heywoodu

I don't have boots All I have is one pair of good, decent walking shoes.

You do have to sing a Sinterklaas song though. I utterly hated that, but it was the rule...

Not the socks, but the shoes are pretty similar here too, although presents are also often used instead of candy (definitely not fruit, come on what's next, broccoli? ) If you've got a family with some young children, presents often come on the evening of 5 December in a big bag, which is for example brought 'by Sinterklaas' during the night before, or people get creative about it (I remember when I was young apparently my parents put all the presents in a bag, gave the bag to our neighbour and somewhere - purely coincidental - after we had finished dinner and showers and were all ready for the night, the doorbell would ring and there would be nobody...just a bag of presents I remember once I got all excited because my dad had opened the door and came back and said he saw 'Zwarte Piet' run away and I was like "wow really?!" )

Dude, you're a couple of weeks too late The fights were in November when Sinterklaas 'arrived' and people used it to protest and ruin children's days, now those people are just ignored

It's mostly celebrated on the evening of 5 December (with those weird Belgians as exception, who celebrate it on the 6th), although for practical reasons some people celebrate it the weekend before if 5 December is on a weekday (for example on Saturday night children generally stay up later than they woudl today, when tomorrow is a school day). We don't really celebrate it anymore, although we got each other a few small gifts and had a nice dinner

Happy Sinterklaas

"It's just a test" In b4 winning

This is fantastic

[hide] Main Round December 6th - December 12th, 2018 12 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Semifinals Group I Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 6th 2018, h. 18:00 Denmark 3 France December 6th 2018, h. 21:00 Sweden 2 Montenegro December 8th 2018, h. 15:00 Sweden 2 France December 8th 2018, h. 18:00 Serbia 4 Russia December 10th 2018, h. 18:00 Denmark 3 Russia December 10th 2018, h. 21:00 Serbia 2 Montenegro December 12th 2018, h. 15:45 Denmark 2 Montenegro December 12th 2018, h. 18:00 Sweden 2 Russia December 12th 2018, h. 21:00 Serbia 2 France [/hide]

Bring it on.

Not much different from what I would do, although I'd prefer a banana shake (with vanilla as firm second choice though if banana is unavailable). Also, we really need to ask a mod to move this to general chat or something

Fancy way of saying you went to get a Big Mac.

Go Australia and Canada

22 gold medals among men and women. Switzerland won one, Sweden and Finland shared all others.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball_World_Championships Ok it's a melting pot of diversity compared to korfball and kabaddi, but still. Which all doesn't necessarily make the sport in itself less fun of course

I had not forgotten Dumoulin finishing 2nd in both the Giro and Tour, which is quite the performance (especially for a Dutch cyclist, but in general as well, Marco Pantani-like stuff). I had to google to see what you meant with Tour de Flanders

Meanwhile in Paris..

Yay, I'm 2 for 2 in 'end of the season predictions' in one weekend.

At least Arosa has been rescheduled instead of cancelled. https://www.fis-ski.com/en/freestyle-freeski/ski-cross/news-multimedia/news-multimedia/news/the-audi-fis-ski-cross-world-cup-event-in-arosa-rescheduled

First of all, Dumoulin > Terpstra. Second, random podium

Much to the surprise of absolutely nobody, Tom Dumoulin has won his 5th consecutive "Cyclist of the Year" award in the Netherlands, with Anna van der Breggen getting the women's award.

Netherlands beat Spain in literally the last second

I bet that won't stay the case for much more than a few months though..

What?

You must have me confused with @Olympian1010

Although I have to say, the worst thing of all of this was having to look at a message in freaking Comic Sans all day like we're 5-year olds That's just adding insult to injury man.