Belgian proverb

[Harkonnen]

After night falls the dutchmen roam the streets & the beggar may sing before the thief.

[Harkonnen]

Another Belgian classic:

When boomboxes went the way of the dinosaurs, he lost his ability to walk into a dressing room and change the song.

It was as if after that no one ever viewed him as a leader again.

[Harkonnen]

Goddamn these Belgians are fascinating bunch.

[Dandelion]

In the Netherlands they call these 'Belgenmoppen'. Stereotype about Belgians is our stupidity, more our lack of forming opinions about issues to be precise. Conversely Dutch people always have an opinion ready for everything, even when they are clueless, and they know how to sell 'baked air' (nonsense) as the best. Catholic inertia versus Protestant literalism in a nutshell. The Low Countries have both. :)

[Harkonnen]

Fascinating.

[serenissimo]

In the Netherlands they call these 'Belgenmoppen'. Stereotype about Belgians is our stupidity, more our lack of forming opinions about issues to be precise. Conversely Dutch people always have an opinion ready for everything, even when they are clueless, and they know how to sell 'baked air' (nonsense) as the best. Catholic inertia versus Protestant literalism in a nutshell. The Low Countries have both. :)

I always liked flemish and dutch culture, as a veneto guy. I always seen a lot of similarities between our medieval cities (padova, verona, vicenza.. and your medieval brabant style flemish cities. I think our ''weltanschaung'' is pretty similar, as we were both trading hubs trading also between each other.:thumb001: we are regarded of ''backwardness'' aswell and we definitely are very uninformed! because we work all day :D your french are our italians :laugh:

[Gold-Shekel]

Some I find funny or fascinating:

A Flemish and a wolf only have one soul for both of them.

A good anvil doesn't fear the hammer.

If Poverty is not vice, it's still better not to be poor.

He who waits for someone else's ass to take a shit dies from stomach ache. (Such a nasty proverb can only come from Wallonia)

[ЛыSSый]

After night falls the dutchmen roam the streets & the beggar may sing before the thief.

nice idea tho.

[Harkonnen]

nice idea tho.

It seems I can never decide if it reminds more of the monolith scene from 2001, or the one where Dave deactivates Hal from the same movie.

[KMack]

In the USA some Dutch would say if you ain't Dutch you ain't much lol.

[Harkonnen]

In the USA some Dutch would say if you ain't Dutch you ain't much lol.

This fact made me so sad it made me let out the low resonating guttural Dutch battle cry


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgv3hp4vs4

However the greatest Dutch proverb still remains, "it it bleeds, we can kill it."

[Harkonnen]

However the greatest Dutch proverb still remains, "it it bleeds, we can kill it."

Which is a comforting thought for all of us not born Dutch (I've heard Dutch do in fact bleed)

Anyway the Dutch/much saying reminded that there does in fact exist a even tackier saying :redface_002: "if you want to win, take a Finn."
Let me go kill myself. Finnish way.

[Drawing-slim]

Injeard dutch people are very rude offensive,’is that true?

[Gold-Shekel]

Injeard dutch people are very rude offensive,’is that true?

Pretty accurate. That's why God gave us brass knuckles and lead pipes.

[Harkonnen]

Well I know French have pastries and maybe Dutch have also pastries but what I really want to know is do the fucking Belgians have pastries.

[Harkonnen]

Danielion, please answer.

[Harkonnen]

I want to hear Danielion, the Belgian, to answer me.

[Dandelion]

Well I know French have pastries and maybe Dutch have also pastries but what I really want to know is do the fucking Belgians have pastries.

Well, we most certainly do.

Mattentaartjes
http://www.scoutsasper.be/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mattentaart.png

Boterkoek
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Boterkoeken.JPG

Kortrijkse beschuiten
http://www.piethuysentruyt.com/kortrijkse-beschuit.jpg

Cougnou (Walloon raisin bread))
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Queniole.jpg

[rein]

Well I know French have pastries and maybe Dutch have also pastries but what I really want to know is do the fucking Belgians have pastries.

They have Belgian waffles.

[Harkonnen]

Thank you Danielion :)

Thank you rein :)

[Harkonnen]

Touche


https://youtu.be/JOBTFfHJjV8

[Harkonnen]

Charity visiting a poor cottage
Goes by night and cautiously


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0G6-U9ZRGk

[Dandelion]

Walloons have the coolest anthem of Belgium. Region that could expand mentally in the 19th century and mature. It's nowadays a depressed alcoholic, whereas modern Flanders is a child growing up. ;)

Sure have to visit it again. The linguistic barrier is keeping me from it, I have to admit.

[Gold-Shekel]

Walloons have the coolest anthem of Belgium. Region that could expand mentally in the 19th century and mature. It's nowadays a depressed alcoholic, whereas modern Flanders is a child growing up. ;)

Sure have to visit it again. The linguistic barrier is keeping me from it, I have to admit.

Depressed alcoholic? Kind of, you're talking about people who vote MR.

Socialists are the chillest Walloons.

[Dandelion]

Depressed alcoholic? Kind of, you're talking about people who vote MR.

Socialists are the chillest Walloons.

Liège is also more pleasant a place than Charleroi, but even Carolos can be a merry bunch to hang out with (once sold something on Ebay to a Carolo, and he was the friendliest guy imaginable). ;)

Those MR-voting snobs from Walloon Brabant, though, they're a bunch of blowhards.


Bunch of Carolo students


https://youtu.be/gZFx2S7lews

I'm less enthousiastic about the 'Flamins jamais' and 'Fourons wallon' part. Otherwise, very fun people. :)

One thing to notice. Walloons talk more often about Flemish than we do about Walloons. It's because we are 60% of Belgium I think. :p The Flemish stereotype is one of parochialism, though. A stereotypical Fleming doesn't look beyond the shade of his town steeple. A mentality I dislike, by the way.

[Harkonnen]

A Flemish proverb:

In the port of Amsterdam there are sailors who eat on overbleached tablecloths. Fish dripping, they bare their teeth that could chew up a fortune, descend the moon, and gobble up the ships shrouds. And they smell cod right through and into the heart of fries. And their big hands invite to bring back even more.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11PIXoqJvcY

[The Great Uniter]

A Flemish proverb:

In the port of Amsterdam there are sailors who eat on overbleached tablecloths. Fish dripping, they bare their teeth that could chew up a fortune, descend the moon, and gobble up the ships shrouds. And they smell cod right through and into the heart of fries. And their big hands invite to bring back even more.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11PIXoqJvcY

Excellent.

[Harkonnen]

Excellent.

They twist their necks to better hear each other laff.

[Dandelion]

Finnish humour is of the kind that it's impossible to laugh at it, yet still is legit humour.

[The Great Uniter]

They twist their necks to better hear each other laff.

Excellent.

[Harkonnen]

Finnish humour is of the kind that it's impossible to laugh at it, yet still is legit humour.

Viina is not vodka, and viinavodka is deffo not whiskey. But they all get the job done. Now some men like the fishin' and some men like the fowlin'
And some men like to hear the cannon ball a-roarin'

[Harkonnen]

Bavianen uit.

[Dna8]

Montenegrin Proverb:

If the salmon thinks it likely, but smells your fear through the littoral, even sunset delayed won't change the angle, no matter what the Chieftain says, no matter how the brigand rails against the gypsy woman's perception twice - once for love, once for haste.

[Harkonnen]

This one I learned from Belgian forum regular, Rico33.


If the World was colonised by Leo-fucking-pold led Belgians, there would be no more pickpocketing.

[The Lawspeaker]

This one I learned from Belgian forum regular, Rico33.


If the World was colonised by Leo-fucking-pold led Belgians, there would be no more pickpocketing.


:thumb001:

[Arsen_]

After night falls the dutchmen roam the streets & the beggar may sing before the thief.

Can someone explain what exactly this proverb means. Honestly, I did not understand the point.

[Harkonnen]

Can someone explain what exactly this proverb means. Honestly, I did not understand the point.

Choose your object https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_object

[Dandelion]

This one I learned from Belgian forum regular, Rico33.


If the World was colonised by Leo-fucking-pold led Belgians, there would be no more pickpocketing.

Belgians. Never taken seriously, except in Africa.

[Arsen_]

Choose your object https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_object

If I understand you correctly the night silhouettes that are just optical illusions in the eyes of the Belgians look like the Dutchmen??

[Harkonnen]

If I understand you correctly the night silhouettes that are just optical illusions in the eyes of the Belgians look like the Dutchmen??

That is interesting take. I guess you could ask what is the difference between beggar and thief.

[Arsen_]

That is interesting take. I guess you could ask what is the difference between beggar and thief.

I wouldn't ask because I don’t see a fundamental difference between those who trade in theft and those who trade in begging. Both of them withdraw funds from other people's pockets just in different but equally immoral and undeserved way.

[Harkonnen]

If you had to choose which would you rather be, a beggar or a thief?

[Dna8]

If you had to choose which would you rather be, a beggar or a thief?

Beggar.

And I would sleep in a large ceramic jar in the town square.

[Arsen_]

If you had to choose which would you rather be, a beggar or a thief?

A thief.

To me "обман на доверии" practiced by the beggars is one of the worst crimes.

[Harkonnen]

Beggar.

And I would sleep in a large ceramic jar in the town square.

You are bigger man than me, it would be hard for me to beg. It takes big balls to beg. I'm with Arsen in this, life of a thief is much better.

[Dna8]

You are bigger man than me, it would be hard for me to beg. It takes big balls to beg. I'm with Arsen in this, life of a thief is much better.

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[Harkonnen]

I've not seen that film, and actually I've never even heard of it, which is kinda surprising, as -- if I may toot my own horn -- I do know quite lot about films. But now I'm ofc going to watch it.

Also, Bilbo Baggins was a thief, so thief can't possibly be such sinister profession everyone makes it out to be.

[Dna8]

I've not seen that film, and actually I've never even heard of it, which is kinda surprising, as -- if I may toot my own horn -- I do know quite lot about films. But now I'm ofc going to watch it.

Also, Bilbo Baggins was a thief, so thief can't possibly be such sinister profession everyone makes it out to be.

In all seriousness, I would happily urge you to watch it.

Mann is perhaps my favorite director; the soundtrack is by Tangerine Dream; and Caan is, by my light, the most underrated actor of his generation.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQoHkQrqOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fElfKvIi9Js

[Harkonnen]

In all seriousness, I would happily urge you to watch it.

Mann is perhaps my favorite director; the soundtrack is by Tangerine Dream; and Caan is, by my light, the most underrated actor of his generation.



I watched

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTPMt-9_XBsX_RhZf9DPj-BaN8YbptRHX90Ms8gJZAi-wLb_jxv


In all seriousness, I would happily urge you to watch it.

Mann is perhaps my favorite director; the soundtrack is by Tangerine Dream; and Caan is, by my light, the most underrated actor of his generation.



I watched

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTPMt-9_XBsX_RhZf9DPj-BaN8YbptRHX90Ms8gJZAi-wLb_jxv

[Dna8]

I watched

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTPMt-9_XBsX_RhZf9DPj-BaN8YbptRHX90Ms8gJZAi-wLb_jxv



I watched

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTPMt-9_XBsX_RhZf9DPj-BaN8YbptRHX90Ms8gJZAi-wLb_jxv

Fuck yeah!

Aha!

Yeah!yeah!

Fuck Yeah!!

[Dna8]

Yeah!

[Harkonnen]

Yeah!

Harr-Harr

[Celine]

I couldn't care less.

[Harkonnen]

I couldn't care less.

Then you have reached Nirvana.

[Celine]

Then you have reached Nirvana.

Drunkana.

[Harkonnen]

Drunkana.

Huxley recommended substance use for finding out the mysteries of the Universe


If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

Other method would be to starve and physically exhaust yourself to the point of total collapse. Jesus and other mystics used this by travelling to some desert, and walking out of there as a newborn man.

I would actually recommend this second method. It is much harder, but also much more rewarding.

[Celine]

Huxley recommended substance use for finding out the mysteries of the Universe



Other method would be to starve and physically exhaust yourself to the point of total collapse. Jesus and other mystics used this by travelling to some desert, and walking out of there as a newborn man.

I would actually recommend this second method. It is much harder, but also much more rewarding.

I drink a lot of medications. Mixing it with alcohol makes my soul rise.

[Harkonnen]

I drink a lot of medications. Mixing it with alcohol makes my soul rise.

The point in neither methods is not to kill yourself.

[Celine]

The point in neither methods is not to kill yourself.

If there is any luck I won't be waking up in the morning.

[Harkonnen]

If there is any luck I won't be waking up in the morning.

Next morning, I recommend you wake up early in the Morning, and walk four hours straight. This is the method Jesus used to get closer to God.

[Celine]

Next morning, I recommend you wake up early in the Morning, and walk four hours straight. This is the method Jesus used to get closer to God.

I'm an atheist.

[Harkonnen]

I'm an atheist.

It doesn't matter. I'm not Christian either. But I have walked through a dark night and the sunrise that greeted me was most beautiful I've ever seen.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui91q7Y9xPk

[Harkonnen]

Yesterday I thought I saw a Irishman, but turns out, it was just a Dutchman, who had just walked through pigeon-shit-storm.

[Harkonnen]

Was he a black Irish?

Pigeon shit is white.

[Faklon]

Beyond the Hun and the wog, if you look across the fog, lobsters lie in tupils, it's in the midst of autism, where Belgium exists.

[Harkonnen]

The Irish is black.. inside. The Irishman has a black soul.

Gingers have no soul.

[Harkonnen]

My friend Bruno traveled to Finland, now he is hanging from a old pine tree, face blue, shit in pants.

[Harkonnen]

The Belgians

what can I say


what can I say

[Harkonnen]

The Belgians

what can I say


what can I say

[Harkonnen]

And why the hell is Belgium full pedophiles, creeps and other perverts. Its like a capital of creeps.