06-02-2009, 09:49 PM
Quote:You take no sides, you stay away from anything that is more important than saving Bambi and freeing Willy. When the world is in turmoil, you stay mostly neutral and hope that trouble passes you buy. You stand for nothing. You are never in a position to commit either significant good or significant bad. When I see packages of Tofu in the supermarket, I think of the whole of Scandinavia. Does not taste good. Does not taste bad. Tastes like nothing. The correlation is obvious.There is little denying in that, except that the Netherlands are not part of Scandinavia, and that tofu can taste decent if properly prepared. But yes, we Dutch are pretty good in making profits from all sides in a conflict, and getting away with it. Always have been. We even started a few wars here and there, to make sure that business goes on, in times when other nations still worried about religious relics and such.