Migration Nightmares Hitting Europe

#1,426
#1,426
It's so fun to ride bicycles everywhere. You can get to the country in 20 minutes of easy riding from downtown. There are 800k bikes in the city, compared to 200k cars. Bikes basically always have the right of way. That might get old but it's so fun to experience.
 
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n_huffhines said:
It was the weekend after King's Day so it was a great time to be in the Red Light district, unless you hate crowds. People watching is my favorite thing. I almost had to break up a fight between some 70 YO and the young male prostitute he was trying to buy.
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I bet that's a great place to people watch.... I'd guess it's a never ending freak show.
 
#1,428
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n_huffhines said:
It's so fun to ride bicycles everywhere. You can get to the country in 20 minutes of easy riding from downtown. There are 800k bikes in the city, compared to 200k cars. Bikes basically always have the right of way. That might get old but it's so fun to experience.
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yeah I love how Europe has a handle on suburbs. you go from city to country side by crossing one road. here in America we have surrounded our cities with moats of suburbs to keep the country out
 
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n_huffhines said:
It was the weekend after King's Day so it was a great time to be in the Red Light district, unless you hate crowds. People watching is my favorite thing. I almost had to break up a fight between some 70 YO and the young male prostitute he was trying to buy.
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How much did he offer you?
 
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So, here I was, finally taking a vacation to the Netherlands, and I am walking around with my wife in Amsterdam. This young male prostitute comes up to me, trying to proposition me. I felt sorry for him, and I politely say no thanks, I'm not interested. He was like a monkey on a chain for this dork who was his pimp.


The first thing I know this long legged, tiny headed dork wants to butt in and tell me that I need to do business with his b****. Seems he's pimping the poor young fellow out, and making the big bucks off the tourists. I came THIS close to clocking his ass. The tiny headed dork was a know it all, and just wanted to argue about everything. Next year I'm avoiding this kind of riff raff, and visiting Ireland and Scotland. Plan to take in Dublin and Edinburgh. Should be safe there.
 
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MOOOOONEY said:
How much did he offer you?
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LOL. The old dude swung on him for whatever reason and the kid parried (sp?) it and just separated himself from the situation. I thought I was going to have to help the old guy pick up his teeth. He was lucky.
 
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1972 Grad said:
So, here I was, finally taking a vacation to the Netherlands, and I am walking around with my wife in Amsterdam. This young male prostitute comes up to me, trying to proposition me. I felt sorry for him, and I politely say no thanks, I'm not interested. He was like a monkey on a chain for this dork who was his pimp.


The first thing I know this long legged, tiny headed dork wants to butt in and tell me that I need to do business with his b****. Seems he's pimping the poor young fellow out, and making the big bucks off the tourists. I came THIS close to clocking his ass. The tiny headed dork was a know it all, and just wanted to argue about everything. Next year I'm avoiding this kind of riff raff, and visiting Ireland and Scotland. Plan to take in Dublin and Edinburgh. Should be safe there.
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I can't believe you got more likes for stealing Moooooney's joke and making it into a novel. Brevity is the soul of wit and there's something to be said for originality, too. Still I got a chuckle out of this.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I can't believe you got more likes for stealing Moooooney's joke and making it into a novel. Brevity is the soul of wit and there's something to be said for originality, too. Still I got a chuckle out of this.
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It was the long legged tiny head dork description that did it for me. I've seen pics of you in the past and you appeared normal..... but
 
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ShowSomePride said:
Buckle in!

"In the last 650k years, Earth has gone through 7 periods of glacial advance and retreat. The last was 7k years ago, marking the end of the Ice Age.
CO2 was demonstrated to trap heat in the mid 19th century. In the course of the last 650k years, Earth atmospheric CO2 levels has never been above 300ppm, and we know that through mineral deposits, fossils, and arctic ice leaving telltale predictable signs of how much CO2 must have been in the air at the time. Today, CO2 is over 400ppm. Not only have we kept fantastic records pre-industrial revolution, especially the Swedes for centuries, but arctic ice has acted as a more recent history of the last several dozen centuries. CO2 levels has been growing at unprecedented rates and achieving levels higher than we've ever known to occur that wasn't in the wake of planetary disaster and mass extinction. It follows that if CO2 traps heat, and there's more CO2 in the atmosphere than ever before, it's going to trap more heat than ever before.
Sea levels are rising. 17cm over the last century. The last decade alone has seen twice the rise of the previous century. So not only are the oceans rising, but the rate of rise is increasing exponentially.
The Earth's average temperature has increased since 1880, most of that has been in the last 35 years. 15 of the 16 hottest years have been since 2001. We're in a period of solar decline, where the output of the sun cycles every 11 or so years. Despite the sun putting out less energy, the average continues to rise and in 2015 the Earth's average was 1C hotter on average than in 1890. That doesn't sound like much, but if we go some 0.7C hotter, we'll match the age of the dinosaurs when the whole planet was a tropical jungle. That's not a good thing.
The ice caps are losing mass. While we've seen cycles of recession and growth, you have to consider ice is more than area, it's also thickness and density. Yes, we've seen big sheets of ice form, but A) they didn't stay, and B) how thick were they? Greenland has lost 60 cubic miles of ice and Antarctica has lost at least 30 cubic miles, both in the last decade. Greenland is not denying global warming, they're feverishly building ports to poise themselves as one of the most valuable ocean trading hubs in the world as the northern pass is opening, and it's projected you'll be able to sail across the north pole, a place you can currently stand, year-round.
Glacier ice is retreating all over the world, in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa.
The number of unprecedented intense weather events has been increasing since 1950 in the US. The number of record highs has been increasing, and record lows decreasing.
The ocean absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere. CO2 and water makes carbonic acid, - seltzer water! The oceans are 30% more acidic since the industrial revolution. 93% of The Great Barrier Reef has been bleeched and 22% and rising is dead as a consequence. The ocean currently absorbs 9.3 billion tons of CO2 a year and is currently absorbing an additional 2 billion tons annually. Not because the ocean is suddenly getting better at it, but because there's more saturation in the atmosphere."
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Fake news.
 
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Grand Vol said:
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Say what you want about Churchill, but the man was one of the great orators of the 20th century.
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"Winston, you are drunk, and what’s more you are disgustingly drunk." - Bessie Braddock

"My dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly." - Winston Churchill

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He wasn't wrong.
 
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Grand Vol said:
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Say what you want about Churchill, but the man was one of the great orators of the 20th century.
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Found out one of my good friend's Grandpa was one of the 3,000 pilots. He was an American volunteer for the RFA. He survived the Battle of Britain but not the war.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I can't believe you got more likes for stealing Moooooney's joke and making it into a novel. Brevity is the soul of wit and there's something to be said for originality, too. Still I got a chuckle out of this.
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Glad to see that you have a sense of humor, after all.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Found out one of my good friend's Grandpa was one of the 3,000 pilots. He was an American volunteer for the RFA. He survived the Battle of Britain but not the war.
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I love hearing stories from WWII vets. Unfortunately there aren't many of them left. I can't imagine the hell some of them endured.

Volprof hates them .....
 
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