This is an official request for the Dutch to invade the north west of Germany, build a bunch of bike infrastructure and then leave.
Thanks.
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I don’t get it.
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is this why the world wars keep happening - y’all know you can improve infrastructure the normal way right
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Okay but in return I want some Leopard 2’s at a discount so we actually got something to invade you -with-.
It’s based on the rather well-known fact at this point that Viggo Mortesen broke his toe shooting Two Towers(Specifically when he kicks the Uruk-hai helmet and screams).
There’s a running joke and stereotype that people bring this up every time the scene is played, to the point that people are tired of it because everyone knows at this point.
For other examples of such scenes, see Django Unchained and Leonardo DiCaprio cutting his hand on glass.
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I didn’t know that! Now I do.
(I promise not to burden people seeing the LOTR movies for the first time with this knowledge)
(Their ears would be already ringing from me explaining the lore context of every scene)
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The other one is one of the Uruk-hai extras accidentally throwing a live knife directly at Viggo and he successfully parries it
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Also I’m reminded once again just how beautiful Liv Tyler as Arwen is 
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We’re the first European country to have F-35 planes that can, will, and do carry nuclear payloads, we’ll be fine! Perfect for paving those new bike lanes, even
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Not with current local government we can’t
Just send in the caravans and block the Autobahn? 
Careful, do you want your bikes back or not?
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this is the problem you had last time too!!
I’m asking for skilled Dutch bike infrastructure planners, not failed Austrian painters
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Coworker, on the phone with a German coworker (in Germany) once asked for this jokingly and I think Dutch-German relations almost broke down entirely
I love refusing to give Dutchies their bikes back. Somehow most don’t expect the deadpan “no, it’s mine”?
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Everyone biking there may suddenly grow an extra head though.
The more times change, the more they stay the same.
Nothing that special for Lower-Saxony country side tbh
All your bike r belong to us (You keep throwing them into the water in Amsterdam…)
Amsterdam does house many silly people ( I’m from nowhere near Amsterdam).
In more civilized places, we instead ‘pleur’ a ‘pan bami’ onto the street 
How dare you not give me the bami…
I haven’t seen the Orphan movies, but I have seen the funny B-roll in the movies of Estonian landscape, y’know… snow, trees, mountains!