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[–] Skua@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The Dutch, not content with merely driving the sea back, now seek to taunt and humiliate it

[–] Risk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OP's image needs to be captioned with your comment and then ever so slightly jpegified. chef's kiss

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Scribbd@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Countryballs, the Dutch are asking their neighbors for clay. All saying no in disgust. When Dutch ball goes to the sea, there is no objection. Dutch ball claims clay. I would say it should be 'geef' instead of 'gib', but who am I to judge.

EDIT: Linky as tall images don't do well in web, unless you are an ant.

[–] Risk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Has polandball come across to the fediverse yet?

Fucking masterpiece

[–] appel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no idea why you think it would be improved by slight adding of jpeg, but I agree, and I don't know why. It feels like meme salt. Or maybe meme umami

[–] Skua@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's a matter of time before we start manually adding iFunny banners at the bottom for authenticity

[–] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not unlike the mighty Beaver, the Dutch have an instinctual drive to bend water to their will

[–] RooRLoord420@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And much like the beaver, many of our artificial flavors are made from the expressed anal glands of the Dutch.

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[–] LazerFX@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even the history of this is fascinating. This is the "Moses Bridge", and it's a renovated part of the old dyke system that was used to prevent attacking armies from getting in - because the dykes and levee's had blocked the sea so effectively, they realised they could stop attackers by... flooding them out. Literally.

When it came to renovate this area, they wanted to provide access without denigrating the fact it was an old defensive structure, hence this unique sea-level bridge.

[–] heeplr@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The world loves dutch pragmatism. "You don't want this? Well, fuck it. We just do it that way then. Everyone happy? Fine. Done."

Germans could learn a thing or two...

[–] Zozano@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What the fuck is this place. The hills look like a PS1 game

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

I was thinking Sketchfab

[–] soulifix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Netherlands is the PS1

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[–] Missnalgas@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] buycurious@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feels like it’s more of a “trough” than anything else.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You are dam right.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Kerrigor@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Don't look a bridge horse in the mouth

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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Dutch people really hate water huh

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That looks like a neat experience until there's a slight breeze.

[–] ProximaC@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it's the Berlin Wall for fish...

"Fuck you fish" -The Dutch apparently

[–] Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like that shit floods every time it rains lol. I'm curious how they would drain it.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just drill drain holes in the bottom. Duh! Oh wait...

[–] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I not proud my internal dialog went exactly like that.

[–] heeplr@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

how they would drain it.

Since a lot of land is below sea level, the Netherlands basically dry pump their country all the time anyway.

[–] bentsea@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does this work? Wouldn't even a light rainfall cause it to flood in on itself?

[–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bridge is waterproof and the water is a moat. You can find more info about it here.

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[–] MrSlicer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It would have drainage on a slope that goes to somewhere even lower.

[–] Pat12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And if it floods then....?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it doesn't flood, this is the netherlands

[–] sheepyowl@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Holy shit this comment fucking killed me. It's so funny.

I understand that a flood in the Netherlands would spell catastrophe but it sounds like the water just can't flood there, because it is the Netherlands, not because of the amazing stuff that they built

[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Why do you think water evaporates in the mincraft nether?

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

It definitely just gets accepted as a fact of life that the Dutch water works just fucking work.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

The water could flood, but it knows it would be met with swift draining of another polder in retaliation.

The sea simply behaves out of sheer intimidation.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Then you go around, duh.

[–] rodhlann@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This looks like something someone would make in Rollercoaster Tycoon

[–] Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Even knowing it's real, it feels like one of those photo-realistic concept art pieces, or a weird AI diffusion that screwed up how bridges work.

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's all water besides the bridge now

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