++ [ originally posted by Enron ] ++
oh and the belguins absolutely sucked. they spent most of the war on the side of napoleon up until the battle at waterloo. there they were under command of the prince of orange. a dutch bastard who many believed to be slightly if not more retarded. at waterloo the belguin infantry and calvary could not fight there former emperor and were rendered useless.
like we had the choice? belgium didn't exist at that time, so the people just had to fight for the invader of the moment.
About the nicknames, the french like to call us "les p'tits belges" (the small belgians :groan

. Actually they don't hate us at all, but see us as a sympathic but underdevelopped nation....
From our part, we like to call the dutch Kezen, vuile Gouda's, or indeed Hollandse Boeren.
I remember a football match where Belgium was losing 3-1 to the
Kezen. The Dutch began to sing: wat zijn die belgen stil! at which the belgians instantly replied: Wat zijn die Kezen dom, wat zijn die kezen dom...
great poetry.
and of course for our German cousins we hold cute names like: boches, shleus, frisés, fridolins; and in Flemish, mostly: moffen, or a variant: vuile moffen.