do you think people in The Hague feel weird about their city becoming a byword for the International Criminal Court? like I bet a lot of people deserve to go The Hague not because of war crimes but because they would enjoy the *quick search* Indo festival or *checks wikitravel* the oldest forested area in the Netherlands, the Haagse Bos
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in reply to @nex3's post:
as someone who lives pretty near there (like about 30km; i've cycled there before): i don't think the people there really know about that usage that much. it's not a thing in Dutch, and while Dutch people tend to speak decent English, in my experience they're not all that aware of anything English-language outside of the mainstream; this is probably too niche and online for most people.
in Dutch the name of the city is a byword for 'national government' because that's where our parliament etc. is, so i imagine they're kind of used to it anyway.
the forest is nice but honestly dutch forests are all kind of unimpressive; even more so to someone from north america, i imagine. they're basically just parks. i haven't been to the indo festival but i imagine it's cool.
for nerds i would probably also recommend revelation space, a relatively old and well-organized dutch hackerspace. it's technically not within the city limits, but it might as well be. it's all one big conurbation anyway
this might be apocryphal but also the whole thing about how the US has a plan to storm the hague if a us solider is ever put on trial there; how does it feel for one’s specific city, not country, but city, to have a known invasion plan for it
forgive wikipedia as a source, but what is usually called the Hague Invasion Act is genuinely a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
from a reading of the actual text, I'm not sure it requires us to have a plan to invade the Hague, but let's face it, we probably do
tbh until minutes ago i thought the city was just called hague and 'the hague' was a shortening of 'the hague international criminal court' or something. putting the definite article in the name of your city is such a big swing it feels like this is what they always wanted
edit: i'm being informed about los angeles and las vegas and suddenly feeling very silly that i never thought about those names for more than a couple seconds
in reply to @BridgeUnit's post:
OOOOH in that case i absolutely need to be sent straight to den haag