I was wondering if there’s a similarity between the Dutch and South Africans? I know there’s a history thing.
From my meetings with them there’s a brutal honesty to them where they can be taken in the wrong way sometimes.
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Linguistically they are very similar, but I am not sure culturally. Generally, I get on well with Dutch people. It’s just that occasionally I notice I can lose them with figures of speech. I have a friend in Scotland who is Dutch (or at least Dutch-Jewish - I don’t know if that makes a difference) and she will occasionally put things very bluntly. Not rude as such, just very matter-of-fact.
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People from the Netherlands definitely have a reputation for being blunt and to the point. It was something that people talked about last year.
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Yeah this. I honestly don’t know any Dutch but have known some South Africans over the years and they are as you both say. Discussing rugby for example there’s no being polite, “he’s shit”.
You’ve got to be ready for it
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This isn’t necessarily just a cultural problem; these kinds of people probably exist everywhere. Everyone here surely knows someone who repeatedly manages to offend others with their behavior. Here, it’s simply reduced to, or excused by, “the harsh nature of the Dutch” or “language problems.”
I think that if it were just a language problem, he would have learned it by now, because someone would certainly have told him and he would surely be intelligent enough to fix it.
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Back to topic\
The dark clouds have lifted (for the time being) and the players are back…
https://x.com/ITKSpace/status/2041828066058444996
“This is going to be a special night, because you simply cannot count this grandest of mystical institutions down, Liverpool, a club not bound by circumstance but carried by something far greater, something etched into its very soul, where history does not rest in the past but lives, breathes, and rises again under the lights, where doubt is consumed by belief, and where, when the moment demands it, the inevitable unfolds as it always has, first in silence, and then in something the entire world is forced to witness.”
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“Fancy watching the game down the pub tonight la?”
Me
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A washing machine doesn’t go anywhere…
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Reminds me of my wedding night
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They can do if they have loose moorings.
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Might as well play that cunt Fartage in goal then
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But he explained it to the players like that, they’ll surely understand and certainly know what to do with this information. I mean, they’re probably familiar with washing machines, right? They’ve certainly seen one before.
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And the other team will have one of the worst prime ministers in history in goal. Comrade Starmer. 
Good times!
Put a brick in it on a spin cycle.
For the record, I gave never done this. Honest.
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Ah but dishwashers. A step too far perhaps?
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Interesting idea. Stick him in a goal and charge a fee to shoot at him. There could be a lot of money in this
A bit like our transfer window after winning the league
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