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Off-Topic / Re: daily bible inverse
« on: September 22, 2012, 08:24:24 pm »Message ID: 609274The bible is just one more, of many, historical texts. Interesting in it's own way, but not to be taken too literally, I have no doubt falcon knows that as well.
Hel, I see no reason to view it as even close to being anything other than a historically-accurate conglomeration of hearsay.Why should I be "afraid" of falcon's opinion anyway? It seems to me that we generally agree, I don't recall any disagreements we've had on this forum.
Generally, we have agreed and I cannot recall any specific disagreement in these forums.If we ever did disagree, well, falcon probably doesn't know where I live.
As I recall, you're in Deutschland somewhere ... at worst, I'd stand you a round of beers when I visit my relatives in the Netherlands.
I'm not in Deutschland anymore, I returned to Maryland about 2 1/2 years ago. I retired when I left Germany and have been working on maintenance and improvements on my properties here. My last stay in Germany was for almost 12 years in Koblenz. Before then I had 3 assignments there with the Army, Berlin, Karlsruhe and Mannheim, in that order. I'll be returning to Germany in a little over 2 years when I turn 62 and can start getting social security payments. The only reason I chose Maryland to return to is because I retired from the Army here and bought my properties in this area.
If you've spent any amount of time in Nederland, you've undoubtedly noticed the lovely ladies that reside there. I have fond memories of them perched upon their bicycle seats, it's amazing what those daily bike rides can do for a woman's legs and buttocks. Good luck trying to find an overweight woman in Holland, not at all like it is here where obesity seems to be the new normal female figure.
The last time I was in Amsterdam, driving around the center of town, the women on bicycles were intentionally getting in my way. I was driving around in my Audi A6 and that's considered to be a relatively big car in Europe, it also didn't gain me much sympathy that I had German plates on the car. You know the narrow streets there, I clearly didn't belong there and the local ladies let me know it.
It's also the only country I've ever been to where you can walk around in crowded downtown Rotterdam or Amsterdam and smell marijuana because the 2 or 3 people walking in front of you are passing a joint. That's technically against the law in Holland, but they don't worry much about minor offenses like that there.
A very friendly nation and almost everybody there speaks excellent English, and, yeah, the beer is very good there too.