Moving to Holland
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- bolus0
damn, visiting my parents, i see a few television vans, guess what happend:
http://www.nu.nl/news/576538/13/…
yes that's holland :(
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All Things Dutch
Why do they refer to a suicide as "the Dutch act"? And wondering about the phrase "Dutch uncle."
What we have here, folks, is a genuine coincidence. I received these questions within two days of each other, leading me to wonder if I might not be missing some important news development that put "Dutch" on the tip of our collective tongue, but evidently not. Well, at least it beats getting three questions about "posh" every day.
The phrases "Dutch act," meaning "suicide," and "Dutch uncle," meaning someone who is not your uncle but gives you advice as if he were, are both linguistic relics of a low point in relations between England and The Netherlands. Back in the 17th century, when both countries were building their global empires, their intense rivalry found an outlet in a wide range of popular sayings invented by each country to insult the other. Since we are primarily an English-speaking culture, the few volleys in this linguistic war that have survived are, naturally, those disparaging the Dutch, but even those are rarely heard today. Some, such as "Dutch uncle," were probably originally meant to be more insulting than we consider them today.
According to Hugh Rawson, who explores the topic at length in his wonderful book "Wicked Words" (Crown Publishers), many of the English anti-Dutch terms became popular in the U.S. because of confusion with the word "Deutsch," or German, and were often applied to German immigrants. For the connoisseurs of insults among us, Mr. Rawson lists more than two pages of anti-Dutch slurs once popular. Along with "Dutch treat," which means no "treat" at all because each person pays his or her own way, other phrases once current included "Dutch courage" (liquor), "Dutch defense" (a retreat), "Dutch headache" (a hangover), "Do a Dutch" (commit suicide), "Dutch concert" (a drunken uproar), and "Dutch nightingale" (a frog), which seems an especially low blow.
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lol jazx!
we don't have such sayings anymore about the english tho! :/
well perhaps "english breakfast" then:
sausages, baked eggs, tea with milk (wtf?) and other things that make yur stomach turn in the morning hehe..
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hahha I couldn't resist!
Verstaan Jy?
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jaaa zekers jaa!
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"Many of the English anti-Dutch terms became popular in the U.S. because of confusion with the word "Deutsch," or German, and were often applied to German immigrants."
Yeahhhh see haterz, f*cking bashing the German-American!@ Screw that sh*t!
:P
- stewardez0
sausages, baked eggs, tea with milk (wtf?) and other things that make yur stomach turn in the morning hehe..
Crouwel(Aug 19 05, 06:01)
------True! I rather have this in the morning:
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yeah, i have always laughed about confusing Deutsch with Dutch. Very different things, mind you!
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no kidding, for sh*tz sake in Pennsylvania there is a group called Pennsylvanian Dutch in Amish country. They have nothing to bloody do with Netherlands. Pronounce it right you early American cocks*ckers!
;)
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eeeeww, stewardez!!
gros.
frikandel.. people should know what's in there.
- pyeaton0
Hi guys.....
Sorry for not coming back to the thread. I have to say that the response has been great to my questions, and really appreciate the tips. gotta go thru them this weekend.
Seriously, theanks!
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I'm gonna' perform an Early Germanic Tribalistic ritual on them if they keep that sh*t up.
The Sigurd:
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eeeeww, stewardez!!
gros.
frikandel.. people should know what's in there.
Crouwel
(Aug 19 05, 06:12)And that you can eat it with onions, mayonaise and curry saus
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eeeeww, stewardez!!
gros.
frikandel.. people should know what's in there.
Crouwel(Aug 19 05, 06:12)
----I know! Sometimes, when you break a frikandel open you see blue lumps... WTF??? What is it? vains? pieces of the eye?
...but still, a frikandelletje special when i'm drunk... I LOVE IT!
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i used to stuff that down my throat, but now with our 'multiculti samenleving' i'd rather cram a big kebab down my throat when i am pissdrunk.
hehe..
- stewardez0
or a hollandse nieuwe once in a while...
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Mmmmmmmm.... favorite breakfast.
Eggs Benedict with Hollandaise sauce
Yumy!
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..sometimes it will cause a giant Dutch oven later at night tho!
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