Here's to all you Brits

Bones, joints and muscles
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This might have not too much to do with hips, but still I need to say this:

I am Dutch. The tendency to moan, groan and always see a downside to everything is omnipresent in all of 'my kind'.

Never really liked being Dutch because of that (but what can you do... 😁)

Growing up we eventually got cable television and with it, BBC 1 and 2 and SKY. At the time I was maybe 8, and loved the weekend morning shows. My love for the UK was born. Okay, skip many years. Some 30 years...

I met my wife. Huge setting at work with about 50 people in a meeting. I almost literally saw only one...

Turned out later that this lovely little lady (sorry, not overly tall I should say) lived fairly close to me and was having more or less the same problems focusing that I had.

Long story short and getting to what I really want to say now, I promise 😁

I married this lady. I married a native English speaker and here it is for all of you on the island west of me:

I absolutely LOVE your language. More than the island itself admittedly. No offence to American English speakers. At all. But the Queen's English trumps any other version of English. And it squashes Dutch like a bug under a shoe.

Utterly unrelated to hips, I know, but still.

So there. I have told you the reason why I ended up on an English forum and not a Dutch one. 😁

I'll skulk away now 😉

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Well I for one love the fact that this isn't an all English form and your post is refreshing, no hip!!!!

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That explains the height then. I did a lot of work with a company from Drachten, the only person I met under 6ft 4 was a Latvian computer programmer

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Hello there from cloudy Devon!

I say say 'lepilaar' which I think means spoonbill, yes?

I think I'm maybe the opposite, too 'go for it' and see the upside and encourage others and me to strive for all the gifts this fab life has given us, including the hippie operation.

apparently the story of dutch boy with finger in the dyke is a myth, but I was taught it at school!

Warmly

Mic

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I love the dutch people and have always found them friendly. I have taken 2 lovely holidays one in Amsterday and the (the best)m in Utrecht, the people were very friendly and helpful to all of us. I loved the areas and the houses and the countryside.

So your very welcome to be on this forum and it is good sometimes to see how other people are treated in their local areas when having operations or ilnesses.  xx

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Don't knock yourself - Holland is my husband and my favourite holiday destination - lots of cycling but no hills! And I have found, without exception, that the Dutch are friendly, helpful and polite even putting up with our pidgeon dutch that owes more to our knowledge of Afrikaans after 10 years in Sourh Africa than ability to speak Dutch properly.

Speaking of cycling - what advice have you been given? I was told not to in case I breach the 90 degree rule but can't wait to get back to it.

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There's nothing like a good skulk but you've got no need to! Made my day!

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oh dear ... I hope you and I are the only dutchies here ... but you are right in a way - The news and topics of conversation are down right depressing - good that you don't understand this language ... well, don't get me going ....

I left Holland in 1980 and returned June 2014 ... (long story and not such a happy one) - goodness ... the changes are unbelievable - will not get into this either ...

but the people are friendly ... they really are am6ft8 ... if you like bicycling, absolutely perfect ... 

I am a wee bit offended about the comment US English vs Queen's English 

just kidding ...

 

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What a lovely story.Then you for sharing with us.xxx

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Hi there

Thanks for sharing your story- enjoyed reading it and you are obviously a cat lover, so that gets a big vote from me!

Kind regards Linda xx

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I adore the Queens English too and wish I could live there. What strikes me most is how well they speak to the point using few words. Plus cute words like "niggle" and others I cannot think of right now.

I learned the Dutch language when I lived in Holland in my childhood, but can only remember how to tell someone to shut up and one curse word.

So a post not about hips but still interesting!

💛 Dawn, USA (the other English! Ha!)

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How's your recovery going Dawn?

You running yet.He he

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I love the Queen's English so much that I came for a holiday and never went back home...It was over 40 years ago and I don't have any regrets!

Ella 

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I am curious Ella, where are you originally from ? 

and curious what those Dutch words are Dawn?   I also look up words and expressions that I am not familiar with  .... like "kip" - kip in Dutch is chicken and that somehow did not make sense in the story ...

Mic, lepelaar is indeed a spoon bill (some kind of bird) but why on earth do you remember that word ?