And then, when we're tired of creating our country, we turn seas into lakes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afsluitdijk

The US, with its impressive armies and nukes destroys. We create.

trollolol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_cheese

yumyum

We, the Americans, use vowels when we name things :)

vwls r fr th wk

FYI

Borrowing an overly simplistic language of a European island people and then changing "-sation" to "-zation" isn't the same as naming things.

trollolol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--n62JSQPQ

Fuck zed.

FYI

This is a bizarre thread. That must be because my government doesn't throw me in jail when I smoke a few joints and then go online with it.

trollolol

I'll stop now.

@mods: I'd like to ask you to withdraw permission to me posting in my own thread. This US bashing is uncalled for.

Yeah, we Americans don't call our cultural achievements A Slut Dyke. So I'm pretty sure we're still winning.

Ow I'm sorry, what's that?

I couldn't hear you over the sound of all these machines creating more polders.

^dubmdell that's hilarious

redhouse you created your own country but epic failed when the south rebelled. We pwnd those bitches a hundred fifty years ago and now they are the most American Americans out there.

I reject this version of "history".

Haha really I am truly ignorant about this, can you tell me what *really* happened?

What's so cool about wooden shoes and little boys fingering dykes? I thank Dutch genes for Petra Verkaik, though.

@YJ: it was us who separated from them. Then they wanted to keep the honor to themselves and called it "the Belgian Revolution", but you can tell I'm right by the deplorable state of their nation's politics
@THM: LOL!
But what about the fact that we have produced some of the most brilliant scientists, artists and tradesmen in the history of mankind?

Humm...... 19 Dutch Nobel Laureates out of 853 recipients, not bad given relative population size. Film... let's see, Paul Verhoeven gave us Robocop. Famke Janssen was in X-Men. Carice Van Houten is in Game of Thrones. Otherwise, not much there. Artists... you have Rembrandt, Vermeer, van Gogh, Escher -- that's a pretty strong showing. Sports are weak... Rik Smits, Francisco Elson (go Bears!), Dan Gadzuric. I'd say respectable for a small country, but nothing to go bragging about.

You guys still can't play football without dirty tackling a la Nigel de Jong & flopping a la Arjen Robben though.

"Sports are weak." "You guys still can't play football without dirty tackling a la Nigel de Jong & flopping a la Arjen Robben though."

@THM: First of all, who are Francisco Elson and Dan Gadzuric? I heard of Smits. But there's only one sport and that's Soccer. We were number 2 of the world and Putin has a short term memory, only remembering the very last official championship match we played and forgets to mention that we have no particularly bad record when it comes to fair play in general. Plus Putin loves Dutch football but he won't admit it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Baseball_World_Cup

Ow by the way, this is the sport you are supposedly so good at: Baseball. OWNED.

Paul Verhoeven gave you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Orange this.

Don't forget Rutger Hauer though.

Anyways, "Sports are weak": no. If your country is second with only 16 mlln inhabitants in the planet's most popular sport, you're not weak at sports.

Well I'm done ranting, time for some Dutch film music to relax

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtYQZtwstPc

You're #4, not #2. Arjen Robben flops with Bayern Munich too, and Nigel de Jong makes bad tackles in the Premier League.

I will admit #4 for a country so small is a good showing. But why do all your best players play away from awesome Netherlands?

FIFA ranking is a joke, redhouse is reffering to the last World Cup.

Yeah, about de Jong and bad tackles...

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/12/article-1278969157259-0A67CA02000005DC-707537_636x363.jpg

One international event does not make you the #2 footballing country.

@Putin: I think you're overly positive in the way you view the world.

"why do all your best players play away from awesome Netherlands?"
The market is too small to be an interesting country to play professional football in. England has 3 viewers for every 1 Dutch viewers, more money there.

One international event does not make you the #2 footballing country.

YES it does

Yes but I'm sure the Netherlands is 3 times as awesome. No patriotism!

"No patriotism!"

That's right! NL is known for its lack of patriotism!

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/worldcup06/fans2.jpg

More Dutch awesomness

http://vadakkus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/euro2008_holland_fans02.jpg

What has baffled me is why Orange is not even in your flag.