WTF Brussels

skiing trip to the alps !

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:08:00 -0400

btw, wtfb is planning on doing a couple of skiing trips to the alps this coming winter. Trip obviously starts from brussels, we’re going by car(s) and petrol is on us, but accommodation+food+drink costs shall be shared eh.. So, ANYONE interested, let us know ! :) Sweeet.

Perfect preparation for a marathon..

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:56:00 -0400

So, today we decided to go and get hammered in cafe belga in ixelles as Manuel is running his first marathon tomorrow (so if it was unclear, Manuel had beers as usual). Smart, eh ;) ..ok, he’s a pussy and only gonna do 10k out of it (and other people will do the rest). But still.

Dunno how we managed to do it, but we ended up leaving the bar due to a 60yo belgian frenchie bloke with a collectable mini-train and a wee plastic christmas tree with him (and for whom we bought a beer) started threatening us.. wtf. (cant write english as im too drunk thanks to the last chouffe..). ;))

Let’s see tomorrow.. It’s gonna be fun. I’m gonna get wasted already during the day (champagne breakfast, yes please) and take weird photos that we’ll hopefully end up putting up here as well.. tadaaaa.

Well, this is yet another classic WTFBrussels: When I was going...

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:27:12 -0400

Well, this is yet another classic WTFBrussels:

When I was going to work at 8 am a drunk 18 years old girl crashed her mothers BMW against my car. She actually started making excuses up like:

She came from my right. But she crash in the left of my car and I hit her right side.
If she changes lane she has preference WTF?
It is all my fault because I did not move out of the way.

On top of that she did not want to do the insurance papers because it was her mother’s car and she was going to kill her. I managed to get her do the insurance paper work but she insisted that she would pay for the garage(did I mention that she called her boyfriend who owns a garage) and that we could do it at her boyfriends place….

Fucking Belgians!!!! So yes, let’s have some drinks!!!

Well, I’m amazed he does not like a ninja turtle after...

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:29:36 -0400

Well, I’m amazed he does not like a ninja turtle after swimming there!!! Oh, by the way, that is Brussels WTF?

This one found in my lift in Ixelles, written by the cute mozart...

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:52:08 -0400

This one found in my lift in Ixelles, written by the cute mozart living downstairs.

So this is the belgian way of writing passive aggressive notes (ok, its not really one, its only a note, but im sure such a text will follow) ..and if no one puts an angry note in the lift, I’ll start to play my cello during inhuman hours (“inhuman”, is that an english word..cant remember, im losing it big time, been here too long..;P ) and im sure someone will then be kind enough to write a pa note. ;D Ha.

Belgians...

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:19:00 -0400

Belgian arms dealer Jacques Monsieur was surely surprised when he was arrested in New York last week after stepping off a flight from France. He might have been less surprised — or he may not have made the trip at all — if he had known that Google had turned over his Gmail records to the feds.

A search warrant executed several months prior to Monsieur’s arrest demanded “information associated with ‘jacques.monsi@gmail.com’ that is stored at premises owned, maintained, controlled, or operated by Google, lnc…” An accompanying order required Google to keep secret details on the search warrant to prevent Monsieur or other defendants of being tipped off to the investigation.

On August 27, Monsieur was arrested in New York.

The recently unsealed indictment accuses Monsieur of trying to arrange an illegal sale of F-5 engines to Iran through what ended up being an undercover agent. “[I]n March 2009, Monsieur met with the undercover agent in Paris, where Monsieur again requested engines and parts for the F-5 fighter jet,” says the Department of Justice. “In May 2009, an undercover agent met with Monsieur in London, where Monsieur introduced Dara Fotouhi as a business associate, and again discussed the illegal export of F-5 fighter jet engines from the United States to Iran.”

The plan was to claim the engines were destined for Colombia, when in fact they would be shipped on to the United Arab Emirates and then on to Iran.

Monsieur is used to narrowly escaping brushes with the law in what some claim is a 20-year career in arms dealing. Known as the “Field Marshal,” Monsieur has escaped prosecution several times. “In September 2000, Monsieur told a French judge of having been contacted in 1991 in Brussels by the CIA, and, with the blessing of the French DST, of having sent tens of millions of dollars of weapons to Croatia,” the Center for Public Integrity wrote in a report on Monsieur’s arms dealing. “From 1991 to 1995, he found his best markets in Croatia and Bosnia, even though the two countries were under a United Nations embargo.”

In what may be a prelude to his eventual legal defense, Monsieur in a 2004 press interview apparently claimed he was really a spy and not an arms dealer.

Monsieur’s arrest comes at an interesting time for the prosecution of alleged arms dealers; the United States is currently trying to extradite Russian national Viktor Bout, who was arrested in a sting operation in Thailand. Though the Thai courts have so far refused to extradite him to the United States, they are also not willing to release him.

Belgian humor magazine runs most offensive ads in history of...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:10:11 -0400

Belgian humor magazine runs most offensive ads in history of mankind

Have you seen this license plate somewhere in Brussels? We lost...

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:23:31 -0400

Have you seen this license plate somewhere in Brussels? We lost it today and had to go to a super-market to buy a new one blah….

WTF?!

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:50:35 -0400

Dude: How do you feel being Finish?
Dude: Do people look at you?
Dude: I mean, because you are Finish....
Jussi: WTF?!

Rum & Coke

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:09:48 -0400

Manuel: "jussi shoots blanks".
Jussi: "What a shame. They had a bartender here, Keno, made the best rum Cannonball I've ever tasted."
Manuel: "You're ready, Vikram."
Jussi: "Thanks a lot for not picking me. I'm sick of being on B squad."
Manuel: "Listen, you may be on B squad, but you're the B squad leader."
Jussi: "Anybody see anybody? Shit we played a bum hunch."
Manuel:"Ok. We got 2more Ping Islands to check out."

"Two men in a Smart = Homosexuals !!!"

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:37:41 -0400

“Two men in a Smart = Homosexuals !!!”

- Manuel, drunk at Ixelles

I took this one in Dusseldorf. We were quite disapointed with...

Wed, 20 May 2009 19:19:32 -0400

I took this one in Dusseldorf. We were quite disapointed with the city… but the beer with coke is not THAT bad

..remember not to eat too much chocolate..

Mon, 18 May 2009 18:05:45 -0400

BRUSSELS — The Belgian bodybuilding championship was canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled.

A doping official said bodybuilders just grabbed their gear and ran off when he came into the room.

“I have never seen anything like it and hope never to see anything like it again,” doping official Hans Cooman said Monday.

Twenty bodybuilders were entered in the weekend competition.

Cooman says the sport has a history of doping “and this incident didn’t do its reputation any good.”

During testing of bodybuilding events last year, doping authorities of northern Belgium’s Flanders region found that three-quarters of the competitors tested positive.

This is clearly a WTFB!!!!

This is a classic WTFB. A Mercedes with a white line… can...

Sat, 09 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

This is a classic WTFB. A Mercedes with a white line… can you be any cooler?

The official WTFB url

Wed, 06 May 2009 06:13:50 -0400

The official WTFB url

WTFB tour

Mon, 04 May 2009 16:30:00 -0400

BERLIN 1-3.5.09

The task

Complete > 1600 km in less than three days, visit Berlin, drink German beer and get back to Brusels

The trip

Left Brussels around 11:30 in the morning.
GPS (do NOT buy a Garmin) broke.
Got lost in Ahlen (there are two of those in Germany - were initially slightly worried we were in the one near München thanks to the Garmin ;P ).
Met the other Manuel in Berlin and went to a very alternative club in Berlin with some nice Punks.
Had beer and forin sausage for breakfast with ex-con ”Frederik”.
German beer not nearly as good as Belgian but continued drinking for the rest of the day and visited some sights.
Peed forin.
Manuel throws up the whole nite like a girl, we stayed in.
Visit the city & the wall the following morning.
Left for Brussels at 2pm (too late), had ice-cream somewhere in between, and arrived at 11:30 pm.

Photos

Route

"Manuel, think about the future."

Mon, 04 May 2009 16:09:23 -0400

““Manuel, think about the future.””

- Ex-con, on a breakfast beer in Berlin

"Fucking (ice-cream), I have been 4 months thinking about it and it does not get any better."

Mon, 04 May 2009 01:29:00 -0400

“Fucking (ice-cream), I have been 4 months thinking about it and it does not get any better.”

- Jussi - In a McDonalds somewhere in Germany

Moving a Mattress

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The task

Be able to mode an IKEA mattress from point A to point B without the help of a van.

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The solution

The following was done:

Borrow two trollies from GB:
Get the mattress out of the house and get it on the trolleys and walk in the middle of the night to point B.
Place the mattress in a garage ‘til the next day when it was moved to the house.

Result

Success!!!