Tag Archives: Nederland

Otto Hamer

June 21st, 2010 | Posted in Persoonlijk

Het bloggen brengt soms aangename verrassingen met zich mee. Een paar jaar geleden schreef ik voor Panzerfaust een gastbijdrage over kunst. Niet dat ik er veel van af weet. Maar dat weerhield me niet drie kunstenaars aan elkaar te knopen. Een van die kunstenaars was Otto Hamer. En wat wil nou het geval, een paar [...]

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Dutch got their own Kilt

September 5th, 2005 | Posted in Oude blogposts Steeph

I love whisky. Most of all Scottish wishky. So that’s why it nice to hear the Dutch now have their own Tartan Kilt. Now we can drink whisky in the right attire. It was designed by Dr. David Wishart and contains the colours of the Dutch flag (red, white and blue) and Orange (of course). [...]

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Economic arteries

January 19th, 2005 | Posted in Oude blogposts Steeph

If you compare the roads of a country as the arteries needed for the economy to function, the Netherlands are having a heart attack twice a day. Click on the picture to see the full traffic jams “flowing” on a regular weekday from 07:45 till 09:30 in the morning (1.3Mb). (copyright ANWB of course) If you [...]

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More on Virtues

December 26th, 2004 | Posted in Oude blogposts Steeph

Yesterday I wrote about a list of virtues given by a Dutch magazine attributed to the Dutch. That led to a lot of thinking and also some discussions. And late at night the thinking suddenly switched. From talking about what virtues are Dutch to what virtues you think are important and useful to create a [...]

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Typical Dutch Virtues?

December 25th, 2004 | Posted in Oude blogposts Steeph

This year has seen a quite dramatic shift in how we Dutch perceive ourselfs. We used to think of our culture as open, tolerating and flexibel. No longer so it seems.In their Christmas edition De Groene Amsterdam (dutch) has published the alphabet of Dutch Virtues. I’ve taken the liberty to translate them (remarks welcome) and [...]

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Are the Dutch killing their babies?

December 6th, 2004 | Posted in Oude blogposts Steeph

According to some American newssources they are. So it must be some shocking news. Strange thing is, here in the Netherlands it wasn’t even news. So what’s the story. If you read Foxnews, babies are killed based on an arbitrary standard. And you get the impression this is done on a regular basis. This story [...]

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Very sad

November 2nd, 2004 | Posted in Oude blogposts Steeph

The only fight that takes place in a real civilisation is a fight with words. Theo van Gogh was murdered today for what he said and what he stood for. This can not be. World opinion: BBC Foxnews ABC Australia CBS news Xinhua net Yahoo news New York Times (subscr) Guardian Der Spiegel Washington Post [...]

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Shortsighted Dutch

August 25th, 2004 | Posted in Oude blogposts Steeph

This really makes me furious! Our government (in the Netherlands) wants to pump another 38.000.000.000 Euro into old fashioned infrastructure like highways and railroads! (Newsitem in Dutch) Hello, this is the 21st century. If you would pump that much money in connecting everybody with fiberglass, create a nation wide work-at-home stimulation programm and put the [...]

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