[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

Exactly part II

Both my kids drive stick and my grand kids will learn too. It will be the last generation I suppose. Oh well.

[TiMSport]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

Both my kids drive stick and my grand kids will learn too. It will be the last generation I suppose. Oh well.

I think that last generation has already come and gone. Do they even teach parallel parking anymore? Lol.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Bas_Met_Wielen

Thanks, nice to hear your thoughts about us Dutchies!

I live in the south, near the city of Eindhoven. Fifth biggest city of the Netherlands. Amsterdam is cool too, so much to see and do around there.

I had a Dutch colleague who lived in Eindhoven. Big Philips town. He invited my family over for dinner one Saturday. I asked him the address and he only gave me the street name. I asked him for the number and he said, "You'll know the house when you get here." Well, we got to the street and 1/2 way down the block was a house with an American flag flying from the flagpole. He was right, we didn't need the number. As soon as we got inside he took the flag down. My wife and I visited them again in 2019 and we got a good laugh recalling that moment.

[iminhell1]

fax

[Bezerk]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

In The Netherlands, there are no hills in most of the country, but they make up for it with wind. That matters when you are riding a bike out in the country. While being a guest at a Dutch colleague's house, I went on a bicycle ride with he and his wife and kids. The way out was fine and I thought I was doing pretty well. Then, we turned around to go back. I've never worked so hard! The kids were sort of laughing at me. I'm certain it was some kind of test. Gotta love the Dutch.

Yup, hence the Dutch saying: 'De wind van voren krijgen'.

Literally it means 'getting the wind from the front', and it means that you are in for some serious trouble because someone is going to give it to you because you did or said something wrong.

And, to avoid being accused of highjacking this thread, a nice contribution:

[TiMSport]

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[TiMSport]

Hmmm

[shoei]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

In The Netherlands, there are no hills in most of the country, but they make up for it with wind. That matters when you are riding a bike out in the country. While being a guest at a Dutch colleague's house, I went on a bicycle ride with he and his wife and kids. The way out was fine and I thought I was doing pretty well. Then, we turned around to go back into the wind. I've never worked so hard! The kids were sort of laughing at me. I'm certain it was some kind of test. Gotta love the Dutch.

Oh the Dutch don't f'around with bicycles lol, which explains the second meme below. First meme is for you lol

[TiMSport]

I can vouch for that. They certainly don't mess around with their bicycles. I took this random photo when I was there the last time.

[TiMSport]

I also got a kick out of seeing guys like this DHL delivery man. Never saw that before.

[M5Rick]

The bikes over there and in Germany seem to be of the heavy easy step in frame variety, not many racers or MTB's there from what I saw.

[TiMSport]

Since this is the LOL pic thread ....

[TiMSport]

and one more

[TiMSport]

For our fellow Canadians:

[shoei]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

I also got a kick out of seeing guys like this DHL delivery man. Never saw that before.

Oh man, that's like first time I went to Egypt and Turkey - fast food deliveries, well before uber eats started delivering for McDonald's lol

[Lady Jane]

[shoei]

This is a lol-vid but it's so good.
It's almost as good as the dude hiding during a raid and pretending to be a piñata or something

https://mobile.twitter.com/bubbaprog...aCR-g&s=19

[Joe T]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

Exactly part II

my daughters are 19 and 20.

They went to Catholic school, they were caught cursive writing. And both drive stick (one better than the other)

[shoei]

I have no words

https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybem...tm_name=iossmf

[Wolf 335]

Originally Posted by shoei

I have no words

https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybem...tm_name=iossmf

These are the same people that heat their house with their bbqs.

[shoei]

Originally Posted by Wolf 335

These are the same people that heat their house with their bbqs.

I don't get it. I've never owned a pickup truck in my life and can safely say I probably won't ever but even I know that if you put liquid or say sand in the bed, shits leaking out, lol.

That individual made it to adulthood somehow. That's the part that blows my mind.

[Wolf 335]

Originally Posted by shoei

I don't get it. I've never owned a pickup truck in my life and can safely say I probably won't ever but even I know that if you put liquid or say sand in the bed, shits leaking out, lol.

That individual made it to adulthood somehow. That's the part that blows my mind.

What a time to be alive.