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Would you consider this to be rude or impolite?

  • 14-02-2012 08:27PM
    #1
    i_am_job
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 53 ✭✭i_am_job


    OK, I am working for a fairly large comany in south Netherlands, and my department has 7 people in it, including me, 5 of them are Dutch, 2 are non Dutch, me, Irish, and the other is a British fellow.
    On lunch break we always eat together, and chat in English, as the Dutch people's English is impecible, Adam, the british guy is absent for two weeks, and lately, the Dutch guys are talking in Dutch at the table in the canteen and I haven't a fúckin' iota what's being said .... is this a little rude, or am I being over sensitive?? :confused:


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  • #2
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    I'd consider it rude tbh.


  • #3
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Just talk back in double Dutch.

    That'll confuse the pish outta them!


  • #4
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Start talking in Irish to yourself OP


  • #5
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    drink some dutch gold and kick the shyte out of them


  • #6
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Just keep saying "WHAT'S THAT MEAN?" really obnoxiously whenever they do it.


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  • #7
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    I would consider it rude. It be no different if two people were chatting away in another language you have no clue of. Even if the two were talking in Irish which not everyone be fluent in which I would consider rude also.

    So basically start learning dutch...way to get into the conversation and brush up on a new language! Otherwise 'go dutch on them' or just 'dutch them!'


  • #8
    Chips Ahoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭Chips Ahoy


    There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.


  • #9
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Grab a book or paper and sit at another table.


  • #10
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Edit, just realised this its about the fourth thread you've started in as many minutes.

    New answer, I couldn't give a fcukin rats ass mate.


  • #11
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    From my expierence of living and working over there and having some dutch relatives , this is the norm for many of them ,especially when your the non dutch speaking person and yes ...it is rude .


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  • #12
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Here's an idea start talking Irish to them they won't know what on earth you are on about and they might start talking in English too you again!

    Unless they are sworn to secrecy to talk in dutch if they talking about something that might not be of concern to you. Though rude of them all the same not to engage with you in english while they are in dutch conversation.


  • #13
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Edit, just realised this its about the fourth thread you've started in as many minutes.

    New answer, I couldn't give a fcukin rats ass mate.


    note to self... space out threads

    :)


  • #14
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Just talk back in double Dutch.

    That'll confuse the pish outta them!
    kfallon wrote: »
    Start talking in Irish to yourself OP
    davet82 wrote: »
    drink some dutch gold and kick the shyte out of them
    phasers wrote: »
    Just keep saying "WHAT'S THAT MEAN?" really obnoxiously whenever they do it.



    This is why i enjoy AH so much:D


  • #15
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    Run in and start windmilling the impolite feckers!

    :cool:


  • #16
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    Just say this to them OP. :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl0DD_MYqZU


  • #17
    i_am_job
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 53 ✭✭i_am_job


    fedor.2. wrote: »
    This is why i enjoy AH so much:D

    what's AH?


  • #18
    ICANN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭ICANN


    You live in the Netherlands, and get hacked off when people speak Dutch?


  • #19
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    i_am_job wrote: »
    what's AH?

    Arse Hand... its when you stick your hand up your bum :)


  • #20
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    i_am_job wrote: »
    what's AH?

    Adolf Hitler

    I thought everybody knew that :confused:


  • #21
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    i_am_job wrote: »
    OK, I am working for a fairly large comany in south Netherlands, and my department has 7 people in it, including me, 5 of them are Dutch, 2 are non Dutch, me, Irish, and the other is a British fellow.
    On lunch break we always eat together, and chat in English, as the Dutch people's English is impecible, Adam, the british guy is absent for two weeks, and lately, the Dutch guys are talking in Dutch at the table in the canteen and I haven't a fúckin' iota what's being said .... is this a little rude, or am I being over sensitive?? :confused:

    I too live in the southern netherlands (eindhoven), and I'm telling ya for sure, the dutch are the rudest bunch of fcuks you could meet! They'd walk over ya rather then help ya up!

    You're not being over sensitive, they are just that way and there's very little you can do to change it!


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  • #22
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    i_am_job wrote: »
    what's AH?

    Arse Hole.


  • #23
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    i_am_job wrote: »
    what's AH?

    Its one half of the Norwegian 80's super group AH-HA.

    The other half, (HA), just gig around the pubs and clubs scenes in their native Norway these days.


  • #24
    _feedback_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    i_am_job wrote: »
    what's AH?

    Tis short for After Hours, this forum.

    You should try to learn a bit of the language, but yeah it'd be a bit rude I think.

    Welkom op de planken.


  • #25
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    AH
    is after hours
    op that's why you are posting in AH....? :/


  • #26
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    i_am_job wrote: »
    what's AH?



    Fcukin noob


  • #27
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    After hours...


  • #28
    Paddy Bateman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 178 ✭✭Paddy Bateman


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Just talk back in double Dutch.

    That'll confuse the pish outta them!
    Take the piss out of them and then blast them with it ! Ha ! Blasted by their own piss ! That will put and end to them talking in their gobbledygook language.....


  • #29
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Learn to speak Dutch.


  • #30
    i_am_job
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 53 ✭✭i_am_job


    doovdela wrote: »
    AH
    is after hours
    op that's why you are posting in AH....? :/


    how does one make that spoiler grey thing?


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  • #31
    Leo Dowling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭Leo Dowling


    Ask them what they most dislike about Mrs Doubtfire and what they wouldn't change about it.


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