those chaps could be any age between 16 and 60 (they often shave their heads so everyone is equally bald and it is thus also difficult to guess what age they are).
I noticed that the presenters on Dutch pirate radio stations (who would be their dads generation) speak equally fast, and even the older blokes on youtube videos about amateur radio speak like that , so either the whole lot of them are on drugs (some of the older lot were given benzedrine so they could focus better at work) or they just are particularly enthusiastic about their hobbies. probably a combination of the two 😉
it would not surprise me if the bulk of these events are somewhere around the border areas of NL and DE (there is a 2km exclusion zone each side as those areas are classed as flood plains – the Dutch also use the polders to bail out the North Sea using electric pumps. This works but must be noisy, so a rave is small potatoes in comparison.
It also seems that during the week the boys and girls are either at uni or work in the local companies designing or making useful products/doing brainy stuff with computers (like the kit that keeps the North Sea out, or the egg processing machine) so whatever they get up to at the weekend is just viewed as kattekwaad (cat mischief), and work is organised in shifts and there is a fair bit of annual leave to give time for hobbies.
But bear in mind Dutch cats are expected to behave well and obey the most senior female in a family house (and so is everyone else TBH).
I used to get loads of youtube cat videos from NL until the government privacy organisation put a stop to that level of tracking, and every other one seemed to be was a tall blonde woman teaching a cat to fetch items on command. and not just any random stuff, but things the rest of the household might mislay after a weekends partying, with larger breeds of cat like the Bengal or Siamese it the items included DECT telephone handsets :laugh_at:
