Something Weird Is Happening in The Netherlands

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[@Thoughty2]

Apologies for the pronunciations in this one - I tried my best but it turns out Dutch is bloody difficult!

[@annavandersluijs5546]

No worried man!😅

[@MTMAJORGAMING]

You're alright, the ''Gouda'' was actually spot on. Good job on the G.

[@rickyrico80]

Try Scheveningen as a challenge.

[@PheobeKate-storytime1111]

hey! I love your channel! thanks for all the time and effort that goes into these!! ❤

[@stevenb427]

Where's the Tache?😮

[@jaccovanlien5676]

As a Dutchman i was about to make fun of all the name pronunciations and then he goes on to pronounce Gouda correctly...

[@karlos1060]

Haha i noticed it as well. It was the only thing pronounced close to how we say it. Grappig het viel mij dus ook al op!

[@MrNoelyG]

Klootzakken

[@MrNoelyG]

Klootzakken

[@MrNoelyG]

Klootzakken

[@tibovandenberk1643]

The 'sch' is always great to hear. Groeten uit België

[@firstname-gq5yr]

Climate scientists: "The sea levels will rise and swallow low lying countries." The Dutch: "Hold my joint"

[@darylb5564]

You my friend are one funny SOB! You have my vote for todays winner of the internet today…

[@jonathanhaste3803]

And the award for best KZbin comment goes to……

[@N8TheGreatG]

Well the Dutch would say that if Global warming I mean climate change wasn't bullshit

[@davidh5429]

Climate change and rising sea levels is all propaganda. Dat weten de meeste in Nederland ook ondertussen wel.

[@sirnirvikingur]

@@N8TheGreatG Climate change is bullshit? are you absolutely sure of that?

[@magicmaster762]

As a Dutch person, you’ve taught me more about my country then I’ve learned in school all those years

[@Anthony_Gx]

You must have learned very little then

[@valtern1200]

They now find it more important to educate the kids on woke bullshit. ​@@BedelendeCentenbak

[@okkedries8577]

Im 21 and I've not really learned anything about the Deltaworks only about Afsluitdijk and the polders

[@ouwebrood497]

I learned about the Waterloopbos. Didn't know that.

[@katula14]

What did you learn in school, pry?

[@Talha38ua]

Fun fact: tulips have been initially gifted and introduced to the Dutch by the Ottomans, it is not a native flower which makes it more impressive

[@mauricerynders8130]

Oh, you mean WAY BACK IN TIME, when the Turks still were Christians! 😅😅😅

[@Talha38ua]

@@mauricerynders8130 The Ottoman Turks were never Christian?

[@blackigor2431]

What happens in 12th century stays in 12th century

[@MustaphaRashiduddin-zx7rn]

@@blackigor2431 well, the tulips are in still here, so apparently not

[@gankald]

lets not mention potato's or eaven hutspot also being non native dutch while still being considerd dutch XD

[@evastapaard2462]

When you said skiephol I almost choked! I am Frisian (north of the Netherlands) and we have our own language. Skiephol litterally translates to sheepsbutt.

[@mrink9818]

😂😂😂Well, English people, don't mind this because if (s)he starts talking Frisian I couldn't understand a word (s)he would say and so would the rest of the Dutch, not from "Friesland". 😜😁😌

[@evastapaard2462]

thats right! you wouldn't....But for English speakers Frisian is easier to learn than Dutch. Frisian is the closest language to English.@@mrink9818

[@davidanderson2357]

@@mrink9818 I thought Friesland was where they make those skinny potato snacks. Or am I thinking of Old Dutch chips?

[@battlefieldP4Fbeta]

LMAO my mom would love this comment. Cheers

[@mrink9818]

​@@davidanderson2357 Well David, I never come there and it's not my field of expertise so I honestly don't know. Maybe @evastapaard2462 could answer that one. Are we talking about pringles?

[@jessetimmer9443]

I clicked on this video with this thought: "wait wth is happening in my country right now, so amazing that @Thoughty2 would make a video about it?" It turned out to be another video about our watermanagement. Not gonna lie, as a Dutchie I have watched maybe 30 of these kinds of videos, and I still enjoyed it lol. I watched every minute of it.

[@lytsedraak]

Same. "Wait, what is happening here that I don't know about? Better watch this."

[@Ojee07]

Leuke pfp 🔥

[@aaronmicalowe]

I knew none of it. Was an eye opener. Have flown to and from Schiphol for years and seen the greenhouses and fields and always wondered, what are these crafty fellows up to down there.

[@KattMurr]

I visited Amsterdam in 1997. Went from Albany International Airport in Albany, New York to Newark Airport in New Jersey. From there flew to London Gatwick Airport. I was on the plane with a rugby team from New Zealand I believe. From there we went to Schipol Airport. Stayed in Amsterdam for 9 days. Never visited any other country or any other part of Holland. Lol...me and my friend were there specifically for the 10th annual High Times Cannabis Cup...it was an amazing vacation even though it was on the cold side because it was November. That's the farthest I've ever traveled as of 2024. It was definitely a memorable trip!! I am not Dutch but being from Albany, New York I am very familiar with the Dutch history of the area I live in. I grew up in a suburb of Albany known as Guilderland...lol...the mascot of the Guilderland High School is none other than the Flying Dutchman ship! Every year Albany celebrates its Dutch roots with the Tulip Festival always the same weekend as Mother's Day. They have a parade on that Friday and crown a Tulip queen. Washington Park is where the festival commences and throughout the park is a vast collection of tulips, of course! Its pretty cool, even though I haven't attended the festival in over 10 years. Crowds bother me too much now, but as a teenager and young adult, me and my friends always looked forward to checking out the festival and all its fun...lol...

[@yourt8563]

As a Dutch water management engineer from South-Holland, this video makes me feel proud!

[@terencejay8845]

The Dutch engineers were also involved in the building of the extensive UK canal network that grew from the Industrial Revolution.

[@kevinvanleeuwen2678]

Ik vind paarden lief

[@peppermintyfreshness]

I commend you personally for your work in the 17th century

[@leonf9822]

​@@kevinvanleeuwen2678 ik vind kevin lief

[@loke6664]

Yup, there was a time when Holland exported 2 kinds of specialists to the rest of Europe: water management engineers and people who could make cannons. When Gothenburg was built they hired in a bunch of people from the lowlands to handle all the canals the city had back then, it looked closer to Venice then a North European town back then and Gustavus Adolphus hired the best people for the job.

[@JootjeJ]

As a Dutch civil engineer I'm beaming with pride right now, even though I ended up in a totally different field.

[@Tunkert]

Water field best field

[@r.d.w.molenkamp1276]

Same here

[@erik5374]

Happens to me almost every time watching Not Just Bikes.

[@BootlegEL]

Is tijd om ons ding te doen in Miami en Venetië

[@MrBarnettcm]

Have some pride and stop giving your rights away to your government

[@weerwolfproductions]

We can also divert water all the way from the IJsselmeer to the higher (above sealevel) agricultural areas. We just let the pumps turn the other way, so instead of pumping water out, we pump water in. We can't use seawater, but IJsselmeer water has lost enough salinity to work in dry summers. It's not only the polders created on former seabed that's nutritious, also the lands alongside rivers that used to (and in some cases still do) flood at high river water levels is fertile. In other areas there used to be swamps, which were drained, then peat was mined until it was all gone and again there would be (ancient) seabed or riverbed clay available for farming. However in South Holland especially they never dug the peat out - they're grazing cows and sheep on thin layers of soil growing grass, on top of peat layers. Buildings are piled and when the water is drained or the summer is dry, the peat starts to contract, causing the pilings to shift or even rot (they are preserved because they're below the general water table). Some of the dikes are so called peat-dikes, especially around long canals dug through the landscape to connect different cities and ports in the 1800's and earlier. When the waterlevel in these canal is raised by excessive rain, it permeates the peat in the upper layers of the dikes. This can hold for a number of days. If the water level in the canals stays too high for too long, the dike will become waterlogged and start seeping water. That will eventually wash out enough material for the dike to breach. Both too dry and too wet situations are happening more and more as in the inlands of Europe, the sources of our river system, there's more and more rain falling and less and less snow. Snow melt in spring would mean a gradual influx of water. Now every time north-western mainland Europe gets torrential rain, we need to get pumping like crazy in order to keep our feet dry. If you look at the map of Switserland, Germany and Belgium you'll notice that most of the rivers drain to the North Sea through The Netherlands. P.s. Maaslandkering was used for the first time outside testing last December. We had lots of areas with already high water in the inland areas due to rain, and the prevailing wind off the North Sea plus high tide would mean too high water tables. So the floating bits came out autonomously until the high water risk had passed, and then retracted. I think it was the first time ever that all the storm surge protection barriers, along the entire Dutch coast, were used within the same 24 hr period.

[@carlhume544]

Love the videos mate. I’m a long time subscriber in Victoria Australia, and am constantly fascinated by your interesting and really well researched content. Keep up the good work mate.

[@A_Nony_Mousse]

"...so they designed a dam so damning it would doom the sea to eternal damnation." Absolutely love that line!! 😂

[@The_radiodemon.]

Ah we just practise dark magic to will the sea away it should fear us not drown us

[@rm3141593]

Me too 😅

[@trockenfruchte468]

Dam(n)!

[@donenzonen]

We made the sea our bitch 😂

[@nofretzDW]

“How the Dutch Defeated the Ocean” was the original title 😅

[@christopherhall619]

6 minutes and it Changed

[@dudeonlygamingandotherstuf7791]

It's only been 6 minutes??...

[@Wileyy123]

Thanks for sharing!

[@jackcarterog001]

Thats badass. They should have kept it

[@emerald0052]

Epic rap battles of history The Dutch vs the Entire fucking ocean

[@weerwolfproductions]

The 14th century 'wooden platform with an iron blade' wouldn't let you 'spin around like a prat in public'. The way they're constructed would let you go straight ahead or around curves, but they're very very different from ice hockey / ice dancing skates. They are still produced as 'Friese doorlopers' - 'Friesian walk-ons'. I learned to skate on them as a child.

[@jacqulynhilyard1561]

Very interesting, educational and entertaining! ..Newly subscribed, thank you for your beautifully integrated productions.

[@thijsminnee7549]

"More windmills than you could shake a stroopwafel at." I, as a Dutch person love that line

[@plrndl]

I, as an Englishman, loved it too. PS: What's a "stroopwafel"?

[@TheMitchell132]

@@plrndl It is the OG snack of the Dutch! Its like Belgium chocolate, Italian pizza etc etc

[@martijn2246]

Hoi thijs

[@thijsminnee7549]

@@plrndl it's basicaly 2 very thin waffles with syrup squeezed inbetween. It's bloody delicious.

[@jbruck6874]

​@@thijsminnee7549 I know it is a ridiculouly dumb question but I am from a landlocked country: Why would you shake a str...wafel at a... windmill? Oh, I know, you used this to push more wind towards it, right? I can hear it... "And this, my friends, is how the once backbreaking work of braking the wind turned into the sweet breakfast deliciousness of the orange nation."

[@michelrieskes]

As a dutchman myself watching this video, this makes me so godDAMn proud!

[@simonelliot3712]

I see what you did there. 😆

[@jeroenjager8064]

Me as well even though I contributed nothing.

[@jasper46985]

Yeah, its quite impressive.

[@jasper46985]

​​@@jeroenjager8064we can be proud as a nation and of our ancestors who did this magnificent work. 😊

[@fredneedle123]

And so you should be. Where else in the world can you find an airport three meters (I could be wrong, maybe it's more) below sea level? They windmills are bloody amazing just like the Dutch. God bless the Dutch. I went to Amsterdam a few years ago and I loved it. I wish I could speak Dutch and live there full time. What a place. Clean, working and welcoming. Dutch people are beautiful and very sociable. And the food! Bloody great.

[@jimparr01Utube]

Wow! I knew absolutely none of this. Amazing. Thank you.

[@nancysnyitar3936]

Very informative and interesting. Thanks for putting this together in a rather humorous fashion.

[@utahnl]

Don't forget the terps (terpen), man made hills used to keep our churches, farm houses, store houses and communities dry during floods. The city i live in is built on 3 big terps over 800 years old, they were expanded over time and eventually interconnected. There is one street with 17th century buildings that were made too tall for the terp to support causing the buildings to start sinking, combined with a street level that kept rising due to a build up of trash, the first floor of these building have been almost completely underground for the last century and they just moved the entrance up a floor.

[@evastapaard2462]

yeps,vast Leeuwarden.

[@siamsurf]

Having this in the video would actually give the video title some sense.

[@mauricerynders8130]

What city is that? (I’m surprised you didn’t mention that.)

[@menaamismenno]

Leeuwarden, capital city of Friesland and proud home to the dutch tower of pi​sa "de oldehove"@@mauricerynders8130

[@happymi3l]

dat is zo vet waar is dat?

[@darrylnoonan5282]

Old saying, " God made the Dutch, the Dutch made the Netherlands ". 10/10

[@Insanety1955]

Ja ... en wiet 😜

[@laladieladada]

@@Insanety1955 helaas. nederwiet komt origineel uit turkeije. :)

[@lilzerolil]

Almost, it’s: “God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands.”

[@coyotelong4349]

“The Netherlands are a country on Earth, inhabited by human beings” -Confucius, maybe, at some point in time

[@crazzykiphunter]

No no no it go's as followed. And as finishing touch god created the dutch. And the dutch made the Benelux.

[@SmileXgameS]

As someone who has been following this channel for 7 years or so, it is nice to see this adressed. Actually my home town/island was the place with the most casualties of the 1953 flood.

[@user-hp2ee8oz8f]

I am Dutch and live at the dam but you teached me more than I knew and I like the way you bring it. Nicely done mate💪🏼. I will follow your channel

[@peterjansen4826]

No Dutch water-engineer is sitting back relaxed believing that we have already defeated the ocean (original title). They are well aware that it remains an uphill battle, a few flood-disasters made sure of that.

[@allthegs]

How do you spot a Dutch engineer? They always have a “clog”-ical solution!

[@nicodesmidt4034]

Had a foot of water in my cellar last month, and I’m at sea level 🙀🤔 in t he middle of the country

[@youdontknowwhoiam2449]

Thats probably why he changed the title…

[@Sniperboy5551]

@youdontknowwhoiam2449 He probably changed the titled after getting a lot of comments like the original one. It’s actually kind of surprising that he changed it, since a title that people disagree with will encourage more comments, thus more engagement and being prioritized by the algorithm. That’s why clickbait works so well. Thoughty2 actually cares more about being accurate than just getting engagement, which is highly respectable.

[@Tunkert]

I'll be one this year

[@4RILDIGITAL]

The way they've tamed the sea and utilized it to their advantage is nothing short of remarkable. It's fascinating how the battles with flooding have shaped not just their landscapes but their culture and politics too.

[@Sacto1654]

Well, the Dutch needed the land for population growth and agriculture. That's why the major cities in the Netherlands are fairly close to each other; that plus the flat terrain in most of the country explains why the Netherlands is a country with a very long relationship with the use of bicycles. And the reason why since the 1970's, they have one of the best commuter railroad systems in the world. Since the 1953 North Sea flood, the Dutch government has aggressively expanded their polders and built a very comprehensive system of modern flood control dikes to keep out the North Sea.

[@MrSnordie]

@@Sacto1654trains always late tho 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@duncanmcdane388]

It was either that or to die. Either by drowning or starvation.

[@christinekeyes7098]

I never would have sought out this particular topic on my own but I'm so glad I came across it and decided to watch it because I enjoy Thoughty2's videos.

[@velvetdip]

I just wanted to say thank you to Thoughty2, this video was fascinating, entertaining, and good fun to watch! 🤩

[@cheradenine1980]

I’m glad there are people like you out there repeating and educating about this sort of thing. This was common knowledge for every teenager in the 80s and 90s. Everyone knew this. And there was no Internet.

[@katula14]

What education specifically? Like in America? Social themes, and starting causes?@@BedelendeCentenbak

[@HerbertAckermans]

Since 1994/1995 new Delta works have been needed. As we had protected our sea-shores, we were faced with flooding coming from exactly the other direction, down the rivers Rijn and Maas. It teetered on the brink or widescale flooding and disaster but we escaped with minor flooding, still impacting the people involved greatly. The inland dykes and dams were being re-evaluated and for the first time, we considered surrendering land to the water in order to maintain our safety from it. Where I grew up and live, high water levels were and are nothing we get excited about. Until 1995 when a quarter of a million people and 1 million animals had to evacuate. In the end, we had to be away for only about a week, but had it gone wrong, huge areas had been flooded for who knows how long. You can't just put a cork in the Rijn or Maas. But, we also have another water related problem since a couple of years, extreme drought. The balance between high water and extreme drought is completely out of whack. Melting snow in the Alps cause higher water levels, extreme high temperatures cause unprecedented droughts, which makes water management extra complicated.

[@MaartenOosterbaan]

not just considered...it has been surrendered...

[@wouterwestendorp8050]

Je moet niet alles geloven wat ze zeggen.

[@Whiskers4169]

Well, I am sure when the worldwide political crisis we are in ends. The first thing to do will be to find a solution.

[@TimRHillard]

I lived and worked in Holland in the mid 90's near Almelo. The people, culture, it was fantastic. I had a chance to stay permanently, I should have done so

[@franciswalsh8416]

Great story, combination of information, history, and entertainment. I subscribed.

[@bestofberttube]

Large parts of the Netherlands may have been reclaimed from the sea, but not after making these same parts vulnerable to flooding at an earlier stage. In fact, one thousand years ago large parts of the country were still covered by extensive peat bogs that were bit by bit drained to allow for agriculture. This drainage caused the peat bogs to dry out and disappear and these lands were subsequently swallowed by the sea as the ground level sunk dramatically. This is the real story of Schiphol and the Haarlemmermeer that was still a huge peat bog well into the Middle Ages.

[@DdZ-lv3jq]

Missed opportunity for some good Dutch Whisky!

[@southafrica9179]

That's actually quite interesting because the Dutch built Capetown city in south Africa in the same way, the castle was built on the edge of the shoreline and now the castle stands far from the ocean in the middle of the city...

[@AO968]

We also founded New Amsterdam (New York), Paramaribo, and Batavia (Jakarta).

[@ittaiklein8541]

As always: Wonderful video! ThankYou for your efforts.

[@LL-ys9cr]

I enjoy your videos very much. Perfect to listen to while I am working. A nice reprieve from the stories of murder. Thank you from Canada.

[@Tclans]

Two things to note: -Understandable pronunciations (well done!) -Extremely well researched -(side note) Very appropriate visuals to the subjects (geat aerial shots!) I didn't expect you to include, let alone SHOW, the Waterloopbos. Just as a footnote, it used to be the Waterlooplab (laboratorium) nowadays its a public park (or -bos ;) ) hence the name.

[@mrink9818]

Heyheyhey!!! You said you would only say 2 things. That's pretty rude you know!? 😌Moekut ff teguh juh moekuh zegguh 😁

[@Tclans]

@@mrink9818 het is een side note, net zoiets als een chocoladeei bij een twix. De calorieën van het ei tellen niet mee! 🤪

[@nothingtosaybuthellothere8421]

Did you really find the pronunciations understandable? I know it's hard, but I really didn't find it even close to understandable

[@mrink9818]

@@Tclans okay okayy, voor deze keer hou ik mams erbuiten dan 😁

[@shh96-rh3qz]

I love The Netherlands. I love your festivals, the landscape with the mills, the mushrooms and the best coffee I've ever had was in Alkmaar in a bar somewhere, hidden.

[@tygodegier3110]

We have the best coffee shops

[@leanderhelmich9707]

What kind of mushrooms? The ones from the supermarket or the ones from the smartshops?

[@shh96-rh3qz]

@@leanderhelmich9707 the magical once

[@RookieAssassin]

@@leanderhelmich9707lol I was wondering that too, mushrooms or shrooms?

[@jonathan49731]

if I know what you talking about then I think the coffeeshop was not hidden

[@erickortenbach4355]

thanks mate. I'm a Dutchie living in the UK (my mates think I'm more English than Dutch 😘) and as such, I am missing quite a lot of what is going on in The Netherlands. But this summary of water management (all of which I was tought at school of course) was truly wonderful and made me feel great. Thank you very much!

[@jnpdykes1]

This was very interesting! Thank you for sharing!!

[@larsoudegeest8053]

Fun fact, before the Dutch started making dikes they made terps. These were human made hills in the middle of the land to prevent their houses from getting flooded by the sea. The oldest terp was made around 500 BC and is 9 meters tall.

[@ljohansson6496]

And still lots of town names end with ‘terp’, ‘wierde’, ‘ward’ or ‘warden’.

[@jannythewonderwomen2215]

Wow

[@stevemccormick1233]

You can say man made. Nobody will smite you. Anything built that long ago was absolutely made by men.

[@thychozwart2451]

​@@stevemccormick1233 Amateur west dutch archaeologist in contact with lifelong experts in the field here. Not true, there are at least 5 terps who were made entirely by women or made for a woman by her family, and some of them were only ever lived on by women, since the people who made them were buried on them with no exception until the 15th or 16th century, and there's plenty that have women's bodies or at least grave goods for a woman

[@ZedantPoroking]

@@thychozwart2451 what?

[@t.consult2132]

From Gouda😊 the Netherlands 🇳🇱: outstanding docu! Well done and meticulously researched and underscored with images, films erc. Respect❤. Met hartelijke groeten!

[@adrianw7793]

Groetjes terug !!

[@contactgestoord]

And the first non-dutch person that actually pronounced 'Gouda' correctly 😂

[@duncanmcdane388]

Yeah, as a Dutchman I was really curious how thorough and reliable the guy is as a source of information ( as I've looked quite some other vids of him about interesting topcs I don't know much or even hardly anything at all about ). So yeah, very nice. Reliable and someone I recommend!

[@Holypaladin887]

@@duncanmcdane388you mean marakech

[@hendrikdewilde-geisler5859]

Except that he failed to notice over1500 years of Terp building: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terp. As long as only about the dikes: very good!

[@ShrienM]

Excellent video Thoughty. Thanks for your hard work and dry humour

[@luckylirith]

XD as a dutch, thank you for this video with all its puns haha , some little facts : the reason tullips and flowers are made on the polders is not just due to it being fertile ground, its also due to it not being the greatest ground to build houses on. There are 12 Waterschappen and each have their own price for their works, the more towards the coast you go the more expensive it gets. The flevomeer (what used to be the sea inlet) is nowadays a sweet water lake that for quite some years ago (dont remember how long ago) froze over so massively people drove over it with their cars.

[@karlos1060]

As a Dutch i am proud of my country and what we have achieved along the way. As a small country we have a big impact in the world. And that is very nice to see. We still did not conquer the waters because a disaster is always on the lure. But we do what we can to maintain our lifestyle.

[@N8TheGreatG]

The Dutch have a massive impact on the world and a even bigger one if the Government keeps trying to shut down Farmers! I sulute the Dutch Farmers for fighting the good fight!

[@tieshartog9645]

​@@N8TheGreatGthe farmers aren't fighting the good fight tho

[@shida420]

@@tieshartog9645common randstad L take

[@Sniperboy5551]

@tieshartog9645 Yes they are. You can’t try to destroy their industry and profit margins and expect them to sit idly by. They’re standing up for their own livelihood, I’d hope you would have the balls to do the same.

[@johnnielurker]

thank you for the Dutch Milks yummy

[@jawaligt]

For a video about the Netherlands, this is incredibly well researched and explained. Kudos!

[@X1Y0Z0]

Thanks 4 all of your great presentations

[@precursors]

Fun fact: It was in the 16th century that tulips were imported to Holland from the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey). Just a few years after arriving in Holland, tulips became the most sought-after commodity in the entire Netherlands.

[@doc_artwork]

I only just now realized his iconic moustache is missing and I have no idea when it disappeared...

[@genzboomer-sv3pl]

he looks younger tho

[@nicodesmidt4034]

Much younger, less iconic though

[@PruneHub]

It spun a chrysalis about a month ago.

[@2gooddrifters]

The right side of his face (as you look at it) is a ringer for Gary Barlow.

[@simonelliot3712]

It just didn't hit anymore without the hipster-y-ness of the suspenders so it had to go when the suspenders did.

[@rothed16]

Impressive. As a citizen of the US in the Great state of Texas living residing in the 4th Largest City Houston, the Dutch are 3 steps above us! Mad respect for anyone who lives along the North sea and props to "taming" it. Most think living along the Gulf Coast as i do and dealing with hurricanes like Harvey/Katrina in the laat 18yrs is crazy. The Dutch live along the wildest seas on the planet😮❤ 👏👏👏😊

[@TheSuperappelflap]

We dont have hurricanes here, thankfully, we just have northwestern storms. The reason they are so dangerous isnt the wind speed but rather the English channel acting like a funnel. If a high tide coincides with a storm the water level can go up 4.5m (15 feet) above normal.

[@BrandyHoelscher]

I’m from Houston too. We could learn some things

[@bongjutsu3489]

The sad thing regarding this is every time a major storm hits the us they call in dutch water engineers they make a plan and us goes: "To expensive" and nothing ever happens.

[@TheTeek]

The Dutch have more problems to solve. We have the North sea with rising water due to climate change and climate change also brought more rain. Also in Germany and even Austria. All that water needs to flow through The Netherlands back to sea and we are between Germany and the sea. In Gouda we now even have a problem that our ground is sinking. And you wouldn't think of it, but our summers are now even very dry. And that is also causing problems.

[@yoloswaggins9989]

​@@TheTeekTotal bullocks on the dry summer part. Since 1900 there have been way dryer summers and also way wetter ones. The Netherlands has always been so/so throw the dice on what the weather is going to do. Stop acting on the climate change fear.

[@cassiayocita3080]

I really enjoy your videos, keep on doing them as well as a smile on your face!

[@jimijames9792]

6:43 is a painting of the beautiful city of Deventer and the river IJssel. You can see the big St Lebuïn cathedral with the big tower right in the middle and to the left of it is the St Nicholas church with the two towers. These days the river still overflows, even though they had a project called 'room for the river' (ruimte voor de rivier). And part of it was digging these huge reservoirs next to the river in different places that when high waters came, the water wouldn't flow directly into parts of the city. Quite interesting. Also, we Dutch must continue to improve our defenses against the water and think of new possibillities so these project are an ongoing thing.

[@daluzsoares]

As a Dutchman, I was aware of this, but I still learned something from you, the wind wall, I have often sailed past it but never understood it, thank you!!

[@cetterus]

you sail? what sort of boat?

[@ishadezzl]

@@cetterusa sailboat 🤔

[@daluzsoares]

😁no, I work in inland shipping in the Netherlands as a captain.

[@daluzsoares]

just an inland boat 180 × 14 meters up and down Germany and the Netherlands.

[@cetterus]

@@daluzsoares deliveries? sounds cool

[@nachtdiertje1972]

As a Dutchman, Thank you for your enthousiasm and research. 👍

[@OPossum76]

Thats a really nice piece you did here about my country. Thanks a million subscribers.

[@voxveritas333]

You have a great voice for this work. Cheers!

[@lindyanne3936]

I was so excited to watch this video as I am Dutch. You made our history sound so interesting. Thank you

[@teck1756]

I can't help but love topics I'd otherwise glance over and go "meh" about when you make a video about it. If I came across a video titled "the marvel of dutch waterworks engineering," I'd likely totally pass it up. Then you come along and make this, and I'm like, "man, these guys were geniuses! This is awesome!"

[@stephjezo6470]

His videos need to be regular watching in schools.....kids would actually have fun learning!

[@teck1756]

@@stephjezo6470 I mean, I kind of agree they'd be really entertaining, but I don't think ethical teachers would use videos with ads, and cutting out the ads would be equally wrong, so... Next best thing is hoping his sponsors are as great as he is. I haven't looked into that Skillshare thing, but I've been meaning to. There's also that Brilliant thing.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Be careful, because if you watch a couple videos about this topic, you will end up on Dutch infrastructure youtube and its nothing but hundreds of videos about water management and urban planning. Fascinating though. I love it.

[@ocaliethe80swolf24]

Thank you so much. All the way from suriname, never knew all this dutch history

[@NaturalDutchSpirit]

I live in the bulb region, close to the coast. It is unclear if the soil is good for growing bulbs, or that it is simply unfit to grow something else; the top soil has higher salt content. A mix of fertile soil and sand, so-called "ghost ground" (in dutch). (from the haunted marshes that where here before? )🥶

[@richardswaby6339]

"Something wierd is happening in the Netherlands"? That doesn't sound interesting I thought but it's Thoughty2 so I'll give it a chance. Wow! Mind blowing! Excellent work! Hooked from beginning to end.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

I watched the entire video and I'm still waiting to hear about the weird thing that is apparently happening in my country. Everything he mentioned is entirely normal.

[@ufo2go]

'Weird' like 'horrific' and other clickbait.💌

[@frannckenfrey]

It's extremely weird that it is Possible for people to live 30 feet below Sea Level.......

[@Jovel_]

WOW!! I’ve learned sooo much about the Netherlands in just 21 mins!! Thank you Thoughty2! That was sooo perfectly put together! 😊

[@masassin58]

I absolutely love history, especially when a person such as yourself presents it in a wonderfully interesting manor❣️ Thank you.

[@masassin58]

Sorry about the autocorrect. That was manner not manor.

[@iriswilmink8229]

thanku! made me feel proud and u are funny lol very entertaining and informative loveit

[@sonneh86]

The VOC wasn't just the biggest sea fairing company in history. It was the biggest company in history, period.

[@hetspook666]

Worth $7.590.170.000.000,00

[@urbangangsta]

I’d say it’s unfair to call it a business in the same regard of other business considering the amount of government bureaucracy involved in its creation

[@thomasvanbeurden5105]

@@urbangangstaas if governments and politicians dont have a say/stocks/gain and or profit in massive companies today…..

[@jasonaarninkhof871]

And they were the first business who used stocks and so invented stocks

[@macheadg5er]

fastest growth is Apple from 4 billion to 3 trillion in just 20 years. VOC has been around over 400 years and is losing ground (pun intended lol) My guess is Apple or some other tech company passes them in the next 20 years.

[@gallaghim]

It's really nice when you find a YT channel and there are an absolute shitetonne of videos to discover. And you can learn something along the way. Thanks.

[@maidenfreak9471]

Thanks for the video!! ❤

[@Maelficis]

That damn video made me chuckle. There's is something about the presentation that can't be found elsewhere. Amazingly done, as usual, Thoughty2!

[@yahwehisdead]

19:18 I've actually heard of tulip mania before. It's so wild the "value" we assign to things essentially outta nowhere and everyone, or most, agree, accept, and go along with it.

[@relo999]

Well it's a lot more complicated than that. Value is determined by cost of production (obviously) and how much people are willing to pay for it or more specifically the value the costumer views it as in combination with competition. It's also why an Iphone costs 1k+ while a similarly specced Android is around the 200/300 mark, Iphones have consumers that generally don't compare to other brands and view Iphones as a premium product while Android phones have a lot of competition and have a consumers that tend to shop around more. In the case of Tulipmania and other bubbles it's however not personal value that determine pricing but personal future expected value. The most obvious example of this is any cryptocurrency, they don't have any value and almost since their inception been a really poor currency. However its value exclusively comes from people buying it to expect to sell it for more in the future, due to this any profit made with crypto are losses of other people buying in. This is also why so many cryptoinvestors are also trying to get others involved in crypto as that increases the value of their own purchases and why the fear "FUD" (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) as that means people are cashing out and their asset value becomes less and can be a negative spiral to a crash. Tulipmania and other value speculation bubbles are little to no different from crypto.

[@loke6664]

It isn't out of nowhere though. If something is rare and people really want it, the price will be really expensive. It wasn't all tulips that was expensive, it was certain ones like the Semper Augustus that got super expensive, they were really rare and a symbol of high status. The wild thing is why people really want something that badly, in Semper Augustus case it had a disease that gave it a unique appearance but also made it very hard to procreate. If you think about it, a dollar is really only worth a dollar because we agree it is, if people stop thinking it was worth anything it would cause the dollar value to plummet and crash the worlds economy. Luxury goods is a bit different since they can increase or decrease many fold in a very short time, if a popular celebrity eats some rare food the price can go up a lot in just days since everyone wants to taste it and the supply isn't built for that.

[@lennard3993]

you dont understand one bit of it hahaha, amazing how you commented and you to this as a snippet with you.

[@lennard3993]

*took*

[@Henk-007]

It sounds like Bitcoin to me....

[@thomassecurename3152]

The Dutch also had a hand in the history of canal construction in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 3-cheers to the Dutch.

[@nicodesmidt4034]

And the Dubai island

[@mhordijk0871]

​@@nicodesmidt4034 Those islands shaped like a palm tree. Yes. By a little Dutch dredging company called Boskalis.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

One of my mother's forefathers was the top man in Columbo (Sri Lanka) in the 18th century. Sorry for the colonialism, but maybe he gave the order.

[@JootjeJ]

One of my lecturers in the UK used to say "if there are drainage ditches then the Dutch have been there and vice versa."

[@isabelp187]

They did so much worse than colonisation, its insane how much we have changed as a society (most of us anyway) to see how wrong everything the Dutch East India Corp did and still does. Then again my ancestors are Scottish and White Kiwis so yeah we all have bloodshed in our history. @@ronaldderooij1774

[@Avesevenfold]

So much respect after hearing these things. Truly amazing thank you

[@MrFriend97]

i am a dutchy from a flower farming family, i am glad to see my families trade being talked about ❤

[@nairbvel]

I visited some of the larger dam/dyke projects back in the 1980s and they are *IMPRESSIVE* up close -- it's one thing to see a long road with water on either side from a drone, it's another to drive and drive and drive and... The Netherlands is also the only place where, while driving along a road, I found myself lookup UP at a barge on a parallel canal.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

We also have aqueducts, where canals cross over a road. Very funny sight seeing the mast of a ship sticking out above you while you drive into a short tunnel.

[@Mr.Dobalina113]

@@TheSuperappelflapThere is a bridge/tunnel that crosses the Chesapeake Bay. Ships can cross over the tunnel portions of the bridge. The whole thing is about 18 miles long.

[@willemthijssen1082]

@@Mr.Dobalina113 The funny thing in the Netherlands is, those aqueducts are the size of the canal running through it, which is at most 30 meters (100 ft) wide, which means that it isn't rare that you see that kind of stuff

[@davidbuitelaar6659]

as a dutch person, i can confirm we pronounce the intro as "skieppool airport"

[@kojowiredu]

As a Dutch person, I can assure you it sounds more like "skipole"😊.

[@rickyrico80]

As a Dutch person grapjassen 🤣

[@geekishgir]

@@kojowiredu as an english speaker, and having been thru that airport many times, I cringed at that!

[@joecity9692]

Schiphol means ships' hell.

[@OttoDoe123]

Ssggg ffkkppll oe oe oe sksksk

[@joylarson9040]

Thank you , Absolutely amazing!

[@user-pm6pe2oq3y]

This is one of the most beautiful tellings/stories on KZbin

[@NeweyAdrian1]

Please dont advertise our country this well, we already have too many people and little houses🤣

[@2012asand]

And the “communism” thing you guys got going on over there. No thanks 😒

[@NickVanos]

Yo I live in the Netherlands and you seriously learned me some things I never knew. This is awesome!! You're a great teacher!!! Thanks for sharing this. I live in the Haarlemmermeer area.

[@richardswaby6339]

The people who know the most about English Grammar are the Dutch so I assume that you said "learned" rather than "taught" for a particular effect.

[@pwmiles56]

@@richardswaby6339 "Learn" for "teach" has a long history in English, "learned him his letters" etc. It's been non-standard since about the sixteenth century but I don't mind it.

[@jorritvanderkooi939]

@@richardswaby6339its literally translated from dutch

[@Brinta3]

@@pwmiles56 You got that line from Tolkien!

[@pwmiles56]

@@Brinta3 True, but I kinda knew it anyway. It's the Gaffer of course.

[@neror3x437]

very wel done! had a good laugh and apreciate you using the dutch names! thnx from a dutchy!

[@willgamez5555]

I didn't even know about this. The episode was so good, I'm watching it again!

[@tikkelbikkel]

0:45 That's crazy, to the left of this frame is a school that I went to. We used to have PE outside sometimes and I remember running in circles from that one bridge in the distance all way down to the one in the bottom right, then crossing it and going back along the other side of the canal. I vividly recall running 2 full laps without stopping and was so proud, because I don't run and those who did couldn't hang. Anyway, the school teaches a bunch of different fun practical things, Including videography. I know that they also love to play around with new trendy stuff, like drones when they came out. So, there is a chance that this shot was filmed by a student. I don't know for sure, because those windmills are a landmark of sorts, but it could be.

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Hello 👋 I used to ice-skate to School when the Winter Froze the Canals!! Einkhuizen in The Netherlands is where I am from, but we live in the UK now. Carlisle Needs Dutch Engineers!! Flooding is a major problem. Here the Engineering is laughable, ~ so I'm moving uphill!! Namasté 🙏🕊️ Andréa and Critters. ..XxX... Edit, The Zouder Zees is Gone?! Holy Moly I am Shocked!!

[@kaelon9170]

Lol, same. I literally live in the neighborhood immediately beyond this frame, after the bridge in the distance. I cycle across the leftmost bicycle path every day to/from work. Seeing an aerial photo of the area in this video feels unreal haha. Very beautiful shot as well.

[@semboersen2632]

Is this shot from Alkmaar? Looks like it

[@tikkelbikkel]

@@semboersen2632 yeah, it is. It's the Hoornse Vaart, I believe

[@kaelon9170]

​@@semboersen2632Yes, it's shot slightly south of the Alkmaar Noord train station, from the northern side of the Hoornse vaart, looking east towards Oudorp.

[@isaaclalnunzira6981]

Id never have read or watch a documentary regarding the same topic, thoughty2 is a master in education, youre the best teacher imo, i could listen to your seminars all day long

[@marce4241]

there is a docu about the dutch "waterwerken" kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioeoooiYmc1khas&ab_channel=60Minutes

[@undistortedX]

Around 1600 Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest invented the crankshaft (kruk-as) transforming the rotating movement of the windmill into a linear movement. One of the first applications was the sawmill (zaagmolen) making it possible to saw 30 meter lang trees in wooden boards for the shipbuilders in the Zaanstreek approximately 30 times faster than sawing by hand. This fact is the most important reason the Dutch outsmarted the rest of the world. When ALL trees of around 30 meters were gone in de German Black Woods (Zwarte Woud) we switched to Norwegian wood making us vulnerable to British blockades.

[@Vanalleswa]

awesome to see the video. I live near the oosterscheldekering. awesome how you try to speak out the Dutch words :)

[@davidponseigo8811]

I'm from Louisiana and most of my state is below sea level except where I am in North Louisiana, my property is the second highest and sometimes the highest elevation in the state, it depends on where you get the information. It's nicknamed Seven Mile Hill.

[@themountainraven]

It's right at half the state....which is still unbelievable considering Louisiana is almost 4x the size of the Netherlands..

[@nicodesmidt4034]

Dutch guy here. Thanks for the video, learned something new today. Waterloopbos ! Will definitely visit

[@metalvideos1961]

how is this new for you. i have heard this thousands of times nothing new anymore. this should be common knowledge for every dutchman

[@nicodesmidt4034]

@@metalvideos1961 never heard of it before, and I’m fairly interested in this stuff

[@KlaasSimon]

It is great to visit it in the autumn. Lots of different paddenstoelen there. And the old research structures are still to visit. Great to see the port of Alexandria in miniature, the outlines only.

[@Andrea-Tilburg]

Great job on this video Arran!

[@CarlosFilipeMartins]

Thank you for all of your videos, you are one of those people that make this world a better place just by doing what you do.

[@GrannySweets]

Arron, of all your programs I have greatly enjoyed, this one is so much the finest that I placed it in my public file, "Enjoyed These", so others may be enthralled by it also; like coming across a sparkling treasure. Thank you for all you share Dear and most especially this truly marvelous gem🥰

[@llamasugar5478]

I genuinely don’t understand why the Nederland government is seemingly hell-bent on crippling farming when the land is the best for it.

[@inajosmood]

Poison of the land and the air.

[@joopdevries2657]

Nobody is against farming, many people are against breeding (for example) pigs in an industrial way without room to move etc. It's the big industrial farms (propably not farms anymore, more production houses) that make life difficult for many smaller farmers also.

[@aheroyaheroyalproductions7631]

Tristatecity, Google it.

[@deepchillzone]

CONTROL THE FOOD, CONTROL THE PEOPLE

[@inajosmood]

@@deepchillzone the vast majority is for export

[@toujourslamour7573]

Fantastically well done video, Thoughty2.. and particularly the thoughtful way you give the Dutch so much credit and praise for their water management engineering skills, and agricultural prowess. Your videos are truly informing, entertaining, and gracious. Thank you!!

[@KeepSafeCare]

Always brilliant and informative

[@ladyluck333]

i had no idea about any of that, that was amazing :) thanks for the awesome videos too, they are very informative 😁

[@beyo5]

Two things : the irrigation water seems to be oceanic salt water and yet they are extremely productive in agriculture. Secondly, there is a proposal, for the cost equal to the Chunnel Project, to dam up an area between the British Isles and France/Norway, and building Polders in the area of Doggerland (ancient dry land in shallow North Sea area when ocean levels were lower). Leaving channels for Baltic Sea traffic, this would at least double the size of the Netherlands and add to Britain and Scandanavia territory. That's pretty cool.

[@Prodigy68]

It would be desastrous 😥

[@evastapaard2462]

the irrigation water comes from the IJselmeer. thats a fresh water lake.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Irrigation water comes from the rivers. Mostly from the Rhine. The land in the polders is salty, which is why after land is reclaimed, for the first years we grow specific crops on them that desalinate the soil. After that it can be used for other crops. Coincidentally, tulips grow well on salty soil, which is why we grow so many of them. The idea to dam in the north sea isnt for land reclamation. A dam from Scotland along the Shetlands to Norway would be constructed to reduce the length of coastline and protect the north sea coast from storms. It would have to be permeable to water and only closed in emergencies, similar to the Eastern Scheldt barrier shown in the video. While obviously vey costly, this would be cheaper than building delta works like the ones in the Netherlands, in all the countries on the north sea coast. Doggerland is still about 30 meters below sea level, even for the Dutch this wouldnt be feasible. We would have to build a dam that can hold back 30m of sea water over a length of hundreds of kilometers. It cant be done.

[@TigerLily61811]

@@TheSuperappelflap I had the question about the salt water on the polders... and I thought if I peruse the comments I bet someone will mention it. thank you for going further and actually answering it! Tulips for desalination of soil... who knew?!

[@Whiskers4169]

Wait they are considered damming the North Sea ? Goddamn , what’s next the great canal to china ?

[@andrejajnik6050]

Awesome that you've mentioned Rozenburg. I grew up there. 😁 the Delta works were always so normal to me, but it's all actually pretty fascinating.

[@florisv559]

Boy, I was actually moved by your enthusiasm for the Dutch water management. All members of our government should become Patreons as a thank you for this wonderful advertisement. ;) Enjoyed every second of it.

[@macco4607]

i really enjoy this channel !!! i truly belive you put in a lot of work to make such a video. Keep it up !

[@barbarabauling7513]

This was fascinating. You managed to include a ton of information without too much fact indigestion. (Pronunciation a little less but still a valiant effort!) Well done! I've subscribed :) I'm a tour guide living in the Netherlands for over 40 years, and you nailed it! One of my favourite topics is about how brilliant the Dutch are at their PR and marketing icons. Wherever you go in the Netherlands you see quintessential images of windmills, wooden shoes, Delft's blue pottery and tulips etc. and yet none of these originated here. All came from other countries, and yet the Dutch have made them their own (and craftily earned themselves a ton of money in the process) It's a wonderful history they have here :)

[@rolandboerhof9391]

You are right. I remember a paper about performances of many universities across the globe. The Dutch performed very average on knowledge, but performed the best on presentation ie selling themselves

[@chiendefeu1]

Thanks. Very very complete and clever exposé...

[@danabuck8967]

Your stories are always so interesting. And I think you get better looking every time I see you ❤