F*cking Dutch Customs

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME] wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]ThomasQuinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The Fairy King = RickRolling all of you wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Why Iranian and not Persian? Freddie was.

+ It's always shitty to wait for stuff you're eagerly awaiting TQ. ;)[/QUOTE]

Because he wasn't Persian but Parsi. Despite the fact that Treasure Moment sees no difference, Parsi is an ethnic term, while Persian means "a citizen of the Persian nation", which no longer exists; when the Shah was kicked out, they called it "Iran", so "Iranian". And in case anyone missed it, the Netherlands are now the only country in the world to refuse Iranian students enrollment in a number of physics-related subjects, because we are afraid they'll build bombs. Pakistani, Israeli, American, South African, etc. students, whose countries we *know* produce nuclear weapons, however, are welcome.

+ Yeah, it'll come though. But wouldn't you be eager for any distortion box that looks like this: http://www.biyang.com.cn/Upload/Pic/20086310176781.jpg
The photo doesn't do it justice, but the casing is mirror-polished stainless steel. Full analog, true passive bypass :)

EDIT: slightly better pic: http://i16.ebayimg.com/06/i/001/00/8a/e102_1.JPG [/QUOTE]

Ethnic Iranians or strictly Iranian citizens? [/QUOTE]

Considering the way the Dutch government has acted lately, anyone who looks vaguely Iranian.

Same situation in the Czech Republic. They unpack every package, check the content/value, charge the VAT, delay the package by two weeks. I'm still waiting for my new WAV recorder that I ordered in late July from the US.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]ThomasQuinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Damn, I should've known they'd get on to me when I ordered those Wilkinson PAF's a year ago :P The SAS will be on my doorstep if I ever order one of those Artec tone-pots...[/QUOTE]
Why the fuck would Spike's All Star band stop by your house just because of some guitar effects? I'm pretty sure they got enough money to buy their own. ;)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Raf wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]ThomasQuinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Damn, I should've known they'd get on to me when I ordered those Wilkinson PAF's a year ago :P The SAS will be on my doorstep if I ever order one of those Artec tone-pots...[/QUOTE]
Why the fuck would Spike's All Star band stop by your house just because of some guitar effects? I'm pretty sure they got enough money to buy their own. ;)[/QUOTE]

SAS-Band = Spike's All-Star Band
SAS = Special Air Service

Though I'm not quite sure which of the two is more dangerous to one's health...

Well it's quite normal in ex-communist countries. I mean before 1989 every package was checked thoroughly by the customs people and you had nothing to do against it, just hope some stuff will seem unimportant for those guys and actually receive some of the things in there... With letters it was more complicated... Well, anyway, at least in Romania we still have that problem and if we want to send packages (especially abroad) or receive them and we know they might contain valuable things, we wrap them like you can't see the paper because of the scotch sometimes, but they still find ways to unwrap them...

Yeah, but I'm not from an ex-communist country. I am from an ex-civilized country, called The Netherlands.

The large country next to Germany.

It's never to late to see the light, u know...

Garfield I. Uberson - no, nothing to do with being an ex-communistic country (at least here). It's just that after we entered the Schengen and cancelled all the borders, suddenly there were thousands of custom officers who (unfortunately) couldn't have been fired (f*cking trade unions) so their job is now to check incoming packages and charge VAT.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Mr. Scully wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Garfield I. Uberson - no, nothing to do with being an ex-communistic country (at least here). It's just that after we entered the Schengen and cancelled all the borders, suddenly there were thousands of custom officers who (unfortunately) couldn't have been fired (f*cking trade unions) so their job is now to check incoming packages and charge VAT.[/QUOTE]

Over here in Holland, the answer is probably slightly simpler: they're just plain lazy. Since they conveniently stopped having a complaints-line, they haven't had any complaints, which they consider to mean that they are performing well.

I ordered a Vox Wah pedal on Monday and it arrived today in the mail!!!

It's good to be King.

Yay, they're in! Yesterday afternoon!

And if anyone is considering buying a new distortion pedal, I can highly recommend the Biyang Metal End. Great tone, and lots of ways to tweak it. Not very expensive, either:

http://cgi.ebay.com/BIYANGS-METAL-END-DISTORTION-NEW-SERIES_W0QQitemZ290253125076QQihZ019QQcategoryZ41416QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

http://cgi.ebay.com/BIYANGS-METAL-END-DISTORTION-NEW-SERIES_W0QQitemZ290252157869QQihZ019QQcategoryZ41416QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262
(2 1/2 hours left on that last one)

Even thought that the problem might have been in the US and not in our "ex-civilized" country?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The Mir@cle wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Even thought that the problem might have been in the US and not in our "ex-civilized" country?[/QUOTE]

If Dutch customs hold the package for ten days, it's Dutch customs that is to blame. I'd love to pin this on the Americans, believe me, but I can't credibly do that.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]ThomasQuinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The Mir@cle wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Even thought that the problem might have been in the US and not in our "ex-civilized" country?[/QUOTE]

If Dutch customs hold the package for ten days, it's Dutch customs that is to blame. I'd love to pin this on the Americans, believe me, but I can't credibly do that.[/QUOTE]

Well... true. Still I blame Bush. ;-)