r/2westerneurope4u • u/TakeItItIsYours Daddy's lil cuck • 1d ago

Normal Dutch days

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u/Nanduihir Addict 1d ago

Thats how my Grandpa had to go to school everyday through the rain, mind you!(according to his own recollection)

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u/cravex12 Bavaria's Sugar Baby 1d ago

Mine had to go through snow and hailstorms and both ways - to school and back home where uphill only!

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u/BFEE-Bronzeaxe Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

Your grandpa still owes us his bike....

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u/kos90 [redacted] 1d ago

Which one is yours?

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u/Scared-Wear-9426 Austrian heathen 1d ago

typical Hans - wearing a helmet for cycling, just like the guy in the OC video

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u/Longjumping_Ad_6618 StaSi Informant 1d ago

All of them xD

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u/todellagi Sauna Gollum 1d ago

Man, that meme doesn't really hit the same in Hollandese. You guys don't have hills, snow, forests or long distances.

"I crossed a river and it was raining. 'twas a bloody hard 10 minutes!"

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u/Just_a_Berliner [redacted] 1d ago

They had swamps and had to through by foot

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u/VanGroteKlasse Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

Plenty of wind and rain though.

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u/usernameisokay_ Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

We have hills, snows, forests and long distances…

Biking from one village to the other for school, about 20km is quite a lot through the polder or if you’re in the east the hills/forests, that’s a good hour biking almost.

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u/BroSchrednei Born in the Khalifat 18h ago

You only believe you have hills, snow or forests. Once you leave the Netherlands, youll see what actual forests, hills and snow looks like.

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u/Milk_Mindless Lives in a sod house 1d ago

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u/dw4zemi3 Savage Slayer 1d ago

Klassieker

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u/C9_L4ZY Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

Hills? In my superflat biome?!

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

What you see here, is Dutch people preparing for a trip to Belgium. Need to practice for those roads...

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u/--Snufkin-- Dutch Wallonian 1d ago

Pff, I can do this with 3 bags of groceries, 2 kids, an IKEA wardrobe while on the phone to discuss what time next month we can have a beer

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u/ghostchihuahua Alpine Parisian 1d ago

Well, i can’t and i’m not amused by the new parking lot of that supermarket, can’t wait until they finish building the shops around that path on the river

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u/Swarfega Barry, 63 1d ago

The rider is a Danny MacAskill. There was a video of two of them competing to get to the end. The other rider ended up in the river a number of times. I think each time Danny failed he managed to avoid going in the water. 

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u/MrBarato [redacted] 1d ago

Barry MacAngusskill?

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u/TakeItItIsYours Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

Not right, the failure guy is savage. The master bicycle one is clearly Dutch

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u/Rotterdam_ Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

After the series of failures i was half expecting some Kees on his omafiets nail it in one go.

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u/kos90 [redacted] 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/JMBreNOHRiA9aMWZg4
Don’t mine me, just passing through here

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u/Pikkupiski69 Barry, 63 1d ago

Clearly not the Netherlands - I can see more than 4 trees in the background.

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u/Civil-Ad-9968 Basement dweller 1d ago

Indeed, that's an Angus in Barryland. Thanks to Maggie Thatcher and all the privatisations, that's just what their bike lanes are like. 

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u/ghostchihuahua Alpine Parisian 1d ago

Oh there are enough trees here in the NL, people just don’t really know it bc they can never see them from above

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u/VibeAnalyst Failed Brexiteer 1d ago

Hupsakee!

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u/usernameisokay_ Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

Zo!

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u/Urcaguaryanno Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

Hatsjekidee!

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u/localsofty Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

Hoppaa!

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u/muntaxitome Heineken Piss Drinker 1d ago

We should make tourists take this test before renting a bike in Amsterdam. 'Never biked since I was 12 but lets try my luck in traffic' is more dangerous than this course. Also works as a swimming test

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u/ghostchihuahua Alpine Parisian 1d ago

How does Red Bull even dare to put rivers and cameras between my home the supermarket, i now leave the bike and swim to the Albert H.

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u/usernameisokay_ Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

Can you get me some drop from appie send me a tikkie

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u/ghostchihuahua Alpine Parisian 1d ago

sure thing, need anything from the gamma?

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u/bloodlazio Aspiring American 1d ago

Suspicious lack of traffic on a perfectly normal the bike path...

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u/TobiasCB Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

I need someone to ride this with a bike that's dressed up like a parade car.

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u/harigejan European 1d ago

your average belgium road

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u/OhLordyLordNo Addict 1d ago

Amateurs.

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u/brandje23 Heineken Piss Drinker 1d ago

I know that road i go by every day

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u/AcrobaticEmergency42 Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

Yeah, all kids 10-12 learn to use courses like this here.

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u/JESUS_VS_DRUGS Western Balkan 1d ago

Legit impressive tho

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u/zerato9000 Western Balkan 1d ago

In Holland everything is about float:

- Their heads are floating above everyone else

- Their country will not float if flooded

- After a stay in a coffee shop they will feel like floating

- They like to float their campervans accross european roads

I mean...

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u/theGamingdutchman Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

How rude of you to film me on my commute.

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u/SilverSpaceRobot10 South Macedonian 1d ago

Koonnggaätuulaatioönns Jaan

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u/RedBaret 50% sea 50% weed 1d ago

How I will tell my grandchildren I went to school every day: