I wonder if he’s just being careful politically. Farmers are a polarised topic in the Netherlands.

There are no beaches in the Netherlands that far away from a major city though

Zeker veel beter dan PVV, maar de CDA is ook wel een partij vol schandalen. Ik zou zeggen, de reden dat NSC en BBB überhaupt bestaan

Are you still talking about the Netherlands? Unless it’s on one of the islands, I don’t see how a house near the beach could be in a bad location

“Meel” is ook een interessante voor dat rijtje (specifiek de L aan het eind van een lettergreep, “stelen” is wel weer normaler bijvoorbeeld). De gewone klanken lukken voor Nederlanders ook gewoon niet goed voor een R/L.

plenty of kids up for adoption

Maybe this is very country-dependent, but at least in the Netherlands that’s not the case at all (and adoptions from abroad get shady, like without the mother’s consent)

In Dutch, “haai” (shark) sounds very similar to “hi” (the English word), same for “hooi” (hay) and “hoi” (hi). Which leads to this hilarious comic I saw once where a shark meets a bale of hay ^{edit: somehow I typed bay of hale}

Oh I’d never call myself a conservative, and most conservative parties here are right-wing as well.

Edit: I should probably start by saying that this is somewhat off-topic.

In the Netherlands we tend to rank our parties along left-right and progressive-conservative axes separately. Conservative-left gets you Christians who care about the poor. In other countries there’s also the “I want the government to support our workers”, “I want to go back to Soviet times” and “I’m leftist but LGBTQ is wrong” types.

The English disease of putting spaces in a compound word might be worse… it’s not even consistent. It’ll be a new example of “Dutch grammar is 50% special cases.”

Honestly no, never, and that feels more like a problem of not having proper cycling paths. Nobody wants to cycle on the sidewalk.

The way I see it, shawarma comes in strips and kebab in flakes

Oh die peiling ziet er eigenlijk veel beter uit dan ik dacht, ik was bang dat de PVV er nog meer stemmers bij zou hebben gepakt

Aw. We’re pretty used to hanging out in English-speaking spaces so there’s probably more Dutch folk hiding around. I do know the head admin of lemmy.world is Dutch, as well as one of the main devs of mbin.

Where are you finding all these Dutch posts? This is the only vaguely active Dutch sub I know of

At least here in the Netherlands, there was a lot of commotion because a data centre tried to buy a windmill park meant to power households as their dedicated power source

Het helpt dat dit EU-breed is, dus alleen uit Nederland vertrekken zou niet genoeg zijn, maar het is nog steeds lastig

Compleet mee eens natuurlijk, al doet men soms wel alsof.

Grappig hoe Baudet ooit begon als het ‘redelijke’ alternatief op Wilders en het inmiddels omgedraaid is

Maybe they’re Dutch, there it’s only done for words that end in a vowel. Probably not though.