Kike

Genio y figura. Actríz y modelo. Maasai y mediapunta de calidad. Economista de alto copete y Data Scientist de los que ya no quedan. Follow Fuck y Trucos varios

[The Dutch Perspective @Mr_Tomorrow__]

The Spanish are chronically late for tomorrow.

And after looking at the history, I'm increasingly convinced they're the ones who understood summer correctly.

The difference in daily rhythm between Spain and the Netherlands is enormous. We Dutch like lunch at noon, dinner around six and preferably knowing next Thursday's plans before this Thursday has finished. Spain seems to regard the clock more as useful background information.

Some of that rhythm has deep historical roots. For centuries, much of Spanish life had to accommodate intense summer heat. Agricultural work was often organised around cooler parts of the day, with activity slowing during the hottest hours and returning later. Meals, markets and social life naturally developed around those rhythms.

Then modern history made Spanish time even stranger.

In 1940, Franco moved Spain's clocks from Western European time to Central European time, aligning them with Germany and occupied parts of Europe. Geographically, much of Spain sits roughly where the UK and Portugal do, yet its clocks remain an hour ahead.

So when a Spaniard eats dinner at 21:30, the sun itself has a surprisingly good argument that it isn't quite as late as the clock claims.

Add generations of Mediterranean social culture and you get evenings that feel completely different from ours. At ten o'clock, Spanish streets can still contain families, grandparents, children and tables full of food while a Dutch neighbourhood has already entered the stage where closing a car door too loudly becomes a municipal incident.

The first time you experience it, your Dutch brain protests:

“Why is that child still awake?”

Then you notice three generations sitting together, people talking, food appearing and absolutely nobody rushing home.

Suddenly our 18:00 dinner starts looking less like efficiency and more like we've accidentally scheduled civilization around the opening hours of an insurance company.

I'll remain Dutch, of course. Tell me dinner starts at 21:30 and I'll have a precautionary sandwich at six.

But Spain reminds me of something worth remembering.

The Dutch became exceptionally good at organising life.

The Spanish spent centuries learning when it was actually pleasant to live it.

[JAMÓN IBÉRICO @aroquesihombre]

Esto era un clásico entre los españoles que emigraron en los 60 a Alemania

[Troll Football Media @TrollFootball2]

One 'N' away from greatness

[Kike @Kikeina]

Cuando el nombre te va al pelo #Charo #Granada #Terremoto

[Institute for Hispano Studies @hispano_studies]

The Spanish conquest was driven by trade, wealth, ambition, and power, but evangelization was central to the imperial project.

Missionaries learned Indigenous languages, wrote grammars, studied local customs, and built institutions that helped spread Catholicism across the Americas. Conversion was not simply a military process. It involved preaching, education, persuasion, cultural exchange, and syncretism.

The Hispanic Monarchy even suspended conquest to debate the moral and legal legitimacy of its own expansion, producing arguments that would shape the Laws of the Indies, the School of Salamanca and give birth to human rights.

Many Indigenous peoples simply found Catholicism sufficiently compelling as an alternative to religious systems that included human sacrifice. Its rapid spread therefore reflected not only conquest, but also persuasion, conversion, theological reason and cultural adaptation.

Whatever one thinks of the conquest, reducing the spread of Catholicism in Spanish America to “blood and the sword” leaves out a major part of the historical story.

[🇭🇹AXIS AKA PREMYE ZETWAL LA🇭🇹 @ELBART0ELBART0]

dios le da trap a quien no tiene dientes

[Sergio Hidalgo @SergioHidalAERO]

La diferencia entre 99% y 100% es mucha?

[Constitución Española de 1978 @_constitucion78]

Artículo 30

Los españoles tienen el derecho y el deber de defender a España

[Dibujitos Aleatorios @Garabatxs]

📰🗞️

CUÁNTAS COPAS TENÉS????

[Norcoreano @norcoreano]

España, conquistando América y evangelizando a los indios desde 1492.

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

Si España gana su segunda Copa del Mundo el próximo domingo sortearé MIL QUINIENTOS DÓLARES (1500$) entre todos los seguidores que hagan RT.

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

Si España se clasifica para la final de la Copa del Mundo sortearé MIL DÓLARES entre todos los seguidores que hagan RT.

[Gudim @like_gudim]

guilty!

[RPCS3 @rpcs3]

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[Kike @Kikeina]

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[Kike @Kikeina]

@PlayStation @PlayStationEU Hijos de la gran P**A

[Kike @Kikeina]

Atraco a mano armada a Croacia @2010MisterChip

Una Portugal domada gana con muy poquito.

Penalty regalado compensando el gol previamente anulado y favoritismo anulando el gol en el 115.

Espero que en las reuniones de árbitros hablen sobre este gol e incentiven intentar el gol

[Juanca @Nanosecso]

Para ir a la guerra, a mí dame a un vasco.