tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post3943478397235523326..comments2024-03-12T09:47:58.376+02:00Comments on ChampagneHeathen: Facing and Following UpChampagne Heathenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09540128789208726965noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-53108684296620243632007-05-02T10:19:00.000+02:002007-05-02T10:19:00.000+02:00Anton - thanks for the gorgeous comment. I don't h...Anton - thanks for the gorgeous comment. I don't have much to say back to it right now. Let's just hope that this bit-by-bit change does mean for the better!!<BR/><BR/>Koeks - and thanks to you too for the two gorgeous comments! I found gluwein, but I think you & your boy found enough orange for the whole of SA left back here! Smooches<BR/><BR/>Numero - Damn! You beat me.Champagne Heathenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09540128789208726965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-30759458913138803892007-05-01T14:48:00.000+02:002007-05-01T14:48:00.000+02:00white rabbit tender comrade.white rabbit tender comrade.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-33785416577718620532007-05-01T12:49:00.000+02:002007-05-01T12:49:00.000+02:00Hi Champers - men/boys can be particularly insensi...Hi Champers - men/boys can be particularly insensitive. I also had an incident in which a guy insisted on calling me a name I did not like (and there are a LOT of nicknames that I tolerate). <BR/><BR/>I asked him to stop, he persisted. I took to ignoring him completely. He continued. Finally, I threatened to seperate him from his balls if he so much as breathed in my direction. He stopped talking - to everyone.<BR/><BR/>I don't like him. But I hope you found some orange shooters! Maybe next year you can join us for the real celebration in Amsterdam... it was awesome!<BR/><BR/>Love <BR/>Anon. KoeksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-70144186919149119242007-05-01T10:10:00.000+02:002007-05-01T10:10:00.000+02:00Facing the reality of a situation can be really re...Facing the reality of a situation can be really really hard. It is something I'm still trying to learn. The emotions associated with the realisation of how things are, and not how you imagined them to be, are, well, painful. Really painful. But so are tetnus (hope I spelt that right) injections, yet they're necessary. <BR/><BR/>Some people change, some people find reasons not to change. I like to think that every painful experience I go through improves me in some way. <BR/><BR/>Um. I know most if not all my posts have been egocentric... But I'm a very self-centred person (read: introspective, not selfish). But it's from that I draw conclusions that help me relate to other people. <BR/><BR/>It sounds like you're also introspective (I guess one needs to be to have a blog). <BR/><BR/>It's good you're structuring your thoughts, and learning from them... no matter how painful they are to you, at least you're becoming a better human being, bit by bit, day by day.Mr Memetichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01646425850270386011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-61851741662441946782007-04-30T14:21:00.000+02:002007-04-30T14:21:00.000+02:00Kroketten can be bought at the dutch bakery in Ede...Kroketten can be bought at the dutch bakery in Edenvale(The one that looks like a windmill on Van Riebeeck road), they make the best.There is a Dutch fair tomorrow in Benoni. They sell all this stuff there. Did you know that today is not the queens birthday, its her moms, the current queens birthday is January the 31st, but because the weather is cold and miserable then they carry on celebrating on the 30th April.Now you know. http://dutchisms.typepad.com/dutchisms/2004/04/queens_birthday.htmlDaveRichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12253985803440492071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-81456328303333822262007-04-30T14:12:00.000+02:002007-04-30T14:12:00.000+02:00Thanks my anon Ducth chickie! How about you make t...Thanks my anon Ducth chickie! How about you make them for me this afternoon, while you slack off!! hey hey??? :)<BR/><BR/>Wiggles - please come past my office on the way back! I could use some robot'ing!<BR/><BR/>Dave - You can also start making me some, ok!? You have one giant resturant there to play with!<BR/><BR/>My Dutch mate also asks if you know where you can get “Kroketten”, cause apparently she is keen to introduce me to those.<BR/><BR/>And that, In Holland they actually brew this special Jenever “oranje bitter” that tastes like crap but is as orange as Fanta and lots of bars put food colouring into their beer to make it orange as well, so cool.Champagne Heathenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09540128789208726965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-64950848452764005782007-04-30T13:37:00.000+02:002007-04-30T13:37:00.000+02:00Poffertjies are little pancakes, sprinkled with bu...Poffertjies are little pancakes, sprinkled with butter and icing sugar and sometimes cointreau, Awesome things. <BR/><BR/>Lord, now now, no drinking at workDaveRichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12253985803440492071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-15255400943547387662007-04-30T13:32:00.001+02:002007-04-30T13:32:00.001+02:00Fanta Orange and cane?! Finally the robot is compl...Fanta Orange and cane?! Finally the robot is complete! Sparberry, Creme Soda and Fanta Orange, the most sacred of creations! //Wiggly ducks off work quickly to buy yet another bottle of Mainstay, and some Fanta//lordwigglyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01766009054721380340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-54904884303473023462007-04-30T13:32:00.000+02:002007-04-30T13:32:00.000+02:00Champs, poffertjes are sort of like tiny little pa...Champs, poffertjes are sort of like tiny little pancakes but fatter. Trust me you'd like them, you can try them when you go harass my dutchies with me one day!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-31265498295142982532007-04-30T13:01:00.000+02:002007-04-30T13:01:00.000+02:00Hello fly, you gorgeous man, SEND ME THAT SNOW PAT...Hello fly, you gorgeous man, SEND ME THAT SNOW PATROL SONG! Pllleeeeeaasssse!<BR/><BR/>Argh. Your a*hole guys might just sound worse than mine! I am not surprised you left! <BR/><BR/>Hugs to you!<BR/><BR/>Numero - long time!! Good idea! I will sport a backwards beret tomorrow & throw my fist in the air every once in awhile. I am celebrating by working on UNISA tomorrow! sigh. <BR/><BR/>Almost time for that White Rabbit thing!<BR/><BR/>Other than being horribly sick with a cold/ flu, and overly busy, I am good. All is fine. Just fine. <BR/><BR/>Dave - some excellent ideas there! I will be sure to send them on to my Dutch mate! What are poffertjies?!?!? Sounds dodgy.<BR/><BR/>Chews - thanks babe. At first I laughed at the name. But it was the way it spread, and people seemed to get a sick pleasure out of hearing & labelling a girl they didn't even know, through a story they never even bothered to ask me about. Close-minded small people who I spend my life avoiding. <BR/><BR/>Ah well. C'est la vie. We can't just take them out, as Fly hopes.Champagne Heathenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09540128789208726965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-80795498366003374312007-04-30T12:41:00.000+02:002007-04-30T12:41:00.000+02:00Nicknames at varsity? That sucks. I had a terrible...Nicknames at varsity? That sucks. I had a terrible nickname at high school, but nothing at varsity. I would expect after a certain age people should be more mature, but it doesn't look like that happened.<BR/><BR/>Love that you end on a high note champers. We all dig it when you're having fun. Get those drinks in before the tenth ;)ChewTheCudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02834275064275668599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-49002713797826398032007-04-30T12:40:00.000+02:002007-04-30T12:40:00.000+02:00Hmm, Bullys. Will mention my stories some day.As f...Hmm, Bullys. Will mention my stories some day.<BR/>As for the orange shooters, Campari and Banana liquer is orange but is waaay to gross to drink. Stick to Genever, a dutch gin, drunk ice cold as a shot. Eat lots of croquettes(crumbed minced beef) and try poffertjes, so good.DaveRichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12253985803440492071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-56478069285073602182007-04-30T12:25:00.000+02:002007-04-30T12:25:00.000+02:00so how do you prepare for workers day? practice sa...so how do you prepare for workers day? <BR/><BR/>practice saying viva and comrade in every third sentence?<BR/><BR/>how are you doing though?# 302https://www.blogger.com/profile/13166486101269354983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-15464240139806990442007-04-30T12:02:00.000+02:002007-04-30T12:02:00.000+02:00so what was the nickname ??? :oP only joking...My ...so what was the nickname ??? :oP only joking...<BR/><BR/>My school memories are what made me leave my home town....most of the ppl I went to school with were absolute wankers....I left school in std 9 and went to college because of it and strangely I was never really picked on or anything, I was fairly popular in fact, but I just couldnt handle them....<BR/><BR/>Sadly even today some of them are still absolute idiots...personally I think they shouldve been shot at birth just to spare the human race from embarrasment....a bit harsh ??? they put my friend in hospital on his 21st birthday purely because he had not invited them to his party !!! and they still on regular occasions beat the crap into some young guy just for looking in their general direction....this is of course done in a group and never when they are alone....<BR/><BR/>Im hoping that one day, fate will play her hand and they mess with the wrong guy and all their years of terrifying the defenseless come crashing to halt...<BR/><BR/>So yeah...I feel your pain champs ;o) I still have dreams about them and im 31 !!!flyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08795187396428641233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-16491704598165869172007-04-30T11:50:00.000+02:002007-04-30T11:50:00.000+02:00Thanks Dave! Means alot. Not easy to publish such ...Thanks Dave! Means alot. Not easy to publish such things. Yes, it seems it will either be Fanta Orange or Oros. <BR/><BR/>HPF - Hey babe! Thank you. It's good to hear that this post has a positive tone to it! Either it is great denial, or, what I think, finally admitting truthes to myself that have been plaguing my sub conscious for years. And with that...relief... that true healing & forward-moving has started. <BR/><BR/>I really do have a sense of relief when I attribute certain words to certain incidences, after so many years of saying such a word was "over reacting" or "too dramatic"...as by saying that means I don't need to face up to the pain. <BR/><BR/>One day we will have to share. Help each other, rather than both having to seperately learn lessons and all. <BR/><BR/>I guess that, through you & Dave noticing the new tone, that this does mean the lurgy is lifting...or that I am moving to the end of it. Yeah!!! We'll watch and see...Champagne Heathenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09540128789208726965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-36893613495742373752007-04-30T10:53:00.000+02:002007-04-30T10:53:00.000+02:00Champs, babe. Wow.I am so proud of you. You're rig...Champs, babe. Wow.<BR/>I am so proud of you. <BR/>You're right. <BR/>Completely, 100% right. Women (read: <B>I</B> do feel the need to smooth things over.<BR/>I am proud of you for accepting the apology, acknowledging the ability of <I>certain</I> men to change and move on and being disgruntled by the inability of others.<BR/><BR/>But I am so into the positivity of this post. It cheered me up no end...truly.<BR/>Maybe one day we can share our stories?<BR/>Good on ya babe!<BR/>Much love and light.<BR/><BR/>PS. I am also hoping this positivity indicates that one Champs is getting better and no longer afflicted by the dreaded lurgy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28321828.post-34617664908771367332007-04-30T10:45:00.000+02:002007-04-30T10:45:00.000+02:00Love this post, Well done Champs. My mom is Dutch,...Love this post, Well done Champs. My mom is Dutch, will pass this info on, thanks. And as for Orange shooters hmmm can't think of anything orange, gonna have to experiment in my lab.<BR/>Maybe you should try Cane and Fanta Orange instead of Cream soda.DaveRichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12253985803440492071noreply@blogger.com