Overheard: Amsterdam summer

Friday, August 21, 2026


Summer 2026 in Amsterdam gave heatwaves, cloudy days, 200,000+ lightning discharges, World Cup flags, boat trips, WorldPride - and I heard people saying these words:

  • Cos everyone wants a unicorn, but no one wants a lumberjack.

  • Wounds can be healed! Wounds can be healed!

  • Brussels? Absolutely not! Brussels? What a shit show!

  • If you go to the UK, to London, they are all orange in the face.

  • It's very, like, claustrophobic here.

  • I think he's straight... but he does play with his hair a lot.

  • The Dutch are pretty much the badasses of the world when it comes to languages.

  • Some nights we sleep together, some nights we don't.

  • What about the consequences, the enormity?

  • Oh, this wine is expensive... oh, this wine is good... This was a lovely wine, I'm going to get more.

  • Like, he will buy three baskets of peaches and five boxes of extension cords.

  • What happens in Chile on a Tuesday evening?

  • I'm following you... Do you know where you're going?

  • Thank God I brought chicken wings.

  • Take your winter coats out!

  • That McDonald's is good, it has an upper floor.

  • I don't think anyone is pretty like me... or prettier.