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Offtopic => Offtopic => Topic started by: ferret on February 20, 2007, 10:08:35 AM

Title: Carnival
Post by: ferret on February 20, 2007, 10:08:35 AM

So, do you/people in your country celebrate carneval? Here, in Austria, they do (I don't), but it's just like every party (loads of drunks and nothing else). I'd love to be in Brazil at that time to see that pompeous spectacle just once in my lifetime, it looks really impressive.  :D

Title: Carnival
Post by: ferret on February 20, 2007, 10:26:24 AM

Meh, it's Carnival in English  :oops:

Have you never seen something like this

(http://www.afinetour.com/images/uploads/tourimages/brazil_carnival_1.jpg)

or that?

(http://www.brazil-travelnet.com/image-files/sambodromo_carnival_rio.jpg)

(http://www.yolksmoke.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/rio-carnival.jpg)

Everybody's dressing up...it's like Halloween, just bigger  :P

Title: Carnival
Post by: Orkrist on February 20, 2007, 10:32:51 AM

Lol, we don't have anything like that here :P Here it's called Laskiainen, and usually we eat peasoup, and for dessert coffeebreads with whipped cream and jam. We don't have carnivals here, as we don't have that kind of Halloween as in US for example.

Title: Carnival
Post by: PanthereNoire on February 20, 2007, 11:17:43 AM

We don't have it here in Japan (though they do in germany), so when I first saw your topic, I though you were talking about Carnival by TRAX, before I realized this was the offtopic and not other bands forum. :twisted:

Title: Carnival
Post by: Mii on February 20, 2007, 11:27:27 AM

Quote from: "Orkrist"

Here it's called Laskiainen, and usually we eat peasoup, and for dessert coffeebreads with whipped cream and jam.

Wow, we do?!  :shock:  Ahaha, I never eat them at Laskiainen..  :oops:  American halloween would be interesting to see once  :)
And as Orkrist said, we dont have carnivals here :D

Title: Carnival
Post by: ferret on February 20, 2007, 11:30:54 AM

Actually, Halloween is celebrated here as well, don't ask me why. Oh, and I think it's called Fasching in Austria...or was that in Germany? :oops:

Title: Carnival
Post by: PanthereNoire on February 20, 2007, 11:46:18 AM

It's Fasching in Austria and Bavaria (South Germany) and Karneval in the rest of Germany.

Title: Carnival
Post by: ferret on February 20, 2007, 11:53:24 AM

Quite embarrassing, but I often talk to people on German forums so I often get things mixed up  :oops:

Thanks for clearing it up  :P

Title: Carnival
Post by: Maverick on February 20, 2007, 12:57:55 PM

Well, here (East Germany) it's rather called Fasching but Carnival/Karneval - but both words are used.

Title: Carnival
Post by: Sander on February 20, 2007, 01:16:48 PM

Karneval in Estonian... And no, we don't celebrate it...

But we do have a Sambacarnival (or Sambafestival) in summer :D The dancers from our city gather and have a parade through the city n'd stuff :P

(http://photo.pri.ee/samba/samba4/images/IMG_0224.jpg)
(http://photo.pri.ee/samba/samba4/images/IMG_0068.jpg)
(http://photo.pri.ee/samba/samba4/images/IMG_0118.jpg)

Title: Carnival
Post by: Orkrist on February 20, 2007, 01:19:37 PM

Quote from: "Mii"

Wow, we do?!  :shock:  Ahaha, I never eat them at Laskiainen

Lol, yes we do XD It's traditional food, though many people hate peasoup nowadays. But laskiaispulla (that coffeebread) is still popular, I think. :P