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In Rotterdam there is actually a lot of nice stuff as well. Lots of modern architecture buildings. It was totally bombed in WWII so when rebuilding it, they used famous architects to do it. The Zoo is fun there, you can watch sharks. Going on the euromast is cool. You can also book a boat trip to see the huge docs over there.

But Rotterdam is not a city I go to very often. We just don't, lol. Maybe username can help you better with that.?

Well, in Amsterdam, I would certainly go to the Rijksmuseum and van Gogh museum, those you shouldn't miss. The jewish history museum is really interesting. Buy your tickets online it saves you a lot of time. The canal tour is fun, but don't take the hour one, it's so boring.

btw book late and go to booking.com you often can find a cheap, but nice hotel on there. They often have great discounts.

9 straatjes are the best to shop and do lunch??. 

http://de9straatjes.nl/en/home

Anyway, the big museums ofcourse. Rijks, Van Gogh, Stedelijk museum and oh and Rembrandthouse.

furthermore, Anne Frank house, jewish history museum, resistence museum, hermitage, new church (nieuwe kerk) on the Dam, Amsterdam museum, onze lieve vrouwe op zolder (church), shipping museum,  if you ever come with your kid, pretty certain you would love Nemo (science museum). Be the tourist and jump in a boat tour. Vondelpark to take a rest. 

Don't eat shoarma or Argentinian in the centre. It makes you throw up. Go eat in the Jordaan or Loetje aan 't Ij (great steak and at the docs) or the other one on the Vermeerstraat. A walk through the Jordaan is fun. Nice shops and places to eat/lunch. You can also visit the three towers (churches) like the Westertoren. http://www.westertorenamsterdam.nl

Just let me know where you are interested in, and I reply.?

Are you a couple of days in Amsterdam or Rotterdam?

On 20 augustus 2016 at 3:04 PM, username said:

I still hate all you shitty drug-tourists. I also hate the fuss people make about this shit like it's the rest in the world. Horribly overrated product. 

See, I am not the only one with this opinion??. So this!!!!

15 hours ago, spunko12345 said:

I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would get on an aeroplane and go to Holland just to smoke weed. If haven't smoked in about 5 years but I know I could have some in my pocket within a day or two if i wanted so it's not hard to find. Look username doesn't want you there stinking the place up you scruffy hippies they only just got rid of Snakepit so just stick to the park or your own house.

Exactly!?

Besides they mainly go to my city. It still annoys me, when people don't go watch Rembrandt's or Van Gogh's paintings, but do see the coffeeshops' . We have so much to offer, in a way I find it offensive.

I actually don't dislike weed. I have no problem people using it once in a while. I once even worked in a coffeeshop, but didn't smoke myself. My best friend gets it for free from her doctor's cause she is suffering from a nerve disease. I use drops without the THC also against pain, so I don't get high by it. So the product has a lot of good things to offer. I personally don't like getting high, it makes me eat and sleep. Don't see the fun in that. I rather drink a good glass of wine or cognac personally. But don't care if somebody smokes it at times. However people who smoke it daily or multiple times a day often annoy me. But that comes from personal experience with people. The weed in my country has so much THC, it often does give problems in the long run. 

I also hate the fuss about it, just as Username. If I go to a concert, a lot of times the artist/band is stoned out of his mind. Bragging about visiting a coffeeshop, while we role our eyes and think 'goddammit, hope he can still give a good show'. It's not interesting or cool here, actually it might be the opposite.

The vid is just not very clear on it's own. Like I said, was it a daily, weekly, monthly thing? After her donating the money and her behaviour through all of this, she won my respect and I believe her.

I once had a boyfriend, who was a complete bad drunk. Nights out always ended, with him being an ass. Personally my reaction was not the same as Amber's. No smoothing things over, just calling him a few names, shutting the bedroom door and give him the silence treatment untill sobered up. I looked at him, as a bad annoying drunk.  I never tried to talk to him, like Amber did in the vid, when he was in that mood. No use in that, it just made him behaving even worse. He once threw the vacuumcleaner through the house and I helped him, by throwing it off the balkony and be done with it. But if Johnny was at times also physically abusive in that mood, I can understand her reaction. Like not wanting to push anymore buttons that could upset him.

This vid only proves him being a bad drunk, but her reaction is more telling actually. 

Also some of you are way too harsh on Adrift. It's hard not to project personal experiences as Adrift faced on situations like this one. There are different levels of abuse (it's all bad ofcourse), but if your experience is to get the shit beaten out of you and you see a vid like this, you think 'well if this is all he done, it's not that bad'. While if you never had any experience at all, this already seems really bad. Not saying, I share her first stated opinion, just trying to clearify where she is probably coming from. It's not so black and white.

I didn't think at all. Maybe he actually always was to begin with, could be true as well. That's why I was guessing.

She did act like a battered woman in the vid. Totally trying to smooth things over. Actually it annoyed me, she did behave like a victim. I hate bad drunks. Go be a bad drunk somewhere else. I trash the kitchen for you, I would save you the effort. Oh, but that makes me an abuser myself right? Whatever, I don't  really see mental abuse in this vid, just an annoying drunk. But if this behaviour was a daily or weekly routine, it totally is. Seeing her reaction, it was a routine and therefor he probably was an abuser to her.

Heard donated all the money, think it's very cool of her and that makes me believing her. Also Depp acts like a total loser in this vid, lost a lot of respect for him. He is over 50, grow up! Think if you are as famous and loved as Depp was, you lose sight of reality and think everybody has to do exactly what you want. Guess that's why he turned into a major dick. I am just guessing, so not sure if this is true.

18 minutes ago, The Glow Inc. said:

Thank you. Everyone is safe though I'm more worried about my dad's colleagues ( he has two hundreds of them to worry about ).

Oh that must be nervewrecking. Hope it will be allright.

I have been to Nice many times and the boulevard is such a fun and beatiful part off the city. It will now forever has a dark side to it. Lots of kids were there as well. What a horrible thing.

I was thinking about you Glow when I heard. Glad you were not there. All your friends safe as well,?

Cheer up guys, it could always be worse. You know, not being there at all ?

Anyway their sports commenentator makes it a bit worth while, I lol'd so hard. 

https://youtu.be/qkNbCgCNUlE

Well if the pound is that low, you might see me visiting London a lot more though?

Oh and I can't be Bergkamp, Bergkamp is such a nice, decent, modest and kind guy. The only thing we have in common is being afraid of flying.

Lol Downzy, Snake posted the postcards. So don't adress multiple people if it was only one person posting obscene stuff. I would prefer you call people by name and don't take the easy way out. Snake pit posted obscene stuff with posting that postcard, he knows it, probably has no problem owning up to it as well. 

Oh and personally, I actually do like the 'no obscene stuff' rule, lol.

Omg, how can you stumble into the Vondelpark? That's like stumbling into Hyde Park, lol. You just made me laugh so hard.?

It's only the main park of the city, a tourist attraction as well. Lol, it's also the part of the city, I grew up in for several years.

lol, you got me. I am impressed.

Glad you love the city so much, I do too, so we have at least that in common.?

I do like Joy Division so high up in the list though. But there are not that many people who know them nowadays, unless my age.

It's kind of a pretentious list. Like trying hard avoiding everything close to trashy. However trashy can still be influential.?

Wouldn't suprise me, the maker of this list is my age or a few years older and in his teens totally New Wave. It was a mix of punk and the newer, more mellow, bands like Joy Division, The Cure, The Smiths, Siouxsie etc. We dressed in black, high hair, funny make up, look I am so intelligent and different, being all complicated?. Anyway wouldn't suprise me one bit.

8 minutes ago, Len B'stard said:

The Slits (one of my favourite bands!) is on the list, i defy anyone to find any kids today that know fuck all about The Slits, I've been on this forum for 12 years and in that whole time i only ever, despite banging on about them incessantly, come across two people who've even heard of The Slits (one of em was Dalsh).

Generally though, i think I'm too old to give a fuck

The other one was me?

2 hours ago, Towelie said:

I actually agree with Alan on this. I don't care so much about the devil-worship crap, but AC/DC are a naff band and way beneath Axl Rose.

Ugh. They are so not beneath him! Axl Rose is honored to play with them and he was influenced by them. It's a reallly good band and the Bon era delivered some really awesome music. Well to be fair Back in Black was a very influential album as well. They also showed other bands how to put on an really great show for the fans, Angus! They still fill up stadiums for a reason. One of the few bands who actually can. Did you listen to all their music or just a greatest hits? Just curious. 

So Hole was more influential than Nirvana? I would like to know why. I am missing some serious names and certainly in the rap/hiphop department. I am older, so maybe my judgement is clouded, but this list sucks. Also bands on that list were highly influenced by The Beatles, like Nirvana or the Velvet  underground.

Maybe it's a list for the bands now and for the USA, cause I don't even know some bands

 I am sorry for my rant, it's just a bit frustrating. It's like tourists visiting London only for the shops and maybe getting drunk in the evening and nothing else. But you probably don't care about that. But whatever, I do care, the city has so much more to offer. It's liberal and I am proud of that, it's just less liberal as some tourists often think.

You think, I judge? Yeah, guess you are a bit right. I do want people to have a good time, don't get me wrong. I just would like them to have a good time, without puking, shouting, sleeping, pissing, doing drugs all over the centre. Amsterdam is not as big as London. Compared to that, it's almost a village. I don't care if a certain kind of tourists smoke their weed, just that they would also be more interested in the other things Amsterdam has to offer, which is a lot and I am very proud of that. 

Most here, just think, if those kind of tourists stay in that part in the city (red light), I don't care. Guess I am one of those annoying whiners. But when you talk to people living in Amsterdam, you would notice we like whining (we also like joking though, preferably at the same time)

Cause we basicly avoid that place Len. A lot of tourists hang there and a lot of wallet thieves as well?.

So ideal for me, would be that tourists just stay in the coffeeshops to smoke their weed, but since they are sitting there all together at the monument, we just avoid it and will not sit on the stairs there ourselves. We are used to it. We all know it, so we all avoid it, so you will find no kids there, unless it are tourists kids. Still I would rather see, the monument free of that. So it's not totally ok with me.

Yet Axl wearing a Manson shirt was totally fine. 

This is totally hilarious. Most AC/DC fans are midle aged and so not Satan worshippers, the opposite actually. Haha, you should see the town Angus has a house in, in my country. It's so boring and 'normal'. I saw in a documentary once, his wife makes him soup and all and living a very very normal life. I am a huge AC/DC fan, and eventhough I want Brian back, Axl is doing great. He is obviously honored to play with them and for a reason. AC/DC makes me laugh and that's what they want, make people happy. Their music is not serious, just simple fun. 

Niven totally lost it in this interview

I am getting old and missed the edginess part. Thank you for informing me.?

Oh and I  told you what to do or in this case don't do in my city Snake Pit and have no problem to do it again. Smoking weed sitting at the monument (a tourist hangout) we don't care, but walking the streets it is rude. Now what?

Are you smoking weed on the streets there Snake Pit? Seriously that's so rude, kids walk the streets as well.

Ugh, you are an idiot. Tourists always think, it's normal to smoke weed out in the open in Amsterdam. It's not! So annoying.

There is something I don't understand. So the police came, no signs of abuse were seen, no report was filed. But then she does has pictures of a black eye the next day, cause he thrown a phone at her? I don't get it actually. Didn't the police took it seriously, cause you know, Depp?

He should have stayed with Paradis in the first place, great actress, instead of going for a younger woman. Karma is a bitch.

14 hours ago, MrSoftie said:

Can't wait for Axl to be on his feet full time.

Did you film this? Cause must have been filmed really close from were I was standing. We might have been a bit closer to the stage, but not much.