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brasca wrote:Sandra's interest in geek culture is motivated by her job, but I didn't think Senna cared so much about real culture.
Senna has doubtless been showing off a lot, but she name-drops authentic cultural locations remarkably easily. Not just the Louvre and Notre Dame, or even the Pompidou Centre, but also the Musee Rodin and the Galerie Di Meo. If she plays at being cultured in order to look cool, she throws herself into it with some enthusiasm.

And remember, she's been implied to be quite bright; she speaks five languages.
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Belgium has also given us comic artists like Bob de Groot, André_Franquin, et al.
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This might be gary's thought process:
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@Thor: =)) =)) =))

That was like one of the best posts ever.

I especially <3 the call-out to Luxembourg, which is the cutest nation on earth.

But, yeah, right now I'm also puzzled. The HHGttG reference may be it, though?
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Much as I love frites and chocolate, I reckon we're overthinking here. Gary's brain was asked to actually generate a meaningful response to a social problem, divided by zero, and generated random output.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musee_Herge
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My sense is that this is actually a political joke. The Flemish and the Walloons, for example.

That said, I won't say boo to Belgian beer.
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Spidrift wrote:and one of the main landmarks in their capital city is this:
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Hey, it's the Atomium, a remnant of World's Fair 1958. Just like the Eiffel Tower is a remnant of the 1889 World's Fair. :p
But then I remembered going to France, my dad did a wrong turn or something and a gendarme (French Police) stopped us, about to give us a ticket, then seeing the license plate from Belgium, just rolled his eyes and waved us through. So I guess sometimes being the butt of everyone's joke is beneficial... maybe?
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Belgium IS the surrealist country after all.
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Off to see a small boy pissing ?
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I hope not. That's a very small statue in a very small corner of the town square. Even if every tourist gift shop does have a thousand copies of it.
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Brussels, huh? Could be worse.

Least they're not going to fucking Bruges.
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I don't know what's wrong with Bruges. Not very geeky, but insanely picturesque, as I recall.
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Looks like somebody didn't get the reference.

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