Just uploaded Cut&Paste Amsterdam pics and video here, http://www.flickr.com/photo…
March 28, 2009
Dutch television is, erm, different…
I went out for pizza recently and it reminded me that there’s a fantastic pizza advert currently showing on Dutch television.
The advert is a parody of gangster films like Scarface and Goodfellas – hardly original, but the creative execution for the Dutch market is slightly different.
Let me explain. Keep reading →
March 19, 2009
Ped-ants
The Dutch for ant is mieren. From this, the words miereneter (anteater) and mierenhoop (anthill) are derived.
March 13, 2009
I have a big message…
Ik moet een grote boodschap doen means ‘I have a big message’.
It’s a commonly-used Dutch euphemism for needing to use the lavatory.
Or, as my Dutch teacher told me in typically straight-talking Dutch style, it means “I need to take a shit”
Ik moet een kleine boodschap doen on the other hand, means ‘I have a small message’ or ‘I need to pee’.
February 19, 2009
More Dutch lessons…
There’s one word I don’t think I’ll be able to forget in Dutch, and that’s Beffen.
At the end of a very taxing Dutch lesson, our teacher Eduard decided to lighten things up with a game of Hangman. The idea was to test our vocabularies and our pronunciation of the alphabet in Dutch (harder than it sounds, as V, F and W are all quite similar and the letter G involves making one of those rasping throaty sounds that sound like a cat vomiting).
The first few rounds went quite quickly. We all knew so few words collectively that just by shouting out the ones we did know there was chance of hitting on the right answer.
February 18, 2009
Dutch for beginners
I’ve recently started taking Dutch lessons in an effort to integrate better in to Dutch society. And to understand why everyone points and laughs at me. Keep reading →
February 17, 2009
You see me in 3D
Looking for a pair of 3D glasses – which tenuously links to this classic track from Bomb the Bass http://tinyurl.com/aaowp7
February 15, 2009
Tea and Sex
bored, cycled through red-light district, was asked: ‘Live Sex Show, sir?’ Erm, no thanks ‘No sex today, then?’. Bought milk and teabags.
February 13, 2009
DJ Derek on dancing
Semi-retired pensioner DJ Derek taught me everything I know about dancing http://tinyurl.com/cszqny
