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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
On November 06 2013 10:13 micronesia wrote: In Holland to children typically wear helmets? Where I live adults do whatever they want but children must wear them by law. in the netherlands, no my brothers and i have been riding bikes there since the youngest was about 7-8 and theres never been an issue | ||
micronesia
United States24779 Posts
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28836 Posts
http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2010/08/brain-injuries-and-dutch-cyclist.html | ||
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EJK
United States1302 Posts
On November 06 2013 10:25 micronesia wrote: Yea telling Hot_Bid not to wear a helmet when he plans to be biking slowly and safely is fine, whatever. The fact that the kids don't wear them bothers me greatly, though. they have extra wheels on their bikes, so i agree no helmet is nesecary | ||
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micronesia
United States24779 Posts
On November 06 2013 10:30 Liquid`Drone wrote: Why? biking is essentially an absolutely safe activity in holland. wearing a helmet there is kinda like wearing a helmet to the playground.. (other than the playground being far far riskier!) http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2010/08/brain-injuries-and-dutch-cyclist.html I would actually be interested to see data for children, rather than adults. Children are both more susceptible to getting into accidents, and more at risk of getting hurt if they have some type of an accident, than adults. | ||
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Markwerf
Netherlands3728 Posts
Ordering late at night is problematic though, you can for pizza and french fries etc. I think but that's it. Utrecht isn't the best place for eating out anyway, lots of cheap student prices but poor food or it's prohibitively expensive. | ||
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Metak
296 Posts
On November 05 2013 20:54 Hot_Bid wrote: 5. Entertainment There's no movie theaters here and they only play the biggest movie releases. For instance I like see movies like this one and Europe just doesn't have these. I'm going to fiend on movies so hard when I visit the US. However, I do watch a lot of sports and movies online through entirely legal means because it's much easier to find entirely legal sources for those entirely legal things here. I'm not quite sure, but are you referring to arthouse/independent movies? There's quite some good theaters for that. I'm not exactly sure about the ones in Utrecht as I live in Amsterdam myself, but a quick Google gave me http://www.hoogt.nl and http://www.springhaver.nl/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=18 We call those kind of theaters 'filmhuis' instead of 'bioscoop'. There's usually movies from all around the world, including independent North American ones. Their schedule is often messed up though, often showing movies months after their initial release. You should check their schedule every so often. | ||
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fuzzy_panda
New Zealand1681 Posts
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
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Jaaaaasper
United States10225 Posts
This is probably where my mom asks where are my grandkids?? Where are they?? Well dunno what to tell you mom, moving away from the thousands of compatible NY women probably didn't help that. Arranged marriage time?? I've found a decent accent is quite helpful in such things, and leaving the house. Not that I would ever be so shallow as to put on my best British accent to pick up girls. Good blog, I thoroughly enjoyed it. | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On November 05 2013 20:54 Hot_Bid wrote: 6.5 People Part 2 I'm also the only Asian for miles, every time I see another Asian dude I wanna chest bump him and be like "yo lets get some mooncakes and eat them with chopsticks bro and then take a math test." I just want to say this is the best part of the blog lol. I bet that's definitely a change going from new york to the netherlands | ||
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micronesia
United States24779 Posts
On November 06 2013 11:54 Targe wrote: micronesia you have no idea how safe it is to bike there, bikes have priority everywhere and the bike lanes are usually seperate from the roads, also if you hit someone on a bike with your car you're fucked Yea I only have what Hot_Bid said to go on. However, the dangers of bicycling (not that it's that bad or anything) are not limited to vehicles being dumb. Helmets for kids are a good idea even in a place with no cars (it's possible to design a place to ride where helmets are not necessary, of course). | ||
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sluggaslamoo
Australia4494 Posts
On November 05 2013 20:54 Hot_Bid wrote:... on the one hand you have people who are happy but on the other hand there's less creativity and innovation and "American dream" success stories. Either way it produces less depressed people probably but less NBA basketball players and actors. Are you kidding? they invented lego... LEGO! | ||
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sluggaslamoo
Australia4494 Posts
On November 06 2013 10:52 micronesia wrote: I would actually be interested to see data for children, rather than adults. Children are both more susceptible to getting into accidents, and more at risk of getting hurt if they have some type of an accident, than adults. I think its less about the risk and more about promoting bike usage. We have a similar system here in Melbourne, but because people have to use helmets they hardly ever get used as much, nobody wants to carry a backpack everywhere just for their helmet. A lot of people are advocating removing the helmet laws for this reason. Unfortunately while we borrow a lot from European culture (lots of bike riders and cafes), we also have American style lawyers. | ||
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Haedley
Germany28 Posts
On November 06 2013 05:32 zul wrote: love the blog. I was smiling almost the whole time while I read it. Hopefully you will try some rustical german bread as well. (here you find lots of inspiration: http://brotdoc.com ) Yep, as far as I know. Americans have no real bread. Only this terrible toast which they call "Bread". | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18337 Posts
On November 06 2013 12:34 sluggaslamoo wrote: Are you kidding? they invented lego... LEGO! I know that Europe is small and on the other side of the world for you, but Denmark and The Netherlands are two entirely different countries. | ||
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Wedde
Denmark126 Posts
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
USA bread is so fucking bad my family bought flour and made it ourselves. | ||
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Daswollvieh
5553 Posts
On November 06 2013 11:50 fuzzy_panda wrote: 5/5 would read again. This bought back memories of living in Germany. Can totally relate to the 'only asian for miles' thing. Though the Dutch are statistically among the happiest in the world, while the Germans are below many poorer, more insecure nations. Generally speaking, of course. And the Germans have an irrational hate for cyclists, probably funded by the car industry.  | ||
zatic
Zurich15366 Posts
On November 06 2013 05:49 Noobity wrote: What I don't understand is that everyone's saying "American Bread" as if we don't have citizens of every background making amazing bread if you look hard enough in America. Seriously, get out of the grocery stores, find the tiny local bakeries and bask in the wonder that is diversity. But no really, if you're in America and you can't find good food, it's your own fault. Well I guess that is the difference. Take a random urban spot in the US and you might have to drive an hour to find good bread. In Germany (and I image Holland to be similar) you walk 5 minutes into a random direction. | ||
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