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The Clinique Scheelboute dilemma

Now, this is extremely weird. I can’t find any other adjective to describe it if I want to keep an objective point of view at least in the introductory part of the post. In Belgium, the Flanders tourist board has launched “Clinique Scheelboute“, the website of a medical center that allows you to get implanted an additional body part (an ear, an arm, a leg) to fully enjoy your experience of the region.

The point is that the Flanders have so much to offer that you can’t experience them at full with a “regular” human body. You need at least two arms more to carry all the bags you will collect because in Antwerp you will shop twice as much; you need an ear implanted in your hand to enjoy all the music offered by bars and the concert halls etc…

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