When I say Holland what do you people think of? What do you think of Holland?
Hi I was wondering what image my fellow jellies have of Holland. So when I say Holland what do you think of? What do you know about our small little country? I’m so curious to know.
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Endless fields of gorgeous tulips.
Windmills, tulips, and wooden clogs.
Windmills? Wooden shoes? I’m probably getting stereotypes mixed up, here.
Dykes, Canals, Amsterdam, Red Light District, Windmills, Hash Bars
That… country, over in… Europe…? Yes?
tulips, fish and “chips” with mayo
I love Holland…. I lived in Belgium for 5yrs & we popped accross the border quite often. Warm, friendly people spring to mind….. & also the first girl I was ever intimate with :)
I guess if I answer, it doesn’t count. :P
chocolate and peanut butter; houseboats, Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, hash bars
Tulips, marijuana, Rembrandt, liberality, Van Gogh, bicycles, dykes of various kinds, Fyrius
@earthduzt All those Dykes running around, makes me think of a monologue from Good Morning Vietman
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cheese and windmills
oh and my lovely holiday there :D.
Thinking of Holland, I see wide rivers
meandering through endless lowland
rows of unbelievably frail poplars that
like plumes on the horizon stand
and, sunken in the endless realm,
the farms lay spread over the land
spots of trees, villages and cut off towers,
churches and willows, all go hand in hand
The sky is low and the sun is slowly
smothered in multi-colored clouds
and everywhere one goes the voice of the waters
with their threat of disaster is heard aloud.
The Dutch will recognise my poor translation of the great Henk Marsman, 1936
i think of TAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
film “Spoorloos” , being in the van Gogh museum the day after it opened and seeing leftover flower petals and a few party drinks missed from the night before
Fields of tulips, great art, good farmers, very modern society, too many suicides.
How do you spell society?
Little wooden shoes and funny hats.
Doesn’t Holland have one of the higher suicide rates?
I thought the little boy stuck his finger in a dike?
Tulips. Windmills. Peaceful people. Wooden shoes. I’m sure there’s more to Holland than that, but those were the first things that came to mind.
There’s a town in the US called Holland, Michigan, where many of the people are descended from Dutch immigrants. They have a tulip festival every year.
I have heard that Scandinavian countries have higher suicide rates because of the longer winter nights . . .
but never heard anything about Holland
I was thinking Holland and Sweden have some of the highest rates of suicide. I don’t know if its the long nights or the high taxes, or maybe the girls are just too good looking.
Sorry, that was kind of a downer thought. Lets think about flowers blooming, cows mooing, and blondes named Helga (or Sven for the ladies)
suicide rate by country
Holland barely makes the top 50, behind Japan, all of Scandinavia, US, France, Switzerland, and many formerly Soviet bloc countries.
My apologies to all of Holland.
A nice place to visit. Beautiful. Wind. Leaning trees. Friendly.
Windmills, wooden shoes, asparagus dip, and a remarkably connected online community.
I used to play an online game. It seemed about a third of those playing were from Holland.
@anartist The UK is only ranked 65th…....?! That’s hard to believe.
@whyigottajoin I really have to apologize to you. I hijacked your thread and took it down a dark corridor. Guys, back to happy thoughts, less on the s word.
Beautiful blonds, civilized people, tulips, not ostentacious,concerned with quality rather than quantity, attention to natural beauty, and cold winters.
And then there’s whyigottajoin. What more do you need to put a smile on your face.
Nice looking girls, not so great men, tulips, clogs, windmills, bridges, rivers, drugs, prostitution, stag weekends.
Beautiful women. Tulips. Kaassoufles (or, well, cheese in general). Amsterdam. Canals. The Red Light District. Marco van Basten. KLM. Weird-sounding language (Ik spreek geen Nederlands!). Queen Beatrix. Phillips. Royal Dutch-Shell. Unilever.
Needle arts, quiet, flowers (bulbs), home of one amazing super car, art, bicycles and open sky.
I think of smoking hash, wooden shoes and down to earth women.
And, a good Holland beer.
I think of @Markyy and @Fyrius.
Also, bikes, an orange queen, canals, windmills, adorable accents, marijuana cafes, and M.C. Escher (I remember writing a report about him in art class in 11th grade).
Engineering, Kees van Dongen (a designer from the 80’s), the fact that people named Sven and Helga generally live in Sweden or Germany, flatness nice for bicycling, Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates, big pancakes we call Dutch Babies but maybe you don’t in Holland, high rating on International Happiness Index, old buildings with beams sticking out over the attic windows for hoisting heavy stuff upstairs from the canals. Guilders. Girls in windows. Vermeer.
Oh, man, Heineken! How could I forget Heineken…
Mmm… Heineken…
@bob_ you took the brewery tour too?
I don’t know, I don’t really call it “Holland”. I mean, I know that’s an acceptable nickname for the country and even Dutch people call it Holland sometimes, but isn’t Holland the name of one of the provinces or states or whatever they call it?
When I think of the Netherlands, I think of legal prostitution, pot, and all that great bubblegum dance music from bands like Djumbo and the Vengaboys. I’ve looked at the Netherlands on Street View and it seems like a really nice place. Never been, but I would love to visit. Of course, I also think of windmills and the fact that the Netherlands is home to many international organizations. I think the Netherlands would make a good capital of the world if we ever created a World State.
“Holland” is also the last name of a friend of mine who is known to be one of the most attractive girls there is.
It is nice to see almost everyone on here has positive thoughts when thinking of my little country. I was actually waiting for the nutjobs to come out of the woodwork and start screaming about “Socialism!” and “Sodom&Gomorrah!” But then I remembered, this is Fluther, full of great, open-minded people. Thanks!
Drug taking and vague recollections of encounters with hookers.
Tall people that pronounce “yes” as “yesh”
@Lve I think about socialism when I hear of most western European nations. But in a good way.
@Sarcasm
You’re confusing us with eastern Europe, that’s where the commies are.
@Everyone LOL! Thanks for all your answers! I had so much fun reading! =D Next up is what ya’ll think when I say Hungary =P
My favorite doctor is from Hungary, and two of my closest friends have grandparents from Hungary, so I think nice, smart, caring people :).
@JLeslie Aww.. that’s sweet, I’m glad you feel that way! =D
I’m 100% Hungarian but I came to the Netherlands when I was 4 yrs. old
Hungary: I think of horses and big estates that no longer exist and enormous rolling plains easy to rush across if you are Genghis Khan. Is that about right? Oh, and paprika.
Meaning #1 = synonym to the Netherlands (like England and UK)
Meaning #2 = part of the Netherlands (like Bavaria is part of Germany)
Meaning #3 = most tolerant and open-minded society in the history of Europe
I’ve been to the Netherlands once and I really liked it. Some things that come to mind…
Amsterdam
Canals
Delft pottery
Clogs
Wooden toys
PSV Eindhoven
“Coffee” shops where you don’t necessarily want coffee
Red light district
Beer vending machines in the streets
Tolerance especially of the LGBT community
Attractive people (seriously, I never saw a single ugly person the whole time)
when I think of Holland I think of weed and windmills and cheese !
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