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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 67 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The national mascot of Belgium is a naked toddler urinating in public. They are not a serious people.

[–] Marechan@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

He has costumes, we're not total animals

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

naked toddler urinating in public.

Are you sure it is Belgium?

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Nice how the guy crawls his breast hair though

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

We also got some pretty big balls. Balls of steel.

Check out the Atomium!

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If it was designed as a logistics network between France and the NL it would have a decent road system

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I live in Norway. Trust me, your roads are fine.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 7 points 1 week ago

I was wondering why your roads would be that bad and I learn a few things:

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-the-roads-in-Norway-in-such-bad-condition

You have a telehiv problem : the climate destroys your road rather quickly.

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[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Am I the only non Belgian to enjoy Belgium? Decent cities like Brügge, Ghent, Antwerpen, Leuven and Brussels. Trappist Beer, Kriek, Moules frites. Excellent comics like Spirou, Tintin and Thorgal. And as a Norwegian I can relate to a football team full of stars that don't win shit. (Norway can never even qualify dor anything)

It shows that I have only ever been in Flandern, but guess there are stuff in Vallonia to.

[–] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I love this comment. The different spellings of the names (Dutch, Fr*nch, English and some made up spelling) made my day.

We actually hate our own country most of the time, so I don't mind everyone shitting on us. Thank you for enjoying your stay, love from Ghent.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The made up spelling might be the Norwegian, or me fucking up as I also speak/read English and german. Flemish boggles the mind for me since I can read it with context, but it's incomprehensible when spoken.

[–] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Kan mij inbeelden dat 't dikke zever lijkt als ge 't zo leest. Ik heb een beetje hetzelfde met Noors eerlijk gezegd.

Understandable?

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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah but Belgium is the home of the greatest entertainer of all time Eddy mother fucking Wally!

[–] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Geweeeldig!

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[–] Mrb2@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone who lives close to Brussels, 1 thing we are very good in is complaining. But not to people's faces, only behind their backs.

For example when the waiter brings out the wrong food in a restaurant most of us just don't say anything and eat it.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The train I was on once hit a pedestrian in Belgium so there's that.

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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but Norway has great scenery and....and um... Nah sorry I'm coming up empty.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I don't think there much else. Some viking history perhaps. Over 400 years under Danish tyranny followed by 80 years by Swedish rule sort of made sure nothing happened from 1200 to 1900

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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Historically, it was a vast network of arms depots built by Germany to help them... uh... "travel to" France.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Oh we silly Germans. We sure love to... Travel.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The best possible proof that Belgium is not just a place set up by The Netherlands and France as a network of gas stations to travel between those countries is that the roads in Belgium are visibly worse than in The Netherlands or France (really: you can tell exactly were the border is when driving into and out of Belgium by the change in the condition of the road).

The problem for the Belgium friend is that he's not keen on admitting that if Belgium wasn't a real nation but rather a Franco-Dutch partnership, it would be better run.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Not only that, the colors also suddenly change. Drive into Belgium and the sky and grass and everything suddenly turns dark grey. Arrive in Luxemburg, and its like crossing from hell into heaven. Everything suddenly is shiny, the grass is painfully bright light green, the sky is hyper blue...

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

IDK, that one time Germany tried to travel through Belgium to get to France everyone got all pissed...

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[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 23 points 1 week ago

Anyone claiming Belgium was founded because of its road infrastructure has never traveled those roads…

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wait so Belgium is the New Jersey of Europe? Do they also have the inexplicable "littering allowed" zones or is that just us

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago

They call those roads.

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[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Belgian fries, Belgian waffles, Belgian chocolate ^^Belgian ^^weed

[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Fries are really not that unique and super basic same with waffles and chocolate doesn't even grow there so just like Switzerland its stolen culture. I do agree on the Belgium beer part rich diverse flavors by multiple smaller artisinal brewers, thats culture.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It also has a tram line spanning its entire coast, which is an argument either for or against it existing.

[–] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Our coast is shit. Much prefer The Netherlands or France's coast.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And beer. Especially the Flemish reds.

[–] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

And mayonnaise to die for.

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[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You guys just need to get a good civil war rolling, stoke those Flemish-Wallonian tensions, arm a couple of separatist movements, maybe genocide a village or two, just ask the Balkans - fastest way to put you on the map as a real country.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I thought it was like, France Jr.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No we know Belgium. They're the people living well because their grandparents murdered countless of Africans.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can say similar things for most Western countries too

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean are you even living in a capitalist hellhole if your government didn't murder a bunch of brown people?

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[–] nroth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Oh yes, unlike the French and Dutch...???

I just wish he wouldn't swear so much or intensely

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

just call it Benelux already before its under water anyway.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How can you not believe in Belgium when the best waffles in the world and second best chocolate in the world come from there?

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not branding?

Like Vermont doesn't have a local curry

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[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It's a road bump on our way to Paris

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 1 week ago

So "Belgium" is a country just like "New Zealand" is also a country. What's next? People claiming Sealand isn't a country!?

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