Recently been to the Netherlands and saw that literally everyone rides bikes...

Is there a point in learning Dutch, bros? I go there often (to visit my gf’s family) and I like that it allows you to communicate with Flemish and Afrikaans speakers, but everyone speaks English there so I feel like it might be pointless.

yes, and? We have 2 wins, you have 1. Kinda proving my point.

Learn German and bounce off it into Dutch

No not really unfortunately, maybe for your gf's family but that also depends if this is a long term relationship

why would you even want to learn it. the annoying G sound which is in every word sounds like someone clearing their throat

Steve McClaren can give you some great pointers to really nail the accent

>never heard of Akebono

Lmao, McClaren was speaking fragmented English for some reason. Not really an accent, but still hilarious.

But we do. The Netherlands has 2 TdF winners (Janssen, Zoetemelk), USA only 1 (LeMond).

>Is there a point in learning Dutch, bros?
Only if you decide to move there

Because sumo wrestlers are actually fit as fuck under the fat

Americans are just fat

the fuck you just say to me swamp pussy?

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Like he said, the US only has one winner

It's like the easiest language to learn, can't tell if it's worth it spending time memorizing vocabulary and some of the grammar nuances just to tell people you're bilingual though, because that's really the only reason to unless you plan on going to south africa and nl often.

you seem to forget the peoples champ

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Who is this? Never seen his face before

one of the best sumo wrestlers of all time was American

here's a fun game for all you unemployed europee dipshits: try and name a sport we haven't dominated

>Who is this?
a victim of robbery

post athletes who were robbed

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Football
Cricket
Field Hockey

Dutch is not an easy language to learn, at all.
It has zero logic to it, the grammar is a mess to explain, spelling seems to change every fucking year and on top that, the language evolved in such a way to get rid of the german grammatical cases while still remaining word gender. I've heard Dutch teacherstell their pupils the best wayto determine a gender is to think of the word in dialect.
Honestly, Chinese is less difficult. It makes sense, at least.

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Football, rugby, cricket, ice hockey, you know, all the ones the rest of the world give a shit about. Cycling too while I'm here...

Football
Motorsports
Judo
Badminton
Volleyball
Ski Jumping

What is it with you lot and the pool? Seriously don't get it.

>Football
world champs
>cricket
we have baseball instead (world champs)
>ice hockey
Canada won a stanley cup when?

Also you forgot Soccer which we just won the world cup in
he said sports

The krauts took all the good racing bikes

Victim of robbery

I agree with the gender part, thats a very unnecessary difficulty in our language because its pretty much remembering the gender for every word since there is no real trick to it.
But aside from that its actually a very easy language to learn, because its very similar to English.

>football
WWC sure mate, I guess girls count.
>Baseball
We call it rounders. Last played it in primary school I think, just before moving on to a game requiring tactics, skill and subtlety.
>ice hockey
EPL is arguably the dominant league in the world but I'm not going to pretend England dominates football. I think the Canadians, Russians and scandinavians might have something to say about you dominating. Stanley what?
>American Football
Ahahahahahahahaha

>>Football
>world champs
Your best result is 3rd when 13 countries played and everyone was amateurs
>baseball
Maybe 5 countries care about it
>he said sports
All these are more of a sport than your luckswing pastime or a bad imitation of rugby

>ice hockey
our champs vs the world would win, economic victory if anything
we won the super bowl

For me it's d or dt
Doesn't add anything to a sentence

d or dt is easy as fuck tho

They're like top five in men's cycling and a clear number one in women's cycling. what are you on about?
The last two tours even had a Dutch rider win the non-sky race.

How do the locals feel about the “dude, weed” stuff? I imagine it must be extremely annoying to constantly have drugged out foreigners in your city acting like retards.

Yeah, Amsterdam is a hellhole because of all the annoying tourists and it's why most people not living there try to avoid it if possible.

British tourists are the worse, they just get absolutely smashed on weed and alcohol and start destroying stuff.

Its useless but its the most easiest thing in the world.
Just replace the word with the werkwoord "lopen". Example:
>Ik word opgehaald. ( "word" can only be replaced with "loop", not "loopt" so no dt)
>Hij wordt opgehaald. ("wordt" can only be replaced with "loopt", not "loop" so dt)

Huh? Please elaborate. I googled the name from your picture but he does not show up in Tour de France history.

Stop being massive fucking ponces then

when i smoke weed i usually get super sad
:(

Yeah same, it's because i literally never enjoy anything and weed just makes it worse, except when im drinking because that's the only thing i enjoy. Drink a 6 pack next time you smoke.

when I smoke weed I get kinda nauseous

yeah same i guess
but i do drink and its fine for the most part its just the weed that makes me think of >her

WEED LOL

>this post
some kid i went to middle school with was shockingly good at tech deck but you dont see me bragging about it on Yea Forums

cant really be arsed about it
i never understood the whole hype around weed desu, i've tried enjoying it but id rather get drunk instead of sitting on a couch staring into the distance and feeling mellow

They had a guy get 3rd place this year i think, thats pretty good no?

Because tour the France are all cheating doping users

BIKES?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oXtjfSUuuzg

For me it’s the stroopwafels. Belgian fries are quite meh

You guys are the best in war making

STOP CALLING US FAT YOU BULLIES

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Most folks who drown in the canals are tourists. Pretty efficient way to cleanse the world of these retards.

But more serious answer I live pretty close to Amsterdam and visit the place a few times a year to watch movies, visit musea, library or eat and drink with loved ones. I do feel like the tourism increasingly becomes worse yeah. Lately however the government is trying to promote other places in The Netherlands to save Amsterdam from getting ran over by tourists. I feel like it's a little too late for that.

Amsterdam is awesome, that's why we visit it. I don't think promoting other places would work.

What I would do is ban weed for tourists so that you don't get tourists whose main reason to go there is weed. Amsterdam has much more to offer.

>try and name a sport we haven't dominated
korfbal

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Then stop being fat

Born and raised Amsterdammer here; I've grown used to the annoying shit tourists pull. But I get lots of enjoyment of fucking with those stereotypical tourist retards.
One of my favorite things is to tell them all the bikes are free.

1991, never 4get

>name a sport we haven't dominated

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>British tourists are the worse, they just get absolutely smashed on weed and alcohol and start destroying stuff.

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football, rugby, cricket, cycling (without pumping yourself full of drugs)

That part is fine. The most annoying thing is when people that visited the Netherlands once drone on about Amsterdam being "the bomb" while you can get the same quality weed in literally any other city for cheaper, while enjoying a more relaxed atmosphere.

I always name places like Groningen, Leeuwarden, Maastricht, Delft, Leiden, Nijmegen to recommend to people visiting the Netherlands. Sure, do your one day Amsterdam strip and get shitfaces then throw out of the red light district for making photos for your facebook journal. Visit any other place for the real Netherlands.

For fucks sake noone in Amsterdam even speaks dutch in restaurants bars and shops.

That will never ever happen unfortunately, since weed is a huge taxable income.

More like "her"

that's literally all your country is good for, you have no industry or exports otherwise. everytime you see some apple-tanned brit you should thank him for propping up your dumb ass socialist nonsense

They also invented pole vaulting but they're not very good at that either.

Amsterdam is a hub for hundreds of companies, now more than ever because of Brexit.

If anyone says rugby, you guys were back to back gold medalists 1920-24

>you have no industry or exports otherwise.
The Netherlands has the 4th largest export surplus in the world you imbecile, after Germany, China and Japan.

okay but there's no innovation or progress being made. all if these smug lefty countries are going to implode within the next few decades because you morons let in hordes of 70 IQ mud-people. america is so massive that the white flight recipe will still work, just move to the woods and buy an AR-15. you guys have nowhere to run or hide

You could use Google for a change and double check that 'no industry or export' "fact" of yours.

>you guys have nowhere to run or hide
'based' /r/the_donald shitholes like Poland and Czechia are a 7 hour drive from here.

You think this way but there's a lot of brown business owners with brown children that become doctors and things.

Maybe it's you lazy fucks who should start to produce and export stuff.
Also 2nd largest agricultural exporter in the world.

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Chinese all ride bikes in droves too.

why can't I think of a single dutch product that I use then? meanwhile you idiots lap up our entertaibment media, probably using microsoft windows (an american company) or even apple (also american) when you aren't watching stuff on youtube (american company) wearing nike shoes (american).

Probably because you're a brainlet who only thinks in simple consumer junk bought at the dollar store or his new fresh Nike kickz.
Most money in the world is made upstream. When you fuel up your mothers car it went through Shell and when you boot up your PC it was all made using ASML machinery.

if the netherlands got nuked only the dutch would sufffer. if america ceased to exist and took it's offerings with it the world would start sucking raw shit for a massive amount of foreigners

You can't get weed in every city though,as a foreigner.
For example I lived in Maastrich for 1 and a half years,you need a flat and some papers to go to the coffeshop.
So unless you live there,you can't buy weed.I didn't want to get the papers necessary,so I just drove to Heerlen or Sittard.

Toothpaste land is a great country though,beatiful landscape,nice city/architecture and dutch are actually 200IQ for having a bikelane everywhere.
Who ever planned to have bikelane next to every street is a genius,I wish we had it here in Germany,then I could just ride the bike,going "DUDE WEED" and not lose my driver license.
I am clean because I am too pussy to drive here,with THC in my blood.You are basically done here if they catch you,even if you didn't smoke for days.

>what is Unilever

>,so I just drove to Heerlen or Sittard.
Shouldn't have worked. Foreigners can't buy weed in our southern 3 provinces. Your best fix would be going up to Arnhem, Nijmegen or Enschede for weed.

do people legitimately still go to the netherlands solely to smoke weed? how big of a nerd do you have to be to not be able to find some stoner to buy pot from? literally just go to a bar and ask people if they have weed

>tfw don’t like weed
>tfw never understood why people want to breathe in smoke that makes them dumb and hazy for a few hours
I just don’t get it. I feel like people do it just to fit in.

>I just don’t get it something i never done
yes

Where did I say I haven’t done it?

But when I lived in Maastrich,I could have got the license for it.I just didn't want to fill the papers and all that stuff,so I just drove to Sittard/Heerlen.

To my knowledge,I don't know if that is still the case,bascially the City council/Mayor decides if the coffeshop is open for foreigners(without a flat in the netherlands).For example they changed it in Sittard when I lived in Maastrich.
I can understand though why the People in Amsterdam,or at the borders vote against having weed tourism.
It might be quite annoying,even when it gets a lot of revenue.

>i don't like it, so no one else can possibly like it either
not everyone enjoys it, but most people do.

There's a saying like "there's no such thing as a cyclist in the Netherlands".

To them it's just a convenient way of getting around so it's not like some autistic passion, you won't find dutch people in full lycra and shaving their legs to decrease air drag like you do here in London

GOT EM

GOAT

Maybe just maybe weed is highlighting inadequacies in ur life. Take that as a sign. It helps because to me it gives you a perspective change and really highlights the negative/positive stuff in your life and you go from there.

High quality post.

Pesäpallo

It’s not the same level a single Amsterdam obviously, but everybody who lived in Colorado prior to DUDEWEEDLMAO in 2012 wants every loser who moved here afterward just for the legal weed to be boiled alive. I’m sure Amsterdam is a million times more annoying for locals.

In Amsterdam,cofee shops sell strong weed,i took some purple haze and it looks a bit chemical...but the city is cool,no cars,no pollution not like Paris...

Beating Vietnam in a war

What are you talking about you retard?
You do whatever else you would normally be doing when you smoke weed. Playing video games, watching TV, fapping etc. It just makes everything more fun

DUDE

well it's not really convenient a way to get around in london, it's dangerous and barely quicker than getting the tube

Shut up you fat fucking faggot

>British tourists are the worse, they just get absolutely smashed on weed and alcohol and start destroying stuff.
Its only a bit of banter m8

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>One of my favorite things is to tell them all the bikes are free.
based

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Keep seething because of some Dutchman's personal opinion you aggressive bongoid.

@94900761

Go attention seek somewhere else you obese mess. Your not getting anymore from me

>weed smoking faggot anally devastated because someone dared to treat their beloved pastime with irreverence
Every single fucking time.

Question for none-Dutch people: why do you allow all those ugly houses in your country?

Seriously, maybe 10% of the houses here are ugly concrete boxes, but in almost every other country I’ve been in you always live in unkept, ugly concrete boxes. Just square, paint bladdering off or just plain concrete. No brick, no ornaments, unkept and unclean. Why? Usually monumental buildings like churches or government buildings are beautiful, but it just looks like everyone stopped caring when they build their own house. Especially looking at you, Belguim and Eastern Europe.

Redpill me on horizon and eye pollution that is foreign housing

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It's a paradox, just like why aren't all the gay porno stars french

Finns are uncivilised forest people that got introduced to urban living in the 1960s

I've been living in Amsterdam-Noord for the past 6 years. It's been getting increasingly worse. Now they've even discovered Noord, because the muncipality wants to spread the tourists. You just see lost tourists cycling around fucking industry, it's fun to laugh at them but also a little bit sad.

Boomer here, cant even remember the last time I went to Adam, its so fucking shit with the billions of tourists. Its now a complete and total hellhole for tourists only, no Dutchies to be found anywhere but the occasional student blitzing through on a bike. Sticking to Rotterdam.

>8th largest exporter in the world
>only 17 million people
>huge oil refineries
>huge export of medication
>top producers of computer chips
>supplies the world with top tier fruits & vegetables
>trucks
>cars
>spoil the world with flowers and cheese
>best footballers & iceskaters

oec.world/en/profile/country/nld/

We would primarily lose a global bullying police force and lots of dubious banking but not much else will be lost.

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lel

Didn't he die?

>it's a woman

Guess it checks out, considering the rider was surprised by a fucking curve in the road.

It's a she and she lives

Pennsylvania has a similar gdp with about 5 million fewer people. Pennsylvania produces glorious sandwiches, steel, and contributes massively to America's status as an energy exporter. Europe is a fucking meme. Many US states are more significant than your pathetic countries.

>This is what retarded Euros actually believe

>ywn come home to a free-spirited, liberal dutch woman with natural beauty and a tight body from constant biking who already speaks english and is more sexually mature than any american trashwoman

Feels fucking awful.

>Known for windmills
>GDP smaller than most single US states
>Invented VAR
>Known for being world's biggest chokes
>known for awkward birthday parties
>their locks are more expensive than their bikes

The US is literally known for being fat and school shootings, lmao

We're actually known for living rent free 24/7

You're obsessed with us. Why? We all know why. We are the most influential country in the world.

You watch our movies, listen to our music, use our internet, all the while saying we have no culture, and holding on to yours while it's being diluted via migration.

It's sad, and I honestly feel bad for you.

He will never recover from this

Can't cycle if your bikes in the canal

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Neither does the UK

Hey man you didn't have to ruin his life like that

>try and name a sport we haven't dominated
school survival

>I always name places like Groningen, Leeuwarden, Maastricht, Delft, Leiden, Nijmegen
Based and redpilled (though Leeuwarden is pretty boring compared to the rest of that list imo, substitute it with Breda)

>you have no industry or exports otherwise
Burger education everyone

because everything is flat over there

Cyclists shave their legs because it's easier to clean a hairless wound, not for air resistance.

No fucking excuse for the lycra, though

If war was a sport, you'd fucking suck at it.
>Lost Vietnam to the commies
>Lost Iraq to Iran
>Lost Afghanistan to the Taliban
>Lost Syria [proxy war] to Assad/Iran

The only claim to fame you have was Korea (which ended in a draw), and swooping in at the last minute in WWII when Germany was already at the brink of losing and had to send all their people to the eastern front to try and stop the Red Army.

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Almost got me here 2/10

>It's sad, and I honestly feel bad for you.
Are americans non ironically this delusional,about their perception in europe?

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>He thinks we care about our perception in Europe

LOLLLLLLLLLL

Did this idiot seriously use an American movie GIF, in reply to that post? Wew lads

>Proves the point with his gif

No seriously. You're like the full kit wankers. You've got the best gear available, yet you somehow manage to suck the most at it.

based

twitter.com/footyawayday/status/977145473151766529/video/1

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>You watch our movies, listen to our music, use our internet, all the while saying we have no culture, and holding on to yours while it's being diluted via migration.

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>Known for hotdog eating competitions
>Posts about GDP
>Invented blacked.com
>Known for being world's biggest cucks
>known for awkward Jewish lobbies
>their fridges are more expensive than their bikes

>you watch our movies, listen to our music, use our internet
these are all jewish

Yeah well you're not white so take that

What? We have places like Snowdonia, Brecon Beacons, Lake District, Peak District, Pennines, Scottish highlands etc. They may not be the biggest mountains in the world but the UK isn’t flat. Most of the UK is rolling hills and valleys, only really eastern counties like Lincolnshire or Norfolk are completely flat like the Netherlands or Belgium.

What are you supposed to do here? Lean harder?

If you're going to any of the countries in the top 5 of this there's really zero reason to learn that country's language

ef.com/wwen/epi/

Netherlands is almost always in the top 3 every year.

Are you a soiboi?

football (soccer for you fags)
handball
volleyball
water polo

>Belgium
>flat
You meant Netherlands or Denmark, I'm sure. Or haven't you heard of this thing called the Ardennes?

Do frontflip and continue riding the bike

Shell, unilever, philips

>known for awkward birthday parties
What's this?