blubton

joined 1 year ago
[–] blubton 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fair point. You probably could still build a metro, but because it would not be worth the cost it for a city of this size. But no soil should stop a tram from being built, only the VVD and co may do that.

[–] blubton 11 points 9 months ago

Widening of A1 highway costs 400 million euros.

Rijkswaterstaat grijpt de verbreding van de A1 aan om samen met provincie Overijssel, provincie Gelderland, gemeenten en de Cleantech Regio een impuls te geven aan duurzaamheid, vormgeving van de weg en ruimtelijke kwaliteit van het gebied

From Rijkswaterstaat. The "sustainable" part is literally just not unnecessarily using streetlights. Totally ridiculous.

[–] blubton 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Good luck! It seems to me like Eindhoven would be perfect for trams: a lot of major destinations, like the university, football station, ASML in Veldhoven and the airport. Add to this that the region will definitely grow a lot in the future and trams (or even a metro) should be a no brainer. The fact that the much smaller city of Enschede is actually going to look at trams potentially in the future, but Eindhoven doesn't, is absolutely crazy. Hopefully they'll change their minds.

[–] blubton 5 points 9 months ago

This could very well be the truth. In LOTR and the Hobbit these despicable creatures seem pretty nice, but keep in mind that it was Hobbits who wrote all of that and they are in this case biased towards Hobbits. Furthermore, it's interesting that the Hobbits, who could barely read or write, had so much knowledge about their genealogical ancestry: this could merely be an oddity, but it could also mean that they made it up to erase any questions about their rights to the territory.

On top of that, when I was searching through my memory for proof of another theory I have, that Lobelia got screwed over by Bilbo, it seemed suspicious to me that despite their love for genealogy and the fact that they (at least before "the Hobbit") kept their homes to their family, or heirs, there is no mention of any inheritance procedure in any of the books, despite this being more relevant for the Hobbits who wrote the books than for example some random elven language. When Bilbo comes back in the Shire, he was declared dead, but there seemed to be an "auction" instead of an "inheritance". On the other hand, Bilbo bequeaths everyting to Frodo later on.

This use of words raises some suspicion. One possibility is that the "auction" was actually an "inheritance" and that Bilbo tried to invalidate Lobelia's claims to his inheritance in his writings. Tolkien may have omitted the part of the book where inheritance in the Shire is explained to make Bilbo more likable: this part of the book is necessary to make my Lobelia theory, which I will not explain here because it's too long, not just a theory, but a fact.

The other possible reason as to why there is no explanation of the inheritance procedure is because there was no such thing, because the Hobbits didn't live here for that long yet, increasing the probability of the theory mentioned in the above comment.

Furthermore, Sauron wasn't actually an eye, but he was seen by the Hobbits as such. The sun baby may have been angry at the Hobbits (see comment above this one); by showing himself as something resembling the sun baby, he (what even are the sun baby's pronouns?) made them recall the crimes they commited against the Teletubbies.

I may just be wrong though.

[–] blubton 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In the Netherlands we always outperform you stupid Belgians. As you can see, we are higher than you on this map too!

[–] blubton 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Look at those legs of the Buff Fronted and Galapagos Short Eared owls! You can see they trained for this!

[–] blubton 4 points 9 months ago

They both stare right into my soul, and I love it

[–] blubton 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's here! And immediately a BFO showoff! KC Screech immediately comes in with an all-star lineup (Buffy, Snowy, Flammy, WFS), but SF Bay Owl has such cute ones, as well as the OG BFO. This will be an interesting first match!

[–] blubton 7 points 9 months ago

Maybe, but alcohol works fine. Intellectual research at my local chess club shows that three beers is the optimal amount, massively increasing intuition, without significantly decreasing intelligence. So for beginners I would recommend starting there.

[–] blubton 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Your world vision is too narrow. It is time for you to expand your horizons, move across borders, explore new worlds, new planets, new lives! Start with checkers. Maybe some day your board will be big enough to see the squares you can only dream of.

[–] blubton 3 points 9 months ago

I know I am in the right, because the only ones arguing against the truth I have revealed do not bring forth arguments, but use "ad hobbitem" instead. No sense, no respect, just blindly following Bilbo's lies!

[–] blubton 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Chess generators would never invent a name as glorious as "grob opening, double grob variation, Coca-Cola gambit".

view more: ‹ prev next ›