Without dikes, the Netherlands would be flooded to this extent

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  1. And this ladies and gentlemen is why I have started buying land on grounds that will become our new shores and started to build hotels there. Let the waters flow!

  2. wait. is the derogatory term for lesbians meant to convey that they have a dam in front of the water?!

  3. Another reason to support the LGBT. I assume some of the hardworking construction workers belong to sexual minorities.

  4. Everybody worries why Maasdiel is there. But guys, as a neighbour of yours from Germany, I have to ask you: WHERE IS MAASKANTJE? And are they all safe? Jonge.

  5. Muahahah!

    Behold the real power of the les…

    Oh, wait, not that kind of dyke.

    Uh. Nevermind me, I’ll just go get my coat.

  6. The difference with industrialized countries and everyone else faceing climate change, is that industrialized nations can afford to remedy climate change fallout.

  7. There’s a reason cities are called Amster-dam and Rotter-dam. Without those damn dams there would be no city! And as a famous quote goes: “God created the world, but Dutch created The Netherlands.”

  8. Very misleading if you’d remember most of Hilland wasnt flooded before the construction of dykes and the polder creation.

  9. I used to live 2 meters below sea level, and worked in an office where the entrance as 5 meters below (we were so told).

  10. If it wasn’t for that one boy sticking his finger on a dike’s hole, this would be present day The Netherlands.

  11. I went to elementary school in the USA in the 1950’s, and it was amazing how much of our geography book was devoted to reclaiming land in Holland. And windmill power and wooden shoes, tulips and Hans Brinker and ice skating. It must have been a hey day of the Netherlands. Our history text still included a section on how New York was originally New Amsterdam, too.

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