If you’re talking Wilders, he only cares about homophobia when it involves Muslims

Somehow I’ve never had that problem. Maybe it helps that I ride cheap-looking bikes (and use two locks when it’s for a longer time)

You’re doubting all major Dutch news organisations?

Payback for the “English disease” in Dutch (and probably German) where people are writing nouns with random spaces in between

Sadly, not a well-known show in the Netherlands (apparently there was even a Dutch version that got cancelled after 12 episodes)

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

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

At best you could say there’s “the” (pronounced thee) and “the” (pronounced “thuh”), like le vs l’

Germanic language Dutch only has “de” and “het”

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}

In Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog, which is essentially one village split between the Netherlands and Belgium in the messiest way possible, I think it’s based on where the front door is

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

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.

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