I was actually wondering if those punched tickets still existed because they were a thing 10yrs ago, tec transport with covid is a nightmare, you have to have your ticket ready before you can get in but you cannot buy it anywhere in my town I wish we would have the same as in bxl where you can scan you bank card inside the bus (or give money like pre covid) The window thing is also covid related, we are required to have them open every so often and it would piss me off if the windows were opened at 10-15C, 10-15 feels like a nice chilly weather, like cool enough to where a light knit but not so cold as to need a heavy jumper
In big cities it just makes more sense to use a bike... I just hate that so far i've only met a handful of people who seem to actually know how they are meant to ride on it, like you know that the sign with a bike on it means the that you *have to* use that path if you want to go that way and that walkers are still considered "weaker" than you and you should protect them as much as you can not hit them with your bike and look at them as if they were a moron for walking on the sidewalk, right (sorry i had to vent :p) Also, cities, a red 3mm wide strip that slaloms between cars and buses and that turns in the most obnoxious way is not a viable biking lane, i wonder how we don't have so many more accidents
Haha.. Banks... Yeah... No it's been like that for a bit now, if you want foreign currency where i live you have to make an appointment with that specific ing bank in that particular neighbourhood tell them you want X amount and then they agree to "sell" you said bills at x date but that department is only opened like 3hrs a week so if you happen to be working on Thursday at 11am you're screwed, way back when you would just go to the bank say "i need 100pounds" and they'd give you if it was available and if not "sorry we'll make a reservation is it ok tomorrow 8am" you cry a bit because tomorrow is Saturday and you wanted to sleep in a bit but you say "all good" cause you don't want to annoy them, it worked well but i believe they passed a new legislation that banks cannot hold that mich money anymore and younger generations (mainly from Brussels and flanders i feel like) seem to value the efficiency of apps (and their apps are not as fucked up as most official walloon apps)
Ok 5yrs ago i made my first account and i didn't have the issue, i went next door, made my account like nothing went out and got 50 bucks for downloading the app on my phone no problem, covid sure made everything more rusty
I wanted to cross the street the other day, i looked at the driver dead in the eye, she looked at me dead in the eye... And she went on anyway, after the third car or so, i decide to take a chance, jump in and i swear the car didn't slow down before he was absolutely certain i was in the middle of the street
the everything-online things definitely was put in the forefront because of covid, but tbh we don't like to interact with each other lmao, so it was deff a thing already even before covid. Same for the paying by card thing. The bilingual thing may seem true, but it's really not. Brussels is bilingual on paper, but it's almost all french in practice.
Yeah I figured covid played a big part in it. I see that bilingual on paper thing more now, they really do use French everywhere. It was definitely more of a first impression, with everything on the streets being in both languages.
@@followtheflorence yeah there is a whole political history around the language use in Brussels. It's a little complicated and really frustrating, and it really affects how people interact and in what language.
@@RedPhoneBooth3 yeah i'm dating a Flemish guy and we speak in English out of convenience for the both of us but it got me really thinking of half of my grandparents and a few of my great grandparents who "had to" speak french to their children because it was the "right" language, the "pretty" language and back then the privileged language (also they all lived in wallonia so it just made sense) but if it gets serious between the two of us i wish we'd get to a point where we'll both speak to the other in either language, i love how we get so much variety in such a small space but i hate how it got both our cultures to get cut off from each other (and even then, Flemish people have contact to French speaking artists i couldn't name a current Flemish singer if my life depended on it)
I was actually wondering if those punched tickets still existed because they were a thing 10yrs ago, tec transport with covid is a nightmare, you have to have your ticket ready before you can get in but you cannot buy it anywhere in my town
I wish we would have the same as in bxl where you can scan you bank card inside the bus (or give money like pre covid)
The window thing is also covid related, we are required to have them open every so often and it would piss me off if the windows were opened at 10-15C, 10-15 feels like a nice chilly weather, like cool enough to where a light knit but not so cold as to need a heavy jumper
In big cities it just makes more sense to use a bike... I just hate that so far i've only met a handful of people who seem to actually know how they are meant to ride on it, like you know that the sign with a bike on it means the that you *have to* use that path if you want to go that way and that walkers are still considered "weaker" than you and you should protect them as much as you can not hit them with your bike and look at them as if they were a moron for walking on the sidewalk, right (sorry i had to vent :p)
Also, cities, a red 3mm wide strip that slaloms between cars and buses and that turns in the most obnoxious way is not a viable biking lane, i wonder how we don't have so many more accidents
Haha.. Banks... Yeah... No it's been like that for a bit now, if you want foreign currency where i live you have to make an appointment with that specific ing bank in that particular neighbourhood tell them you want X amount and then they agree to "sell" you said bills at x date but that department is only opened like 3hrs a week so if you happen to be working on Thursday at 11am you're screwed, way back when you would just go to the bank say "i need 100pounds" and they'd give you if it was available and if not "sorry we'll make a reservation is it ok tomorrow 8am" you cry a bit because tomorrow is Saturday and you wanted to sleep in a bit but you say "all good" cause you don't want to annoy them, it worked well but i believe they passed a new legislation that banks cannot hold that mich money anymore and younger generations (mainly from Brussels and flanders i feel like) seem to value the efficiency of apps (and their apps are not as fucked up as most official walloon apps)
Ok 5yrs ago i made my first account and i didn't have the issue, i went next door, made my account like nothing went out and got 50 bucks for downloading the app on my phone no problem, covid sure made everything more rusty
I wanted to cross the street the other day, i looked at the driver dead in the eye, she looked at me dead in the eye... And she went on anyway, after the third car or so, i decide to take a chance, jump in and i swear the car didn't slow down before he was absolutely certain i was in the middle of the street
the everything-online things definitely was put in the forefront because of covid, but tbh we don't like to interact with each other lmao, so it was deff a thing already even before covid. Same for the paying by card thing.
The bilingual thing may seem true, but it's really not. Brussels is bilingual on paper, but it's almost all french in practice.
Yeah I figured covid played a big part in it. I see that bilingual on paper thing more now, they really do use French everywhere. It was definitely more of a first impression, with everything on the streets being in both languages.
@@followtheflorence yeah there is a whole political history around the language use in Brussels. It's a little complicated and really frustrating, and it really affects how people interact and in what language.
Yeah, I've heard. That's a whole other huge issue
@@RedPhoneBooth3 yeah i'm dating a Flemish guy and we speak in English out of convenience for the both of us but it got me really thinking of half of my grandparents and a few of my great grandparents who "had to" speak french to their children because it was the "right" language, the "pretty" language and back then the privileged language (also they all lived in wallonia so it just made sense) but if it gets serious between the two of us i wish we'd get to a point where we'll both speak to the other in either language, i love how we get so much variety in such a small space but i hate how it got both our cultures to get cut off from each other (and even then, Flemish people have contact to French speaking artists i couldn't name a current Flemish singer if my life depended on it)
Septante, huitante, neuvante? Much more logical
I agree!