Nederlanders zijn geobsedeerd door het weer, hebben eigenaardige koosnaampjes voor elkaar en desondanks kan niemand ons land vinden op de kaart. We zijn een eigenaardig volkje. Dat blijkt wel uit dit artikel.
– Dit is een repost, maar wel een hele fijne –
1. We weten op de minuut wanneer het weer zal omslaan.
British people: “Might rain later, I’ll take an umbrella”
Dutch people: “According to the graphs I downloaded there is a 61.8% chance of precipitation between 9:20 and 9:30am, but if I leave at 9:07 I can avoid it”
— Ben Coates (@bencoates1) June 5, 2019
2. En dan zien we ongeveer zo uit.
Dutch people when they come home from school cuz they have cycled through the storm: pic.twitter.com/rXS4SCBZTF
— zaira (@powerfuImendes) March 9, 2017
3. Over Nederland gesproken…
Crossing the street in Amsterdam:
look left
look right
look left
look right
look up
look down
look left one more time
look into the 4th, 5th and 6th dimensions
look into the past and the future
look into the souls of your unborn children
cross
still get hit by a bike#amsterdam— Teunkie (@teunkie) May 11, 2018
4. Onze koosnaampjes zijn voor buitenstaanders soms moeilijk te bevatten…
reason #383838 why dutch is weird:
I cuddle our chatterbox baby this morning and say: “goeie morgen mijn kleine ouwehoer”
then when my boyfriend asked me what that meant: “well technically I said good morning my little old whore but don’t worry about it”
— Maggy (@maggyvaneijk) March 26, 2019
5. “Doe maar normaal, dan doe je al gek genoeg”.
British people: “We should be more like the Netherlands. They run everything so sensibly there”
Dutch people: pic.twitter.com/zfZxNTAps1
— Ben Coates (@bencoates1) July 3, 2019
6. Want dit is TRADITIE.
Dutch people always sit in a circle at birthday parties. The circle keeps getting bigger, until you can only speak to the person on either side of you. No one knows why. It is one of life's great mysteries. #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/RRa9c6UXOQ
— Richard de Nooy (@RicharddeNooy) November 23, 2017
7. Voor mensen die het allemaal nog moeten leren, is dit een fijn overzicht.
Advanced Dutch:
he he = finally
ja ja = i don’t believe you
ho ho = wait a minute
zo zo = well well well
poe poe = wow, medium impressed
nou nou = slightly less than medium impressed
— Lyangelo (@Lyangelo) October 30, 2018
8. Onze taal moet klinken als geheimtaal.
When I hear Dutch people speaking I'm like how is it possible for them to form entire sentences using only the sound 'kh'
— Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) March 9, 2018
9. Nederlandse directheid in een notendop.
Dutch duolingo is NOT fucking around pic.twitter.com/YLt2MqJGni
— 🍓noa (@noaaavocado) October 24, 2017
10. En we houden van vakantie ;-).
Dutch people: “The reason our country is so successful is that we work hard. That’s a big part of our culture: working hard and being productive.”
Also Dutch people: “Don’t email me between June and August, I’m taking five weeks off to go to Indonesia”
— Ben Coates (@bencoates1) April 17, 2019