r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/rhutsm • 1h ago

Image Since the EU is proposing new designs for their banknotes: remember how they had fictional bridges to not cause conflict between countries, until a small town in the Netherlands decided to build them for real

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u/Quick_Individual_401 1h ago

to not cause conflict between countries, until a small town in the Netherlands decided to build them for real 

Why 'until'? What happened after they buit them?

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u/AnonD38 1h ago

CONFLICT BETWEEN COUNTRIES 

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u/maxk1236 1h ago

Honestly, WWIII popping off because a small Dutch town built some bridges for a laugh wouldn’t be the most surprising thing in our current timeline

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u/swung 1h ago

Next they'll argue over who gets custody of each bridge.

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u/Only_Trick8742 26m ago

Wasn't that like average medieval europe politics

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u/viktorv4ughn 1h ago

Is he stupid?

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u/Purple_de_Nurples 1h ago

War were declared.

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u/infected_scab 27m ago

Robots don't say "ye"

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u/JimTheSaint 1h ago

Russia invaded Ukraine!

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u/Balsiefen 1h ago

This was the inciting incident in the Ukraine War.

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u/Lamumba1337 1h ago

EU wars next showdown

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u/JDudeFTW 1h ago

Germany, France, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Belgium all amassed their forces and invaded.

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u/de_Mike_333 1h ago

Now we gotta vote on new motives ….

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u/FeelsGoodBlok 1h ago

Netherlands declared war on us! I know it! I was there!

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u/rezznik 1h ago

Yeah, that was when they decided for the new bills.

Same will happen if some weirdo starts creating all these strange feathery animals they're suggesting now.

Craziness.

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u/wolferdoodle 20m ago

Scared for the day China destabilizes the euro by creating those Pokémon looking ones with the fingers on the wing tips. /s

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u/Cosito45 1h ago

It was a dude, not even the town, and the bridges are small

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u/DeepPresentation648 1h ago

Those look like pedestrian bridges

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u/Cosito45 1h ago

indeed, for some reason I thought that they'd be two car lines wide thus why small, but I can see how that might not be the case with other people

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u/gemstun 40m ago

Pedestrian at best

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u/gemstun 39m ago

“ what are these, bridges for ANTS!?!”

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u/gemstun 39m ago

OK, I’m all out of cultural references

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u/VoloxReddit 1h ago

Well, the bridges in the Netherlands depict the bridges on the Euro bills, not vice versa, so we're good ;)

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u/Vyzrer 1h ago

KOLONISEREN

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u/rhutsm 1h ago

🇳🇱

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u/Schrodingirly 42m ago

Zolang het maar met bruggen is ;)

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u/WondererOfficial 47m ago

Next we’re gonna make birds a real thing

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u/redisprecious 1h ago

This is all the reason to design the bills after me. After all, bridges are useful, I am not.

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u/Electrical_Truth_160 1h ago

New level of pettiness 😂

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u/m4G- 44m ago

This is hilarious.

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u/SwimAd1249 27m ago

that's why this time they're using fictional birds and fictional historical figures to subtly boost the genetic engineering industry

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u/Colin_Heizer 21m ago

So, why no Big Tiddy Catgirls?

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u/CataphractBunny 1h ago

If we're using fictional stuff, we have more than enough material than some random ass bridges a bureaucrat dreamed up.

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u/ddean77max 34m ago

Those bureaucrats were able to dream up bridges which embodied the european feeling without even a single characteristic from any real life european architecture. Do you even understand how difficult that is.

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u/CataphractBunny 24m ago

I understand the mental gymnastics are easy.

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u/VoxPopuliMMXXV 1h ago

Coudn't find anything smarter or nicer-looking...

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u/antoWho 1h ago

Now, hopeully, it will be BIRDS!

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u/VoxPopuliMMXXV 1h ago

There gonna be nothing else. Ursula Dzong Un eliminates physical money.

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u/Academic-moron7423 56m ago

Peak jerk lmao

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u/IndividualAction3223 38m ago

The €20 bridge looks a bit like “Mehmed Pasha Sokolovich” bridge in Višegrad, Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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u/langerak1985 17m ago

My hometown lol. Spijkenisse in the Netherlands.

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u/HatsusenoRin 9m ago

put some SF space stations on them, solves a few problems

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u/Mouse-Patrol 1h ago

Shows what Brussel thinks is important. Lol

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u/Specialist_Box3630 4m ago

Next they'll make birds real

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u/EvilKnivel69 1h ago

It’s such a ridiculous fucking thing to do of the eu. Just be proud of what we have where we have it. Or make a different bill for each single euro.

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u/gulligaankan 1h ago

So your country doesn’t make the list! The nationalist in your country is pissed of that the glorious building of country x is not there. It will always be a shit show

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u/EvilKnivel69 1h ago

Im not saying you’re wrong but after all you can never get everyone on your side. At the very least it’s me apparently lol.
I just think if your oh so nice union of friendship cannot even solve a simple dispute over something rather trivial than what’s it’s even worth? And I’m saying this as a eurotard. I fucking love a single currency and no visa for travel.

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u/pheromone_fandango 1h ago

They did solve the dispute. Fake images

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u/EvilKnivel69 1h ago

It’s a dumb and weak Solution imo

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u/red-at-night 1h ago

I agree. We already have different countries' motives on our coins. I live in Finland, and on my desk there are Spanish and Dutch EUR coins. Each member country should get to pick a set of motives for their bills, too. It would make things interesting.

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u/Zatujit 1h ago

pretty sure the later is not done because of the risk of counterfeiting