In Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog, which is essentially one village split between the Netherlands and Belgium in the messiest way possible, I think it’s based on where the front door is

The English disease of putting spaces in a compound word might be worse… it’s not even consistent. It’ll be a new example of “Dutch grammar is 50% special cases.”

Honestly no, never, and that feels more like a problem of not having proper cycling paths. Nobody wants to cycle on the sidewalk.

The way I see it, shawarma comes in strips and kebab in flakes

At least here in the Netherlands, there was a lot of commotion because a data centre tried to buy a windmill park meant to power households as their dedicated power source

Nikki de Jager (who was supposed to be the spokesperson) said on TV that it didn’t feel right to hand out points. The Dutch broadcaster then told the EBU to just figure it out themselves.
Käärijä (Finland) also stepped down but got replaced, and Alessandra (Norway) already stepped down earlier because of Isreal.

They got crowned by the Witch!

Dutch Public Vote as well

Swisssweep

Highlights from the Dutch broadcast (paraphrased):

• “The EBU reminded us that we’re contractually obligated to do this broadcast.”
• “Instead of the Netherlands we skip to Isreal, good thing they are completely uncontroversial.”
• “Everyone makes mistakes, the EBU also knows a lot about that.”

I think it’s very typical how even though Nemo’s song is about being non-binary, there’s tv-presenters are talking about “him” and “that boy”

Well, if true that’s all the artists I was interested in (and I’d fully support it)

Extra fun is how many sources originally talked about a physical confrontation

From what I heard Joost was getting a bunch of political questions right before that without the host ever saying “you don’t have to answer that”, and that’s where his reaction came from

Edit: source on Dutch Twitter

Maybe they’re Dutch, there it’s only done for words that end in a vowel. Probably not though.

Also a thing in the Netherlands!

Chips? Fries are patat or friet here, depending on whether you’re a heretic.