legal_alien
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Open university science degree going on here. It makes life a lot harder (house is not so clean, meals not so varied etc.) but for me it is worth it to make getting a job back in the UK easier (hopefully)
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I thought that too BonnBonn. Fine if you need to make a journey (as we've done while backpacking) but what is happening is for a natural reason, ie. get that stuff out!!
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This year we have a calander of Dutch scenes taken from the air and the picture for June is of Scheveningen beach. You can barely see the sand as it is so busy. So, it should be fun for a party type of getaway, but maybe not a peaceful one.
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Bill Hicks is great (albeit a bit preachy) but I've recently heard how he is just an updated Lenny Bruce, who's Carneige Hall concert is amazing. It was also a revelation that Richard Pryor was very much more than his 80's films. As Pryor implies in the Mudbone sketch, they're simple jokes but it's deep too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUwXTT0a-VA
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Prison should be about rehbilitation as well as punishment. Most people will think once a peado, always a peado but it's not the same with those who murder (except in some circumstances for example the kids who killed that Bulger toddler - no one in medialand wants them out and about)
Anyway, GG is only a pariah in the UK it seems which is why that Glee show is going to release one of his songs.
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Smiley Culture died today while police were at his house - they say from self inflicted knife wounds. RIP.
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How do you turn a duck into a singer?
Stick it in the oven until it's Bill Withers
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Not laugh, but a big smile. Our apiarist neighbour's bees are buzzing around, it's warmish and sunny, and buds are on the blackthon and willow bushes - spring is coming!!!
Didn't smile at another sign of spring - killed the first moth of the year in the food cupboard today.
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Not normally a fan of electric-white-boy-blues stuff, but this album has me well hooked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwpIakvjSc0
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That last link from FigN says that a very high % of these are for downloading porn films. It really is one big pool of sharks then.
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Sorry, just reminds me of this UK comedy sketch about toothbrush makers. It's at 2m20s - and the German version of number wang is on before.
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Not quite on topic, but I made a group of german road-workers really laugh today - all because the car is RHD and I was on the wrong side. They were pointing, laughing, shouting to me - quality.
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Do you have to be a member to eat at RSL or rugby clubs? They were always very very cheap - even if the food was cooked to be eaten by people with no taste-buds or teeth :D
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Pobably not been told here, as we've all heard it once too often
A German man on holiday in England sees a distraught pensioner next to a river and her dog struggling in the water.
He jumps straight in and pulls the dog to the path.
The dog isn't responding, so he gives it heart massage and mouth-to-mouth.
The dog wakes up and the pensioner is very thankful.
'That was amazing sir, are you a vet?'
'Of course. I jumped into the river. I am soaking'
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The Lorenz Hütt'n style are OK. Kind of sweet onion flavour, not too far from walkers cheese & onion (minus the cheesiness of course)
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Not being an Occa, I can't give any more info than is here anyway (lots of great suggestions). One place not already mentioned (that I have been recently dreaming of) is the campsite at Pebbly Beach (near Batemans Bay, 4hr drive south of Sydney). One of the best places I've ever been to; miles from the nearest road, just bush and beach. Amazingly varied, but short, coastal walk with each beach slightly different from the next - one was made of broken shells all stained blue. The campsite (which is only for tents I think) is overrun with eastern grey kangaroos which come right up and sniff out whatever you're cooking. It was so awesome to poke you head out of the tent in the morning and be face-to-face with a roo! It was maybe not as amazing as Wilson's Prom, but that is much further from Sydney.
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Brave & crazy little dog
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1 evening a week of German - should be 2, but I never seem to make it.
1 evening a week of kung-fu
Also just started an OU science degree course - my first ever further education course at age 38!!
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Lots of things to like of course, but one that always amuses me is how people gawk at you when reversing a car into a parking space. It's like they can't believe it could be done ( or maybe should be done? ).
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... there is no pub in the country that does not sell the mainstream crap.
A friend set up a pub in Bath which sells only one lager (the local Bath Ales organic) and around 10 proper beers, all from independent brewers.
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This wasn't black ice, but what cb6dba talked about. Not as bad as in this video though, but maybe that's winter tyres vs bald ones
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Think the snow is preferable to the solid sheet of ice covering our road this morning
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We have a pamphlet from the rathaus which lists all the local doctors who speak other languages and which ones they speak.
I had a vascectomy a couple of months ago, so went to a doc who listed as an English speaker. The prelim bit was all in (slightly broken) English. However, when I was having the procedure I spoke only German - even though my German is really bad. Basically I wanted him to relax & concentrate on his knife skills not his translations skills!! When I went back for a check up, he tried it on with his German, but I just replied in English and he went back to that, although maybe a bit reluctantly.
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...why Edeka here doesn't have this cheese (which one is it, by the way?).
Just been to Edeka ( @ 64665 Alsbach-Hähnlein ) and the cheddar is Dorset Drum.
Had the Lidl one with raw onion in a sandwich, and it worked very well. Maybe the crunchiness of the onions disguises the crystals.
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Frankfurt and area "Fests"
in Life in Frankfurt Rhein-Main
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Not quite a fest, but something I've wanted to do for a few years, is the car free Rheingau day, which is 29th June. They block 65km on both sides of the river, and only allow bikes, skaters, walkers and the like. There used to be one on the Bergstrasse, but it wasn't held last year due to financial stuff, which was had a great atmosphere.