Broomsticks And Owls

by **Won Wheezy** » Tuesday 6 April 2004 12:08:48am

Not everybody, but some, eh? :wink:

by **Krum** » Tuesday 6 April 2004 8:30:30am

gecko wrote:
L'Oeil de Râ wrote:Holland is the country of cannabis, heroine, cocaine...... . Alala, what reputation!!!

We do have other things besides those.. (And I don't mean XTC)
It's not like every inhabitant of The Netherlands automatically uses/deals in/produces drugs.
In fact, according to this chart, when you look at (problem) drug use in Europe, the lowest prevelance per 1000 inhabitants can be found in the Netherlands.

Welcome Avalon-Queen! Portugal's a really beautiful country
Hope you'll enjoy bao!

well that's mybe because it's all legal and takes the fun out of it for most people :-?

by **L'Oeil de Râ** » Tuesday 6 April 2004 12:33:55pm

gecko wrote:We do have other things besides those.. (And I don't mean XTC)
It's not like every inhabitant of The Netherlands automatically uses/deals in/produces drugs.
In fact, according to this chart, when you look at (problem) drug use in Europe, the lowest prevelance per 1000 inhabitants can be found in the Netherlands.

Faut pas te sentir viser :-?

My words weren't bad. (it's a caricature: drug and Netherlands, like France and bread or USA and hamburger :rolleyes:

. It's not a generality just a caricature :-)

)

Avalon-Queen wrote:I live in Portugal I like here ...

Waou, I'd like to go over there. I was in Spanish 2 times but never in Portugal

but I'm sure it's a very beautiful country (beach, sun, Pauleta :rolleyes:

...)

by **gecko** » Tuesday 6 April 2004 4:42:39pm

Okies, sorry, I wasn't attacking you personally..!
I just don't want people to have the wrong idea.

by **Avalon-Queen** » Tuesday 6 April 2004 8:04:56pm

Avalon-Queen wrote:I live in Portugal I like here ...

Waou, I'd like to go over there. I was in Spanish 2 times but never in Portugal but I'm sure it's a very beautiful country (beach, sun, Pauleta ...)

lolol do you like Pauleta?? He's from Açores, a portuguese island.
Yes, Portugal is a cool country, very "pacific", which is very good

by **fierce** » Sunday 11 April 2004 12:24:35pm

Is there a mobile service provider in Holland called 'Ben'?

Because an australian stand-up comic was telling a story about how he was doing a show in Holland and a girl in the audience's mobile phone rang, and he picked it up. it had already stopped ringing, but he could still see the name of the person who had called on the screen, and he said to the girl "who's ben?" and she just looked embarrassed, and then he asked the girl's boyfriend "do you know who ben is?" then he asked the girls' parents, and everyone just looked embarassed. So all throughout the show he kept saying to the audience "we've got to find out who ben is!" and everyone just went quiet. Then later on, the comic found out that Ben is the name of the Telephone company....

by **gecko** » Sunday 11 April 2004 1:41:14pm

hehe that's funny!

Yup, there was a mobile provider called Ben here.
The word 'ben' is Dutch for 'am' and it's a name of course; their advertisements were pretty hilarious because they used that word a lot and in both contexts.
I'd like to give you an example but those word-jokes are really difficult to translate if you still want it to be funny, sorry..

But it's now part of T-mobile.

by **Mr3d** » Wednesday 14 April 2004 6:02:58pm

Spain, of course

by **gecko** » Wednesday 14 April 2004 8:05:35pm

Krum wrote:well that's mybe because it's all legal and takes the fun out of it for most people

It's not all legal. In fact, all drugs (except alcohol, tobacco, the drugs that some people for some reason don't consider drugs) are illegal here.
Some (soft)drugs (weed and hash) are 'gedoogd', which means that if you have less than x grammes of them with you, you won't get arrested or be prosecuted.

Hello Mr3d! Haven't seen you around here before! Welcome to bao!