tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68991294120309310942024-03-13T09:03:54.627-07:00StrangersRichardNobbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00079142266949167294noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899129412030931094.post-28077690391528269082011-08-12T09:36:00.000-07:002011-08-12T09:41:01.262-07:00Tasty Stranger<b><i>Me trying introducting the phenomenon 'Prakken' to the international cuisine</i></b><br />
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<div class="logitem" style="font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>You're now watching two strangers discuss your question!</b></div></div><div class="logitem" style="font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="question" style="width: 723px;"><div class="questionHeading" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #6cb5ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-top-left-radius: 0.5em 0.5em; color: #ddeeff; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0.1111111111111111em; padding-left: 1.1111111111111112em; padding-right: 0.1111111111111111em; padding-top: 0.1111111111111111em;"><b>Question to discuss:</b></div><div class="questionText" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ddeeff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.5em;"><b>Did you ever have the idea to mash potatoes and vegetables together with a whole lot of gravy?</b></div></div></div><div class="logitem" style="font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 2:</strong> Sound tasty</b></div></div><div class="logitem" style="font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> lolol</b></div></div><div class="logitem" style="font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> sounds great</b></div></div><div class="logitem" style="font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 2:</strong> I'd love to hav sum</b></div></div><div class="logitem" style="font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> nom nom nom</b></div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 2:</strong> I think im gonna cook sum up rite now</b></div><div class="strangermsg" style="font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>II:</b></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You're now watching two strangers discuss your question!</span></div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="question" style="width: 591px;"><div class="questionHeading" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #6cb5ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-top-left-radius: 0.5em 0.5em; color: #ddeeff; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0.1111111111111111em; padding-left: 1.1111111111111112em; padding-right: 0.1111111111111111em; padding-top: 0.1111111111111111em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Question to discuss:</span></div><div class="questionText" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ddeeff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Did you ever have the idea to mash potatoes and vegetables together with a whole lot of gravy?</span></div></div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> No, but that's brilliant</span></div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> I think I'll go try it now!!!</span></div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Stranger 1 has disconnected</span></div><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">III:</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You're now watching two strangers discuss your question!</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="question" style="width: 591px;"><div class="questionHeading" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #6cb5ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-top-left-radius: 0.5em 0.5em; color: #ddeeff; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0.1111111111111111em; padding-left: 1.1111111111111112em; padding-right: 0.1111111111111111em; padding-top: 0.1111111111111111em;">Question to discuss:</div><div class="questionText" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ddeeff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.5em;">Did you ever have the idea to mash potatoes and vegetables together with a whole lot of gravy?</div></div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 2:</strong> Yes.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 2:</strong> That's how you do it.</div><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>IV:</b></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You're now watching two strangers discuss your question!</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="question" style="width: 736px;"><div class="questionHeading" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #6cb5ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-top-left-radius: 0.5em 0.5em; color: #ddeeff; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0.1111111111111111em; padding-left: 1.1111111111111112em; padding-right: 0.1111111111111111em; padding-top: 0.1111111111111111em;">Question to discuss:</div><div class="questionText" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ddeeff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.5em;">Did you ever have the idea to mash potatoes and vegetables together with a whole lot of gravy?</div></div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 2:</strong> EWW baby food</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> ...</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> in ireland .. thats lunch</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 2:</strong> you're from ireland?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> Yeah xP</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 2:</strong> AWESOME! :o we're neighbours :3</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> Your from uk ?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 2:</strong> Yes unfortunatley ;p</div><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>V:</b></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You're now watching two strangers discuss your question!</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="question" style="width: 591px;"><div class="questionHeading" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #6cb5ff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-top-left-radius: 0.5em 0.5em; color: #ddeeff; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0.1111111111111111em; padding-left: 1.1111111111111112em; padding-right: 0.1111111111111111em; padding-top: 0.1111111111111111em;">Question to discuss:</div><div class="questionText" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ddeeff; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.5em;">Did you ever have the idea to mash potatoes and vegetables together with a whole lot of gravy?</div></div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> yeah</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> i get it at KFC all the time.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 2:</strong> ewwww</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Stranger 1:</strong> say what you will, but those bowls are awesome</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Stranger 1 has disconnected</div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div></div></span>RichardNobbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00079142266949167294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899129412030931094.post-14828407447637008322011-08-11T16:26:00.000-07:002011-08-11T16:26:28.005-07:00School Stranger<b><i>An attempt to explain the Dutch educational system to a Texan</i></b><br />
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<div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Hey (:</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Hello :)</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> How are you?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Good u?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> I'm fine (: Where are you from?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Texas. u?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> The Netherlands :'D</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Cool :D</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Haha, not really, the weather sucks here.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Really?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> It does xD</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> hahahah wow</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> But hey, at least I don't have to go to school.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Lucky!</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Haha, to what kind of school do you go?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> I'm in High School.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Almost graduating.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Cool (:</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> I'm in uuuh..</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> yea :D</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> How do I explain this.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> The Dutch educational system is really different from the American one.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Oh Really?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Yes, want me to explain?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Sure.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Well.. We start basic-school, as we call it, at the age of four, and we go to that school until we're about twelve.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> After that, you go to the middle school, which is divided in three levels, according to your performance on the basic-school.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> You have VMBO (Secondary Continued Vocational Education) which takes four years.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> You have HAVO (Higher General Secondary Education)</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Which takes five years.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> And VWO (Secondary Scientific Education)</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Which takes a whopping six years.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Do you still follow it this far?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Yes.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> After you finish VMBO, you can do to things, you can go to the MBO (Secondary Vocational Education) or you can take the last two years of HAVO.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Likewise, after you finish HAVO, you can go to the HBO (Higher Vocational Education) or you can take the last two years of VWO.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> And if you finish VWO you can go to the university.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> However, if you manage to complete MBO, you can enroll into an HBO.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> And after you finish your Foundation Course at the HBO you can enter the University.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> MBO, HBO and University are btw oriented towards specific professions or related groups of proffesions.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Still able to follow it?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Yes.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Now we're going more in-depth. VMBO has several 'sectors' in which you enroll after your third year, the sectors are different nationwide, it can be Sports and Service, or Health and Welfare, based on the Sector you chose, you can, or can not, enroll into a specific MBO.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> HAVO and VWO have four profiles nationwide, you choose the profile after your third year. These profiles are, Culture and Society, Economy and Society, Nature and Health and Nature and Technology.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Based on those profiles you can or can not enroll into a specific HBO or University.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Now to answer your initial question, I'm going to the final year of HAVO, with the Culture and Society profile.</div></div>RichardNobbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00079142266949167294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899129412030931094.post-2690277390676017182011-08-07T17:35:00.000-07:002011-08-07T17:35:26.633-07:00Norwegian Stranger<b><i>A conversation I had with a Norwegian girl;</i></b><br />
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<div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="question"><div class="questionHeading">Question to discuss:</div><div class="questionText">what time is it?</div></div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> 2.12 AM</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> 2.12 AM</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Same timezone : D</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> <strike>Fuck</strike> yea.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> yay :D</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Where are you from?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> the best one</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> norway</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> you?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> The Netherlands.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> How are you? (:</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> cool</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> Im great :)</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> how about you?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> I'm fine. I just saw this documentary about the shootout on Utoya. I hope that guy is going to rot in a cell the rest of his life.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> yeeeah</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> too bad we the longest conviction we have in norway is 30 years</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Maybe they can alter it for this one time. You know, that shoot out even influenced our Politics, because one of our 'politicians' was mentioned in Breiviks' manifesto.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> And now our politicians are still throwing virtual mud at each other.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> wow</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> yeah he made a pretty big mess!</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> I know.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> I was supposed to go to utøya actually, with my boyfriend</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> but I had to work</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> so luckily we both stayed home</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Yeah.. You really are.. Did you know anyone who did go?</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> I knew who very many was. but personally I just knew a few</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> most of them made it.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> That's good. My mom was crying when she heard the news, I just got home from a political camp.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> wow</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> it makes you think how easily such things can happen</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> It was one person.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Who <strike>fucked </strike>up a lot of <strike>shit.</strike></div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> he did</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> But did he make you stronger? If you know what I mean.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> well its been all over the news that the rest of the people in norway are so supportive and loving agains eachother all of a sudden</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> so it pulled us closer as a people and a more friendly attidude agains foreigners have appeared</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> That's good to hear.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> It has really <strike>fucked</strike> our politics up. Right-wing politicians keep blaming Left-Wing politicians, and vice-versa.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> ugh :/ thats not good</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> thats what that guy wanted, make mess and dissagreements</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> I know. Glad to see he has failed to do that in Norway.</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> totally failed :p</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> he dont get that when you use violence, you lose support at once. if you want to change something, use words, not violence</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> True (:</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> :))</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> well well</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> im going to bed :)</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="youmsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">You:</strong> Sleep tight (:</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> nince talking to you. and the spy person</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> you too :)</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="strangermsg" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="msgsource" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Stranger:</strong> ciao</div></div><div class="logitem" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="statuslog" style="color: #555555; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Your conversational partner has disconnected.</div></div>RichardNobbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00079142266949167294noreply@blogger.com0