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I live in the Netherlands and I got a couple of hundred bucks of grants for removing all tiles in my backyard (previous owners put them in) and replacing them with grass. Obviously that didn't cover all the cost (and put in a bunch of back breaking work myself) but it's still a nice idea.
In parts of America we're paid to dig up our lawns and replace them with rocks and tile.
For those who aren't gifted with the dutch language (its easy to learn for enlgish speakers. Its like german but with english syntax. logical spelling and grammar thats really not that hard) Anyway, Tegelwippen is where you "flip tiles" and replace them with plants. The basic play is that it reduces flooding, and regulates temperature. Plus its pretty. https://interlace-hub.com/national-dutch-championship-%E2%80... T…
The average Dutch person has a passive vocabulary of about 42k words, the average German speaker has only 20k passive vocabulary.
In German 1300 words make up about 85 % of a text, in Dutch you need 2000.
For those who aren't gifted with the dutch language (its easy to learn for enlgish speakers. Its like german but with english syntax. logical spelling and grammar thats really not that hard) Anyway, Tegelwippen is where you "flip tiles" and replace them with plants. The basic play is that it reduces flooding, and regulates temperature. Plus its pretty. https://interlace-hub.com/national-dutch-championship-%E2%80... T…
It looks like they're removing tiles from public pathways in some of those pictures. Is that legal in NL?
Still, pretty cool stuff.
For those who aren't gifted with the dutch language (its easy to learn for enlgish speakers. Its like german but with english syntax. logical spelling and grammar thats really not that hard) Anyway, Tegelwippen is where you "flip tiles" and replace them with plants. The basic play is that it reduces flooding, and regulates temperature. Plus its pretty. https://interlace-hub.com/national-dutch-championship-%E2%80... T…
For those who aren't gifted with the dutch language (its easy to learn for enlgish speakers. Its like german but with english syntax. logical spelling and grammar thats really not that hard) Anyway, Tegelwippen is where you "flip tiles" and replace them with plants. The basic play is that it reduces flooding, and regulates temperature. Plus its pretty. https://interlace-hub.com/national-dutch-championship-%E2%80... T…
Plus "wippen" also means, roughly, "to shag", so it has this lulzy undertone
At least, I have a very hard time associating ‘tegel’ and the sexual version of ‘wippen’.
I live in the Netherlands and I got a couple of hundred bucks of grants for removing all tiles in my backyard (previous owners put them in) and replacing them with grass. Obviously that didn't cover all the cost (and put in a bunch of back breaking work myself) but it's still a nice idea.
For those who aren't gifted with the dutch language (its easy to learn for enlgish speakers. Its like german but with english syntax. logical spelling and grammar thats really not that hard) Anyway, Tegelwippen is where you "flip tiles" and replace them with plants. The basic play is that it reduces flooding, and regulates temperature. Plus its pretty. https://interlace-hub.com/national-dutch-championship-%E2%80... T…
Plus "wippen" also means, roughly, "to shag", so it has this lulzy undertone
> Bij het NK Tegelwippen hebben we nogal wat affiniteit met de bloemetjes en de bijtjes (snap je ‘m?)
which loosely translates to “We at NK Tegelwippen are rather fond of the birds and the bees (get it?)”
For context, “wippen” means “to flip over” and “to hop on a seesaw” but it’s also polite slang for having sex.
In Utrecht, the municipality will lend you a bakfiets with all the equipment you need (soil, shovel, tile cutter) to replace a few tiles in front of your house with plants. You don't need a permit to do it. https://www.utrecht.nl/wonen-en-leven/parken-en-groen/zelfbe...
For those who aren't gifted with the dutch language (its easy to learn for enlgish speakers. Its like german but with english syntax. logical spelling and grammar thats really not that hard) Anyway, Tegelwippen is where you "flip tiles" and replace them with plants. The basic play is that it reduces flooding, and regulates temperature. Plus its pretty. https://interlace-hub.com/national-dutch-championship-%E2%80... T…
The size of the Dutch vocabulary is insane! The average Dutch person has a passive vocabulary of about 42k words, the average German speaker has only 20k passive vocabulary. In German 1300 words make up about 85 % of a text, in Dutch you need 2000.