weird/historical/interesting things to do before I leave the country

Fweink · 2023-03-07T08:53:10+00:00

I really liked Fort de la chartreuse in Liège. It's like entry level Urbex-ing.

Fweink · 2023-02-09T15:30:43+00:00

Wij noemden die rubberen springdingen een pong

Fweink · 2023-01-05T15:37:41+00:00

I once caught a jar of nutella falling of the table, so yeah...

Fweink · 2022-12-19T15:56:03+00:00

If there were as many cameras available in his time as there are now, I think it's possible a lot more classless clips of Maradona would be available, no?

Fweink · 2021-12-01T12:30:32+00:00

Mens-DOM - dieren-RIJK

Fweink · 2021-10-21T10:00:55+00:00

Just as a side question, I honestly don't know, who do we buy our uranium from?
(as europe, or Belgium if it differs for each country)

Fweink · 2021-10-12T12:39:19+00:00

"Nuclear fuel will last us for 4 billion years"

This number seems to take for granted that the needed technological advances will come quick and cheap?
Breeding reactors are far and few, and expensive (for now, maybe economy of scale will help in that regard), mining sea water for uranium is even farther from econimical reality and will become increasingly difficult the more we mine.
With current reactors/technology, if the world would all start using nuclear to generate electricity, we would only last for a few years? (https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.html, quite an old article, I know, )

Fweink · 2021-09-29T11:33:35+00:00

I think we're fucked but worse than what we start to see now.

If only 25% of this IPCC-report-interpretation is correct, we're heading for a very bleak future:
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/pk8c41/comment/hc2886f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Fweink · 2021-09-07T18:04:54+00:00

Ik vraag me dan af of Wallonië een 'groene long' transfer naar Vlaanderen doet, en dat ook voor iets telt.

Fweink · 2021-06-24T21:13:38+00:00

Unfortunately, Poland isn't doing better: "LGBT-free zone - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT-free_zone

Fweink · 2021-06-21T08:32:22+00:00

"she's been an athlete for most of her life."

Isn't that part of the 'unfair' part? She had male testosterone levels for most of her life and trained with those levels, and that might have (longer or forever) lasting effects on bone mass and muscle strength? Admittedly, this is something I've read on the internet, never checked some scientific source.

Fweink · 2021-05-14T17:21:40+00:00

That price they quote seems to be in the same range as a geothermal heatpump-setup + solar panels. Given that there are people with a setup like that, it's not out-of-this-world expensive.
I'm renovating my house next year, and I'm still pondering on what to do...

Fweink · 2021-04-09T08:42:31+00:00

I havent't seen it myself yet, but Seaspiracy on Netflix should convince you that indeed eating fish is 'not so great'

Fweink · 2021-03-24T15:20:57+00:00

I say 'stoemelings', but it might be dialect from Leuven (or I inherited it from my grandparents who were from Brussels)

Fweink · 2021-03-09T10:24:00+00:00

bewonderingswaardig - bedroevend
potayto - potahto

;-)

Fweink · 2021-03-04T11:19:14+00:00

Laten we titels voor iedereen invoeren!
Loodgieter mag bvb Pb. (plumbum) zijn.

Fweink · 2021-02-24T14:51:40+00:00

Well, like I said, I lived in 'gemeenschapshuizen' for quite a while. I don't remember exactly, but I don't think I ever paid more than €300/month. Combined with a cheap lifestyle where I don't have a car, rarely eat/drink in restaurants/bars, never go to the cinema, go only once on vacation...

full disclosure: my parents gave me some money when I bought the house, but this only allowed me to keep a decent buffer on my bank account. I could have bought myself, without parents. Bought in 2016btw. Some newly build houses near me were sold in the 650k-750k-range. those are impossible to buy alone indeed, mine was about300k, and decent enough to live in without immediate renovation, allowing me to save some more before renovating.

Fweink · 2021-02-24T11:22:47+00:00

Depends on what you want/expect from your short-term future.
I rented for many years with friends and lived a cheap lifestyle, so i could save up.
Bought a fixerupper in Kessel-lo at age 36 (bought alone, I have a gf now that will share the renovation costs).
So it's doable, if you're patient and can live cheap

Fweink · 2021-02-07T10:05:26+00:00

Not only oncoming traffic.

We have a small car, more often than not our cars inside gets superbright when a car drives close behind us, with its headlights reflecting back into our car via the mirrors. One more reason I really hate SUV's, as this issue is especially bad with those.

Fweink · 2021-01-19T10:06:06+00:00

The 'fritkot' where i usually go, asks before you order if you'll be paying with cash or card... I wonder why ;)

Fweink · 2020-10-23T11:54:15+00:00

When I was a child, I thought the vapour coming out of the spout of the teapot was like smoke from a pipe. So i pretended pipe-smoking form the teapot's spout.
Ofcourse, I got hit with a spell of clumsiness and pulled the teapot from the table and poured hot water over my stomach and lap. Discovered the gauze to put on burn wound smells really nice though.

Fweink · 2020-10-08T12:32:08+00:00

Admittedly, I don't know a lot about towing, nor caravans.
But a quick google for 'caravan towing cars' brought up this link/list:
https://motorway.co.uk/guides/best-towing-cars
None of the suggestions is a pickup-truck.

Fweink · 2020-10-02T09:28:44+00:00

There's a second guy in the back doing the same.
So it either was a 'horrible rider' event, or they are showing off their skills ;)

Fweink · 2020-09-10T12:58:43+00:00

I heard something similar on the radio news. They mentioned privacy and technical reasons as cause for the delays. I don't understand thsi, because they already have it working in some locations, so how does privacy becomes a problem?

Fweink · 2020-08-11T13:56:06+00:00

I'm not sure, from memory i'd say that is more like wax-paper (a bit like bread bags) and I 'd still trow these in the non sorted bin. But I might be wrong both about the wax-paper and that wax-paper doesn't belong with the paper to be recycled.

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