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Dat's okay Stijn...we all know you Urpeens are much smarter and more sophisticated than we in the colonies. You seem to often feel the need to remind us of that...keep up the good work. :rolleyes:

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Oh well, at least i'm not so sensitive about it if people have comments about Europe or Belgium, there's nothing you can say that we haven't said ourselves about it..
I really don't rate things in black & white, and I really don't go around boasting that Belgium is #1 or even Europe is better then the US.

They are different and somethings are better in the US vs some other things better in Europe.
some other things are probably better in neither, and Asia or Africa has us both beat.

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this inability to take even the slightest bit of feedback, it really comes across as lack of self confidence to me.

me think the lady doth protest too loudly.........

could it be she knows she is an ugly duckling????????

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Originally Posted by kach22i (Post 10325246)

Police: Florida officer ran over pair lying in road to watch eclipse
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How did the cop not see them, but even more importantly, how did they not notice the car coming?

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Originally Posted by svandamme (Post 10325939)

In the last 100 years has anyone ever claimed Belgium is number one? They did have a couple of colonies in the past. Nothing even remotely like Great Brittan. Belgium did belong to the Axis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_the_Axis_Powers

They do have a lot of good things, and I would love to come see Belgium and see the vast grave yards of the Americans that died to make Europe free of the Axis and Hitler.

I can't imagine any crowd proclaiming Belgium as a world superpower. We pay trillions of dollars in taxes to keep your country free, and likely the USA pays more for the protection of Europe free than Belgium. I have not looked up the defense spending so it is just a feeling, Belgium is likely not in the top 10 for defense spending on of your own country and Europe with NATO. So yea, we are number one, is sending our tax dollars to keep you free from Russia.

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Originally Posted by masraum (Post 10326032)

How did the cop not see them, but even more importantly, how did they not notice the car coming?

...............because it's Florida man. :D

Schrödinger's cat
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 10326041)

Well to be fair, there were Nazi collaborators and sympathizers in pretty much every country in the world.

Even in England, even in the US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nazi_Party

Ford was an open admirer, IBM sold dataprocessing equipment for the death camps.
You don't hear me saying the US was cooperating with the Holocaust now do i?

So it's quite the stretch and it's defo a cheap shot that is PARF worthy to state Belgium was part of the Axis.
We weren't.. we just had some people in our country that thought they 'de get a better deal for themselves collaborating with the Germans

That's not even a criticism, it's a blatant lie.
Our governement did not allign or cooperate with the Germans, and collaborators after liberation got sentenced and punished for it.

IF you want to criticize Belgium, why not bring up the colonial past of Congo.
Now that would be something, our former King and the colonists did do some horrible things there.. No denying that.

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You see, I have no problem discussing those things, I don't feel guilty for I had nothing to do with it, and it no longer happens.. Congo was set free before I was born.

Not that it improved much now they are a republic.. On the contrary.

And as for Belgium in the last 100 years, no , but just before WW1 we were an industrial superpower, the days of Union Muniere, Fabrique Nationale, Cockerill-Sambre
Belgium was batting well above it's size in the world economies, in part because of Congo..
You should see the buildings in Brussels, they are well past their prime because they were built at mega sizes because of all the wealth from our economu.

Or palace of justice is now one big money pit, they can't repair it because it's so massively big and impractical..
It was the largest building of the 19th century.

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So yeah, at some point we have been #1 at some things.. And for the most part we lost it in WW1 & WW2..
And you would call Belgium part of the Axis, lol.

a lest I forget, all your first nuclear bombs and carriers and subs ran off fuel you got from Belgium.. We were #1 at high grade Uranium in the 40ies (Congo, again)