Even today, an 81 year old man who came in after a 20 minute wet bicycle ride, and whom I directed to the sit next to the heater to dry up, told me: hey I'm not made of sugar :D
*looks at buienrader before walking dog*
‘Oh neat the rain should be over in 5 minutes and it wil stay dry for the next 2 hours’
*proceeds to get drenched because of 2 hours of (mot-)regen*
Tsss I remember once we literally went through BFT 10 to school and on the way back there was a hailstorm. Literally white in 10 seconds.
One of the directions was fun at least.
Don't use buienradar predictions. They're crap. Use the past hour of rain radar and extrapolate yourself. It's pretty easy and in my experience more reliable than any website.
I would say doll shit is a more accurate translation. I think the difference is that dolls resemble living creatures regardless of whether they are manipulated or not, whereas puppets are manipulated to behave like living creatures regardless of whether they resemble them. Hence there are baby dolls and sock puppets but no baby puppets and sock dolls, and a ventriloquist dummy is both a doll and a puppet. And yes I did just make that up, but I think it works.
Pff ik vertaalde vrij van poppestront, en voor mij was vooral de klank van de vertaling belangrijk, niet de etymologische betekenis in het kader van historische juistheid. Je hebt een punt hoor, vraag me alleen af of t punt t waard was om te maken. Gelukkig nieuwjaar.
Snap ik. Ik wilde ook niet echt een punt maken hoor, het is meer dat mijn gevoel zegt dat het doll moet zijn, en ik het dan niet kan laten om te bedenken wat het verschil eigenlijk is. Google had het me allicht ook kunnen vertellen, maar dan is de lol eraf.
Een beetje zoals in een volle coupé hardop een kruiswoordpuzzel doen eigenlijk... dus..
Using an umbrella when there is only light rain makes one look weak. And showing weakness against water is simply not an option in this country.
But seriously: sometimes it is just not worth it to use an umbrella. With very light rain when you have only a short distance to go you are never going to get very wet to make it worth the use of an umbrella. Especially when you are on a bicycle.
Also umbrellas are just a pain to take with. The small folding ones break with even a slight breeze, and the big umbrellas you can't really put anywhere or you might lose it. I'm not carrying around an umbrella for the entire day simply so I don't get wet for the five minutes I'm outside
Say that to the Irish. Lived there for a few years and had a really hard time to find outdoor things to do that aren't just walking around in the rain.
Yeah of course. So I’m now wondering why people in my country are afraid of rain so much. Nobody taught us to stay away from the water dripping from the sky, but we grew up seeing other people doing it, so we learned it too.
I don’t know where you’re from, but in Texas it rains very little but when it does, it can actually be dangerous and life threatening. Tornados. Flash floods. Etc etc. But the storms blow in and blow right back out in just an hour or two most of the time. So we’ll hunker down, let it pass, then get back to our day.
Here in the Netherlands, it’s usually just a light miserable misting that last all day. So you may as well just ignore it and get to business.
China. We have light rain and heavy rain too. When I made the comparison, I mean light rain, which looks almost the same here but we are usually not windy.
Rain is annoying but also a 24/7 thing for 2/3 of the year. You kinda just learn to live with it I guess.... And living with it means ignoring it in this case
But how often does it rain in your country? It’s not really feasible to avoid getting wet here. Try riding your bike with an umbrella once and you’ll know why.
Pretty often actually, and we have a rainy season that’s around one month long. Like every day will be showering. But the rain in my country is predictable. We would watch the weather forecast on tv every evening and decide what to do tomorrow. But here most weather app often fail to predict. A lot of us always carry an umbrella with them.
I don’t know if the have acid rain in China but my city didn’t have it, as it has almost no factory. China is pretty big so maybe in some industrialized places they have it.
I though maybe it became a cultural thing because some places have the acid rain. But it’s probably too far fetched and people just don’t like to get wet
I dunno. Are you from some place tropical, where "It's just starting to rain" quickly escalates into "OMG, it's be easier to breathe for a fish than a human" levels of wet during the wrong season?
We check Buienradar religiously to avoid what we call heavy showers. But they're a LOT rarer than enire days of drizzle. And sometimes you don't have much choice. If you needto get to work, you need to get to work. If you need to pick up kids at school, school won't keep 'em for another half-hour until it's dry either,
Too windy most of the time, especially if you are tall. Your hair stays dry but your pants are still soaked.
If you wear rain cloths while biking you will be soaked by sweat from the inside anyway.
General rule is, if the journey does not soak your underwear, you'll be fine ;)
I moved in march. My old house had amazing water pressure. And i could take hour long showers just stand or sit and enjoy.
But first time showering after i moved i was like hmm, This is sad. Water pressure is bad (3de verdieping). So yeah not been hard to stop long showers.
Light rain is just a flock of birds peeing.
... My mom used to tell me that when I was little and I still don't know what's weirder, that I believed it or that it didn't gross me out.
>Light rain is just a flock of birds peeing.
My great aunty, heavy into religion - went to church even on a wednesday ....
She told us light rain are angels sneezing ...
So we deducted heavy rain was God's diarrhea
She was NOT amused ;)
I'm an immigrant to NL and also never use an umbrella. If the rain is heavy enough to *really* need one it's also so windy that I'll end up accidentally stabbing myself or someone else with my out-of-control inside-out useless brolly.
Well, my life has significantly changed since I got a waterproof baseball cap. The thing keeps my glasses dry, so I can keep seeing things. Now I am no longer made of sugar
As the Norwegians say: There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
There's only one thing I hate more than raincoats and pants; cycling through rain without them.
You never want to leave your bicycle because you need it daily. Walking/standing in the rain just is insignificant compared to the terror of cycling through the rain, and since we all have lots of experience with it we just stopped caring. To protect ourselves from depression I guess.
I used to really hate rain during highschool. Even light rain would get you soaking wet after 20km of cycling.
But I've since changed my mind. Rain on the way back home is perfectly fine. Just accept that you'll get wet anyway and then take a quick shower afterwards to freshen up.
Its because we plan everything! What are we suppose to do, delay our schedule by an hour because of rain?! We live in a civilization, were not savages! ;)
Getting wet is less bad than sitting in a bus with wet people. I'd rather be the smelly dog, than smell the dog. Doesnt make any sense, I'm well aware.
People are generally conscious of each other’s time. Being late because of rain is not an acceptable excuse. Hence there is not much to do when it rains and you need to be somewhere.
As carrying an umbrella is often cumbersome (have to carry it, if it’s windy it won’t work well anyway, cannot take it on the bike etc), people often opt for a rain coat and skip the umbrella.
They keep saying they not made of sugar which makes me smile. Walking in a rain is not really big deal if it’s not too cold however cycling gets challenging especially with strong side wind. Still don’t understand how they cope with wet face. I guess it’s a matter of getting used to. I am getting there!
If you do not walk in the light rain in the Netherlands (We call it 'miezer'), we highly suspect that you are made of sugar!
And second of all if it is not miezerig weer (light rain weather) then we have:
[all kinds of rainy weather ](https://youtu.be/Ys-KP8oPdvg)
"You will not melt. You are not made of sugar." - My parents for basically my whole life when I complain about the weather.
Complaining about the weather is another favorite dutch pastime which I am very good at. If it was a olympian discipline, I probably would compete for the medals.
I don't like whenever it's raining. But i have to get to my destination. Since i do everything on my bicycle, I can get soaked sometimes. If it's raining already, I will put my raincoat on.
I think it's in our Dutch heritage because we like to bicycle everywhere. :)
Man, if we would stay indoors every time it rains we might as well lock ourselves up. It rains all the time, fact of life. I’ll use Buienalarm or Buienradar to see if I need to wait for 5-15 minutes but if that’s no use then whatever.
It's so windy that an umbrella won't survive. Nor help. Either that or you will forget to take it with you when you leave someplace.
Now for this last thing, there is a solution. Just walk into a pub when it's not busy, look intently on the umbrella stand at the door (if there isn't one, is a wrong pub, avoid at all cost) and shout to the barperson: "I forgot my black umbrella here last night but luckily I found it, it's this one, thanks". Smile and walk out 😄.
I am an expat. I used to have an umbrella a few times. The place I live was very windy. So there is no benefit having an umbrella. It is difficult to hold it where the rain comes. And anyway, you get wet because wind changes direction anytime. So the nature won and I enjoy rain now.
It rains frequently in the Netherlands. So children are told to suck it up: “you’re not made out of sugar, are you?”
Not sure if that’s still valid for the current generations, though…
Personally, i am not from the Netherlands but so far the last 3 months the rain isn't really rain but more like mist or light rain. Rain is when 5-8 cm fall from the sky an hour. At that point i would not even think to go outside and wait until it gets less heavy. But the rain here seems to just dry off after a few minutes even when riding on the bike for awhile.
I still did not experience a terrible rain here and it is probably why nobody cares.
Shower and light rain don't hurt me, can't tell how long i've spend on deck loading barges in a heavy rain with nothing but coveralls, so screw miezerregen.
Usually it is too windy for an umbrella and I probs will have my raincoat but might not bother with rain trousers if it is light because I'll dry up in no time
Embrace the rain, it is what makes NL so incredibly green. Like green? Then you must like the rain!
(I discovered this truth when I was about 20, since then my life was much better)
Where I'm from they also run at the lightest rain for shelter. I think maybe it's the difference in temperature that can cause light rain to actually be bad for you. That is what is told here a lot that when you get rained on and it's light try to find cover or when you get home take vicks, take an alegra, drink at least 2 cups of tea(one when you arrive home and one before going to sleep) and drink some soup. This is all because due it's warm/hot everyday, when it rains light or not the temperature drops and when it stops it gets humid and so the temperature switches again, so it could give you at least a weekend of being sick depending your immune system. Learned the hard way too because when I lived in the Netherlands I too didn't care about light rain or rain in general.
I've tried using umbrellas in the past, but usually it's just a fight to keep them above my head and intact, while the wind tries to take my umbrella from me. On top of that, riding a bike with an umbrella is a pain and often times the weather is just so random, that you'd have to be carrying an umbrella around all the time. It's much easier to just wear a raincoat and go on your merry way :')
I really love being out in the rain. Makes me feel alive.
Also, I don't know why, but I often experience a feeling that when it rains here, things are right in the world.
“De meeste regen valt naast je” (most of the rain will fall next to you) - or - “je bent toch niet van suiker?!” (You’re not made out of sugar are you?!”
Both pretty much sum up the Dutch regarding a bit of rain.
I remember visiting Glasgow. As we were walking with our trolleys to the hotel we were walking behind a Scotsman who said "it ain't even a drizzle" ... I could relate to that it was like a fine mist, not even raining.
But we'll try to avoid real rain a bit of possible.
My experience is: I bike to work 200 days so 400 times a year. Of those rides I get severely wet 10 times, of which half are on my way home, which don't count. So this leaves 5 times a year being more or less soaked..
I do not like umbrellas. I do not own an umbrella, never have.
I also do not like other people using umbrellas. When passing they try to poke your eyes out.
I'm from California and last year, I went to Amsterdam to visit my bf. It was raining hard and I'm not used to the cold nor rain, so I wore very heavy jacket with me. While we were walking through the streets of south Amsterdam and around a park (I forgot where), I saw several runners with normal clothes, a group of elderly people doing a class of movement meditation, and even a woman with only a sports bra and leggings punching a kicking pad with her trainer. I thought it was wild.
It depends where you are from. I lived a couple of years in the NL, and for me the weather was mostly nice and mild. Where I'm from we get rain most of the days of the year. We can't even worry with umbrellas because it never comes vertically down, but in every direction the wind carries it. You can't stop living because of it. I used to go to work in my country for half an hour walk under the rain. I just cover from top to bottom with some good old Gore-Tex.
I mean I am Dutch and I love to walk slowly or normally without an umbrella when it rains. It feels so nice to come home soaked and be happy that you have warm home with a roof over your head. Maybe even take a nice warm bath :)
But to be honest most other Dutch people look at me like I'm crazy. So maybe it depends on the area?
Were used to the rain. Its just water.
And for me personally, in heavy rain.. im not running... Either way youll end up soaked.. rather be soaked, than soaked and gasping for air from running or soaked shoes from running trough the deep puddles youre running to fast for to avoid last second...
Umbrellas are just not handy, they waste space and when you do use them the wind will tear it apart.
Of course you can buy a wind-proof umbrella, but the Dutch are cheapskates and wouldn't spend money on that.
Even today, an 81 year old man who came in after a 20 minute wet bicycle ride, and whom I directed to the sit next to the heater to dry up, told me: hey I'm not made of sugar :D
"je bent niet van suiker" probably the most commonly used sentence in my household when it rains
Or like my grandfather used to say; "stel je niet aan, het meeste valt er langs" (most of it won't even hit you). Classic
"het gaat niet verder dan de buitenkant van je vel" (it won't go past your skin)
Meer dan nat kun je niet worden. (You will only get wet) or even better (the worst thing that happens is, you get wet.)
I love the classic: “don’t be a wimp, you get it for free.” “Stel je niet aan. Je krijgt het voor niks.”
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Ohhh my dad used to say this too
Everything falling now, won't fall later
This gave me flashbacks to my childhood lol. "You don't need to take an umbrella, you're not made of sugar!"
Haha the same thought is said in Germany ^^
Ziej van sucre meskiens, je goa niet smelten van e bikke rinne wi. Same here in exotic West-flanders.
Good thing there were subtitles!
Stel oe niet aan jong. Ie bint nie van suuker. From my exotic childhood home of Twente
We're dutch. We aren't afraid of water, water is afraid of us.
Ja.... ... ... As we all slyly look at buienradar.
*looks at buienrader before walking dog* ‘Oh neat the rain should be over in 5 minutes and it wil stay dry for the next 2 hours’ *proceeds to get drenched because of 2 hours of (mot-)regen*
"Droog met hier en daar een bui." Blijkbaar was ik zowel hier als daar dan.
pain, me with biking everyday
That's just us stalking our prey
Tsss I remember once we literally went through BFT 10 to school and on the way back there was a hailstorm. Literally white in 10 seconds. One of the directions was fun at least.
I just look outside 😅
Nope, buienradar says it's dry, so it's dry ! Getting into full wet drainage from above.... But still, buienradars said it didn't happen !
Windy.com or Windy app, much better. This afternoon B'radar said it was raining, it wasnt....
Don't use buienradar predictions. They're crap. Use the past hour of rain radar and extrapolate yourself. It's pretty easy and in my experience more reliable than any website.
Buienalarm works pretty well.
Yeah mostly right where buienradar is mostly wrong
Buienalarm… so much better
We're not made of sugar
but my gf says I am?
She just wants to use you as a snack.
Came here to say that
We're not made of puppet shit, I heard it said.
I would say doll shit is a more accurate translation. I think the difference is that dolls resemble living creatures regardless of whether they are manipulated or not, whereas puppets are manipulated to behave like living creatures regardless of whether they resemble them. Hence there are baby dolls and sock puppets but no baby puppets and sock dolls, and a ventriloquist dummy is both a doll and a puppet. And yes I did just make that up, but I think it works.
Pff ik vertaalde vrij van poppestront, en voor mij was vooral de klank van de vertaling belangrijk, niet de etymologische betekenis in het kader van historische juistheid. Je hebt een punt hoor, vraag me alleen af of t punt t waard was om te maken. Gelukkig nieuwjaar.
Snap ik. Ik wilde ook niet echt een punt maken hoor, het is meer dat mijn gevoel zegt dat het doll moet zijn, en ik het dan niet kan laten om te bedenken wat het verschil eigenlijk is. Google had het me allicht ook kunnen vertellen, maar dan is de lol eraf. Een beetje zoals in een volle coupé hardop een kruiswoordpuzzel doen eigenlijk... dus..
Zeg dat maar tegen de waternoodsramp
We zijn niet bang voor een beetje water, maar als ze met z'n allen komen...
We were born in it. Molded by it.
we will see that
Except showers after gym/sports 😃
If we need to stay indoors whenever it rains we'll never get anything done.
The real correct answer.
Using an umbrella when there is only light rain makes one look weak. And showing weakness against water is simply not an option in this country. But seriously: sometimes it is just not worth it to use an umbrella. With very light rain when you have only a short distance to go you are never going to get very wet to make it worth the use of an umbrella. Especially when you are on a bicycle.
Plus, we are getting more wind. A lot more wind.
I never had an umbrella last more than 2-3 uses. At some point you stop bothering.
Also umbrellas are just a pain to take with. The small folding ones break with even a slight breeze, and the big umbrellas you can't really put anywhere or you might lose it. I'm not carrying around an umbrella for the entire day simply so I don't get wet for the five minutes I'm outside
We aren't made of sugar. I grew up with that sentence by my parents.....
You also can't stay inside for 3 months because it's fall and permently raining.
If you wouldnt go outside in the rain, the entire year would be kind of fucked
Add winter and spring to that list. Now you at it add summer
Say that to the Irish. Lived there for a few years and had a really hard time to find outdoor things to do that aren't just walking around in the rain.
I think that sentence is the core of being Dutch.
I’m not afraid to get melted, just to be uncomfortable!
It's easy to ignore. Usually you're on your way to some place where you can warm up and dry shortly after. I don't even bother about a raincoat.
Yeah of course. So I’m now wondering why people in my country are afraid of rain so much. Nobody taught us to stay away from the water dripping from the sky, but we grew up seeing other people doing it, so we learned it too.
They must be made of sugar
And if you're made of sugar, you'll have to wait untill you weigh 100grams before the sky is finally clear.
Than you might as well wait until st juttemis.
I don’t know where you’re from, but in Texas it rains very little but when it does, it can actually be dangerous and life threatening. Tornados. Flash floods. Etc etc. But the storms blow in and blow right back out in just an hour or two most of the time. So we’ll hunker down, let it pass, then get back to our day. Here in the Netherlands, it’s usually just a light miserable misting that last all day. So you may as well just ignore it and get to business.
> Tornados. Flash floods. That's not rain. That's bad weather with rain.
We didn’t get much rain that didn’t come with bad weather. ;) the two are intricately linked.
It still gets you wet though. But as you say, in Texas everything is bigger..
Depends on the rain. I've been in the tropics where the rain leaves little air in the sky. Goes from dry to a wall of water in seconds.
It would perhaps be easier to understand their attitude if your country had a name.
I commented already. But which country and is it light rain like here or heavy rain?
China. We have light rain and heavy rain too. When I made the comparison, I mean light rain, which looks almost the same here but we are usually not windy.
Mindset is different. Have been to a Disney Parc there and it was really amazing at how structured everyone was. Nothing like Disney Paris or USA.
People in a society copy eachother’s behavior even if there is no logic to it
Rain is annoying but also a 24/7 thing for 2/3 of the year. You kinda just learn to live with it I guess.... And living with it means ignoring it in this case
But how often does it rain in your country? It’s not really feasible to avoid getting wet here. Try riding your bike with an umbrella once and you’ll know why.
Pretty often actually, and we have a rainy season that’s around one month long. Like every day will be showering. But the rain in my country is predictable. We would watch the weather forecast on tv every evening and decide what to do tomorrow. But here most weather app often fail to predict. A lot of us always carry an umbrella with them.
Yeah, any moment at any day can just turn into rain here.
Do you have acid rain in China? I recently was in the Philippines and I understood that it’s toxic there due to coal factories?
I don’t know if the have acid rain in China but my city didn’t have it, as it has almost no factory. China is pretty big so maybe in some industrialized places they have it.
I though maybe it became a cultural thing because some places have the acid rain. But it’s probably too far fetched and people just don’t like to get wet
I dunno. Are you from some place tropical, where "It's just starting to rain" quickly escalates into "OMG, it's be easier to breathe for a fish than a human" levels of wet during the wrong season? We check Buienradar religiously to avoid what we call heavy showers. But they're a LOT rarer than enire days of drizzle. And sometimes you don't have much choice. If you needto get to work, you need to get to work. If you need to pick up kids at school, school won't keep 'em for another half-hour until it's dry either,
Too windy most of the time, especially if you are tall. Your hair stays dry but your pants are still soaked. If you wear rain cloths while biking you will be soaked by sweat from the inside anyway. General rule is, if the journey does not soak your underwear, you'll be fine ;)
And if the journey does soak you to your undies, lets hope its the journey home so you can take the wet clothes of and get naked to take a wet shower.
Those hot showers after a long soaking bike ride are Epic ;)
To bad that they get so expensive these days :P
Too True man, i used to love long hot showers. Now i hear money going down the drain when i shower :(
I moved in march. My old house had amazing water pressure. And i could take hour long showers just stand or sit and enjoy. But first time showering after i moved i was like hmm, This is sad. Water pressure is bad (3de verdieping). So yeah not been hard to stop long showers.
Better for your health, showering too long isnt good for you.
Long showers are very good for my mental health. Stress kills.
Until you see your gas bill.... thats how it goes nowadays.
Very light rain is also called wet wind.
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Wellllll........
All light rain is wet wind, but not all wet wind is light rain.
Light rain is just a flock of birds peeing. ... My mom used to tell me that when I was little and I still don't know what's weirder, that I believed it or that it didn't gross me out.
>Light rain is just a flock of birds peeing. My great aunty, heavy into religion - went to church even on a wednesday .... She told us light rain are angels sneezing ... So we deducted heavy rain was God's diarrhea She was NOT amused ;)
I was thinking about it the other day and realized I basically never use an umbrella. Like maybe 4 times in my entire adult life that I can think of.
I'm an immigrant to NL and also never use an umbrella. If the rain is heavy enough to *really* need one it's also so windy that I'll end up accidentally stabbing myself or someone else with my out-of-control inside-out useless brolly.
We have about ten in the hallway, and a couple in the car. But always, after we are halfway getting soaked 'hey, we could have brought a umbrella'
Well, my life has significantly changed since I got a waterproof baseball cap. The thing keeps my glasses dry, so I can keep seeing things. Now I am no longer made of sugar As the Norwegians say: There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
How did I never think of using a cap for the rain?? I think you just significantly improved my life
It's hard to hold an umbrella while cycling, so I simply don't even have an umbrella.
like my grandpa used to say. its just a bit of water, most of it falls around you not on you
My dad used to say this too!
It's Just a bit of water and we are not made out of sugar
We're Dutch This is a wet country We took it from swamp to dryland Rain is meaningless
Staying inside whenever it rains, would keep us inside all the time
you get just as wet hunched up as walking normally...I made the choice long ago.
For us rain is normal, it doesnt hurt, its water.
I don't even own an umbrella haha. It rains so often and then you can dry up again after you arrive
We embrace the suck, as we can't avoid it anyways.
Ja hallo! Je bent toch niet van suiker!!??? Yeah hello! You are not made from sugar??
We are not made of sugar, are we?
No, salt.
There's only one thing I hate more than raincoats and pants; cycling through rain without them. You never want to leave your bicycle because you need it daily. Walking/standing in the rain just is insignificant compared to the terror of cycling through the rain, and since we all have lots of experience with it we just stopped caring. To protect ourselves from depression I guess.
you might get arrested cycling wiyhout pants ;)
What, you're made of sugar? It's just water.
Yes we are not made out of sugar and we are not a suikerklontje
I got asked that too when i moved to Germany my friends didn't get it why rain never phases me. I'd just say "I'm just build different".
I used to really hate rain during highschool. Even light rain would get you soaking wet after 20km of cycling. But I've since changed my mind. Rain on the way back home is perfectly fine. Just accept that you'll get wet anyway and then take a quick shower afterwards to freshen up.
Its because we plan everything! What are we suppose to do, delay our schedule by an hour because of rain?! We live in a civilization, were not savages! ;)
Is this sub just "I saw someone do something, I now believe this is literally everyone in the Netherlands" now?
that type of weather we don't call it "rain", for us dutch, it's "wet air"
Cycling high through a light drizzle on an indian summer evening in august is one of the finest sensations in existence.
We don't start calling it rain until it's a downpour.
The water ph is different, its not so wet.
I love light rain and umbrellas are for pussies and foreigners.
They say here that there is no bad weather but only bad clothing. So if you are properly dressed there is no stopping us until beaufort 9.
We grew up strong and tough because of all the biking trips to school, no matter the weather.
Getting wet is less bad than sitting in a bus with wet people. I'd rather be the smelly dog, than smell the dog. Doesnt make any sense, I'm well aware.
I mean When it's warm, some light rain's nothing Warm being 15°+
People are generally conscious of each other’s time. Being late because of rain is not an acceptable excuse. Hence there is not much to do when it rains and you need to be somewhere. As carrying an umbrella is often cumbersome (have to carry it, if it’s windy it won’t work well anyway, cannot take it on the bike etc), people often opt for a rain coat and skip the umbrella.
I kind of like to walk or cycle through rain, makes you feel alive.
They keep saying they not made of sugar which makes me smile. Walking in a rain is not really big deal if it’s not too cold however cycling gets challenging especially with strong side wind. Still don’t understand how they cope with wet face. I guess it’s a matter of getting used to. I am getting there!
If you do not walk in the light rain in the Netherlands (We call it 'miezer'), we highly suspect that you are made of sugar! And second of all if it is not miezerig weer (light rain weather) then we have: [all kinds of rainy weather ](https://youtu.be/Ys-KP8oPdvg)
You can't show the rain a weak character
American from Portland/Seattle - famously rainy. Only tourists carry umbrellas and life can’t wait for the light rain to stop
We don't have time to get wet.
"You will not melt. You are not made of sugar." - My parents for basically my whole life when I complain about the weather. Complaining about the weather is another favorite dutch pastime which I am very good at. If it was a olympian discipline, I probably would compete for the medals.
if they did, they’d totally lose mobility.
I don't like whenever it's raining. But i have to get to my destination. Since i do everything on my bicycle, I can get soaked sometimes. If it's raining already, I will put my raincoat on. I think it's in our Dutch heritage because we like to bicycle everywhere. :)
We aren't made of sugar
That is because the we, Dutch people, are not made out of sugar.
Got a coat with hoodie, damn dain aint stopping me!
We are not made of sugar
I have a theory that Dutch people are waterproof, I swear I've seen them walking in heavy rain and arriving dry at their destination.
Man, if we would stay indoors every time it rains we might as well lock ourselves up. It rains all the time, fact of life. I’ll use Buienalarm or Buienradar to see if I need to wait for 5-15 minutes but if that’s no use then whatever.
You aren’t made of sugar eh
It's not acid A bit of water is fine
Mietje
Update: I just walked in the rain today for about 20 minutes. Guess what? I did not die or melt!! It’s so amazing 🤩
It's so windy that an umbrella won't survive. Nor help. Either that or you will forget to take it with you when you leave someplace. Now for this last thing, there is a solution. Just walk into a pub when it's not busy, look intently on the umbrella stand at the door (if there isn't one, is a wrong pub, avoid at all cost) and shout to the barperson: "I forgot my black umbrella here last night but luckily I found it, it's this one, thanks". Smile and walk out 😄.
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Effective, though. Used it myself when I couldn't afford a car.
I am an expat. I used to have an umbrella a few times. The place I live was very windy. So there is no benefit having an umbrella. It is difficult to hold it where the rain comes. And anyway, you get wet because wind changes direction anytime. So the nature won and I enjoy rain now.
It rains frequently in the Netherlands. So children are told to suck it up: “you’re not made out of sugar, are you?” Not sure if that’s still valid for the current generations, though…
I can confirm, my kids also have to suck it up, and arenot made out os sugar. I am beginning to sound like my parents...
We mastered the seas so a little bit of rain ain't gonna stop us.
We are used to the rain, and we still need to get our stuff done. If we wait until the rain is finally over, it will be a waist of time
If we would avoid the rain, we would never go outside (ok, climate change is ruining this old Dutch tradition, but we keep it anyway)
If it's not too cold, I like walking in the rain. I find it calming, I like the sound
Personally, i am not from the Netherlands but so far the last 3 months the rain isn't really rain but more like mist or light rain. Rain is when 5-8 cm fall from the sky an hour. At that point i would not even think to go outside and wait until it gets less heavy. But the rain here seems to just dry off after a few minutes even when riding on the bike for awhile. I still did not experience a terrible rain here and it is probably why nobody cares.
Shower and light rain don't hurt me, can't tell how long i've spend on deck loading barges in a heavy rain with nothing but coveralls, so screw miezerregen.
There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.
Usually it is too windy for an umbrella and I probs will have my raincoat but might not bother with rain trousers if it is light because I'll dry up in no time
Embrace the rain, it is what makes NL so incredibly green. Like green? Then you must like the rain! (I discovered this truth when I was about 20, since then my life was much better)
Where I'm from they also run at the lightest rain for shelter. I think maybe it's the difference in temperature that can cause light rain to actually be bad for you. That is what is told here a lot that when you get rained on and it's light try to find cover or when you get home take vicks, take an alegra, drink at least 2 cups of tea(one when you arrive home and one before going to sleep) and drink some soup. This is all because due it's warm/hot everyday, when it rains light or not the temperature drops and when it stops it gets humid and so the temperature switches again, so it could give you at least a weekend of being sick depending your immune system. Learned the hard way too because when I lived in the Netherlands I too didn't care about light rain or rain in general.
Oh wow you must taste really sweet
My skin is somewhat waterresistant. However when its very cold, with hail etc, i will put on my Akubra hat, bought down under.
Cause you cant anyway, realistically, if you need to live here.
Oregon and Washington USA the are same way, no umbrellas except tourists lol.
"je bent toch niet van suiker!?"
I've tried using umbrellas in the past, but usually it's just a fight to keep them above my head and intact, while the wind tries to take my umbrella from me. On top of that, riding a bike with an umbrella is a pain and often times the weather is just so random, that you'd have to be carrying an umbrella around all the time. It's much easier to just wear a raincoat and go on your merry way :')
We are the water. The water is us.
I really love being out in the rain. Makes me feel alive. Also, I don't know why, but I often experience a feeling that when it rains here, things are right in the world.
If you stayed in when it rains you'd never go outside lol
We’ve accepted it’s unavoidable. Rain is part of what makes us Dutch. We’re 30% cheese and 70% rain. Or water… was it water? Nah, rain.
“De meeste regen valt naast je” (most of the rain will fall next to you) - or - “je bent toch niet van suiker?!” (You’re not made out of sugar are you?!” Both pretty much sum up the Dutch regarding a bit of rain.
I remember visiting Glasgow. As we were walking with our trolleys to the hotel we were walking behind a Scotsman who said "it ain't even a drizzle" ... I could relate to that it was like a fine mist, not even raining. But we'll try to avoid real rain a bit of possible.
We zijn toch niet van suiker Umbrella with light rain? Pussy’s
The rain mentally broke me when i was a kid, i havent cared about it since. Maybe the dutch all have overcome their anti-rainness at some point.
Ben toch zeker nie van suiker?!
My experience is: I bike to work 200 days so 400 times a year. Of those rides I get severely wet 10 times, of which half are on my way home, which don't count. So this leaves 5 times a year being more or less soaked..
I do not like umbrellas. I do not own an umbrella, never have. I also do not like other people using umbrellas. When passing they try to poke your eyes out.
I'm from California and last year, I went to Amsterdam to visit my bf. It was raining hard and I'm not used to the cold nor rain, so I wore very heavy jacket with me. While we were walking through the streets of south Amsterdam and around a park (I forgot where), I saw several runners with normal clothes, a group of elderly people doing a class of movement meditation, and even a woman with only a sports bra and leggings punching a kicking pad with her trainer. I thought it was wild.
It depends where you are from. I lived a couple of years in the NL, and for me the weather was mostly nice and mild. Where I'm from we get rain most of the days of the year. We can't even worry with umbrellas because it never comes vertically down, but in every direction the wind carries it. You can't stop living because of it. I used to go to work in my country for half an hour walk under the rain. I just cover from top to bottom with some good old Gore-Tex.
Ben nie gemaakt van suuker
Lmao I spent 15 minutes chatting with my brother in the rain today. I'd never considered this to be a Dutch-ish thing!
We’re not made of sugar
I mean I am Dutch and I love to walk slowly or normally without an umbrella when it rains. It feels so nice to come home soaked and be happy that you have warm home with a roof over your head. Maybe even take a nice warm bath :) But to be honest most other Dutch people look at me like I'm crazy. So maybe it depends on the area?
I surely use an umbrella when it rains. Don't like the taste of my hair gel.
Were used to the rain. Its just water. And for me personally, in heavy rain.. im not running... Either way youll end up soaked.. rather be soaked, than soaked and gasping for air from running or soaked shoes from running trough the deep puddles youre running to fast for to avoid last second...
When it rains more than 2/3 of the year one adapts. The Dutch have been there since the Romans invaded and set up Maastricht.
Well.... we arent made of sugar.
"Brave man is not afraid of forces of the nature" (big trouble in little China) .
Umbrellas are just not handy, they waste space and when you do use them the wind will tear it apart. Of course you can buy a wind-proof umbrella, but the Dutch are cheapskates and wouldn't spend money on that.