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8tomat8, to memes in The Netherlands

It is not even a joke. Every time we cross the border between the Netherlands and Belgium in a car, we laugh about how distinct it is.

liztliss,

If is not joke, why laugh??

Agent641, (edited )

Its the law. Visitors to the Netherlands are required to demonstrate contempt of everyone not currently in the Netherlands.

moitoi, to memes in The Netherlands
@moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

In Europe you don’t need countries for this. The smallest federal country will have a clear difference on the road at the border of two federated entities. Worst, it can happen between municipalities in some countries.

agressivelyPassive,

Worst, it can happen between municipalities in some countries.

There are other countries as stupid as Germany? I thought we were alone!

wowsa,

Belgium checking in

moitoi,
@moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Switzerland, Austria, … It’s more common than we think.

My favorite case is the resurfacing of the road in the first municipal territory and less than a year later, the second municipality does it on its side.

XTornado, to science_memes in Kid's going places

That’s either too pixelated for me or a weird pepper shaker.

MrShankles,

Looks like “Martian Shakers”. Though they must have a special edition, because the ones I found have blue eyes

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/d5b14771-d828-4cef-b56d-76e498b92429.jpeg

Found them for $7.99 here

XTornado,

Oh nice for sharing the info.

FlyingSquid,
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I used to have the non-shaker version of that.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/73c35535-1af2-46bc-8c8f-7c40c0ffcef3.png

It was much more fun to play with and far less messy if you did.

bionicjoey, to science_memes in Kid's going places

Isn’t this a joke from Diary of a Wimpy Kid?

Masimatutu,
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nodimetotie,

Huh, that photo even appears on the webpage

Deebster,
@Deebster@programming.dev avatar

If I read it, will I understand why “feet” is in the sneeze-causing list?

photonic_sorcerer,
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The smell?

nodimetotie,

I also don’t get it. Not everything that smells causes you to sneeze. None of the methods actually make sense. A feather tickles you, not makes you sneeze. And the pepper? The experiment is invalid. Did not disprove the hypothesis, needs more testing.

NounsAndWords,

I read it as a joke of increasing absurdity. Sniffing pepper makes people sneeze so that one works (besides the trying to make a plant sneeze part). He got a bit distracted by experiment 2 and mixed up the involuntary reactions sneezing and tickling and tries to tickle it with a feather. He then gets further distracted between experiment 2 and 3, and tests feet which are commonly ticklish.

When I break it down like this you can see that it is a very funny joke, as one can always tell from a detailed explanation of the joke.

ikilledtheradiostar, to memes in The Netherlands
TankieTanuki,
Donut,

Dutchie here to explain why that’s not ironic:

If its a dotted line cars are allowed to use it, but only if it doesn’t impede on cyclists. So while they didn’t have to be there, it’s not unlawful as there’s no cyclists.

If it was a single line, it’s a different story.

IWantToFuckSpez,

It’s a shared road. Not separated lanes. Hence the dotted lines.

Honytawk,

That isn’t a bike lane, it is a bike suggestion strip (translated literally).

Hawk,

It’s a bike strip, since there is a bike icon.

A bike suggestion strip has no bike icon and has no legal status, it’s merely a suggestion.

They are different things.

FlordaMan, to memes in The Netherlands

NON-CYCLIST DETECTED, EXTERMINATE

pau_hana, (edited ) to memes in The Netherlands

The border-free zone is called the Schengen area. There are still some EU member states that aren’t included. Euronews article

“Austria has blocked the accession of Romania and Bulgaria into Schengen, the passport-free area that has abolished border checks between the vast majority of EU member states.”

Iron_Lynx,

Even some non-EU places are part of Schengen. Notably Norway and Switzerland.

Shieldtoad, to memes in The Netherlands

I know that place. The borders between the Ellestraat (Hulst, NL) and the Hellestraat (Stekene, BE).

The right side of the street on the Belgian part is actually Dutch for a few 100 meters. If you look around on street view the part with a bicycle lane is Belgian, the part without it is Dutch.

gentooer,

Ah, Stekene. Where are the days I just went to Crammerock to smoke weed on the camping. I saw Gorki there the year Luc De Vos died.

stebo02,
@stebo02@sopuli.xyz avatar

I knew that was a Belgian road, you can tell by all the cracks.

Rhllor,

Caption should have been that you will always know when a Belgian road begins

kennismigrant,

the part without

The red lanes are the bicycle lanes.

Jesse, to science_memes in Kid's going places

Looks like an N value of 1 though. Hopefully results are replicable. I’ll wait for the meta-analysis.

Broodjefissa, to memes in The Netherlands

Notice the markings on the road make sure you don’t cross the border any faster than 09 kmph

SapphironZA, to science_memes in Kid's going places

The tragedy is that studies like this still get funding over actually relevant research.

maeries,

Damn, all those like … 10$ that could have been used somewhere else

Vorticity,

Something tells me that you don’t work in science. The process for getting science funding isn’t simple and weeds out useless studies pretty quickly. On average, calls for proposals have about a 15% success rate. So, 15 in every 100 proposals get funded. They are funded after being vetted for usefulness, feasibility, novelty, cost, and other factors.

Since studies are well-vetted before getting funded, studies that sound like they’re simple or useless based on headlines normally make a lot of sense when you read the research results.

psud,

Some of the odd studies were simply cheap, and are, in fact useless

MonkderZweite, to memes in The Netherlands

This horse is beaten to death, but still jumping?

Octopus1348, to memes in The Netherlands

Yeah, because there will be a nether portal and lava everywhere.

VikingHippie,

That’s the Netherworld. Common mistake.

thehatfox,
@thehatfox@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t mistake the Netherlands for the Nether Regions either.

VikingHippie, (edited )

I did that once, wasn’t so bad. The people at the embassy just politely referred me to the Red Light District 🤷

IWantToFuckSpez,

Nether World is in Orlando. Europe has only Nether Land

FlyingSquid, to science_memes in Kid's going places
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Poor experiment. He didn’t find out what pollen allergies the plant might have had.

painfulasterisk,

*Funding needed to carry out such effort.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

With this sort of talent, the kid is sure to get a grant.

NounsAndWords,

What do you mean? He already tested the three most common allergens: pepper, being ticked by a feather, and feet.

Mothra,
@Mothra@mander.xyz avatar

Me squinting hard trying to see if those are more common as allergens or as fetishes

jaybone,

This is a good candidate for a venn diagram.

gnomesaiyan, to memes in The Netherlands
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Looks like a protected chunk in Minecraft.

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