Just like Zwift hills are better than riding intervals in TR because of the gravity or something.
Suuuuuper fun fact, some cigarettes used to contain belladonna alkaloids (usually from the thorn-apple plant) which dilate the bronchioles! So in this case- smoke does expand the lungs!
Good alternative when @Nate_Pearson forgets his inhaler again 
She: “You cyclists are a bunch of weird masochists.”
Me: “Well, there’s a bit of suffering involved, but I wouldn’t go that far.”
Dutch Headwind Championships: “We’ve set up a ‘vomit area’ for you at the finish.”
love the handlebars on those sick bags
Not a meme, but hilarious videos:
Have you watched this “race”?! It’s bonkers!
They actually seem to sell a sponsorship for the area as well.
Your vomit area is presented courtesy of …
They must have thought they had cart blac on production, then found out that wasn’t the case after finishing the video, so just threw in the towel on the audio. 
I went to a military school where one of our graduation requirements was an indoor obstacle course. At the end next to the timing table they would line up 5-gallon paint buckets for everyone to puke in as they finished. Good times.
And the best part is they put bike handlebars as the grab bars over the puke bags!
Some corrections…
Maybe not the grumpiest people. But we can sometime ignore the social obligated responses. We sometimes just don’t care. Direct, yes most of the times.
Stroopwaffle = Stroopwafel.
Van Gough = Van Gogh
I like your summary of the Netherlands and Dutch people though.
Timely!
I like this so much I sent it to my wife as a Valentine’s card and she was so relieved that it was just a joke, that I was off the hook for any real roses. (So of course I applied the savings to my secret stash for a new bike. Twofer.)
And there’s me still on 9 speed mechanical sora 