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Ant-Green SSC Guru Points: 113507 More actions · Answer 1

Koen Verbeeck (6/1/2012)
anthony.green (6/1/2012)
Andy Hyslop (6/1/2012)
what 50% tax on anything over 35,060
I will never moan about taxes again!! :crazy:
me neither, thought 20% was bad
I would give my left kidney to have only 20% 😀

Move to the UK then Koen

Andy Hyslop SSCrazy Eights Points: 9198 More actions · Answer 2

I would give my left kidney to have only 20%

Be careful - You need that for the beer!! 😉

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 3

It's not that bad actually (50% is a bit overexaggerated).

You can trick the system a bit with extralegal benefits, such as company car, health insurance, lunch vouchers, expenses et cetera.

If you take my gross salary and look at my net salary, there's about 37% difference.

Of course, I have two kids, so I pay a bit less taxes than someone else.

I have a company car with gas paid, so that saves a big chunk in my budget.

And unlike US citizens, I don't have to sell my organs so I can put my kids into college 😀

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 4

Andy Hyslop (6/1/2012)
I would give my left kidney to have only 20%
Be careful - You need that for the beer!! 😉

Not really, it's especially the liver that's important.

But with only 1 kidney, I guess it will take some more time before the beer leaves my system the natural way 🙂

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 5

anthony.green (6/1/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (6/1/2012)
anthony.green (6/1/2012)
Andy Hyslop (6/1/2012)
what 50% tax on anything over 35,060
I will never moan about taxes again!! :crazy:
me neither, thought 20% was bad
I would give my left kidney to have only 20% 😀
Move to the UK then Koen

For all your lovely food? No thanks 😀

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Ant-Green SSC Guru Points: 113507 More actions · Answer 6

Koen Verbeeck (6/1/2012)
anthony.green (6/1/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (6/1/2012)
anthony.green (6/1/2012)
Andy Hyslop (6/1/2012)
what 50% tax on anything over 35,060
I will never moan about taxes again!! :crazy:
me neither, thought 20% was bad
I would give my left kidney to have only 20% 😀
Move to the UK then Koen
For all your lovely food? No thanks 😀

Food is what you make it, but yeah some of the stuff you get can be a bit, how to say, .....

Anyway back on topic, I have a home brew ginger beer kit which I got for Christmas, which I am thinking of starting in the next few weeks, but once done, what do you think should be my next home brew Local Home Brew Store[/url] choices from the local stores selection would be greatly appreciated (nothing Stout'y or dark).

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 7

Site is blocked here at work, so I'll check it at a later time 🙂

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Ant-Green SSC Guru Points: 113507 More actions · Answer 8

Koen Verbeeck (6/1/2012)
Site is blocked here at work, so I'll check it at a later time 🙂

I thought it would be blocked here to as its alcohol related, but must be that they dont know about this site yet and its allowed through the web filter.

Andy Hyslop SSCrazy Eights Points: 9198 More actions · Answer 9

Yep blocked here too, I'll take a look when I get home

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 10

Koen Verbeeck (5/31/2012)
Sean Lange (5/30/2012)
I would say that the list of unmentionables could easily grow larger but I will leave the snobbery to the Belgians. 😉
Hey, at least leave us that. It's the only thing we can be snobbish about. 😀
(well that and french fries and chocolate. But the Swiss are trying to steal our chocolate thunder)

I thought french fries were an American invention - certainly I was never served such abominable utterly spoilt potatoes in France, where pommes frites are (or used to be - Americanisation was hitting some Parisian restaurants last time I was there and may have proceeded further since) something much nicer than French Fries. But if you Belgian are willing to own up and absolve the Yanks, I guess thats USA +1 and Belgium -1. Although I suppose the name "french fries" could be a ghastly Flemish plot to blame the Walloons for an American crime.

Tom

John Mitchell-245523 SSC Guru Points: 148809 More actions · Answer 11

I think frites have been adopted by Belgium as its own national delicacy. Indeed, there's a song in the Europop tradition (sung in English) called It's Great to be a Belgian, with the following lines:

As I walk along the streets with my mayonnaise and frites

You can tell I'm as happy as can be

With my Duvel in my hand then you must understand

I'm a Belgian so nothing worries me

John

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 12

Koen Verbeeck (5/31/2012)
In Belgium there are quite a lot of beers that needed to be chilled to get it's "sweet spot" of taste. Most pils (lager I think in English) needs to be server chilled, but beers like Duvel as well.

No, the English for pils is pils ("Pilsener lager beer" if you want to be excessively correct). Pils is of course a type of lager, but not all lagers are pils - beer types like schwarzbier, the various bocks (bock, maibock, eisbock, doppelbock, dunkler bock), märzen beer, are all types of lager and very different from pils; also, I think pils is always filtered, and there are unfiltered lagers too. In the USA, anything that is bottom fermented in a cold container is called lager (because bottom fermentation in a cold container is where the word "Lagerbier" came from - the lager was the environment that provided a stable cool temperature) no matter how poor an imitation of decent lager it is, while in the UK there's an additional requirement to be a pale/blonde beer and have a scandinavian sounding name. A pils like Holsten generally isn't called lager in the UK, perhaps because it's fairly decent beer rather than the rubbish that passes as lager in England.

Other beers prefer a more warmer temperature (between 12°C and 17°C), such as Affligem for example. Sometimes it happens I'm craving for a beer and didn't put one in the fridge, so I drink it at room temperature. You can't do that with the "cheaper" beers (such as Jupiler, Stella Artois, ...), but you can get away with it with the more quality beers.

Shouldn't S****a A****s have been on that list of concoctions whose mention carries a 10000 point penalty?

Tom

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 13

Cliff Jones (5/30/2012)

I like a home brewed double chocolate stout made using a kit from the Home Brewery.

http://www.homebrewery.com/images/Chocolate-Stout.jpg%5B/quote%5D

Is Jimmy Carter still a hero to American home brew drinkers, or has that change in the law that he pushed for been forgotten?

(Home brewing was illegal until 1978, I think.)

Tom

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 14

L' Eomot Inversé (6/1/2012)
I thought french fries were an American invention - certainly I was never served such abominable utterly spoilt potatoes in France, where pommes frites are (or used to be - Americanisation was hitting some Parisian restaurants last time I was there and may have proceeded further since) something much nicer than French Fries. But if you Belgian are willing to own up and absolve the Yanks, I guess thats USA +1 and Belgium -1. Although I suppose the name "french fries" could be a ghastly Flemish plot to blame the Walloons for an American crime.

The origin is under discussion, one say French, the other say Belgian (I of course believe the last, but I may be brainwashed), but it is certainly not American.

The story here goes that the Americans ate some French fries during World War I and as French was then the official language of the Belgian Army, they of course mistook them for French people instead of Belgians. Probably just an urban myth 🙂

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 15

L' Eomot Inversé (6/1/2012)
Shouldn't S****a A****s have been on that list of concoctions whose mention carries a 10000 point penalty?

There are worse pils in Belgium than Stella Artois.

(whoops, another -10000 ;-))

I heard the rumor that the taste of exported Stella is changed so that it appeals more for the international crowd. I also heard it's been called the "wifebeater" in America because it makes the rednecks too drunk 😀

Anyway, if I drink pils, it's usually Vedett, which is described in Wikipedia as "a trendy luxury lager, aimed at young customers in upscale urban bars". The marketing gimmick is that every bottle has a different photo of a customer on it. So you can get your own photo on it and with a bit of luck you can run into yourself in a bar 🙂 (still searching for myself)

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