The whale in the room
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.
25th August 2015
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5 hours ago #9400660
He he. I like Denmark's way of hydrating the whale.
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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He he. I like Denmark's way of hydrating the whale.
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.
20 hours ago #9400452
Iceland would just have waited for the whale to die (or killed it) and ate the meat!
Not really - the little dear would have been too sick to eat.
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Iceland would just have waited for the whale to die (or killed it) and ate the meat!
Not really - the little dear would have been too sick to eat.
21 hours ago #9400443
That whale drinking beer. Brilliant!
Actually, much of The Netherlands is not below sea level but roughly 'at' sea level and it would only flood during a high tide.
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...
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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That whale drinking beer. Brilliant!
Actually, much of The Netherlands is not below sea level but roughly 'at' sea level and it would only flood during a high tide.
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...
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.
21 hours ago #9400423
Yay the whale hvalborg! <3 (they got the name from a danish song)
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Yay the whale hvalborg! <3 (they got the name from a danish song)
4 hours ago #9400669
No Netherlands, I don't wanna fuck your life, its not sexy enough.
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No Netherlands, I don't wanna fuck your life, its not sexy enough.
12 hours ago #9400569
As long as they don't die on the beach and explode. That tends to be quite messy.
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As long as they don't die on the beach and explode. That tends to be quite messy.
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I really love the fact that Denmark gave the whale his beer. He's such a softy :-)