CONTENTS
PREFACE A WORD OF WARNING (Johannes van Dam)
1. INTRODUCTION (the way the textbooks sell it)
![]() There
![]() Them
2. GETTING ACQUAINTED
![]() There
![]() Them
![]() Becoming Them
3. PUBLIC TRANSPORT
![]() Strippenzones
![]() Off the Rails
![]() OV-Kaartology
![]() Kaartjes Cops
![]() What to Take
![]() Waiting Games
![]() On-board Activities
![]() Behaviour
![]() Taxis
![]() Air Do’s
4. DRIVING
![]() Freewheeling Ways
![]() Road Rights
![]() Traffic Jams
![]() A Wheel-earned Rest
![]() Getting Your Licence
![]() The Smart Car
5. A DUTCH HOME
![]() Urban Architecture
![]() Stairs
![]() Furnishings
![]() Window Pains
![]() The Toilet
![]() The Kitchen
![]() House Pets
![]() Houseboats
![]() Floating Flats
![]() Country Life
6. MONEY
![]() The Tao of Tightness
![]() Short Change
![]() Bargain Hunting
![]() Street Markets
![]() Second-hand Transactions
![]() Banks
![]() Chippen en Pinnen
![]() Insurance
![]() A Sporting Chance?
7. THE NATIONAL PASSION
![]() Discussion & Debate
![]() Complain, Protest, Object, Appeal
![]() Causes
![]() The Dutch Way
![]() Vrouwened Upon
![]() The Sacred Union
8. FOOD FOR THOUGHT
![]() Some Traditional Dishes
![]() Midday Morsels
![]() Restaurants
![]() Lord of the Fries
![]() Tipp(le)ing
![]() Dutch Sushi
![]() Dutch Rusk
![]() Dropjes
![]() Coveted Cookies
![]() Dirty Dishes
![]() Bottom of the Bottle
9. A GROWING CONCERN
![]() Flower Power 99
![]() Pollen Nation 101
![]() Shit Happens 104
![]() Timber Talk 105
![]() Udder Things 108
10. ON DUTCH CUSTOMS
![]() Manners Maketh Man
![]() Bioscoop Behaviour
![]() A Bad Case of the Clap
![]() Camping
![]() On Marriage
![]() The Coffee Cult
![]() The Other Cult
![]() The Birthday Party
![]() Urine Trouble
![]() Further Festive Occasions
11. BIKES, DIKES, FLAGS & FAGS
![]() Bikes
![]() Dikes
![]() Flags
![]() Fags (and Fagettes)
12. IDENTITY CRISIS
![]() ID-ology I (proof of identification)
![]() ID-ology II (how to get it)
![]() The Regels
![]() Crime and Punishment
![]() Non-racist Nation?
13. WORK VS. WELFARE
![]() Uitkering
![]() No Fixed Abode
![]() Subsidies
![]() The Working Way
![]() Supervisory Subjugation
![]() Dismissal – Failure or Success?
![]() Time Off
![]() Commercial Cunning
![]() Striking Back
![]() A Taxing Solution
14. PUNTENEL & BEL HELL
![]() Hacker Haven
![]() Zolder of Fortune
![]() Telephone Torture
![]() The Phone Booth
![]() The Holy Roamin’ Empire
![]() Torture Telephone
15. COPIN’ WITH KOPEN
![]() Code of Conduct
![]() In Supermarkets
![]() Avondverkoop
![]() Recouping Riches
![]() Shopping for Clothes
![]() At Street and Flea Markets
16. ROCKING AND ROLLING
![]() Sex as an Activity
![]() Sex as an Industry
![]() Drugs I – Still Smokin’
![]() Drugs II – The Hard Line
17. THE DUTCH LANGUAGE
![]() Dutch Resistance
![]() Throat Disease (pronunciation)
![]() Grammar
![]() A Poke in the “ij”
![]() Number Crunching
![]() Foreigners’ Favourites
![]() Kikkerland Keepers
![]() Dutch Exports
![]() Game of the Name
18. CHILDREN
![]() Kid Kreation
![]() Raising Modern Dutches and Dutchesses
![]() Battle of de Wits
![]() School Daze
19. GEZONDHEID
![]() Back to the Suture
![]() Talkin’ Trash
![]() The Smokescreen
![]() Closing Time
20. THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (export models)
![]() The World According to Jaap
![]() The Right Stuff
![]() Colonial Cloggies
![]() Pretorian Disgard
![]() Down-Under Dutch
![]() New World Netherlanders
21. ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WAAL
![]() Dike-otomy of a Disaster
![]() Hans Verdrinker
APPENDICES
![]() A A View of the Dutch through the English Language
![]() B A Chosen Selection of Dutch/English Homonyms
![]() C A View of the Netherlands through Dutch Idioms
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