"18:12? Great, we'll be home in time for supper"

In fact, the Swiss were speaking it before the country which would have forced them to speak it even existed🤣

It's not only hard to communicate, but I suspect car manufacturers deliberately make it harder.

There's always a rented Lego set or two waiting when the kids arrive at their grandparents.

I now slow down as I approach them, starting so far back because I'm trying to give them the impression I'm not going to attempt to get through that ridiculous gap.

I did this with CoPilot and it made me look like a brainless wage-slave corporate worker bee.

Which is a little too close to the bone, frankly.

Wear one - yes.
Tell anyone else to wear one - no.

Add tuna and my kids would not even speak between forkfulls.

I think I recall you mentioning it. It's a nice place to live and I knew several internationals who it turns out did stints here and have fond memories.

Many of them worked at Philips in the good old days.

I try not to boast 😉

(This is a lie).

The laws aim to deal with youths riding fatbikes irresponsibly. However, the solution is to enforce laws that already exist, not introduce new ones.

They've tried to ban fatbikes, FFS, when what supporters of that ban really want is to ban teens (which are, we must accept, a necessary evil).

I think this is quite sensible.

Hard to enforce, but sensible.

Over here they're talking about a helmet requirement for young people on e-bikes.

Which I'm, honestly, a little uncomfortable with.

www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/d...

And may I say, those bicycles are all parked a lot neater than many German drivers of prestige cars choose to park their cars.

I'm afraid that this time round, Australia has too many mineral deposits to remain out of it.

🤣I fully support using statistics to deal with a bad relationship (or even a bad part of a good relationship).

Make sure to put it in Excel though, even if you don't expect the figures to balloon.

When my wife can't find something she blames me and then nags me until I look in one of the places she already looked, which is invariably where she put it.

That's kinda like "air fresheners make the bathroom smell"