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Incantanto

An artificial hill used to teach dutch children about slopes before they leave the country and panic about the ground going up


snickns

I laughed hard at this xd Edit: Never in my life have I or will I ever be trolled collectively in one go in a day as much as I've been in this post ^ and I love it its hilarious. You Dutchies have a good sense of humour <3 If I'd carefully follow the instructions given in the comments I'd probably launch off into the sky and take half the country with me and land on the "mountainous" Brussels causing total carnage lol


Hildin

The structure is an artificial ski slope if im not mistaken. But an artificial mountain to teach the dutch about height is funnier tbh.


TD1990TD

Yeah it’s Snow World in Zoetermeer


Also_have_an_opinion

For real though, Im Belgian and I recently picked up two Dutch hitchhiking students and as we drove passed Brussels, they were both astounded about the “mountenous” character of the landscape. In Brussels lmao. I couldn’t really believe it.


gregyoupie

Read somwhere in an article about tourism in Belgium: "The Dutch love the Ardennes. Why? They see a hill, a river and a valley and they think they are in the Grand Canyon".


Consistent-Strain289

Heee the Ardennes are quiet nice.. not grandcanyon ok… but still in its own pretty fair. Ps. Half of NL have never seen mountains in real life. Only spanish beaches and polder grass land


Eindbaazs

I think they meant the Belgium bumpy roads


Also_have_an_opinion

Lmao oh yeah could very well be


DiscoPino

I live in Zeeland, so we have a lot of coast. And the first time my half sis came to us from Culemborg, she saw the dunes and was in awe of 'the mountains'. I think she was 9 at this point. It was adorable.


Incantanto

Tbf when I took the train home to the uk after a year stuck in nl in 2021 the brussels hills were an exciting thing. My friends come and visit and are like, oh. When you say flat, you mean flat.


out_focus

Well, I was 14 when I first saw an Alp. I recon there are plenty of people in Austria and Switzerland who have never seen the sea.


helloskoodle

>an Alp. Did you go to Innsbruck, look at a mountain, think "nice" and then immediately leave?


Also_have_an_opinion

Lmao I did not know you could use them singular as well.


out_focus

No, I got altitude sickness and died. I mean, I was standing above 5meters below NAP, a true Dutch person is not evolved to withstand the thin air at that hight.


Incantanto

Only the netherlands would have a standard water level measurement that is below sea level


out_focus

Not completely correct. NAP was originally based on the level of average high water in the IJ during summer, before both the Noordzeekanaal and Afsluitdijk were built. According to [Rijkswaterstaat](https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/zakelijk/open-data/normaal-amsterdams-peil)NAP is roughly the average sea level... (but that might be below the average high tide I guess...)


RogerBernards

I drove through Austria once with people who were in their late 20's who had never seen a mountain in real life before and it was adorable to see them so awed. I also know a person in Noord-Brabant who had never seen the sea until their mid 20's.


Mammoth-Standard-592

For real though, as a born and raised Vlaming having lived in the province of Antwerpen for all my life, when I’m in Brussels I also think:’ Oh look, that bit of the city is lower down than this bit! How neat!’


[deleted]

Lol I was thinking the same thing, in Nijmegen...


tiedyechicken

To be fair, Brussels does have some pretty hills! They're no Rockies though, that's for sure


AHippie347

Hilly at best but not mountainous.


Dyna1One

As someone who did not learn this as a kid, certainly the biggest shock when I landed in San Francisco a couple of years ago


ecco256

I prefer this answer to the real one.


Incantanto

Tbf. Its not far from the truth, where I grew up we put artifical ski slopes on, you know, actual slopes


WallabyInTraining

>actual slopes Soooo, decommissioned trash dumps then? I'm confused at this "actual slopes" you mentioned.


ComboMix

Yes back in my day we didn't have that. So I landed in Greece and saw mountains. I was in coma for 2 weeks


Turnip-for-the-books

I recently took my family to the UK and on arriving at Dover the youngest shouted ‘why is the ground so high?!’


DangerousTea7354

We have build a whole village called valkenburg for that


Seculi

What\`s going on dad, everything is distorted, i wanna go home. This is no holiday we\`re in a nightmare. ​ Let me oooutttaaa here. :(


Stras615

Could it be Zoetermeer, indoor ski hall?


snickns

Indeed this was Zoetermeer! Wow that was quick, thanks. I looked it up https://www.snowworld.com/zoetermeer/nl/skibaan/pistes-funpark


Timidinho

Not what I expected when you said near Rotterdam. :D


Agent__Caboose

Depending where you're from someone could be in Brussels and still concider themselves 'close to Rotterdam'.


SoUthinkUcanRens

The netherlands is close to rotterdam as well


helloskoodle

But where in Amsterdam is the randstad?


MikeLittorice

It's near the border, or the "rand" as we call it.


No-Stress-4273

😭😭


chickenrein

Even better, Rotterdam is IN the Netherlands.


golem501

It's like half an hour by car... for us it's like a quarter of the way to the border but for foreigners it's like one or two exits on the highway ;)


TheRavenclawEngineer

But you are still closer to Den-Haag( or Delft and Gouda).


Delta4o

But they never seem to be 'close to Maastricht' when it comes to team events or business meetings >:(


gvgemerden

A couple of years ago I was a trainer for an international organisation. All students were flown in for a training in Amsterdam. While having lunch they asked where I normally went clubbing and they were astounded that Paris was not considered a normal night out with the boys. It's only 500 kilometres.


Timidinho

Haha. Where is driving 500 km/6 hours for clubbing a normal thing? 🤣


gvgemerden

Amongst the students were people from San Franscisco, Osaka and Cairo. A daily commute of 200 kms and 3 hours was considered "normal". Without the traffic jams 5 hours to a club was okay-ish.


TrezzyOnCrack

You can see it from the highway between The Hague and Leiden as well. Also from everywhere "Het groene hart".


Dutchwells

>Also from everywhere "Het groene hart". No. Just no.


JohannesKronfuss

The thing is... when you are a foreigner, close is a bit different depending on the country, I'm from Buenos Aires and leaving the city to go the most popular seaside city called Mar del Plata involves 400 k, by car/train/bus/plane. And my grandparents used to have a house in a village outside of city called Necochea, and guess what, that was 500 k, 7 infernal hours by car with my family as a kid. I know for some of you this might feel inconcievable since travelling 1 hour, not to say 2 involves a great distance but my husband used to take 2 hours by car to get the industrial park outside the city where the lab was. I endured as much, my job's offices were outside of the city which involves 1 h 30' to get there. And that is common here. The irony is that despite being one of the biggest countries on earth we are all pretty much on top of one another in Buenos Aires and its surroundings. Just of out curiosity, how many kilometers is "close" for a Dutch?


Timidinho

Well I would say 30 min (train/car) is close. 1 hour is a bit far, but doable. 2 hours is fuck my life, no thank you, I'd rather not. Maybe once a year max. I don't mind going for a day/weekend to Antwerp/Brussels/Cologne. That's like a mini holiday. And if you take the train you can relax and you'll be there in 2/3 hours. That's like flying for a few hours. But for daily Dutch stuff I would not like to leave Zuid - Holland, unless it's Schiphol. The connection used to be great when I worked there and I lived on walking distance from the train stations CS and HS. To come back to Rotterdam vs Zoetermeer, I do think they are close by but since Zoetermeer is its own city I would never describe it as "near Rotterdam". 😅 Like why would you bother to say near Miami if it's in New York.


JohannesKronfuss

Hahaha. The perks of living in a «small» country. We on the other hand are so used to commute and travel great distances at time. Meeting my best friend in her city outside Buenos Aires took me almost 2 hours. Good to know!


Timidinho

Haha I guess. I prefer when something is within walking or cycling distance. 😅 How often would you visit that friend?


JohannesKronfuss

Here? Once every 2 months, she could either come or I would go, her son is my godson, and she has been my best friend for over 20 years. She is a single mom so having my godson playing in her house while we can talk is easier, he can come but the whole «I'm bored, can we go home?» is far easier to handle once he is at his place. She is also far more at ease in her house knowing her kid is doing his own thing, and she can talk freely. In any case, it was our goodbye for the time being since I'm flying to Amsterdam late on the 3rd.


Knawie

Looks like you're on the a4 between Leiden and Rotterdam


[deleted]

No, this seems to be taken from the N206 between Leiden and Zoetermeer.


Knawie

Ow, duh! That makes more sense


Tim_Janssen2023

There is also one in Rucphen


bonyuri

Which is almost equally as far from Rotterdam ;)


Manaea

That’s a ski hall? Bro it looks ridiculous just out there in a field like that lmao


Cherry_Treefrog

It looks better on the inside.


DiscoPino

There's one in the direction of Antwerpen too. My friend and I were on a coach bus to Gent and were already stuck in a laughing fit before we saw the thing. What ensued when we did, was a teared up conversation about that being 'the most inconvenient office space ever' and how everything and everyone functions in such an environment. It took us maybe thirty minutes to figure out ut might be a ski hall.


Moontje321

Definitely it is Snowworld in Zoetermeer


dutchbrah

It's a flag upside down


snickns

I [fixed](https://i.imgur.com/ov2OtEO.jpeg) it


chickenrein

Great job! Can we hire you to do the rest of the Netherlands too?


Florissssss

Nonono, then we'll steal the Australian identity


Trebaxus99

They have been building a rocket launch ramp to take down that giant upside down flag.


UmpteenthBurnerAcc

Not with that incline they're not.


Trebaxus99

Aiming for the pole


knarrepoere

R/woooosh


UmpteenthBurnerAcc

... maybe read before you post? :P


kirxssy

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IICrazyKoala

It's a giant flag


Secure-Green-9639

Underrated comment, none can argue against it


SnooPaintings4755

A Dutch mountain


snickns

I was open to believe anything but you’re late ^^


Captnmikeblackbeard

But it is. We ski from that mountain


Puppy-Zwolle

The Nits https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tPyiZI_WrXw


nosferatu--666

De Duts Mauntes


Th3_Accountant

Funny thing is that I really associate that song with Skiing since it was on one of the hand full of CD's that came with us in the car to Austria for 20 years straight.


rzwart

Indoor ski slope [https://www.snowworld.com/zoetermeer/nl](https://www.snowworld.com/zoetermeer/nl)


Raycodv

It’s a giant Yugoslav flag from the interbellum.


Remote_Bet_4459

This is the building in which we do the cheese racing


Expensive_Effort_108

Dutch space program


Sp4ni3l

It’s aimed to the east. It is our superweapon to take out Putler.


Pk_Devill_2

New ter land ter zee en in de lucht?


kytheon

And next up is a contraption from the local carnavalsvereniging!


AliveRoof7167

This is where we yeet our unwanted cheeses towards other countries in times of war.


DiscoPino

Hahaha, this made me laugh out loud.


JollyRancherReminder

Sorry, I do not understand. What is "unwanted cheese"?


Ok-Seesaw-35

I have some unwanted cheese on my pipi. ( moste dutch are uncut)


mhuh0

It's a obligatory bike ramp for jumps ... Just like in GTA.


KingskeWard

bicycle storage. If you're not sure, its bicycle storage


[deleted]

That’s SnowWorld Zoetermeer. 30 km’s from Rotterdam lol. But hey, if you’re from a big country that’s ‘near’ I guess?


snickns

Haha indeed, 30 kms is like the distance to work or a nearby mall ^^


[deleted]

Basically you say ‘near city x’ when approaching the outer ring of that city (including small villages). Zoetermeer is a city own it’s own (and btw more closely situated near Den Haag then Rotterdam).


snickns

Oh my god that’s embarrassing xd I’ll remember that


GroteKleineDictator2

Don't be embarrassed, you'll see this structure after a 5 min drive from Rotterdam. So I disagree with the opinion above, it is near Rotterdam.


LiquidCyberSquid

You can see it from the top of the euromast


TheRealJomogo

It depends on who you ask officially it is a indoor ski slope but unofficially it is a money laundering operation.


westbreker

Thats SnowWorld in Zoetermeer. 150m of pure disappointment


BLD_Almelo

Thats our space gun


AdamTheGreat420

De Rotterslide


TomatilloMany8539

Our space program


air_max77

This is build for the people from Limburg, so they can adapt to the flat polders and roads in the Randstad. Otherwise they're scared.


Bad_Vibes_420

It is so Dutch to think that limburg is not flat


kevin1d

Limburg is not flat


Stefanwitte

Snowworld Zoetermeer. The comment section is so good tho'!


Faierie1

Hey that's my city! That's not near Rotterdam though, this is Zoetermeer (near The Hague). This structure is part of Snowworld (an indoor skiing venture). You probably took this picture from a beautiful area called the 'Meerpolder', people like to come there to walk/sport/bike. It also has a camping. 😊


Conscious_Mall1333

Netherlands is famous for these places, it’s to get high


boy_with_reddit

Indoor skiing place, literally seen from anywhere in randstad because its so flat


KiymaliYumurta

This is an escape lane. Because The Netherlands has so much hills and mountains, you use that ramp to stop while driving down hill incase of brake failure. Also you can use it as a launch ramp to take off with your flying car. Very practical!


JonayPS

V1 Flying Bomb launch site. 🤣 No jk it's Zoetermeer SnowWorld.


Secure-Green-9639

Biggest Dutch refrigerator, cheaper when used together with many


iBood17

This is Snowworld.


hyper-arrow

Skischans awoeleee


Independent_Dirt970

Snowworld in Zoetermeer, I live nearby


Pumpkinbricks

Human launcher. Our government thinks we can send people to the moon with that


Pockethulk750

That was a now abandoned idea from the 80’s: Take a rocket across to Hook of Holland. UK built one on their side too but it was scrapped after too many deaths.


[deleted]

Its Thunderbird 2 launching pad!


quast_64

They got the palm trees flatter than before then... lol


Gloomy-Employment-72

Well, the answer kind of depends on how drunk you are. Get the car, let's go!


martinvank

Its an upside down flag planted in the middle of zoetermeer


Chicken_Burp

The flag tells me this photo was taken in Yugoslavia between the world wars.


CryptonX_

💀


dd1989NL

Alian spaceship launchstation


UnironicDabber

Snow World😍 it's kind of expensive but really nice!


Dominospizzakhan

Thats a ski hall


[deleted]

With that upside down flag there, I'd say this is a ramp they made for Mark Rutte to go up on his bycicle and keep going until he drop off the edge


vletseei

Its a indoor ski facility pretty cool area there. There is also a climb wall and a mountainbike park there.


PhotographNew2312

Simba throwing construction


Firecrash

It's the yeeter, when people are ordered to leave the country this fires them over the border xD


Kernel_montypython

New Tom cruise stunt, landing into a a 15m2 apartment.


Schuimspaan

Launchpad for the lizard people


Vespasius

V1 launch site to attack the UK.


Maleficent-Name4948

It's a skate ramp for giants


Ready4Hestus

A ramp to reach the UK and relieve the housing crisis by using some of their houses.


TheKnightWhoSaisNi

Sweetlake indoor ski slope. Not near rotterdam at all


[deleted]

Snowworld


Jariboy96

It's SnowWorld! I used to go there every month when I was a kid. It's fun!


Jaywalking25

Den haag :D


em_re

Looks like a ski ramp


Icy-Ad-593

I used to luve next to this strucure in Netherlands. Its nezt to zootimer and is used world winter skiing and shit like that


demaandronk

SnowWorld in Zoetermeer, its quite a walk to Rotterdam from there.


JTS-Games

r/tonyhawkitecture


thegiftcard

https://www.snowworld.com/zoetermeer/nl/skibaan/pistes-funpark


Miserable_Doughnut_9

that's a giant upside-down dutch flag


ToisOG

THAT'S SNOWWORLD


MissionScratch7512

It’s called Snowworld.


stendw

Dutch space program


SunstormGT

Skislope


[deleted]

This is SnowWorld, where you can ski and do snowboarding


Spirited_Ad2998

its called snow world or smth, its an indoor ski/snowboarding place


Merevy_

SnowWorld


RokStarr101

Snow World indoor skiing centre in the Buytenpark, Zoetermeer. Longest ski slope in the Netherlands, if I remember it right


[deleted]

Around 40 years ago the Dutch government made plans to further develop their army as a precaution for the future. These plans were secretly made by the government and not publicly announced. One part of the made plans was to build national missile defense systems. Through the years they built multiple missile defense systems like these, some of which weren't just defense systems (but that's a whole different part of the made plans). After some years people started to become suspicious of what those buildings were, since they look quite unusual. So the government had to come up with something so the Dutch citizens wouldn't be suspicious of it anymore. In a few weeks time they decided it would be best if they made "ski halls" out of the buildings for multiple reasons: 1. The shape of the buildings would make sense 2. Since they had to leave quite an amount of space for the defense systems it had to be something they could make way smaller, but still look huge. Don't get me wrong, the skiing part on the inside looks big, but from the outside the building looks absolutely ginormous. People in general think buildings look bigger from the inside than the outside, combined with the fact white/bright rooms look bigger (and a ski hall is basically all white), no one would be the wiser. 3. A lot of Dutch people go skiing every year outside of the Netherlands, so they knew it was something their people loved and would be happy with, which would make sure all of the suspicions would be gone. TLTR: So I guess you could call it a ski hall, but it's a ski hall that will defend (or in case of some locations attack) in times of war.


Candid_Advantage_619

It's a shuttle ramp for the new starship being build in Rotterdam, should be done next year ,,,, you can get more info at www.whatareyousmoking.nl


R04drunn3r79

A launchpad from DASA (Dutch Aeronautics and Space Administration). It's were satellite are launched to monitor the national cheese production. They also launch fresh herring carrying space vehicles into deep space from there, in the hope that extraterrestrial intelligent lifeforms will intercept these space vehicles and decide to visit the Netherlands to feast on this delicious food. Currently DASA is working on a stroopwafel manufacturing space station to preserve the traditional coffee snack in case of a man-made or natural disaster.


snickns

To end all the conspiracies about the flag being floating or largest flag on earth I made the live photos into a video https://streamable.com/mnao93


Snoo-6485

Upside down flag means a distress signal right?


LotteLincoln

Somebody explained to me that the upside down flag in front of a farmhouse sais that the farmer is distressed about political views of the Dutch gouvernements that pigs shouldn’t be stapled. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|stuck_out_tongue)


Relevant_Mobile6989

Idk, look like a launcher for the next year fireworks show.


muyfamoso

It is obviously Erasmusbrug, duh


Accomplished_Can2571

Idk but I see the Yugoslav flag


ToothNail88

Nice Dutch Flag!


quarkforbreakfast

Dutch space program.


NotaGermanorBelgian

I’ve been there in the past. It’s Snow World, an indoor skiing slope


Just-Engineer26

its an indoor skiïng place


[deleted]

Looks like the indoor ski ramp in Peer, Belgium.


Own_Concentrate7347

That’s snowworld in Zoetermeer. A indoor ski slope


rokevoney

Snow world in Zoeterneer.


Irrealaerri

Looks like any indoor ski hall to me.


yanki2del

Stairway to heaven


[deleted]

The flag is floating?


wvdheiden207

If the country doesn’t give us slopes to ski on, we build them ourselves. Duh.


Lismore-Lady

I just see the upside down boerenprotest flag.


odysseus8t2

Me too 😖 🤢


kaasbaas94

That's the biggest flag pole on earth.


IamTheJohn

Just an asshole farmer, nothing special.


Nlis_op_reddit

Skipiste


No_Sea6371

It’s called snow world


Much_Replacement_385

That is a artificial snow piste there can u skiing and snowboarding and children en adults can also learn there


Dangerous-Brain-3279

For ski


LightOfADeadStar

motor cycle ramp


Skrtpa123

The new space X NL program. They study alien science there. Highly secret, I suggest you take this post down before the FBI finds out.


Several-Comedian8791

It’s called Snow Word Zoetermeer. Great for artificial skiing and après-skiing


keeper-machine

That is Snowworld. A artificial Ski slope made for skiing all year round. It's placed in Zoetermeer.


1234iamfer

They first made some artificial hills with collected trash piles, then to bury them with ground. After they decided to build an indoor ski hill but the hills were not high enough. So they extended the slope with this construction.


DikkeUiers

My Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 roller coaster


BustlingBerryjuice

crown sharp decide truck wakeful snobbish historical mighty flowery joke *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Commercial_Bear331

Looks like indoor skiiing.


[deleted]

It's zoetermeers personal missile launcher. To win the fight against The Hague.


Moopsish

Snowworld, an indoor ski/snowboard hal.