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310 <span itemprop="articleBody">I was talking with a woman from the Netherlands and somehow we ended up talking about how our countries treat stranded marine life. Of course the Netherlands have regular beaches where whales can get stranded, but the first thing that popped into my head were whales flopping over the sides of Netherlands' dams.</span><br />
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415 <small></small><small class="commentdata" title="Posted at Scandinavia and the World">9 hours ago</small> <small>#9400586</small>
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418 I really love the fact that Denmark gave the whale his beer. He's such a softy :-)
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442 @<a href="http://satwcomic.com/member/photondancer" rel="nofollow">photondancer</a> I think the whale took it when he turned away. No matter how sorry he feels, Denmark wouldn't just give away a beer like that...
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466 He he. I like Denmark's way of hydrating the whale.<br />
468 BTW. Can we get an Iceland based comic soon? He is one of my favorite characters but he is not in the comic that often.
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492 Iceland would just have waited for the whale to die (or killed it) and ate the meat!<br />
494 Not really - the little dear would have been too sick to eat.
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518 Of course Denmark gives the whale a beer.
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542 That whale drinking beer. Brilliant!<br />
544 Actually, much of The Netherlands is not below sea level but roughly 'at' sea level and it would only flood during a high tide.<br />
546 Maybe a good one for another comic: one of the reasons The Netherlands is below sea level in many places is that we pumped the water out of the ground to make the swamps, that was there originally in many places, dry. As a result, the ground compacted and The Netherlands got lower and lower over the centuries. Then we had to build higher dikes to keep the sea out. Self-inflicted in part...<br />
548 Another thing we have done is pumped gas out of the North of the country (used to be the biggest gas reserve in the world) and as a result the ground is compacting there as well. That also results in earthquakes strong enough to damage buildings there.
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572 @<a href="http://satwcomic.com/member/gctwnl" rel="nofollow">gctwnl</a> Very interesting. I call myself a history nerd, but somehow I'd convinced myself that a lot of the Netherlands had been created recently, as all I knew about the Netherlands' geography was that it depended a whole lot on the integrity of dams and dikes. Shit, now that I'm writing it out it seems a whole lot more naïve than I thought it would..
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619 @<a href="http://satwcomic.com/member/gctwnl" rel="nofollow">gctwnl</a> There is another reason why Netherlands sinking: During The Ice Age, the mass of ice that lied on scandinavia, it shifted The Netherlands up. Now Nordic coutries growing in high, while Netherlands and parts of Belgium and Germany are sinking. <br />
621 Don't blame me, blame geology ^^'
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645 Yay the whale hvalborg! <3 (they got the name from a danish song)
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669 >fuck my like<br />
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695 No Netherlands, I don't wanna fuck your life, its not sexy enough.
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719 I love how you called him Hvalborg. Nice touch. ;)
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743 As long as they don't die on the beach and explode. That tends to be quite messy.
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