The person with the presents on the Spek box is Zwarte Piet (Black Peter). He is SinterKlaas's (Saint Nicholas a.k.a Santa) assistant. It's a Dutch Christmas tradition. So is the candy letter thing, which I never understood.
+Lshannon90 it has its history in germany where they would make little bread runes for good luck for new borns, the candy letters are more traditionally very yummy chocolate (the chocolate they use for them is really nice) and given to the kids and are presented in order of age youngest first, the dutch sinterklaas is so much more fun than christmas lol
+Lshannon90 I think its funny saying Zwarte Piet because it's pronounced the same way as '[his] black dick' (Svarte Pitt), at least in this part of skåne :)
Stephan ! True, technically it's St. Nicholas Day. My Dutch friends explained it to me by saying that St. Nicholas Day is like the "Dutch version" of Christmas. In my country they celebrate both holidays, St. Nicholas Day and Dec. 25 as Christmas. My friends seem to mix the two holidays together a little, but perhaps they only do that in my country.
I find Ashen's videos rather hard to watch to be honest, for some reason whenever I watch one I have trouble breathing, my eyes tear up, and I have uncontrollable fits that cause me to make a sound such as Hahaha. Very strange.
The black guy with Saint Nick on the Spek Letter packaging is Zwarte Piet, Santa's sidekick in the Netherlands.
10 лет назад
Oh hey, I sent that spek letter. Didn't think you'd still get around to it considering the food special last week didn't have it. I do remember having attached a note explaining that all of the food articles were related to the Dutch/Belgian (possibly also French?) substitute, or even duplicate, of Christmas. Might wanna look that up yourself, I can't possibly do a proper explanation, especially seeing as the pictures on the box seemed to get quite confusing.
10 лет назад
niek237 Weet ik, ik was alleen opzettelijk vaag omdat ik er niet van uit ga dat mensen die het niet kennen dat onmiddelijk begrijpen.
Hebben ze chocoladeletters en spekletters in België? o.o Ik ben een Belg en ik heb ze hier nog nooit in de winkel gezien.
10 лет назад
DeviliciousNails De chocoladeletters vind je hier overal, de spekletter heb ik tot nu toe alleen maar bij de Jan Linders te koop gezien (die winkelketen bestaat geloof ik alleen maar in het zuiden van Nederland).
sinterklaas is geen nederlandse vervanging van kerst de kerstman is juist gebaseerd op sinterklaas (zou zeggen als je me niet geloofd gebruik dan wikipedia)
No he's actually a slave owned by that white bishop called Black Pete, and he's forced to break into houses through the chimney to give good kids toys and to kidnap bad children.
Stuart, I just realized I've been watching you for 8 years. Ever since you uploaded your first video on Putfile and got big on the B3TA newsletter. Good lord, my relationship with you lasted 4x longer than my last marriage. X_x
I agree, I think you should upload again, or let us know why you stopped, though obviously it's well within your rights to vanish into the night, keeping those lovely hands hidde--Wait you were married?
"A Chocolate Spek-letter" Actually, Spek is the Dutch word for Marshmallow (or Bacon, as a homonym). The chocolate variety is just plainly a Chocolate-letter.
I was so proud of myself that, thanks to Cracked articles, I knew the guy with Santa was 'Zwarte Piet' or 'Black Peter'. A rather controversial holiday helper from Dutch folklore.
I bought that drumset (in a redesigned box) for my grandmother last year because she'd taught my brother and me how to play the recorder and keyboard when we were kids. She got a kick out of it, and we learned how to read drum sheet music and play basic drum patterns.
I got one of these drums for Christmas once. My uncle and his girlfriend were doing the Christmas dinner that year, and thought it a good idea that instead of getting everyone expensive presents, everyone would buy each other silly or jokey gifts from Poundland. My uncle and his girlfriend both have £75,000 a year salaries each.
This is by far one of my favourite Ashens videos or in general ever, was Ashens drunk or really pissed off because his sarcasm has me in stitches every time i watch this! He always cheers me up.
"As it's a new year, there's going to be a lot of changes to this channel" Nooo, I hate change! "Not really, it's going to be the same old cheap shit as ever" Hooray!!
Make the blow dryer point at the horse's face so it can be a Fabio-Horse blow-drying his hair. I think that's the only proper way to enjoy that... thing
Some interesting things about Abandon Interactive. They're responsible for several expansion packs for Dark Age of Camelot. Apparently they still exist, but nowadays exclusively make mobile games.
The Spek Letter is from 'Sinterklaas', the Saint who comes to Holland from Spain upon his steamship at the end of November and his birthday is celebrated on December the 5th. His helpers are called `Zwarte Piet` or `Black Pete` and bring all the presents down the chimney. (I know this as my Girlfriend is Dutch and we have celebrated this since we got together)
The Santa on the Candy is Sinterklaas. He is a Saint Nicolas figure from The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Northern France. He also owns black elves called Black Pete.
As far as I'm aware that bishop looking Santa Claus character is Saint Nicholas, a holiday figure primarily from the dutch if I remember right. He, much like Santa, gives gifts to good girls and boys (although it's not all over the world I forget the region he visits) The black character with toys on the back of the box is a Black Pete, one of Saint Nicholas's workers who helps deliver the gifts.
maybe I'm wrong but as a child my parents told me that the black dude doesn't help nikolaus to deliver the gifts, but punish the bad boys and girls by hitting them with a rod or putting them in the sack he carry (there are no presents inside). Btw his celebration is (at least in Germany) on the 6 dezember.
***** . .. These could also be true I didn't grow up with these legends I'm just saying what I've heard. Oh and K17L3R the story your thinking of is the German born story of Saint Nikolaus and Krampus Demon. At least that's how it sounds. Krampus does exactly what you describe.
All I can think of is that horse thing drying someones hair with something leaf-blower-like as an epic war scene unwinds around him and Lost Horizon - Highlander plays in the background.
I love watching an Ashens video just a few minutes after it's come out. It feels like I'm a part of some exclusive club. Call me weird, but... okay, I'm weird.
My university housemates got me a desktop drum set for my birthday. It was so hard to be grateful and have a smile on my face while they watched me play.
Then travel millions of years into the future and find the remains in an open field. Reconstruct the remains into something that resembles Justin Bieber and repeat this entire process again.
Since you were curious Ashens, here's how the starter pack works, from the Freaky Creatures Wikipedia page: "The customer would buy a starter pack with two collectible creatures and a reusable one gigabyte USB flash drive. The USB flash drive contains a code to unlock the game. In the game the player will then be able to play as the creatures they bought."
***** Thing is, there ARE a fair few good shows on TV for kids-- the biggest reason "all the new cartoons suck" is because the people saying so are fondly remembering the ones they grew up with; nothing that comes after can ever compare to one's childhood, whenever that childhood was. My Little Pony isn't the only cartoon currently airing that's aimed at kids but has material for adults, but I suspect it's gotten such popularity with adults because it's not dumbed-down. Look back at the 80s and 90s, and there were plenty of really brainless toons, and there still are now.
Jonas Clark Jonas. I don't think you understand. I don't believe tv was ever good.There are like 5 shows worth watching from any time period. Also I watched a few episodes of MLP. It's almost as dumbed down as the people who watch it. EDIT - Fanboy over it. Sorry.
***** Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I've only seen three episodes, and I rather enjoyed them. I don't watch a great deal of TV because it doesn't appeal to me; the staged "reality" shows aren't much fun. What little I do watch, I tend to seek out online. I sincerely hope you feel that your low opinions of people you've never met serves you well, though.
When you try and go to the Freaky Creatures website, it comes up with 'cheap generic cialis' and other drugs. Yeah... Don't really want your kids going there after getting a toy from poundland...
So just because someone has a fox as their profile picture that makes them a furry? You don't even know what the context of their profile picture is unless they or other people confirm it to you so you can't really jump to conclusions like that.
HaHaHaHaHaHa :D :D love it when the 'Hammer of Doom' comes into play, so funny :D :D ...watched the 'dancing' JaJaBinks video last night, it was so fkn funny! Keep makin' me laugh, Stuart :D
The ending reminded me of the scene in Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" where Stan plays the drum he was given by meg for his birthday, building up to an ugly crescendo with frustration!
Abandon Interactive Entertainment! xD It's a WARNING! Also, I think the weird futuristic gun is actually a hairdryer Horzan uses to make his mane look fabulous.
I remember some old people relatives having fabric toilet seat covers when I was a kid. I used to think it was so nice until my mom told me that they were just magnets for germs and bacteria. Even those ones that are cushioned vinyl are bad. Sure you can easily clean the vinyl. But eventually it's going to get tears in it and the foam underneath is gonna be e coli city.
