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Dependent on the assortment. If it's a German supermarket and the Belgian trappist beers are on sale... For that discount I'll risk my neck.

"The supermarket? It's that way sir!" Said the warrior, pointing his sword in the supermarket's direction.

Sure, and before any given terrain changed human cultures, the human species already existed. I think that reasoning is a bit arbitrary personally. If the Dutch only changed what already lied dormant under water, so too the Netherlands only changed the pre-existing humans and their history.

Because it physically didn't. The "land" was sea, lake and swamp. here's another Dutch proverb: "God created the earth, but the Dutch created the Netherlands."

As a Dutchman, I would like you to google Flevoland and the former Zuiderzee as an example of history changing geography.

Both. Without mountains you won't have a society of miners, and without miners you won't hollow out mountains.

Siddharta by Hermann Hesse. I wanted to improve my German, and so far it has been a great read. The Leopard by the Prince of Lampedusa is another literary book I bought recently.

A whole bunch of Warren Zevon lately, with a bit of Bowie and Kate Bush in between.

Then I wish you an extraordinarily long lifespan, so I can always remain young ;)

In my experience, the barrier for being "old" is always a few years more than the person addressed as such.

The Notre Dame has been rebuilt and will soon be open again to the public. I remembered this old thread so I figured an update was in order. My guess of "a decade or two" was luckily a vast overestimate of the time required. Article: Notre Dame: Macron takes first look inside rebuilt cathedral...

To join the Dutch delegation, I predominantly write in English, though I do also write in Dutch and Limburgish. I find myself more able to express certain nuances in English than in Dutch, simply due to the enormous amount of synonyms it possesses and my extensive practice with it. When I...

I'd go for NoNoMo (November Novel Month), but that's just because I'm not part of the nation in question ;) As for the rest, I like the look of your first badge (the blue and yellow) both in font and colours. This is a nice initiative.

We wanted to get rid of the pigeon shit at any cost.... What fools we were.