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#1: Strange customs of your country Author: Polemarchos, Location: Polemarchopolis

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:00 pm
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Every country has some strange traditions and customs.

Here are mine:

fireworks warfare on the island of Chios on Othodox Easter.

based on the Ottoman occupation when it was forbid to fire cannons to celebrate easter.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,558584,00.html

Video:
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/reuters/1746-easter-rocket-war-tradition-in-greek-village-video.htm

Flour war

based on Ottoman occupation, when carneval was forbid and ash and flour masced people (disguised) still celebrated upcoming easter.

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/reuters/947-greece-flour-war-video.htm

Go on post the most bizarre/ exclusive/ crazy tradition your country or region stages and explain why by either film, audio or writing.

#2: Author: king_tiger_tank, Location: the Band and State of Kansas

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:57 am
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I have one. People voting republican

#3: Author: ANZAC_Tack, Location: Australia

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:01 am
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strange customs....holy crap, where do i start?

before i do, i google earthe'd "Polemarchopolis", no result...lol

queens birthday, we just celebrated a public holiday, nowhere near her birthday, and like who cared? it was a day off!

xmas day in shorts and t shirt, havin a beer and BBQ...no shrimps either...god sake there prawns!

boxing day(after xmas day) we seem to celebrate nothing but sport...yatch race, cricket etc....and strangeling,fighting etc... ur family,as ur sick of em after 2 days...

...more later, sure others can get the ball rolling

#4: Author: QM, Location: Australia

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:19 am
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Here ya go Tack:

P1ss Cricket, must bat, field and bowl with a stubby in you hand at all times, ala Goldfield Ashes.

Chunda Muster. Drink your fill at mates barby, too full, need to drink more, chunda...feed the blue heeler, drink more, repeat.

Barby Muster. All the blokes gather round said barby, chuck a few furphys round, spin a yarn or two, burn the snags, drop the tucker, drink more beer, fall down drunk, get up, drink beer, etc etc.

Sheila Cluster. Occurs when all the blokes are Barby Mustering, talk carp, giggle, drink wine, talk more carp, feel crook, chunda, whine 'I wanna go home'

...next?

#5: Author: AT_Stalky,

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:26 am
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Sweden

Midsummer – Seem we are still a bit pagan and Vikings, we celebrate the Solstices (the longest day of the year).

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=lwPM6nKG_WA

Notice only young and old is here, the youth are separate and drink em self silly, (its almost mandatory).
In the 1300 century the church tried to wash out this pagan ritual and turn it into “John the Baptist day”, no success at all..

#6: Author: diggin.robat, Location: Land of the krauts

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:36 am
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Polemarchos,

you just forgot one greek tradition:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,553070,00.html[url]

:eek3

diggin[/url]

#7: Author: ANZAC_Tack, Location: Australia

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:07 am
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I once tried the "greek" tradition with missus, gawd she can fuggin hit hard,even from behind!, think that was after said BBQ QM was talking bout.

PS google dosent convert aussie slang/coliquial to engrish, i even had a ard time readin it...i sincerly hope u all have "tackism" language down pat...(that was the language i got told i speak at ryans forum)

mmm more traditions, ANZAC DAY, we watch some top aussie heros and battlers march down a street, we pay our respect, and get hammered with em,play 2 up(illegal nelly year round, except for 2 casino's).

um....going out in dangerously small boats, with rediculiously big 'eskie's'(coolers) and 'fish'(nee sit and drink,get sun burnt, drink, check line every day or so for fish) ditto on beach or any holiday,but perve on sheilas,especially 'white pointers' those babies aint sharks,but hurt more if misses catches ya pervin'.

er...swimmin at bondi with the bondi cigars(poo)...showing my age, its droped out to sea more now(see nemo)

um...B&B, get dressed up in a penguine suite(tuxido) in boots,pack a tin cup,and get absolutely smashed,try to pick up, get hammered, sleep,if ur lucky, in ur 'ute'(car with tray to rear,american's copied from us, utility) with said slapper(top sort u pulled/rooted if u could)

#8: Author: Polemarchos, Location: Polemarchopolis

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:11 pm
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diggin.robat wrote:

Polemarchos,

you just forgot one greek tradition:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,553070,00.htm

:eek3

diggin[/url]

lol i didnt know that man. hehehe, phallus worship since ancient times, remember the tiny statue from crete where the penis is twice the statue Wink

#9: Author: Polemarchos, Location: Polemarchopolis

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:14 pm
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ANZAC_Tack wrote:

before i do, i google earthe'd "Polemarchopolis", no result...lol

Polemarchopolis ( literally: city of the Polemarch ( Polemarch= leader in war))was a small military garrison city in times of the Seleucid realm. it does not exist anymore and never achieved any impotance in history.
(Location was in what is now Syria, close to Antiochia). My Heritage is actually from Greek Macedonia and Thesssaly Wink

#10: Author: Sapa,

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:31 pm
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AT_Stalky wrote:

Sweden

Midsummer – Seem we are still a bit pagan and Vikings, we celebrate the Solstices (the longest day of the year).

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=lwPM6nKG_WA

Agree! Just forgotten eating rotten fish(surströmming) and camouflage yourself with leaves in the hair and wear a stupid bib! You must be drunk as hell to think this is funny... Smile

Mats

#11: Author: Pz_Meyer,

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:36 am
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people in America still go to church to perform pagan rituals

#12: Author: asiantuntija,

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:38 pm
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Weird customs are only weird for the outsiders. Ok, ok, ok, listenig Thomas Ledin and dancing around the pole on midsummer is just too much for anybody. Wink

In finland we celebrate midsommer by burning (bon)fires, or are those just pile of swedes majstång poles? dont know. Any how, that tradition goes also back to the heaten times when fires were liten to exorcise demons or warn other kinsmen for the danger of vikings or some other mean intruders.

Weird custom for the outsider might be the way we finns bath at sauna. First we lit up the stove in sauna and heat it close to the 100 c (212farenheit)
Then we make bath whisk form brances of birch. Get in side the sauna and star lashing our self and other with the wisks.

http://www.rakentaja.fi/suorakanava/verkkolehti/teeseitse/tsi_vihta_jamppa_480.jpg

When its get too hot to stay in side we jump in icy water(if its winter) in other times just in to cold water.
http://www.kotiliesi.fi/files/9211-avantouinti.jpg

And when thers no water near by we settle for rolling on the snow.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/74/221349428_2e8bcf9846_m.jpg

And ther's nothing more enjoyable than this. Ok couple of beer with that and its perfect.

#13: Author: Tippi-Simo, Location: Helsinki

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:10 am
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Nordic walking:

And of course, shell suit (our national cloth):

#14: Author: Tippi-Simo, Location: Helsinki

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:25 pm
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Well we got also this little island that we have to foster, Åland Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85land_Islands

As you all know: They don´t take any refugees, they don´t have to do a army service, we send them every year 200 million euros that they can pay their bureaucrats.

I have always said that this should be given to Sweden. It´s like a tumor. A very bad one.

#15: Author: ANZAC_Tack, Location: Australia

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:29 am
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yes what a strange little arrangement, they speak sweedish, take finish money, dont fight for finland, and dont vote, its like there tasmanian(island south of mainland australia,supposidly a state,but get more funding then taxes paid)...do they also have 7 fingers and 2 heads like our southern inbred cousins? i think nuclear destrucion is required for both...

#16: Author: Tippi-Simo, Location: Helsinki

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:58 am
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Quote:

do they also have 7 fingers and 2 heads

Yes!

Quote:

i think nuclear destrucion is required for both...

Hahaha

#17: Author: ronson, Location: England

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:40 pm
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I know most people here don't live in London but I recently recieved this from a pal and thought maybe you would like a laugh at us that do, and this strange customs seemed to best place Laughing

Subject: 30 Signs you've been living in London too long....

1. You say "the City" and expect everyone to know which one.

2. You have never been to The Tower of London or Madame Tussauds but
love Brighton.

3. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Shepherds
Bush to Elephant & Castle at 3:30 on the Friday before a long
weekend, but can't find Dorset on a map.

4. Hookers and the homeless are invisible.

5. You step over people who collapse on the Tube.

6. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language
makes you multilingual.

7. You've considered stabbing someone.

8. Your door has more than three locks.

9. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

10. You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a garden.

11. You consider Essex the "countryside".

12. You think Hyde Park is "nature".

13. You're paying £1,200 a month for a studio the size of a walk-in
wardrobe and you think it's a "bargain".

14. Shopping in suburban supermarkets and shopping malls gives you severe
attack of agoraphobia.

15. You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the UK
pay in rent.

16. You pay £3 without blinking for a beer that cost the bar 28p.

17. You actually take fashion seriously.

18. You have 27 different take-away menus next to your telephone.

19. The UK west of Heathrow is still theoretical to you.

20. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

21. Your idea of personal space is no one actually physically standing on you.

22. £50 worth of groceries fit in one plastic bag.

23. You have a minimum of five "worst cab ride ever" stories.

24. You don't hear sirens anymore.

25. You've mentally blocked out all thoughts of the city's air/water
quality and what it's doing to your insides.

26. You live in a building with a larger population than most towns.

27. Your cleaner is Portugese, your grocer is Somali, your butcher is
Halal, your deli man is Israeli, your landlord is Italian, your laundry man is
Philippino, your bartender is Australian, your favourite resturant owner is
Greek, the watch seller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cab driver
was African and the chip shop owner is Turkish.

28. You wouldn't want to live anywhere else until you get married.

29. You roll your eyes and say 'tsk' at the news that someone has thrown
themselves under a tube train.

30. Your day is ruined if you don't get a copy of Metro on the way to work.

Cheers
Ronson Laughing

#18: Author: schrecken, Location: Sydney, Australia

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:27 pm
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LOL,

Sounds like Sydney, but I don't hear the aircraft noise anymore.... unless I'm talking on TeamSpeak.

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