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The Dutch are making fun of us!

Posted by Manictastic • 8/22/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic

I can't believe the nerve those stupid northern neighbours of ours have. They are making fun of us because we haven't won anything in Bejing. They are calling us a nation of losers. Can you believe that? (yes, since we haven't won anything, but still) Those Dutch need to shut up. Who's with me?

www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/1740384/__Belgen_natie_van_verliezers___.html?c...

PS: I'm Belgian. Just to make sure you don't think that France didn't get any medals. Since I know how funny you all would find that.(Me included)

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8/22/08

acousticguitarist

You guys make better chocolate. Plus you have Philip Catherine.

They do have Jan Akkerman and Toots Thielman, you win on the chocolate plus the ladies are prettier.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAOgR0kScOY

For me, stuff the Olympics, give me Girls, Guitars and Chocolate

Belgium 3 Holand 1

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1. 8/22/08
  
  Manictastic
  
  Toots Thielemans is a Belgian, born in Brussels. He's our national pride. May he live long and longer.
2. 8/22/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  And Philip Catherine is on e of the worlds greatest guitar players.
  
  He helped Larry Coreyll the modern jazz guitar giant to slow down and play music.
  
  Twin House by Coryell and Catherine, probably one of the best guitar duet albums ever made
3. 8/22/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Also you have the big computer with all the information of everyone in the world
8/22/08

Manictastic

We gots a medal. A silver one in the 4X100 m sprint for the ladies. Wohoo!

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8/22/08

ThriftShopRomantic

You also have-- according to a "Top Gear" episode this last weekend-- the only fully-lit highway system. So, you know, you have that going for you.

Plus chocolate.

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1. 8/23/08
  
  Manictastic
  
  We waste energy as if we were an oil rich nation! (which unfortunately we are not)
8/22/08

flamingpoodle

Die Hollanders dryf die spot met almal
(The Dutch always make fun of everyone).

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1. 8/22/08
  
  legbamel
  
  Whew! For a moment there, I thought you were threatening the Dutch.
2. 8/22/08
  
  flamingpoodle
  
  Never! I'm friendly with the Dutch.
8/22/08

aningeniousname

You make better beer what more do you want????

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1. 8/22/08
  
  drjay1966
  
  Belgians make better beer, the Dutch have legal (or legal-enough) weed....
8/22/08

weblogian

I can't see a difference bettween you and them.
You call them stupid and they called you loser.

A kinda cold car

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8/22/08

kdawg68

Gas up the panzers. It's time to teach the Dutch a cold hard Belgian lesson, duly administerd with explosive projectiles and flashing steel.

I'd say mobilize all 150 members of your National defense jousting team and send them on a campaign of conquest.

Besides, the dutch will be busy this time of year putting their fingers in leaks, tendign to windmills, and smoking houkas.

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1. 8/22/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  The Belgians don't actually have an army they just rent out battlefields to the rest of us.
2. 8/22/08
  
  kdawg68
  
  Belgian battlefields....I'm seeing the "old guard" advancing towards Wellington....Murat unleashing the cavalry on the English "square", and Blucher marching his Prussians to the sounds of the guns.
3. 8/22/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  Stand fast men!!! Don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes! Damn frogs!!
8/22/08

carlgalloway

Belgian waffles (Liege) beat dutch potato frites any day of the week, although my other half disagrees with me very strongly on this point.

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8/22/08

clioandme

Come on. You gotta feel sorry for the Dutch if taunting the Belgians makes them feel better. I mean, seriously. The Belgians?

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1. 8/22/08
  
  carlgalloway
  
  It's the people from Luxembourg I feel sorry for. Nobody makes fun of them, nobody hates them, nobody loves them, they're just completely invisible to the world outside of Luxembourg. Some might say that's a great position to be in, but really they have no challenges in life, everything is just really boring.
2. 8/22/08
  
  clioandme
  
  Well, Napoleon III and Bismarck once did a diplomatic dance over them, but that was more than 140 years ago.
3. 8/22/08
  
  kdawg68
  
  you know, up until some point in Elementary school, I actually thought there was a single nation called "Benelux" - this despite the fact that my maternal grandfather grew up in Belgium.
4. 8/22/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  No Benny Lux was the president of Belgium.
8/22/08

tiggyblog

Cut off their beer supply!

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8/22/08

flamingpoodle

If it makes you feel any better, South Africa had a very dismal Olympics this time around.

We have a joke doing the rounds:

"South African man takes 3 gold medals... but he was stopped at the gates by security".

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8/22/08

Bayho

haha that was funny. O kay i got one for you . .i just herd it this weekend. What do you call two Mexicans playing basketball? Juan on Juan. haha. I'm pretty sure some one just got offended but w.e stop taking life so seriously. As for the Dutch making fun of us. . .why do you care? We did lose this time around.

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8/23/08

Manictastic

Haha, those Dutch were just about to laugh with us and now we're bringing in the medals. After our silver surprise yesterday in the 4X100 meters ladies sprint, now we've gotten gold in the women's final of the high jump. Belgium rules.

Oh, and thank you all for your kind words. It's always nice to know your nation isn't on the point of being carpet-bombed.

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8/23/08

jackpayne

You've got chocolate. What more do you need?

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2/07/09

cogmios

The dutch are not making fun of you. The article quotes the complete paragraph of the "Nieuwsblad" (www.nieuwsblad.be/) it only refers to the text there "are we are nation of losers" (so written by a BELGIAN newspaper...) ergo: you are making fun of yourself

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2/07/09

arjunu

cogmios! you dug up a 6 month old discussion!

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2/07/09

dsriharsha

anyway.. Belgium has Spa Francorchamps.. end of story

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