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Remember that this is also a country where, around this time of year, the streets fill with people in blackface handing out sweets to children, and (while the debate is at least now raging, which it wasn't until a few years ago), a very significant portion of the population will still swear...

Not out of the question. George Weah got to be president of Liberia...

A lot of people here would vociferously agree with you on that, but at the same time they will spew anti-Islamic nonsense without thinking about it, they believe innocently, and not see the connection...

The concept that the Netherlands is 'liberal' has always been bullshit. It might be true of Amsterdam and some of the other bigger cities (which incidentally, voted overwhelmingly for GL/PvdA, the Green-Socialist alliance), but like in the UK, the majority of people who live in the smaller towns...

Out of interest, did you (or any of the other NL-based NSC'ers for that matter) get a vote yesterday, or am I the only one with Dutch nationality?

I think FvD are a spent fringe force. A lot of people who voted for them in the past did so as a protest vote, and aren't as extreme as Baudet thinks they are. They have all switched to "still pointy-headed but slightly less extreme" alternatives like BBB and PVV.

Even if NSC change their minds, I think he'll still struggle to get a majority without VVD backing. There's a nice little swingometer tool here where you can plug in your own parties and see how they can (or cannot) form a government: https://app.nos.nl/nieuws/tk2023/ Without VVD (and assuming...

Indeed. And just in the interests of accuracy, Wilders is currently predicted to win 37 seats in a 150-seat house, which is 25% not 35%. So "only" one in four voters picked him. Still shocking enough given the bile he spouts, but he's been knocking around there or thereabouts for two decades, so...

Looks like a Rye Bock - I see on Untappd that there are 2 of them on draught: the Walhalla and the K.E.G.S. Rye ale would be more golden in colour...

Thank you mean Roodborst (Robin). Roodbaars is a fish (red snapper)...

I know the brewer of that very well. He doesn't make bad beer. (His own K.E.G.S. brews are decent too...)

I was posting at the same time as you, clearly. Enjoy!

I'm sure you've already had it, but if not, don't miss their "Big Fat 5" DIPA, it's sensational... Was originally brewed by Uiltje for the 5th anniversary of sister bar the Beer Temple back in 2014 but it was so good it's now the "house" beer

I do like a nice gehaktbal met jus. A much underrated dish... Oh, and 'table decoration' is very much the best use for a Vedett.

André van Duin is a national treasure. And yes, totally and uttterly unfunny.

Alquin and Kayak were both half-decent progrock contemporaries of Focus back in the 70s. Radio Caroline used to play them both a lot. The Ex are the best of the long-standing stalwarts. The local scene is currently as good as I can remember it in my 30+ years here. There are a growing number...

If you're doing that, Angus Young is married to a Dutchwoman and lives here part of the time. They have a house up in the east

Adolphe Sax - invented and then named a famous musical instrument after himself.

My top 10 would consist entirely of beer, although none of those places are likely to be showing the match...

Eight years of headaches and frustrations as a commuter on Dutch trains back in the 1990s was plenty enough to convince me that the internationally held notion that the country runs an efficient rail network is, in fact, utter b*ll*cks...