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A wonderful story Wimbledon has a league team again.

C'mon you Dons !!!!

The new Champions League magazine for this month runs an article about the great back 4 of Suurbier, Hulshoff Blankenburg and Krol . The article has a quote from a well known Dutch author Menno Pot.

SPL schreef:The new Champions League magazine for this month runs an article about the great back 4 of Suurbier, Hulshoff Blankenburg and Krol . The article has a quote from a well known Dutch author Menno Pot.

Never heard of him. Call me when they quote our beloved Ko. That guy's the Messiah.

I believe it's officialy vacation time for our team!! AJAX goes on V.A.C.A.T.I.O.N.

After 34 Eredivisie matches, 10 Champions League matches, 6 Dutch Cup, 4 Europa Cup matches, one Johan Cruiff Schaal, friendlies vs. Shimizu S- Pulse, DC United, and Portland since mid- April, and umpteen ups and downs, it's finally time to put this baby to bed . What a long, strange trip its been.

Apparently Foppe de Haan has left Ajax Cape Town to become national coach of Tuvalu (pop. 10.500)....

Manneken Pis schreef:Apparently Foppe de Haan has left Ajax Cape Town to become national coach of Tuvalu (pop. 10.500)....

1. No pressure
2. Great scenery
3. Beach/water can't be more than half a mile away from anywhere in the country

I'm going to call this a 1 year vacation.

How's this for a sneaky free kick.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haxdJT6M ... r_embedded


I'm sure it only worked once though....

Manneken Pis schreef:How's this for a sneaky free kick.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haxdJT6M ... r_embedded


I'm sure it only worked once though....

lo, yes funny that

Classic (1980)! Game images of some of the Warriors gangs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUu6F2Q ... re=related

With my new shirt at Disneyland!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fireballs/ ... hotostream

Not very informative but there's a new article about Ajax's league win on the When Saturday Comes website here http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/7301/38/

Ha Ha Ha - never take yoiur eye of the ball if your a goalkeeper - this one just cost his team promotion.....

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/wor ... cle/53704/

Long story short, for an article he is writing a UK football journalist friend of mine needs to know what a Flemish TV station would say to mean an 'action replay' in a football match.

All I could think of was herhaling, but that sounds kind of lame.

Any thoughts?

This is definately the silliest thing I've seen in a while....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-yo ... e-13873091

I have been told that the Dutch government wants to ban foreigners from the beloved and world famous coffee-shops.

This would really make sense for Heineken and all the only legal hard drug dealers (alcohol business).
Some would say that Holland is going the wrong way, as other European countries, regarding many societal issues including immigration.
Anyway, my advice would be to close down the Red Light District. It should be turned into a Green Light District, dedicated to expensive fashion shops.

philippe schreef:I have been told that the Dutch government wants to ban foreigners from the beloved and world famous coffee-shops.

This would really make sense for Heineken and all the only legal hard drug dealers (alcohol business).
Some would say that Holland is going the wrong way, as other European countries, regarding many societal issues including immigration.
Anyway, my advice would be to close down the Red Light District. It should be turned into a Green Light District, dedicated to expensive fashion shops.

The government wants to initiate a sort of membership for coffeeshops. If you are a member of a particular coffeeshop, you can get your stuff. They want to do something about the problems the southern towns (Maastricht, Venlo, Eindhoven and others) have with illegal drug runners from Belgium and France.

And your right about the Red light district. They want to close a whole bunch of 'windows' (as we call them in NL), because there is a lot of criminal activity in that area. In the 'good old days' there were softdrugs problems. But now it is a center of human trafficking and serious drug trade. Instead of prostitutes, they want to give the windows to artists/desingers to upgrade the area.

And to become a member, you'll have to permanently live in Holland. I think and hope that's against the European laws.

It is true that problems have arisen connected to Holland's soft drug business but it is quite arguable whether
things will change for the better with the actions the government is taking. These changes will surely come as a boost for criminal networks and will possibly create a challenge for Dutch police forces and thus a waste of resources. In Amsterdam imposing limitations over the coffeeshops will hurt most as they in a way represent a small part of its cultural heritage, attract a certain fraction of its tourists and add to its world-famous liberal image. Only border towns
may somehow be positively influenced by the new laws as they do indeed face traffic problems and so on from drug tourists from bordering countries. Banning tourist smoking in Amsterdam is however for sure a mistake.

Cannabis seems far less addictive and toxic than alcohol. The real problem is not that weed is tolerated in Holland, it’s that it’s forbidden in other countries.

philippe schreef:Cannabis seems far less addictive and toxic than alcohol. The real problem is not that weed is tolerated in Holland, it’s that it’s forbidden in other countries.

Unfortunately, the level of carcinogens in cannabis are about ten times the level as found in tobacco (combustion products of the smoking process). A lot of years ago when I was in graduate school working on my PhD in chemistry, a colleague had this as his doctoral research project. I pretty much gave up smoking weed at that point.

You were right to give up, especially if you smoked around 20 joints a day, like cigarettes. In France, for instance, alcohol kills 45.000 people a year, not to mention those whose family life or social life is ruined by alcoholism. How about that ?

A bit late posting this but I went to the Ajax open day last week with my daugther. Not sure what to make of it tbh, there was stuff for kids but not much for free and the 'team presentation' left me a bit cold. Good to see some of the stalls though and a book by someone called Menno Pot for sale. Managed to pick up last years yearbook to go with this years for 5 Euro's and also a DVD from the Vak 410 stall which I'm looking forward to watching.

To all US visitors of this forum: I'm travelling in september to Anaheim, California. I will be attending a Boeing seminar, but of course.. I want to see some sites when I'm in SOCAL. When I check the internet, Anaheim seems like a nice place, Angels stadium and Honda center (ducks) at walking distance. Is LA (or is Anaheim part of LA ) worth a trip?

Anyway, if you have any tips (to see, do or eat) they would be very welcome.