r/polandball • u/whitesock 100% kosher • Feb 11 '14
redditormade WWI Chronicles: Belgium
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u/thexfiles81 Feb 11 '14
That is some excelent blood splatter.
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u/whitesock Feb 11 '14
Thanks :3 I don't think the angles make sense but I just wanted to draw some blood.
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u/doberlae Feb 12 '14
I imagine this is what it would look like if Quentin Tarantino was into drawing polandball comics.
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u/thexfiles81 Feb 12 '14
Hehehehehe, you gave me an idea, although I feel like I may have heard it somewhere before.
This scene:
http://youtu.be/LBBni_-tMNs?t=47s
exept with Marvin as Belgium and Germany as John Travolta and maybe France for Samuel L Jackson.
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u/Bastrein Feb 11 '14
You have no idea of how dutch people pronounce their words, do you?
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u/whitesock Feb 11 '14
No, not really.
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u/offensive_noises Feb 11 '14
My head hurts reading this. It must be how Scandinavians and Russians feel when their alphabet is being butchered.
IJs also reads as the Dutch word for 'ice' and look means leek. Might as well be a shopping list.
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u/premature_eulogy Feb 12 '14 edited Feb 12 '14
I must say, the Dutch habit of treating ij as a single letter irritates me. Seeing "IJsselmeer" spelled like that just makes me think that someone held down the shift key for slightly too long.
It's even weirder when other diphthongs aren't capitalised in the same way. Oekraïne, not OEkraïne. WHY?
Apart from that, love the language. It makes so much sense.
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u/zellman Feb 12 '14
It is also how we English speakers feel reading some of these comics. haha. The engrish is often completely unreadable for me.
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Feb 11 '14
In termsh of accshentsh in English, jusht replashe all "s" shoundsh with "sh".
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u/offensive_noises Feb 11 '14
The pronouncing a "s" as a "sh" is a bit of an exaggeration. There's a lot of emphesis on the s, but Dutch people don't ad an h. It sounds more like "sss".
Here's a perfect example of a stereotypical Dutch accent.
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u/Grappindemen Feb 12 '14
That's funny, because the 'sh' sound doesn't exist in dutch. They only use it for imported words like 'shit' and 'chips' (yes, they say 'ships' for crisps/chips). However, in the Amsterdam accent, all 's's are pronounced 'sh'. Somehow, some people think all Dutch sound like this. A more generic accent would be to pronounce the 'u' like 'ehh' or 'err'.
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u/Bastrein Feb 11 '14
It is really noticable. For example, you wouldn't have to say: ''How ijs the...'', because the Dutch also use the word is and the context is good. A pluspoint is: ''Duitsland,'' that is correctly written.
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Feb 12 '14
It involves a lot of spitting and phlegm-hawking-upping.
(It's nice that Swiss German isn't the only horrible-sounding language in Europe :D)
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u/I_AM_A_IDIOT_AMA Feb 11 '14
Hmmmm...
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blood, check.
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mustard gas,... missing.
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fire and burnt bodies,... missing.
I rate this a PG. Compromises for family friendliness were made.
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u/whitesock Feb 11 '14
The mustard gas and fiery death will come later. I just need to think of a joke that's appropriate with the goddamn Verdun Meat Grinder.
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u/Dhanvantari Feb 11 '14
Actually we offered to form a military pact with Belgium briefly before WWI, they declined.
Belgium saved us in that respect.
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u/whitesock Feb 11 '14
Don't forget that the original Schlieffen Plan involved invading you as well as Belgium, but the Germans eventually decided to skip the Netherlands. So I guess it all comes down to the Germans anyway.
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u/BevRaging Feb 12 '14
You can only bulldoze so many countries at once.
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Feb 12 '14
Hoth's Ghost Force begs to differ. The Huns just weren't properly mechanized the first time around.
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u/qense Feb 12 '14
Actually, a great part of the country, including the commander of the armed forces, was in favour of joining Germany. But we managed to stay neutral nevertheless.
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u/modomario Feb 12 '14
Wasn't there this idea for an agreement by a Dutch general lost/hidden in the archives for the longest time to arrange a part of FLanders with the Germans?
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u/jba8472 Feb 11 '14
"Belgium: a country created so that Britain and Germany would have a place to sort out their differences." - James May
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Feb 11 '14
That is how I feel during school when all of my sitting neighbours get bad grades and I get an average one
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u/SorrowfulSkald Feb 11 '14
Oh, that's splendid. Love the expression, the drawing -excellent gore- and the Dutch.
I'm also glad that episodic works seem to be gaining steam, like the one about war amongst nations, since I'm working on my own, superior spin-off based of the very same comment chain of ours.
Sloorp.
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u/Fedcom Feb 11 '14
Hmmm Do I spy a series?
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u/Peterpolusa Feb 12 '14
Not many reoccurring characters.
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u/DarkishArchon Feb 11 '14
Wow, wonderfully done. The blood splatter and complete uncaring attitudes make this an amazing comic!
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u/Prospo Feb 12 '14 edited Sep 10 '23
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Feb 13 '14 edited Feb 15 '14
I don't think the rest of us give Belgium the gratitude they deserve for being such an awesome place to fight wars. Thank you!
Edit: Hope to see you soon! <3
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u/rindindin Feb 11 '14
And that's how the British entered the war. Germany effectively sliced the Belgiums, but some would argue that they shot themselves in the foot. Not to mention that it would shoot its recently healed foot by shooting it again with WW2.
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Mar 11 '14
Honestly, unless you had a major fuck up Tannenberg level on the eastern front (which is SIGNIFICANTLY less likely as the Germans would be on the offensive in the east to win), Germany was screwed. They got lucky in the east straight off the bat, if they hunkered down on the west and simply caused a political crisis in GB because of the lack of a direct treaty, they had a chance, but only if Russia is retarted, which given the political situation is not impossible, but unlikely, Germany is screwed.
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u/ShoutedSteel Feb 12 '14
Wow, I was surprised that Poland ball has a spine. Anyhow, I feel daring picture. good comic OP.
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u/whitesock Feb 11 '14
The reason I didn't do anything in the last month or so is because I was buried under mountains of tests from the WWI course I was TA'ing.
So I decided to make the proverbial lemons into a proverbial lemonade, inspired by this comic by u/cerf_. Hopefully, there will be more to come.
The context of this story is the Rape of Belgium by the Germans during WWI. The Netherlands, however, remained neutral during the conflict, and thus were able to drink their morning coffee in peace.