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Holland or Netherlands?

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    #32
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    stovelid wrote: »
    Are they the Orange lads?

    BRITS OUT

    Eh, they arn't british and the orange order is a northern ireland thing, go learn some facts before you post false info. Back to topic, i have never called it Holland always Netherlands, though i must say i do know alot who refer to it as Holland.


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    #33
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    I always thought they were two countries...


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    #34
    Mr Benevolent
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    Hole-land or the Bottom Lands. Take your pick. Most Dutch people I've met don't care one way or the other.


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    #35
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Jeez who pissed in your corn flakes?


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    #36
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    FearDark wrote: »
    Jeez who pissed in your corn flakes?

    FAIL!:P If your going to try and sicken someone at least say who you are talking too!


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    #37
    windycity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭windycity


    Americans call it Holland. Saying Netherlands is way too much work for us.


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    #38
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    owenc wrote: »
    Eh, they arn't british and the orange order is a northern ireland thing, go learn some facts before you post false info.

    He was King William of Orange. Its not a "northern ireland thing", its a place. In Holland.

    Go learn some history.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Orange-Nassau


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    #39
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    owenc wrote: »
    Eh, they arn't british and the orange order is a northern ireland thing, go learn some facts before you post false info. Back to topic, i have never called it Holland always Netherlands, though i must say i do know alot who refer to it as Holland.

    Did you not read that?


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    #40
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Dutchess wrote: »
    Well, being Dutch myself I call it Nederland (pronounced: Naydrlahnd). In English, I call it the Netherlands. The country consists of 12 provinces, 2 of them being North-Holland and South-Holland. So 1/6 of the country is Holland. The Holland part of the country is where all the major cities (say Amsterdam, the Hague for example) are and though not geographically being the centre, it is the centre in the sense of this is where it all goes down. So I think this is why people sometimes call it Holland. Also, it rolls a bit easier off the tongue than 'the Netherlands'. (say, you're in South Africa watching a match, shouting 'go, Holland, go!' is easier than 'go the Netherlands go!
    To compare, some people (in the Netherlands at least) would refer to all of Great-Britain as England....
    ^^Yesh. Thish.
    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    Yes it is, and by people from the UK too.
    Lol.
    owenc wrote: »
    Eh, they arn't british and the orange order is a northern ireland thing, go learn some facts before you post false info. Back to topic, i have never called it Holland always Netherlands, though i must say i do know alot who refer to it as Holland.
    Lol again.

    In before spliff comment.


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    #41
    Daemos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    owenc wrote: »
    Did you not read that?
    I did, but then again I also read that if you shock your nipples you get a massive erection. Now my nipples hurt and I can't get it up to shag anything.

    Don't believe everything you read :D


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    #42
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    owenc wrote: »
    Did you not read that?

    Ah "order"...

    sorry.

    :D


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    #43
    mise_me_fein1
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    Sulmac wrote: »
    The Netherlands, calling it Holland is like using the word "Leinster" to refer to Ireland.

    edit: Just saw Irish_wolf's post. :(

    There are two hollands. North Holland and South Holland.


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    #44
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    I dont think the Dutch mind what its called either because they are a modern almost masterful race unlike us Irish who base our county teams in our national and previous anti brittish games on something introduced by the Brittish mainly Counties.


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    #45
    javaboy
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    owenc wrote: »
    Eh, they arn't british and the orange order is a northern ireland thing, go learn some facts before you post false info.

    Go learn a sense of humour.


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    #46
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    Ah "order"...

    sorry.

    :D

    oh, was he not talking about that, thought he was because he said "britz out".


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    #47
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    So where's Orange?

    :confused:


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    #48
    johngalway
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    I call it Holland, but know it's The Netherlands. Doesn't seem to bother the natives.


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    #49
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    owenc wrote: »
    oh, was he not talking about that, thought he was because he said "britz out".

    LOL!!!! I was confused so I figured it was best to just apologise!


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    #50
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    javaboy wrote: »
    Go learn a sense of humour.

    naw, maybe it gets to the point were you get sick and tired of losers coming on here and making random jokes to get attention and they arn't even half funny, its so pathetic.


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    #51
    bonerm
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    West Germany


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    #52
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    owenc wrote: »
    naw, maybe it gets to the point were you get sick and tired of losers coming on here and making random jokes to get attention and they arn't even half funny, its so pathetic.

    Need a cuddle? You can give me a Dutch ruddering afterwards for it. ;)


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    #53
    Super-Rush
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    owenc wrote: »
    naw, maybe it gets to the point were you get sick and tired of losers coming on here and making random jokes to get attention and they arn't even half funny, its so pathetic.

    I'd suggest you do what he says. Seriously.


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    #54
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    No thanks.


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    #55
    questionmark?
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    Confab wrote: »
    Hole-land or the Bottom Lands. Take your pick. Most Dutch people I've met don't care one way or the other.

    /insert spliff joke here








    /shutsdown laptop


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    #56
    OutlawPete
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    Christ, I always called it Holland and I have family there too (Arnhem).

    From now on I shall refer to it as The Netherlands.


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    #57
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    owenc wrote: »
    naw, maybe it gets to the point were you get sick and tired of losers coming on here and making random jokes to get attention and they arn't even half funny, its so pathetic.

    Fair enough.


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    #58
    Super-Rush
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    owenc wrote: »
    No thanks.

    Suits me buddy.


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    #59
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    owenc wrote: »
    No thanks.

    Someone could do with a vuvuzula.


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    #60
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    owenc wrote: »
    oh, was he not talking about that, thought he was because he said "britz out".

    You're even confusing me now and I was the one that made the - admittedly lame - joke.


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    #61
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    So eh..... Holland or Netherlands?


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