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Sami July 16th, 2019 7:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Circuit (Post 10044546)
What about cycling? Bikes are pretty inexpensive second hand, and are over 5x faster than walking (based on average walking and cycling speeds). Personally I cycle whenever I find myself actually being ready to leave for work with enough time to do so, which is rarely the case :/ Instead I just take the train like 99% of the time since I always have a monthly ticket anyway.

that would be around a 2 hour cycle trip.

Right now I can safely assure going by train is actually viable, got enough funds on my card to make the trip

Noblejanobii July 16th, 2019 7:13 AM

My college has bike docking stations and what not so you can rent bikes but they're so heavy and the school is so hilly that I don't use them much anymore.

Circuit July 16th, 2019 7:22 AM

That must be one hell of a train journey too then, probably around the hour+ mark right? Seems like a nightmare to me. But then I've worked long enough and in enough places to learn that I'm not a communter type, might be different for you.

Sami July 16th, 2019 7:25 AM

It's actually 30 minutes by train suprisingly enough, but the actual location where I would work if I got the job would be far closer so it's aight to me

professor plum July 16th, 2019 7:32 AM

confession: i never learned how to ride a bike,,,,,, im very ashamed to admit this tbh. i did see that they're talking about bringing the "rent-a-bicycle" thing to our downtown area, though!

my city doesn't really have much within walking distance from where i live, and it's much too humid to deal with that anyway.

how's everyone's tuesday?

Sami July 16th, 2019 7:34 AM

nothing to be ashamed about imo, I learned how to ride a bike when I was around 14 years old and I HAD to go to school by bike.

my tuesday been going smoothly, with a few suprises

Nyuutaipu July 16th, 2019 8:08 AM

Oh we talking about walking? I learned to walk everywhere since I never learned how to cycle ^^; Which is weird since I am apparently from one of the bicycle capitals of the world, but I do know how to swim. Also yeah trains are super easy to take here too c: Every small town has a train station ^^

And I recently woke up so just doing breakfast stuf, its weird waking up in the afternoon due to free weeks ^^;

Sami July 16th, 2019 8:16 AM

my country is well known for bicycles... so much that my friends joke about it

ive become bikeboy to them

Nyuutaipu July 16th, 2019 8:18 AM

ah the good old Dutch and their dams, bicycles, tulips, grachten, flevoland, floods, and weird Flemish neighbours :p

Sami July 16th, 2019 8:21 AM

Exactly... especially the part about the Flemish B)

Nyuutaipu July 16th, 2019 8:23 AM

I had a flemish friend and a Dutch friend, and one of their favourite pastimes was comparing how different the Dutch was that they speak. Like the Flemish have a much more German 'g' while the Dutch just go... chhhh :p

Sami July 16th, 2019 8:29 AM

Oi my 'g' does not go chhhhhh

i think... it goes more like 'krggg' or something along those lines

Nyuutaipu July 16th, 2019 8:33 AM

Though I must say the Belgians are weird, like I also been to Wallonia. Weirdest time ever, you can go in a mc donalds order a burger in German and they talk to you in German but once I got my burger they said something in French and I was like "wait wha?". I learned a bit of Dutch btw, I know they said like your 'ij' is pronounced like the 'ei' in Mars'ei'lle so I know roughly how to pronounce stuff ^^;

Sami July 16th, 2019 8:37 AM

Ive been to Wallonia myself once and I got so confused... one time they speak Dutch... and all the other times they just speak turbo french like "PLS HELP I NO SPEAK BAGUETTE"
The 'ij' thing is pretty accurate yes.

Nyuutaipu July 16th, 2019 8:41 AM

Yeah and then the Flemish come around with their Dutch dialect, while Dutch is just a hybrid of English and German, the Benelux are weird and yeah Luxembourg you can just speak German :p but people from Luxembourg I know speak German with some weird French undertone.

Tsutarja July 16th, 2019 8:42 AM

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Originally Posted by erik destler (Post 10044563)
confession: i never learned how to ride a bike,,,,,, im very ashamed to admit this tbh. i did see that they're talking about bringing the "rent-a-bicycle" thing to our downtown area, though!

please don't feel ashamed because I am in the same boat as you!

Sami July 16th, 2019 8:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Nyuutaipu (Post 10044603)
Yeah and then the Flemish come around with their Dutch dialect, while Dutch is just a hybrid of English and German, the Benelux are weird and yeah Luxembourg you can just speak German :p but people from Luxembourg I know speak German with some weird French undertone.

pfffff the belgians and luxembourgians are sure weird but the dutch are fine \ :v /

Cubeth July 16th, 2019 8:47 AM

Walking is the best, except in summer lmao, but I'm months away from it so I can walk all I want

Circuit July 16th, 2019 8:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Nyuutaipu (Post 10044603)
Yeah and then the Flemish come around with their Dutch dialect, while Dutch is just a hybrid of English and German, the Benelux are weird and yeah Luxembourg you can just speak German :p but people from Luxembourg I know speak German with some weird French undertone.

Dutch is pretty accessible to me, since I know both english and german, but I can't speak it. Thankfully everywhere I've been or anyone that comes from somewhere to here can get by with either english or German. Though the dialect for the Swiss German is quite something. Luxembourg is also very interesting to hear for the first time, caught me really off-guard when the guests started telling me about the issue they had in their hotel room and I stood there, trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be fixing like "come again?" XD

Nyuutaipu July 16th, 2019 9:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Circuit (Post 10044609)
Dutch is pretty accessible to me, since I know both english and german, but I can't speak it. Thankfully everywhere I've been or anyone that comes from somewhere to here can get by with either english or German. Though the dialect for the Swiss German is quite something. Luxembourg is also very interesting to hear for the first time, caught me really off-guard when the guests started telling me about the issue they had in their hotel room and I stood there, trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be fixing like "come again?" XD

Oh I just call the Swiss and Austrians the weird Mountain-Germans, since their language is a bit ... strange :p

Circuit July 16th, 2019 9:13 AM

Haha, that made me smile :) What a perfect way to describe them haha

Do you speak German by any chance then?

Sami July 16th, 2019 9:18 AM

That's one way to name them lmao

Nyuutaipu July 16th, 2019 9:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Circuit (Post 10044614)
Haha, that made me smile :) What a perfect way to describe them haha

Do you speak German by any chance then?

Yeah, German and English and can understand written Dutch ^^ for the most part.

Sami July 16th, 2019 10:02 AM

understand written Dutch? :0

im no longer safe from writing in dutch gibberish now crap

Nyuutaipu July 16th, 2019 10:04 AM

I can not tell exactly what it says but I most often understand it given context or just understand it, heh.


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