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Another overheard phone call fragment on the train: “I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news *long silence* no no no no no no NO NO”
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Just overheard a fragment of a very loud phone call on the train: “yes, I texted you because I found you sexy, but that doesn’t mean that when we stop having sex, you can just stop texting me”.
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Koningsnacht, maar ik ben de enige die de moeite had genomen om helemaal naar de voorkant van de trein te lopen 😍
Stilte in een stiltecoupé 😱
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Seated next to a knitting hottie on the train 😊
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In related news: ik reageer blijkbaar hetzelfde op jonge mannen die dicht om me heen gaan staan, met de zaklamp van hun telefoons in m’n gezicht schijnen en me van zo dichtbij filmen terwijl ze roepen wat een lelijke *bliep* ik ben, als mijn zus reageert op mijn neefjes die een beetje te lomp spelen.
“Nee, dankje”
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Wat is het nut van het NS “onveilig gevoel in de trein” telefoonnummer als hun enige reactie “niets van aan trekken, joh” is?
Like… ??
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BTW: even though Deutsche Bahn cannot reasonably be blamed for the events that resulted in an unexpected and very brief visit to Japan… I had planned to take a train from the airport to the mainland, but that train wasn’t running that morning, so as I entered the replacement bus, it felt like I still got Deutsche Bahned in spirit…
#DeutscheBahn #Trains #Travel #Japan #LatourOnTour #LatourDetour
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In a rather extreme edition of #LatourDetour, we have now visited Rinku, Izumisano, and Iharanosato, Japan.
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Another thing I learned today was that the Cham language uses prefixes to create frequentatives.
Unlike English’s suffixes (daze -> dazzle, sniff -> sniffle) and Dutch’s infixes (huppen -> huppelen, klinken -> klingelen).
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Another thing I learned today was that the Cham language uses prefixes to create frequentatives.
Unlike English’s suffixes (daze -> dazzle, sniff -> sniffle) and Dutch’s infixes (huppen -> huppelen, klinken -> klingelen).
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Another thing I learned today was that the Cham language uses prefixes to create frequentatives.
Unlike English’s suffixes (daze -> dazzle, sniff -> sniffle) and Dutch’s infixes (huppen -> huppelen, klinken -> klingelen).
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Another thing I learned today was that the Cham language uses prefixes to create frequentatives.
Unlike English’s suffixes (daze -> dazzle, sniff -> sniffle) and Dutch’s infixes (huppen -> huppelen, klinken -> klingelen).
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Another thing I learned today was that the Cham language uses prefixes to create frequentatives.
Unlike English’s suffixes (daze -> dazzle, sniff -> sniffle) and Dutch’s infixes (huppen -> huppelen, klinken -> klingelen).
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The answer Tony settled on was that it lasts at least a thousand years because it’s made of sandstone which is so soft that it’ll never crack, unlike marble.
This is obvious BS, but in a romantic enough way that I’m not mad about it. I find that there are many granite and blue hardstone mines, so those seem more likely materials to make a rice grinder from.
A Google search seems to suggest that a granite grinder will last 30-40 years, so I guess we have somewhat of an answer.
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Anyway so this was all prompted by me wondering how many kg of rice you can grind in this rice grinder before it needs to be replaced.
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I must admit that I have earned the “huh. Interesting question. I don’t know the answer. Nobody ever asked me that “ badge on many a guided tour, which suggests that I ask a lot…
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Tony: do you have questions? Any more questions? Just ask me, okay?
Australian tourist: *turns sharply towards me* sssshhh -
lol the other tourists just told me to stop asking questions 🥲
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Update: I’m in her seat!
Not enjoying this tour as much as the last one. While Handsome Hau seemed to have been genetically engineered to be the most energetic and cheerful tour guide, Tony the Tour Guide is mostly focused on making sure that everybody understands what he says. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it makes him speak very slowly and it makes him repeat everything seemingly endlessly, and my brain needs a bit more stimulation than that.
We ended up swapping the German tourist for another tourist, a guy this time, and immediately lost him. That cut our sightseeing cut short again, which annoyed me.
Thankfully some of the others in our small group are nice and interesting people, so I’m at least having a few good chats. And I still got to see My Son, or what’s left of it after the Americans bombed it.
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Okay so it seems that the reason that we left 15 minutes late is that the German tourist thought she was going on a tour with two friends, but each of them managed to book the same tour at a different time, which was why they weren’t there at the pickup point.
Tony the Tour Guide has been making phone calls for the last 20 minutes, and it looks like we’ll reunite the German tourist with her friend once we get to the first stop.
Hopefully that means I get to take her seat and seatbelt 🥳
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Found two more tourists and reached the main vehicle. Sadly no seatbelt on my chair, but others have seatbelts and don’t use them. Life’s unfair, I guess, and so might death be, the way things are going.
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After many phone calls, we finally found the first tourist. She loudly yelled “hello good morning” in a German accent as she entered the vehicle and is putting the “germ” into “German” by sneezing all over the place, so I think we’ll get along great! /s
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I’m going on another guided tour today. Was picked up at the hotel at 7:30. Now, 20 minutes later, we’re trying to pick up two other tourists, but we can’t find them 😬
I’ve done these kinds of guided tours in Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia, but have never experienced losing another tourist or tourists not showing up for their pick up, and here it’s happened twice in a row 🫠
Your company’s communication has been prompt and mostly clear (not entirely sure what to make of that last message), so I’m inclined to think it’s not the tour company’s fault…
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@shom Okay so I didn't want to post a pic of Handsome Hau b/c of privacy, so I took the first pic to gently suggest that he does not not look like that.
An hour later he poses next to "a sculpture of my brother, look, we look so much alike!" so I guess I'm okay to post the second pic 😬
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@shom Okay so I didn't want to post a pic of Handsome Hau b/c of privacy, so I took the first pic to gently suggest that he does not not look like that.
An hour later he poses next to "a sculpture of my brother, look, we look so much alike!" so I guess I'm okay to post the second pic 😬
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@shom Okay so I didn't want to post a pic of Handsome Hau b/c of privacy, so I took the first pic to gently suggest that he does not not look like that.
An hour later he poses next to "a sculpture of my brother, look, we look so much alike!" so I guess I'm okay to post the second pic 😬
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@shom Okay so I didn't want to post a pic of Handsome Hau b/c of privacy, so I took the first pic to gently suggest that he does not not look like that.
An hour later he poses next to "a sculpture of my brother, look, we look so much alike!" so I guess I'm okay to post the second pic 😬
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@shom Okay so I didn't want to post a pic of Handsome Hau b/c of privacy, so I took the first pic to gently suggest that he does not not look like that.
An hour later he poses next to "a sculpture of my brother, look, we look so much alike!" so I guess I'm okay to post the second pic 😬
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Oh we found the guy. He went down the wrong set of steps.
He’s now being scolded by Handsome Hau about sticking with the group.
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Driver just got out also, to also look at the forest.
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lol we lost one of the group and are now driving away without him… Handsome Hau made the driver drive to a patch of forest and he’s outside now, looking at his phone and the forest and back at his phone…
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lol my tour guide’s phone’s battery died, but since I’m me, I always carry not one, but two charged power banks, so we’re good for now 😅
#LatourOnTour #BePrepared #Vietnam #Travel #PowerToTheTourGuide
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lol my tour guide’s phone’s battery died, but since I’m me, I always carry not one, but two charged power banks, so we’re good for now 😅
#LatourOnTour #BePrepared #Vietnam #Travel #PowerToTheTourGuide
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lol my tour guide’s phone’s battery died, but since I’m me, I always carry not one, but two charged power banks, so we’re good for now 😅
#LatourOnTour #BePrepared #Vietnam #Travel #PowerToTheTourGuide
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lol my tour guide’s phone’s battery died, but since I’m me, I always carry not one, but two charged power banks, so we’re good for now 😅
#LatourOnTour #BePrepared #Vietnam #Travel #PowerToTheTourGuide
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lol my tour guide’s phone’s battery died, but since I’m me, I always carry not one, but two charged power banks, so we’re good for now 😅
#LatourOnTour #BePrepared #Vietnam #Travel #PowerToTheTourGuide
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My hotel serves kopi c at breakfast 😋
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The couple next to me in the restaurant are asking ChatGPT to explain the 6 7 meme to them.
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Just had my first egg coffee at a cafe with a very lovely waitress who (accurately) guessed that it was my first and politely explained how to drink it. Will leave her a good review when I have WiFi again. Coffee was excellent.
The heavily smoking uncle next to me told me that you’d pay 7 USD for a drink line that in the USA. He then explained that he works in California and returns to Vietnam once a year to be with his wife. His second wife, that is, because the first died of cancer (I didn’t ask which kind) two years ago. His daughter works for the LAPD, which is a very good job, he says.
Second wife didn’t seem thrilled that he was chatting with me.
Lots to unpack here. My suitcase and I are now on our way to Hoi An.
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CW: American Vietnam war
Visiting the Da Nang museum and realising I know really very little about this war, let alone from the Vietnamese perspective. Exhibit gets pretty graphic. Not sharing all of that, but it’s pretty horrific.
#Vietnam #DaNang #LatourOnTour #War #VietnamWar #Museum #History
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CW: Durian
Fuck, yeah.
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I’m having a late lunch of nasi Padang in a vegetarian restaurant, and the German next to me clearly woke up and chose violence today, because he’s telling the restaurant owner that laksa is Indian, actually, so they’re not actually serving Singaporean cuisine.
#LatourOnTour #MakanApaToday #Laksa #NasiPadang #Singapore #Food #VegetarianFood
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POV: you’ve planned your trip around Friday socials, ppl have told you that they’ll be at the Friday socials, so you arrive at the Friday socials, only to find out that Friday socials were cancelled over a year ago and nobody bothered removing the recurring event from the calendar.
Please somebody set me a fun challenge to cheer me up?
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POV: you need a break from your vacation so you attend a seminar about a cool new paper at your old university. 🤓
paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3776643
preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05162
#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ProfessorLife #LatourOnTour #ComputationalComplexity #Concurrency #ComputerScience
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POV: you need a break from your vacation so you attend a seminar about a cool new paper at your old university. 🤓
paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3776643
preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05162
#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ProfessorLife #LatourOnTour #ComputationalComplexity #Concurrency #ComputerScience
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POV: you need a break from your vacation so you attend a seminar about a cool new paper at your old university. 🤓
paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3776643
preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05162
#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ProfessorLife #LatourOnTour #ComputationalComplexity #Concurrency #ComputerScience
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POV: you need a break from your vacation so you attend a seminar about a cool new paper at your old university. 🤓
paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3776643
preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05162
#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ProfessorLife #LatourOnTour #ComputationalComplexity #Concurrency #ComputerScience
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POV: you need a break from your vacation so you attend a seminar about a cool new paper at your old university. 🤓
paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3776643
preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05162
#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ProfessorLife #LatourOnTour #ComputationalComplexity #Concurrency #ComputerScience
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@ScubaET These pics don't even contain half of the notes and pics and drawings and home-made certificates, but it gives you some sense of what it's like. Behind his stall, on the fridges, there are also a lot of fridge magnets and other gifts he has received from the students. I gave him a Dutch fridge magnet and a thank-you card when I left 2 years ago. It's probably somewhere there, but I didn't spot it in the short time that I waited for my kopi. Maybe because there is so much, but maybe also because a lot of it is out of sight from where you are ordering.