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Re: The Jackdaw's Nest// Back home. >>
Posted: Jul 5th, '12, 12:16
by cyan
What are you talking about?
Re: The Jackdaw's Nest// Back home. >>
Posted: Jul 5th, '12, 12:29
by Merrymaking
Quardle oodle //
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Wiltherel will most certainly know what I'm talking about.
Every Dutch student probably does. Or Dutchmen who's passed the phase of student.
They just keep making up stupid digital systems saying everything will be easier, while they just make everything a hell of a lot harder, and gather a lot of fines along the way. >>
It indeed makes it easier - for them... they don't even have to bother earning money anymore...
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Re: The Jackdaw's Nest// You scream, I scream... ;D
Posted: Jul 5th, '12, 13:38
by Wiltherel
The ones "leading" our land > Dumb
They are like poopsmearing monkeys.
I... hate this country. Seriously.
Re: The Jackdaw's Nest// You scream, I scream... ;D
Posted: Jul 5th, '12, 13:41
by Merrymaking
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Agreed. I was talking about DUO, by the way. And their amazing connection with DigiD. You also have study finances, right? Ever had to stop your travel card? >>
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Re: The Jackdaw's Nest// You scream, I scream... ;D
Posted: Jul 5th, '12, 13:45
by Wiltherel
Not yet, I am on my first year of my study, well.. next year my second.
I am worried about it suddenly not working when I need to go somewhere really badly. They haven't stated when I can't use it.. Which frustrates me.
Re: The Jackdaw's Nest// You scream, I scream... ;D
Posted: Jul 5th, '12, 13:48
by Nihal
Woa do they just want to get money from you just like that? What wil you get in exchange?
And lol germany got some heavy weather mood swings. O-O
Its raining again like cray and thundering...
Re: The Jackdaw's Nest// You scream, I scream... ;D
Posted: Jul 5th, '12, 13:55
by Merrymaking
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You can't use it from somewhere halfwhere July to halfwhere August. Then there's the holidays - First and Second Day of Christmas (You can use it the rest of the holiday! I was so happy when I found out back then.), First and Second Day of Easter, Queen's Day, and - here comes - bloody Bevrijdingsdag. Normally you have the whole week off but I had to work at internship. Bevrijdingsdag only counts as a day off for the working class once every 5 years, but DUO thinks it's necessary to block it just every year. Who cares about the interns? So just... watch it on that day, okay? Be prepared. >>
And Pinksteren of course. I think that's about it.
Well Nins here in Holland you can get money during your education, to help people pay their bills while they can't work because they study fulltime.
You can also get a public transport card, since for people like me, living in Alphen aan den Rijn and going to school in Rotterdam daily, it's just impossible to pay. If you don't graduate, you have to pay it all back. If you graduate, the instance who pays for all that used to just cut everything off as soon as they received a copy of your diploma from your school. Now however they expect you to do that all yourself. Ri-fucking-diculous. Since, as stated before, all the things you have to go through make it practically impossible.
But if you don't do it in time, you have to pay those fines.
So that's what you get for it. >>
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Re: The Jackdaw's Nest// You scream, I scream... ;D
Posted: Jul 5th, '12, 14:27
by cyan
Don't know what your talking about Nihal. Weather here is fine ;P
Re: The Jackdaw's Nest// You scream, I scream... ;D
Posted: Jul 5th, '12, 14:46
by Nihal
In what part of germany do you live cyan? O-O
Im in Bayern.^^
Thats really shit merry. We got something similiar of a system but not for the riding expenses rather for the living one. For example when you go out of your familys home alone to another city to study there you will get monthly money as a help. But after you are done you have to pay the money back, but i think not the whole but half of it. And there are also some other factors were you have the chance to decrease the amount you have to pay back. So i think thats fair.
But what your country is doing really freaking stupid. <.<'
Re: The Jackdaw's Nest// You scream, I scream... ;D
Posted: Jul 5th, '12, 17:53
by Merrymaking
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I want thunder. And I want to see Bayern. 
Well it's not the country that's being stupid, I mean, if I hear what you've got, the students here are better off. We don't have to pay a thing back once we have graduated. Unless we take an optional loan, but most people can manage with the study finances. Maybe a little help from their parents. The optional loan really is mostly for the university students.
Here they look at where you live and how much your parents make. For example when both your parents work and you still live with them you get about €70,- a month. When you live somewhere else and your parents can't help you you get like €500,- to €700,- I think but I'm not sure, it could be way less. I live with my parents, my Mum works parttime and my Dad is retired. Somehow that made me get €375,- a month. I really don't know what's the deal with that, but I'm not complaining. I used to get the €70,-. xD
So it's not all bad. It's just the instance that distributes it that's impossible to reach and makes it impossible to do anything unless you find really clever ways to do it. And there's the moron who made up DigiD, which is a general login system for all the governments account you need - taxes, study finances etc. It just fails in all ways but the government doesn't seem to notice. For example after 6 months of inactivity your account expires, but making a new account takes days because they send your activation code by snail mail... And apparently they came up with something new, to stop the study finances I need not only my username and password, no... I also need mobile confirmation. Buuuut you need to activate it first. How? THEY SEND THE ACTIVATION CODE BY BLOODY SNAIL MAIL.
Logic, anyone?
That sucks so hard if you've forgotten to do it and today is the last day you can do it without being fined and you read something like that. x'D
Buuut it's done so I don't have to worry anymore. At least, if I can believe the man on the telephone record... only half way though... Aaargh.... That's it, I'll just. Wait and see.
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