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mikesc Member since: 4/26/2001 From: Augsburg, Germany |
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| Bavaria, Germany: On weekends its common to have beer and sausages for breakfast. (called Weisswurstfrühstück) There´s probably a lot more but I can´t think of anything else right now. |
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Stevo14 Member since: 5/17/2007 From: Arad, Romania |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 10:03:15 AM |
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Quote: Well, I live in a different part of the country than you, but around here you have to be careful. I mean, its not like every hospital does it but I figure its better to be save than sorry. ---- Stevo |
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think_different Member since: 2/8/2005 From: State College, PA, United States |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 10:54:14 AM |
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| I live in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado at 9600 feet.. 1. You have to always adjust your cooking for the altitude. Most packages list high-altitude cooking at 3000-5000 feet. We're well over double that. 2. First-timers to the area should notice that one beer is equivalent to 1.5-3 beers due to the altitude. 3. It's easy to get winded at first just doing something simple like walking up and down a flight of stairs. You adjust to this in about a week. 4. Your cars definitely lose power due to the altitude, sometimes as much as 30%. 5. Marijuana use is acceptable by most people, and hardly enforced by cops. 6. People are super health-conscious and eco-friendly, and our newspaper articles reflect this. 7. (Unlike Seattle) People are much more relaxed and friendly than anywhere else I've lived or visited. Striking up conversations with strangers is an everyday thing. 8. Towns around here have a 5-1 guy-girl ratio because the people are primarily skiiers and boarders. 9. You don't need to have your car inspected each year by the state. 10. It's already been ski season for the past two weeks. Also, in Pennsylvania, only state cops were allowed to use radar detectors. That's all I can think of for now. Quote:Utes look so low to the ground! How are they practical at worksites? We do get the Subaru Baja which looks similar.  Quote:Feel how you want, but I'm glad that I'm not babied by a government. There will always be idiots on the road and cell phones don't make the idiot. .... Brent Gunning | My Journal | My Facebook | My Twitter |
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boolean GDNet+ Member since: 2/21/2003 From: Toronto, Canada |
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 Posted - 10/27/2007 11:06:05 AM |
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| ^^ Lol, what a great post. How long have you lived in the Rocky Mountains for? |
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Wan Member since: 9/8/2004 From: Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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 Posted - 10/27/2007 11:09:53 AM |
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| Food - The traditional food pretty much sucks, but our shameful colonial past has left us with lots of Indonesian restaurants that kinda change our food culture. - Many people enjoy eating raw haring that is sold by street vendors, but personally don't like it. - Snacks can be obtained from walls throughout the city.  Drugs - We have signs like this, that state it's against the (local) law to use soft drugs in that area. Hard drugs are illegal altogether anyway.  - It's illegal to grow marijuana (although you are allowed to have two or three plants for your own consumption), yet coffee shops are allowed to sell it. And they have to buy it from someone... something doesn't add up. Bikes - Every year, 10% of all bikes (around half a million) in Amsterdam is stolen. Less than 1% of them is ever returned to their rightful owner. - It think it's safe to say that the locks on the average bike are worth more than the actual bike itself. Misc. - I think only two or three in ten citizens know the complete first verse of the national anthem, though it's only 33 words. - On a more tech related note: the penetration of broadband is one of the highest in the world. - We have no legal time limits for showering. ;) [Edited by - WanMaster on October 27, 2007 10:09:13 AM] |
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Wan Member since: 9/8/2004 From: Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 11:40:16 AM |
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Quote: I think it's the same here, at least in my city, for environmental reasons. You are allowed to wash your own car, just as long the shampoo or other cleaning materials don't leak into the ground. So you see people taking the trouble to clean their vehicles in designated spots at gas stations (where the water can be collected in tanks and recycled), even if there's an automated car wash on the other side of the street. o_O |
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Yann L Moderator Member since: 2/6/2002 From: Breizh |
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I'm from Britanny, on the north western coast of France. Unfortunately, we're a part of France. Not on a voluntary base, I may add. We don't have an army, so we should ask the US to liberate us from evil France. On a second thought, maybe not  We're about twice as large as Massachusetts. Many people, especially those from Paris, say that we're the most backwards region of France. They can go fuck themselves  A few random facts about the place: * We're one of the six official Celtic nations. * We have our own language (breton), our own flag, bilingual schools, bilingual street signs, etc, which all royally pisses off the French government :) * Our flag is called gwenn'ha'du ('white and black') and looks embarassingly similar to a greyscale version of the US flag. Other than in most other European countries, people are heavily patriotic here, so you can see the flag hanging around everywhere. * We're one of the few places in France where many people get offended if you call them French. * We have these and these things standing around everywhere. Tourists seem to love them (unfortunately, but see below). * An extension of the Gulf Stream gives us a nice micro-climate on the coast. We even have palm trees growing here. They say that global warming would make it drift away from us in the future, which would suck. * During the summer months, we get invaded by a wave of highly annoying tourists, that take over our otherwise large empty beaches, and jam up our small towns with their stupid SUVs. * Everybody here hates tourists, except those from Ireland. If you are an english speaking tourist over here, try to wear a tshirt with an Irish flag ;) * We have basking sharks along the coast. They're quite rare and completely harmless to humans, but they're huge and very dangerous looking. It's always funny if a stupid tourist encounters one and gets the shock of his life :) * Most of the houses in rurals areas are made of natural untreated granite, and are older than 500 years. * Some of the small villages are popular with movie producers as a historical background setting, because you don't have to change a lot to make it look authentic. They often hire the inhabitants as extras, which can be very fun. * You are required by law to ask for permission from the local government before doing any kind of construction work on your home, outside or inside, because most houses are classified historical heritage. * All houses (even new ones) outside of towns are required to use slate roof shingles, which means that all look basically the same. This is funny to watch from above, if you come in by plane. * People dress up in funny historical costumes on certain holidays and cultural events. Everybody takes this extremely serious. If you make fun of it, you'll end up in the hospital. I hope none of my friends reads this... ;) * Breton music is similar to Irish music, and is very popular amongst all ages. Traditional music events, called Fest-noz, are abundant all round the year. Young and old dance together old medieval dances, and get completely drunk. It's all very fun. * Locally brewed hard cider is a popular beverage over here. So is Chouchenn, a kind of mead. * A special kind of salted pancake is the regional dish, filled with everything imaginable - ranging from sausage to fish. * A little farming village called Pleumeur-Bodou gained world wide fame in 1962, as it was selected as the site to host the antenna for the first transatlantic satellite TV link in history (Telstar). The huge 64 meter sphere like antenna has been made a museum, and can be visited. * Brest, a city on the most western part of Britanny, is home to one of the largest French nuclear submarine base. The CDG aircraft carrier was built there. * Due to constant protest from environmentalists, they managed to close down the last nuclear power plant in Britanny. At the same time, tons of high yield nuclear weapons and SLBMs are stored in Brest, but noone gives a shit. * We have the highest density of cows per sq mile in France * Gun ownership is amongst the highest in France. So are the casualty numbers from DUI... * We have tons of speeding cameras on highways. But they're required by law to install huge warning panels several hundred meters before each camera, which renders them basically useless. Oh well, it's still quite nice over here :) |
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CodeDemon Member since: 8/31/1999 From: Space, The Final Frontier |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 1:22:53 PM |
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| In space, it's hard to breathe. |
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Avatar God Member since: 3/22/2003 From: Richardson, TX, United States |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 1:32:14 PM |
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I'm in Hong Kong, where they sell things like this in the subway stations: There are more things, it's just that I'm about to leave for Macau. gsgraham.com So, no, zebras are not causing hurricanes. |
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ktuluorion Member since: 7/11/2001 From: Hamilton, NJ, United States |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 1:46:14 PM |
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Quote: You know, i've always wondered something about that. I believe that there ar ea couple of US states (Hawaii and Alabama?) that the AoC is 14, and Japan I believe. Do a bunch of people who want to do 14 year olds flock to these states because of it? |
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Stereo Member since: 7/31/2007 From: Munich, Germany |
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Quote: Ahhh, the beautiful village of Fucking. It's always great to mention it when you want to refer to Upper Austria (I'm living in Linz, the captial city) in an English context. Mind you that Fucking is pronunced foo-king in German.  |
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Cygon Member since: 10/13/1999 From: Sachsenberg, Germany |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 1:51:23 PM |
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| Germany: 1. If you've got a working (or easily fixable) radio/TV, including a car stereo or a computer connected to the internet, you have to pay a small group of radio and TV stations about € 23 per month simply because you are theoretically able to view them/listen to them. This is enforced by almost mafia-like means by an institution named 'GEZ'. 2. If you sell CDs or DVDs on ebay you have to be absolutely sure that they're genuine originals sold in your country, otherwise it's an illegal copy and you will most likely be sued. There's a whole host of lawyer's offices that have specialized in searching the net for CDs/DVDs that have eg. been imported from other countries. (EDIT: fixed typo) -Markus- [Edited by - Cygon on October 27, 2007 3:51:03 PM] |
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alnite Member since: 11/8/2002 From: Anaheim, CA, United States |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 2:17:11 PM |
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Quote: That is awesome! So that part of Europe is where Gaul was. Tell me, are there really people, like stoneworkers or something, carrying menhir around like Obelix? Not necessarily on their backs, but using trucks or something. I am just wondering what they really use the stones for. |
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rip-off GDNet+ Member since: 3/16/2005 From: Ireland |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 2:22:44 PM |
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Quote: Us too! Quote: I'm curious, why are we the exception? |
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zedz Member since: 2/15/2007 |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 2:54:10 PM |
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Quote: i busked in brisbane ~10 years ago, i got like 10c for an hours playing :) |
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Naurava kulkuri Member since: 5/6/2006 From: Tampere, Finland |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 3:27:10 PM |
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| Well, I don't know if there is anything that special, but here's a few things related to the things already posted: We Finns like to eat mämmi since it looks good and make ventriloquism easy for the non-trained also . Anyway, here in Tampere region also another as delicious looking food is very popular, mustamakkara. It's probably soon a greater export product than the Nokia mobile phones. As for desert we have this delicious salmiakki and as for the drinks, we have this drink called salmari. The rumour in Wikipedia tells it was due to Moe. Who knows, maybe it is necessary in this northern climate of ours -- or that we like the way yellow cartoon characters speak.Anyways, to contrast with all that black, we have 187,888 lakes in Finland. Quite a few, I'd say and consequently Finland is also known as the land of thousands of lakes. (E.g. a better view: Pielinen and Saimaa. To slap our Swedish friends a bit, as is the habit (we have like a gazillion Swede jokes), Santa lives in Korvatunturi, naturally. It annoys be, by the way that since Finland is bi-lingual (Finnish and Swedish officially) and we have to make through all the trouble of learning Swedish, the Swedes don't even know it. Now hear me Swedes, I have studied Swedish! To get into that naming issue, here in Finland we seem to have a good tradition with cheeky place names. Wikipedia lists some of them here. I doubt very much most of you are approximately one of the about six million happy Finnish speakers, so allow me to translate a few
I'm sure you get the picture. In addition we have obviously spread these wonderful place names also to other parts of the world. There are quite a few immigrants from Finland in Canada (miners, lumberjacks, etc.) and nice place names like Paska in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Paska means shit in Finnish, literally. Whilst some people live in Shit (no pun intended), we have a place called Uusi-Eurooppa here. That is "New-Europe", since who would want to live in a second-hand continent? Also the spelling is non-standard. You can check the place here by clicking the map (to get an aerial photo) on somewhere between Lempäälä and Kangasala and decide if that's really the future of Europe. By the way, I've lived most of my life in Lempäälä. Mm, I'm sure there's a ton of different stuff still, but I can't think of any and I'm sure here's enough for the starters. Perfectly natural here a bit farther away from the main cultural centres. [Edited by - Naurava kulkuri on October 27, 2007 3:27:31 PM] --- Sudet ulvovat - karavaani kulkee |
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Paradigm Shifter Member since: 8/9/2002 From: United Kingdom |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 3:35:23 PM |
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Liverpool, we have the interesting SuperLambBanana sculpture: "Most people think, great God will come from the sky, take away everything, and make everybody feel high" - Bob Marley |
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King of Men Member since: 4/16/2004 |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 4:17:07 PM |
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Quote: These two statements appear to contradict. [/flame] |
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Yann L Moderator Member since: 2/6/2002 From: Breizh |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 4:20:16 PM |
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Quote: Gaul was a huge region, going from todays Belgium down to Italy. Britanny was a (small) part of Gaul known as Armorica. During the Middle Ages, it was split into several pieces, with only the northern part (where I live) still called that way. Today, it's called Aodoù-an-Arvor. But yeah, Asterix's village was supposed to be located somewhere around here :) Trivia: they reconstructed the village (although in a more authentic way) near the touristy town of Perros-Guirec, and called it something along the lines of "Asterix's village". Which made them run head-on into a copyright infringement lawsuit. They since renamed it to "The Gaulish village"... Quote: Uhm, no The stones are just standing around. They're under cultural heritage protection from the EU, so you'd better not try to load them onto your truck... They're prehistoric monuments or graves used for druidic ceremonies in ancient times. There are still lots of legends ranking around some of them, even today.Quote: I think it mostly stems from the feeling that the few remaining Celts should hold together. Ireland also has a similar history of being oppressed by a neighbouring country in the past, in a very ruthless way. All in all, there's generally a lot of sympathy for Irish people around here (also Welsh and Scots). The primary hate target are tourists from Paris, which are considered a major PITA. Quote: Lol, what the fuck ? |
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think_different Member since: 2/8/2005 From: State College, PA, United States |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 4:31:54 PM |
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Quote:Two months. I'll be here for another 10 before getting my ass back in college. Because it's almost the end of October, we're getting dangerously close to Halloween. For the foreigners, kids around here go to neighborhoods dressed up in "scary" costumes and beg at each house for candy, saying the lines "Trick or Treat." Carving pumpkins and going on hayrides are also fun things to do this time of year. This seems like a pretty normal thing for us to do, but it might seem funny to someone that doesn't celebrate it.  .... Brent Gunning | My Journal | My Facebook | My Twitter |
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fnm Member since: 2/14/2005 From: Sfintu Gheorghe, Romania |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 5:23:20 PM |
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we have the most strange representation of saint george beating up the dragon in the city's center :/ (my city name=saint george) |
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Zahlman Moderator - Game Programming Member since: 1/9/2004 From: Toronto, Canada |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 5:43:39 PM |
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Quote: I think "blowverbod" is now officially the most awesome Germanic-origin word ever. As a general rule, if you post in For Beginners and your code contains the word 'char', you have a bug. std::string roxors teh big one one one one. "OMG! I'm so happy! I have "1 Friends"!!!" -- coldacid "Basically whenever you invoke the dread ellipses construct you leave the happy world of type safety." -- SiCrane "I mean, if you had sex for every time O'Reilly used the word Patriotism you'd be almost as awesome as Chuck Norris." -- tthibault <triforce101> uh im not a noob i finished the game |
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Tha_HoodRat Member since: 9/2/1999 From: Harare, Zimbabwe |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 5:52:47 PM |
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Quote: If you are seen holding hands , kissing , hugging etc and someone perceives it as being gay you will be thrown in prison ( if you survive the mob beating). Strangely these sodomy laws only apply to men. Women can do whatever they want. |
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njpaul Member since: 8/30/2004 From: Mukwonago, WI, United States |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 6:05:48 PM |
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| In Wisconsin it is very common to have all you can eat fish frys on Fridays, and they're very popular. When I lived in Michigan it wasn't very common, and probably isn't very common elsewhere. Also, you can get a 12oz. bottle of Miller Lite or a 16oz. glass of Miller Lite for the same price, but people usually go with the bottle. Now why people drink Miller Lite when we have a variety of fantastic micro brews around just baffles me. |
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TheUnbeliever Member since: 3/19/2005 From: Falkirk, United Kingdom |
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Posted - 10/27/2007 6:13:07 PM |
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| Scotland is home to the UK's nuclear deterrent. My home town is also the location of the world's first and only rotating boat lift, meaning that it is possible to sail in one side of the country and out of the other. The UK's busiest motorway (high-speed roadway, since I recall the term being unusual elsewhere in the world) is a section of the M8 near our biggest city, Glasgow. Asking for a fish supper here will get you a fish and chips meal. Doing so elsewhere in the UK will probably get you an odd look. The world's first successful television broadcast was made in my hometown. |
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