Author Topic: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners (Read 133951 times)

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #400 on:** 17 July, 2020, 02:10:00 pm »

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vfqig is a recent, quite small version.

https://www.slugmag.com/lifestyle/bike-bmx/human-powered-rollercoasters-a-brief-history-of-the-alleycat-race/ refers to an earlier, bigger Canadian version.

andrewc · « **Reply #401 on:** 17 July, 2020, 10:20:44 pm »

https://notesfrompoland.com/2020/07/17/officials-detained-over-medieval-style-castle-residence-built-in-eu-protected-forest-in-poland/

You've not got planning permission , it will have to come down...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #402 on:** 17 July, 2020, 10:58:08 pm »

I rather like it actually. But there's clearly a long tale of corruption behind it and they really shouldn't be building anything there. But forest protection seems to have been swept aside under the current gov.

rafletcher · « **Reply #403 on:** 18 July, 2020, 08:46:10 am »

Quote from: andrewc on 17 July, 2020, 10:20:44 pm

https://notesfrompoland.com/2020/07/17/officials-detained-over-medieval-style-castle-residence-built-in-eu-protected-forest-in-poland/

You've not got planning permission , it will have to come down...

You’ve not got planning permission, where’re our bribes?...

quixoticgeek · « **Reply #404 on:** 18 July, 2020, 10:01:45 am »

Wanna live in Amsterdam?

For just €1200 per month, you could rent this 11m² apartment near the centre.

Max 2 people, no pets, no smokers...

https://www.funda.nl/huur/amsterdam/appartement-87312059-eerste-helmersstraat-118-4-51/

Imagine being locked down there...

imagine living there with your girlfriend, and then being told you both have to work from home...

J

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #405 on:** 18 July, 2020, 10:59:43 am »

Either there's something terribly wrong with my fondleslab or the person responsible for the photos on that page needs to be taken out behind the barn and humanely disposed of.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #406 on:** 18 July, 2020, 12:34:54 pm »

Makes Bristol look bargainaceous, which is impressive.

andrewc · « **Reply #407 on:** 18 July, 2020, 01:18:47 pm »

My friend has an apartment about 5 minutes walk from de Prins. 2 bedrooms going for well over half a million.....

She used to live a couple of floors down from me in one of these https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67601016.html or https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-69035754.html

quixoticgeek · « **Reply #408 on:** 19 July, 2020, 12:24:20 pm »

Red light district shut due to too many people...

https://nltimes.nl/2020/07/19/amsterdams-red-light-district-closed-due-overcrowding-street-performers-banned

J

andrewc · « **Reply #409 on:** 20 July, 2020, 07:55:46 pm »

Going back to unfeasibly small living quarters for insane prices.... https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/54325598

hat tip https://twitter.com/emmahopeall/status/1284487677690155008?s=20

Jurek · « **Reply #410 on:** 20 July, 2020, 08:16:20 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 20 July, 2020, 07:55:46 pm

Going back to unfeasibly small living quarters for insane prices.... https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/54325598

hat tip https://twitter.com/emmahopeall/status/1284487677690155008?s=20

I think you've just won tonight's internet prize, Andrew.
Squirrels will deliver it after dark.

Kim · « **Reply #411 on:** 20 July, 2020, 09:00:45 pm »

Even the Estate Agent Lens™ is struggling with that one.

Canardly · « **Reply #412 on:** 20 July, 2020, 09:10:59 pm »

Obscene really and about time this subject was tackled.

rafletcher · « **Reply #413 on:** 20 July, 2020, 09:21:54 pm »

Quote from: Canardly on 20 July, 2020, 09:10:59 pm

Obscene really and about time this subject was tackled.

I don’t see it that way. This is built. What needs addressing is minuscule new builds.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #414 on:** 21 July, 2020, 09:17:48 am »

Converted rather than built.

spesh · « **Reply #415 on:** 03 August, 2020, 09:25:24 pm »

Narco kitteh!

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A cat that was detained at Sri Lanka’s high-security Welikada Prison on suspicion of smuggling drugs to inmates has escaped, according to local media reports in Aruna.

The feline delinquent was detained last week with two grams of heroin, two SIM cards and a memory chip hidden in a plastic bag tied to its collar on the prison grounds.

Police suspect that the drug traffickers who trained the cat are part of the same cartel that was caught using an eagle to smuggle drugs in a suburb of Colombo. The menagerie of accomplices were associated with the underworld crime boss Angoda Lokka.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/drug-smuggling-cat-escapes-high-110542204.html