Oh America, every time the Winter Olympics start you can’t help to be amazed by our epic speed ice-skating skills. It’s no different this year around since we’re once again topping the medal charts. Okay I didn’t check, but this pic says it all:
While we struggled to find out what makes the Dutch so good at ice-skating, luckily an NBC commentator knew exactly what was going on in the Netherlands:
Obviously, this bit by NBC is all completely true, we need those canals to go ice-skating to work every morning when things are frozen up. So a bunch Dutchies decided to help out by showing you how we Dutch do rush hour:
This is true, this is me skating to work at the cheese factory last friday pic.twitter.com/otHRmDSeys
— Thomas Hogeling (@ThomasHogeling) 11 februari 2018
Indeed! This is the typical morning commute for the windmill workers in Amsterdam pic.twitter.com/Y15HX3gzGx
— Steven Ottens (@stvno) 11 februari 2018
Good luck with ice-skating to work tomorrow everybody!
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