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Offline TopAce

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How does it sound that 'Father Christmas is coming to town', instead of 'Santa Claus is coming to town'?

Anyway, the dutch would be Santa Klaus, right? (seriously)
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Offline aldo_14

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Sinterklaas.  I believe it's derived from 'Saint Nicholas' (the original inspiration).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_klaus

 

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Got ten aswell.
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I got a 4.:p
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Offline Inquisitor

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Being an American...

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Originally posted by Kosh



I always thought the idea for "Father Christmas" and "Santa Claus" came from the Dutch......


Indeed, Sinterklaas. The Dutch celebration is waay different from the US/UK Christmass, though.

Over here, we give small gifts (mostly), with funny, somewhat teasing poems attached to them. You often create a large 'surprise', intresting packaging. For instance, back when I was known for carrying a huge backpack in school, a girl made me a gigantic (1*1*1m) backpack, filled with shredded newspaper, and my gifts scattered inside, so I'd have to search.

Our christmass is generally spending time with your family, staying at home, and that kind of stuff.
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Offline Gai Daigoji

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I got seven, kind of a bad quiz if you ask me. If you went around and asked half the british people these questions most would answer wrong :rolleyes:
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Offline karajorma

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Judging from the stats it appears as if the British are actually more likely to get things wrong than foreigners.

Probably something to do with being too close to the problem.
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Offline Mongoose

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I'm Pennsylvania born and bred, never left my home country or even my time zone, and I still managed to get eight.  For shame, aldo. Now that I know that, what's a district council? :p

P.S. Considering that I know the feast day of my patron saint, Andrew, and St. Patty's Day is easy, that question wasn't that hard to figure out. :)
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Offline Fergus

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8...though methinks I got a higher score than our good-for-nothing local MP
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Aldo, of course you're not British. You're a Scot.
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Offline TopAce

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the British = the English. the Scots, the Welsh and the North Irish.
So aldo, IS a British
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Offline aldo_14

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Originally posted by TopAce
the British = the English. the Scots, the Welsh and the North Irish.
So aldo, IS a British


Only in semantics.

Which is the point ngtm1r was making.  I hope.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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It is indeed.
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Offline TopAce

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Originally posted by aldo_14


Only in semantics.

Which is the point ngtm1r was making.  I hope.


Very well, I accept it. You better know it.
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Offline Clave

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The English (which includes me) have a very bad history with the other countries of the Union, that's why there's lots of castles all over the UK...
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Offline pyro-manic

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Damn straight. More castles for a given area than anywhere else in the world here in Wales. We've given you a fair bit of aggro over the centuries. ;)
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Offline karajorma

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Really? Where in Wales? Cause I'm from Kent and if you're beating us I'll be impressed :)
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Offline pyro-manic

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I got the stat off a documentary (I think it was one of the Dan Cruickshank ones), but we've got stacks of 'em (into the hundreds IIRC). There are three major ones within five miles of my house.

This might help. I haven't looked through it properly, but it seems to have a big list of buildings and sites. Also look at the CADW website (www.cadw.wales.gov.uk) - they're the ones who look after most of them.
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