• @[email protected]
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    692 months ago

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

  • @FMT99
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    482 months ago

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

  • @Frostbeard
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    462 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      302 months ago

      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.

      • @Scott_of_the_Arctic
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        82 months ago

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

      • @Frostbeard
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        82 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

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

          Understandable?

      • Mrb2
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        62 months ago

        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.

        • DacoTaco
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          22 months ago

          Thats just belgians in a nutshell. They tend to be very closed off, they will never say what they think to peoples face

    • socsa
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      52 months ago

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

      • Amon
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        22 months ago

        what

        • socsa
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          82 months ago

          A person died by train attack and we were given waffles for the inconvenience.

          • Kate-ay
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            22 months ago

            How were the waffles?

            • socsa
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              32 months ago

              For a plastic wrapped snack waffle it was ok

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      I’ve been to Bruges and it is always going to be one of my favourite places on Earth, and I’ve literally only been once and for a few days at best.

      Be careful with the lambic beer, is a warning I was given and one I give to everyone whilst there (since I visited back when I was able to drink alcohol). It’s too damn tasty, and very easy to be rather drunk before you even know it.

    • @Scott_of_the_Arctic
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      42 months ago

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

      • @Frostbeard
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        42 months 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

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      I fucking love trappist beer! :⁠-⁠D
      Although my favourite is La Trappe, so Netherlands again…

      But I need to hand it to Belgium, that you guys really have nice beer and I absolutely enjoyed the Delirium!

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      No, there really isn’t anything to do in Wallonia. Flanders is where it’s at. Wallonia is good for camping, because they have the Ardennes, but that’s shared with France and Luxembourg.

      I had to go to Charleroi a few times and it’s just the dirties, old, rust belt, industrial town I’ve ever seen. The Antwerpen harbour was a breeze in comparison. Even the Wallon, Flemmish border in Brussels is very noticeable.

      If you’re still not convinced, than I guess driving from France into Dinant was kind of nice. Also the river in Leige has a certain appeal to it at night.

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        I disagree, hard. Wallonia has the ardennes which is more than a camping spot. A family trip there for a week is sweet. Waking up in the hills, only seeing trees and hear water and birds is heaven. Sit by the pool if its hot 👌
        Then there is night sky photography, hiking paths, monuments, caves, …

  • @[email protected]
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    432 months ago

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

    • macniel
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      52 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Historically

      You use that term rather lightly. Idk, if I think “historically” my mind goes further back than 120 years. At least to the Spanish Habsburgs’ occupation, maybe even Burgundian era, Lotharingia, the Franks or the Belgae tribes.

      It is technically history, but that’s like saying: “Historically, I nourish myself with broccoli pizza” just because I had some yesterday.

  • @[email protected]
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    332 months ago

    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
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      82 months 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…

  • @[email protected]
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    282 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    232 months ago

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

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

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months 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.

  • @db2
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    122 months ago

    Also waffles.

  • @Rooty
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    72 months 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.

      • DacoTaco
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        42 months ago

        Jokes on you, its both!
        …with germany jr also there

  • @Num10ck
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    52 months ago

    just call it Benelux already before its under water anyway.