#bliek

PART ONE of a bunch of Valentine’s Day gifts for my friends on the invader zim lucky life roleplay server !!! 

I know this is posting wAYY after valentines day, but thats okay. I did these in my sketchbook with a pen my friend gave me and watercolors! 

Hypothesis for why most Dutch people can't do keto/low carb diets succesfully for a longer period of time:

Due to Calvinism we are taught that Moderation and Temperance are Virtues from an early age. So all food is either 'lekker' (tasty) or just normal like bread, potato, rice, etc. Vegetables also don't count as 'lekker'. But meat does. Sauce (mostly mayonaise but we have many sauces !) is used to make the 'normal' stuff more 'lekker'.

And what you eat always has to be a balance between those two. So for example I was not allowed to eat a cheese sandwich with TWO slices of cheese it could only be one. Except maybe on Sunday then maybe you can get a sandwich with ham AND cheese on it. This is done not out of an actual Religious Dogma but simply because we believe it's more healthy as well as cost effective.

So whenever I see something out of a keto or low carb diet in my opinion that meal is completely unbalanced and I cannot eat that. It does not have enough 'normal' substance to compensate for all the 'lekkers'.

On July 18, the 85 meter long self-propelled tanker-barge Bliek ran aground on the Elbe River near Tesperhude, Germany. The Bliek was en route to Hildesheim when it suffered engine failure after a technical malfunction. The current pulled the Bliek towards the shoreline until the Bliek struck the submerged remains of an old quay wall.  The Bliek requested assistance with it’s sister ship, Asterode, arriving several hours later.  The Asterode pulled the Bliek free and towed the damaged tanker to Scharnebeck.  No reports of injuries. Divers inspected the Bliek and found damage to the forepeak which had suffered some water ingress.  Authorities allowed the Bliek continue on its voyage.