Was Hitler good for the World in any way?

What's wrong with the Dutch? We are LOVELY people!

And buff10825: I will summarize this all: RACIST.

Thank you.

Not racsims, but rather prejudices as usual.

Are we going to be punished forever for the only war we won!


The English language is a repository of Dutch bashing phrases: Dutch crossing, Dutch treat, Dutch courage, talking double Dutch, lecturing like a Dutch uncle, etc. In general, the adjective Dutch stands for everything negative. The British never seem to have forgiven the Dutch Republic for sort-of winning the second Anglo-Dutch war (1665-67) and for generally being a mercantile superpower that for a short while outdid everyone else and ended up putting a Dutch prince on the throne of England and Scotland in the last invasion of a foreign army on English soil (1688).

The Dutch seem to be more tolerant of defeat, their language does not contain any phrases that speak bad of any of the countries that have waged war against the Netherlands over the course of history (includes basically all West-European powers. It is a miracle the small country still exists!).

The British have given a similar vocabulary treatment to the French, with the adjective "french" having a raunchy meaning in phrases like French letter etc. This does not apply to French fries, but that is because the fries originated in the Low Countries and calling them Dutch fries would have invoked the above mentioned negative connotations

See what i mean . . . them Dutch, i'll tell ya . . .

Than what do you consider to be racism?


So actually we deserve respect

Good post Paaskynen.

your quotable authors has not post attacks against Dutch. So racism has taken a back seat.....

Wait a minute. You are talking about the Dutch remarks by Setanta, Walter Hinteler and cavfancier?

yes

Oh. I was talking about buff10825. I now realize my 'summarize this all' only accounted to the post by buff10825. I'm sorry.

We just rag the Dutch 'cause they're an easy target and we outnumber them by orders of magnitude . . . it's a cheap shot without consequences . . . it has the additional entertainment value of getting a rise out of Rick . . .

Again, I didn't found your post Setanta nor the other posts by Walter and cavfancier racist, nor insulting or anything. I'm just playing - like you are doing (right?). So, just relax

Sadly enough the sarcastic undertone here on A2K gets lost sometimes.

You're too right there, Rick . . . far too many deeply serious lunatics show up, expecting us to take seriously their crackpot admiration for Adolf, Josef, George, etc. . . .

By the way, i'm glad you take our remarks about the Dutch in such good humor . . . i'd hate to have to come over there and do some regime change . . . we're kinda stretched thin, militarily, right now, anway . . .

Edited to remove blatant evidence of incipient senescence . . .

As long as we Dutchmen can earn some good money from it, we don't mind to have a regime-change :wink:

Well, you can hear "loud and clear" on the radio, but not here :wink:

(Which reminds me of those old days, when I answered the fourth calling of my station with "loud and clear" and was very happy that the other couldn't see me. :wink: )

Actually, Rick, I'm never sarcastic: it's a very fine humour

Germany & humor, Walter?

We have some really nice jokes about ..... the Dutch

Hit me