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Comment Re:Another day, another baseless headline (Score 1) 165

If a car is behind you, but it's going faster, it can be said to be overtaking. More so if they are accelerating and you are showing down. If it's very far behind, maybe barely in the rearview mirror, you may not consider it relevant yet. These statistics and indeed especially the story mentioning them suggest that that isn't the case anymore.

Comment Re: Sigh (Score 1) 65

Sure, but anything on the net compared to irl things are very different, people aren't generally as rude, then you see other sides of people when they get behind the wheel.... I've seen the contrast of Dutch, French, Germans, and Swiss due to living amongst them and having family, which is a different view point than having some friends from certain parts. I can tell you that if you have French friends near you, without you living in or close to France, your selection of French acquaintances isn't a random sampling, because they are away from France. I know, having lived in France for several years, and having French friends away from / outside of France, they too agree that they aren't very French anymore, for one thing they typically speak more languages,... It's never a truly representative sampling you get when interacting with people away from their "natural habitat" due to their self selection of temporarily or not, leaving it. Anyway, I hope that makes sense.

Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 65

You're not wrong (in a company internal culture course about Europeans for French, Italians, Austrians and Germans, the Dutch were portrayed as even surprisingly more direct than the Swedish, who are often taken as more direct than everyone else), but complaining is a folk sports amongst _us_. Yeah, I was talking for the lot. I just noticed I even got rated troll for that, either from people who think that one should not say mean things about the Dutch (as if we couldn't handle that) or fellow Dutchies with mod points, proving my point by using troll moderation to complain about my comment.

Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 65

Reminds me as a kid, 8 y.o. I got an English friend, also 8, on holidays, and he asked me if I wore clogs back home and for some reason it turned into: my 10 y.o. brother wears them (never did) and he became "the clogsman" which unexpectedly irked him to no end....

But perhaps the trauma is handed down, which circles back to your explanation.

Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 65

Born and raised and this being the internet, didn't know I need to show my passport? But yeah, the complaining part is not the thing that strikes the eye to foreigners, but it's there and if your acquaintances deny it that would surprise me. Then again, there are plenty of Dutch who claim the reputation of being tight isn't deserved, which it is, though in some ways, not in others.

Comment Re: Hope it doesn't happen here (Score 1) 129

I don't have insurance on my phone specifically, but the extension for my drone may also cover it. However, my personal insurance for "not being able to use my phone"-cases is to have my previous phone with me as well, with all important apps still on it and still working. It's getting old, heck the new one is four next month, but that will instantly work. I'm not sure if you only have insurance, how you're going to get access to everything you had. I'll bet it won't be instantly and perhaps you may need to receive postal mail and such, or be on your computer which you left at home, etcetera. Yeah, not you with your Jolicloud solution, but regular people...

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