Hi Johnny!
Sure, I'm still here, but spending time on my new site, which is getting more interesting by the day, if I say so myself. There's a link in my signature, feel free to lurk or join anytime. But I won't
As for those people who deny all technology and keep life simple, they have those here too in some of the more remote (if remote is at all possible in Holland) villages. I didn't find them to very tolerant towards anyone outside their little clique actually, the few times I interacted with them. And they start quoting the bible (usually Sodom and Gomorrha after a few minutes with me) so I tend to avoid them. Live and let live, just stay away from me, thanks.
Vic
Hi Vic; gee, it seems like a long absence from both of us.
Thanks for answering my questions.
I shall have to go back to your site, and register this time, and check it out.
How great that it is going so well.
Are the visitor numbers up too? Hope so.
You sound like a real Mr International in lots of ways, even if you do call yourself a mongrel.
Hey talking about mongrels, I was working my way through the earlier pages of the captions thread yesterday, and encountered that picture of Jack lying on the ground asleep up in the range, with a dog lying beside him, which was almost camouflaged.
Well LouiseV did a caption calling the dog an Alsatian or German Shepherd.
But the dog was a blue heeler or kelpie.
Someone then pointed out this error, but it read to me as if it was just a joke; sort of along the lines of "that dog is NOT an Alsatian, it is a blue heeler; do you get it? a blue heeler"
So as they have a lot of jokes in that thread, I just thought that it was a friendly but correct joke. Well, next thing there was a bit of a kerfuffle over this "criticism". Wow, someone was thin-skinned. LOL.
But on your behalf, I will take exception to the world-class fool bit.
From our experience of you in here, just WORLD CLASS would be perfect -- unless we wanted to add MIND to it. That I would accept. But FOOL is not appropriate when we are talking of our Vic! (Is it Doug? Come on here and back me up mate)
I shall have to remember your observation about their being Dutch when we see those guys cycling over here. I just thought that they were intrepid individuals. Like you say, the temperatures are so high -- or so cold at night or during winter. The roads are disgusting, the terrain is pretty crook too, and they are loaded down with their basic necessities for such a trip.
I just take my hat off to them Vic; I wouldn't even attempt it.
One year when we saw a fellow like that on a very hot day, way out in the semi-arid areas, whilst we were driving by in air-conditioned comfort; I stopped the car and we offered him some of our cold drinks from a container in the car. The guy was just so appreciative. Now that I recall that situation, he did have a foreign accent, but I cannot recall much more.
About those Brethren people: as Doug says, they have networks all over the world.
My grandmother used to give me the stamps off their letters to each other, for my collection wa y back then. They were always lovely kind people to each other, but judgemental as you observe of those who behaved "sinfully".
Well, Nick came in and said that we were getting off topic -- maybe that excursion into the Brethren, from our Non-Believers' perspective will put us back on topic. LOL.
Sticking with the Brethren, I once found a web-site run by people who had LEFT the group. They were still usually very religious, but I think they left when breakaway groups formed or something.
Hoping to read more from you Vic. -- and from some of you lurkers out there. We'd love to hear about your non-belief and BBM. Bring it on. Cheers all: JohnnyX.
