Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low
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Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low
Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high
Plan your tourism accordingly.
This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more public toilets with the specific aim of reducing deaths by drowning.
@0xabad1dea
This correlates pretty well with my observations while visiting:"This is a party city? It must be one of the least comforting places to be chemically-impaired that I've ever willingly gone."
Lovely city, mind you! Just not somewhere that I'd want to be buzzed.
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@0xabad1dea @navi At some point I would love to try kayaking to the office. Or at least as far as I can before I run into actual marine traffic
@jmopp @0xabad1dea @navi When I lived there I took rowing lessons at a public outfit at the Berlagebrug, I presume they’re still going. In winter with the short daylight hours you end up rowing through the canals at night, it’s utterly magical.
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@jerrej um, okay, sure, whatever you say, internet stranger.
Cheers
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@jerrej um, okay, sure, whatever you say, internet stranger.
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@ada It's low even by the standards of civilized countries.
But also, I'm American.
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@Timo_Micro @NYSloth @0xabad1dea I remember there was this mission in Assassin's Creed Revelations where you had to teach your student to carry a dead body in broad daylight to the nearby wharf, then toss it in, all the while multiple fishermen were watching.
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Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low
Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high
Plan your tourism accordingly.
This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more public toilets with the specific aim of reducing deaths by drowning.
@0xabad1dea A country that's also serious when it comes to teaching kids to swim. The very first challenge in the national swimming diploma is to get out of the pool fully dressed.
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Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low
Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high
Plan your tourism accordingly.
This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more public toilets with the specific aim of reducing deaths by drowning.
@0xabad1dea
Sounds like suicide by alcohol to me. -
Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low
Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high
Plan your tourism accordingly.
This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more public toilets with the specific aim of reducing deaths by drowning.
@0xabad1dea How Practical .
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@0xabad1dea @navi At some point I would love to try kayaking to the office. Or at least as far as I can before I run into actual marine traffic
@jmopp @0xabad1dea @navi I once met a guy in London who kayaked to work across the Thames every morning. He had a flat in Canary Wharf (he was some sort of finance guy, unsurprisingly) and his office was on the other side of the river. There's a bridge just up the road so he could've walked, but one day he decided to try kayaking it for a laugh and realised it was a really fun way to commute, so just kept doing it.
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Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low
Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high
Plan your tourism accordingly.
This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more public toilets with the specific aim of reducing deaths by drowning.
@0xabad1dea oh you find drunk men there pissing in all kinds of places. i saw a man pissing into some roadworks
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@Alonely0 @0xabad1dea What, Colombia leading the scoreboard this year? no brits or germans??
@mbpaz @0xabad1dea yeah it's weird. The universe will return to its natural order by August, probly.
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@jmopp @0xabad1dea @navi I once met a guy in London who kayaked to work across the Thames every morning. He had a flat in Canary Wharf (he was some sort of finance guy, unsurprisingly) and his office was on the other side of the river. There's a bridge just up the road so he could've walked, but one day he decided to try kayaking it for a laugh and realised it was a really fun way to commute, so just kept doing it.
@gsuberland @jmopp @0xabad1dea honestly, this is probably the kind of activity a finance guy must do in order not to completely lose his fucking mind
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@gsuberland @jmopp @0xabad1dea honestly, this is probably the kind of activity a finance guy must do in order not to completely lose his fucking mind
@navi @gsuberland @jmopp @0xabad1dea I worked at a place a few miles outside Cambridge (England, UK) that was right on the river, and it had its own canoe dock for all the people who'd canoe into work every day!
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Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low
Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high
Plan your tourism accordingly.
This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more public toilets with the specific aim of reducing deaths by drowning.
@0xabad1dea is it the canals in Amsterdam that are sometimes covered in plants that make them look like solid ground instead of water?
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@0xabad1dea is it the canals in Amsterdam that are sometimes covered in plants that make them look like solid ground instead of water?
@beeoproblem that usually doesn't happen in central Amsterdam because the water needs to be pretty still to get that much growth. You're probably thinking of a specific canal in central Utrecht that does have this problem
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Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low
Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high
Plan your tourism accordingly.
This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more public toilets with the specific aim of reducing deaths by drowning.
@0xabad1dea
Common enough incident in Finland about folks drowning with their fly open that there's yearly jokes about it.
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@navi @gsuberland @jmopp @0xabad1dea I worked at a place a few miles outside Cambridge (England, UK) that was right on the river, and it had its own canoe dock for all the people who'd canoe into work every day!
@welshpixie In the Swiss cities of Bern and Thun people let the current of the river take them to work downstream in summer. You can see them in the streets in swimming gear and carrying a floating bag with their business clothing.
