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The national mascot of Belgium is a naked toddler urinating in public. They are not a serious people.
naked toddler urinating in public.
Are you sure it is Belgium?
Nice how the guy crawls his breast hair though
He has costumes, we're not total animals
We also got some pretty big balls. Balls of steel.
Check out the Atomium!
IDK, that one time Germany tried to travel through Belgium to get to France everyone got all pissed...
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Am I the only non Belgian to enjoy Belgium? Decent cities like Brügge, Ghent, Antwerpen, Leuven and Brussels. Trappist Beer, Kriek, Moules frites. Excellent comics like Spirou, Tintin and Thorgal. And as a Norwegian I can relate to a football team full of stars that don't win shit. (Norway can never even qualify dor anything)
It shows that I have only ever been in Flandern, but guess there are stuff in Vallonia to.
I love this comment. The different spellings of the names (Dutch, Fr*nch, English and some made up spelling) made my day.
We actually hate our own country most of the time, so I don't mind everyone shitting on us. Thank you for enjoying your stay, love from Ghent.
As someone who lives close to Brussels, 1 thing we are very good in is complaining. But not to people's faces, only behind their backs.
For example when the waiter brings out the wrong food in a restaurant most of us just don't say anything and eat it.
Thats just belgians in a nutshell. They tend to be very closed off, they will never say what they think to peoples face
Yeah but Belgium is the home of the greatest entertainer of all time Eddy mother fucking Wally!
Waaow
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The made up spelling might be the Norwegian, or me fucking up as I also speak/read English and german. Flemish boggles the mind for me since I can read it with context, but it's incomprehensible when spoken.
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The best possible proof that Belgium is not just a place set up by The Netherlands and France as a network of gas stations to travel between those countries is that the roads in Belgium are visibly worse than in The Netherlands or France (really: you can tell exactly were the border is when driving into and out of Belgium by the change in the condition of the road).
The problem for the Belgium friend is that he's not keen on admitting that if Belgium wasn't a real nation but rather a Franco-Dutch partnership, it would be better run.
Not only that, the colors also suddenly change. Drive into Belgium and the sky and grass and everything suddenly turns dark grey. Arrive in Luxemburg, and its like crossing from hell into heaven. Everything suddenly is shiny, the grass is painfully bright light green, the sky is hyper blue...
If it was designed as a logistics network between France and the NL it would have a decent road system
I live in Norway. Trust me, your roads are fine.
I was wondering why your roads would be that bad and I learn a few things:
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-the-roads-in-Norway-in-such-bad-condition
You have a telehiv problem : the climate destroys your road rather quickly.
Germany hasn't visited for quite a while.
Historically, it was a vast network of arms depots built by Germany to help them... uh... "travel to" France.
Historically
You use that term rather lightly. Idk, if I think "historically" my mind goes further back than 120 years. At least to the Spanish Habsburgs' occupation, maybe even Burgundian era, Lotharingia, the Franks or the Belgae tribes.
It is technically history, but that's like saying: "Historically, I nourish myself with broccoli pizza" just because I had some yesterday.
Oh we silly Germans. We sure love to... Travel.
Belgian beer.
Mic drop
Belgian fries, Belgian waffles, Belgian chocolate ^^Belgian ^^weed
Fries are really not that unique and super basic same with waffles and chocolate doesn't even grow there so just like Switzerland its stolen culture. I do agree on the Belgium beer part rich diverse flavors by multiple smaller artisinal brewers, thats culture.
And JCVD
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Anyone claiming Belgium was founded because of its road infrastructure has never traveled those roads…
You guys just need to get a good civil war rolling, stoke those Flemish-Wallonian tensions, arm a couple of separatist movements, maybe genocide a village or two, just ask the Balkans - fastest way to put you on the map as a real country.
Wait so Belgium is the New Jersey of Europe? Do they also have the inexplicable "littering allowed" zones or is that just us
They call those roads.
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I thought it was like, France Jr.
I thought it was like, Netherlands Jr.
Jokes on you, its both!
...with germany jr also there
So "Belgium" is a country just like "New Zealand" is also a country. What's next? People claiming Sealand isn't a country!?
It also has a tram line spanning its entire coast, which is an argument either for or against it existing.
The entire coast? All 50 km?
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Also waffles.
And beer. Especially the Flemish reds.
And chocolate.
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Ever noticed how waffles, chocolate, mayonnaise, Belgian fries and poutines are all gas station food?
No we know Belgium. They're the people living well because their grandparents murdered countless of Africans.
You can say similar things for most Western countries too
I mean are you even living in a capitalist hellhole if your government didn't murder a bunch of brown people?
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Oh yes, unlike the French and Dutch...???
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