this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, because there will be a nether portal and lava everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's the Netherworld. Common mistake.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t mistake the Netherlands for the Nether Regions either.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did that once, wasn't so bad. The people at the embassy just politely referred me to the Red Light District 🤷

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nether World is in Orlando. Europe has only Nether Land

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (13 children)

In Germany the streets are far too often a fight for survival. I miss the Netherlands, driving there, bike or car, was so much more relaxing.

But, you know, Germans and their cars...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In my experience the bike infrastructure was great, but riding the bike in the city was more stressful than in Germany.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Europe you don't need countries for this. The smallest federal country will have a clear difference on the road at the border of two federated entities. Worst, it can happen between municipalities in some countries.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Worst, it can happen between municipalities in some countries.

There are other countries as stupid as Germany? I thought we were alone!

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Looks like a protected chunk in Minecraft.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know that place. The borders between the Ellestraat (Hulst, NL) and the Hellestraat (Stekene, BE).

The right side of the street on the Belgian part is actually Dutch for a few 100 meters. If you look around on street view the part with a bicycle lane is Belgian, the part without it is Dutch.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew that was a Belgian road, you can tell by all the cracks.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, the country where you see on Monday who is going to visit you on Tuesday and where the highest hills are the dikes

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see who any of this is a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It isn't, the only bad thing of the Netherland are the drivers with caravans on the motorways and roads in the rest of the EU, ah, well, maybe their beer 🤢

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i don't want SEX i want USABLE BIKE LANES that have enough SPACE to ride my bike SAFELY alongside other TRANSPORT MODES

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Por qué no los dos? 🤷

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is not even a joke. Every time we cross the border between the Netherlands and Belgium in a car, we laugh about how distinct it is.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It's so eerily flat there, it's unsettling. I don't understand how people can stand it.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

Simple, they stand up on flat ground

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I grew up in a very flat part of England, flatness to me is the default and I get genuinely excited by hills.

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[–] JDubbleu 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As someone who grew up somewhere super flat it really doesn't get to you because it's all you've ever known. However, now that I live somewhere with hills it drives me crazy when I visit home.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's even worse when the hills are alive and have eyes

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The border-free zone is called the Schengen area. There are still some EU member states that aren't included. Euronews article

"Austria has blocked the accession of Romania and Bulgaria into Schengen, the passport-free area that has abolished border checks between the vast majority of EU member states."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Even some non-EU places are part of Schengen. Notably Norway and Switzerland.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

NON-CYCLIST DETECTED, EXTERMINATE

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why can't we have this with Canada and Mexico?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Because America is in-between

/s

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine half your backyard being in another country. Do you think they still mow it?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ayo wtf? Crossing like 6 borders just to get to work and back home.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

... while working remotely

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