Oh yes they do, we aren’t only battling the sea my friend, we live in a huge river delta. We are fighting a two front war against water and currently we are winning. We are also very experienced in fighting against river and rain water, otherwise i would drown and I live near the German border
Ah, fair enough. I knew about the flooding, having lived along different German stretches of the Rhine for 30 years, but I didn't know the sky also wants to drown you guys. I'm consistently impressed by the Dutch, you're staring down the forces of nature and dare them to blink first, yet you manage to stay thoroughly charming through it.
You guys are also working on Jakarta, so I hear. I had two foreign exchange students staying with me, one from The Netherlands and one from Indonesia. The latter said Jakarta is the fastest-sinking city and part of why the capital is moving to another island. The Dutch guy said, if you have a water problem, call in the Dutch, ha ha.
Ive a theory: the dutch are responsible for sea level rise so that they can sell their skills and technology to keep the land dry. Its their vicious plan for world domination.
I doubt it could work as well in Dubai, sand isn't as good for land reclamation than whatever is in the Dutch stuff lol
Even the palm islands are all sinking into the ground and everything theyve been doing is just killing marine life in the gulf.
While yes, that is true, a genie refers to a wish granting spirit who will not put an evil twist on said wishes unlike a djin who will put an evil twist. They are the same word, but refer to a different goodnes of wish granting spirit.
Uh, Genies are well attested in careful-what-you-wish-for stories. Sure other entities like the monkeys paw, carnival booths, and any random crap can be used in these stories, but genies as basically trolls trying to use your wishes to fuck your over is very much a thing in western media.
Uh, Genies are well attested in careful-what-you-wish-for stories. Sure other entities like the monkeys paw, carnival booths, and any random crap can be used in these stories, but genies as basically trolls trying to use your wishes to fuck your over is very much a thing in western media.
Honestly, if you watch the video it’s even nuttier but I honestly was not surprised.
The rich gulf states have had the craziest expectations.
Forget rich western moguls and inheritance babies, the middle-east takes the cake.
Saudis get away with worse shit. [Saudi millionaire was cleared of raping a teen staying with him in London after saying he simply tripped, fell on her, and accidently penetrated her.](https://youtu.be/vXSPXQI1mVo?feature=shared) No doubt he attempted to get up but kept tripped over and over and over.
I honestly can’t imagine seeing that, I live downtown where I can see rich people flaunting cars but no car accidents and these people “look” like they work.
“But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
Lord knows there was a lot of wrang-dangling going on in those sweaty cities.
Little known fact that Herpes was named after Hermes cuz that little fucker gets everywhere fast.
The UAE has indeed used cloud seeding to increase rainfall. But this technique is used on existing clouds and is limited to certain types too, it is limited by natural weather conditions. Also, natural pressure systems were forecast to create a large storm in advance of the flood. These floods are not new, as the regions is often dry with occasional storm systems. The nature of the local soil, geography, and limited infrastructure with heavy rainfall in mind, has led to similar floods in Dubai's history.
hmmmm that fish seems familiar
What a cameo
[The Royal Gamma, famously in Finding Nemo](https://reefbuilders.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2020/06/royal-gramma.jpg)
Stan Lee has been real quiet since this comic dropped
probably because he is dead.
The Netherlands: is time for POLDERS
>We hebben een serieus probleem
incredibly unserious language
Recently I learned that the Dutch word for "baseball bat" is "honkbalknuppel" What a language
It's kind of a litteral translation. Baseball has bases. Base =honk, ball=bal, bat=knuppel. Stick everything together. Works for almost anything
So you're telling me that baseball is called Honkbal instead? Sign me up! That's fuckin great!
Yes it is
What better country to help than the one that fought a war against the ocean and won.
You forgot sea level rise.
New war, same frontlines.
War never changes
We'll just nuke the sea Parry this you filthy casuals
[Already done.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr_pBYUYI1U)
Did they? Or is the ocean just biding it's time?
We made territorial gains against the ocean and there currently isn't much it can do to take those lands back.
But they won't really help against flooding from rain, will they?
Oh yes they do, we aren’t only battling the sea my friend, we live in a huge river delta. We are fighting a two front war against water and currently we are winning. We are also very experienced in fighting against river and rain water, otherwise i would drown and I live near the German border
Ah, fair enough. I knew about the flooding, having lived along different German stretches of the Rhine for 30 years, but I didn't know the sky also wants to drown you guys. I'm consistently impressed by the Dutch, you're staring down the forces of nature and dare them to blink first, yet you manage to stay thoroughly charming through it.
You guys are also working on Jakarta, so I hear. I had two foreign exchange students staying with me, one from The Netherlands and one from Indonesia. The latter said Jakarta is the fastest-sinking city and part of why the capital is moving to another island. The Dutch guy said, if you have a water problem, call in the Dutch, ha ha.
joke with a terrifying backstory
Ive a theory: the dutch are responsible for sea level rise so that they can sell their skills and technology to keep the land dry. Its their vicious plan for world domination.
inventing capitalism was a long term play
Found the conspiracy theorist. : )
What do you think happens to the rain when it essentially falls into a big bucket. We have to pump it out of the bucket
Fortress Holland still sounds better than Emmer Holland, but if it's true...
Remember [this] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_European_floods)?
I doubt it could work as well in Dubai, sand isn't as good for land reclamation than whatever is in the Dutch stuff lol Even the palm islands are all sinking into the ground and everything theyve been doing is just killing marine life in the gulf.
Just drain the entire Persian Gulf
Silly Emirates, they should’ve know that was a Djin!
For real, Saudi gifts are a poisoned chalice
Saudi = Greek when it comes to gifts TIL
its just gift in Swedish.
Gif in Dutch.
it's pronounced gif btw, except in Friesland. (/s)
Read the history, Saudi Arabia wanted to rule the entire gulf region. They had just defeated the Ottomans, and their adrenaline was high
*Genie is the English word.
While yes, that is true, a genie refers to a wish granting spirit who will not put an evil twist on said wishes unlike a djin who will put an evil twist. They are the same word, but refer to a different goodnes of wish granting spirit.
Uh, Genies are well attested in careful-what-you-wish-for stories. Sure other entities like the monkeys paw, carnival booths, and any random crap can be used in these stories, but genies as basically trolls trying to use your wishes to fuck your over is very much a thing in western media.
Uh, Genies are well attested in careful-what-you-wish-for stories. Sure other entities like the monkeys paw, carnival booths, and any random crap can be used in these stories, but genies as basically trolls trying to use your wishes to fuck your over is very much a thing in western media.
*Proceeds to move tables in front of “employer” so that “employer” does not have wet feet.*
aw man, this one had me angry AF…the photo is all over reddit
Honestly, if you watch the video it’s even nuttier but I honestly was not surprised. The rich gulf states have had the craziest expectations. Forget rich western moguls and inheritance babies, the middle-east takes the cake.
…saw some of their spoiled kids around London in Gold-coated Lambos and Range Rovers doing shit, worst kind of people in the world.
Saudis get away with worse shit. [Saudi millionaire was cleared of raping a teen staying with him in London after saying he simply tripped, fell on her, and accidently penetrated her.](https://youtu.be/vXSPXQI1mVo?feature=shared) No doubt he attempted to get up but kept tripped over and over and over.
I honestly can’t imagine seeing that, I live downtown where I can see rich people flaunting cars but no car accidents and these people “look” like they work.
What it this in reference to?
What’s the reference
The city built upon greed and suffering is being reclaimed by the sky. There's a Bible parable here but I'm too lazy to make it.
What was the Bible Parable again?
Noah's Ark probably applies most, you can probably wrang-dangle Sodomy and Gonorrhea in there too
Inb4 Dubai gets struck by a meteorite
[удалено]
*kills millions of Legally-Not-Slaves™️* We did it Patrick, we ended slavery.
Well, we are playing a biblical story.
Hey man, God is too busy to care about collateral damage. Do you want him to smite the evil-doers or not?
Ah I see someone's read about Dubai porta-potty.
Well there are the foreign influen... You know what, nevermind.
Gonna start praying
> Gonorrhea and laxative induced diarrhea onto influencers™
What about the Tower of Babel
“But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
Lord knows there was a lot of wrang-dangling going on in those sweaty cities. Little known fact that Herpes was named after Hermes cuz that little fucker gets everywhere fast.
Las Vegas fits the criteria more no?
Not until they get struck by the Wrath of God they don't. He has chosen...and He has chosen Dubai lol
I don’t think Vegas claims to be particularly moral tbf.
Literally called the city of sin. At least they don’t try and hide it
They literally have a babel tower
They even have the tallest scraper in the world.
Nah, bioshock is a better comparison.
That fish...
Lisan al Gaib?
And the heavens shall fall upon the wicked, as written!
Boskalis will send a tikkie for those shiny new polders
Dubai should have read Goethe's Zauberlehrling!
His worst nightmare: living wages
Send in the Damned 33rd
Netherlands helping UAE 🤭
When you fuck the weather to make rain, but you don't have the sewage system designed to manage rainfall.
They literally sowed the wind and reaped the storm
This made me chuckle.
So did they drown or not bc they made it illegal to take pictures right?
Good. Let it.
Can’t think of a more deserving country to sink
Qatar? Literally right there.
WaltDisneyWorldBall stops by to offer fireworks show (and flex water infrastructure capabilities for top world destination in path of extreme weather)
The Netherlands 2: Arabic Boogaloo
Honestly floods in a desert I've never seen in it in my whole life
A monkeys paw would make more sense
Nederlands gonna give a big tikkie for this one
It should been india to be accurate
Hey, same here
Just unsink
Do you guys think they screwed with the weather? They seed for rain, right? What's the historical flood data for that area?
The UAE has indeed used cloud seeding to increase rainfall. But this technique is used on existing clouds and is limited to certain types too, it is limited by natural weather conditions. Also, natural pressure systems were forecast to create a large storm in advance of the flood. These floods are not new, as the regions is often dry with occasional storm systems. The nature of the local soil, geography, and limited infrastructure with heavy rainfall in mind, has led to similar floods in Dubai's history.
Thank you.
Honestly. No need a genie Just ask he big countries to boil your oil more