Torture, so I looked it up. And yes, it is.

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A foreigner had to tell you about your own country's music? For shame!

Zaqarbal · 05-03-2011, 12:02 PM

I've just remembered two great Dutch authors that I love:

Baruch Spinoza, amazing Philosopher of Sephardic descent (Spinoza = Espinosa). The man who intellectually destroyed the three main monotheistic religions with an impeccable rationalism. My hero!!
Johan Huizinga, one of the best Historians from the 20th century.

Freebase Dali · 05-02-2011, 05:32 PM

I went to the RLD when I was there (Amsterdam). We were told not to take pictures.

Little did they know, I had a penis-cam.

Seriously though, I support brothels. They promote clean, relatively good-looking whores that don't get killed, or otherwise bludgeoned to near death, by Johns. Amsterdam had the highest-class whores I've ever seen. Even Frankfurt, Germany couldn't match them.

Howard the Duck · 05-04-2011, 09:23 AM

^^unless it's a war

or you're Osama's headhunter

FETCHER. · 05-04-2011, 09:26 AM

Kate, Camden in London is awesome. I've been twice. That's where the famous oxford street is

. If you get situated away from it I'd say it'd be worth going over to do loads of shopping on Oxford street

. It has nice little markets too and lovely little pubs

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Urban Hat€monger ? · 05-04-2011, 09:58 AM

Oxford Street to Camden is like a 4 mile walk.

As I found out a few years ago

FETCHER. · 05-04-2011, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Oxford Street to Camden is like a 4 mile walk.

As I found out a few years ago

Isn't it still in camden though? I could walk from my hotel to Oxford street when I was down :O I'm sure I stayed in Camden otherwise I was a stonesthrow away from there

Oxford street in itself is like a mile and a half long or something.

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Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	I went to the RLD when I was there (Amsterdam). We were told not to take pictures. Little did they know, I had a penis-cam. Seriously though, I support brothels. They promote clean, relatively good-looking whores that don't get killed, or otherwise bludgeoned to near death, by Johns. Amsterdam had the highest-class whores I've ever seen. Even Frankfurt, Germany couldn't match them.

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