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[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Turns out the Netherlands neighbour didn’t want to be embarrassed so it extended the same good quality road 100km into its own border. Then OP took a picture of where it ended for this meme

[–] Donut@leminal.space 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol that sounds like a coping mechanism. This picture is at the border, you can check for yourself: 51.245554,4.036692

Link to Google Maps for the lazy: https://maps.app.goo.gl/i8Q1XLg3bjmn3P3KA

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would you lie about something like this?

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're Belgian.

source: trust me bro

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems surprising to lie about this on a small community like Lemmy. Maybe it's an urban myth that keep being spread.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I made it up because I thought it would be funny

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Because it’s funny. The thought of going to all that trouble to not be one upped by your richer neighbour and then for someone to undo it all by taking a picture where they stopped is amusing. No matter how far they built the road someone could take the picture where it stopped and call them shit

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

Edit: seems like OP wasn't correct