Monday, 22 January 2018
quote [ Hanging at the Gemäldegalerie art museum in Berlin, Germany, is an unusual painting. Measuring 64 inches by 46 inches, this 16th century oil-on-oak-panel painting is populated by a swarm of miniature men, women, children and animals performing a range of extraordinary and bizarre acts—two men defecating out of a window, a man biting into a wooden pillar, another man banging his head against a wall, a man burying a calf, a man attempting to scoop up spilled porridge, and a woman tying into a bundle what appears to be the devil. ]
Now, did you say you were from the Netherlands
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dolemite said @ 1:37am GMT on 22nd Jan
[Score:1 Informative]
My father was. We used to poop out of windows all the time.
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spazm said @ 12:07pm GMT on 22nd Jan
These proverbs were all new to me, very interesting! I'm Dutch, or Netherlandish (which was new to me as well lol).
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Marcel said @ 5:56pm GMT on 22nd Jan
I have a book, The Complete Paintings of Bruegel, published in 1967. The description "Two people shitting through the same hole (making a virtue out of necessity)" surprised and delighted me because of its lack of a euphemism.
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Adam said @ 2:22am GMT on 24th Jan
I love the Netherlands, a country where people will absolutely not allow you to be polite or circumspect about anything.
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