Amsterdam

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-03-04 11:35am

i just came back from a 4 day trip to amsterdam. it was my first stay there and definately not my last one.
that city is so kick ass, folkes. everything is so relaxed there. the people, the cops even the trams seem a bit more at ease than else where.

we went to the van gogh museum which was nice but way too crowded. after that we decieded to see the porno museum which was fun as well. actually we wanted to visit more museums but then we decided that looking at the city which is beautiful would be better.

AND I WANT COFFEE SHOPS HERE!!! boohooooo!!! how can it be ok on the other side of the border to sit into a coffee shop order a gramm of weed and start puffing it away and here you get fined and sent away!!! BWÄÄÄHÄHÄHÄHÄHÄHHÄHÄÄÄÄÄ!!!!

Amsterdam rules!

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-03-04 11:36am

Yet some more proof that Prohibition = Insanity...

Anyhow, what's it really like? I'd like to go there someday...

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-03-04 11:44am

Vorlon1701 wrote:Yet some more proof that Prohibition = Insanity...

Anyhow, what's it really like? I'd like to go there someday...

you wont really know before you´ve been there because the athmosphere is pretty much undiscribable.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-03-04 11:50am

Salm, you lucky German bastard!

Amsterdam is at the top of my Europe list. Someday, someday....

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-03-04 11:59am

they have a porno museum?!?!

freaky-deaky dutch....*mumbles incoherently* His Fazzzjha! Ausshtin Powazzzh FAZZJHA! Fazzjha is dad.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-04 12:01pm

Well, salm, that's two things we agree on. Marijuana prohibition is for shit.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-03-04 12:11pm

Yaaaar!

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-03-04 01:47pm

Damn, Amsterdam is now on my list of places to go, the Porno museum will be on the list too...

Sebastin · Post by **Sebastin** » 2003-03-04 02:05pm

Hey, berlin has a porno museum too. Quite large too. Don´t know if it is any good though.

And yes, we need coffee shops in germany too.

RadiO · Post by **RadiO** » 2003-03-04 02:27pm

I must be repressed, because I preferred The Hague, a really beautiful and photogenic city.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-03-04 02:43pm

England is sprouting a few "Coffee Shops". They are still highly illegal but with 100,000 odd fecking illigal imagrants in the UK the police have more than wacky backy to worry about.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-03-04 04:09pm

Darth Pounder wrote:England is sprouting a few "Coffee Shops". They are still highly illegal but with 100,000 odd fecking illigal imagrants in the UK the police have more than wacky backy to worry about.

oh, really? that´s cool. so how does it work? the shops exist, the police know about them, but don´t really care?

hell yeah, that dumb law is going to fall soon.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-04 04:10pm

Of course, since we all know marijuana is really the Demon Weed, it's much better that people go to jail for smoking it like they do in America, to protect them from themselves (everybody knows that there's no safer place than prison. For that matter, everybody knows that there's no drugs in prison.) That's much better than the insane Dutch way.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-03-04 04:25pm

*imagines stories about illegal grass he´s going to tell his children who wont understand why it used to be that way, just like children from now can hardly believe that being gay was illegal 30 years ago as well*

anyway, if you ever go to amsterdam be sure to check out the other things as well. the coffe shops are nice but there´s a lot more stuff to look at.
of course you can combine both and double the fun.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-03-04 04:35pm

One of my foundest memories of Amsterdam are the blond chicks cycling all over the place, steering with a hand and talking by cellphone with the other. Living in a city where cyclists have to give way to idiot drivers, it was refreshing to see the opposite is possible.

That, and the coffee shops.

And I also loved the channels, the town centre buildings and the way the ciy connects to the sea.

Lord Sander · Post by **Lord Sander** » 2003-03-04 04:53pm

Pfft, Amsterdam, buncha anti-monarchists... Go Rotterdam!

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-03-04 04:57pm

Colonel Olrik wrote:One of my foundest memories of Amsterdam are the blond chicks cycling all over the place, steering with a hand and talking by cellphone with the other. Living in a city where cyclists have to give way to idiot drivers, it was refreshing to see the opposite is possible.

That, and the coffee shops.

And I also loved the channels, the town centre buildings and the way the ciy connects to the sea.

yes, the girls there are pretty good, too, esspecially because it´s fairily multiculti and there are beautiful girls from all over the world.

btw, isn´t pot legal in portugal (or was that spain?)

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-03-04 05:05pm

salm wrote:
btw, isn´t pot legal in portugal (or was that spain?)

No, it's not. Our laws are very conservative on that, and bound to be reformed. Basically, all light drugs are illegal.

A while ago, a german father and son were sent to jail because they were caught cultivating it in their yard (they were arrested to prevent them from leaving the country before trial)

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-03-04 07:20pm

Doesn't matter, relaxing attitudes in Europe are bound to change those laws.

Now if only those damn Conservatives took their tentacles out of our government, this stuff could happen in the U.S. (Not like it isn't happening anyways, most of the people I know smoke pot, it's not like it being illegal stops them)

irishmick79 · Post by **irishmick79** » 2003-03-04 07:59pm

My brother is currently studying in Italy, and made a weekend trip to Amerstdam recently, and had a few interesting things to say....

He said if "Hell had a party, it would be in Amesterdam". He went on to comment that while pot was pretty much legal, the harder shit like coke and heroin was still outlawed. He saw alot of drug addicts and junkies lying around, and made a comment that it actually was annoying after awhile, because he got asked for dope alot. Apparently lots of seedy looking characters were hanging about as well.

Granted, this is all a second hand account. If you're into that kind of shit, well, amsterdam is probably the place for you. Me, I guess hearing that account of the city cured me of my desire to visit. I'd rather see a place like Florence, or Salzburg, if you ask me.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-03-05 08:25am

irishmick79 wrote:My brother is currently studying in Italy, and made a weekend trip to Amerstdam recently, and had a few interesting things to say....

He said if "Hell had a party, it would be in Amesterdam". He went on to comment that while pot was pretty much legal, the harder shit like coke and heroin was still outlawed. He saw alot of drug addicts and junkies lying around, and made a comment that it actually was annoying after awhile, because he got asked for dope alot. Apparently lots of seedy looking characters were hanging about as well.

Granted, this is all a second hand account. If you're into that kind of shit, well, amsterdam is probably the place for you. Me, I guess hearing that account of the city cured me of my desire to visit. I'd rather see a place like Florence, or Salzburg, if you ask me.

hmm... i can´t remember any junkies hanging around. i didn´t get asked for dope at all. i got asked i i wanted to buy cocaine or extacy a 2 times but that was no problem. you just say no and they leave you alone.

i just heard that stuff like heroine addicts in holland are considered cronincal sick people by a lot of dutch, so that drug doesnt appeal to to the dutch youth at all.

anyway, amsterdam is a good location to go to even if you don´t want to get stoned. it´s simply a beautiful city with lovely old and great modern architiecture. the whole city is really well designed with great veiws (which is remarkable since there´s not the slightest trace of a hill there) and little, interesting, narrow streats whith hardly anithing going on in them, right next to a big ass, filled up, crowded pedestrian area. the city´s got a lot of contrasts.

damn, it could be the same here if it hadn´t been for that damn war.
another reason to hate nazis.

MAHOK!

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-03-05 09:18am

Hmm that just gave me an idea!

*adds Amsterdam to places to visit ehen he gets old and rich*