• wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Just because NL has the worlds best bike infrastructure does not make them a "good" country. This is the home of Shell, remember. Also they seem far too happy with their colonialist history.

    • Lenins_Cat_Reincarnated
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      3 months ago
      cw racism

      A few years ago r/thenetherlands had a cultural exchange with r/indonesia and the thread in r/indonesia was full of GEKOLONISEERT jokes.

    • lil_tank [any, he/him]
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      3 months ago

      The bike infrastructure has DUTCH people riding it, therefore it can't be good

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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        3 months ago

        I rode on it once, ngl, even with all the Dutch people it's fucking amazing to cycle on. Everyone deserves to be able to have a cycling holiday in the Netherlands to see what's been taken from them.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    3 months ago

    I don't necessarily like jokes about how Dutch is an "unserious language" — I think this is ultimately kind of problematic joke to make, even though the Dutch absolutely do deserve to get made fun of — however I would be lying if I said that I have never in my life looked at or heard Dutch and just gone

    "neuken in de keuken" biggus-dickus

    • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      English does have a lot of Dutch and French influences. But most European languages come from some ancient indo-european root. Western European languages also have shared influences from Latin, the result of Roman inperialism.

        • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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          3 months ago

          More like centuries. I mean, even the Romans never ended up colonising the entire world. And still roman influence is felt across Europe for millenia after it stopped being a relevant geopolitical player.

  • ch1l
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    3 months ago

    As a Dutch speaker, I'm always shocked by how many people on this forum speak Dutch, it's like not that popular of a language... but I agree profoundly unserious please.

      • ch1l
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        3 months ago

        I learned Dutch in a post-modern ironic way though, not a utilitarian euro-boo cringe way. Please spare me, I do not claim those folks.

    • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      Some of the jokes are getting kinda racist ngl. I'll tell myself that's it's just dutch users making fun of their own language

      • ch1l
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        3 months ago

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    • bunnygirl [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      The 'cuck chair' meme is a textbook example of removed. It shouldn't be common knowledge what a cuck or cuck chair is.

      Call us nerds, chudjacks [sic] or whatever else, but it's the truth.

      e: forgot that word gets caught by the slur filter (rosa-salute), but it's cognate so it should be clear in Dutch already

  • bunnygirl [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    Also can we just talk about the fact that Omtzigt looks wayyyy too much like Andrew Wakefield lol

    • Shelena@feddit.nl
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      3 months ago

      Not really. Most of us start learning it in elementary school, so you kind of grow up with it.