The Dutch call it Holland as well, it's not just foreigners.^*AlphA*^ wrote:
Holland doesn't exist anymore, it's either South Holland and North Holland(provinces) or The Netherlands.(whole country)LaidBackNinja wrote:
Wow, Janet Jackson's nipple is on our flag? ... I gotta look at that thing sometime.Kamikaze17 wrote:
I'm American but i definitely agree with this:
I hate it when people refer to our country as "Holland". It's called The Netherlands. "Holland" is just two provinces of this country.
He was right about one thing though:
Soccer is bullshit.Everyone knows that. That made it all the more surprising that the lot of you actually re-elected him.Spearhead wrote:
Did I mention he lost the popular election by 500,000 votes back in 2000 to Al Gore?
I don't know how much people in other countries pay attention to our politics, but I'm betting a lot outside this country don't know that. (also a lot of people inside this country, too)
even though Kerry was a douche
I don't mind when they say Holland because I live in South Holland but for the Dutchies in other provinces I can imagine, tho we wave flags with Holland on it also ourselves....
edit: spot Janets nipple:
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261 … _copy1.jpg
They are just mad because their country isn't as awesome as the US.
Wow you perfectly defined yourself.CameronPoe wrote:
Having said that a lot of people who bash the US today are just blindly jumping on a bandwagon. I must say that things really have changed in the last twenty years though. When I was a kid the US was 'fantastic', now such opinions are hard to come by. And if you think the US is the only nation that gets bashed then you're wrong.