Yesterday I saw a documentary on our newest export product. The Belgian Sheppard (it’s actually from Mechelen/Malines). This dog is smaller, faster, lives longer (aprox age 16) and is above all smarter than his German cousin! Apart from drugs, he can easily detect explosives. Pups are being trained now for the American special forces and the IDF.
Price tag : 5000 Euro’s for the basic version. A dog trained for anti-terrorism operations will cost about 50 000 Euro’s! (a bit too expensive to buy for a weekly walk in the park)
Rumsfeld may be laughing about the Belgian troops, it was Chicko, a dog specially trained for the armed forces, who saved the American ambassador’s life in Kabul.
Looks like you all want a Arnie-Sly-JC Van Damme body. That’s not my goal, in fact, I would hate to be like them. Fitness is one of the few sports I consider to be brainless. Go jogging, swimming, cycling or any other activity, but simply going to a club twice a week to boast about abdoms and other stuff, yuck. Weight lifting itself is OK, but not the “amature fitness”.
The only thing “stealth” about this airplane are the possible costumers. I can’t believe China or India would invest in a fighter which will probably not enter service anyway.
70 Million USD, are you sure about the price tag? That’s much for a Russian fighter.
I thoroughly enjoyed a Cinay blanc (gooooood beer) with a nice kettle of clams this week, but am unfortunately short on beers right now. Matter of fact, i just finished my last bit of booze so i now have to find a carton of fermenting juice or something to keep me going.
Unless Sean is willing to take a trip to the grocery store again? Gas stations here no longer sell beers (redicilous).
Arthur, they still sell them at the gas station just over the border. Take the E34-highway Eindhoven-Turnhout and at the first gasstation there’s a pyramid of beer waiting for you (and the belorussian truck drivers):D
Anyway, I don’t know what the problem is with so many people. The nice thing about beer is that quality can be replaced through quantity. I would never pay 4 Euro’s for a Budweiser here because our ‘pintjes’ are rediculously cheap. But I can’t understand people pay 12 dollar’s for a “stella-pint” in New York.
Chocolate is not a typically Belgian product. It’s like our beer and our fries, we do know how to make it, but we did not ‘invent’ it. I’m very fond of chocolat myself. The best brand is actually Callebout, not Cote d’Or (which tastes like old socks to be honest). One nice thing about Belgian law is that it prohibits company’s to sell products under the name chocolat if it doesn’t contain a certain amount of cacao!!Good chocolat should taste bitter and not sweet.
But don’t feel obliged to buy Belgian chocolat to support that poor little brave country, most company’s are now working for Kraft Foods or Nestlé anyway 😉
I go jogging 3 times a week 8-10 km. I’m in a good shape. Personally I consider those fitness-freaks as complete brainless idiots. I do sports, not to have a perfect body, but to keep a good physical and psychological balance. Taking steroids, it’s the worst thing one can do. Not is it only bad for your health, it gives you a wrong feeling. To be honest, I’m a bit vain myself, but one should suffer a bit before getting a “perfect” body.
I love the Smiths and I think Morissey is good too. Not very found of the latest song “english blood”, but the lyricks are OK!
Sometimes I really think women are from a different planet. Guess, yes, I’ve had some troubles the past few days. Now my problem was: she wanted to have a guy who had a driver’s license, a car, and if possible, a house. The only thing I could offer her was love and sarcasm. My god, she’s 21 and she’s dreaming about some stupid Volkswagen Jeep????!!!! I thought men were supposed to be macho, but this beats everything. I didn’t even graduate yet, don’t expect me to have maid plans for my future life. Still, I’m quite hurt (and offended) and yesterday I picked up smoking again. I know I shouldn’t but still. 😡 😡
1) What is your favourite smell/scent and why
When they bring you the food in a fancy restaurant, I always wait and smell before I start eating.
2) If you could be really good at only one thing, what would it be and why?
Talking 20 different languages.
3) Would you cheat if you knew you wouldn’t get caught?
No, I’m more the kind of guy who wouldn’t even notice it till your friends tell you “open your eyes, mate”.
4) If you could read the mind of someone famous, who would it be?
Jim Morisson. Does it hurt, dying in the badtub.
I think what Kevin said to us made us clear we shoudn’t have anything to complain about. Consider your health to be the first care, everything else can be solved.
I wish I’d be a hippo, thundering through the African rainforest. No problems about her wanting to remain friends but doesn’t wanna go further, no problems with my best friend becoming her lovely “best” friend. Hippo’s can reach speeds up to 40 km/h. I would attack while nobody would suspect me, and it would be deadly.
Feels good. No please, let this bloody summer end now. If I see one second again of “Dawsons creeck” I swear I’m going to canada and shoot the producers where it hurts most.
Also another great movie was Fight Club. Probably Brad Pitt’s best performance. Especially the end scene where the buildings collapse was great and then the single fram of a pen!s while Frank Black started screaming “except for little fish”
Cough Cough Pierce Brosnan is from the Republic of Ireland which isn`t part of the UK so in fact the only person to have played Bond who`s head of state isn`t the Queen is Pierce Brosnan.
If nationality doesn’t matter, I think I should become James Bond

They know the dangers, they should sign a document nobody can be held responsible if anything happens, that includes the rescue workers. When during such a race something happens, rescue workers should do anything to help them however. Normally, in organised events, there are volunteers in the rescue team, or the organisation should hire a specialised team.
I think Robbie Williams too. He has the looks for sure, and the arrogance. He must be British too.