We'd love to get rid of the part of the country that speaks French, but we're afraid that if we did so, the Flemish part would become part of the Netherlands again, and we really don't want that.

Also you English have odd beer.

At least the Japanese like us. (Admitedly because of a children's book very few people in Belgium have heard of, but that's quite big in Japan)

we could try another 6-day campaign...

we could try another 6-day campaign...

wasn't it 10 days? Not that they were teaching the subject at highschool. Suddenly, between The Battle of Waterloo and the industrial revolution, somehow, the size of The Netherlands became smaller.

You could of course try and break the speed record of defeating The Netherlands. Current holders of the record are the Germans with an impressive 5 days.....

Ah yeah, my bad, got it mixed up with Napoleon. Still...More power to Belgium! Or actuallly not. We only "won" because we called in the French (on 8th of August: my birthday!) to help us fight the Dutch. (we also invited the brits but they said no)

And don't get me start on ze germans! from WWI (Neutral means "NO" dammit!) to WWII (Yeah we had a real nice invicible fortress once, untill they blew it up from behind)

The English are genetically programmed to hate all things french, if Belgium stops speaking french we'll stop picking on you.

We'd also accept you nuking them and renaming your language belginese.

Ah yeah, my bad, got it mixed up with Napoleon. Still...More power to Belgium! Or actuallly not. We only "won" because we called in the French (on 8th of August: my birthday!) to help us fight the Dutch. (we also invited the brits but they said no)

And don't get me start on ze germans! from WWI (Neutral means "NO" dammit!) to WWII (Yeah we had a real nice invicible fortress once, untill they blew it up from behind)

Though, on the other hand, from the times I have been there everyone in the Ardennes seems to talk Dutch with the dialect from Holland.

They are secretly, slowly invading Belgium through the Ardennes. Nobody expects anyone to do that .......

Ye gods! It's the battle of the Bulge again! But now with dutch infiltrators!

But if you look at British history, it becomes obvious they don't like the Mainland. or anything that's not England.

And yes, that's including the Netherlands, but after the Raid on the Medway (think of it as Pearl harbor done right.) they said "yeah we're not gonna mess with those guys." Nothing ends a war quicker than an enemy fleet sailing up river to your biggest shipyard, burning it down and stealing your flagship!

Now I like to poke fun at the dutch but in the 17th century they were badass!

Isn't it just tradition? The majority of the jokes about the Dutch in Flanders are exactly the same as the ones about the Flemish in Holland. Just with the roles of the idiot and the smart guy being reversed, that's all

Probably comparible with English and Scottish, Danish and Swedish, and the US and Canada?

Badass? With an emphasis on bad, as in evil and nasty...

Reminds me of a former prime-minister proclaiming the Dutch should take an example of the attitude of the Dutch East Indies Company. And then the fool was surprised every descendant of a victim of Dutch colonialism became seriously p***ed off.

Also the slave trade in Paramaribo.

Unfortunatly as a Belgian I don't get to point fingers, You know, the stuff we did in the Congo and everything... (That even made it into "We didn't start the fire", geez...)

Well, come to think of it. Many merchants from Antwerp fled to Amsterdam in 1585, creating the boost it needed. So to already in the the 17th century you lend a hand!

There's a saying God created booze, because otherwise the Irish would rule the world.

Maybe the Netherlands got split up for the same reason!

We split because of the French

Together we will rule the Galaxy!

Recently, I enjoyed Peter Kay's Car Share. And Outnumbered is always good. And don't tell anyone, but I also rather liked Miranda.