What do you think of the Netherlands?
I deeply respect any country that looked at the ocean and said “You know what? Fuck that thing, we’re gonna steal land from it.”
@systlin Don’t forget creating a new province from scratch just because we felt like it. Before 1916? Shit looked like this:
Then a whole lotta shit went down with the sea in 1914 called “de watersnoodramp” AKA the oh-my-gods-the-sea-is-wrecking-literally-everything-and-people-are-dying-oh-fucking-FUCK disaster. Ahem.
So what did my nutty as a walnut tree ancestors decide to do? Why, dam in the entire thing and, just for good measure, create a whole extra province while we’re at it, of course! I mean, what else do we reasonably stand to do after such an insult? Move to dry land??? My friend, my pal, my darling; this is The Netherlands. We make dry land. Store bought is not going to cut it, if you catch my drift.
So with a whole a whole lot of manpower and money that we could afford during the first world war because we stayed “neutral” cough took money from both sides for trade with no care for morality cough cough and some delays from the second world war, we built the Afsluitdijk, aka the mother of all dams, and alsooooo…
Ta-da!
Ladies, gents and non-binary friends, I give you Flevoland. The biggest fuck you finger we could give towards the sea and the definitive anwser to “how are provinces born?” The anwser is apparently “by winning a bitter custody battle with the sea”. Who woulda thunk it?
See, this is exactly what I mean. The sheer lack of fucks required to look the Atlantic in the face and go “No fuck you” is simply breathtaking.
