Reply to: Belgians declare war on the UK!

[Andy2]

... and the Belgians make fun of the Waloons.

ankhoon main rehne waloon ko yad nahi karte…..
dil main rehne waloon ki baat nahi karte…
humari to rooh main bass ghye ho aap …
tabhi to aap se milne ki fariyad nahi karte..

[Paddy]

Very true. One evening in Holland I had a rapt audience telling all the Irish jokes I could remember but using the word "Belgian" instead.

Back to the original article, I quite liked today's comment by James at 10:30:

... and the Belgians make fun of the Waloons.

ankhoon main rehne waloon ko yad nahi karte…..
dil main rehne waloon ki baat nahi karte…
humari to rooh main bass ghye ho aap …
tabhi to aap se milne ki fariyad nahi karte..

[Sysman]

The trouble with Belgians is that EVERYBODY surrounding them takes the piss out of them. The Dutch tell the same pathetic jokes about the Belgians as the Brits always told about the Irish. The French take the piss out of their accent. The Luxembourgers just take the money and don't care and the Germans think Belgium's a potholed motorway on the way to France. You can't blame them for having a pomme frite on their shoulder.

Very true. One evening in Holland I had a rapt audience telling all the Irish jokes I could remember but using the word "Belgian" instead.

Back to the original article, I quite liked today's comment by James at 10:30:

They've got you on the warm beer. If only Hitler had thought to point this out to the American public in the 1930s, America would surely have left Britain to its therefore all-too-deserved fate...

[DiscoStu]

We mustn't forget Belgium's other fantastic contribution to the culinary world, chips & mayo, yum

[MrMark]

I have to admit I like Belgium. Any country that's specialised in giving the world great beer, chocolates and moules et frites, can't be that bad.

[Mich the Tester]

The trouble with Belgians is that EVERYBODY surrounding them takes the piss out of them. The Dutch tell the same pathetic jokes about the Belgians as the Brits always told about the Irish. The French take the piss out of their accent. The Luxembourgers just take the money and don't care and the Germans think Belgium's a potholed motorway on the way to France. You can't blame them for having a pomme frite on their shoulder.

[Swiss Tony]

What my French fiancé made of it

What my French fiancé who last lived in the UK for the past 5 years had to say when I sent it to her:

hahahahaha!!

1. They are self-centred. (Literally: They think they are the belly button of the world.)

Hum... not all true! American think they are the belly button of the world but Brits, even if they do,don't mention it - However the large scale of your past colonies and the power they brought has definitely played a role on how big England is / feels... But this does against the very idea of saying that you are self-centred

2. Their language is universal. So they refuse to even try to speak ours when they get lost over here. (80 per cent don’t even want to take a phrase book on holidays with them!)... but they look at you condescendingly if you speak English badly.

Well, lets face it we are talking about the fish and chips brigade on holidays or stag due! Many Brits have emigrated to France and do speak the lingo! However these are also a minority and it is true that most English speaking nations expect the whole world to speak English.

3. They can't do anything like everyone else (drive on the left etc).

Haha that's stupid

4. They have the worst cuisine in the world

Well pub food (which is for me the very essence of English cuisine) is great even thought not too diversified... However I would say that the majority of Brits eat badly (and not because the food is bad!)

5. They drink warm beer, much to the despair of even our least talented brewers.

Obviously very narrow minded!

6. They are such drunks! According to a study, the English drink eight alcoholic drinks a day during the holidays.

No comment

7. Their climate is even worse than ours.

That's hardly a reason to dislike England... You don't like it, you don't come and that's is... and most of all, you don't criticise it... Its like criticising someone for the size of his feet... childish

8. Their tabloids only think about bums and scandals.

Am sure they have the same... In England its tabloids, in France, journal de merde and Belgium would have the same!

9. They unfairly knocked out the Red Devils from the 1990 World Cup... we haven't forgotten that goal, in the last second, by David Platt!

No comment

10. We havent forgotten their hooligans either, responsible for the death of 39 people at Heysel in 1985.

Well this has been sorted out... Its like us still hating the Germans

Well ok I agree with you, they are idiots (The Belgians that is)

[Mich the Tester]

I wonder if anyone has done any studies into the effect of newspaper comments sections; - a remarkable facility for cretins the world over...or the real voice of the people.

Both.

[Scary]

1. They are self-centred. (Literally: They think they are the belly button of the world.)

Look at the *Greenwich* meridian.

2. Their language is universal. So they refuse to even try to speak ours when they get lost over here. (80 per cent don’t even want to take a phrase book on holidays with them!)... but they look at you condescendingly if you speak bad English.

And we'd have to learn, what, 3 languages to speak the lingo across Belgium.

4. They have the worst cuisine in the world

Belgian cuisine is bottom feeders and chips.

5. They drink warm beer, much to the despair of even our least talented brewers.

English beer is served at cellar temperature which is, I think, about 11 degrees Celsius. Warmer than the fridge, but cooler than room temperature.

[bobhope]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned their driving abilities.

I have more near misses during the 2 hours driving through Belgium (which I do at least once a year) than I would in an entire year in England.

[Rantor]

Sorry induced a strong belly laugh, probably a started a typhoon in Asia.

Oh dear, they are very cross and, bizzarely, united in something (other than their usual overwhelming sense of victimhood.)

http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/monde...y-738785.shtml

http://www.standaard.be/artikel/deta...3&subsection=2

If you read foreign, the comments sections dovetail neatly into the Daily Mail.

I wonder if anyone has done any studies into the effect of newspaper comments sections; - a remarkable facility for cretins the world over...or the real voice of the people. This interweb thingy worries me sometimes.

[Doggy Styles]

Either way crowd trouble at football in the 80's was commonplace so hardly a surprise, this could have been avoided with proper planning.

WHS

[gingerjedi]

This is wrong headed thinking. Some football "fans" can't behave other than like animal scum, but when they do the rest blame "organisation". There is no reason at all why a mixed area should be dangerous if people could manage to behave like humans at football. BTW - I am not singling out Liverpool - but place the blame where it lies.

Agreed but I'm sick of Liverpool 'fans' taking the entire blame when the Juventus 'fans' were equally as bad, they were up at the fence taunting and spitting knowing full well it would provoke a response. Either way crowd trouble at football in the 80's was commonplace so hardly a surprise, this could have been avoided with proper planning.

Interestingly the English game is almost trouble free these days, the same can't be said for Italian football as it's still plagued by organised hooligans.

[vetran]

'Belgium'. Isn't that the slip lane the Germans use to get their tanks up to speed before invading France?

Sorry induced a strong belly laugh, probably a started a typhoon in Asia.

[DaveB]

Belgium - the rudest word in the universe, banned in most parts of the galaxy.

Having been there a couple of times, apart from being flat and boring, I thought it was OK. Well, Bruge was anyway.

"tuliphole"

Although the midgets are entertaining and know were to find drugs and hookers.