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What seemed weird when I visited your country
ankhtahr:
--- Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 06 Nov 2013, 12:50 ---On my way to Vienna I passed through Amsterdam airport. I was deeply alarmed at police officers walking around with machine guns. I mean I'm still getting used to Australian cops carrying guns and I'm pretty sure they've had those for a while. I don't want this to turn into a gun debate but man, that was probably the oddest thing I've seen in my travels.
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I've seen police carrying machine pistols in the middle of the street in Germany once. It was a money transport from the federal bank (Bundesbank) to the state bank (Landeszentralbank).
I was just walking on the sidewalk across of the state bank, when I heard police sirens. One police car came around the corner, and opened gates in the middle of the road, separating the two lanes. Then 2 armored police cars came around the corner and blocked the road. Policemen carrying machine pistols (H&K MP5) stepped out and told everybody to stop walking and wait. They kept the machine pistols close to the body, but always had one hand on the grip. A giant truck with police sirens on arrived and stopped infront of the opened gates. 2 more armored police cars arrived, and blocked the rest of the road. More armed policemen stepped out of the vehicles, and the door of the state bank started opening. The truck went through the door, the door closed, and after another minute of waiting the policemen went back into their cars and drove off. And left behind a large group of bedazzled pedestrians.
That was one of the scariest experiences in my life. I had never before seen any firearm bigger than the typical Walther P99 the police carry around here.
The cars were 4 of these:
guarding one of these:
LookingIn:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 06 Nov 2013, 01:33 ---
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 05 Nov 2013, 13:52 ---Ugh no, peanut butter shouldn't contain ANYTHING except peanuts (and possibly salt, if you really want it - but I do not).
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You need to add a little oil to allow the ground peanuts to blend together better, either a nuetral flavored oil or peanut oil.
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But peanut oil is made of peanuts! So it still doesn't contain anything other than peanuts.
I was thining you meant only those two ingredients but true- you are only adding in something that is already there, but in a greater quantity :-D
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 06 Nov 2013, 14:27 ---It is in England
Though by South American standards, they're tame.
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Unless you Euro types have recently had a Ref beheaded and his head posted on a pole by an angry mob, or see regular use of firearms and grenades...
ev4n:
Sounds like Canada when a local team gets into the Stanley Cup finals (and loses)
Sorflakne:
--- Quote ---Oh yeah pancakes in America are totally different. What we call a pancake in Norway at least is a lot thinner, kind of like a crepe but not really. You have it for dinner, usually you put blueberry jam or just plain sugar on it, and roll it up. Before pancakes you have something else, pea soup is pretty common.
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You mean lefse, or is this something completely different?
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