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draik said:
i love xbox360 said:
draik said:
i love xbox360 said:
Samus Aran said:


Hmm, really? I certainly don't think of Nazi's when I see the German flag. Especially because das dritte Reich had a different flag lol. That said, I don't know which flag is from Belgium and which one is from Germany. Haha, always mess those two up >_>

lol the strips go in differnt directions, belgium top to bottom and germany left to right

Its the other way around :D

German flag                        Belgian flag

But ppl only hang a flag is when the national team plays.

how is it the other way round? what i said was right

I thought you meant horizontal and vertical stripes, my English fails me sometimes.

haha thats cool man

but your from belgium and u dont no your own country's flag ??





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i love xbox360 said:
draik said:
i love xbox360 said:
draik said:
i love xbox360 said:
Samus Aran said:


Hmm, really? I certainly don't think of Nazi's when I see the German flag. Especially because das dritte Reich had a different flag lol. That said, I don't know which flag is from Belgium and which one is from Germany. Haha, always mess those two up >_>

lol the strips go in differnt directions, belgium top to bottom and germany left to right

Its the other way around :D

German flag                        Belgian flag

But ppl only hang a flag is when the national team plays.

how is it the other way round? what i said was right

I thought you meant horizontal and vertical stripes, my English fails me sometimes.

haha thats cool man

but your from belgium and u dont no your own country's flag ??

Sure i do :D



 

DeduS said:
Hey - it was the same in Germany - we still had that whole "OMG NAZI!"-thing going on, but along came the World Cup 2006 and with it a shitload of German flags and now it seems to be okay to have/show/wave a German flag.

Over here it was Euro '96 when the English started flying the correct flag. Watch the World cup of '66 and you'll see the union flag no Georgies.

Over here we was under the impression it was also Euro '96 for you guys as well.

Now all we need is a bloody national anthem.



Samus Aran said:
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Lol, reminds me of Belgium. You get called a racist here if you have a Flemish flag.

That is so similar to England. But it seems to be improving here. Hope it does in Belgium.



Lord Flashheart said:
DeduS said:
Hey - it was the same in Germany - we still had that whole "OMG NAZI!"-thing going on, but along came the World Cup 2006 and with it a shitload of German flags and now it seems to be okay to have/show/wave a German flag.

Over here it was Euro '96 when the English started flying the correct flag. Watch the World cup of '66 and you'll see the union flag no Georgies.

Over here we was under the impression it was also Euro '96 for you guys as well.

Now all we need is a bloody national anthem.

I didn't even know you had no separate anthem. So... do they play God Save the Queen/King for every UK-country? (at sport events etc.)



 

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i love xbox360 said:
draik said:
i love xbox360 said:
draik said:
i love xbox360 said:
Samus Aran said:


Hmm, really? I certainly don't think of Nazi's when I see the German flag. Especially because das dritte Reich had a different flag lol. That said, I don't know which flag is from Belgium and which one is from Germany. Haha, always mess those two up >_>

lol the strips go in differnt directions, belgium top to bottom and germany left to right

Its the other way around :D

German flag                        Belgian flag

But ppl only hang a flag is when the national team plays.

how is it the other way round? what i said was right

I thought you meant horizontal and vertical stripes, my English fails me sometimes.

haha thats cool man

but your from belgium and u dont no your own country's flag ??

I honestly don't care about that ugly flag of Belgium(The flemish flag is way better). It's not like I feel Belgian, not at all. My deep despise of French doesn't allow me to feel Belgian.

There's 6 million dutch speaking people in Belgium and 4 million french speaking. What's the most important language here? French.

Sometimes I wish we could throw the French speaking part of Belgium in the garbage(aka France). I don't mind learning French as I can speak it fluidly, but it's annoying that the Walloons can't even speak Dutch. The pathetic politicians from Walloons use internet translators to turn their *political* letters into Dutch making it unreadable.



DeduS said:
Lord Flashheart said:
DeduS said:
Hey - it was the same in Germany - we still had that whole "OMG NAZI!"-thing going on, but along came the World Cup 2006 and with it a shitload of German flags and now it seems to be okay to have/show/wave a German flag.

Over here it was Euro '96 when the English started flying the correct flag. Watch the World cup of '66 and you'll see the union flag no Georgies.

Over here we was under the impression it was also Euro '96 for you guys as well.

Now all we need is a bloody national anthem.

I didn't even know you had no separate anthem. So... do they play God Save the Queen/King for every UK-country? (at sport events etc.)

Funny thing is, that anthem is copied from the French.



Samus Aran said:
i love xbox360 said:
draik said:
i love xbox360 said:
draik said:
i love xbox360 said:
Samus Aran said:


Hmm, really? I certainly don't think of Nazi's when I see the German flag. Especially because das dritte Reich had a different flag lol. That said, I don't know which flag is from Belgium and which one is from Germany. Haha, always mess those two up >_>

lol the strips go in differnt directions, belgium top to bottom and germany left to right

Its the other way around :D

German flag                        Belgian flag

But ppl only hang a flag is when the national team plays.

how is it the other way round? what i said was right

I thought you meant horizontal and vertical stripes, my English fails me sometimes.

haha thats cool man

but your from belgium and u dont no your own country's flag ??

I honestly don't care about that ugly flag of Belgium(The flemish flag is way better). It's not like I feel Belgian, not at all. My deep despise of French doesn't allow me to feel Belgian.

There's 6 million dutch speaking people in Belgium and 4 million french speaking. What's the most important language here? French.

Sometimes I wish we could throw the French speaking part of Belgium in the garbage. I don't mind learning French as I can speak it fluidly, but it's annoying that the Walloons can't even speak Dutch. The pathetic politicians from Walloons use internet translators to turn their *political* letters into Dutch making it unreadable.

BHV is a fucking disgrace, as is all the money that goes from the Flemish to the Walloon government.

Something needs to happen, but our government is set up in a way that nothing happens ... ever.



 


You know you're Belgian when:

You immediately know what the letters BHV stand for >_>
I know where my vote goes to next elections! (No, not Vlaams Belang, they're fools)

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The reason why the UK doesn't really feel connected to Europe is probably because if you look at the history of the UK they've always made sure not a single state would get too powerful on the European continent. A really tiresome job if you ask me!

Samus Aran said:

You know you're Belgian when:

You immediately know what the letters BHV stand for >_>
I know where my vote goes to next elections! (No, not Vlaams Belang, they're fools)

--

The reason why the UK doesn't really feel connected to Europe is probably because if you look at the history of the UK they've always made sure not a single state would get too powerful on the European continent. A really tiresome job if you ask me!

lol we didnt want any1 else to get too powerful but i was ok for the british empire to become the most powerful empire ever!!





SKEEZER AND NINTENDO FAN GIRL ARE MY NEMESIS

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