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The Dutch

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  • #52
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    pickarooney wrote: »
    (just for a bit of balance)
    Cold, condescending, intrusive, anally retentive, hugely exaggerated sense of their own importance, tight as a gnat's chuff
    ,annons running about giving the place an unfounded reputation for wackiness. Like Germans but a bit taller and with worse food and beer.
    Spot on ...especially the 'tight as a gnats chuff ' . If you were in front of a dutch firing quad they wouldn't give you a last smoke before dying . :(


  • #53
    electrobanana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭electrobanana


    If you stay there long enough you'll end up speaking like them like this guy:pac:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnoP4sUV90


  • #54
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    I worked there years ago and they are nice people. They all spoke English to me when i was there. Out of all the people i met there only one got a bit stroppy at having to speak English to me. So thats pretty good. Never got any bother out drinking either. Its a well run and mannerly country in my experience.


  • #55
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    Most of the true points about the dutch have been said here already. Since i was 18 i have gone there at least three times a year.The first 10 times i was over there i would have said they were friendly,liberal ect but in truth there really not.A previous poster hit the nail on the head when he said there more polite than friendly.The Dutch really are not that liberal either they love money that is why you can buy cannabis there.I dislike the place the more and more i go i am giving Copenhagen a try this year for my weed smoking.


  • #56
    Jane Eyre
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭Jane Eyre


    I couldn't speak of the entire Dutch population but the ones I've met have been decent, tall and honest. Their dress sense, however, is ****. I kind of like that though, they don't care.


  • #57
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    I love the Dutch there great people.


  • #58
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,497 ✭✭✭cml387


    It is said that the Dutch always arrive before dinner and without gifts.


  • #59
    EGAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    cml387 wrote: »
    It is said that the Dutch always arrive before dinner and without gifts.

    Ahm, not a single Irish person arriving here to dinner brought gifts :D.


  • #60
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Seanchai wrote: »
    Four pages and nobody mentioned:

    William of Orange - not only the ultimate Orange Bastard, but one supported by the Roman Pope (as much as the average loyalist would be ignorant of that "contradiction") in his British-Roman Catholic conquest of Ireland from 1690.

    Seeing as this thread is predicated upon generalisations, apart from being a humourless bunch of personality-deficient anglophiles, the Flemish side of Dutch culture has produced some fairly amazing landscape painting. Kudos on that.
    William of Orange, a great guy.


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  • #61
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Jello wrote: »
    I was in Amsterdam last month and I honestly found them to be the friendliest nation of people I have ever come across.


    Did you wipe it off and say you were sorry?


  • #62
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    William of Orange, a great guy.

    Never heard of him.... what do you think of the dutch tho?


  • #63
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    woodoo wrote: »
    Never heard of him

    He introduced the colour orange to Ireland.

    He's often credited with curing the Irish of vitamin C deficiency as few were willing to eat purple fruit.


  • #64
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    The Dutch...well...if you go to the Netherlands as a German football supporter, it's sort dangerous. Went there when Borussia Dortmund played Feyenoord in the UEFA Cup final almost ten years ago, and it wasn't that nice at all :mad:

    But that's football, apart from that I never had any issues with the Dutch...maybe one reason is, I'm German and speak a bit Nederlands ;)


  • #65
    thomasj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,834 ✭✭✭thomasj


    woodoo wrote: »
    KeithAFC wrote: »
    William of Orange, a great guy.

    Never heard of him.... what do you think of the dutch tho?

    Ah sure you have, hes the guy who always spraytans himself

    The dutch are a lovely bunch.


  • #66
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    There's this old proverb......

    "If the dutch and the irish changed places

    the irish would drown

    and the dutch would feed the world"


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  • #67
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJSI0FDVZxU


  • #68
    mr.jingle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭mr.jingle


    Personally found the Dutch i've met on my travels very nice people. Played in many international pitch and putt tournaments with them and they take it very seriously on the course but are very friendly people off it. Great bunch for a party too and love their beer,football,darts and plenty of other sports too!

    Haven't been over there yet but hope to get to the Dutch Open this year in Bussloo. A lot of the people i've met were from Arnhem.

    Not too dissimilar to the Irish i think


  • #69
    EGAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    woodoo wrote: »
    Never heard of him.... what do you think of the dutch tho?

    Ah now :D, he's the gay guy who married his first cousin, rememba..?


  • #70
    mr.jingle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭mr.jingle


    Also they have had some great footballers with insane commentators! This is fantasic just wouldn't sound the same with George Hamilton screaming out Robbie Keane,Robbie Keane,Robbie Keane!!!!

    http://youtu.be/Uc1H2hOHu_s


  • #71
    To Alcohol
    Registered Users Posts: 526 ✭✭✭To Alcohol


    In Amsterdam years ago and a guy comes up with a knife and says to me "give me 50 guilders or I'll stab you". I knew I only had 100 guilder note so I asked him if he'd change of a 100 hoping to defuse the situation. Top man took the 100 and gave me back a 50.


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  • #72
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    woodoo wrote: »
    Never heard of him.... what do you think of the dutch tho?
    They are OK.


  • #73
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    William of Orange, a great guy.

    Funny looking fella though wouldn't you say?

    http://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/o/o/Oompa_Loompas_2.jpg

    :cool:


  • #74
    jimmymal
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭jimmymal


    having lived there for a couple of years, i'd say that they're polite but not friendly, with quite the superiority complex.
    their efficiency is great and makes life easy in all sorts of ways. however with so many immigrants you quickly get the feeling that you're doing all the donkey work and that their system is set up that way to purposefully exploit the foreigner as a cheap asset. in saying that though it might just be the same everywhere.


  • #75
    jewett
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭jewett


    fryup wrote: »
    There's this old proverb......

    "If the dutch and the irish changed places

    the irish would drown

    and the dutch would feed the world"

    That is very apt. Can you imagine Ireland trying to keep a sophisticated
    system of dykes well maintained enough to keep the sea out?
    How the Dutch built a world-class economy on a swampland is quite
    amazing.


  • #76
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Not realy, the Irish built what was the largest hydroelectric plant in the world at one stage

    We're not entirely useless though some like to think so


  • #77
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    those kinky dutch

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


  • #78
    jewett
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭jewett


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Not realy, the Irish built what was the largest hydroelectric plant in the world at one stage

    We're not entirely useless though some like to think so

    Yeah with a little bit of help from Siemens who designed and built it.

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


  • #79
    Spoonman75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭Spoonman75


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Germans are great people and have a great sense of humor. I won't entertain this German bashing. What do people have against them. An amazing country by all accounts!!!

    Well I'm not bashing all German people. I'm sure most are great and some (I would assume) have a great sense of humour. Believe me when I tell you that that German woman I knew was an absolute head wreck. So much so that when I hear the accent I get flashbacks!

    I gave her a DVD of the first series of "The Office" (the Ricky Gervais Version) and when I asked her what she thought of it she told me that she didn't find it funny. When I asked her what she thought of the David Brent charcter she replied, "I hate him". When I asked her what she thought was funny she said "Mr. Bean".:confused:

    A sense of humour is completely subjective, but if I was talking to someone who preferred "Mr. Bean" over "The Office".....? I'm sure the're are some Dutch people who like "Mr. Bean" but the same rule applies. Unless the're female and good looking.:D


  • #80
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    fryup wrote: »
    There's this old proverb......

    "If the dutch and the irish changed places

    the irish would drown

    and the dutch would feed the world"
    An old one but a good one ,with some element of truth to it .

    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Not realy, the Irish built what was the largest hydroelectric plant in the world at one stage

    We're not entirely useless though some like to think so
    Indeed ,like today is the 50th annivarsary of the space flight by John Glen at NASA and who was the man responsible for pressing the button to that 'Lift Off ' and many other NASA space flghts ? ...why none other than an Irishman named O Malley - fact :cool:


  • #81
    gk5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭gk5000


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Not realy, the Irish built what was the largest hydroelectric plant in the world at one stage

    We're not entirely useless though some like to think so

    We'll I'd be enclinded to trust an Irish Soldier/Peace Keeper more than the Dutch anyway.

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

    However one to remember if you really want to piss off an arrogant Dutch person is:
    Ask seriously as you can: Do you ever go hillwalking in Holland? It's a subtle insult as the place is so flat.


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  • #82
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,591 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    A lot of people have mentioned how polite the Dutch are. Id completely agree, even the police have "polite" written on the back of their jackets.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #83
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,591 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Latchy wrote: »
    Indeed ,like today is the 50th annivarsary of the space flight by John Glen at NASA and who was the man responsible for pressing the button to that 'Lift Off ' and many other NASA space flghts ? ...why none other than an Irishman named O Malley - fact :cool:

    When you say an Irishman, you mean an American, born in America to Irish parents.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.J._O'Malley

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #84
    milehip1
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭milehip1


    Poor man's Germany,and they know it.


  • #85
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    When you say an Irishman, you mean an American, born in America to Irish parents.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.J._O'Malley
    Yea we wont split hairs here .

    Irish American T J O'Malley


  • #86
    alphabeat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭alphabeat


    just never walk past them on their right , or you'll suffer , boy will you suffer.


  • #87
    annascott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    I have only ever met really nice Dutch people. I know 5 individuals very well. All slim, medium to tall. decent looking, not sexually deviant (that I know of!) All very positive attitudes, good to spend time with ..
    Have been to Holland several times. People in shops and hotels all very efficient and pleasant... Big thumbs up to the Dutch...


  • #88
    jefreywithonef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    A nice gay Dutch guy sold me a blue t-shirt with a UFO on it in Germany. True story.


  • #89
    Shiroki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Shiroki


    I'm half dutch and lived there for the first seven years of my life. I absolutely loved it and had so many great memories from my time there. I'm 18 now and was just there in july. The entire country is crazy efficient but the people are cold fvckers. It's a massively materialistic culture and seriously judgmental, this was made worse because of us living in a small town, so if you did something they didn't like everyone knew about it and they weren't subtle in letting you know about it. And the phrase going dutch is no exaggeration either, they're some of the tightest people on this planet. I guess because of us living in a small town these things were amplified but visiting there as an adult really opens up your eyes to how nasty and petty the dutch are and some of the stories my mam has are off the wall. Birds are class though, girl I got with wouldn't give blowjobs though the stingy ****, just goes to show.


  • #90
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Not realy, the Irish built what was the largest hydroelectric plant in the world at one stage

    We're not entirely useless though some like to think so

    With help from the Weimar Republic and Siemens.


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  • #91
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    They speak great English.


    My Granny has a Dutch maiden name. So therefore I am Dutch. Huzzah!


  • #92
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I liked the country so much that I decided to learn the language.
    It's really cool. Every 3rd word has a guttural sound somewhere in it.


  • #93
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    About 20 years ago my connecting flight from Schipol was snowed off. Train to main line station where a hotel tout took us to a seedy joint but it was bed and a few jars before an early flight. Up a narrow stairs to a garret bedroom ........ if there was a fire I'd be toast. Anyway a late night ensued and in my haste to get to the airport in the morning ........ I half ran most of the way to the train station. Had noticed that someone was coming after me and calling. 'Twas the cleaner .......... and he had my watch, ring and about 2500 euros in various currencies that I'd left by the wash hand basin. When I think of Amsterdam I remember this.


  • #94
    kryogen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    Don't like the Dutch.

    Only reason they actually exist is to ape British culture


  • #95
    guitarzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭guitarzero


    Polders, I mean, what next?! Got my eye on you Holland! :pac:...


  • #96
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Seachmall wrote: »
    I was with my mates in Holland and we were stoned off our tits walking down the street, not really sure where we were going. A Dutch man stopped what he was doing, crossed the street and asked if we needed directions. We did and he promptly directed us where the main street was.

    Another time we were out one of the nights heading to get food when a car pulled up, the guys in the car shouted something in Dutch which we didn't understand. I walked over to see what they wanted and they were selling cocaine. I told them I wasn't interested and if they knew of any good spots to get some grub. They recommended a place, told us how to get there and drove off.

    I can, with confidence, say you would not find an elderly gentleman going for a Sunday stroll nor a cocaine dealer cruising around selling to tourists in Ireland as nice as you would in Holland.

    I've been to over a dozen European countries, as well as 2 US cities and have never come across such helpful people.

    Generalisations are fine when they're positive ;)


    That wasn't cocaine they were selling. Probably crushed up paracetamol or something.

    I've been twice. I find that quite a lot of them are a bit rude/stand-offish.


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  • #97
    murpho999
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    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    A lot of people have mentioned how polite the Dutch are. Id completely agree, even the police have "polite" written on the back of their jackets.

    Sorry but it's "politie"


  • #98
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Re: The tightness thing + over estimation of their own importance. I worked with a Dutch guy before who used to ask the 2 girls there to pick him up a roll most times @ lunch. Everytime they brought him the roll he had to be reminded for the money whether it was at the end of the day or whatever.

    His ego was huge, he practically thought he was running the company. Ignorant also. First day I was there I was trying to be friendly and said "hey im.." and just got a sharp blunt reply of "BUSY".

    Went to college with a good few German people, alot of them were sound and had a sence of humour, some of them you would swear they are seeing a different world through their eyes than you are. Very cold


  • #99
    Magill
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    Besides being nearly run over by cyclists everywhere you go ! Love the dutch, seem like a very friendly people in general.


  • #100
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    I liked the country so much that I decided to learn the language.
    It's really cool. Every 3rd word has a guttural sound somewhere in it.
    Jij klootzac :P


  • #101
    sandmanporto
    Registered Users Posts: 622 ✭✭✭sandmanporto


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    What do people here think of the Dutch?
    I personally like them but prefer Germans, that's just my preference.
    I'd like to find out about the Dutch though. We all know about Amsterdam and dykes but I'd like to get a little more than that.
    What do people think of the people themselves. They are very tall, I know that much.
    Are they big in to sports? I know they really enjoy ice skating.
    What about religion though, are they big in to it, I imagine not.
    Is there a somewhat seedy element and deviancy to them?
    Would they be considered a friendly nation? I know there's a bit of a racism issue there, somewhat due to Moroccan immigrants.
    I'd love to hear from real Dutch people or people who know some or even regularly visit the country.
    I'd like to get as much information as possible without really focusing on Amsterdam.
    my grandmother(rip) was a dutch woman. all i can remember is she was always cheerful.


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