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Zombies => Metal & Talk (english) => Thema gestartet von: shadowman am Dezember 25, 2004, 02:20:01 Nachmittag
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Or Holland if you like...
Mas will enlighten us about her home country, but in the meanwhile we can all have a little saying about Dutch society and its crazy ways...
Now, being a neighbour of Holland (as every Belgian calls it) I may have some more inside information but don't let this bother you...
Ok, first things that come to mind when I think of Holland are :
My visits to the Efteling, the best amusement park I've ever been to. And yes, I have visited Disneyland Paris...
The Dutch soccer teams are way better than the Belgians ones ( :x :x :x ), At least for the moment...
Self assured people !
Tall guys !! And tall women as well !! 8)
Cheese !!!
The paradise for cyclists !
Holland is as flat a billiardcloth...
Mmm... I am sure I will think of more things to add, but why don't you go first...
:P
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- Coffee Shops
- Drug abuse
- Johan Cruyff
- "The Llama" Frank Rijkaard
- Propably the most disappointing national soccer team in the last 10 years: A collection of extremely talented single players obviously don't make a good team
- Queen Beatrice (sp?)
- Maxima, wife of Prince Willem-Alexander; a gourgeous woman
- wind mills
- cheese
- Klogs (sp?)
- "water streets": "Grachten" ?
- Amsterdam, propably the Babylon of the modern age
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Amsterdam and magic mushroom-shops :)
Dunno almost anything about the Netherlands, spent like 30 minutes at the Airport of Amsterdam once... Oh, and yes, it's flat, isn't it ;)
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Tss... course... how could I forget Cruijff... ?
Imo the best football player this planet has ever seen...
One my earliest tv football matches I remember, the famous WK final of '74...
The netherlands had a genuine dream team back then, now let me see :
Haan, Krol , Neeskens, Cruyff, Rensenbrink...
But HEY ! The Germans came up with a killer 11 as well :
Vogts, Breitner, Beckenbauer, Hoeness, Müller (?) correct me if I'm wrong here German friends..
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Tulips! :)
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AoP's note: I cut this one out ;)
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Mas, thanks for solving so quick, but the "experts" usually wait a few days until they comment on the brainstorming :)
I cut your reply out and will paste it into this thread again in a few days, when (almost) everyone had a chance to write his thoughts, ok?
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Wohowww!! that is already a LOT of information there Mas !
Don't give away all your secrets just yet ! 8)
Plenty more to come, I am sure...
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Mas, thanks for solving so quick, but the "experts" usually wait a few days until they comment on the brainstorming :)
I cut your reply out and will paste it into this thread again in a few days, when (almost) everyone had a chance to write his thoughts, ok?
ok LOL, i didnt know you tehe users are gonna brainstorm first, :roll: well ok, now i understand the point, but wait please to past the reply, maybe i wanna add more information.
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Wohowww!! that is already a LOT of information there Mas !
Don't give away all your secrets just yet ! 8)
Plenty more to come, I am sure...
:arrow:
LOL yeah now i understand it. hahahaha i didnt know :P
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Well when I think of Holland I might be thinking of..
-Windmills
-Van Basten (the greatest soccer player and let the others say about Croyfe)
-Van in general
-The milk we used to have here in greece called "The Small Dutch Girl"
-Windmills ...?...?
-Amsterdam that is built under sea level (if I am right..?)
-Sheep....and a whole lot green
-The most beautiful airport in Europe...which I cannot pronounce. Schipsol?...I think lol
-KLM
-Not many metal bands from there....
and last but not least...Tulips, my favourite flowers.
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hehehehe! good one Garngantous! lol yeah.
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:lol: :lol: :lol: Hilarious pics :lol:
In addition to everything was already said, I think of
- wooden shoes
- Terschelling
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Who has ever wear wooden shoes? :P
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Me :)
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To get back to the real topic.........
I do not know as much about the Netherlands as I do some of the others:
What comes to mind is
Windmills
Wooden Shoes
Funny photo manipulators :wonder:
Dikes
Red Light District, I feel very drawn to there............., very curious.....
Tulips
Flemish art- Vermeer
Van Gogh museum, Rijksmuseum
Flat watery land
Hans christen Anderson, I think
Ice skating
Castle De Haar, Groeneveld Castle
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Hans christen Anderson, I think
If you're thinking of Hans Christian Andersen, famous writer of fairy tales and poems: He's from Denmark :)
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To get back to the real topic.........
Thanks mate. We do everything to digress and you bring us back to the original topic.
;)
Greetz,
Tex
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Sadly all I think of are tulips, windmills, the little boy who stuck his finger in the dyke (although I hear this a actually an American myth not one from the Netherlands), wooden shoes, Dutch chocolate...........
For metal music the awesome Callenish Circle and Epica.
And last but not least........ The Hague; Capital of South Holland Government, Royal City of the Netherlands and home to the International Court of Justice!
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Sadly all I think of are tulips, windmills, the little boy who stuck his finger in the dyke (although I hear this a actually an American myth not one from the Netherlands), wooden shoes, Dutch chocolate...........
For metal music the awesome Callenish Circle and Epica.
And last but not least........ The Hague; Capital of South Holland Government, Royal City of the Netherlands and home to the International Court of Justice!
Dutch chocolate ? Euh... Is there such a thing ?
Then again, I'm not Dutch... (Thank God... :wink: )
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Dutch chocolate ? Euh... Is there such a thing ?
Then again, I'm not Dutch... (Thank God... :wink: )
Do I sense national pride?
;)
Greetz,
Tex
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No, I just wouldn't want to be Dutch that is all...
:D
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No, I just wouldn't want to be Dutch that is all...
:D
I thought that because extra fine chocolate is advertised as Belgian chocolate over here...
Greetz,
Tex
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cant say that I really know anything about holland except for the women that come from that country.. and i have living proof.. had one earlier this year as she came and hung out iwth a bunch of us Dream Theater fans this year.. man was she ever so hot and a hell of a turn under the sheets lmao.. sorry I think i am getting a little carried away there, i will stop now... :fuck:
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Hans christen Anderson, I think
If you're thinking of Hans Christian Andersen, famous writer of fairy tales and poems: He's from Denmark :)
That's what I thought but then became cunfused :silly: I think that I was thinking baout the story of Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates...
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mmm... guess now would be a good time to repost your earlier reply Mas.
Tell us the truth about Holland !!
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ok kewl! i gonna post it tomorow coz i need to sleep now. :D
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please shadowman will translate? yes please Shadow i am on my knees! :P it because its to difficult to write everyting in english.
Holland,
Eigenlijk is dit wel een heel raar land met hele gekke mensen,
hollandse mensen zijn wel spontaan tot op zekere hoogte, als we in de lift staan doet niemand zijn mond open, als we bij de dokter in de wachtkamer zitten doet niemand zijn mond open, maar als we voetballen kijken en we moeten ons voetbalteam suporten dan gillen we luidkeels Hup holland hup!
Met Koningenedag hetzelfde, dan doen we gek, we verkleden ons allemaal, de hele stad amsterdam staat op zijn kop, alles is oranje, iedereen verkoopt spullen op de straat, je kan niet eens meer normaal lopen in de stad, overal is muziek en mensen doen heel gek!
Ook hebben we een hele aparte manier om onze favoriete artist te begraven, laatst nog; andre hazes een bekende amsterdamse zanger overleedt plotseling, nou dan huren we gewoon de hele arena af, (ajax stadion) en we laten 50.000 mensen afscheid nemen, met de kist op de middenstip!
nu even over weed, ja het is legaal om drugs te roken, maar dan wel alleen softdrugs, harddrugs is net zo verboden als overal.
het enige is dat ze geen alcohol in coffeeshops schenken omdat de alchohol in combinatie met weed erg verkeerd is. dus iedereen koopt het gewoon en neemt het dan lekker mee naar een bar waar je lekker kan drinken en roken, er zijn dus ook wel enkele cafe's die eigen regels hebben en de weed gewoon onder de toonbank verkopen.
Ook is het waar dat nederland 7 meter onder de zeespiegel ligt, hoe en wat en hoe dat gegaan is daar heb ik geen idee van, maar ik weet wel dat een groot deel van ons land daarom uit duinen en dijken bestaat,
Autorijden hier is helemaal niet leuk! Benzine is vreselijk duur, de wegenbelasting ook en overal files, 1 voordeel is dat daarom de snelwegen wel erg mooi en strak zijn maar ja als je alleen maar file hebt dan heb je daar ook weinig aan,
Chocalade is niet van Holland!!!!! Dat is van de belgen! wij proberen het na te maken maar de lekkerste chocolade is van Belgie!
Wij hebben de lekkerste Kaas, dat kan ook niet anders, de duitsers noemen ons zelfs Kaaskoppen! Maar goed wij zijn weer jaloers op de lekkerste worsten die uit Duitsland komt!
Favoriete vakantieland nummer 1 voor de Nederlanders is, Frankfrijk! Massaal trekken we er met duizenden naartoe elk jaar weer, ook Spanje, Griekenland en Turkeije zijn populair.
Ikzelf hou meer van de scandinavische landen, dit jaar ga ik naar Noorwegen! Er loopt trouwens ook een project wonen en werken in Noorwegen waar ik heel erg geintresseerd in ben. Dit project is voor mensen uit Duitsland Belgie en Nederland.
Niet omdat ik nou in Holland woon maar Amsterdam is de leukste stad! Het is gezellig bijna alles kan, homosexualiteit is bijna helemaal geaccepteerd op een paar assholes na dan, ik heb verschillende steden bezocht, london, dusseldorf, hamburg, antwerpen, athene, parijs en nog meer maar Amsterdam heeft het! ik voel me daar gewoon het lekkerst.
Nou verder weet ik even niet iets, ik vond het knap jullie brainstorming, bijna alle dingen klopte! O ja en de boeren hier lopen inderdaad nog op klompen, ze doen er zelfs boodschappen mee!
Thanks guys! and now up to tourism on..................?
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Aarrgghhh ? Translate ? Why not type a few more pages then ? :wink:
Problem is how can I refuse when a woman is on her knees in front of me ?
Ok, so here we go :
"Holland,
In a way this is a really strange country with funny people.
Dutch people may be spontaneous but only up to a certain level, when we are in an elevator noone opens his mouth, when we are at the doctor's in the waiting room noone opens his mouth but when we are watching football and we have to support our football team we all scream : Go Holland, go !
When it is Queens day (note from Shadowman, I believe this is the birthday of the Queen Beatrix, not sure though) we all become crazy, we all dress up, the whole city of Amsterdam is upside down, everyone is dressed in orange, everybody's selling stuff on the street, you can hardly walk straight in the city because of the crowd, there is music everywhere, people act like madmen !
We have a special way of burrying our favorite artists, just recently when André Hazes, a well known crooner passed away well we just rented the whole stadium of Ajax and we let 50 000 people say goodbye, with his coffin in the middle of the field.
Now, a bit about weed, yes it is legal over here to use drugs, but only softdrugs.
Hardrugs are, just as everywhere else prohibited. The only thing to add is that they do not sell alcohol in the so called 'Coffee Shops' because in combination with the weed this could eally be a hazardous thing. But people just buy it elsewhere and just take the two to a bar where you can smoke and drink at the same time.
There are also bars who follow their own rules and just buy the weed under the counter.
It is also true that Holland is 7 metres below sealevel ; about the what and who I really have no idea but I do know that this is the reason our country consists for a great deal of dunes and ditches.
Driving a car over here is totally no fun at all ! Gasoline costs a fortune, the roadtaxes as well en there are trafficjams everywhere. Only advantage of this is that the highways are nice and very straight but when you have nothing besides traffic jams this is of very little use of course.
Chocolate isn't Dutch, this is the Belgians heritage. We try to copy it but the nicest chocolate is made in Belgium (note from Shadowman : right on Mas !! :lol: )
But we do have the nicest cheese, this could hardly be otherwise since the Germans even call us cheeseheads ! But on the other hand, we again are jeaulous of the nice German "Bratwurst" !
Favortite vacation country of the Dutch is France. In masses we move over there each summer. Also Spain, Greece and Turkey are very popular.
Personally I prefer the Scandinavian countries, this year I'm going to Norway ! At this moment there is a project in Norway running which is called 'living and working' in which I 'm very interested. This project is meant for people of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Now it is not just because I live in Holland but Amsterdamis the nicest cityof them all. It is real cozy over here where almost everything is allowed, being gay is accepted nearly everywhere, except by a few assholes. I've visited several cities including Londen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Antwerp, Athens, Paris and a lot more but Amsterdam just got it all ! I feel the most at ease in my hown town.
Guess this is it for the moment. I found your brainstorming really clever, almost everything you guys said was true ! Oh yeah and the farmers over here do walk in wooden shoes ("klompen"), they even do grocery shopping in 'em.
Thanx guys ! and now up to tourism on................?
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thank u ShadowMan :D
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Yes, thank you a lot.
I must say, Dutch being nothing but a degenerate German dialect, 99 percent of it can be read quite well by any German who has not much love for his eyes...
so thanks for transforming it into eye-flattering english!
just for the record: im not as much of a dick as my statement might imply.
The degenerate dialect part being purely non-serious, i assure you!
ive got nothing against the dutch.
i like weed!
i will stop now because i write rubbish.
later,
Horus
PS: i love Holland! :P
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LOL wahhahahha Dutch regular to Germans :laugh:
thats a good one. lol
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I must say, Dutch being nothing but a degenerate German dialect, 99 percent of it can be read quite well by any German who has not much love for his eyes...
Actually that is because there is a 'dialectal shift' reaching from South to North throughout Europe.
You see, two neighbouring dialects are intelligible for respective speakers of the other one.
Hm, think of this as a chain where each link is an individual dialect.
Greetz,
Tex
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Euh... I suppose so !
Is he right Mas ?
:lol:
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lol ich weis es nicht, :P i never notifice it. you need to know Shadowman you talk dutch too, lol
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Nice description about Holland there, Mas :) Really would like to visit it one day... Though, I'd like to visit many many many places :)
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Holland is nice, Amsterdam is great , but the government here sucks, yak!! We have a minister that looks like Harry Potter.... :roll:
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Nice description about Holland there, Mas :) Really would like to visit it one day... Though, I'd like to visit many many many places :)
if you visit the Netherlands you can stay here! We gonna make Amsterdam unsafe! :P
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Mas, is that a promise? ;) Because, I might actually come someday ;D Beware... :twisted:
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Mas, is that a promise? ;) Because, I might actually come someday ;D Beware... :twisted:
She always kept her promise.... :P
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Mas, is that a promise? ;) Because, I might actually come someday ;D Beware... :twisted:
that is deffelently a promise!!!!!!! i dont talk story's :P well sometimes i do :wink: but yeah ofcourse you are welcome to stay here, we gonna make fun, last summer i got a friend over from the US here, i didnt even know how he looked like, that was realy kewl too. :D
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I suggest we make Amsterdam our new home base !
With all them ladies getting together, we MUST join in !!
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