um.. that beer's been out for years.. :D
Actually, got my name through the beer as someone once stated that I was a devil with a gun while playing CS. At the time I was drinking Duvel-beer!
Thought you knew that it was where I got my online gaming name from. Hope you liked the beer though.
Lol @ Toby.
well after reading the thing about the beer, it reminded me of something from a conversation years ago, at a motorbike rally...
As honda make a bike called the deauville, but to the majoritory of bikers, we call it the dullville... play on words, yea i know, but it goes with the theme :P
Also here`s a nice shirt to go with the beer
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That beer has been around for over 140 years (1871)... but yeah, DuVeL is the founder :P
Duvel 140 years old, you have had more birthdays that Triple D.......well, not quite..:eyebrow:
Does that mean I need to create loads of merry Christmas threads in the banter section to catch up?
Quote from: Snokio;356964Duvel 140 years old, you have had more birthdays that Triple D.......well, not quite..:eyebrow:
Does that mean I need to create loads of merry Christmas threads in the banter section to catch up?
Yes indeed! You've missed a few youngun!!
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in
the 40's, or 50's probably shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cots were
covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and
licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on
doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our
bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our
wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air
bags. Riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the
garden hose and not from a bottle - tasted the same.
We ate dripping
sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but
we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We
shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually
died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and
then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After
running into stinging nettles at times, we learned to solve the
problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as
we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one
minded.
We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.
No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones,
no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside
and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes
that ball really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no
lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing
again.
We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue -
we learned to get over it.
We walked to friend's homes.
We made
up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we were
told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff
live inside us forever.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats
by only the hood.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They
actually sided with the law. Imagine that!
This generation has produced
some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past
50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom,
failure, success and responsibility, and we learned to deal with it
all.
And you're one of them. Congratulations!
Maybe you'll want
to pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as real kids, before
lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.