Belgium Appreciation Thread

[Vuk]

Evil lies! Vile propaganda!

Belgium does not exist!!

It is but an instrument of illuminati-liberal propaganda, meant to undermine the social fabric of the world by making people believe in an imaginary Shangri-la, a land of perfect beer, medieval cities, friendly people and the world's greatest food.

Then where does Poirot come from? Don't tell me he is from Dutchland!

[Kralizec]

The only recent visit I've made to Belgium was to Antwerp about a year ago. It's a nice city but I suppose not very representative...more than half of the people walking around there at the time must have been Dutch. Plus I was only there for two days.

Anyway, I appreciate Belgium for being a buffer between the Netherlands and France

[Fragony]

The only recent visit I've made to Belgium was to Antwerp about a year ago.

Antwerpen is probably the least fun of all Flemish towns. Go to Gent or Mechelen if you don't want to go to far inland, saves you mirrors and beads as well.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Anyway, I appreciate Belgium for being a buffer between the Netherlands and France

That's what they want you to believe...

Wake up, Kralizec. France and the Netherlands have been chosen as the epicentre of the global revolution. Our countries will see mass uprising and insurgency once a majority of our population has been convinced that Belgium really exists. In fact, the entire world will think that they have been taken for a ride by their leaders, that something is horribly wrong with their country if a place like Belgium can exist this side of heaven.

The insidous means of the 'Belgium exists' conspiracy are:
To make the Dutch believe that there is a place just like the Netherlands, but filled with a sense of humour, great food, and cultural refinement. To make the French believe that there is a place just like France, but filled with people without a perennial foul mood, with modesty as a national virtue, with - most devasting of all - gastronomy that equals France's in quality and surpasses it in quantity. (Hah! French food not served in stingy 'culturally refined' French-sized portions, but in divinely generous quantities? Tsk, as if...)

Better painters than the Dutch? More plentiful and more stunningly beautiful medieval towns than Italy? As wealthy as the Nordic countries? As lively as Latin Europe? More cultural and linguistic strife than the Balkans or Spain, but entire peaceful throughout its long history? An Industrial Revolution that dwarves the English one? Better comic books than France?

And all of this is supposed to exist in a country the size of a postage stamp? Get real, people. It's a hoax.

[Peasant Phill]

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most devasting of all - gastronomy that equals France's in quality and surpasses it in quantity
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Finely, you admit it.
Are you sure you're feeling well Louis?

...Better comic books than France?...

Thanks for the compliment but in all honesty, this just isn't true. At least in France BD's are not just regarded as amusement for children.

[Andres]

The insidous means of the 'Belgium exists' conspiracy are: (...)
To make the French believe that there is a place just like France, but filled with people without a perennial foul mood, with modesty as a national virtue, with - most devasting of all - gastronomy that equals France's in quality and surpasses it in quantity.

I suggest all Belgian Orgah's sig this

[Fragony]

The Flemish are so cute when you give them candy.

Does raise the question, why isn't this country better known? Belgium has so much going for it, yet the tourists ignore it. Probably doesn't help to be between Amsterdam and Paris.

[Andres]

The Flemish are so cute when you give them candy.

Does raise the question, why isn't this country better known? Belgium has so much going for it, yet the tourists ignore it. Probably doesn't help to be between Amsterdam and Paris.

Because we don't take ourselves too serious and are a very modest people?

The world would be a much better place with more modesty

[Fragony]

Because we don't take ourselves too seriously

uh-huh. For a people who don't take things very seriously you are pretty serious, that is how you like to view yourselves but we both know it isn't true. Just look how you react to a little (well-deserved) recognition. Belgium has an incredibly rich culture and tradition, yet it's obsessed with being between the Netherlands and France.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Then where does Poirot come from? Don't tell me he is from Dutchland!

Ah, the typical counter-question from you gullible Belgium-believers.

The website has it covered:

"Belgian" citizens are actually innocent (for the most part) people (for the most part) that have been kidnapped by the New World Order's Belgian Conspiracy division and brainwashed using psychotronic mind control, psychotropically enhanced beer, and neurolinguistic programming into believing that they are Belgians. All memories of their past lives have been repressed -- replaced with implanted false memories of superior Belgian lives. Some of these Born Again Belgians are given cosmetic surgery and released back into the world population to spread propaganda about the existence of Belgium.

'Poirot' (or whatever his real name is) is a major instrument of propaganda. You think that you are reading fun and thrilling detective stories. What these stories subliminally do, however, is to plant subconscious memetic devices into your head. These will make you believe, and spread to others, ideas about a perfect world, and the even more perverse idea that this perfect world is reality. It serves to make you feel hopelessly inadequate compared to 'Belgium', and thus ready to accept a global take-over by a New World Order.


Again, it's nothing but vile lies, people. Think! A country that sounds too good to be true, logically is too good to be true, and thus doesn't exist. Alright!? Sheesh.