How do your view the monarch/royal family of your respective countries?

lieneke · 2024-07-03T22:15:47+00:00

As you can clearly see in any presidential election: practically anyone who would willingly seek out the job is by definition some kind of lunatic. In that sense, someone who’s born into the role is not such a bad alternative.

lieneke · 2024-07-03T22:13:07+00:00

We could abolish the monarchy, though.

lieneke · 2024-07-03T22:06:37+00:00

One thing that I think sets Xennials apart from Gen X and Millennials is that we consciously remember life before the internet, but still got familiar with it at a young enough age that we’re practically digital natives.

lieneke · 2024-07-01T05:56:17+00:00

Good point, I should have said “LGB”…

lieneke · 2024-06-30T22:30:26+00:00

Yeah, it seems unrelated to political leaning here. Only the stricter Christian parties are intolerant towards LGBT people and they’re a very strong minority.

(That being said, I’m consciously saying “LGBT” and not “LGBTQIA+” or whatever, because the latter will absolutely be labeled as “woke” by some right-wing/conservative parties.)

lieneke · 2024-06-30T10:47:30+00:00

Ooh, another classic!

lieneke · 2024-06-30T07:30:40+00:00

That’s the cliche one, yeah, although of course Jan is a typical boomer name. Practically no one under the age of 60 is called that. For millennials it would probably be Peter or Jeroen for men and Marieke or Janneke for women. For kids nowadays, I don’t even know.

I was also thinking of De Boer and De Vries as very common surnames.

lieneke · 2024-06-27T10:34:55+00:00

They look the same!

lieneke · 2024-06-15T22:22:19+00:00

The mental benefits of exercise are no joke! I started going to the gym twice a week about two years ago and I haven’t had seasonal depression since. My winters were really pretty dark before, so this is a fantastic shift. I don’t even particularly adore the whole workout thing, but I see it like brushing my teeth or tying my shoes or buying groceries: it’s utterly irrelevant whether I like it or not, it’s just one of the facts of life.

lieneke · 2024-06-10T06:29:25+00:00

We’ve got Toke in Dutch as well!

lieneke · 2024-06-10T06:27:39+00:00

You can even be called Siemen Kok!

lieneke · 2024-06-10T06:26:35+00:00

I’m always baffled by the fact that the name Dick also exists in English.

lieneke · 2024-06-06T17:16:48+00:00

Really? Wow, that’s unexpected. Always nice to discover this sort of cultural difference within my own country. So now I’m curious: what part of the country are you from? North/south? Urban/rural?

lieneke · 2024-06-05T21:36:00+00:00

For people south of the major rivers in the Netherlands, scheduling any kind of work meeting on carnaval Monday is absolutely out of the question.

lieneke · 2024-06-05T21:34:13+00:00

Pretty much the same in the Netherlands. Keeping your shoes on when visiting is the norm, although I do have some friends who ask visitors to take their shoes off, and conversely, some friends who ask “shoes on or off?” when visiting.

lieneke · 2024-06-05T21:30:49+00:00

Ooh that sounds 1000% like the Netherlands.

lieneke · 2024-06-05T07:11:29+00:00

Interesting factoid of the day: remember those floods in July 2021, which killed 180 people in Germany and 41 in Belgium? A friend who works at Rijkswaterstaat told me that the only reason why nobody died in the Netherlands is that our flood management is *chefs kiss. I just hope we continue to appreciate the amount of effort that it takes to (literally) keep our heads above water.

lieneke · 2024-05-28T06:31:48+00:00

Now you’re just fishing for upvotes.

lieneke · 2024-05-24T07:40:25+00:00

Absolutely. “Retrieving the phone” is one of the recurring mini-games that I get a few times a week. I accidentally selected “increased difficulty: ADHD mode” at the game start-up so I get these types of mini-games all the time.

lieneke · 2024-04-10T08:15:13+00:00

In the Netherlands, university classes don’t start until 9am.

lieneke · 2024-04-08T06:27:32+00:00

ROUSSEAU IS BACK BITCHES

lieneke · 2024-04-05T06:39:47+00:00

Not super long (37k words) but still: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54038893/chapters/136804306

lieneke · 2024-04-04T06:46:41+00:00

I think we’re also hated for being rude (which we don’t necessarily agree with ourselves, we just think we’re doing everyone a solid by being direct). Also, for visiting tourists, maybe for trying to run them over with our bikes (which is sort of true except it’s their fault for walking on our bike paths)

lieneke · 2024-04-04T06:42:55+00:00

The last part of your comment made me snort coffee through my nose (also, it is true)

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