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WesScog

09-29-2007, 03:06 AM

Wait, no Halloween in Australia? What blasphemy is this? You guys need to just start celebrating Halloween, it's the best holiday ever.

The only way Halloween could be made better is if Fireworks were sold on Halloween, but like Halloween themed ones, with orange sparks, and exploding skull bottle rockets, etc.

And... I thought you had high speed post-apocalyptic themed gangs? And Mel Gibsons? And... Neo-Nazi Russel Crowe's.

That sounds like a pretty fun place to me. Or exceedingly dangerous, whatever comes first.

But yea, just read about Halloween in Australia, they see it as accepting "Senseless and Commercial Americanisms", Wow, harsh. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~natinfo@ozemail.com.au/american.htm

Someone need's to inform him that Reality shows are British, and Halloween is Irish. :)

tonz0phun

09-29-2007, 03:27 AM

I lived in Germany for 5 years, does that count?

uhrisuh

09-29-2007, 03:28 AM

I wish i wasn't from america ... does that count??

WesScog

09-29-2007, 03:34 AM

I wish i wasn't from america ... does that count??

What, why?

uhrisuh

09-29-2007, 03:36 AM

sometimes i wish i lived in a place with free health care ...

Pete359

09-29-2007, 04:05 AM

Wait, no Halloween in Australia? What blasphemy is this? You guys need to just start celebrating Halloween, it's the best holiday ever.

The only way Halloween could be made better is if Fireworks were sold on Halloween, but like Halloween themed ones, with orange sparks, and exploding skull bottle rockets, etc.

And... I thought you had high speed post-apocalyptic themed gangs? And Mel Gibsons? And... Neo-Nazi Russel Crowe's.

That sounds like a pretty fun place to me. Or exceedingly dangerous, whatever comes first.

But yea, just read about Halloween in Australia, they see it as accepting "Senseless and Commercial Americanisms", Wow, harsh. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~natinfo@ozemail.com.au/american.htm (http://members.ozemail.com.au/%7Enatinfo@ozemail.com.au/american.htm)

Someone need's to inform him that Reality shows are British, and Halloween is Irish. :)

Yeah it sucks, we used to go trick-or-treating when we were kids and all we get a peoples doors were "WTF? No candy here..."

Oh well, we'll still celebrate it.

Now to let off some orange fireworks. ;) ;)

WesScog

09-29-2007, 04:36 AM

Yeah it sucks, we used to go trick-or-treating when we were kids and all we get a peoples doors were "WTF? No candy here..."

Oh well, we'll still celebrate it.

Now to let off some orange fireworks. ;) ;)

That sucks. But hey, you guys have January 26th, don't know if anything cool happens on that day, but from now on, i'll make sure to make myself Vegemite sandwich's, and play "Waltzing Matilda" really loudly for my neighbors to hear, on a loop.

If it's any consolation, i'm one of the only Yank's I know that enjoys Vegemite, so i'll make a little sandwich tray and make lots of people try it, or something.

But yea, wouldn't orange fireworks be awesome?

WesScog

09-29-2007, 04:38 AM

sometimes i wish i lived in a place with free health care ...

But most of the places with Free Healthcare don't have...

I don't know, me? Is that good enough? I don't think it is, but still.

I'm going to try to figure out Orange Fireworks, what better reason to stay?

Ricardodude

09-29-2007, 04:48 AM

I'm from Gold Coast, Australia and around here some people do halloween trick or treating but you have to go to a "halloween area". When I used to do trick or treat I used to go down the nearby "expensive" street.

Pete359

09-29-2007, 05:04 AM

That sucks. But hey, you guys have January 26th, don't know if anything cool happens on that day, but from now on, i'll make sure to make myself Vegemite sandwich's, and play "Waltzing Matilda" really loudly for my neighbors to hear, on a loop.

If it's any consolation, i'm one of the only Yank's I know that enjoys Vegemite, so i'll make a little sandwich tray and make lots of people try it, or something.

But yea, wouldn't orange fireworks be awesome?

Firstly, we have orange fireworks. Not as popular people normally set the blue and red ones off in their yards.

As for Jan the 26th, it also happens to be my birthday, so while you're playing "Waltzing Matilda" and slowly killing yourself with Vegemite have some cake for me. ;)

We actually managed to get our old neighbourhood right into Halloween, our street even got feature on the news back in '94. But where we live know, people are more reserved. And kids miss out for it.

Damn you British convicts! :supermad:

Ricardodude

09-29-2007, 06:20 AM

So where do you live Pete? What state or city?

oblenob

09-29-2007, 06:39 AM

I live in Europe!, well... Britain... but thats in Europe!

and we have free healthcare! and its da best place in da world! well Swizarland is best so Britain is Second Best!!!

plus we celebrate Helloween

Spleg

09-29-2007, 06:52 AM

England. Woo.

It's cold and that.

Pete359

09-29-2007, 08:48 AM

So where do you live Pete? What state or city?

South Australia. :D

LionHeart

09-29-2007, 09:45 AM

Romania! Romania! Romania! Romania...

Joshbond

09-29-2007, 01:51 PM

Cambridge, Ontario, Canada! :D

Polar bears and all!

Jacob-ne-a

09-29-2007, 02:39 PM

Canada...eh

spicysmoke

09-29-2007, 05:59 PM

Im still the only New Zealander! well actually i'm an aussie too but ive lived here most my life.

felix78

09-29-2007, 09:40 PM

sweedeeen.... :D

Fisherking

09-29-2007, 10:04 PM

Nice guess, but it's actually Canada.

I am from Australia.

WesScog

09-30-2007, 12:21 AM

sweedeeen.... :D

Vud Yu Lik Tu Go Tu Sveedeeen?

Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue / Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn børk! børk! børk!

Okies, i'm sorry, got the Swedish Chef out of my system, i'll stop trying to incite international incidents, and go back to making fun of my fellow Americans.

Maluro

09-30-2007, 07:55 PM

I'm from Colombia!!
and we Do have Halloween :D

and i think i'm the only 1 from latin america hehe

LionHeart

09-30-2007, 07:58 PM

I'm from Colombia!!
and we Do have Halloween :D

and i think i'm the only 1 from latin america hehe
We don't ._.
*shots himself*
Could someone rez me pl0x?

EISENFAUST244

09-30-2007, 08:15 PM

GO GO SUPER CANADA FORCE!

spicysmoke

09-30-2007, 08:22 PM

We semi have halloween, but not many people do anything for it. I cant because its my cousins birthday, garr

Maluro

09-30-2007, 08:43 PM

We semi have halloween, but not many people do anything for it. I cant because its my cousins birthday, garr

LOL!!
haha i'm planing to "ask" for candies this halloween + going to a halloween party of course :)
yup.. i might be a little old for the candy thing but is funny when people see you doing it :P

WesScog

09-30-2007, 10:27 PM

We don't ._.
*shots himself*
Could someone rez me pl0x?

*Uses a Phoenix Down.*

I just imagined that the place so close to where Dracula is supposed to haunt would have Halloween.

Or maybe you're all so sick of Dracula stinking up the place with his supernatural crap that you get sick of it and don't want to give it a holiday since it happens all the time.

LionHeart

10-01-2007, 05:15 AM

*Uses a Phoenix Down.*

I just imagined that the place so close to where Dracula is supposed to haunt would have Halloween.

Or maybe you're all so sick of Dracula stinking up the place with his supernatural crap that you get sick of it and don't want to give it a holiday since it happens all the time.
We don't really care about dracula,heck when I was a small kid I didn't even thought he's from romania.
We may have dracula but I don't get it why don't we have halloween :grumble:

It's kinda like having Eric but not having Indy Mogul.

WesScog

10-01-2007, 03:02 PM

We don't really care about dracula,heck when I was a small kid I didn't even thought he's from romania.
We may have dracula but I don't get it why don't we have halloween :grumble:

It's kinda like having Eric but not having Indy Mogul.

Well how many Irish people do you have in Eastern Europe?

I know all of the countries that celebrate Halloween, either had tons of Irish immigrants (America) or were occupied by nations that had tons of Irish immigrants (Japan).

Or were former British colonies, or were former Spanish colonies, so they have the Day of the Dead which is kind of like Halloween.

Maluro

10-01-2007, 08:54 PM

Well how many Irish people do you have in Eastern Europe?

I know all of the countries that celebrate Halloween, either had tons of Irish immigrants (America) or were occupied by nations that had tons of Irish immigrants (Japan).

Or were former British colonies, or were former Spanish colonies, so they have the Day of the Dead which is kind of like Halloween.

eee... wait wait.... the day of the dead is only in mexico as i know... here in Colombia (used to be a spanish colony, search if you don't know where is it..) we don't celebrate the day of the dead.. we celebrate halloween :D

WesScog

10-01-2007, 09:18 PM

eee... wait wait.... the day of the dead is only in mexico as i know... here in Colombia (used to be a spanish colony, search if you don't know where is it..) we don't celebrate the day of the dead.. we celebrate halloween :D

Oh! Thank you! I assumed that the Day of the Dead was a South American holiday in general.

Well that is very cool, thank you for enlightening me.

Steve Nelson

10-01-2007, 10:27 PM

sweedeeen.... :D

I'm SWEDISH!!!! Any Hungarians on the board?

punkandska66

10-01-2007, 10:36 PM

israel.

WesScog

10-01-2007, 10:44 PM

israel.

Shalom! Barukh Haba!

punkandska66

10-01-2007, 10:46 PM

ha... well really im from va but im israeli, like im a citizen and i go alot so i just thought id post

WesScog

10-01-2007, 11:03 PM

Ah, so your Hebrew isn't too keen yet?

Well welcome to the forum's regardless. :D

punkandska66

10-01-2007, 11:07 PM

no, i knew hebrew before i knew english.

WesScog

10-01-2007, 11:09 PM

Ah okies! Then Shalom again!

So did you live in Virginia your whole life? Or were your parents Israeli and you've just moved back?

LionHeart

10-02-2007, 04:46 AM

Well how many Irish people do you have in Eastern Europe?

I know all of the countries that celebrate Halloween, either had tons of Irish immigrants (America) or were occupied by nations that had tons of Irish immigrants (Japan).

Or were former British colonies, or were former Spanish colonies, so they have the Day of the Dead which is kind of like Halloween.

How should I know? lol

It's not that we don't want to celebrate it it's that like only 30% of the adults know of it, these days only teen's know stuff outside the country that doesn't involve politics.

punkandska66

10-02-2007, 08:27 AM

Ah okies! Then Shalom again!

So did you live in Virginia your whole life? Or were your parents Israeli and you've just moved back?

i was born in the us, both my parents r from israel.

WesScog

10-02-2007, 12:57 PM

i was born in the us, both my parents r from israel.

Nice! :)

WesScog

10-02-2007, 12:57 PM

How should I know? lol

It's not that we don't want to celebrate it it's that like only 30% of the adults know of it, these days only teen's know stuff outside the country that doesn't involve politics.

Well maybe one day, Halloween will come to Romania.

ONE DAY! :D

moonwolf

10-02-2007, 03:58 PM

i am a brit here as well but where i live looks like the opening scene from blade runner with all the steel works and i live a few mile aways from where jamie bell was born

LionHeart

10-02-2007, 05:27 PM

Well maybe one day, Halloween will come to Romania.

ONE DAY! :D

If anyone is gona be the one to make it happen it's me :D

snice

10-03-2007, 02:40 AM

Not bagging america by any means, just wanting to see where some people are from. Havnt seen anybody else whos from new zealand like me.

Hey Spicy, another New Zealander here, we seem to be a rare breed around here.

spicysmoke

10-03-2007, 02:46 AM

yeah we are, where abouts are you?

ciwi286

10-03-2007, 12:07 PM

Toity toi-tee-toi

the first irish person to post here...so ye better all thanks us for having a s****y history and migrating to so many places...lol

although It was the irish CELTS who started celebrating haloween or "oiche shamna" [ee-hah how-nah] and the celts came from mainland europe so........ i dunno!

unyways.. its been so commercialized that most people dont know how it started anymore...lol like christmas!

Maluro

10-03-2007, 08:30 PM

felix78

10-04-2007, 12:16 PM

im from sweden, we bearly celebrate it. some kids have a spooky halloween disco but not much else tbh.

ciwi286

10-04-2007, 12:27 PM

i couldnt imagine life without haloween

every year i had to have a cape... even the year i was a zombie... i had a cape for good measure

god dammit i love capes!

WesScog

10-04-2007, 01:03 PM

So you were like a Lon Chaney Zombie or something?

ciwi286

10-04-2007, 02:06 PM

So you were like a Lon Chaney Zombie or something?

aw hell no . i was like 6.hmmm had red clothes on with torn green clothes over it...green makeup and hair. cheap fake monster glow in the dark teeth that were too big for me and i insisted on wearing a tacky plastic dracula cape from the year before...aw lol ..the good old days

NIO

10-04-2007, 02:07 PM

felix78

10-15-2007, 12:29 PM

Sweden!!!! :D

bridboyross

10-15-2007, 01:07 PM

England, I'm half Scottish though and I lived there for years, anyone on here live in Yorkshire (preferably East Yorkshire!)

WesScog

10-15-2007, 06:30 PM

I am from Cyprus. No Halloween, almost no stores that sell liquid latex, foam factories or almost no stores that sell the parts that BFX shows show us to build something. And one final thing: NOBODY THAT LIKES TO MAKE SPECIAL EFECTS OR HOMEMADE MOVIES.

Wow... they must hate you guys in Cyprus... Do they keep you guys in camps and do medical experimentation on you too?

WesScog

10-15-2007, 06:30 PM

England, I'm half Scottish though and I lived there for years, anyone on here live in Yorkshire (preferably East Yorkshire!)

How far are you from South England? Like, Hastings, and Dover and stuff.

BackyardProductions

10-15-2007, 10:52 PM

sometimes i wish i lived in a place with free health care ...
What about chips, ( we might not have it long though because of that {buttercup}{buttercup}{buttercup}got Bush) and wescog about the thing with fireworks for halloween that be sweet if the made like roman candles that shot up skulls...........

bridboyross

10-16-2007, 11:12 AM

How far are you from South England? Like, Hastings, and Dover and stuff.

pretty far, would take me about 4 to 5 hours to get to dover by car.

WesScog

10-16-2007, 01:41 PM

pretty far, would take me about 4 to 5 hours to get to dover by car.

Drats, i'm writing a script that happens somewhat in Southern England, and I wanted to bother a person that actually lived there with some questions.

bridboyross

10-16-2007, 01:46 PM

What are the questions and I'll see if I can help?

WesScog

10-16-2007, 01:48 PM

Like what's the environment like, what are the people like, how would you react to roving bands of Vampires, etc.

bridboyross

10-16-2007, 01:55 PM

Usually it depends when you are setting it. The south of England can get fairly warm in the summer though I'd probably try and set it as cold and wet as this is normally the usual climate and many people across the globe will associate an English town with such weather (thus making it easier for an audience to accept.) The people are usually quite forthcoming as they are fairly large places (Hastings and Dover) and as they are close to the ferry ports (Dover especially) there is a wide array of people and nationalities there. When it comes to vampires I imagine people would probably do the same as most. Panic. They Would probably try and flee and many would be eaten. I also imagine that a great number would attempt to cross the channel via the channel tunnel, the eurostar and the ferry. If you dont put these things in your story it may detract form the realism. Dover will be especially hard to mimic as it is situated on some bloody large white cliffs whilst Hastings is also surrounded by many large fields and is close to the sea. Think about the Batlle of Hastings (1066) fought on large fields, maybe the Hastings spirit would take hold and they would fight the vampires off? Remember we english are a proud race and dont accept sharp toother outisders as easily as other countries.

WesScog

10-16-2007, 02:01 PM

Thanks, but i'm not going to film it myself, it's just a spec script I was asked to write.

And the script is going to take place in 1919, so the Chunnel wasn't completed yet.

I should have remembered to tell you it takes place 88 years ago.

bridboyross

10-16-2007, 02:38 PM

lol fair enough I arent as big an expert on back then im afraid

NaziActionFigure

10-17-2007, 12:55 AM

sometimes i wish i lived in a place with free health care ...
Wow, you saw Sicko too. But I guess you could try waiting months on lists for doctors appointments and dying in a waiting room if you wanted.

Magical Monkey

10-17-2007, 05:23 AM

i'm from switzerland

ensign_benson

12-07-2007, 01:55 AM

South Australia !

Alasdair

12-07-2007, 02:37 AM

England

Scott

12-07-2007, 04:05 AM

I was born in America. I live in America. I have never left America. But I'm not from America. I'm from an alternate world that exists in my brain.

ericslovechild

12-07-2007, 04:18 PM

Wow Scott, Me too!

paulm

12-07-2007, 04:48 PM

Ireland!!

Flamingo With A Spoon Productions

12-07-2007, 05:46 PM

I'm from Scotland. Please no whisky/ginger/kilts/loch ness/haggis jokes. We gave the world The Skids, Franz Ferdinand and Idlewild! Cant we be known for that?

Sadly we also gave the world the Proclaimers. I'm sorry.

Alasdair

12-07-2007, 05:47 PM

Can I make Culloden jokes?

m_kozmava

12-07-2007, 05:53 PM

pluto

IrishDrummer7707

12-07-2007, 09:15 PM

WOOO CHICAGO!!!!! Oh sorry I was never good at geography:(............

Maluro

12-07-2007, 10:47 PM

mm....

motleyhead

12-07-2007, 10:49 PM

Im From Canada, the home of maple syrup and beavers

Roel

12-12-2007, 06:17 AM

The Netherlands.

no halloween but sint maarten

and we invented the original santa claus / sinterklaas

DeadFishProductions

12-12-2007, 06:42 AM

YEAH! I qualify for this thread!

ciwi286

12-12-2007, 08:22 AM

and we invented the original santa claus / sinterklaas

Woah...Slow down there, thats only a small part of it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus

Dingo-John

12-13-2007, 04:21 PM

Denmark 1337 (not)... great country (if you want to die from boredom)... no, its not that bad, but not a lot of things happens... oh yeah, and by the way, just recently the violence has increased in the eastern Jutland area, because of the nazi gangs, beating up people who has long hair... a little annoying...

Alasdair

12-13-2007, 04:33 PM

In English...we...don't...type...like...this...

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2041/sigpr6.gif

Maluro

12-13-2007, 05:16 PM

Denmark 1337 (not)... great country (if you want to die from boredom)... no, its not that bad, but not a lot of things happens...

haha you should see things arround here.
I hate Nazis. :supermad:

BackyardProductions

12-13-2007, 05:19 PM

just recently the violence has increased in the eastern Jutland area, because of the nazi gangs, beating up people who has long hair... a little annoying...
i thought of the dead kennedys song nazi punks fuck off when i read that and then realized how much i agree with that song