{"id":116,"date":"2005-08-07T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=116"},"modified":"2010-05-30T23:19:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T21:19:22","slug":"netflix-come-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/116","title":{"rendered":"Netflix &#8211; Come To Europe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/mt\/pics\/sixcandles.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>I was looking online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\">Netflix<\/a> and am so jealous that we don&#8217;t have it here in NL.  I&#8217;d totally subscribe if we did!  We have a few cheap immitations but nothing that compares at all.   I looked up a few different old movies just to see if they had them but they didn&#8217;t.   I tried titles like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055277\/\">The Parent Trap (1961)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075314\/\">Taxi Driver (1976)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091954\/\">Sid and Nancy (1986)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0031381\/\">Gone With The Wind (1939)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088128\/\">Sixteen Candles (1984)<\/a> just to see what kind of selection they had.    From what I can tell, Netflix has pretty much everything you&#8217;d need, whereas the Dutch versions just have recently released movies and bits and pieces of different TV series.<\/p>\n<p>What started this whole thing was me trying to get Sixteen Candles after an unsuccessful download though bit torrent.   I started downloading it and it stopped at 99.4% with no seeds so for the past three weeks I&#8217;ve been unable to get the download completed.  This has been bugging me so I thought I&#8217;d look at the online rental places to see if maybe I could try getting it through there, rip it and burn a copy for myself.   Imagine my surprise, and disgust, when I realized that none of these sites even had it!  Not one!!   This is one of my favorite movies from when I was a young teenager and the idea that it&#8217;s not available for rent from any of these places is baffling.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, one of them had an option where you could send in a request.  Said you&#8217;d get a mail back within a half hour, so I told myself if they mail me back I&#8217;ll know they are decent and I&#8217;ll join.  It never came, so I never joined.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, not having Sixteen Candles.   Over 5000 movies and not one of them is Sixteen Candles .. <em><strong>OR<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088847\/\">The Breakfast Club<\/a>, which I might add&#8230; hardly anyone I mention it to here has even heard of!<\/p>\n<p>What planet did these people grow up on?<\/p>\n<p>The renovations are going great.  The tiles are up and our new taps and showerhead are in the shower.  We got this kind with a thermostat so you can set the temperature you want the water to come out at and that&#8217;s what you get every time.   I love that because I alway end up squeeling from water that is way too hot or way too cold..<\/p>\n<p>My back is still dead, but not so bad that it makes me wish I was, like yesterday.   I can stand up and sit down on my own but still can&#8217;t put my own pants on or anything.  Yesterday I couldn&#8217;t even manage to go potty alone&#8230;  I think that&#8217;s one of those true tests of a marriage, when you need your spouse to take you to the bathroom and help you get your pants down and up and all the other potty business (well not all, I have my limits).   Xander has been awesome while I&#8217;ve been an invalid, staying home to help me around, cooking the meals and helping me with all the silly things I can&#8217;t do on my own.    I don&#8217;t think there is a man on earth who could ever compare to him.   How lucky I am&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been playing the hell out of World of Warcraft this weekend.   Since I can&#8217;t move much I have been spending a fair bit of the time perched in front of my gaming computer.  Not that this is much different from any other day but now he&#8217;s is there too.   We made two little gnomes, him a mage and me a rogue.. and we are levelling together with a few of my guildmates.   He is having tons of fun and loves sitting around tailoring and enchanting&#8230; who knew there was a little gaming addict in there waiting to be found.  I wish we&#8217;d realized this long ago&#8230; I would have much rathered be hanging out with him in the games than some of the other people I&#8217;ve gamed with in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Have to go to have tests done to see if my fallopian tubes are open.   Apparently it&#8217;s pretty uncomfortable mentally and physically as you have to be spread eagle in front of a bunch of people while they shoot die in places unnatural things aren&#8217;t meant to be shot.   Which is where the physical pain comes in..   I was meant to have it done two months ago but we&#8217;ve just been chilling out this summer and not driving ourselves crazy about Project Baby.   I will have to go next month though, I&#8217;d like to make sure everything is ok and figure out where we&#8217;ll go from there.   I need to find out what &#8220;ABOUT DAMN TIME&#8221; is in Gaelic.  I think I&#8217;ll name my kid that, if\/when he\/she ever arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking online at Netflix and am so jealous that we don&#8217;t have it here in NL. I&#8217;d totally subscribe if we did! We have a few cheap immitations but nothing that compares at all. I looked up a few different old movies just to see if they had them but they didn&#8217;t. 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