The Official Status Update Thread: Part 169 - Happy Thanksgiving INGO!!!

[SEIndSAM]

That's just sexism! It's fine when it's a hot lady but when it's a guy nobody wants bikini pics.

I wouldn't say nobody......MBills is prob PM'ing you right now......

 

[Sylvain]

I wouldn't say nobody......MBills is prob PM'ing you right now......

 

[Sylvain]

A couple of her friends had parents who bought them almost new cars...they have all been wrecked at least once...Nothing major, parking lot fender benders or slide offs into ditches..

Because they are new drivers?

 

[GregD]

Sam, I hope for something cheap!
When will you find out?

 

[GregD]

18*

Am I still catching you Sam?

 

[SEIndSAM]

18*

Am I still catching you Sam?

Yep.....18* here too...

 

[SEIndSAM]

Because they are new drivers?

Yeah, because they are new drivers..

 

[Sylvain]

Yeah, because they are new drivers..

I have yet to crash a car.
I had to take many hours of driving lessons before I could pass my driving test.

 

[SEIndSAM]

I have yet to crash a car.
I had to take many hours of driving lessons before I could pass my driving test.

I think here if you have a pulse and can see slightly past the front bumper of the car, you will pass....Or, you can do like the illegals and just drive without one...

 

[Sylvain]

I think here if you have a pulse and can see slightly past the front bumper of the car, you will pass....Or, you can do like the illegals and just drive without one...

From what I have seen our driving test is one of the tougher to pass, I failled the first time after taking 25 hours of driving lessons.
I had to take another 25 hours of training to try a second time.
I even heard of some people who couldn't pass it in France and managed to get one in the US in order then exchange it for a French one.
I think most people get it after the second or third time over here, it's considered harder to get than a college dilploma.

But once you get it it's a lifetime permit, no expiration date on it.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Hey Sylvain,

What are these "Christmas Markets" in Germany?? Are they like Flea Markets that pop up just for the holiday seasons and then close???

 

[Sylvain]

I think here if you have a pulse and can see slightly past the front bumper of the car, you will pass....Or, you can do like the illegals and just drive without one...

I'm sure the illegals are safer drivers though, they don't want to bump into you, have the cops called and get arrested.

 

[SEIndSAM]

From what I have seen our driving test is one of the tougher to pass, I failled the first time after taking 25 hours of driving lessons.
I had to take another 25 hours of training to try a second time.
I even heard of some people who couldn't pass it in France and managed to get one in the US in order then exchange it for a French one.
I think most people get it after the second or third time over here, it's considered harder to get than a college dilploma.

But once you get it it's a lifetime permit, no expiration date on it.

That's cool....Here you have to get them renewed every 6 or 7 years.

 

[SEIndSAM]

I'm sure the illegals are safer drivers though, they don't want to bump into you, have the cops called and get arrested.

That's the problem....In most of the country they don't get arrested...Unless they are drunk or something...

 

[Sylvain]

Hey Sylvain,

What are these "Christmas Markets" in Germany?? Are they like Flea Markets that pop up just for the holiday seasons and then close???

We have them in France too.
Yes they are temporary markets before christmas.
It's not flea markets, they usually sale food like you would find at a fair.
You can find christmas trees and stuff like that too, they have nativity scenes as well.

They are usually next to churches or cathedrals.

 

[Sylvain]

That's cool....Here you have to get them renewed every 6 or 7 years.

It's both cool and uncool.
Here I if I want I can not drive for 50 years and then get back on the road without knowing the new road signs and rules, or whatnot.
And the cops can't stop mean unless I'm unsafe.
Old people driving is a problem.

 

[Sylvain]

That reminds me I need to find my christmas tree.
It's so small I can't find it.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Those Christmas Markets look pretty neat Sylvain.....I didn't know they existed until recently when that 12yr old Iraqi tried to blow one up last week.

 

[SEIndSAM]

That reminds me I need to find my christmas tree.
It's so small I can't find it.

We didn't put up a tree. My kids are too old to care and there are no grandkids yet...

 

[Expat]

That reminds me I need to find my christmas tree.
It's so small I can't find it.

That's what she said