hemelvaart=ascension, pinksteren (pinksterdag)=pentecost. Also, we actually have very few holidays compared to other countries. Easter, Ascension, Pentecost and Queen's Day (now King's Day) come in short succession after each other but then nothing for the rest of the year until Christmas.
Quite some tourists still come to The Netherlands to celebrate Koninginnedag (April 30), because they own an old tourist guide book. Too bad, since the celebrations for Koningsdag (King's Day) are on April 27.
@@jessicakoster2543 I'm not sure he's big but his work has been on youtube as one of the earliest comedians talking about dutch things so it's had many people viewing it over time. I hope he knows he's internet famous.
Myeah King's day is when the whole country has a party. And everyone is invited. It's all day too, the things for kids start early. Bike decorating contest, building things from pallets, a raffle. Getting a good spot to put your "junk" at the market can be so hard in places they set out the kids before dawn to reserve a spot. Many free concerts.
Not sure I've come across him before, but he's hilariously funny. And spot on regarding Queen's day, too. (Even though this must have been a record of some time ago).
I have to nuance something here. The Netherlands has eight official national holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter, King's Day, Liberation Day, Ascension Day, Whitsun and Christmas. Neighboring countries Germany and Belgium have nine and ten public holidays respectively. Finland stands out with the most public holidays in Europe: fifteen public holidays! Number of public holidays per country in Western Europe: Finland: 15 Spain: 14 Greece: 12 Denmark: 11 France: 11 Italy: 11 Sweden: 11 Belgium: 10 Luxembourg: 10 Portugal: 10 Germany: 9 Ireland: 9 Great Britain: 8 Netherlands: 8 In the Netherlands you do not automatically have a day off on a public holiday. There is no law stipulating that employees are free on certain holidays. Schools and government services are often closed, but businesses are not. It is determined per sector which public holidays count as days off.
we have a first and second "pinksterdag" because the first day is always on a Sunday. on that day we don't have to work anyway so whats the added value of a holiday then? Thats why we have a second pinksterdag. So you won't be surprised what we did to Easter ;)
And yeah, Queensday / Kingsday.....here in the east of the country it's usually not that amazing; indeed lots of people trying to sell their shit (lately more and more cheap garbage that they buy online and try to sell with a profit), and here and there a few stages with some music. Sometimes the firefighters have some simple games for the kids like trying to escape a tent that's filled with nitrogen smoke and extinguishing a fake fire or resqueing a fire victim etc.
The official reason that it became the birthday of the queen mother was to honour her . The unofficial reason but more important reason is economic. January 31st is mid winter and the streets will not get crowed with beer buying folks. It's expected that the next queen will also do something similar.
True indeed queen Beatrix was born on january 31st... not a great day for an outdoor party.. And our crownprinces Amalia was born december 7th. In the midst of winter... not a good day either.. so she will probably hang on to her fathers birthday in April too !
I once wanted to celebrate kingsday in eindhoven, and I needed to take the bus but I couldn't take the first one becouse is was full. then came the next bus. only there where so many people in a line that I also couldn't get in that bus before it was full. so I decided not to go to eindhoven. either way either way I find it way to busy in the big citys so I just celebrate it in my hometown.
On Kingsday and the night before visit any city in here and there will be a lot of drinking & partying. Of course you could also sell your junk, but it is more fun to get drunk and party with your friends and have a good time.
I wish for you that you could have experienced Queensday as it was before it became Kingsday.. Back then it was sooooo much better. The whole country used to go nuts, now it's a watered down affair.. Amsterdam used to be amazing, free(!) parties from one end of the city centre to another, couple million people f-ed up having fun.. just heavenly! Now it's all outside the city at some venue where they charge stupid money for each party organized with overpriced drinks (no ducking into an "Albert Heijn" for supermarket prices) and all is heavily policed. The atmosphere of the day has taken a nosedive unfortunately (even before covid)... But then.. it could all just be me getting old and whistfull and sour talking about back in my day 🤔🤪
There is no way anybody would dislike it. It is a party all over the country. About the shit, that is so true. This guy is hilarious. Thank you so much for posting this. 👍👌😂🤣Greetz from Holland.
I don't give a rats arse about the whole fucking day. A lot of people trying to sell their stuff during the day. Also, a lot of old traditions (at leats in our village in the Randstad) which are taking the whole day. No thanks, i'll skip.
It all has to do with religion and we dont have the most holidays in The Netherlands. Germany, our neighbourcountry, have many more holidays. Just an example. Queen's day was on the birthday of the fomer queen because the daughter who was queen, her birthday was on Jan 30th and everybody prefers nice weather to celebrate it. Thats why it was that way. Now we have King's Day and this time it really is on his birthday.
When it change from queensday to kingsday lot off toerist came to late. Cause kingsday is at 27 april before 30 april. Party was already gone. They came for nothing.🤪
I'm not very fond of queen's/king's day. It's mostly a tideous walk behind lots of other people pretending the weather is not that bad getting bombarded with electronic 'dance' music watching people getting more drunk on lukewarm beer by the hour. It's too much like shopping for stuff you need an extremely busy saturday, but with all the discomforts of a night out on the town. I never really enjoyed it in the past either. Most of my friends tended to be anti monarchy and were ostentatiously indifferent about they day, but got drunk anyway. I often went to Amsterdam to sell stuff and when that went well it was a fun day working/making money. If you have a good product and a good spot you could easily make 500 that day. I also had great fun once when Queen's night went a bit out of hand and we bought a whole stand with other people's stuff to show off our intoxicated sales skills. I like the phenomenon, I like kids trying to make a buck, but it's mostly people mitigating boredom by keep on moving.
Mijn god .wat gaat de tijd snel..De Gulden en het kwartje..De lp het casettebandje .waar we opnames maakten op de radio..en we ergerde dst ze er doorheen zaten te praten..
I don't celebrate Queensday (Kingsday) anymore. I used to party when I was younger. Now the amount of people would just feel annoying to me. I would probably join if I had kids. But now I'm happy to skip that day.
0:45 "what kind of giant was that before him?" .. well it's called a dutchman! ,lol.
hemelvaart=ascension, pinksteren (pinksterdag)=pentecost. Also, we actually have very few holidays compared to other countries. Easter, Ascension, Pentecost and Queen's Day (now King's Day) come in short succession after each other but then nothing for the rest of the year until Christmas.
True compared to us Belgians , your neighbours to the South, you have less I think.
Guilder and quarter, not heard for a long time. This was obviously recorded more than 20 years ago.
definitely! i remember another sketch of him (with the 'zakje') from around the late 90's
@@KCML82 yes that one is hilarious, this one I found very disappointing.
@@KCML82 put it in your zakje at the Albert Heijn. Genius.
Quite some tourists still come to The Netherlands to celebrate Koninginnedag (April 30), because they own an old tourist guide book. Too bad, since the celebrations for Koningsdag (King's Day) are on April 27.
This guy is a legend😎🤣. we all know the ah put him in a zakje! And Koninginnendag 😂 And what he said is also 100% true😂😂❤
I saw him at my local pub on a stand-up comedy night. He did both sketches that night.
It always stuck with me, but I had no idea he was this "big".
@@jessicakoster2543 I'm not sure he's big but his work has been on youtube as one of the earliest comedians talking about dutch things so it's had many people viewing it over time. I hope he knows he's internet famous.
This Man's humor is great. It's hilarious to hear how foreigners look at our habits and celebrations. 🤣
pinksteren is Pentecost, and hemelvaartsdag is ascension day. chrismas, easter and pentecost are all 2 day public holidays in the netherlands
'The comedy factory' , stand up Dutch comedy show in the 90's, mostly Dutch, British and American stand-up comedians, so so good.😂😂
that must be a video from long ago, because i saw them smoking, and in most cities the shops are 364 days a year open now
Myeah King's day is when the whole country has a party. And everyone is invited. It's all day too, the things for kids start early. Bike decorating contest, building things from pallets, a raffle. Getting a good spot to put your "junk" at the market can be so hard in places they set out the kids before dawn to reserve a spot. Many free concerts.
Not sure I've come across him before, but he's hilariously funny. And spot on regarding Queen's day, too. (Even though this must have been a record of some time ago).
I have to nuance something here.
The Netherlands has eight official national holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter, King's Day, Liberation Day, Ascension Day, Whitsun and Christmas. Neighboring countries Germany and Belgium have nine and ten public holidays respectively. Finland stands out with the most public holidays in Europe: fifteen public holidays!
Number of public holidays per country in Western Europe:
Finland: 15
Spain: 14
Greece: 12
Denmark: 11
France: 11
Italy: 11
Sweden: 11
Belgium: 10
Luxembourg: 10
Portugal: 10
Germany: 9
Ireland: 9
Great Britain: 8
Netherlands: 8
In the Netherlands you do not automatically have a day off on a public holiday. There is no law stipulating that employees are free on certain holidays. Schools and government services are often closed, but businesses are not. It is determined per sector which public holidays count as days off.
we have a first and second "pinksterdag" because the first day is always on a Sunday. on that day we don't have to work anyway so whats the added value of a holiday then? Thats why we have a second pinksterdag. So you won't be surprised what we did to Easter ;)
In case you wonder what 'Pinksterdag' means. It's Pentecost. And of course we have two days..
Sailing to heaven (hemelvaart) = Jezus dying on the cross. Never thought about how Dutch that may sound.
The funny part is that a British guy is taking a piss at the Dutch in English on a Dutch stage and we LOVE it. We just don't feel insulted.
Queensday is now Kingsday…it’s a lot of fun the whole day party…..yeahhhhhhhhh
He's got a great skid too, that's called 'zakje' about shopping in dutch grocery stores / supermarkets.
My favorite of his is the one about Albert Heijn and the “zakje”
But he’s so good
This is so accurate! 😂
Yessssss!!!! I was hoping for this one after "zakje" :D
And yeah, Queensday / Kingsday.....here in the east of the country it's usually not that amazing; indeed lots of people trying to sell their shit (lately more and more cheap garbage that they buy online and try to sell with a profit), and here and there a few stages with some music.
Sometimes the firefighters have some simple games for the kids like trying to escape a tent that's filled with nitrogen smoke and extinguishing a fake fire or resqueing a fire victim etc.
The official reason that it became the birthday of the queen mother was to honour her . The unofficial reason but more important reason is economic. January 31st is mid winter and the streets will not get crowed with beer buying folks. It's expected that the next queen will also do something similar.
True indeed queen Beatrix was born on january 31st... not a great day for an outdoor party.. And our crownprinces Amalia was born december 7th. In the midst of winter... not a good day either.. so she will probably hang on to her fathers birthday in April too !
I once wanted to celebrate kingsday in eindhoven, and I needed to take the bus but I couldn't take the first one becouse is was full. then came the next bus. only there where so many people in a line that I also couldn't get in that bus before it was full. so I decided not to go to eindhoven.
either way either way I find it way to busy in the big citys so I just celebrate it in my hometown.
It's been a long time since i heard from (john fealey) again.. this was also a far better year than we have today.. 😅 (lang leven de Guldens) 😊
We actually have the least public holidays of whole Europe.
I like queensday in holland
Cuz they pay 300% if u work that day
On Kingsday and the night before visit any city in here and there will be a lot of drinking & partying.
Of course you could also sell your junk, but it is more fun to get drunk and party with your friends and have a good time.
I wish for you that you could have experienced Queensday as it was before it became Kingsday.. Back then it was sooooo much better. The whole country used to go nuts, now it's a watered down affair.. Amsterdam used to be amazing, free(!) parties from one end of the city centre to another, couple million people f-ed up having fun.. just heavenly! Now it's all outside the city at some venue where they charge stupid money for each party organized with overpriced drinks (no ducking into an "Albert Heijn" for supermarket prices) and all is heavily policed. The atmosphere of the day has taken a nosedive unfortunately (even before covid)... But then.. it could all just be me getting old and whistfull and sour talking about back in my day 🤔🤪
There is no way anybody would dislike it. It is a party all over the country. About the shit, that is so true. This guy is hilarious. Thank you so much for posting this. 👍👌😂🤣Greetz from Holland.
I don't give a rats arse about the whole fucking day.
A lot of people trying to sell their stuff during the day.
Also, a lot of old traditions (at leats in our village in the Randstad) which are taking the whole day.
No thanks, i'll skip.
@@maxis1504 That is your right. And ofcourse they all sell shit. No problem, but Fealey is great fun, don't you think?
Absolutely mate.
Hemelvaart is Ascension Day
It all has to do with religion and we dont have the most holidays in The Netherlands. Germany, our neighbourcountry, have many more holidays. Just an example. Queen's day was on the birthday of the fomer queen because the daughter who was queen, her birthday was on Jan 30th and everybody prefers nice weather to celebrate it. Thats why it was that way. Now we have King's Day and this time it really is on his birthday.
You should react to 'Godfrey bij Raymann is laat'.
When it change from queensday to kingsday lot off toerist came to late.
Cause kingsday is at 27 april before 30 april. Party was already gone. They came for nothing.🤪
I love it
Buy that shit!!
Hilarious!
Hemelvaart is Pentecost in English.
Ascension, actually. Pentecost is Pinksteren.
No it's not. Pentecost is "Pinksteren". The english word for Hemelvaartsdag is Ascension Day.
Pentecost is Pinkersteren, Hemelvaart is Ascension Day
To make it more confusing, I believe 1e pinksterdag is called Whitsunday.
@@jessicakoster2543 Indeed. And 2e Pinksterdag, you can guess, is Whit Monday. 😄
Hemelfart? 😜
I'm not very fond of queen's/king's day. It's mostly a tideous walk behind lots of other people pretending the weather is not that bad getting bombarded with electronic 'dance' music watching people getting more drunk on lukewarm beer by the hour. It's too much like shopping for stuff you need an extremely busy saturday, but with all the discomforts of a night out on the town.
I never really enjoyed it in the past either. Most of my friends tended to be anti monarchy and were ostentatiously indifferent about they day, but got drunk anyway. I often went to Amsterdam to sell stuff and when that went well it was a fun day working/making money. If you have a good product and a good spot you could easily make 500 that day. I also had great fun once when Queen's night went a bit out of hand and we bought a whole stand with other people's stuff to show off our intoxicated sales skills.
I like the phenomenon, I like kids trying to make a buck, but it's mostly people mitigating boredom by keep on moving.
You must be a blast to go out with
Yeah!!!! 😂😂
Mijn god .wat gaat de tijd snel..De Gulden en het kwartje..De lp het casettebandje .waar we opnames maakten op de radio..en we ergerde dst ze er doorheen zaten te praten..
En in het publiek mocht nog gerookt😳 worden
@@annemariedusselaar9862 Zag het ook..
germany got more holidays
The only thing thats bad about "Koninginnedag" is that its to busy something to walk to the shop to get some milk
😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ROFLMAO @ Hemelfart.
Geen Jenever!😂
I don't like King's Day, because I don't like (to be in) large crowds. I have nothing against the Royal Family of The Netherlands.
Wie is die vent? Totaal niet leuk!
The Netherlands having many holidays? Has he ever been to Israel lol
I don't celebrate Queensday (Kingsday) anymore. I used to party when I was younger. Now the amount of people would just feel annoying to me. I would probably join if I had kids. But now I'm happy to skip that day.
Im Dutch and have nothing with Koninginnedag!! Why? The whole damn day only shitty music... drunk annoying people... its nothing for me
i don't like konningdag because it's to crowded everywhere