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White Tiger88
11-25-2012, 07:08 PM
Thats right its time....FOR CHRISTMAS AVATARS!!!!

Wildeybeast
11-26-2012, 01:23 PM
Not until December the first it's not.

ElectricPaladin
11-26-2012, 01:50 PM
Sweet mother of lizards, no it's not. It's bad enough that every retail store I walk through looks like Christmas puked up on it, I don't need it in my forums, too.

Mr Mystery
11-26-2012, 03:19 PM
Ha bumhug!

White Tiger88
11-27-2012, 12:43 AM
Ha bumhug!

Go put your Top hat back on! Also wheres my Christmas pay you cheap skate!!!!

Learn2Eel
11-27-2012, 01:12 AM
Lol!

energongoodie
11-27-2012, 02:46 AM
Not until December the first it's not.

+1
I couldn't agree more.
But then I'm gonna hit it hard and fast.

Wolfshade
11-27-2012, 02:52 AM
I think I have found 'Splogies:
https://www.gameinformer.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-PostAttachments/00-01-57-67-17/102886-_2D00_-artist_2D00_saga_2D00_wolf-Christmas-rainbow_5F00_dash-santa_5F00_hat.png_2D00_500x400.png

Psychosplodge
11-27-2012, 03:50 AM
One it's too soon, and two I'll clearly have a Fluttershy one...

Nice find though.

White Tiger88
11-27-2012, 10:06 AM
I think I have found 'Splogies:
https://www.gameinformer.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-PostAttachments/00-01-57-67-17/102886-_2D00_-artist_2D00_saga_2D00_wolf-Christmas-rainbow_5F00_dash-santa_5F00_hat.png_2D00_500x400.png


Well thats freaking terrifying...........

Psychosplodge
11-27-2012, 10:09 AM
well that's amazingly adawbs ...........

ftfy

White Tiger88
11-27-2012, 10:30 AM
ftfy

Don't make me roast a pony for dinner. (And NO that isn't a Term for something else....)

Psychosplodge
11-27-2012, 10:35 AM
Don't make me roast a pony for dinner. (And NO that isn't a Term for something else....)

How'd you roast a cartoon?

Mr Mystery
11-27-2012, 12:49 PM
Go put your Top hat back on! Also wheres my Christmas pay you cheap skate!!!!

In you Mum's g-string, where it usually is.

Wildeybeast
11-27-2012, 03:19 PM
In you Mum's g-string, where it usually is.

Zing!

Mr Mystery
11-27-2012, 03:30 PM
I thank you!

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 03:33 PM
I don't. You suck!

Mr Mystery
11-27-2012, 03:35 PM
Shut up Ted!

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 03:38 PM
O_O

How did you know that I'm the Ted of the apartment?

Mr Mystery
11-27-2012, 03:41 PM
I know this, because I am made from your missing socks. Remember?

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 03:47 PM
Oh yeah.

Mr Mystery
11-27-2012, 03:55 PM
And you can expect another to go missing shortly.

My winkle is nearly worn through!

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 03:59 PM
Hawwwwwwwwwww!

TDA Junior is EG's. :p

Mr Mystery
11-27-2012, 04:07 PM
Dude, I just need a sock to replace my worn out dibbler. I neither need not want your dibbler!

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 04:12 PM
Yeah you do. Totally gay for me Mystery. :p

You can have this sock, you may want to wash it.

Wildeybeast
11-27-2012, 04:28 PM
Whilst I'm all for derailment, I can't help but feel mentioning TDA's manhood, or lack thereof, at every possible opportunity was not really one of the founding principles of the Horsemen.

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 04:29 PM
I'm following the trend. I had to make it look cool.

Wolfshade
11-27-2012, 05:05 PM
No, horsemen are about derailment, and sometimes re-railment...

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs42/f/2009/056/b/6/Trade_Failure__Christmas_Wolf_by_Vexacia.jpg

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 05:13 PM
Needs more balls.

Wildeybeast
11-27-2012, 05:14 PM
I'm glad it's not just me that was uncomfortable with that then. If you want to set up a dedicated thread to your manhood TDA, please feel free.

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 05:16 PM
I thought we were in a bromance?

Psychosplodge
11-27-2012, 05:22 PM
TDA thinking with his other brain again? ¬_¬

Cold shower boyo that'll sort you out...

Wildeybeast
11-27-2012, 05:27 PM
A bromance only covers discussion of your manhood when you are a)boasting about it being in woman's orifice (high fives all round!) b)have injured it in some amusing/gruesome way c)have a genuine medical concern about it which you feel the need to unload on me rather than a trained medical professional. The bromance does not permit homoerotic banter about your knob (especially with someone not in the bromance) or gratuitous and tangential references to your dressing it up in times of clothing. The bromance got to have limits dude or otherwise it just becomes a full on gay relationship (not that there is anything wrong with that, just that it wouldn't be a bromance any more. And EG would probably remove my diaphragm or some other part of my body I'm quite attached to.)

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 05:36 PM
Hahahaha!

Fair play Wildey.

Psychosplodge
11-27-2012, 05:39 PM
Also you may have put too much thought into that response...

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 05:40 PM
It was correct though.

Wolfshade
11-27-2012, 05:41 PM
the only little thing I want to see is kittens in santa hats in this thread :)

http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/508/362890-070924_cat_xmas_super.jpg

Psychosplodge
11-27-2012, 05:43 PM
Cats on the internet? It'll never catch on...

Wildeybeast
11-27-2012, 05:45 PM
Also you may have put too much thought into that response...

When you've been in a bromance for a while, you just kind of know what feels right and where the boundaries.

Wildeybeast
11-27-2012, 05:47 PM
the only little thing I want to see is kittens in santa hats in this thread :)

http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/508/362890-070924_cat_xmas_super.jpg

No ponies? I know someone who is going to be a sad little boy this Christmas...

Psychosplodge
11-27-2012, 05:49 PM
I've got a couple lined up, but it's too soon...

Wildeybeast
11-27-2012, 05:54 PM
Damn straight. I've been reprimanding children for singing Christmas songs and getting excited too early for the last couple of weeks now. It's starting to get tiresome.

Psychosplodge
11-27-2012, 05:56 PM
Indeed, a week before, then the week till new year, that's enough xmas for me...

Wolfshade
11-27-2012, 05:58 PM
Damn straight. I've been reprimanding children for singing Christmas songs and getting excited too early for the last couple of weeks now. It's starting to get tiresome.

You should make them sing Advent songs instead, far less exciting

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-27-2012, 06:03 PM
I hate Christmas.

Psychosplodge
11-27-2012, 06:03 PM
Or at least teach them Fairytale of New York
Unless of course you mean something like this
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/357/a/c/your_real_christmas_present____by_juicy_cactus-d4k0z8p.png

White Tiger88
11-27-2012, 06:51 PM
Or at least teach them Fairytale of New York
Unless of course you mean something like this
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/357/a/c/your_real_christmas_present____by_juicy_cactus-d4k0z8p.png

I stick by saying you need help O.o

Uncle Nutsy
11-27-2012, 09:52 PM
goddammit that's the last thing I need. I already get hit with christmas every time I need to go get food, and now it's happening here?

thanks for reminding me of family fights.

White Tiger88
11-27-2012, 10:18 PM
goddammit that's the last thing i need. I already get hit with christmas every time i need to go get food, and now it's happening here?

Thanks for reminding me of family fights.

joy to the world, peace has come or what ever, the hell, it saysssss!

Wolfshade
11-28-2012, 02:47 AM
joy to the world, peace has come or what ever, the hell, it saysssss!

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing,
(Isaac Watts)

Bigred
11-29-2012, 12:38 AM
Christmas avatar pulled out of the attic, dusted off and put on.

Lets see some Christmas Spirit people!!!

http://youtu.be/hqOOUJFv1n0

Psycho - I want to see some ponies pulling a sleigh!
TDA - Arhiman with a santa suit
Eldargal - something with bells...

Lets hit it people!!! :)

White Tiger88
11-29-2012, 01:43 AM
Awww ya Bigred is in! Get out the Mod avatars folks! Also i suspect Gal would make TDA put the bells on........

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-29-2012, 02:13 AM
I am starting to hate Christmas...

Wolfshade
11-29-2012, 02:29 AM
Awww ya Bigred is in! Get out the Mod avatars folks! Also i suspect Gal would make TDA put the bells on........

I have some good pictures of bells

Psychosplodge
11-29-2012, 02:31 AM
Got one, but not in November...

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-29-2012, 02:31 AM
I am starting to hate Christmas...

I am starting to hate everything...

DrLove42
11-29-2012, 02:48 AM
My name is Micheal J Caboose. And I Hate Babies.

I've just never had a Avatar on this forum. WOuld be wierd to start now...

Wolfshade
11-29-2012, 02:49 AM
I am starting to hate everything...
Got no time to discriminate just hate every mother hubbard that's in your way

Wolfshade
11-29-2012, 02:50 AM
My name is Micheal J Caboose. And I Hate Babies.

I've just never had a Avatar on this forum. WOuld be wierd to start now...

Tizzy would love you to have a pony one :)

Psychosplodge
11-29-2012, 02:54 AM
Well he did used to have that really nice tzeentch one...

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-29-2012, 03:35 AM
My name is Micheal J Caboose. And I Hate Babies.

I've just never had a Avatar on this forum. WOuld be wierd to start now...

My name is Dale J Parratt, and I hate EVERYTHING.

energongoodie
11-29-2012, 04:33 AM
My Christmas Avatar has been made and ready for insertion on Saturday.
HO HO HO.

White Tiger88
11-29-2012, 04:47 AM
My Christmas Avatar has been made and ready for insertion on Saturday.
HO HO HO.

What did you just call me? :D

alshrive
11-29-2012, 04:48 AM
i guess i will need to photoshop a hat or something onto my avatar...

energongoodie
11-29-2012, 05:52 AM
What did you just call me? :D

Nice ;)

Wolfshade
11-29-2012, 06:04 AM
My Christmas Avatar has been made and ready for insertion on Saturday.
HO HO HO.

Why Saturday?

Psychosplodge
11-29-2012, 07:01 AM
Why Saturday?

Because he suffers with Premature celebration?

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-29-2012, 07:04 AM
Because Saturday is the 1st December? And thus, the 1st day of Advent.

Though technically, the 1st day of Advent is the 2nd...

Wolfshade
11-29-2012, 07:33 AM
Zing Advent Sunday 2nd = 1st day of Advent boom!

energongoodie
11-29-2012, 07:38 AM
Because Saturday is the 1st December? And thus, the 1st day of Advent.

Though technically, the 1st day of Advent is the 2nd...

Precisely :D

Wolfshade
11-29-2012, 07:44 AM
So if we are to be liturigically correct then advent avatars until evening of the 24th then Christmas ones till Feb 2 :)

Wildeybeast
11-29-2012, 11:22 AM
i guess i will need to photoshop a hat or something onto my avatar...

I have a request for aid that I'm sure my fellow BoLSers maybe able able to help with. I would like to do this, but don't have the slightest clue how. Would any of you technological geniuses be kind enough to do it for me?

ElectricPaladin
11-29-2012, 11:24 AM
Do I need to find some way to make a Hanukkah avatar? Maybe I do.

Bigred
11-29-2012, 11:57 AM
I'm American - we start celebrating Christmas the week before Halloween!

Advent is just a reminder to start yanking daily candies out of the calender.

Psychosplodge
11-29-2012, 12:14 PM
I'm a cynical misanthrope, xmas is another occasion that thrusts unwanted social"obligations" on me :D

Bigred
11-29-2012, 12:16 PM
I'm a cynical misanthrope,

You're half-way there. Just a few more steps and you can be a cynical misanthrope Christmas FANATIC! They really creep out the masses...

Psychosplodge
11-29-2012, 12:22 PM
I can imagine they would lol

Wildeybeast
11-29-2012, 01:35 PM
I'm American - we start celebrating Christmas the week before Halloween!

Advent is just a reminder to start yanking daily candies out of the calender.

It's exactly the same over here. We get bloody crackers on display alongside fireworks to celebrate the grisly torture and execution of a religious fanatic and failed terrorist. The two just don't quite seem to gel in my mind. The only reason we don't go more overboard sooner is that people find it inappropriate to hold Remembrance Day with Christmas lights everywhere.

energongoodie
11-29-2012, 01:40 PM
I have a request for aid that I'm sure my fellow BoLSers maybe able able to help with. I would like to do this, but don't have the slightest clue how. Would any of you technological geniuses be kind enough to do it for me?

I'd be happy to help out. Just PM me with what you fancy :)

The Girl
11-29-2012, 05:45 PM
Christmas avatar pulled out of the attic, dusted off and put on.

Lets see some Christmas Spirit people!!!

http://youtu.be/hqOOUJFv1n0

Psycho - I want to see some ponies pulling a sleigh!
TDA - Arhiman with a santa suit
Eldargal - something with bells...

Lets hit it people!!! :)

I do not approve.

Uncle Nutsy
11-29-2012, 08:34 PM
The only red I want to see is the blood on my axe, and the only green I want to see is the pus from distended bodies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ1oxudCMOw

White Tiger88
11-29-2012, 10:39 PM
I do not approve.

To bad, Bring us Egg Nog and RuM!!!! ooooh Rumballs....DDAMN IT NOW I WANT THEM!!!!! >_<

Also look at the big evil threat i started /proud

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
11-30-2012, 01:16 AM
Rum makes me want to vomit. For very legitimate childhood related reasons.

Wolfshade
11-30-2012, 03:53 AM
Rum makes me want to vomit. For very legitimate childhood related reasons.

"Christmas" muffins, they make me want to vomit, imagine muffins with mincemeat O_O

Psychosplodge
11-30-2012, 03:59 AM
"Christmas" muffins, they make me want to vomit, imagine muffins with mincemeat O_O

Who came up with that?

Wolfshade
11-30-2012, 04:55 AM
Former contract director's former wife.

They were not as nice as they sound

Psychosplodge
11-30-2012, 05:06 AM
At least he did the right thing and divorced her, that'll teach her to come up with ridonkulous ideas.

Gotthammer
11-30-2012, 11:45 AM
Welp, it's now officially December here so...

and if any of you don't like it you can, to quote the great philosopher Ice-T, go eat a hot bowl of d!cks :p



The best part about working in retail is getting to hear three versions of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in a row followed by "It's Sad to be Lonely at Christmas" (here, #18 (https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/christmas-wishes/id391701326), if you want to get depressed) which is just awesome when you're newly single. And it's 4am and still 25 degrees with 70% humidity (was up to 40 today!).

Oh wait, I hate Christmas.

Wildeybeast
11-30-2012, 11:59 AM
Welp, it's now officially December here so...

and if any of you don't like it you can, to quote the great philosopher Ice-T, go eat a hot bowl of d!cks :p



The best part about working in retail is getting to hear three versions of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in a row followed by "It's Sad to be Lonely at Christmas" (here, #18 (https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/christmas-wishes/id391701326), if you want to get depressed) which is just awesome when you're newly single. And it's 4am and still 25 degrees with 70% humidity (was up to 40 today!).

Oh wait, I hate Christmas.

Christmas in summer. I'll never understand how you lot put up with it. It's just unnatural.

Gotthammer
11-30-2012, 12:15 PM
http://youtu.be/OnJ8jsw4BSo


Though you can have some great fun at Chrismas in retail - the misanthropic joy of shutting the door on people trying to get in to last minute shopping is a perverse thrill that any Archon would crave. And almost but not quite calling people stupid when they complain that we don't have any cards or wrapping paper left at 9:59pm (closing at 10) on the 24th.

Psychosplodge
11-30-2012, 01:42 PM
Yes having worked retail till late on xmas eve I can agree with that. It's still three aand half weeks away, TOO DAMN EARLY!!! :D

Uncle Nutsy
11-30-2012, 07:15 PM
when christmas crosses metal, you get... awesome.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MntZ2oPDPnM

Wildeybeast
12-01-2012, 04:47 AM
I'd like to give public thanks to me new BFF energongoodie for very kindly making me an Xmas avatar! Yet another example of how awesome the BoLS community is! Also, it's the first in Europe now, so get your Xmas avatars out!

Edit: An associated thought. When are we taking removing them? I'm assuming all Brits will be holding to the traditional custom of twelfth night (5th Jan), but will our colonial cousins be joining us in this? What traditions do our European brethern hold to?

Gotthammer
12-01-2012, 12:59 PM
Most xmas stuff around here either comes down the day after boxing day or the weekend after. Definitely before New Years, which I imagine is bigger here with our more party-friendly weather.

White Tiger88
12-01-2012, 01:06 PM
Most xmas stuff around here either comes down the day after boxing day or the weekend after. Definitely before New Years, which I imagine is bigger here with our more party-friendly weather.

Pft we Canadian's follow the Euro style :3

Gotthammer
12-01-2012, 01:09 PM
We should do a "who wore it better" for our hats ;)

energongoodie
12-01-2012, 02:27 PM
I'd like to give public thanks to me new BFF energongoodie for very kindly making me an Xmas avatar! Yet another example of how awesome the BoLS community is! Also, it's the first in Europe now, so get your Xmas avatars out!

Edit: An associated thought. When are we taking removing them? I'm assuming all Brits will be holding to the traditional custom of twelfth night (5th Jan), but will our colonial cousins be joining us in this? What traditions do our European brethern hold to?


No problem at all BOLS chum.
If any one else needs a hand getting their digital Christmas on then please let me know.

I'm with you, with the 5th of Jan thing.

My avatar has now been officially changed :D
I Chuffing love Christmas!

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-01-2012, 03:49 PM
Energongoodie! Bring me a Santa-dressed Ahriman worthy of Mordor! :D

White Tiger88
12-01-2012, 06:36 PM
Energongoodie! Bring me a Santa-dressed Ahriman worthy of Mordor! :D

No, how about Gollum instead?

Learn2Eel
12-01-2012, 09:35 PM
How about a Hive Tyrant with a Santa Claus hat?

White Tiger88
12-01-2012, 10:22 PM
How about a Hive Tyrant with a Santa Claus hat?

No must be a Lictor with a Santa Hat!

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-01-2012, 11:07 PM
No, how about Gollum instead?

I wasn't talking to you.

White Tiger88
12-02-2012, 01:46 AM
I wasn't talking to you.

Your Argument is invalid.

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-02-2012, 01:58 AM
...

Gotthammer
12-02-2012, 02:15 AM
I think it's meant to be "I'm wearing a Santa hat, your argument is invalid" :p

eldargal
12-02-2012, 02:23 AM
http://bighugelabs.com/output/lolcat26d5d8c61c61a21967f58af473063ce9576742b3.jpg
You brought this on yourselves.

Liara Christmas Avatar > all.

Gotthammer
12-02-2012, 02:44 AM
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r314/Gotthammer/EGA.jpg

Who brought what on themselves now? http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r314/Gotthammer/emote/shifty.gif

eldargal
12-02-2012, 04:08 AM
Hm.

Liara & Christmas EG avatars > all.

Crisis averted.:p

Learn2Eel
12-02-2012, 04:10 AM
Can I haz one?
Pretty please.....

Lol.

Psychosplodge
12-02-2012, 12:01 PM
I suppose it's the first day of advent so I'll join the party, but I'm just going to sit in the corner and grumble about it still being too early...

White Tiger88
12-02-2012, 05:23 PM
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r314/Gotthammer/EGA.jpg

Who brought what on themselves now? http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r314/Gotthammer/emote/shifty.gif

Lets take a poll who DIDN'T Download this avatar for later use to bug EG?

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-02-2012, 06:13 PM
Well, I probably have something far more incriminating...

White Tiger88
12-02-2012, 06:16 PM
Well, I probably have something far more incriminating...

O'rly? do share!

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-02-2012, 07:08 PM
How about no? What me and EG say to each other is private...

White Tiger88
12-02-2012, 07:45 PM
How about no? What me and EG say to each other is private...


Say? Aw...thats no fun i thought you where going to make her a new avatar that would make her kill us all.

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-02-2012, 07:54 PM
Nah, I'll keep that to myself.

White Tiger88
12-02-2012, 09:19 PM
Nah, I'll keep that to myself.

You greedy ******* you :P Share with those of us that are female deprived! I mean...uh...HI KIDS!!!!

*cough*

Anyhow get your Avatars to christmass people! I am debating making Tzeentch a Scrooge mcduck one -_-

eldargal
12-03-2012, 02:46 AM
Well, I probably have something far more incriminating...

No you don't.:p

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-03-2012, 03:26 AM
You greedy ******* you :P Share with those of us that are female deprived! I mean...uh...HI KIDS!!!!

*cough*

Anyhow get your Avatars to christmass people! I am debating making Tzeentch a Scrooge mcduck one -_-

No.


No you don't.:p

Yes, yes I do. :p


EDIT: Also, thanks to energongoodie for my avatar. Although, it must be said, I hate Christmas. Especially this year.

energongoodie
12-03-2012, 05:21 AM
Learn2Eel, I've done you an Avatar :)
Just PM me for it.

White Tiger88
12-03-2012, 10:32 PM
Learn2Eel, I've done you an Avatar :)
Just PM me for it.

What evil thing have you unleashed?

Deadlift
12-03-2012, 11:33 PM
Im in, North from "Rise of the Guardians" Santa with attitude. ;)

White Tiger88
12-03-2012, 11:43 PM
Im in, North from "Rise of the Guardians" Santa with attitude. ;)

Good sir, Welcome to the club you may count on me to eat the haters! *sharpens fangs*

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-04-2012, 02:08 AM
Im in, North from "Rise of the Guardians" Santa with attitude. ;)

Me and a couple of friends saw that last night, brilliant film!

Psychosplodge
12-04-2012, 02:30 AM
What evil thing have you unleashed?

Hats? lots and lots of hats?

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-04-2012, 02:47 AM
I am now Jack Frost, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell yeah!



Me - By the sounds of it, a couple of us want to dress up as them. With me as Jack Frost obviously.
Friend - Haha! Yeah, the poor lost soul who is ever so cheeky, but loveable! Yaay! :)

Before anyone asks, yes, that friend is a female.

Psychosplodge
12-04-2012, 02:54 AM
It's already been suggested by one of the SO friends that I should cosplay the santa...I haven't even seen the film yet...

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-04-2012, 03:02 AM
You'd be better as the Easter Bunny, depending on how well you can do an Australian accent.

Wolfshade
12-04-2012, 03:11 AM
Love the Christmas avatars :)

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-04-2012, 03:14 AM
Cheers!

Psychosplodge
12-04-2012, 03:18 AM
You'd be better as the Easter Bunny, depending on how well you can do an Australian accent.
Sniping's a difficult job mate, No Dad I'm a hired assassin, not a crazed gunman. Well one's a profession, the other's a mental illness. Dad, Dad, put Mum on the phone.
No can't really do one..doh


Love the Christmas avatars :)
Thanks I found it online all by myself :D

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-04-2012, 03:24 AM
I left a voicemail for a friend yesterday, in a fluent Australian accent, and he phoned back then told me that he thought my phone had been stolen by an Australian. So I think I have that accent nailed down to a tee.

Wolfshade
12-04-2012, 03:43 AM
All you have to do is pretend that every sentance is actually a question and therefore lift at the end...

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-04-2012, 03:53 AM
That's a scouser...

Wolfshade
12-04-2012, 03:59 AM
No.

Casual observers of uptalk here in the UK have long maintained that the characteristic interrogative "lift" is typically antipodean. Guardian columnist and broadcaster Mark Lawson, for instance, remarked on the phenomenon in this newspaper in 1998, but claims to have spotted the trend nearly a decade earlier. "My guess was that it was spreading here because of Neighbours and Home and Away, which were what the young watched at the time," he says. "I have no doubt at all that Australian soap is the culprit as the change in the speech of the English young became noticeable within a year or two of those shows topping our ratings."
-http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/sep/21/referenceandlanguages.mattseaton

Psychosplodge
12-04-2012, 04:07 AM
Yeah when I did English at A-level, a long time ago now, it was definitely considered an Australian/New Zealand speech trait.

energongoodie
12-04-2012, 04:41 AM
What evil thing have you unleashed?

:D
If any one else wants a Christmas Avatar just PM with an idea and I'll try and do it.
They only take a couple of seconds when they are this size :)

Psychosplodge
12-04-2012, 04:46 AM
Christmas avatar pulled out of the attic, dusted off and put on.


Psycho - I want to see some ponies pulling a sleigh!



How about that V ?

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12-04-2012, 04:55 AM
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Gotthammer
12-04-2012, 11:30 AM
I am skeptical of any claims of successfully pulling off a real sounding Aussie accent.

Drunkencorgimaster
12-04-2012, 09:30 PM
A Christmas Tail!

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White Tiger88
12-04-2012, 11:35 PM
Erge to kill riseing.

Tzeentch's Dark Agent
12-05-2012, 02:40 AM
I am skeptical of any claims of successfully pulling off a real sounding Aussie accent.

Well... That's your problem then.

Wolfshade
12-05-2012, 02:57 AM
I am skeptical of any claims of successfully pulling off a real sounding Aussie accent.

I imagine Americans could as they share a common heritage...

Learn2Eel
12-05-2012, 08:48 AM
Big shout out to energongoodie for this fantastic Christmas Hive Tyrant! Something as scary and imposing as a Hive Tyrant with fuzzy lights and a santa hat is just awesome!

Depends on the American Wolfshade, and which kind of Aussie accent. The "light" one famously led to a certain Australian athlete being asked by an American lady "what state she was from".
Full-on bogan accent though, don't even try. I can only do that if I really deepen my voice, and it does nothing but make people laugh. Though I guess that is the point.

Wolfshade
12-05-2012, 08:53 AM
Sorry I was being slightly mean, I was refering to those who non-voluntarily emigrated.

I think with doing accent impersinations most people can do a passable one as long as it is not heard by a native speaker.

Indeed my sister at one stage lived in the North West and was asked why she would choose to emmigrate from Oz to Blackburn.

Learn2Eel
12-05-2012, 08:59 AM
Haha no offense taken, I didn't even see it that way lol.

Yeah that is certainly true, a good example is Inception - in the scene where Eames is studying Browning, one of the individuals in the room talks with what seems a convincing Aussie accent. Hearing it myself though, it seems really forced, though maybe that is just me.

On the flip side, some reviews for TDKR (only example I can think of at the moment lol) complained about Gordon-Levitt's (John Blake) inconsistent Eastern (I think) accent, though I never really noticed it.

Wolfshade
12-05-2012, 09:04 AM
You can get some really good ones, like Hugh Laurie in House, which even confused the producer...

Learn2Eel
12-05-2012, 09:17 AM
Never bothered watching the show, never really piqued my interest. That didn't stop my family of course. I remember hearing him talking quite a bit though. When I realized he was a British actor, appropriately, my head exploded.
Gary Oldman is a chameleon, listen to him normally then play through any of the Treyarch (excluding CoD3) developed CoD games. You literally cannot tell it is him.

Wolfshade
12-05-2012, 09:23 AM
My wife and I were talking about that exact thing last night, so many films we watch then suddenly we are like it's Oldman! and lo it is. Not just in voice but appearance too.