Boo's "Afraid Of Being Alone Forever?"

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No, people will keep coming to this page if it goes on long enough. It is already one of the longest threads. I haven't been on the pc a lot the last few days. There are also other "Afraid of being ronery, oh so ronery" threads that will probably fill up with cat pics, food pics and Nazi jokes.


This cat believes in postnationalism I guess, mingles freely with the goats of the Animal Kingdom.

haha maybe but I doubt that the others will be floded with funny pictures, seems like the other people take their threads more seriously than Boo...
Are you not starting a thread? maybe I should start one called afraid for my cat beeing lonely forever...

The cat looks like "WTF are those for strange cats....they must be foreign..."

Maybe I should, cat pics mandatory.

It's super warm today, 22C and will go down to 5C in the night, and tomorrow 31C.

Well if you do you can count on me posting cat pictures in your thread

We also have nice weather now, it's going to be warmer in the weekend. I hope so the weather has been really crapy here so far. Even though 31C would be to warm for me...

It's really nice, I'm going to do a short bike ride to the store and pump my tires so my bike is ready for the good weather.
There are a whole bunch of cats outside as well, they always show up when weather is good.
I only use the bicycle when it's good weather, and not for long distances either. I'm more of a car person because of the rain and cold.

First time I cykled in Nederland I got scolded by an old kakmadam I hadn't cykled for like 10 years or so and was not the best with the traffic rules and she tol me "ik dacht het niet" and waved a finger at me...

Anyways I admit that Swedish people suck at cycling, Dutch people are much better. Swedish people cycle like pigs, making up their own rules (I'm really not that bad...)

It became a longer cycle than planned, I cycled through neighbourhoods I used to come a lot more often, with a BVOtje (biertje voor onderweg).

Old ladies are the worst, telling everyone what to do. Meh, don't care, since I'm an adult they don't bother me so much anymore. I grew up around in a neighbourhood of kakmaddammen, if anything doesn't go their way they complain, just ignore them.

haha you must really like your biertjes My brother only knows one dutch word...guess which one



That kakmadam (or kakmaddamm?) really enjoyed telling me of...anyways there seemes to more of them in Nederland than here for some reason...

I hope it was an enjoyable bike ride with the BVOtje (I learned a new word today)

BVO is a pretty common tradition among students. Can't move around emptyhanded.
I have some Warsteiner here now, thanks to the Germans.

Oh, don't use "madammen" outside of the southern part. There it is only used to refer to female pimps:

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam

well as long as the Germans gave back your bike (or your grandfathers)


hahah thanks for the heads up about madammen

The Germans gave me back my grandparents, that's good enough.


I'm reminded of this, it's an old song from Urbanus, a singer/comic from Belgium. It's about madammen with fur coats, and the song is much older but it was used for the Animal Rights Party here, and of course in the north of the Netherlands madammen means female pimp so it's a bit weirder. Most people know southerners use it without being offensive (the animation is also new, they didn't have that in the 80s or whenever the original song came out).

haha believe it or not but I already knew that song and I have even seen Koko Flanel. I don't think many Swedish people can say that

But I like the song

I also like Flappie...haha not about a madam, but teaches to be nice to animals

You mean that they survived?

Yes, my grandfather was a POW for nearly five years. All my other grandparents where in occupied territory but they survived (nearly 3% of the civilian population died, caused by the war and occupation). There was a starvation and very little food left, the Allies even dropped food during the last part of the war. The Nazis also executed a lot of random civilians as reprisals for the resistance, they even destroyed an entire village and killed nearly all of the men, only a few escaped. My POW grandfather also nearly starved to death in the POW camp, it was always pretty bad but at the end of the war infrastructure failed and they didn't get enough food.

I had some other family members that were prisoners of the Japanese in Indonesia (Dutch colony), that is supposed to be even worse than the Nazis.

You have an interesting family history. It is strange when you think about the reality that our grandparents lived through compared to ours. I think it's strange when people just assume that the peace that we have now is a natural state, it is taken for granted often.
My Swedish grandparents were safe from the war, but on my mothers side (Polish) less so. They lived in the city where the first bomb fell. But they were never prisoners or anything like that. My grandparents did not talk much about the war. Strange thing is that I remember was that my grandmother was so angry when they talked on the news (long time ago) about Russian families moving to Poland. Then I saw how she hated the Russians, I never heard her saying anything like that about the Germans. My grandfather told me that he had seen Jewish people shoot down on the street next to him, and hanged. Terrible, hard to imagine such an reality.

That's coming from a Chinese girl.

Even the Asians can tell that Israelis are oddly white in the region.