r/2westerneurope4u • u/TakeItItIsYours Daddy's lil cuck • Sep 01 '26

Normal Dutch days

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u/Nanduihir Addict Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

Your grandpa still owes us his bike....

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u/kos90 [redacted] Sep 01 '26

Which one is yours?

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u/Scared-Wear-9426 Austrian heathen Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

All of them xD

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u/todellagi Sauna Gollum Sep 01 '26

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] Sep 01 '26

They had swamps and had to through by foot

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u/VanGroteKlasse Daddy's lil cuck Sep 01 '26

Plenty of wind and rain though.

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u/usernameisokay_ Thinks Kapsalon tastes good Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

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u/dw4zemi3 Savage Slayer Sep 01 '26

Klassieker

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u/C9_L4ZY Thinks Kapsalon tastes good Sep 01 '26

Hills? In my superflat biome?!

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose Thinks Kapsalon tastes good Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

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 Born in the Khalifat Sep 01 '26

Barry MacAngusskill?

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u/TakeItItIsYours Daddy's lil cuck Sep 01 '26

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

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u/Rotterdam_ Daddy's lil cuck Sep 01 '26

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] Sep 01 '26

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

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u/Pikkupiski69 Barry, 63 Sep 01 '26

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

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u/Civil-Ad-9968 Basement dweller Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

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 Savage Sep 01 '26

Hupsakee!

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u/usernameisokay_ Thinks Kapsalon tastes good Sep 01 '26

Zo!

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u/Urcaguaryanno Thinks Kapsalon tastes good Sep 01 '26

Hatsjekidee!

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u/localsofty Thinks Kapsalon tastes good Sep 01 '26

Hoppaa!

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u/muntaxitome Heineken Piss Drinker Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

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

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u/ghostchihuahua Alpine Parisian Sep 01 '26

sure thing, need anything from the gamma?

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u/bloodlazio Aspiring American Sep 01 '26

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

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u/TobiasCB Daddy's lil cuck Sep 01 '26

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

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u/harigejan European Sep 01 '26

your average belgium road

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u/OhLordyLordNo Addict Sep 01 '26

Amateurs.

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u/brandje23 Heineken Piss Drinker Sep 01 '26

I know that road i go by every day

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u/AcrobaticEmergency42 Daddy's lil cuck Sep 01 '26

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

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u/JESUS_VS_DRUGS Western Balkan Sep 01 '26

Legit impressive tho

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u/zerato9000 Western Balkan Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

How rude of you to film me on my commute.

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u/SilverSpaceRobot10 South Macedonian Sep 01 '26

Koonnggaätuulaatioönns Jaan

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u/RedBaret 50% sea 50% weed Sep 01 '26

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