My fellow countrymen of the press have prepared a great message for President Trump to show how great the Netherlands really is. Maybe it’s unlikely that the Donald will actually watch it or read this thread, but you can’t blame me for trying: https://youtu.be/j-xxis7hDOE
Over here in the Netherlands the most talked about topic must be our great weather; I estimate that the Dutch averagely talk about this 10 times a day.
Maybe not the second most talked about but definitely in the top 5 is - soccer (voetbal).
KORFBAL
Talking about soccer these days isn’t the best way to show how great we really are. We are ranked #22 on the Fifa World list, directly behind Iceland (a total population of some 320,000).
We should all be talking about the great sports korfbal in which we definitely rule. Since 1978 Netherlands won gold 9 times in the world championships. Just to show what a great sport this is: 100% Netherlands-Belgium finales (Belgium won once).
Because korfbal is a mixed team sport there’s plenty of room for great gossip.
For anybody unfamiliar with the sport that is our greatest pride - an action photo. As you can see the great “korf” is similar to any old “basket”, but no dribbling, dunking, or passing the middle line...
ANNE FRANK
When Americans visit us, they are amazed at how little everything is: small houses, cars and streets (and lots of bikes).
Madurodam really shows how proud we are to be small. If you think it’s weird that in 2015 Madurodam was visited by a great 650,000 visitors, you might not believe that most of them are tourists.
Even greater than Madurodam is the Anne Frank Huis (located in my home town Amsterdam: the greatest town in the world) which in 2015 was visited by 1.268 million people (mostly tourists).
The Diary of Anne Frank is really one of our greatest successes; it’s one of the 10 bestselling books in the whole wide world over the last 50 years. As you can see: only books of great quality in this list...
According to the great official story the family Frank was hiding in the “Achterhuis” for the Germans (during WW II in total less than 100 Germans were in Amsterdam).
This diary isn’t just a great book, but was also featured in several great movies and plays. Not surprising when we learn that (at least part of) the diary was written by play write Meyer Levin. Levin won a court case against father Otto Frank, after which Otto settled the case for 50,000 dollar for his great “work” on the diary.
Otto Frank himself sold Opeka and Pectin to the German Wehrmacht; so the great Frank family wasn’t even really hidden (but please don’t tell anybody): http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspo...ary-fraud.html
Here you can see a sample of the handwriting in the great Diary and the (childish) handwriting of Anne Frank in 1942 (the lower sample). I’m no great expert at handwriting so wouldn’t dare claim that these are written by a different person.
ZWARTE PIET
Zwarte piet is even mentioned in the video (Zwarte translates black). Sinterklaas is possibly an even greater success than the Diary of Anne Frank - being the origin of Santa Claus and all.
In November 2014 some Muslim participated in great protests against the racist zwarte piet and yelled during a speech: “$#@! de Koning, $#@! de Koningin, $#@! het Koningshuis” (Koning - King; Koningin - Queen; Koningshuis - Royal family).
This great Muslim was charged in May 2015 for insulting our greatly beloved King Willem-Alexander. When great protests broke out it appeared that our great King isn’t nearly as popular as the state media wants us to believe. Even some US journalists questioned our King; Willem-Alexander answered that the great Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst will explain.
On May 28, 2015 the government was forced to drop the charges because of the protests (that’s almost like a democracy, isn’t it?); in Dutch: http://rechtenforum.nl/forum/thread/...ennis/t/43981/
KONING GORILLA
When the great King Willem III was in his sixties he already had 2 great heirs to his throne and thought his life would be more exciting by marrying the 40 years younger (Queen) Emma.
Willem III was already infertile because of syphilis (he was nicknamed Koning Gorilla because of his wild lifestyle) and besides that: (most) men that age cannot produce offspring without great insemination techniques. This didn’t stop Emma from being the great mother of (the later Queen) Wilhelmina - the great-grandmother of Willem-Alexander: http://web.archive.org/web/20170207113927/http://vivanepotista.com/post/50864882336/king-alex-queen-max-and-the-colorful-house-of
This means that our great Willem-Alexander is about as Royal as the homeless, alcoholic beggar Hadjememaar the great that won a seat in the city council of Amsterdam in 1921 and – in one of those great examples of democracy – was locked up in prison and forced to resign.
NOORD-ZUIDLIJN
Maybe the previous already explains why I sometimes think that the crazy people are not the ones inside the insane asylums, but maybe you still think that the Netherlands cannot compete for the 1st place with the “great” USA. I’ll finish this post with the greatest of all; read it and weep – Amsterdam is the greatest!
In November 1996 the Amsterdam city council decided to build the Noord-Zuidlijn (North-Southline) – an addition to the great Amsterdam metro system.
In June 1997 in a great referendum a whopping 65% voted against (123.198 votes), but they went ahead anyway. In October 1999 the great Tweede kamer agreed with the Noord-Zuidlijn and on October 9, 2002 the Amsterdam city council made the definitive decision to go ahead. The whole great Noord-Zuidlijn is a planned 9.7 kilometre (6.1 mile) of which only a great 3.8 kilometre is really underground.
They started building this great project on April 22, 2003 and estimated it would be finished in 2005 at an estimated cost of 680 million euro (in total).
Some great problems were experienced including some great houses that collapsed - killing a few: http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-617894.html
After some lies, more lies and then even greater lies: the latest estimates claim that on July 22, 2018 the Noord-Zuidlijn will be finished at a total cost of 3.1 billion euro. According to the official story the Noord-Zuidlijn project was originally estimated to be finished in 2011 at a total great cost of 1.4 billion euro: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archive...delayed-again/
According to the “independent” Wikipedia this great project was originally estimated to be finished in 2005 at a total cost of 680 million euro: “Volgens de oorspronkelijke plannen zou de Noord/Zuidlijn in 2005 klaar zijn en 680 miljoen euro kosten[29] - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noord/Zuidlijn
I couldn’t find the great source on which this is based...
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