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My Kushy New Job (2010)

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Re: My Kushy New Job (2010)

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Post by andsoitis »

ivolimmen wrote: post #14
magic_hamster wrote: post #10

This depressing account just made me wish the author could enjoy Amsterdam instead of work in that miserable coffee shop. Try a museum, visit a castle, take a boat ride, have some world class omelette. Like most other places, visiting Amsterdam is what you make it to be.

I sometimes work in Amsterdam. It's near my house. I hate tourists in Amsterdam. They clearly come to my capital for the wrong things. Plus they only visit the capitol; there are so many nice cities in the Netherlands to visit, some are even more beautiful than Amsterdam. To cater to the tourists the city also changed for the worst.

> I hate tourists in Amsterdam.

I wonder whether that might explain a number of incidents where I've been treated very very rudely when I've visited Amsterdam or Rotterdam, even when I'm not "one of those toursists".

Re: My Kushy New Job (2010)

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Post by blamazon »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #4
bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #2

Needs a 2010. Amsterdam is definitely no longer the world's cannabis capitol.

What is then?

Not a world capital of the stuff exactly but, due to slow-rolled legalization, New York City is having a gray market boom right now - there's some sort of tacit 'they can't catch all of us at once' strategy going on, there's a bazillion illegal (yet formalized) cannabis vendors springing up all over the place into every available empty storefront. You can also find them at farmer's markets, concerts, outside movie theaters, etc.

Most of the gray market is just surplus California pot (it is the cheapest, after all) but if you go to one of the very few legal dispensaries in the city you can buy New York (State) grown cannabis which is pretty neat.

Re: My Kushy New Job (2010)

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Post by comprev »

Having spent possibly the best 5yrs of my life in Amsterdam, I can only feel sorry for the authors extremely limited exposure to the city.

It’s amazing place full of art, history, culture, music - and if you know where to find it - great food.

Dampkring is fairly low on my coffeeshop list

Re: My Kushy New Job (2010)

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Post by zoky »

ivolimmen wrote: post #14
magic_hamster wrote: post #10

This depressing account just made me wish the author could enjoy Amsterdam instead of work in that miserable coffee shop. Try a museum, visit a castle, take a boat ride, have some world class omelette. Like most other places, visiting Amsterdam is what you make it to be.

I sometimes work in Amsterdam. It's near my house. I hate tourists in Amsterdam. They clearly come to my capital for the wrong things. Plus they only visit the capitol; there are so many nice cities in the Netherlands to visit, some are even more beautiful than Amsterdam. To cater to the tourists the city also changed for the worst.

I only had two days to spend in the Netherlands with my family a few months ago, so we went to Amsterdam. I’ve never smoked so much as a puff of marijuana in my life, but I’m still glad I went. I was a bit put off by the prevalence of the whole weed culture thing, but it was a really cool town with some really nice museums and parks.

Probably the thing I found most interesting about Amsterdam was it was the only place in the world I’ve ever seen dedicated traffic lanes for five distinct modes of transportation on one single street—pedestrians, bicycles, cars, trains, and boats.

Re: My Kushy New Job (2010)

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Post by op00to »

ivolimmen wrote: post #14
magic_hamster wrote: post #10

This depressing account just made me wish the author could enjoy Amsterdam instead of work in that miserable coffee shop. Try a museum, visit a castle, take a boat ride, have some world class omelette. Like most other places, visiting Amsterdam is what you make it to be.

I sometimes work in Amsterdam. It's near my house. I hate tourists in Amsterdam. They clearly come to my capital for the wrong things. Plus they only visit the capitol; there are so many nice cities in the Netherlands to visit, some are even more beautiful than Amsterdam. To cater to the tourists the city also changed for the worst.

You're describing tourists since time immemorial.

Re: My Kushy New Job (2010)

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Post by cafard »

ivolimmen wrote: post #14
magic_hamster wrote: post #10

This depressing account just made me wish the author could enjoy Amsterdam instead of work in that miserable coffee shop. Try a museum, visit a castle, take a boat ride, have some world class omelette. Like most other places, visiting Amsterdam is what you make it to be.

I sometimes work in Amsterdam. It's near my house. I hate tourists in Amsterdam. They clearly come to my capital for the wrong things. Plus they only visit the capitol; there are so many nice cities in the Netherlands to visit, some are even more beautiful than Amsterdam. To cater to the tourists the city also changed for the worst.

The wrong things? A visit to the Museumplein, looking into the Beguinhof, shopping, dining at restaurants? Perhaps you can post a list of the right things.
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