Giethoorn in Netherlands has no roads or any modern transportation at all, only canals. Well, and 176 bridges too. Tourists have to leave their cars outside of the village and travel here by foot or boat by. So you can probably imagine how peaceful it is here.
The Netherlands democratically puts a list of the 2000 best songs together every year around New Year’s and the biggest mystery every time is whether Bohemian Rhapsody wins again
i’m serious, if it doesn’t win, it’s second place
every winner before 2005 is Bohemian Rhapsody as well
why arent we talking about the constant presence of hotel california
Great Britain and the Netherlands opened their tournaments at the IIHF Division IIA Women’s World Championship on Sunday, with the Netherlands taking the game 5-4.
Dutch defender Cloë Keijzer’s team came away with the victory and British forward Katie Henry recorded two assists in a losing effort, but both of them came away winners.
After the game, 24-year-old Keijzer proposed to Henry, her longtime partner. As she got down on one knee, a group of her teammates pulled off their t-shirts to reveal warm-ups reading “#6 MARRY ME?”, prompting cheers from Dutch and British teammates as Henry accepted.
Though they face off against each other on the world stage, the pair are teammates more often than opponents.
The couple have played their club hockey together since 2012-13, their first of two seasons in the Swedish first division in Norrköping, Sweden. They moved to Stockholm-based SDE HF in the Riksserien (now SDHL), Sweden’s top league, in 2014-15 and have spent the past two years playing with the Solihull Vixens of the English Women’s Elite League, where Henry is team captain and Keijzer wears an ‘A.’
Believe me, nobody over here who isn’t in self imposed media exile has not seen that 😀
People might be amused/relieved to hear that
Jetta Klijnsma, the disabled politician featured here has reacted by saying, “Great. Simply fantastic.
Best video ever!”
In the Netherlands, abortion is freely available on demand. Yet the Netherlands boasts the lowest abortion rate in the world, about 6 abortions per 1000 women per year, and the complication and death rates for abortion are miniscule. How do they do it? First of all, contraception is widely available and free — it’s covered by the national health insurance plan. Holland also carries out extensive public education on contraception, family planning, and sexuality. An ethic of personal responsibility for one’s sexual activity is strongly promoted. Of course, some people say that teaching kids about sex and contraception will only encourage them to have lots of sex. But Dutch teenagers tend to have less frequent sex, starting at an older age, than American teenagers, and the Dutch teenage pregnancy rate is 9 times lower than in the U.S.
I endorse evidence-based medicine, and evidence-based activism.
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