And to think, people here freak out about the Teletubbies

I saw this on CNN last night and had trouble finishing it. My only conclusion is that there is some very weird shit going on in the Netherlands. A nation’s television programming may not be the Rosetta Stone for said nation’s culture but it does say quite a lot about where they are as a society. Television in Holland proves that the Dutch are absolute freaks. Not every one of them, as the article explains, but enough for the following to happen.

Some weeks ago, Rotterdam-based columnist Hugo Borst was watching the daily news on family channel RTL with his 11-year-old son while having dinner. At 6:45 p.m. -- with no warning -- father and son were witness to excerpts from a home video showing the goalkeeper of a Dutch professional soccer team being introduced in embarrassingly intimate terms to a sex toy by a girlfriend.

Freaks. Read the whole thing but don’t say I didn’t warn you.