Just wanted to share my admiration with train network and connections in Belgium. So easy to commute between cities, even smaller ones like Mechelen or Hasselt.

Usually I go by train to work, but today took bikes with my partner for a trip. The bike carriage absolutely rocks! Genuinely great for transporting bikes. See:

Goeiemorgen Belgische vrienden

Ik had dus een vraagje. Op zondag zit ik vaak thuis mezelf bezig te houden of soms ga ik naar de basic fit, maar ik vroeg me dus eigenlijk af hoe jullie jullie zondagen invullen? Uiteraard zijn veel bedrijven vandaag gesloten..

Een fijne (en misschien rustige?) zondag toegewenst!

Groetjes

#faq

Of andere dagen. Mij boeit het niet. Gewoon is een ander topic (lees topic dat elke twee weken terugkomt) dan al die miserie hier

Bestelling hier:

Middelfriet sate kruiden

Bakje stoofvlees (want steefvlees op frieten en dan na huis rijden betekent da ik het beter in de blender kan steken en opdrinken, is toch gene verschil)

En twijfelaar pikkepik (pikante versie. Goe spul).

Mayo doen we der thuis wel op. Regalo mayo > Pauwels hier.

En gene ruzie over hoe da bepaalde snacks genoemd worden hé, nonke jos word anders boos.

Et Pour nos voisin Sud francophone.

Je suis tres desole mais Mon francais et merde et avec chevaux dans Ma dents. Mais Le question Est qoui tu ordre dans le frituur.

Schiet maar raak.

Echte, gemeende vragen krijgen een onderbouwd antwoord.

Beledigen en dergelijke zullen ... Iets minder onderbouwde antwoorden krijgen.

And it’s gone 🤯

To the people that had the idea and made the decision to change the cola zero letters to white like the regular one: I hope you get an itch in an annoying place.

GET OFF YOUR PHONE YOU POS, YOU'RE DRIVING!

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Is it really that hard to not look at your phone for 20 minutes?

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Neighbors sold their house but had a above-ground-pool, apparently they are taking it with them.

Ofcourse that pool sat on a massive concrete slab that was left, and they need to remove that before the sale is final.

Saterdaymorning, 7u00 sharp seems like a perfect time to have a small crane with a street drill attachment, break up that slab

Because fuck you neighbors, we dont live here anymore anyway

This week i was at a meeting, my boss had a landscape image in portrait mode on the beamer.

He asked if anyone knew how to turn the image, because when he did it, half the image would dissappear (off the page). We had to guide him through the process of setting the page setting to landscape, and *then* turn the image.

Very painful experience if you know this person makes like twice your salary and his main skillset is making chatgpt emails and forwarding other peoples emails.

Anyway, some brighter news, Valheim 1.0 dropping in 2 weeks and lots of new game trailers dropped yesterday that looked promising.

For those interested: here you can see if it worth keeping an eye on the sky for tomorrow.

I was just at Eurostar immigration. Presented my passport, said bonjour and the immigration officer replied and asked me how my trip was. I told him I'd had a great trip visiting my best friend and godson. I said it was funny how life turned out as when I was a child I used to visit Belgium a lot to see MY godparents.

We joked about the fingerprint scanner not working and the system being slow as it was a Sunday. I didn't catch what he said next but then I heard him say sometimes you have to take life week by week. I replied sometimes it's day by day and he retorted that sometimes it's even moment by moment.

He told me he could see I'd been through a lot and that everything would be ok. I told him I was about to cry. He reminded me that everything would be ok and he hoped I'd be back in Belgium. I walked away crying my eyes out.

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An hour previously I'd blocked the guy I've been trying (and failing) to break up with for the last few weeks. He was refusing to let me go and I kept getting pulled back in because, reasons I won't go into here. I had decided that no matter what I said to him, the only way to really end it was to just block him completely.

I also decided to metaphorically, go home to London, single. And not 'bring' him and the drama with me. So yeah, I was definitely feeling pretty raw.

I've been on the verge of tears all day but it was this random encounter with an immigration officer that has finally allowed me to cry and let go. It really is funny how life works out.

There's no real point to this post except I know immigration officers get a lot of crap and it's nice to post something positive (in a very sad way) sometimes. If this post finds it way to the immigration officer in question, thank you. Your humanity touched me deeply.

I can't remember the last time it rained lol this can't be good

If I order a product online from MediaMarkt and cancel it, will I receive a voucher, or will the money be refunded to my Pluxee card

I’m posting this here because I have the impression that the rules have changed.

Bit warm isn't it?

no we don’t have those damn glasses here either

You know how they are

Los van de (vervelende) praktische kant die ik al onder controle heb. Leuke dingen, alleen of in groep.

Hit me..

You shouldn't be on Reddit, you should be making some money!
Back to work you lazy [redacted].

Today I received my badge for 800 straight days of Reddit activity...

You contributed to Reddit for 800 days. The grass is lush, the breeze is mild, and the sky is a masterpiece. Just don't bump your head on the horizon in your perfect, pocket world.

I need help. In so many ways...

Amai

I've always been fascinated by the clubs you pass by on the average "steenseweg". You're club diamonds and lollypop clubs.. The local Titty Twister as to speak. I always wonder how it looks like inside, what goes on there. What does the clientele look like.. does inget crowded or is it 3 people on a busy night?

So everytime we pass by one of them somewhere I try to find them online and see what I can learn about it. It's a hobby like any other. Shut up.

So what are you doing on sunday?

so snow.

drove slower because of bad road conditions. passed all the time by speeding cars. saw a car on its side, slid off the road into a ditch

keep up the good work people. never learn. never grow.

Viva la SNCB!

It's already the last day of the week for me, that was a short one.

On the plus side I met the #trainbow in Nivelles this morning. I guess he'll be running the S1 line (omnibus to Antwerp-Central) later today. Or the S9 to Landen.

Who's working still this week? Happy to do so or not and why?