I would like to declare that Dutch clubs are totally bizarre.

First, you can’t pay for a beer or what have you with cash. You buy little tokens or bon and then you get drinks with those. One bon, one beer. One bon, one glass of wine. Totally bizarre.

Second, it’s straight up weird to see a bunch of Dutch students singing along with American songs. It’s strange to see American kids singing along with hip-hop-whatever-yo-momma-rap, but it’s even weirder when it’s Dutch kids.

Now I say kids because it’s also weird to see how young some of the people are at clubs. The drinking age of 21 is straight up stupid in the States, but it’s cozy in a way to only meet kids that age in bars. I guess I’m an old man now, but hanging out, drinking with 16-year-olds seems completely and utterly strange.

Please realize that this doesn’t apply to all clubs in the Netherlands, just some of them. I guess really only the three I’ve visited. Bars are quite normal. Interestingly enough, American English is more influential it seems than British English, so pubs are called bars by non-native English speakers. More on this later.

But really, Dutch clubs are equivalent to American clubs. You see the girls who look like sluts. I mean girls who really need to get sexed up. You see guys who totally want to sex these girls up. You see people having fun. People drinking, people dancing. It’s about youth, and that transcends culture.