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| Aug. 19, 2008 |
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That’s going to get sticky!
Why on earth is this in dutch? It’s not really English… tho the meaning of the first part would be identical
That’s a dutch sport in a bars played with tampon-hockey sticks. So the sign is correct. Disturbing, but correct.
More like douche!
Haaa, fantastisch, nog Nederlandstalig volk
Haha we zullen ze eens allemaal goed voor de zot houden met onze fantastische Nederlandstalige comments 
(unfunny remark in dutch)
I’ve never played it, but as it’s played in a bar, I think I’d like it
Kom je toevallig uit het zuiden van het land?
Actually it’s called like that cause the sticks look somewhat like a tampon. It has a big foamrubber end. Thus the tampon.
This is not Engrish.
Besides the fact everybody in the Netherlands speaks at least half decent English, the word ‘tampon’ means exactly the same in English as it does in Dutch (and the same goes for hockey), so obviously this is deliberate.
It’s kind of ironic though, trying to make fun of ‘bad’ english whilst actually demonstrating how totally ignorant you are of other languages.
haha pwned!
Hey.
Um. I’m pretty sure it’s called a sense of humor, and I’m pretty sure you need one.
Thanks.
Do you actually live here? Because no………… not every speaks any English at all. No-one does at GasElectric NL, my huisarts barely speaks English, hell even the English teacher at my son’s school can’t speak English. At least he wouldn’t to me even though he knew I’d been here less than 6 months. Most people over 55 don’t speak more than a few words.
To be fair; you don’t seem to speak English all that well, either.
And if you’ve been here around six months, wouldn’t you relish the chance to practice your spoken Dutch? After all, you *did* take a lot of classes, right? Or are you going through life expecting people to conform to your anglo-saxon superiority complex? Because, if so, you are in for a hard time in the .nl. Just saying. The Dutch don’t take well to such attitudes…
Well, the Dutch I know always switch to English as soon as they notice the slightest accent. I’ve been here for over 8 years, I can speak and write Dutch actually very well, but people notice my accent and immediately assume I want to be talked to in English. Something like: “Mag ik de tandpasta, alstublieft? Yes, sir, it’s 1.50 euro. Bedankt. Ahn… je kunt gewoon Nederlands praten hoor. Tjonge jonge jonge, je spreekt Nederlands! And what else can I do for you? Nou, een beetje Nederlands spreken, ik moet me zo goed mogelijk inburgeren… Oh yes, sure, it’s a difficult language isn’t it? OK, I give up!”
It’s kind of ironic though, trying to make fun of ‘bad’ english whilst actually demonstrating how totally ignorant you are of other languages.
Yes, because when English speakers learn a second language, Dutch is always at the top of the list.
You know, if you don’t know something, there’s always Google.
This is a classic making-fun-of-something-you-know-nothing-about-thus-making-a-fool-of-yourself FAIL
It’s not about what foreign language you are likely to learn, it’s about making at least an effort in trying to find out if the sign is Engrish at all. In this case, it’s not so much Engrish as it is ignorance. The uploader’s ignorance. A visit to Babelfish or most online dictionaries would have told the uploader that ‘Tampon-hockey’ (note the hyphen) is indeed correct Dutch.
But when you say “when English speakers learn a second language”, that’s an example of “hypothetical” and “sarcasm”, right?
[Dutch] Toch nog een hoop kaaskoppen hier. [/Dutch]
it should be…
Dutch would, indeed, be a completely pointless second language, because so many Dutch people speak excellent English. Dutch is my fourth language.
Oh yes you think it completely pointless to speak dutch. I’ll speak to you when we rule the world again in about 15 years. MUHAHAHAHA.
Dutch isn’t pointless. I’d take it third, though, after German.
I’d love to learn Dutch as my sixth language
Dutch is my second, and has been quite useful. So, neener-neener!
english speakers don’t learn second languages
period
but unlike the french at least you speak english
but they should right?
right
Nah, we all speak Spanish.
Jawel! Sommigen leren ook nederlands spreken. Mijn tweede taal, en niet helemaal waardeloos om te kunnen.
Jammer klinkt mijn uitspraak iets te belgisch…
In any case, fijn to see so many NLers on the site. Zo gezellig.
Dacht ik ook! Nederlanders rule!
It was for me. But oh wait…….. yeah, I actually LIVE here. *gasp*
flikker op, kippenneuker.
How many periods do they play?
Nice one!
ZING!
It’ll end up just as bloody as regular hockey. i’m sure.
It is a pretty aggresive sport. You hold the tamponstick in your hand and try to smash a little light ball. Most of the time you hit other players instead of the ball, resulting in lots of bloody noses. We used to play this in PE. Those were the days…
Check.
I used to throw with them to tackle other players. Those actions got rewarded by getting a whack to the head from someone of the other team
best PE game ever.
we always played it in the last 15 minutes ^^
WIN!!!!
Disgusting win.
Nice
Ha ha ha ha! Actually, that’s quite funny :o)
Wish I’d come up with that one….. damn…. (then again, I’m a Cloggie as well, like many others in this thread)
t00T!
The scoring must be pretty low when one takes the narrowness of the goal into account.
And that was just a tad too far
On a mostly unrelated note, my stepmom, in all her infinite wisdom, bought a toy for our dogs that is basically a super long tennis ball on a string. And damn if it doesn’t look like a giant yellow tampon…
We’ve got one of those at our house.
I saw it and was like o.O
Dutch is one of these most annoying languages for an english speaker, plus if you ever mistake a dutch for german (dutch know how to speak german as well) they’ll slice your head off. I trying to pronounce the dutch language.
Also the group I ran into was a bunch of European teenagers ignored me since I was a guy and there were girls on the bus.
You also trying to speak the English language, I see
so true xD
connect rebuttle here button fail…
You fail,Dutch don’t usually speak german. Dutch HATE germany,they killed off like 75% of our population. so yeah,calling a Dutch guy a german will get your head sliced off.
(This engrishfunny.com submission also fails as there is no engrish or incorrect translation in there.)
WTF?
Most dutch people can understand German. And where the hell do you get those statistics
indeed, most Dutch people speak german, because it’s a required subject at school. and he got the statistics from WW2. and yes, I once sliced a person’s head off cause he called me a German.
Dutch is similar to German, so it’s usually not so difficult for Dutch speakers to understand some German. It’s like, I dunno, Spanish and Italian. I see they’re very much rivals in soccer (’Beckenbauer seropositief!’) but considering the number of Dutch people I’ve seen with German husbands or wives, I don’t think the rivalry is sooo deep. It’s more like teenager stuff that disappears as they grow up.
((: wtf.
so your saying
that evert Nederlandish person (yes, its called dutch but i like nederlandish more xD) just wasted at least 4 years studying german in high school?
such a shame :0
I’m dutch spend 4 years on german in high school, and still can’t speak it. Nor do i actually want to speak it…
I can read german pretty good though.
And saying 75% is a bit much… maybe you mean 65% off the jews?
75% van de Nederlandse bevolking gedood door de Duitsers? Je moet echt wel een halve gare zijn om dàt te geloven! Het is slecht gesteld met het Nederlandse onderwijs, maar zó slecht? Overigens, u mag drie keer raden wel West-Europees land de meeste joden naar de kampen en de meeste vrijwilligers naar het Oostfront heeft gestuurd. Eén tip: het begint met ‘N’ en eindigt op ‘ederland’.
And now in English: Rhinox obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about. 75 % of the Dutch population killed by the Germans? Well, he could be trying to be sarcastic, but in a totally tasteless kind of way…
Yeah. But I totally hate it when they get all pissed if you confuse the languages, as Germans call their language Deutsche which can easily be confused with Dutch for some reason… but yeah they should be a bit more understanding on that one
I am Dutch, and it’s true Dutch can sound like German to foreigners. It all started out as one language, so ‘duh’, that’s logical.
I don’t think that too many (well-educated, I might add) Dutch would mind if you would try to talk Dutch, possibly correct you if it’s German, but that would go for a younger generation. The elderly and their offspring tend to hate Germans because of the war, and therefor don’t want to be mistaken for them. Because they HAVE lost relatives and friends.
I used to work in Amsterdam and found it quite amusing (in a positive way) when a customer tried to talk Dutch. Just the little effort. =)
Though it’s taught at High School, most don’t remember a word German, probably because most don’t care. (Except when it’s Euro/Worldcup football, than they can call names etc in German..)
English sticks to the brain a bit better because of movies, so if you want to be safe, go for English.
Oh, and I don’t mind and do understand/speak German. Not so much education wasted here.
And yeah, 75%? Get real.
Though it’s fun to see so many Dutch here!
Hallo allemaal!
-Agrees with this not being Engrish, btw-
THIS IS NO ENGRISH.
this is an actual game, played with ‘tampon-sticks’.
No matter what language it is, or if it’s mispronounced, mistaken, misspelled or just plain weird, it’s still funny as hell
And it’s neither mispronounced, mistaken or misspelled - the big foam hockey sticks this bar game is played with DO look like *tampons*, THUS THE NAME.
It IS funny (especially you inquiry, Dakker!
) but not quite apropos for this site. 
Dutch people are so cool! And they know so many languages! And I certainly don’t think our pronunciation is annoying.
Kun je nagaan hoeveel Nederlanders er op failblog en co kijken:p
ja dat begint mij ook op te vallen zeg =P
Lol klopt. =P