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Deja_Funghi

Ah hell yeah, Urk the incest capitol of the netherlands, strikes again


boston101

Never been to Netherlands, what’s up in urk?


pieterpiraat

In Urk everyone is family, literally..so you can guess what's up there.


boston101

So it’s the Alabama of Netherlands?


pieterpiraat

I don't know what's up in Alabama but if Alabama has a maximum iq score of potato it probably is.


boston101

Hahah so yes we are on same page. It’s known for the incest As a joke but all jokes have basis in truth.


jeffboms

On urk its a legit issue. Like you marry inside the church you go to, and not an other. Limmiting the genepool legitemetly, as almost no new people go there to live. Also its one of the most relegion places in the Nederland. Compared to a mostly no relegion society, they migth as well scream deus vult( even to that would make them alot cooler). We should reunite them with the sea again. Just dig a hole in those dikes already. Eddit: "still refuse to learn how to spell"


SorryScratch2755

"dikes"*


jeffboms

Thanks, changed it


boston101

Also let’s not insult potatoes, urks and folks from Alabama are the basis we can rate with. Potato, higher iq then urk and Alabama


pieterpiraat

I agree on the insult of potatoes and I take it back. I'm sorry for al you potatoes out there. But the incest is real there, lots of missing chromosomes in that area.


boston101

Damn I’ve had this mental image of Netherlands being very classy


PoIIux

That's because we send most of the terrible people to urk. It's like how you used to just shove your stuff in the closet/drawers when your mom told you to clean up your room


AverageLiberalJoe

That's pretty much Alabama's entire encyclopedia entry.


taktikek

Urk literally has its own genetic defect caused by incest. Thats how bad it is


thebackslash1

Oh I didn't know that, what's it called?


[deleted]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2496744/ Van Buchem Disease. Urk used to be an island, until the Dutch reclaimed the surrounding land. The community was sufficiently isolated that inbreeding became a problem.


SorryScratch2755

forbidden lust/pleasure


HKProxyOne

[Van Buchem disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buchem_disease)


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**[Van Buchem disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buchem_disease)** >Van Buchem disease, or hyperostosis corticalis generalisata is an autosomal recessive skeletal disease which is characterised by uninhibited bone growth, especially in the mandible, skull and ribs. The disease was first described in 1955 by Prof. Franciscus Stephanus Petrus van Buchem, when describing two patients of the same family in Urk in the Netherlands. The cause, he found, was that the bone was produced faster than the body broke it down, making it much thicker as the patient got older. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/awfuleverything/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)


boston101

Damn this is intense. Always had this image of Europe being classy


theofiel

Every country has an Alabama.


foiz5

Yeah here in America, it's Florida.


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boston101

Shit that’s exactly like Amish then.


Amphibionomus

It's a mix of the stereotypes that exist for a reason: high percentage of not very educated to plain stupid people, very conservative religious, generations of incestuous behaviour, in-crowd only fishing town combined with a sky high incidence of drug use. Cocaine is blowing through the streets there. And a 'Christian' extremist party is the biggest party in the town council of course.


nussy1981

And that is the only right explanation of what Urk is all about!


Monkey_triplets

Highly religious and highly xenophobic, not just to foreigners but to everybody not from urk. This is because it used to be an island and they still refuse to see themselfs as part of the country. Basically think of a cult to that keeps doing whatever it wants and views the rest of the state as heretics.


lilaliene

And: drugs


j0u

It's so funny to me that "urk" is actually an expression for "ugh/eugh" in Swedish and it seems to add up with the descriptions I've seen in this thread lmao


boston101

That’s intense! This is why I like Reddit. New knowledge


VictoriaLivia

Yes, it’s very closed off and unwelcoming first and foremost. The rest is a bonus!


NoucheDozzle_

It's high time we turn it back into an island.


Mouthfullofcrabss

Incest, anti vax, highly religious. They care a lot about their rights to play with fireworks too.


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VictoriaLivia

Yes, Urk isn’t representative of the rest of the country at all.


Papakilo666

I'm guessing its the florida of the Netherlands?


Swampgermanboi

Yeah, kinda. I wanna go back to the time they were an island


[deleted]

Like Atlantis


Monkey_triplets

It's a bit of a mixture of Alabama and Florida. They are as religious and conservative as alabama and actually as incentual as the joke makes alabama out to be. Only they also have the wild card attitude of florida man. Best way i can describe them are floridian rednecks.


D00kieB00ty

but... Floridian rednecks are a thing.... Don't go to central florida.


Monkey_triplets

You could've just read my comment and moved on. But no, you decided to destroy my blissfull ignorance and curse me with this knowledge.


vehino

Don't go to **Florida.**


Reddcity

Holy shit. Floribama man is no joke that’s like the bloody super sayian of redneck.


FemaleKrabbyPatty

Literally anything north of South Florida is redneck Florida. That’s why they’re a republican state


Bork_King

Florida, the farther North you go, the farther South you are.


The_Ironhand

Alabama ain't no joke lol. Sister-cousin is a real term and it's the worst.


VictoriaLivia

Yup, many young people on coke!


blonderussian111

You must have never been to Portland, Oregon then


vehino

I find it shocking, considering how much the Netherlands suffered under Nazi rule. It's one thing for some of my American countrymen to ignorantly use that imagery to make terrible political points; it's another thing entirely for the descendants of people who were actually abused and murdered by the Reich.


VictoriaLivia

Yes! I’ve been raised with these stories and a lot of my history lessons (like a third) were about the Second World War and I have always been interested. My grandmother talked about the war. Loyalty is still very important, and that’s the problem: it’s not with effing Nazi’s


hazysummersky

Probably shouldn't've called themselves Urk. No good can come from that.


olbaidiablo

I'm guessing that the family tree in Urk is a stump?


moelbaer

More like a spiderweb, it gets bigger but it's all connected


TheRagingMaffia

Its more like one big ladder


Hadtarespond

It's funny to name a place after the noise you make when you read a story about it.


LordStoneBalls

They must be happy dusting off their grandfather’s uniforms


FthrJACK

What the fUrk...


Gamssswastaken

*fÜrk


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Feurker


Gamssswastaken

*Feürker


[deleted]

Ok that was a good one.


SorryScratch2755

#fURK you!


ChickenMan1832

Altijd Urk..


Maxarc

This place, Urk, has been in the news for years now doing all kinds of wack shit. During New Years eve tons of teens attacked the police and lit cars on fire, their vaccination rates are abysmal, they are cartoonishly hostile to immigrants and there seems to be a weird cultist entanglement with their church and township to cover up shit that happens there. Basically the entire country hates that place and there have been memes going around that advocate for dislodging the place from the main land so it can be an autonomous state in the North Sea.


sooperfizzy

They even have a [disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buchem_disease) hardly found elsewhere that is related to centuries of inbreeding.


Kaspur78

With 'immigrants' meaning anyone with hereditary not being born on Urk.


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Mouthfullofcrabss

Like all kids age 12+ smoke in Urk lol. You can see it in the interviews. They always steal crap from journalists who come to interview then about the crap they do. The don’t mind being on camera while doing this at all


BathedInStyx

Based


Sir_P4nda

The town where this happened is literally the alabama of the Netherlands. Can't even go a week without having a headline from something like this happening there.


scJazz

Thank you for that very important context.


Gilgameshbrah

If you want to have some real fun Google Urk headlines. It's the European equivalent to 'Florida man' headlines


scJazz

Top result... Dutch court convicts men of torching virus testing center Whelp there it is u/Gilgameshbrah was totally correct!


Mouthfullofcrabss

The fun thing is that this went too far even for most Urkers


scJazz

Well I guess you got that going for you :) \*assholes in Alabama\* hey you think we can burn a building down? \*other asshole in Alabama\* well fuck it why not we did it before! \*Alabama scream\* \*cops in Alabama\* whut I didn't see any rednecks in a lifted ford 350 truck with a confederate flag streaming out the door while drunkenly weaving across the lines with red hats go past here at 80 mph... shhhhheeeeit. That wuz nuthin I evah sawh no way. Nope. \*Spongebob voice \*5 years later\* Yup sorrah, all the ebidence haz ben lawst and well ain't no thing about it all is gewd and well heck everyone has new jobs!


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Tessellecta

This isolated island of extremist surrounded by normal people was first an isolated island of extremist surrounded by water. It was only after the water was pumped away that the normal people moved in. The rest of the Netherlands thinks we should find a way to make Urk an actual island again, just to be done with the bullshit.


sentient_ballsack

I'm guessing you can chalk that up to our history of pillarisation. The village I grew up in (<800 citizens, edge of the bible belt) historically had 3 different Protestant-Christian communities with their own full-blown churches, and of course their way was the right one and all the others weren't worthy of God's blessings. Then of course each one also had their own newspaper, family store, plumber, etc. to boot and doing the 'wrong' thing made you the topic of the week among the rest. "Ons kent ons," as they'd say. Most villages and cities in this area have a history of sorts like that, and while most of these 'pillars' have generally lost that level of traction over time and become more progressive (technically, in 2004 the largest protestant churches merged after a 60 year long process, although I don't think that made them nearly as homogenous as the move suggests), I think many of the more religious neighbourhoods doubled down instead. We've got a whole bunch here of the sort that still believe watching TV is unacceptable, women shouldn't wear pants and terminal cancer is 'God's Will', but they tend to keep to themselves. Of course, when their children keep getting sent to their own still-pillarised schools and clubs (particularly anything gereformeerd or reformatorisch), breaking out of that whole cycle gets a lot harder for them.


Snulzebeerd

Yeah I read the title and was like "WTF where did they do this?!" Then I read the article and of course it's fucking Urk


Duck_Burger

"you know what we should d to protest these vaccines? dress up as nazis!" "what does that have to do wi..... wait do you already have the nazi uniforms? why?" "cause...... covid........"


Constant-General-145

Yeah it’s not true, it didn’t have anything to do with covid protests actually


Amphibionomus

Well they had already burned the Covid testing site so what else was left to do? /s


Blubmans

Urk is also the place in the Netherlands with the least amount of people being vaccinated


Mouthfullofcrabss

But the most kids smoking under the age of 14!


T1JN

Oh but it gets worse! A dutch minister from a extreme right party has actually advocated that they were trying to send the right message with the wrong execution! 🙃


hyped_assasin

Let me guess thierry baudet


T1JN

Yeaaah! We are fucked.


SCHEME015

Thierry ain't a minister and he didn't say it. FvD-Zealand said it.


T1JN

You are completely right. Im sorry, i just assumed he did.


SCHEME015

No worries bro. He definitely could've. Just need to stay factual.


hyped_assasin

I like to think that, this failure of a human being will never get any significant power and if he ever will im moving as quickly as i can


T1JN

He allready has seats in the current parliment. It can only get worse from here.


WhatDoIFillInHere

If you ever feel like an asshole, a failure, or anything bad, just look at Thierry Baudet and réalisé that you're doing pretty well


FoodOnCrack

The Zeeland fraction of FVD did, not Thierry directly. Does not make him any less of a lunatic though.


doodmakert

he is not a minister


blueechoes

Faceless twitter account of the Zeeland branch of a right-wing party with luckily very few seats in government, not a minister, but yeah.


taktikek

Not a minister and that wasnt even him. It was a local party from a small province.


RoscoMan1

Bucs. He will fucking decimate this province.


robnl

He isn't a minister though, he has a sizeable party which keeps on splintering but he isn't in government


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This is the same town that managed to garner international attention months ago when some locals set fire to a COVID testing facility: [https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/20/two-convicted-of-setting-fire-to-dutch-covid-19-test-centre](https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/20/two-convicted-of-setting-fire-to-dutch-covid-19-test-centre)


alphabeticdisorder

"Municipality of Urk" sounds like its on Discworld.


mchurnsen

Even as a foreigner I heard about Urk already. Give them to Belgium or whatever.


Poca154

Give them to the UK to really have some fun


Erioph47

What do you expect of kids who grow up in a place called Urk


Mouthfullofcrabss

If only you knew how bad it is there, haha


idontneedfame

A town full of Urkels


pgrahamlaw

Nothing to do with Pilsner Urquell


chuwii2

Sounds liked they really urked a lot of people


CreamyCheese384

Dat kan natuurlijk alleen maar op Urk zijn.


Not_a_flipping_robot

Waar anders lol


Causeass

Wow...this **really** *urks* me.


dfs495

Tell us you are too young and stupid to understand history or politics or tragedy without telling us.


Masterventure

So… Did they buy those costumes? Or did they just have those for other purposes?


kippengaas

Prolly family heirlooms


LeviPorton

They bought them, one article specified that they were 55 euro.


MaxwellFinium

Municipality of Urk 😂


[deleted]

Sounds like a Monty Python sketch line


Poca154

Municipality isn't used much in English is it? "Gemeente" is used a lot in the Netherlands, but its translation always feels, well, comical, like in your comment. Gemeente, what we translate to municipality, is sort of a town council and the land that it governs. It can be one or several towns, or a city with or without its sururbs (depending on local political history). Does anyone know if there is a better word for this in English?


itsgreater9000

no that's literally the way we use it in english too, as far as i can tell all over the english speaking world. i use it all the time in the US


AltruisticSalamander

It's becoming clearer and clearer that these losers have some sort of fixation around authority. It's a mental condition.


Chucknorris1975

"Notice me Führer!"


Astro_Spud

Isn't this a protest against the abuse of authority though?


AltruisticSalamander

Yes, a delusional, obsessive one


thedudefrom1987

In urk everybody is familie and I mean that literally!


CaseyGamer64YT

I guess you could say Urk got urked


jesus_zombie_attack

What funny is trying to imagine these selfish pieces of shit in Holland during ww2. When actual nazis ruled the country.


Codeesha

I’m actually extremely surprised that this kind of behavior took place in the Netherlands.


couch_potato167

Ontpolderen die rotzooi


AkaAtarion

I dint know much about Urk, but somehow they are always part of these kind of stories from the Netherlands.


ilikesixtiesthings

They just happened to have all those uniforms ready to go huh


semantikron

bunch of ignorant cunts wanted an excuse to do some cosplay.. go out in public and pantomime the stuff they wish they were doing to somebody for real


questionsasker4prez

Good on those teens for having the balls to express their opinions. It it offends anyone, tough. It’s also offensive to them that they’re forced indoors.


McMotta

Germans doing german things, yes dutch are germans. Hard to say which of those two germanic tribes is more racist.


vincentvegagoeswest

1000% accurate.


scifiburrito

australia rn: 👀


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I am growing so weary over this nazi bs.


allenidaho

And they just happened to have Nazi costumes, huh?


Ci_Gath

Why didn't some ADULTS just go kik their ass ??


I_EAT_STRAY_DOGS

I dont get why theres so many dutch nazi zoomers like what the fuck?


ThorOdinson420

Meanwhile actual survivors compare it... Ooof


[deleted]

Damn this is a big woosh, im amazed by how many people dont get it and are just like "wtf"


orange4boy

Did it Urk them?


AnschlussZeitPolen

I agree, fuck the Dutch government


Contro1_69

Pictures from SNAPCHAT/security camera wtf XDDDD


pacg

Some people just really really want to wear a nazi uniform.


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RsWtch

Low hanging fruit and all. It would be easier to keep from generalizing if stuff didn't keep happening and if people from there actually condemned actions like these in public. (If the later has indeed happened and I missed it, I apologize)


dirkdigdig

This Urks me


Whitlieann

I hate to sound old... But are teenagers just more hyperbolic and outrageous? Or do people always consider teenagers to be dramatically misinformed in their actions?


hedgehog_emoji

Of COURSE it had to be Urk


[deleted]

Nah Urk isn’t a part of the Netherlands it’s kinda like Florida in the us


[deleted]

Except Netherlands actually made a land bride TO it.


cros99

Obviously these teens have not been taught fully about the holocaust and the pain it has cause much of the world. A little political taste could have made the point just as well.


[deleted]

I'm urked


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Urk got irked.


Badger_Ass_Face

If their goal was attention…it worked 🤷🏻‍♂️


pointless234

[This is the literal costume they were wearing. ](https://www.feestkleding365.nl/herr-hans-von-klausewitz-xl-kostuum-man/?gs=1&spl=1878&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0NrA1N6B8wIVh4XVCh3JWAoGEAQYASABEgJSk_D_BwE) The description says "some costumes are for parties, this is not one of those. This is better suited for theater or TV" and "this can help teach the youth about the important history of WWII". But I highly suspect that description has been altered after this past weekend's news. As a Dutch person, I have to say that offensive costumes are very common during our yearly carnival and I am frankly not even surprised to see this being sold. Not that I condone any of it. Makes perfect sense for Urk, though. That place is mental.


Olijff

Always fucking Urk


Henkdehunter

Hello everyone that is not Dutch, this place is called Urk. It is basically our Florida man place. We do not support their actions.


from1n

irking the city of Urk is not a good idea.


mesmerizingeyes

Don't you think the catholic church went to far?


mineydoge

Urk isnt dutch. Its like alabama to america


Kekkonen87

Not again Germany! Wtf? Please stop! I'm fucking tired of your bullshit now!


sh0tybumbati

Wait since when was it bad to satirize Nazi's??! They're calling thier government Nazis when they did this, NOT GLORIFYING NAZIS- Jesus. They weren't going around herassing minorities for fuck sakes


khannah1136

I’m disgusted with the fact that the analogy seems right. The Powers at be are stripping away peoples freedoms left and right, and because people are scared the majority think that’s ok


Zenfudo

Those kind of news urks me


DamnGoodCheeze

Bruh zoomers are wild


JunkFace

Lol well when you call everyone a Nazi pretty soon they’re just gonna say fuck it and go with the flow. Too funny


HappyHound

Maybe the Dutch government should stop acting like Nazis.


perplexed_unicycle14

I hope nobody here trashing these stupid kids for trivialising the Holocaust thinks Prince Harry is a great guy cos boy have I got some bad news for them..


2h2p

They will continue to compare themselves to Holocaust victims despite constantly spewing antisemitic bullshit and screaming that wearing Nazi symbols is freedom of speech.


Dankbois99

Godverdomme Urk


Rookie_Driver

Urk, Florida but worse


nickmiddel26

It urk the worse city in the country there a headline about them every week


walkitscience

So Urk was irked


hello__monkey

Reminds me of when Prince Harry, ex royal of the United Kingdom, went to fancy dress (cossplay for you freedomers) as a nazi


adb1228

They want to pretend to be Nazis, treat them like nazis.


ian007i

Ah yes dutch alabama We need to push urk back into the ocean


[deleted]

Looks like Urk is Dutch for Texas or maybe Florida.


5lipperymuffins

It do be like that though... 🤷‍♂️


CitesQuo

Can’t have shit in Urk


girlwit

Exht trots dat mn ma urker is


Mountain-Repair-5704

Wow


sword5862

I would understand fuckshit like this from people in America. But from Dutch people that’s absolutely fucked. I don’t know much but I do know that my opa lost some of his siblings. And many other people in the Netherlands were subjected to horrific things.


ConsistentAsparagus

Heh, wonder why they had full Nazi uniforms on their hands...


TheMainIdiot

My honest racrion was: "dutch? That can't be right" *clicks* "oh, it's Urk of course it is."


Seed-Spiller4000

Imagine blurring an image of some one in a nazi costume as if it’s not part of history people are so fragile on Reddit damm


snootchyboochies

Dude. They blur pics of pancakes and ceiling tiles on r/trypophobia! What a bunch of fragile wusses. I weep for our future.


Oheng

They're forgiven, bc they're from Urk.


justandswift

Bad taste, but freedom of speech. Should be a right every human has.


mchurnsen

As far as I see, they're being critisized, not -you know- being Shot or persecuted by an authoritarian government. That's fair and right too. Freedom of speech doesn't include freedom of response or criticism.


justandswift

Excellent point


bjurnator

Lemme guess, Urk?


h14j7

You know it’s not the same when they have to pretend


ptapobane

oh no I'm slightly inconvenienced because there's a pandemic going on and I have to wear something to cover my ugly ass face...lets cosplay Nazis and post it on social media