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Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« on: September 06, 2004, 11:40:37 PM »
Went out for a friend's birthday. A load of old friends were there, the affection (and beer!) flowed. One of those evenings when I feel so lucky to be alive.

I came back home, and I'm a bit soft when I've had a few drinks, so the I decided to take the dog out for a walk when he looked at me with those soft yellow eyes.

We walked and walked, and it was such a joy to see him so happy [As I'm sure people with children will also understand, for example, I love it when my god-daughter smiles - it lights up my world]

And, there we were, in the middle of nowhere, when I see a lorry. WTF is a lorry doing in the middle of nowhere (down a country lane, well away from the main roads)?
Suddenly, I hear someone say 'Good evening', its a bit dark, and I can't see where its coming from and I'm thinking - I swear that's a Dutch accent. Anyway, the guy's lost and needs directions, he says [verbatim] "I'm a Dutch lorry driver" which made me almost piss myself laughing, and then my dog almost knocks him over with excitement - he tends to get a bit excited and jumps up at people.

So I give him directions - as I'm a bit pissed, I do so in my English teacher voice, totally unnecessarily. And he says, "Which way are you going?" and offers me a lift, which is a bit bizarre, seeing as I'm walking the dog, so I point out the fact and he smiles. He drives along and waves as he goes past, me still stupidly grinning at the whole bizarre encounter.

Anyway, just a little slice of my life, that probably ain't too interesting, but I'm on a real high and wanna go and hug everyone. So here's a big AOrg hug...:knuddel:



[I bet I'll read this in the morning and think, 'gah, what was I thinking']
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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2004, 11:45:26 PM »
that's some strong beer!
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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2004, 11:48:58 PM »
Thanks!

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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2004, 11:49:33 PM »
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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2004, 11:53:10 PM »
In my younger days I regularly used to take the dog for long walks whilst thoroughly innebriated (sp?). It was good fun, or what I remember of it :-D

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It also helped sober up quickly which was especially useful if I had school the next day :lol:
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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2004, 11:55:00 PM »
:pint:
:love:
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(btw, I hope you didn't say "Dort ist der bahnhof", as the couragiously elderly said during... nevermind)

(also, you would think what has become to you: a teacher with a dog, are you already wearing sandals with knitted socks? ;-))
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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2004, 11:58:43 PM »
@ Speel

That's German isn't it?
I don't speak German (or Dutch for that matter) apart from 'please', 'thank you', 'hello' - a real easy one ;-), 'goodbye' etc
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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2004, 12:03:47 AM »
ah yes, many English or American or whatsoever English speaking often confuse German with Dutch
So I pointed out a during ww2 popular (or at least kinda famous) act of resistance: When asked by a nazi German for the direction to drive to the railway station, then pointing at the wrong direction
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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2004, 12:43:06 AM »
Greetings,


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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2004, 01:32:10 AM »
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
ah yes, many English or American or whatsoever English speaking often confuse German with Dutch


Well, they are closely related, so I suppose it isn't too difficult a mistake to make. However, you shouldn't tar all of us with the same brush!

There are some distinctive features that are very easy to pick out:
In Dutch, there tend to be Ks where in German there are CHs.
e.g. ik spreek Engels (if I recall correctly?)
whereas in German its something like Ich Sprech[ending?]

In Dutch you have those wonderful double vowels, particularly As e.g. straat, and Dutch seems to me to have a LOT of Js. Plus German uses that funny letter for the double S [what's that letter called again?]. And also you don't have the umlaut in Dutch do you?

Dutch has 'van' whereas German uses 'von'

More Dutch words are similar to English words - like I noticed in health warnings on Belgian tobacco only yesterday, the Dutch word for heart is 'hart' (?) and you word for stop is very similar/the same(?), whereas the German is not so easy to recongise.

Also, I'm not sure about this one, but German seems to have some very long compound words, where Dutch doesn't have such long words [I think!]  

And German has capital letters at the start of nouns too, I almost forgot that one! In fact I would say the capital letters in the nouns is one of the biggest giveaways.

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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2004, 02:14:42 AM »
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and then my dog almost knocks him over with excitement - he tends to get a bit excited and jumps up at people.


Another thing I forgot to mention in an earlier thread about why dogs should all be destroyed. :-P
 

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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2004, 02:27:01 AM »
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and then my dog almost knocks him over with excitement - he tends to get a bit excited and jumps up at people.


Another thing I forgot to mention in an earlier thread about why dogs should all be destroyed. :-P


Way to cast a shadow Kenny :-P
 

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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2004, 07:23:22 AM »
@Cyberus


Is that a hug? Looks more like a kiss/cuddle to me (or maybe the start of something which should not be on a family forum).

 :-o

But maybe my mind is just in the gutter.

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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2004, 11:23:29 AM »
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no, this belongs on a family forum:
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Re: Nothing in particular, just happiness :-)
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2004, 11:32:00 AM »
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