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The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 9 February 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

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"ONE YOU LOCK THE TARGET"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

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"...AND FOUR YOU CATCH THE MAN."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Can I get a WOO-HOOO!?

Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Friday, 10 February 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link

One you lock the target.
Two you bait the line.
Three you slowly spread the net
And four you catch the man!

Can you believe I only recently learned the lyrics of this song? I'm such a loser. :-)

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 10 February 2006 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link

And next month is the super-duper 25th anniversary of Front 242!

Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Friday, 10 February 2006 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link

belgium was weird. why does nobody know how to queue? rude freaks.

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 10 February 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Heh, Charlie, are you sure it were Belgians? We do queue. Here in Bruges at least.

What else was weird?

Ah yes, that Front 242 reunion. DIdn't one of the guys in DeadManRay and Kiss My Jazz , Elko, play with'em?

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 10 February 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

definitely belgians. about 200 of them ,outside a club, all shoving and pushing and squeezing their way forwards, trying to get through one tiny entrance, despite the fact that the boucer had already said "it's sold out! go home!" very odd.

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 10 February 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

oh at the ab club? yeah i know what you mean... we dont really queue at club entrances. :-)

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 10 February 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Hah - I had EXACTLY that experience last saturday, queuing to see ADULT. at Recyclart in Brussels

Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Friday, 10 February 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

you were there? that's where i was! couldn't get in for love nor money but the scrum of people was ridiculous anyway...we waited 20 minutes then gave up and went to see tiga instead...and were faced with the exact same scenario, only with poncey club kids instead of smelly crusties!

i guess they must have been the only two decent events on that night, in the whole city. poor buggers.

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 10 February 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyway, I like me the country o' Belgium, and would like to return one day. :-)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 February 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Aww, that's a shame, it was a really crazy show and night overall. Did they tell you it was full? We had to "queue" for 20 minutes, but in the end all was fine (esp. when they opened a second foor). I think the door organisation was more to blame than the kids, really.

Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Tintin, beer, Lugubrum, Audiobot...

Also, that weird Belgian game where you count the number of times a caged bird will sing, marking each instance with a notch on a stick.

Mestema (davidcorp), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Why on earth is Plastic Bertrand included in the negative list?

James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Why on earth is Plastic Bertrand included in the negative list?

What negative list? I never mentioned anything bad, aside from the fact that some think it's boring. :-)

Also, that weird Belgian game where you count the number of times a caged bird will sing, marking each instance with a notch on a stick.

This isn't done in other countries? I never realized this!

Stan, am still awaiting reply from Stubru.uit. I really badly would like to attend but... I ph34r it'll be a no-go. :-(

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

this is a really good belgian thing:

http://www.hasselt.be//upload/pics//gratis_bussen_aa002.jpg

now, you might think that oh, its a standard belgian bus run by de lijn. but look at the departure blind - hasselt.

since hasselt has been runnning a scheme called gratis stadsbus

guess what that means! its awesome!!!!

ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link

free...standing bus?

Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Belgium stands for multiple wonders:

Beer

Drugs

Small cars that look like shit and go like stink

Massive airports

Plenty highways like the "a10" the final exit of the E40 to Oostende not many ppl kno it but ppl go full out on that 22 km highway with no cops cameras or anything like that but, if youre lucky and fast enough, u can impress the chick on the train. The track stays next to the road for 5 km, plenty of time for some massive "representation" of power.

And last but not least

Drivers who KICK ASS!!! i was in germany a few weeks ago and my dad was doing about 220 kmh and i felt good in our 2001 bmw m5 with 400 horse stock v8. until maybe a pack of belgian in subis, crx's mitsu colts, peugeuot 406's and various other car including lancia delta integrales and Rover turbo's. We tried but we could not keep up at 296kmh and over, CHAPEAU, HAT OFF

BELGIAN RESPECT!!!

Romandiesel, Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link

i felt good in our 2001 bmw m5 with 400 horse stock v8.

compensating for *small feet*? rofl

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
Revive, because I am going to Brussels for three months from July.

I'm trying to find a cheap room to let and I'm emailing a woman about one in Etterbeek near the Petillon metro station. Does anyone know anything about that area?

Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 10:08 (eighteen years ago) link

No, sadly not. So I'll just post a message to revive the thread.

So what are you going to do in Brussels for three months? :-)

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 6 April 2006 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm doing an internship at an NGO and re-learning French.

Does the Brussels metro stay open late, do you know?

Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Linking there is forbidden, the MIVB (metro company) says, but this is the schedule for the Petillon station.

In case it doesn't work: about 5AM to about midnight. It's on line 1A, which is one of the biggest lines in Brussels.

(Annoyingly, that MIVB site is only in French and Dutch.)

StanM (StanM), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooh, thank you very much. Well, seeing as I don't know the address of where I'll be working or studying yet, it seems quite safe to just find somewhere by a metro station.

I am so excited!

Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

If you're going to stay near the Petillon metro station: this is the artwork there: "Que la mer épargne" by Jules Lismonde (1976).

http://www.stib.irisnet.be/artKunst/images-groot/petillon.JPG

:-)

(I don't know much about Brussels, to be honest. I can find the Ancienne Belgique by car, but one roadblock and I'm lost. So I'm afraid I can't help you with the region around Etterbeek.) (I'll gladly google stuff for you, so ask away anyway)

StanM (StanM), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I never found any of this stuff when I was googling, thanks.

This thread makes me want to go to Belgium right now.

Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.columbia.edu/~gi10/images/kick.jpg

andy --, Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

Was looking for restaurant and stuff to do ideas for my son and his girlfriend who are visiting shortly

curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 July 2019 05:01 (four years ago) link


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