cma
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Snel nog wat tekeningen op de stoep gaan maken, dat zal de stoute meneren leren.
It’s not very Belgian to be proud to be Belgian. We don’t usually stand united. We laugh at our royals. Belgian nationalism doesn’t exist, football aside. We quibble over petty regional issues. We confuse foreigners by naming towns on road signs in 2 different languages on 2 different parts of the Brussels ring road.
And we are a bit naive. After Paris, we raised the terrorism level to 4, but only in Brussels. As Brussels Airport is 2 kilometers outside Brussels Region, we fantasized the airport was safe. It wasn’t. Nope -we really aren’t adapting to today’s world.
But you know what? We’re proud we aren’t. Here’s what we will do. We will count on our security forces to defend us to the best of their ability, and root you bastards out. Meanwhile, we will defiantly keep quibbling over ridiculous regional non-issues: we have a proud 175-year record to defend. Also, we will continue to let the Swiss claim their chocolate is best, we will allow the Germans to think that they have proper beer, we won’t care that the Americans think Belgium is the capital of Brussels, and we will forgive the Brits for thinking there is a language called “Belgian”. We will let the French get away with their passive claim on our national heroes – Jacques Brel, Eddy Merckx, Tintin, Adolphe Sax, Stromae, Vincent Kompany, the Dardenne brothers, Plastic Bertrand and the Smurfs. We are Europe’s underdog, and we don’t care. We will keep laughing at our royals trying to unite us and at our politicians taking 500 days to form a national government. We will keep confusing our foreign friends about what makes us Belgian.
As for you: we will take you for what you are. You are no kind of sacred warrior. You are just crapule, a shame to your mother and your father. We will not allow you to change the subject. We will ignore you. We will be strong. We will stand united – for the occasion. And we will go have lousy coffees at the Brussels Airport Starbucks the day it re-opens.
Our national symbol is a little boy taking a piss in public, right? So there you have it: what makes me Belgian is I’m a little boy taking the piss of you in public. Now go explode yourself somewhere quiet, will you?
#ProudtobeBelgian. Share if you agree.
Snel nog wat tekeningen op de stoep gaan maken, dat zal de stoute meneren leren.
