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

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)

As a Dutch person most of what I know about Indonesian history isn’t very jolly (due to us)

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

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.

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.

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

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

In Dutch we only talk about turning screws clockwise and counterclockwise

I don’t know about Germany, but in the Netherlands people also kept giving that “no farmers no food” argument even though we produce much more than we actually eat. Most of our food is for export.

He has a bunch of English ones on his website as well. Some of them are just the dumbest, least translatable puns though (in a good way).

Oof I had no idea. Hopefully the admin will come back soon.

I’ve never been a Twitter user, but this makes me wish I could follow Mastodon users from here

Unrelated, but it’s kind of weird that !politics@lemmy.world is US politics even though there’s nothing American about lemmy.world