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Why?

Posted in rant, tagged , on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This was leaning against my doorstep this evening. It’s the latest telephone directory plus yellow pages.
Why?
Not “why was it against the door?” but “why are they even producing these things anymore?”
There’s a website that does the same thing, and a directory service I can call on my mobile phone if I don’t have access to [...]

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Anti-Islam party wins 4 seats in EU election

Posted in Politics, rant, tagged , , on June 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »

… and the party’s leader calls for the Dutch government to stand down.
The man needs to go back to school and learn some maths, and then relearn democracy.
Firstly here are the results;
There’s a summary of the parties available on Wikipedia.
The election results show several changes, big losses for CDA and PvdA, two of the three [...]

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Pillow fight 2

Posted in Business, rant, tagged , on April 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »

My post this morning was picked up and re-used by Entertainment @ U Want 2 Know .Info
I regard this as theft and have asked for the service provider of that site to remove it – since all content on there appears to be swiped from various other sources.
I would contact the blogger directly but there [...]

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Vandals

Posted in rant, tagged , on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

All around the Jordaan this morning (Saturday) motorbikes were pushed over and the petrol caps were loosened. The whole of this street stank of petrol.

It’s a rather petty crime, so I doubt anything will happen. But stuff like this seems to be happening more often. I no longer park my bike on the street because [...]

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Smurfing.

Posted in rant, tagged on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Albert Heijn, the supermarket chain that positions itself at the ‘quality’ end of the market has a smurf campaign running, giving away tiny toys with every 10 euro spent.
But they’ve had to warn customers that the toys aren’t suitable for kids.
Ooops.

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Banned?

Posted in rant, tagged on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Apparently people in Turkey can’t view this blog.
There are five posts mentioning Turkey;
Dutch Identity
Wanna be a Dutchie?
Two passports? Eet Smakelijk!
Burqa Ban
Gay Amsterdam
I wonder which one was the problem?

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Chewing gum. Why?

Posted in rant, tagged on February 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Normally we chew things to make them small enough to swallow, but chewing gum doesn’t have any nutritional value. As a child I was told not to swallow it and dire warnings were added “it’ll get stuck in your appendix and you’ll land in hospital”. So it can’t be that.
Some things we chew taste good. [...]

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