Highlights from the Dutch broadcast (paraphrased):

• "The EBU reminded us that we're contractually obligated to do this broadcast."
• "Instead of the Netherlands we skip to Isreal, good thing they are completely uncontroversial."
• "Everyone makes mistakes, the EBU also knows a lot about that."

Extra fun is how many sources originally talked about a physical confrontation

They got crowned by the Witch!

You're doubting all major Dutch news organisations?

Funny how Norway is there even though it's not even in the EU

Edit: I should probably start by saying that this is somewhat off-topic.

In the Netherlands we tend to rank our parties along left-right and progressive-conservative axes separately. Conservative-left gets you Christians who care about the poor. In other countries there's also the "I want the government to support our workers", "I want to go back to Soviet times" and "I'm leftist but LGBTQ is wrong" types.

Sometimes you just have to feed the canal, you know?

Nikki de Jager (who was supposed to be the spokesperson) said on TV that it didn't feel right to hand out points. The Dutch broadcaster then told the EBU to just figure it out themselves.
Käärijä (Finland) also stepped down but got replaced, and Alessandra (Norway) already stepped down earlier because of Isreal.

Frisia! It's a province of the Netherlands and I think their language is the closest one to English

Unrelated, but it's kind of weird that [email protected] is US politics even though there's nothing American about lemmy.world

• Pro-Israel people all vote for Israel (including ones that normally wouldn't vote), while the other votes are spread out

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From what I heard Joost was getting a bunch of political questions right before that without the host ever saying "you don't have to answer that", and that's where his reaction came from

Edit: source on Dutch Twitter

Germanic language Dutch only has "de" and "het"

ï, ö, ü, ä as well (as a diaeresis, not an umlaut)

In Dutch, "haai" (shark) sounds very similar to "hi" (the English word), same for "hooi" (hay) and "hoi" (hi). Which leads to this hilarious comic I saw once where a shark meets a bale of hay ^edit:^ ^somehow^ ^I^ ^typed^ ^bay^ ^of^ ^hale^

Payback for the "English disease" in Dutch (and probably German) where people are writing nouns with random spaces in between

At least here in the Netherlands, there was a lot of commotion because a data centre tried to buy a windmill park meant to power households as their dedicated power source

Sadly, not a well-known show in the Netherlands (apparently there was even a Dutch version that got cancelled after 12 episodes)

Dutch Public Vote as well