How popular are you, or maybe how witty are you, or how much do you chase thanks?

buyer95 wrote: »

Quote your most thanked ever post here, and state how many thanks it got. You can find your most thanked post by hovering mouse over your username in top right go to find all my post and in advanced search select search by most thanked.

I'll get the ball rolling. My most thanked post came from the world cup punditry gold thread where I got into an extremely stupid debate at a ridiculous hour with someone who insisted that us calling the Netherland's football team "Holland" was inoffensive, when RTE had been calling the team that since the 80's. Looking back on the thing it makes me laugh how into the debate I got.

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Originally Posted by keith16 View Post

Yeah ok, just because I don't have a problem calling the the Dutch football team Holland as opposed to the Netherland's I'm all of a sudden an imbecile. People use Holland and the Netherlands interchangeably every day, I guess were all dumb idiots.

Here is a direct quote from a Dutch person, another imbecile one would presume.
"Being from the Netherlands, I find differentiating between these two terms (Holland and The Netherlands) to be tantamount to nitpicking. I would not hold any grudge against someone who ‘wrongfully’ refers to the Netherlands as Holland. While it may be true that Holland only refers to South and North Holland in a strictly geographical sense, it can be used to refer to Holland as a whole, too, because there are hardly any discernible cultural differences between the various provinces. Therefore, as far as I’m concerned Holland is an informal moniker for colloquial use whereas The Netherlands is more formal. No need to discern." source http://www.internationalstudents.nl/...e-netherlands/

This whole debate is an exercise in pedanticness on your part. I understand and fully recognise the absolute fact that the countries official name is "The Netherland's," I never disputed that. The point I was and am making is that I do not see the need for hysteria over the issue. If the Dutch fans themselves, many of whom I would presume are not from the Holland region chant "Hup Holland Hup," then I think Eamon Dunphy can get away with referring to the Dutch team as Holland, as he, Billo and John Giles have always done on the show. The Oxford dictionary gives the word "Holland" definition as being another name for the Netherlands.

Furthermore, if the state funded tourist board are marketing their country as Holland.com, if the Dutch really had a problem with the rest of the world calling the country Holland then they obviously don't care enough to market there country for potential tourist in the manner you deem to be acceptable.

Another analogy would be us calling the USA, America, something which is very very common in my experience. Just like Holland is only a part of the Netherlands, the United States are only a part of America. That did not stop the RTE boys referring to them as America numerous times.

I have made my position clear on this. People do not call the country Holland with the intention of being offensive to its people.

As to your comment questioning my own intelligence, I don't really want to dignify that with a response, but I will. I am a currently a primary teacher undergraduate in Mary I, not that that is any measure of brightness. Such a low brow dig about me "buying into" how the Dutch market their country reflects far worse on you then me my friend.

Good night.

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Banjo String wrote: »

My most thanked post ever (on this account anyway) was This one

Banjo String wrote: »

My most thanked post ever (on this account anyway) was This one

Scuid Mhór wrote: »

I don't think any of the three headings OP listed [popularity, wit, thanks] have much to do with each other. Correlation does not imply causality.

Regardless, this is my most thanked post, though I've noticed I receive more thanks the older I get despite my exponentially decreasing posting rate.