# The Godless Dutch **URL:** \ **Category:** Park Bench\ **Created:** [January 2, 2020, 8:22am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862 "2020-01-02T08:22:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/41 "2020-01-09T22:55:40Z")
Maybe it’s part of cheese making. Who could know. ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/42 "2020-01-09T23:04:35Z")
Angies brother was in Holland as an exchange student in high school. A family with 7 girls, no boys. They owned a dairy farm. They had a long dining table and one night the mother was scolding one of the younger girls (about 5). The little girl jumped up and went running down the middle of table to get away from her. They lived in Winschoten. ---
**Author:** ![thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/u/thinkingaboutit)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/43 "2020-01-10T09:06:44Z")
ah winschoten… you should have mentioned thats in groningen and practise your g;) finish the story and include more details, what happened then? was that little girl wearing wooden shoes with cow poop on it and how was dinner after that? ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/44 "2020-02-28T11:40:04Z")
> **[Major Dutch bank raided in cum-ex scandal investigation | DW | 27.02.2020](https://www.dw.com/en/major-dutch-bank-raided-in-cum-ex-scandal-investigation/a-52562464?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-rdf)** > > A branch of Dutch bank ABN Amro was searched in the bank's second raid relating to the investigation. ABN Amro is also being probed for money laundering. ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/45 "2020-02-28T11:48:52Z")
It’s lunchtime in the Netherlands. Time to take the bread out of the freezer. ---
**Author:** ![thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/u/thinkingaboutit)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/46 "2020-02-28T11:54:47Z")
lol “legal loopholes” will always be exploited by all banks and most likely governments know about it when caught they (read: their customers) will pay the fine ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/47 "2020-03-03T02:34:52Z")
> **[Dutch is like shouting in a storm, says literary translator Sam Garrett -...](https://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2020/02/dutch-is-like-shouting-in-a-storm-says-literary-translator-sam-garrett/)** > > The work of award-winning translator Sam Garrett has been pivotal in bringing Dutch literature to a new, English-speaking audience. Deborah Nicholls-Lee discusses the quirks and merits of the Dutch language and Sam’s recommended reads for... Interesting article about Dutch literature. It has aroused my curiosity enough to order _Het Diner_ (The Dinner) by Herman Koch. ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/48 "2020-03-03T02:56:35Z")
Why would anyone want to know more about the Dutch? And if one does, this informative video tells you everything you might need to know. ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/49 "2020-03-03T04:44:12Z")
One of my favorite authors Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian Nazi sympathizer but he sure could write. ---
**Author:** ![thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/u/thinkingaboutit)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/50 "2020-03-03T07:34:21Z")
acquiring information especially about your ancestors can be an enlightening learning experience;) if it disappoints its still good to learn about your enemy, you might even find out you are quite similar to eachother ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/52 "2020-03-10T15:36:45Z")
Linked because embed didn’t work: [The Godless Dutch leader](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-51820520/coronavirus-dutch-pm-tells-nation-not-to-shake-hands-then-does) ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/53 "2020-03-13T22:32:04Z")
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**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/54 "2020-03-13T23:14:37Z")
One thing I hated about Amsterdam were those damn ball-knocker posts along the sidewalks. ---
**Author:** ![thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/u/thinkingaboutit)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 7:10am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/55 "2020-03-14T07:10:27Z")
ball knocker posts lol > **[Amsterdammertje](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdammertje)** > > An Amsterdammertje (Dutch pronunciation: \[ˌɑmstərˈdɑmərcə\] (listen)) is the typical red-brown steel traffic bollard that is used to separate the pavement from the street in Amsterdam. Amsterdammertje is Dutch for 'little one from Amsterdam'. The bollards have the three Saint Andrew's Crosses from the coat of arms of Amsterdam. > Since the 1980s, the city council has been removing and selling Amsterdammertjes. > Around 1800, many people in Amsterdam started to use bollards to protect the pavement i... > **[Bollard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard)** > > A bollard is a sturdy, short, vertical post. The term originally referred to a post on a ship or quay used principally for mooring boats, but is now also used to refer to posts installed to control road traffic and posts designed to prevent ram-raiding and vehicle-ramming attacks. > The term is probably related to bole, meaning a tree trunk. The earliest citation given by the Oxford English Dictionary (referring to a maritime bollard) dates from 1844, although a reference in the Caledonian Merc... ---
**Author:** ![DthBreath](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@DthBreath](https://bbad.com/u/DthBreath)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/56 "2020-03-14T07:47:56Z")
Do you think the name of Chef Boyardee came from bollard? Pronouncing double l like y. Like one who attends a bollard to tie ships. ---
**Author:** ![DthBreath](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@DthBreath](https://bbad.com/u/DthBreath)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 7:50am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/57 "2020-03-14T07:50:37Z")
Maybe at a busy port of merchant ships some crew might point to the bollard and say boy yard or shipyard boy. ---
**Author:** ![thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/u/thinkingaboutit)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/58 "2020-03-14T08:32:15Z")
guess he wanted to make it easier for people to pronounce his name right or he thought boiardi is too difficult for americans? > **[Chef Boyardee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_Boyardee)** > > Chef Boyardee is a brand of canned pasta products sold internationally by Conagra Brands. The company was founded by Italian immigrant Hector Boiardi in Milton, Pennsylvania, U.S., in 1938. > After leaving his position as head chef at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Boiardi opened a restaurant called Il Giardino d'Italia in 1924 at East 9th Street and Woodland Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. The idea for Chef Boyardee came about when restaurant customers began asking Boiardi for his spaghetti sauce, ... ---
**Author:** ![DthBreath](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@DthBreath](https://bbad.com/u/DthBreath)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 10:46am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/59 "2020-03-14T10:46:56Z")
Odd enough the company got sued for 5 mil with a claim of false advertising having no preservatives. The guy suing was banking on his chemistry and “citric acid” apparently. Somethings you add for flavor are just that. ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/60 "2020-03-17T00:24:05Z")
This is British but I believe the culprit must surely have been Dutch. Ralph Bishop is probably a pseudonym for Nico van der Bestialiteit. ![image](https://bbad.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bf0a30e1cba25e9d68b8bfef24ed0889fc9cb2fc.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/mybigmoon/32/723_2.png) [@MyBigMoon](https://bbad.com/u/MyBigMoon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/the-godless-dutch/862/61 "2020-03-17T00:30:05Z")
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