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[Buster's Uncle]

Oh - I totally already can.  I think it's a skill anyone lacking in is not a complete person, and entirely too helpless for their own good.  -I'm just not nearly good enough at it to make costumes.

At my first dorm, I would sit in the back of the room often on Saturdays stitching up seams and doing repairs on my clothes - I'd only recently gotten my full growth, and looking as I do, I got the strangest looks from people in the hall who glance and realized the big guy was in there sewing.  I'd get literal doubletakes - people glancing as they passed by, than a head peeking back around the doorframe to make sure of what they'd seen, like in a comedy.  It was funny, and pretty soon I was going out of my way to find sewing to do just to mess with heads.

[JarlWolf]

I know how to sew and patch up my clothes to a basic extent, and I know how to stitch a wound. But im no fashion designer, and the machines scare me. I'm a old fashioned spit on a thread and loop callously in a needle kind of guy, and if I have to repair clothing there has been better looking homeless men walking around then some of the stuff I've done. It does the job fine, but I won't be winning any beauty contests in the future. Least not clothing wise.

[Buster's Uncle]

That's good enough.  You're human.

[Arbee]

I took home economics specifically to learn those types of things, then I went and basically forgot how to do it.  I mean, if I broke out the old sewing kit, I could probably make a rudimentary repair or replace a button, but that's about it, haha.

[Buster's Uncle]

That probably qualifies...

[Arbee]

It probably doesn't.  I have a feeling that if I attempted to repair a piece of clothing, it would somehow damage itself further in protest.

[JarlWolf]

Red, are you clothes caching on fire again?
Red, you got the instructions mixed up! You don't put the match and petrol to the clothes, you do that for the-

Oh wait, nothing, were talking about nothing.

Nothing at all.

[Arbee]

That moment when the raging inferno is your trousers.

[Valka]

Okay, so it's captioned. And it's creepy. But for some reason this makes me giggle...

[Geo]

I meant "Do Flems tend to know much French, and Walloons much Dutch?"

Makes much more sense. 

These days it depends on the generations. Certainly the (Flemish) people older then me, and to a large extend people of my age, are on average fluent in French/Walloon. Younger then me, English is mosttimes their second language. I'm not one of the fluent French speakers in my country, but on the OTOH know enough to order a room, know prices, order food and such. But nog enough to have a decent conversation.
The same age categories of Walloons mostly don't have a working vocabulary in Flemish/Dutch. In Flanders, if we hear someone talk in another language, we switch to French/German/English according to what we hear. It's our tradition. Mosttimes not so in Wallony where even English is not widely understood, unless you meet another Fleming who happens to be the owner of the bar/restaurant/hotel you're attending.
I don't think the younger generation of Walloons speak fluently Dutch.

Then there's the people of foreign origin, where the story really gets complicated... 

[Buster's Uncle]

Sounds like Dutch traditions of civility are in play.

[Geo]

Like I said, it's tradition. Flanders has had lots of trading and foreign merchants in the last 7 centuries. Not to mention all those invading armies up until WWII.
Flanders has been under French influence for so long, and the early Belgian law system (after independence) was based on Napoleonic laws. And up until the decade before my birth, you couldn't study on universities or have a job in the bureaucracy if you weren't fluent enough in French. In short, Flemish/Dutch was really discriminated here.
So I wouldn't call it civility, more out of habit.

[Valka]

I'm posting this here because it's the sign that's funny, not the caption...

[Geo]

I didn't know Moose were interested in hockey...

[Buster's Uncle]

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