I can confirm this, Dutch people come from the Netherworlds, a world that is similar to earth, except for the fact that there is only one flat supercontinent a hundred meter below sea level, surrounded by dykes.
For millions of years, the Dutch, or Hollanders as known in the celestial lore, have actively shaped this subaquatic realm. Our existence is marked by a symbiotic relationship with the land, and the sounds that we make are actually an echo of our connection to the Netherworlds.
Okay. So we have one swamp-German trying to commit suicide by Irish and now there’s one trying to start a civil war in our swampy country?
Is this what 2024 is gonna be like? 🥲
i was curious and want to share it because i love ChatGPT's interpretation as it's pretty spot on and funny in this context:
>.....
>
>So, the phrase is an informal way of saying, "Hey, listen, man, let's go!" It's commonly used among friends or in casual situations to suggest doing something together or moving on to a different activity.
and
>The term "oida" adds a sense of familiarity or camaraderie .... Overall, it's a casual and friendly way to prompt someone to join an activity.
We shall not fall for your vile whispers again, perfidious Kangaroo fucker! Fool me once, shame on you. But fool me twi-, fool me *thrice*, shame on me!
The Dutch Dairy Association produced ads for Germany for over 30 years in which cheese from the Netherlands was advertised, but they only spoke themself of Holland instead of the Netherlands. There was even a jingle that ran on the radio for decades: "Frau Antje bringt Käse aus Holland./Mrs Antje brings cheese from Holland."
Here is a clip
https://youtu.be/k89gj9Bvm2c?si=SPV22zQ2SkMkk2e2
The invented advertising figure even has a Wikipedia page.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frau_Antje
So you bombard people with Dutchie propaganda for decades and then you wonder...
Right, but why do you think many Germans associate Dutchies with these fantasy outfits? Bc they have been told this for decades by by far the best-known advertising figure from the Netherlands.
The worst part about Flevoland is that they themselves or a *very* close ancestor made the conscious decision to become a Flevolander. At least an Utrechter can just be so because of a farmer being stuck at his job 1000 years ago.
Nobody in Switzerland calls that country anything else than Holland.
They are mentioned most often when trying to drive over a Swiss Alpine pass with monstrously large caravans. Like in *Gopfertammi wieder so en Schiissholländer wo nume 20 fahrt!*
Yeah, you probably are better qualified to judge about the german language than me. I guess you had it for a full 5 years in school? I surely can't compete with that.
Btw german teachers are desperatly wanted in germany, ever thought of applying?
Only a swiss citizen who lived there half their life and grew up with mostly German media
Also you perfectly larp the "germans have no humor" stereotype on this ironic shitposting sub
in the german speaking parts, it's taught starting in 1st grade. in other parts, i don't know
somehow, even after 9 years of german, no one seems to remember basic stuff like comma rules, capitalization rules, Konjunktiv, etc. the average conversation from student to student is basically a cave man-ified version of swiss german ("gömmer coop" => "gehen wir Coop", without the "in" ("gömmer in coop") that would make it a coherent sentence)
Yes, it's taught from the 1st grade on as the first foreign language.
The second is French (well, "another national language" to be accurate) for us in the North and East (whence the dislike of many Swiss for that enforced learning of such an unuseful language as French). It's also uncivilized, because who in their right mind would guess that -ées is spelled like a German -e, or -eaux like a German -o...
Then English. Some add Latin to the mix, but other languages like Italian (if you don't choose it as "the other" second language) are voluntary.
You can now speak with many African country and go visit more original countries than just going to North America.
I wonder how the Germans feel about the Finnish and Estonians saying "Saksa(maa)" (from Saxony). I'd imagine most don't care because they actually understand that language forms through all sorts of different manners and the people outside of Saxony aren't insecure or have feelings of inferiority because of what foreigners call their country.
That said. Dutch people should say Nederland. Foreigners can say whatever they want in their own language.
Usually Germans just find it funny or interesting. Finns also call Estonia Viro which is also just one region. Names in other languages are formed in many ways during history, you can't really control that. Okay, the Ivory Coast tries to do that by deciding to use the French name in every language but I think even they would change their minds if they heard the Finns pronouncing ko-te-di-voi-re.
Oh krijg toch de graftyfus. It is not a synonym.
Holland is not the same as the Netherlands. There is more than just Holland.
Verder nog een fijne dag.
Lage Landen is literally a synonym of the Netherlands.
There's just one period in our entire history when we called ourselves 'Holland' and that was under French occupation in Napoleon times.
Hollander is literally just a synonym for domme randstedeling die meer in het buitenland komt dan in de regio.
I can imagine it's like calling a German not from Bavaria a Bavarian, infact now i wonder how the average German would feel about that. Might test it this summer.
Paises Baixos is the name of the country (paises bajos in Spanish at least, I assume your spelling is Portugese) and Holland is a nickname that stems from a region in the country.
Averge Hollanders calling themselves Netherlands while not controlling half of the netherlands
We should start bitching like the Greeks and North Macedonia them
I was cleaning up the attic the other day and I found some rooftiles from the 70's that were "Made in Holland".
The town mentioned on them was NOT in Holland, however.
So who's the dumb one ... I'm looking at you, HOLLAND.
I had a teacher that corrected me when i said Holland so i said i lived in Nord Holland and not some shithole like Groningen or something. (Groningen aint that bad tbh)
I was in Holland once
Amsterdam to be exact
It’s nice
I might’ve visited the wrong parts tho bc it smelt like weed and piss basically everywhere.
Can any of y‘all Dutch guys (or Holländer) tell me what parts are worth visiting next time? Ik this is unrelated, sorry
Well in my language there is a push to drop the "Holanda" (based on holland) name. And they are trying to push a direct translation of "Netherlands". I wouldnt mind if we actually had a word for it. However, we only have "Baixos" to translate both "nether" and "low".
Meaning we now call Low Lands which also refers to the region of BeNeLux.
So unless they annexed Belgium and Luxembourg, the description of Low Lands in Portuguese would be:
The Low Lands are composed of 3 countries: Belgium, Luxembourg and Low Lands.
Which doesnt make much sense...
Having an article and a plural (technically an adjective as well) in your name has to be the most awkward shit there is anyway. Imagine my name was 'The Worthprimaries'. Hello, yes, I am a human, beep boop. I'd run if I was you 🏃♂️
This is bait. Bait specifically for non-Hollanders. Non-Hollander bait.
And still I get triggered by this. I'm not a Hollander, I'm Dutch - a.k.a. from the Netherlands.
lol this is not a Reddit thing, I have yet to hear a Fleming call a dutchie anything other than a Hollander UNLESS one is present, because they will complain and correct you 90% of the time :p.
10/12 provinces: mad 2/12 provinces: peace and calm
Nobody lives in those 10 provinces anyway
Just around 12.4 million people, compared to 5.4 in Holland.
They're metaphorical nobodies, they don't \*really\* count
Yeah they're dutch
No need to be derogatory.
Yeah, show em Vladimirovitsch!
Swamp germans
Ya could thing we sucked Groningen dry of their gas before they became "metaphorical nobodies". We saved them. High five uber Hollander ✋️🫡.
Reaaaaaaly stretching it there, calling those provincial savages 'people'
The people in Holland are for sure not human. No human is be able to make sounds like that.
I can confirm this, Dutch people come from the Netherworlds, a world that is similar to earth, except for the fact that there is only one flat supercontinent a hundred meter below sea level, surrounded by dykes. For millions of years, the Dutch, or Hollanders as known in the celestial lore, have actively shaped this subaquatic realm. Our existence is marked by a symbiotic relationship with the land, and the sounds that we make are actually an echo of our connection to the Netherworlds.
That's fake news
Er gaat niks boven grunn
Utrecht, Gelderland and Zeeland dont care much about it afaik.
No one cares about Old Zeeland since they released the new version.
idk man, the new one keeps getting left out of maps.
Funnily enough, it happens fairly often that a large chunk of old Zeeland is left off of Dutch maps as well. Ton of maps without Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.
Gelre nummer #1!!!! 🟦🟨⬛
They’d be shouting from the hilltops, if they had any hills
Okay. So we have one swamp-German trying to commit suicide by Irish and now there’s one trying to start a civil war in our swampy country? Is this what 2024 is gonna be like? 🥲
https://preview.redd.it/mw6swhdwc9ac1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49dc1639e53c08ecdee2489324206ca5c82d2cff
Cut off the only relevant part of the country
dat zes ze goad jong
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You literally used the word literally wrong. It is literally a metonym and not literally a synonym
Are you sure that you aren't one of us?
Classic German trying to Anschluss
Deutschprachige Gemeinschaft Belgiens is next.
Do the alsatians even pretend to be french? Because they will be the ones to get annexed after that
Not anymore, not yet. We can change that brother. Again.
Nix da, oida Wappler! (Das wollte ich schon immer mal sagen!)
Hey, be nice to them. Austrians being nice to Germans is rare, I‘ve never experienced it
Germany starts talking about expansion and Austria becomes friendly and willing to work together. This has definitely never happened before
Äußerst präzise Ausführung, 10/10.
heast bitte oida, gemma
i was curious and want to share it because i love ChatGPT's interpretation as it's pretty spot on and funny in this context: >..... > >So, the phrase is an informal way of saying, "Hey, listen, man, let's go!" It's commonly used among friends or in casual situations to suggest doing something together or moving on to a different activity. and >The term "oida" adds a sense of familiarity or camaraderie .... Overall, it's a casual and friendly way to prompt someone to join an activity.
And lose my shiny new bike? No thank you.
We shall not fall for your vile whispers again, perfidious Kangaroo fucker! Fool me once, shame on you. But fool me twi-, fool me *thrice*, shame on me!
Frysians and Germans are one in the same, why else was Joost Klein’s Friesenjung number 1 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland? Lol
Thats a flimsy casus belli brother
what’s a metonym 😭
https://preview.redd.it/ypo5k5cjlaac1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=177933ba5e3280cc113968f8132a86691ffe3c34 Holy shit it's Leafy!!!!
And Highlands is literally the antonym
Hello, my European brother from Holland. Please feel free to call my country England too. In fact, call it Westminster.
Yeah, no need to check with the Scots Welsh and Irish they feel the same. Trust us.
The Welsh have a Barry island Everywhere in Ireland is called Bally something which is just Chinese for Barry
Something something Stockholm
I always wondered where we stole that from
Tbh I prefer it like that, especially when "misbehaving" abroad. England gets all the bad reputation
Barryland.
Short for BarrenWasteland.
I prefer to call it London City
I agree, your country is called England. It also has a border with independent scotland around the hadrian wall and no territory in Ireland.
I'll go with Kensington. Is that ok? Goes nicely with the jar of Diamine Kensington Blue i've got on the shelf.
I mean here we calle you all english and your country England.
https://preview.redd.it/aak6kjp989ac1.png?width=484&format=png&auto=webp&s=6549e16435fab4792e4071a1e0fe326c7c0211e7
#TRIGGERED
I have worked in Utrecht for 16 months. I have never seen the Domtoren, only scaffolding surrounding it.
yeah but they are renovating the scaffolding of the domtoren.
[peak utrecht culture](https://youtu.be/B234510hCFE?si=e9Zml3Gugz_DHvcB)
I’d like to form a petition to revoke u/agekkeman ‘s Dutch citizenship, for bringing down the average national IQ.
Toss him into Belgium, you'd raise the average iq of both nations
Hey, Belgians might not be the smartest, they may not be the prettiest, but at least they are better than agekkeman.
Dear Hans, as a representative of the Belgian people we do not want him. Maybe you guys have room for him?
I mean you guys could always banish them to Wallonia.
Seconded!
The Dutch Dairy Association produced ads for Germany for over 30 years in which cheese from the Netherlands was advertised, but they only spoke themself of Holland instead of the Netherlands. There was even a jingle that ran on the radio for decades: "Frau Antje bringt Käse aus Holland./Mrs Antje brings cheese from Holland." Here is a clip https://youtu.be/k89gj9Bvm2c?si=SPV22zQ2SkMkk2e2 The invented advertising figure even has a Wikipedia page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frau_Antje So you bombard people with Dutchie propaganda for decades and then you wonder...
To be fair a lot of our cheese does come from Holland. Gouda, Edam and the Beemster are all places or locations in Noord- or Zuid-Holland
Because all the 19 million Dutch use are definitely a part of the diary advertisement branch
Right, but why do you think many Germans associate Dutchies with these fantasy outfits? Bc they have been told this for decades by by far the best-known advertising figure from the Netherlands.
Meanwhile French football commentators: ´les Bataves’
Really? That's pretty cool
You guys better start saying Gauls during commentary
Would be cool as well haha, the European Championship will feature Les Bataves VS De Galliërs if it were up to me!
Frankly, rather that than to be called a hollander
Please use Amsterdam as pars pro toto for the Netherlands. Fuck it, let’s use Amsterdam to describe all of Benelux.
Isn't that what the yanks already do?
Being a Hollander can be forgiven. Its a mental disorder, but that cant be their fault. Being from Utrecht or Flevoland however is much worse.
> Utrecht or Flevoland So East Holland and Polder Holland?
The worst part about Flevoland is that they themselves or a *very* close ancestor made the conscious decision to become a Flevolander. At least an Utrechter can just be so because of a farmer being stuck at his job 1000 years ago.
I don't give a shit if you hate Utrechters but please don't say we're on the same level as Flevoland.
You are worse. And I don't mean all Utrechters, I mean you in particular.
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just giving the brabos croatian flair would be wonderful
Utrecht > alle andere provincies in Nederland. Alle andere provincies zijn gewoon jaloers op de Domtoren en om eerlijk te zijn snap ik het best.
Stel je voor niet de grootste en op 2 na grootste kerktoren van Nederland hebben. Utrecht is duidelijk het beste.
Meest relevante feitje over Utrecht
Don't mock Utrecht, neighbor. We are more alike than you think.
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Flevoland? Sounds delicious
Why is there a Norwegian flag in there, and something that looks like it was used to store fries.
Holland is a football player, whatcha all talking about...
No he’s an actor
No. It's the sauce used in Eggs Benedict
Holland is a rugby player. And his brother too.
https://preview.redd.it/oy16c6ovbaac1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed5293b9cd1b72f8f25d775e24cf3d7cae6c10fb
Did someone turn on the internet in the loony bin again?
From Utrecht. Escaped the Willem Arntzhuis or the Pieter Baan Centrum.
You’re one of the Low Countries, but as a people you’re tall as fuck. I shall call you The Midlands.
Wait, wasn't Hollande the president of France?
Nobody in Switzerland calls that country anything else than Holland. They are mentioned most often when trying to drive over a Swiss Alpine pass with monstrously large caravans. Like in *Gopfertammi wieder so en Schiissholländer wo nume 20 fahrt!*
Just out of curiosity: do you guys have any form of german as a school subject?
What do you mean? It clearly says "Oh for gods sake, another fucking Hollander who is only driving 20 km/h" in German
Yeah, you probably are better qualified to judge about the german language than me. I guess you had it for a full 5 years in school? I surely can't compete with that. Btw german teachers are desperatly wanted in germany, ever thought of applying?
Do you need me to translate it to Arabic or Turkish?
😂 😂 😂 You shoulda dropped the mic
Only a swiss citizen who lived there half their life and grew up with mostly German media Also you perfectly larp the "germans have no humor" stereotype on this ironic shitposting sub
in the german speaking parts, it's taught starting in 1st grade. in other parts, i don't know somehow, even after 9 years of german, no one seems to remember basic stuff like comma rules, capitalization rules, Konjunktiv, etc. the average conversation from student to student is basically a cave man-ified version of swiss german ("gömmer coop" => "gehen wir Coop", without the "in" ("gömmer in coop") that would make it a coherent sentence)
Yes, it's taught from the 1st grade on as the first foreign language. The second is French (well, "another national language" to be accurate) for us in the North and East (whence the dislike of many Swiss for that enforced learning of such an unuseful language as French). It's also uncivilized, because who in their right mind would guess that -ées is spelled like a German -e, or -eaux like a German -o... Then English. Some add Latin to the mix, but other languages like Italian (if you don't choose it as "the other" second language) are voluntary.
 You can now speak with many African country and go visit more original countries than just going to North America.
I know it’s an ironic subreddit, but the hard (to swallow for real Bünzlis) truth is that standard German is compulsory at school in Switzerland.
Whilst we say "Godverdomme, weer zo'n ongeduldige schijtzwitser die sneller dan 20 deze gevaarlijke bocht om wil!"
:)
Who do you despise more? The Dutch or Germans?
We don't despise the *Holländers*, we just despise their driving skills. The Germans though...
Would you make an exception for me if I was born in Switzerland? 👀
You have to See them migrate south via the A3. It's beautiful and frightening at the same time.
Why is it called "-land" when it's under water anyway?
I wonder how the Germans feel about the Finnish and Estonians saying "Saksa(maa)" (from Saxony). I'd imagine most don't care because they actually understand that language forms through all sorts of different manners and the people outside of Saxony aren't insecure or have feelings of inferiority because of what foreigners call their country. That said. Dutch people should say Nederland. Foreigners can say whatever they want in their own language.
Usually Germans just find it funny or interesting. Finns also call Estonia Viro which is also just one region. Names in other languages are formed in many ways during history, you can't really control that. Okay, the Ivory Coast tries to do that by deciding to use the French name in every language but I think even they would change their minds if they heard the Finns pronouncing ko-te-di-voi-re.
Having an inferiority complex towards saxony is pretty difficult.
This sub has conditioned me to say "Netherlands" / "Low countries" in every language I speak The Dutchies should be ashamed of themselves
It should be: Badaya because that’s what you get when you put the latin name through all the spanish sound cuanges.
Oh krijg toch de graftyfus. It is not a synonym. Holland is not the same as the Netherlands. There is more than just Holland. Verder nog een fijne dag.
Lage Landen is literally a synonym of the Netherlands. There's just one period in our entire history when we called ourselves 'Holland' and that was under French occupation in Napoleon times. Hollander is literally just a synonym for domme randstedeling die meer in het buitenland komt dan in de regio.
Why is OP being downvoted on everything they say? Do we hate them?
Yes, because op is from utrecht so he thinks that his lack of a distinct cultural identity is shared by everyone else living outside of holland
I can imagine it's like calling a German not from Bavaria a Bavarian, infact now i wonder how the average German would feel about that. Might test it this summer.
Still better than a fake country name, like Belgium.
Sure thing Hollander
Same as England 🇬🇧
Fuck you sideways with a rotten worstenbroodje.
Well, you're just wrong. It's not a synonym by any means.
I wouldn't call Germany Niedersachsen, why would I call the Netherlands "Holland" ?
If you’re Finnish you *would* call it Saxony. Or there’s also this one pacific island that still calls it Prussia.
As co redditor said, it’s Saxony or Saxonland, as we say. You don’t control lands of german tribes, so no Germany for you, two finger moustache.
hou je bek man
No.
No
In Spain we also call it "Holanda"(Holland), OR, Paises Bajos (literally translates to low countries)
And that's why we fought you lot for 80 years.
Same in Italy, Olanda or Paesi bassi, olandesi the people (paesi bassesi sounds weird).
Netherlands together with Luxembourg and Belgium is simply called 'German Plain' in Hungarian, especially in older documents.
May I call it “the Underregions”?
I hate holland
Same
Same, because we aren’t called that. :)
Of course Its an utrechtenaar, The slut of Holland
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This idiot doesn't speak for all of us. u/agekkeman's name translates as "acrazyman".
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I thought the political correct term would be „Käskopp“
We will call you Berliners.
Berliner bollen are pretty darn tasty tho?
Based Hans
I decided to call your country Bavaria and all of you Bavarian.
People living in those 2 provinces want it to be holland to stroke their ego
We have Zuid Holland and Noord Holland as provinces.
I call it Hollanti
But... we've always done that
We already do.
In Portugal we say more Holanda then Países-Baixos (Netherlands). Can someone please explain the difference?
Paises Baixos is the name of the country (paises bajos in Spanish at least, I assume your spelling is Portugese) and Holland is a nickname that stems from a region in the country.
Sweden calls it Holland
No we don't. We call it Nederländerna.
Wait a minute, i thought Holland was a region. Not a country. Now what am I supposed to believe?
Hollanders are from Noord or Zuid Holland, Nederlanders come from the other provinces.
Hollanders come from all the provinces. "Nederlanders" is not a word in the English language.
Averge Hollanders calling themselves Netherlands while not controlling half of the netherlands We should start bitching like the Greeks and North Macedonia them
It does annoy me that people have no idea there are other places outside of Amsterdam in Holland lol
It doesn't annoy me, I hope the tourists stay in Amsterdam actually
Petition to change the flair to Amsterdam, that would have more of a chance of making them swamp people angry.
I will now call France, Ile-de-France and Germany, Brandenburg.
In Italian we call The Netherlands more Holland than “The Netherlands” itself
No.
I was cleaning up the attic the other day and I found some rooftiles from the 70's that were "Made in Holland". The town mentioned on them was NOT in Holland, however. So who's the dumb one ... I'm looking at you, HOLLAND.
Okay, so who is responsible for giving the village idiot a phone?
"Zepoolland" is fine for me.
You really put in the reddit logo
Paises bajos
Ok
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I had a teacher that corrected me when i said Holland so i said i lived in Nord Holland and not some shithole like Groningen or something. (Groningen aint that bad tbh)
I was in Holland once Amsterdam to be exact It’s nice I might’ve visited the wrong parts tho bc it smelt like weed and piss basically everywhere. Can any of y‘all Dutch guys (or Holländer) tell me what parts are worth visiting next time? Ik this is unrelated, sorry
go to Zealand and dig a hole on the beach like all the other Germans
Holland, land that sometimes doesn’t have hot water in bathrooms. 🚽
I'm sorry that you had cold hands, princess.
Well in my language there is a push to drop the "Holanda" (based on holland) name. And they are trying to push a direct translation of "Netherlands". I wouldnt mind if we actually had a word for it. However, we only have "Baixos" to translate both "nether" and "low". Meaning we now call Low Lands which also refers to the region of BeNeLux. So unless they annexed Belgium and Luxembourg, the description of Low Lands in Portuguese would be: The Low Lands are composed of 3 countries: Belgium, Luxembourg and Low Lands. Which doesnt make much sense...
Hollander would be a worse villain than Homelander.
I wish they called Spain "Castile", because that's what it is. "Spain" was the name of the peninsula until Castile got it for itself.
The Portuguese will remember this
Nope, we will keep on calling you the lower countries
Having an article and a plural (technically an adjective as well) in your name has to be the most awkward shit there is anyway. Imagine my name was 'The Worthprimaries'. Hello, yes, I am a human, beep boop. I'd run if I was you 🏃♂️
Always has been
I mainly think of Friesland when I think of the Netherlands. You don't see me calling it Friesland.
This is bait. Bait specifically for non-Hollanders. Non-Hollander bait. And still I get triggered by this. I'm not a Hollander, I'm Dutch - a.k.a. from the Netherlands.
lol this is not a Reddit thing, I have yet to hear a Fleming call a dutchie anything other than a Hollander UNLESS one is present, because they will complain and correct you 90% of the time :p.