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Neighbourhood cops that twitter
Meet Peter Smaardijk and Ilse Segers, twittering cops. These two police officers from Etten-Leur and Breda respectively have started posting about their beat from their Blackberries last week. Together...
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Pianos take over the streets of Tilburg
A project entitled ”Play Me, I’m Yours” by English artist Luke Jerram at Tilburg’s annual Incubate Festival will feature 101 pianos scattered around the city between September 12 and 18. Anybody can...
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Blinded by false research about meat eaters
Professor Diederik Stapel from the University of Tilburg was recently suspended for making up research that the media actually took seriously and wrote about. The university is apparently looking into...
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Bank managers give cheaper loans to customers of the same sex
If you want to save as much as 0.3 percentage points on your interest rates, close a loan with a bank employee of the same sex. Thorsten Beck, professor at Tilburg University, claims that there is a...
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41 design pianos from Tilburg up for grabs
Back in September 2011, a project entitled ”Play Me, I’m Yours” by English artist Luke Jerram at Tilburg’s annual Incubate Festival featured 101 pianos all over the city that people could play,...
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Bell ringing pastor now calls lost sheep up
We’ve posted about Priest Harm Schilder from Tilburg who had bell ringing issues a few times, attempting to defy the law using freedom of religion as an excuse. Having lost that battle, he’s now moved...
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Dutch comedian who plays up his blackness under fire
An advertising campaign featuring comedian Steven Brunswijk from Tilburg, Noord Brabant aimed at young people working in the hospitality sector (hotels, restaurants and cafes, aka ‘horeca’) has raised...
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Rotating house in Tilburg attracts homeless people
Since the opening of this artwork by John Kormeling back in 2008 there have been homeless people living in it, even though it’s not a proper house. In 2009 some angry welfare recipient had to be...
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A cardigan that helps with patient rehabilitation
The Vigour cardigan is a collaboration between Pauline van Dongen, the TextielMuseum in Tillburg, and fellow PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology, Martijn ten Bhömer. Van Dongen is also...
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Postal worker hoards three year’s worth of mail
The police have found 60 mail bags containing about 13,000 undelivered letters at a Dutch postal worker’s home in Eelde, Drenthe. A local resident filed a formal accusation against PostNL after not...
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Tilburg to welcome royal couple with handkerchiefs
Instead of environmentally unfriendly plastic trinkets, the city of Tilburg will have the honour of welcoming the royal couple this year on King’s Day waving handkerchiefs, if the Textile Museum gets...
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Tilburg school imposes water, parents upset
A school in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, together with the parent-teach association (PTA), voted and agreed on letting children drink only water at school, but are now complaining about it. No energy...
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A solution for morons who blab at concerts
Called the ‘Dutch disease’ by both the Dutch and foreigners, it’s terribly irritating when concertgoers talk through a concert. I can’t say there’s nothing worse than that because they are also morons...
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Fake 2 euro coins circulating around in Tilburg
A supermarket in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant has ended up with fake 2 euro coins, according to the police. They are easy enough to spot: there’s no inscriptions or marks on the side of the coin when there...
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Children discover error in 2019 Dutch tax plan
During an economics lesson, secondary school children in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant discovered a calculation error in the Dutch tax office’s plan for 2019. While learning about the plan, which apparently...
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Fake fine for putting up Christmas decorations too early
First, the Dutch celebrate Sinterklaas, then after that’s done and dusted on December 6th, you can put up your Christmas decorations, but not before that, at least not in a fake letter from the city...
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Keep the rotating house rotating or destroy it?
Ten years ago (where does the time go?), we told about the Rotating House (‘Draaiend Huis’) on a roundabout in Tilburg, North Brabant, made by John Körmelings. For quite some time now, the house...
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More fraudulent research from Tilburg University
Back in 2011, we told you about Professor Diederik Stapel who was disgraced from the Tilburg University for making up a whopping pile of research, and eventually went corporate in 2013. The Tilburg...
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Dutch Eurovision entry is a modern power ballad
Relatively unknown artist Duncan Laurence will represent The Netherlands at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, Israel with the song ‘Arcade’. The first Semi-Final will be held May 14, the...
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Dutch artist tattoos 6673 people for international artwork
Artist Sander van Bussel of Tilburg Cowboys came up with the Human Rights Tattoo in 2012 after the death of friend and human rights activist Steven ‘Nyash’ Nyagah from Kenya. Being the largest, most...
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