Where's the divide in the Netherlands? Here the general one is North/South. The midlands are a disputed entity. Northerners think they're in the South (and vice versa) pretty much everyone agrees they're a pretty miserable place. Sort of like Wales in that regard.Originally Posted by tercio67
The Netherlands is devided into two parts population wise, the 'Randstad' (= conglomeration of larger urban area aka 'urban belt') and the rest of the country. And then there is the geographical devide, North and South of the big rivers. But for such a small country there are infinitely more ways to pretend you're different from 'the others' than I can count.
Yorkshire is sort of unique like that. Everyone else in the England would say they're from a city/town such as Manchester or Plymouth. Here, people are quite likely say they're from Yorkshire in the same way people would say they're from Scotland or Wales. It's said we associate more with county than country, which is probably quite true. Apparantly its similar to Bavaria in Germany in that regard.
Defining features of Yorkshire folk are complaining and being tight. Wiki says that 'A Yorkshireman is a Scotsman with all the generosity squeezed out' and Monty Python did the famous 'Four Yorkshireman' sketch which parodied the increasingly absurd claims we can be heard to make. A great example was in a rural pub I heard a guy from London telling the barman they'd driven up for the weekend to visit his wifes family only to be told 'Drove? I'da walked ya soft bastard'. Just the sort of mad thing you'd hear from the home of the great sport of ferret legging.
Wow. Youtube has the sketch with Dutch subtitles. Don't say I don't do anything for you
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
The 'I could tell an even taller story, but then I'd have to lie' mentality is alive over here too. I personally pity everybody not having the good fortune to have been born in Rotterdam.
Oh no, a neighbour just asked me to come over and taste some fish he's been smoking in his new smoke cabinet. I'm normally not very neighbourly but I'll make an exeption for him this time.
Smoked fish is the best.
I probably dont get to fish during this whole summer.
Left my fishing equipment some 500km away.
ouch that one is bad... Well, fishing stuff is not to expensive - there must be some stores near you that sell fishing gear?
I remember Jan Keizer trying to smoke herring(i think) in his backyard in Volendam on a episode of de palingsoap. The thing looked like he'd built it himself.. Of course it all went horribly wrong and he found himself trying to save his fish in the middle of a volume of smoke that would make a truck full of White Phosphorous jealous....On behalf of all Noord Hollanders, we're sorry world..
Little known fact: If you tell a German to go 'immer gerade aus', he/she will end up in Volendam, to get ripped off by the local fish merchant, who is quite know even here in the Zaan for selling all the bad stuff to tourists at a marked uip price..
On the menu was mackerel, delicious.
Been like this over a week now. In few years we probably have to start installing AC:s to houses here in Finland.
Getting mildy warm, eh? I hope your humidity isn't too high.
It was a nice 16°C, and slightly overcast, here today.Been like this over a week now. In few years we probably have to start installing AC:s to houses here in Finland.
Humidity is some 45%.
The great thing is that it doesnt get really much lower during night as the sun is up almost 24/7. I was in the city last night drinking and didnt notice when the day changed.
You didn't notice the night had come along because the temp stayed relatively the same? I like that type of evening, when you aren't chased in off the patio by the nighttime temperature drop. You've got the added advantage up north with the longer days.
Here in southwestern Idaho, sunset doesn't come until almost 9:3O PM this time of year. I love it.
Wales yesterday .... Snow on Snowdon.
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