Popular Post lapal_fan Posted November 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2022 12 hours ago, Paddywhack said: People replying to me with yawn gifs. Now I know how @lapal_fan feels. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted November 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 30, 2022 8 hours ago, Nicho said: The previous quoted comment sounds a bit (and I don’t use this word lightly) woke. The Dutch that I work with neither mind or care. I actually though it was the other way round as well, the nederlands meaning something along the lines of low lands on Germania so actually it’s only a part of the county and Netherlands or Holland being correct. It's not woke, it's just facts. Maybe those Dutch people are from Holland so they don't care. The closest equivalent is probably (not that I actually know anyone from Holland or the other Nether lands) referring to England when you mean the whole of Great Britain or the UK. English people wouldn't care or perhaps even notice, but the Scots, and Welsh, and the Northern Irish would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 9 hours ago, Johnnyp said: Off topic but need this sorting once and for all ( for me ) Is Holland a derogatory and offensive term ? Is the Netherlands the correct way to refer to the country ? I might be wrong here and someone might already have answered but Holland is a province within the Netherlands, its one area of about 8 and even then in terms of juristiction I think Holland is split in to North and South and its the main kind of region really, its where rotterdam and Amsterdam are The only other 2 I know are limburg and Zeeland which is a pub quiz answer you can probably guess at (and it's not Danish...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 41 minutes ago, fightoffyour said: It's not woke, it's just facts. Maybe those Dutch people are from Holland so they don't care. The closest equivalent is probably (not that I actually know anyone from Holland or the other Nether lands) referring to England when you mean the whole of Great Britain or the UK. English people wouldn't care or perhaps even notice, but the Scots, and Welsh, and the Northern Irish would. This is true, I teach English as a foreign language and it happens all the time. I try to correct them but they don't get it, often they think those countries are part of England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share Posted November 30, 2022 2 hours ago, fightoffyour said: It's not woke, it's just facts. Maybe those Dutch people are from Holland so they don't care. The closest equivalent is probably (not that I actually know anyone from Holland or the other Nether lands) referring to England when you mean the whole of Great Britain or the UK. English people wouldn't care or perhaps even notice, but the Scots, and Welsh, and the Northern Irish would. I think it was Tom Jones but I could be wrong, on a US talk show he was introduced as being from Wales… in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted November 30, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2022 (edited) 13 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: We are like Man Utd fans, and you can see it on here quite a lot. No we're not. We (i.e. England fans) are like Villa fans. Last major trophy decades in the past, a sequence of teams with some very good players, let down by a series of diabolically bad managers - which has led to unshakeable pessimism, even when (perhaps especially when) things look promising. We just know it's a false dawn. Edited November 30, 2022 by mjmooney 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 30, 2022 Don't Netherlands fans chant "Hup Holland" at matches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sne Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Solid bench for France today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: Dream Team put that on their Facebook page last night.... The Welsh and Scots were getting very salty, so they took it down. It was a popcorn moment for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Not so much Saint Jude here ! NSFW Probably picked up that kind of language in town, mate 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted November 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 30, 2022 Veretout playing for France, not very impressed Tbh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted November 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 30, 2022 The thing you have to admire about us Americans is our assiduous sense of restraint and proportionality: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted November 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 30, 2022 Chance to get in the next round and it's like a morgue in the stadium in the Denmark v Aus game. Boring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted November 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 30, 2022 Tunisia score. Australia and Denmark could be in trouble... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Australia take the lead - Denmark in serious trouble 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 15 minutes ago, S-Platt said: Chance to get in the next round and it's like a morgue in the stadium in the Denmark v Aus game. Boring The Aussie's don't care enough and the Danes are too reserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted November 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 30, 2022 wow denmark are really, really, shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 9 minutes ago, maqroll said: The Aussie's don't care enough and the Danes are too reserved. That's what you get when their players are only allowed to drink 4 beers during the games. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Mbappe has an air of desperation about him here which is slightly detrimental to the team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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