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I wonder? Is it the British that are unwelcome, or is it the English?
and a particular English subcultural that.
Do the Scots cause the same trouble? or the Irish?
I had the pleasure to meet many brits , and they were all very nice people. But I am far removed from that age group and environment.
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I spent a week in Amsterdam in 1973 staying in a unisex sleep warehouse which had a market stall trading 24/7 in the sale of various types of hashish and ganja. It cost me around two guilden a night but sleep was elusive and my bunk bed was only useful as a place to stash my rucksack and rags. Dropped acid in Vondel Park and communed with nature amid naked and half naked hippies. I did however contrive to visit the Van Gogh gallery and Rijksmuseum. Even then the Ambonesian drug dealers were aggressive and an offer to buy some hash from them was a form of mugging. I think I had one meal the whole week, a rijstaffel thingy but did drink a lot of lager to stay hydrated and did spend sometime on Dam Sq but got bored with all the straights.
It was a week of hedonistic abandon.
Complaining about folk coming for the craic now is truly taking the piss. The Dutch youngsters, like all the Euro folk, flood into London of a weekend to get pissed, puke on the street in Soho, eat The Great British Sausage snorkers, puke on the streets in Soho, watch a football match, get pissed, puke on the street in Soho, eat more TGBS snorkers, get pissed more and puke on the street in Soho before fucking off back to Euroland.
Personally, Antwerp was the better venue, had all the attractions of Amsterdam but much less frenetic although there were no canals which could be a dealbreaker if canals were your thing.
You really don't realise how utterly moronic you arem, do you . . . well, you wouldn't . . . :sad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
Scots, Irish and Welsh are nice . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai
Back on topic: in the 90s and early 2000s I went to Amsterdam - sometimes just for an afternoon if I had a bus/train/flight to catch - probably 40 to 50 times and never saw any of the problems they talk about these days. Everyone was far too stoned for that business and the vibe was generally mellow.
I believe the proliferation of low cost airlines offering cheap flights every day of the week has something to do with their current issues (the Baltic states have opined similar in the recent past)...
I was there for a month in 1983.
As you say, very laid back.
Except for the one day when Manchester United were playing a preseason friendly.
Then it seemed full of pissed up, shirtless *holes being complete wankers.
True story.
I think my mates were there. Did they buy you a pint? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
What were you doing there for a month?
Don't know what all the fuss is about, haven't seen much trouble in all the years I've been to Amsterdam. I used to go every year, until covid, will be there again this year. Lovely place, lovely museums and galleries.
‘It damages our free spirit’: war on British tourists won’t work, say Amsterdammers | Netherlands | The GuardianThe natives, however, are just as bad. In recent years, Dutch tourists and football fans have been criticised for riots in Rome, raving in Spain and even a deadly brawl in Mallorca – so the “stay away” campaign will be expanded to the Dutch themselves next."
Oscar Coster, a barman in the Old Sailor cafe bar, agreed. “They were busy for years trying to get so many tourists to Amsterdam, and now they want them to go away!” he said. “Brits aren’t the worst. It’s big groups of men. We don’t let them in; it doesn’t matter where they come from.”
Koefnoen - Tracy en Darren, Britse toeristen in Amsterdam - YouTube
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Felicia Anna, a former sex worker who set up Red Light United association and on Thursday demonstrated at city hall against changes for window brothels, said sex workers have no problem with British people. “I have never understood why they say this about British men,” she said. “To be honest, I like working with them. Even though they are drunk, they are funny.”
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Last time I was there the place was very chilled out apart from the thousands of Ajax and Celtic fans chanting in the main square " if you hate the fvcking English clap your hxnds".Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
Damn uncouth behaviour, savages.:)
It had just changed from guilders to euros and everything seemed more expensive.
Easy to lose a month there I imagine, stoned and shagging whores:)
Oh boy, the day drinking chavs are already posting in this thread.
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The Damage would be paradise for you Snubbles!
Plenty of window shopping and takeaways.
You just need to get a passport!:)
I bet Ciz and Genticles strolled around the red light area knocking on every window for a free look with their sausages exposed..
"Suck or fuck 25 guilders":smileylaughing:
... and beg the bloater to unlock the chains, remove the gagmask, polish up his gimp suit and let him out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe 90
Good News
Chitty don't auto ass fixiate with an orange in yer gob yet
Brussles
Flem Ale and lads pissing in Street immortalized. used to leive in Anderlcht an easy 6 hour drive from London (with a meal on the ferry) or even faster via Eurostar, Mussels airlines
Wiffle wafflers esp welcome, who knows with some good few liters of Trappissed inside yule be directed to Hoe Garden where your tool may sprout, helps if you speak African or arab languages or fwogy sea few play svp
One of the few cites with a statue of Hal as a young man
https://teakdoor.com/attachment.php?...d=100358&stc=1
On a good day you may see Kevin de Bruyne dribbling
Culinary tip
Waterzooi and big nappies
Fascinating. But how did you.wash up on siamese shores ? Bitter and twisted , the fickle finger of fate?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seekingasylum
Thats only in yer dreams I suspectQuote:
Originally Posted by taxexile
But what’s bad for the Netherlands could be good for neighboring Belgium. A recent analysis of Europe’s toilet water shows that Antwerp is at the top of the pile when it comes to cocaine use. The volume of cocaine residue was highest on Mondays, reflecting that — in Antwerp at least — the drug is most heavily used on Sundays and Mondays. Even odder than cocaine on a Monday is amphetamines on a Tuesday. But that’s what the same study found, with a clear spike of residue from illicit amphetamines in Brussels’ wastewater on Tuesdays.
If Belgium can stomach thousands of drugged-up Brits in Union Jack shorts, it could make a bid to replace Amsterdam as Europe’s party capital, although it might have to ask the shops to open after 8 p.m. to cater for the evening lager drinker’s needs.
CAPTION COMPETITION
https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/u...1-1024x686.jpg“Welcome to Brussels, M Macron.”
“To make me feel at home, could you please fill the place with stinking trash and rats.“
Location, location, location . . . I doubt many of the yobs referred to here would be found at the Rijksmuseum or the Van Gogh Huis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
I lived/worked in Amsterdam for four years and didn't see any soap-dodging cretins described here, but I did see Ajax 'fans' destroying a bus stop because they had just . . . won a match against Rotterdam.
Went there for the art did you....Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
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Trust you to lower the tone! What no pics of flabby hookers?Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
Went a few times in the early 70s with works trips from the NHS. A mixture of nurses and ancillary staff. Different age groups, different time, different expectations.
Anything but the lowest common denominator espoused by our resident Canadian teenager.
As time goes on, the choice of different attractions and more varied culture become available. Start with London, Glasgow, Manchester and even Blackpool!
Then move on to European capitals and yet further afield. Morocco, Egypt, Greece and Turkey. Anything to broaden the mind and the travelers perception of other cultures.
^ I knew that picture would get him excited
You really are an idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe 90
Simply because you have had to seek recourse to whores all your life it does not mean others were similarly blighted, you stupid prick.
Ahem, I'm not the whoremonger living in the worlds biggest :smileylaughing:brothelQuote:
Originally Posted by Seekingasylum
BTW I don't pay for it.
I have them throwing themselves at me right left and centre presently.
In fact I'm considering employeeing a shitty stick to fight them off with:)
Is it the shed, the 'romantic' slop for two or the gutrot brandy that does it, do you think?
:rolleyes:
Mrs Troy found Amsterdam quite an eye opener re sexual paraphernalia and also very amusing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
I guess you're still at the adolescent stage mentally...