Back from The Netherlands...

Oh how I love this country! The countryside, the language, de meisjes!
I know there are shadows, but even so.

Tot ziens, met de klompen.

Daylight saving

Yipee!!! They are switching to Daylight Saving one week earlier this year to save energy and to do good to the environment. And this is only the beginning of a bulk of more measures to save the planet. Good news indeed, Uncle Sam, my friend!
(Ref BBC news of today)

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US - World's Biggest Producer of Greenhouse Gas
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Shame on you. We have a scientific MKSI system, and PAL is so much better. You're no longer my model country. Times are a changing you know.
What about your SUVs? A bit out of date?
Come on old man, get reborn, be a model again. It's possible. The Romans were extinguished, but now Europe is coming back.
USA, EU, Africa, Latin America, China, Russia - who are you? Are you the peoples who are destined to save and guide the peoples of the planet?
Too good to be true. Yet miracles do happen.

You Free Responsible Adults.

That headline has been taken out of context from a report about what it takes to be a human being.
The first word should denote each of us.
The second word is worth the number of its letters in tons of gold (4 tons).
The third word is a virtue, and should be a duty for all of us.
And four: Adults should be models to children.

Monsieur Beep

Thank you, Doctor, for dedicating your beautiful poem
to me:
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Little Monsieur Beep
Was keeping his sheep
When down came a windy shower.
Without a peep,
They sheltered deep
In the basement of a tower
Soaked, rinsed, but wiser
About forecasting the Unseen Weather.

Snot & Spit!!

Here's the reason why I prefer to travel by plane: just go to a station and have a look at the ground of the platforms. What do you see? Snot and spit in all variations! YUCK YUCK!!
Not only there, but already to be enjoyed before you even reach the station, namely to be found everywhere you go: pavements, streets, ANYWHERE!!

In an airport the situation is completely different: the floors (all floors!) and the toilets (all toilets!) are not only clean but you can see your face in it, clean like a mirror!

Why is this so??

Have you ever seen a plane sprayed with graffity? Yes there is one, by intention. But the rest is just colourful.
And the trains? Mainly those which are operating on short-haul distance are sprayed and painted it couldn't be worse. Windows are scratched.

Oh soz, I forgot, I might have been travelling in cattle wagons....Yet: I'm not yuckish from cow manure!!!

Snot and spit!!!! E N J O Y!!!!!