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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:06:08 PM EDT
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Beer
cheese chocolate FN |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:06:28 PM EDT
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They make excellent chocolate and have some really good beers.
Other than that....can't think of a doggone thing. HH |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:07:15 PM EDT
[#3]
ale
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:07:25 PM EDT
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they're a heck of a host if you'er planning a European land war
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:07:51 PM EDT
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it is the disneyland of beer.
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:11:37 PM EDT
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Nope.
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:11:59 PM EDT
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Expressway straight from the heart of Germany to the heart of France.
When I cross over from Britain to mainland europe I drive straight across Belgium in one hit. There is absolutely nothing to see, boring as sin. ANdy |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:12:39 PM EDT
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Yeah my grandfather went thru there on his walking tour of Europe. |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:12:48 PM EDT
[#9]
 that's about it... 
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:13:09 PM EDT
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Are the chicks hot? |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:13:23 PM EDT
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There is a place in Herstal that is pretty cool.
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:13:30 PM EDT
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FN
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:13:46 PM EDT
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I thought the same thing about Austria. Aren't they just Germany lite?
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:14:59 PM EDT
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But more Catholic. |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:17:47 PM EDT
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I have a box of 8mm AP ammo made in belgium just before the nazis invaded... So I guess they make guns and ammo.
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:21:56 PM EDT
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Well, it makes an excellent curse word.
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:25:50 PM EDT
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I can't believe no one's said waffles...
Belgian waffles... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... (their chocolate's not bad either, and their beer's pretty tasty, but you just can't have all three at the same time...)  ETA: ah, crap - waffles were in the original freaking post... no more martinis for me tonight... |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:27:16 PM EDT
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'Chubby' and 'Agricultural looking' tends to be the nature of the beasts... ANdy |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:33:03 PM EDT
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they make very good mil 7.62 ammo.
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:44:00 PM EDT
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DUH! FALs and the 5.7mm systems. Jeeze, get with the program. FN Herstal, Belgium. You know: Weapon Systems Second to None?
 -Ben |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:44:45 PM EDT
[#21]
Lambic Ale
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:47:36 PM EDT
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MY Browning 20 gauge was made in Belgium...it's a damn good bird gun...
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:50:04 PM EDT
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Minimi
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:51:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:54:17 PM EDT
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Didn't French Fries actually come from Belgium?
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Posted: 12/30/2005 5:58:06 PM EDT
[#26]
Chimay
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Posted: 12/30/2005 6:01:45 PM EDT
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Yes. They are such a spineless country they lost thier national food to the French. The national dish is fries with steak or mussels. But are they French Fries or Belgian Fries? |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 6:02:54 PM EDT
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My birth
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Posted: 12/30/2005 6:03:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/30/2005 6:17:26 PM EDT
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Gentlemen, gentlemen...Let us not forget the glorious past
Drunken Belgian mercs! zut alors!! 
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Posted: 12/30/2005 7:26:23 PM EDT
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Add Poirot. Oh, and it's good as a general use expletive. Stub your toe, but your mother in law/priest/Jesus is near by? "Oh, Belgium. BELGIUM BELGIUM BELGIUM!" Jim |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 7:46:56 PM EDT
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Oh, come now--Belgium is a perfectly good speed bump for German troops.
"I am NOT A FRENCHIE! I am a BELGIE!" Sorry I just saw "Murder By Death" not too long ago. |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 7:52:00 PM EDT
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Belgian miniatures are the best in the world. And do you know why, Hastings? No, why? Because they are the biggest! |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 8:17:07 PM EDT
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I worked for a Belgian company for a short while just before the bubble burst, and have never met so many crooked, unethical, opportunistic twats in my life. Not a single thing they did businesswise was based on truth, they were literally selling people things that didn't exist. Fortunately I took my money and ran, shortly after I bailed the company collapsed and left dozens of US employees high and dry.
Oh yeah ... and their waffles suck. Give me a nice dense American waffle any day over some big fluffy EuroTrash waffle. |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 8:17:48 PM EDT
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Two words describe what Belgium has given the world..........
Fabrique Nationale!! Specifically the Browning High Power pistol and M2 Machine Gun, and the FAL!!! Not to mention numerous other guns like the Fine Mausers and BAR's and all other Browning designs they hold the patents too, In fact they still Own Browning Firearms. Any other not well thought out questions? |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 8:26:46 PM EDT
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It gives us a place for Belgians to stay - you don't want them over here, do you?
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Posted: 12/30/2005 9:07:05 PM EDT
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It hosts NATO headquarters and headquarters for a lot of EU infrastructure.
It's a European bureaucrat’s wet dream. |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 9:11:23 PM EDT
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Beer, food, chocolate. FN Herstal, you know the guys who made the Hi Power, our current M16s, The M240, M249, P90, 5-7, etc. NATO headquarters.
I bet the women aren't bad either. |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 9:13:50 PM EDT
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Best chocolate shops in the world are in Belgium. Beats German, Swiss, French, Italian and other chocolate.
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Posted: 12/30/2005 9:16:31 PM EDT
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MAG58
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Posted: 12/30/2005 9:43:24 PM EDT
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Moo. For hot chicks, hang around Amsterdamn.
I've been told that too -- the "french" part is the cutting technique; "frenched" means to cut into medium-sized square strips (as opposed to "julienned", which is matchstick-sized strips). In support of this, the Belgian restaurant owner/chef here makes some of the best fries I've ever tasted. |
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Posted: 12/30/2005 9:48:23 PM EDT
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isn't it useful for invading france?
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Posted: 12/30/2005 9:52:13 PM EDT
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Ah yes, Douglas Adams' "most gratuitous use of the word 'Belgium' award". (Oddly enough, I can't find that quote in my e-book copy. Hmm.) Belgium also has Brugge. |
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