New crib: I got a place to live in Brussels! Wooo!

Ours is pretty decent

Although I enjoy the union jack rather than the plain english one imo :wink:

Nice place man, looks like a great find. Would mind me asking how much (in american dollars) it will cost a month. Iā€™m always interested in comparing housing expenses. If you donā€™t want to share than thatā€™s fine also, I can respect that.

*Originally posted by Soul *
**I like oursā€¦

  • Soul :s: **

what happend to the blue one with the red stripes?

Sureshot: so when will you be in the neighbourhood :wink: ā€¦ the picture of the bed room is indeed a bit lightā€¦

Domo: Heh! A stick! We Belgians eat that for lunch! :bad: Erā€¦ or something.

DigitalPimp: Well, itā€™s about 750 euros (~ 750 US dollars) / month. But since weā€™re living with 3, each one of us has to pay 250 euros / dollars. And thatā€™s the price for a single student room in Belgium. :slight_smile: So yay!

About the flags, I like the Canadian one. And the Japanese one, even if itā€™s simple as well.

i like old glory. but however, it can get kind of annoying (putting the stars facing the wrong way!) oh well

nice Apt!! i love it! im flying to Brussels just to visit ya lol (jk)

btwā€¦

what i dont like about americans and our flag is, most people have no idea what the 13 stripes mean! ā€¦

And for those who dont know, it was the age of George Washingtonā€™s son when he became presidentā€¦
lol Just kidding =) :wink:

*Originally posted by Kajinku *
**Yeah, Americans, how come you donā€™t know our flags? We know yours dammit! :stuck_out_tongue:
**

Thats because most Americans are Lazy and dont want to learn anymore than they have toā€¦ Its a Tragity reallyā€¦

That looks like a nice place. It must be cool to room with friends, cause you can get a bigger place and split the cost, so it works out nicely. Congrats.

nice place man!

*Originally posted by Kajinku *
Domo: Heh! A stick! We Belgians eat that for lunch! :bad: Erā€¦ or something.

You eat PATAT as lunch!:x blƩh! :stuck_out_tongue: j/k

*Originally posted by mdipi.com *
**what happend to the blue one with the red stripes? **
Ah there you Americans go again :stuck_out_tongue:

Ok lemme explain :slight_smile:

This is the United Kingdoms flagā€¦

It combines the 3 flags of the Patron Saints of England, Scotland and Irelandā€¦

Shown in this picture :beam:

But why no Wales you may ask?


The Welsh dragon does not appear on the flag because when the first UK flag was created in 1606, Wales was already united with England. Wales was conquered by England in the 13th Century. In 1536, under Henry VIII, the Act of Union joined England and Wales officially. Therefore Wales is represented by the English Flag instead of the Welsh dragon.

So there you go, your history lesson for the day :wink:

  • Soul :s:

we know who payed attention in history. but why does everyone refer to the union jack as england? thats what i always learned the english flag was. and i was taught that they were all seperate contries, not the UK

The reason us Americans donā€™t know all the flags is because geologically we arenā€™t stationed close to any countries. I mean our states are like the distance of country to country in europe. I know the mexican flag but that is because Iā€™m in California.

Also, I thought the 'Xā€™s were centered on the union jack? How come on your drawing Soul the red ā€˜Xā€™ is offset?

nah, you would think, but i noticed that a little while back. just the way it is. i know mexico canada and a few euopean contries and thats it. we dont need to know them cause we arent near them!

whoa, thats really nice!

Thanks everyone. I will post pics of the rest of the app. when we moved in, which will be on September 1st. =)

*Originally posted by [m] *
**You eat PATAT as lunch!:x blƩh! :stuck_out_tongue: j/k **

PATAT?! You know this? Are you Belgian? Dutch maybe? Hmmmā€¦ :cool:

And about the flags again, Iā€™m Flemish in Belgium, so I have this flag as well:

which looks a bit cooler than the Belgian one. :slight_smile:

Wow you learn something new everyday - I had no idea about the union jackā€¦ thanks for the history lesson :slight_smile:

No problem :beam:

And the crosses are off-centre becauseā€¦

The designers had to make sure that all the crosses could be recognised as individual flags as well as being in the same flag together. They did this by making the background of the white Scottish cross broader on one side of the Irish red than on the other. This meant that all the separate crosses could be seen and the Irish Cross had itā€™s original white background.

  • Soul :s: