The kangaroo one just makes sense, it’s only exotic because you’re the only place with kangaroos, I bet they don’t think twice about the same signs for their local wildlife.

You mean more than usual?

I learn new things almost every day, I haven’t set foot in a school in nearly 20 years.

Great wee show that one, makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Didn’t we already get some pringles guerrilla marketing around here the other day? That intern is doing overtime.

As many as you have, but only one at a time.

Yeah seriously it is, we’re so much better at things when we do them reasonably but consistently.

Their point was that while it’s using metric, all the available sizes are based on imperial amounts.

Yeah TVs/screens for example are typically in inches anywhere I’ve seen. There might also be the metric listed.

There’s a new Tony Hawk game?

Hey now, don’t leave the French out of it, they work hard at being bâtards! I think the only ones I see actually trying to be respectable during protests are the Dutch (that I’m aware of).

Hey I know this place! I filmed there it’s in northern Ireland, behind the camera there’s an Observatory kind of building (round thing).

I drive it regularly when I visit a friend, it’s so funny watching all the comments calling it fake. Well I guess it’s fake in the sense that most Dutch landscapes are “fake” (man-made).

More specifically I’m almost certain it’s the bit after you pass Weesp.

Right it’s still reeking of the usual LinkedIn vibe (“my infinite wisdom will change your life!”) but at least it’s factual stuff and humorous.

In my village in the Netherlands bat roosts are installed in a bunch of places, they also mandate that houses have little box things on their side for them. Never seen a single bat lmao, but in the old family house in France there’s a bunch in the attic.

Yeah I was lucky to get to grow up, visit and live in other countries so I have a decent idea of what to expect, and I’d tend to agree with you. When you’re old on your death bed you won’t be thinking about how you made some great quarterly results for faceless shareholders or how rich your country was or whatever, but you’ll sure as hell be wondering if you enjoyed life as much as you could and gave enough attention to your loved ones. Maybe places where material wealth isn’t as important can help with that but who knows…

It’s the reason I’m still hesitant of emigrating there with my family (Canadian wife). Even though we’d be going to Quebec which is the “least American” part, it’s still a bit too close for comfort for me… I worked for American companies for a long time and fuck that lifestyle. What I’d really like is going to a “slower” country where the rat race takes a back seat and people just enjoy life more, but that usually also means abandoning a lot of benefits and links to modern life and our entourages so the missus is not so hot about it. Meanwhile we live in one of the most advanced countries on earth (Netherlands) so it’s also really hard to justify moving when we have it so great here in terms of infrastructure, administration, career prospects etc etc etc. Very few countries offer a better deal.

It’s also 15 years old and no one gave a shit about anything back then.

Not exactly the same vibe but I keep a good memory of getting engrossed into this anonymous writer that made a whole story in Reddit comments: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9

It’s very dark and mysterious, it was crazy cool waiting for the next comment to drop but I think there’s a repository somewhere so you can just read them all in order.