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Post by pablo on Oct 1, 2007 15:20:07 GMT -5
 erm does this work?? |
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Post by pablo on Oct 1, 2007 15:21:49 GMT -5
Hooray that was Wolfhead and Vixen Morris men performing at the world famous witchcraft museum in Cornwall. I gave a talk on ceremonial magic last year and stayed for the floor show! www.wolfsheadandvixen.co.uk/ |
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Post by pablo on Oct 1, 2007 15:25:10 GMT -5
They all wear blackface. I don't know why but they were sheepish and is a bit uneasy as it looked like the old minstrel show!
It is suppose to be historically accurate and relates to anonymity and or chimney sweeps.
Still there was no obvious hostility!
Pablo
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Post by pablo on Oct 1, 2007 15:27:08 GMT -5
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Post by pablo on Oct 1, 2007 15:27:49 GMT -5
Wow Clever stuff this!
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Post by Summer on Oct 1, 2007 17:30:55 GMT -5
That's very interesting, Pablo. I would like to visit the Witchcraft Museum someday. Hopefully I will get to.  |
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Post by lordjagged on Mar 22, 2008 22:29:20 GMT -5
Hello.
I'd like to tell you a little about my country and culture. You've probably heard of us, we're known as the "English."
We live on a tiny island off the coast of France where it rains all the time and the skies are forever grey. Living on an island has made us a great maritime race and many of us in the past travelled the world in large groups to visit other countries. We called these large groups "armies" and when we found a country we liked, we took it over.
As you can imagine this didn't always please the people that already lived there, but as we picked places that had never even heard of the industrial revolution that really didn't worry us. If you were wearing a grass skirt and had a bone through your nose, we'd point a gun at you and sell you into servitude.
In this way we brought civilzation to the unwashed and unenlightened. Good of us don't you think? That's why many people in the world speak my language, because at one point we owned most of it. Not bad for a little island we think.
Of course all things come to an end and one by one we had to give these lands back to the original owners. Even a place called "America" where they got all stroppy about the price of tea and started a war with their benevolent masters. I have no idea why because most of the ungrateful bastards drink coffee.
A lot of people seem to think we are a xenophobic people. Mainly foreigners with their strange and evil ways obviously. It is a popular misconception for example that the English hate the Germans because of the two World Wars. It's actually the French we hate for not joining in properly.
We are a highly educated race, sophisticated and erudite. We have no need whatsover to learn another language on our cultural visits to other (and much lesser) countries. If confronted by some clueless foreign oaf we'll just wave our passports and say the question again much LOUDER with a bit of serious finger pointing thrown in. Don't these cretins go to school?
Well, I hope that's helped you learn a bit about the English. If you plan to visit let us know in advance. We'll start boiling the oil right away.
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Post by Summer on Mar 23, 2008 14:12:38 GMT -5
Ha ha! Brilliant M'lord! You are always so witty! ;D
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Post by Grey Inquisitor on May 6, 2010 14:49:41 GMT -5
Looks like I'm here again. Long time no see. =) So, let me tell a few words about my country... As you rememder, it's Russian Federation. One of rhe main important places for me here is my university - Moscow State University.   The emblem of our University:  Russian Alphabet - Cyrillic (rus. Kirillitsa):  Hm... What's else? I like to travel, and since I'm scientist I have a good reason for it: different confereces etc. Vladimir, Kazan, Sent-Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod... If it's interesting I can tell about these places too. |
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Post by Summer on May 13, 2010 13:37:51 GMT -5
Awesome Grey Inquisitor! You don't know how happy I was when the Russian people were allowed to move wherever they wanted finally! I have quite a few Russian acquaintances as they seem to like the weather here in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, and I am in Washington State.
The biggest city around here is Seattle, where the famous Space Needle still stands that was built for the 1962 World's Fair. I actually had dinner once at sunset there and it was a fabulous experience! The Space Needle rotates slowly all of the time, and we ate slow enough to see the sunset over the bay and all of the city lights go on, as it rotated twice while we were eating. It was well worth the money in my opinion, even though it is rather spendy.
Almost everyone here drinks a lot of espresso. I am pretty sure it is because we don't get much sun during 3 seasons of they year as it is as cloudy here most of the time as it is in England from what I hear. We also have tons of fairly inexpensive salmon too! Yum!!! I feel that we have some of the most beautiful beaches in the world here, but that is only my opinion, and I haven't traveled very far. Plus, I can see Mt. Rainier on every sunny day as well, so whenever I go anywhere else in the country I really miss seeing her.
Where I live it is about an hour and a half drive up to Paradise in the Mt. Rainier National Park, and only an hour and a half drive to the ocean beach as well. That is heaven to me, so I feel very spoiled to be living here, even when it rains a lot. When I get some time I will post some pics of Cannon Beach in Oregon, my favorite beach around here, the Space Needle and Mt. Rainier to show you all of my favorite places to go. ;D
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Post by Grey Inquisitor on May 16, 2010 15:11:02 GMT -5
We were happy too.  The period of USSR was a difficult time for Russia. Of course, there were a lot of good things in USSR, but they cost too much. Unnecessary conflicts with other countries, tight control... people couldn't write what they want, couldn't read what they want and even think what they want to think. On the other hand, it was a heroic period when people fought for their rights. One of the interesting phaenomenon of the USSR's culture is "samizdat". Some books were forbidden, but people made copies of these books and gave them to each other. So, these books baecame really popular though they were never published. The simbol of russian resistentia is academic Andrey Sakharov:  Other inportant figures - writer Alexandr Solzhenitsin and poet Varlaam Shalamov. |
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Post by ribbonsalmark on May 17, 2010 16:49:12 GMT -5
I have a very confusing background. You can probably say I come from at least one country in each continent on the planet. Now, I don't intend to sound arrogant but I always felt it was some sort of sign..
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Post by Summer on May 20, 2010 6:01:30 GMT -5
How interesting, Grey Inquisitor. Many of you must have learned to be very strong and independent thinking people since there was such a controlling element in your government for so long. I can understand that a slight bit because I was raised by extreme control freaks who were Mormon on the outside and Satanist's on the in. What a combination, eh?  I also would like to tell you that your university is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful! That looks like a monument of some sort to me. It reminds me of a huge Mormon temple oddly enough. And Ribbonsalmark, that must have been extraordinarily awesome, seeing the unique cultures of so many countries all over the world. That is something I can only imagine being able to do. It would be a very enlightening experience to be able to do that in my opinion. I have many acquaintances here in the USA whom I would love to force to do that very thing, he he. I may be crazy, but although I have been an American all of my life, I have never been able to desire to wear anything that has the United States Flag plastered loudly all over it. It really isn't my style. I would like to say that I am actually proud of our latest president, Barack Obama, because he seems to realize that other cultures as just as important as ours for a change! Maybe we will see even more progress soon? One can always hope.  |
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The period of USSR was a difficult time for Russia. Of course, there were a lot of good things in USSR, but they cost too much. Unnecessary conflicts with other countries, tight control... people couldn't write what they want, couldn't read what they want and even think what they want to think. On the other hand, it was a heroic period when people fought for their rights.
I also would like to tell you that your university is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful! That looks like a monument of some sort to me. It reminds me of a huge Mormon temple oddly enough.