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
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'
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..
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)
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
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..
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
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