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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The average work week in the Netherlands is 30 hours.

    It’s a skewed bullshit metric though and you can’t compare it to most other countries.

    It’s quite normal here to have one member of a household working 40 hours and the other part-time, for example 20 hours. That’s 60 hours of labour for a family and indeed 30 hours on average.

    Unfortunately most statistics only include people who actually work, instead of the total potential workforce. So a traditional family where dad works 40 hours and mom stays at home will have a combined total of 40 working hours vs our 60. But because mom doesn’t work she is ignored and the family counts toward the average for 40 hours. So they go into the books as hard workers and we are just lazy sobs.

    The cherry on top: statistics often cut off around 60-62, while we can’t retire until 67+.

    Remember: there are lies, damned lies and statistics.



  • Founded by Nazis, but abandoned during the war and revived by British army officer Ivan Hirst whom both saw the potential for turning it into a workshop and building new vehicles for the British occupation forces.

    After the war it was used by REME (Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) to repair British army vehicles, and it was used to build new vehicles. It was handed over to West Germany in september 1949.

    The company as we know it today therefore effectively has more British roots than Nazi ones.