Jasmin Beatrix

Neurodivergente 🐸✨
Kunststudentin 🎨
aus NRW 📍

[The Dutch Perspective @Mr_Tomorrow__]

The Germans have a name for us Dutch that sounds considerably better in German.

Käsköppe.

Cheese heads.

I can't even argue with it.

Germany and the Netherlands are both serious cheese countries, but we somehow managed to turn a few names, especially Gouda and Edam, into international representatives of an entire nation.

Gouda is particularly amusing because the cheese wasn't simply invented in the city and kept there. Gouda became famous as the marketplace where cheeses from the surrounding countryside were weighed and traded.

Then the cheese travelled.

The pronunciation unfortunately did not.

Ask an English speaker for Gouda and you may hear “goo-da.” Germans generally get considerably closer. Then a Dutch person arrives, produces a sound from the back of the throat that suggests a minor respiratory emergency, and announces that everyone is still wrong.

That's one of the pleasures of living next to Germany.

Our languages are close enough that Germans can read Dutch and understand just enough to become dangerously confident.

We do exactly the same with German.

A German reads “Ik heb een grote hond” and thinks: easy.

A Dutchman reads “Ich habe einen großen Hund” and thinks: also easy.

Then somebody actually starts talking and 1,500 years of shared Germanic linguistic history immediately leave the room.

So yes, Germans.

You may call us Käsköppe.

Just pronounce Gouda properly.

[The Internet Remains Undefeated @WebUndefeated]

This is why it’s important to let kids be bored.🏴‍☠️😁

[Siqi Chen @blader]

my 11 year old is taking a public speaking class

they each had to speak on a random topic

today she got 'dinosaurs'

... and ran out of things to say with 30 seconds left

so she says: "and now please join me in a moment of silence for all those dead dinosaurs"

💀

proud dad

[Cats Out Of Context @Cats_ooc]

That’s definitely Hubris

[Cats with aura @Catsworldtweet]

Who wouldn’t want to curl up and sleep on a giant teddy bear?

[Rentner, die auf Dinge zeigen @RentnerdaDz]

Ok. Wer von euch war das?

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

I’ve never seen anything more accurate in my life

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

the gray cat was shocked to discover that the black cat can make the same ekekekekek sound too

[9GAG ❤️ Memeland @9GAG]

"Bro won't clean up after himself and I'm going insane"

[こねこ日和｜Kitten Days @naitahanasi]

新幹線乗ってたら前の人に絡まれた

[No Context Cats @nocontextscats]

Yearly photoshoot

[Cats with aura @Catsworldtweet]

That sign about falling cats is hilarious.

[9GAG ❤️ Memeland @9GAG]

"better than nuthin"

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Why did he turn towards the camera

[Obear @oobbbear]

I got a pet carrier for my kitten off Facebook marketplace for cheap but forget to ask size

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

A Orca gave birth to a calf that died shortly after.
For the next 17 days, she carried her dead baby on her head and back while swimming more than 1,600 kilometers through the waters of the North Pacific.
Whenever she grew tired, members of her pod swam alongside her and helped push the body so it wouldn’t sink.

Scientists who observed the behavior said it wasn’t just instinct… it was a clear and prolonged expression of grief.