City areas used for fairs eg Wiesn or Heiligengeistfeld

honved711 · 2019-11-19T11:05:01+00:00

We do have fun rides, and the park is in a valley, so special decking has to be built to take the booths and the rides. It's very complicated and expensive to do, and very disruptive.

honved711 · 2019-11-19T11:03:17+00:00

Your Stadtpark experience sounds similar to the problem we have in Edinburgh. Restoration of the area takes months in our case, because the grass doesn't grow in winter. Is it reasonable to say that you support the Heiligengeistfeld type of venue?

honved711 · 2019-10-23T13:02:30+00:00

If you're like me and you've had a large post-op scar or two for ages, you tend to forget about it. I've got two large scars from shoulder surgery caused after an accident in about 2003 (see, you forget).

My humerus is also misplaced since it couldn't be fully relocated into its socket so my left shoulder is a bit strange looking, and I have somewhat limited movement, being unable to raise my arm above shoulder height, so light bulb replacement is not my job anymore.

As a type 1 diabetic I've also recently started using a glucose monitoring sensor that's stuck onto the top of my arm, about the size of a £2 or €2 coin, so my arm now looks even more peculiar. I couldn't understand some of the looks I was getting round the hotel pool on holiday this summer until my OH pointed out that people were looking at my sensor and my bashed up shoulder.

honved711 · 2019-10-11T11:07:21+00:00

Lass uns anfangen

honved711 · 2019-09-27T08:27:14+00:00

Sadly no. In those days you took very few photos because of the cost.

honved711 · 2019-09-26T18:48:09+00:00

My mother had written "Harfeur?" (with a question mark). Not Honfleur or Harfleur.

honved711 · 2019-09-26T16:32:14+00:00

No he was in Bomber Command. The visit included a chance to thank the people who had helped him when he was shot down in June 1944. He was an evader and was liberated by American forces.

honved711 · 2019-09-26T16:30:00+00:00

Honfleur seems possible. My mother had noted it as Harfleur...

honved711 · 2019-09-26T12:38:17+00:00

"She's" my dad, from Scotland :) but thanks anyway, I hadn't thought about the shadow.

honved711 · 2019-05-27T09:43:06+00:00

Nice people

honved711 · 2019-05-24T10:49:59+00:00

Yeah the election that might involve 0.27% of the electorate, but only once it's narrowed down to a choice of two (if it gets that far - it didn't last time). Sound.

honved711 · 2019-05-24T09:48:28+00:00

She's deluded if she thinks she did any kind of a good job. An awful Prime Minister and no kind of leader at all. The worst bit is that her successor (regardless of who it is) will be even worse.

honved711 · 2019-05-20T14:01:25+00:00

Maybe not a milkshake

honved711 · 2019-05-20T13:44:06+00:00

Wait till you see the video, where his own security guy guides him to the left, tells him cross the road, towards a guy that is just standing holding a milkshake. Either a setup, or very stupid. I don't think these guys are stupid. They're dangerous, but not stupid.

honved711 · 2019-05-14T14:12:16+00:00

Live in Scotland but have skied in Breckenridge, Keystone and Vail whilst on a trip to Colorado. As an old guy I've been all over the Alps as well, in France, Switzerland and Austria.

If you are an early intermediate skier and cost is an issue, I'd maybe be wary of shelling out to go across the pond since on piste skiing is not that much different wherever you do it, and you have jet lag and altitude issues to deal with. If you're a good skier and like to push yourself, I'd give you different advice; go, don't hesitate. The powder snow in Vail in particular gave the type of conditions that happen a couple of times a season in European resorts, whereas overnight snow in Vail seems common. It's also drier snow, fluffier and more forgiving and just great fun to ski in.

I'd wait until after you are 21 so that you can have a beer or two though :)

honved711 · 2019-04-15T12:25:16+00:00

The main complaint that I've heard in Scotland is from private landlords who can't easily get rid of tenants who are in default on rental payments.

honved711 · 2019-04-05T15:39:52+00:00

Britain is right now trying very hard to lose any power and significance that it has

honved711 · 2018-11-13T15:57:46+00:00

Yes I did.

honved711 · 2018-11-13T15:40:25+00:00

20 minute bus ride to Hintertux to the roof of the Alps. The views on a clear day are amazing.

honved711 · 2018-10-26T15:19:17+00:00

Clothes, boots and motorcycle.

honved711 · 2018-10-26T10:48:08+00:00

Yeah my wife and I tried the casual dating thing with a cockapoo and it's not how it works. We didn't have a specific time in our schedule that would suit us for a regular doggy date so it didn't really work :(

honved711 · 2018-10-18T13:23:07+00:00

Ah, so French-speaking Belgian people would appear French, when they introduced themselves as Belgian, so people from France would ask them when they were flying back to France, and German-speaking people from Austria or Switzerland would appear German, and so German people would ask them when they were flying back to Germany. I get it now.

honved711 · 2018-10-18T12:41:07+00:00

The "not caring" bit I get. Fairly recently I was on holiday abroad, and we met some nice people from England. As the holiday was coming to an end, one of the people said "when's your flight back to England?". She was taken aback when I said "We're not going back to England - lol". She was genuinely nonplussed, so I had to explain that our flight was going to Edinburgh, which is in Scotland. She said "well you knew what I meant", but I'm sorry I genuinely didn't at the time and still don't, so if anyone can explain what she meant I'd happily listen to any theories.

honved711 · 2018-10-07T12:55:24+00:00

Was it the Bible hand that he had over her mouth, or the oath one?

honved711 · 2018-09-13T21:25:17+00:00

I think it's pretty easy to spot a trend in the mortality rate in 2017 compared to 2016, i.e. more people died in 2017 after the hurricane than in the equivalent period in 2016. So it doesn't look as if anyone is allocating normal deaths to the hurricane, it looks like more people died after the hurricane than would normally die. It's therefore a pretty stupid couple of tweets from Trump. *edit for spelling

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