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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
The second half was also enjoyable to watch.
England got thoroughly pwned afterall. Final score Germany 4 - 1 England. Germany is on to the next round! Tomorrow, it's time for the Dutch again.
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Jumped Up Chimpanzee writes:
Thank you. Although in recent years, they do have the tendency to fuck up when it really matters, ah well, we'll see.
Good luck to your team. I'd like to see Holland do well. You've started well without attracting too much attention. Dark horses. I suppose this is as good an opportunity as any to ask, but I've never known why you have 2 completely different names for your country, neither of which seem to relate to the word Dutch. (I don't even know if "Dutch" is a Dutch word or an English one.)
The word "Dutch" is derived from the language "Diets" (pronounced a bit like deeds in English). "Diets" was the language spoken around these parts during the middle ages. I guess it just kinda stuck in your language. We refer to ourselves as "The Netherlands", or sometimes, those damned northerners will just call it "Holland", which technically is just the name of two provinces (North and south), but since these two were the most powerful back when our country became kinda one nation, and during the "golden age" of our country (when we whooped your navy's butt), that kinda stuck too. As far as I know, non-English speaking nation refer to us as "The Netherlands", but in their own language of course. In German it's "Die Niederlande" (I think you can see the resemblance), in French it's "Pays-bas" (meaning "low country"). Please cure my ignorance. Hope that helped a bit. Anything else you'd like to know?
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
caffeine writes:
This is true as well. If they don't improve soon they'll get their asses handed to them.
They haven't drawn much attention because they've been balls. Winning an easy group by playing not quite as bad as your opposition doesn't amount to 'starting well'. They won't face any serious opposition till the quarter finals though, so they have plenty of time to raise their game.
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Though the playing sucked again, it is 2-1 victory for The Netherlands.
Bizarre penalty in the last second of play, but meh. Probably facing Brazil (or Chile) next. The first real test.
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Straggler writes:
Because in the real game, the Germans weren't drinking.
If I can do that whilst barely spilling any beer at all as I run round the pitch beer-can in hand I fail to see why the professionals can't do similarly well.
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Jumped Up Chimpanzee writes:
They weren't.
To be honest, that's all I had done (heard about them). Although, I'd got the impression they were playing quite well.
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Bluejay writes:
These four words are so seldom strung together that I feel like you must have made a grammatical error somewhere.
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Can't believe it, but after a bad first half, we actually did beat Brazil!
On to the next round! Where we will meet Ghana or Uruguay!
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Jumped Up Chimpanzee writes:
Thank you.
Well done. It's a Holland v Germany final. I can see it. Chance for you to get revenge for '74.
Oh dear god no. The media will never shut up about it. You think you had a history with the Germans, you should check out our media when this comes to pass. And we don't even have those "tabloids" you guys have.
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Straggler writes:
Sexy? You mean like this? You orange shirted tosspots!!! I am supporting your version of "sexy" football all the frikkin way. Ooh yeah!
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
And facing Germany....
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Yay! We got to the finals! Now either Germany or Spain await!
Will we finally win a World Cup? Would've posted it sooner, but you know, hackers and all.
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
onifre writes:
It was a rhetorical question!
Nope!
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
They will be facing my mighty country!
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Huntard Member (Idle past 2323 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
Massive postage, sorry!
Edited by Huntard, : No reason given.
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