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Ah, good old Sinterklaas, welcome to a Dutch, German and Belgium tradition
Indeed, the bag was _actually_ for putting bad behaved children in it!
Looks like it’s based on Sinterklaas. He takes bad children to Spain.
He takes bad childrens to Spain.
I find that utterly hilarious.
I thought in Holland it was Black Peter who took children to Brasil?!
it is black peter in holland.
No, Sinterklaas’ helpers are Black Peters, they also go back to Spain.
Black Pete is Sinterklaas’s servant, so I mean, they kinda do things together. He’s black because he’s Moorish, very much going back to Spain.
The “he’s balck from chimney soot” is a recent invention in an attempt to whitewash black pete.
Maybe whitewash isn’t the best word to be using in this context :-p
Well, Swarte Piet was Sinterklaas helper-daemon, the guy with the bag was “de Sint” himself and he did not take the children to Spain but to a slightly hotter place: Hell
Spain appeared later in the XIX century (AFAIK) when Sinterklaas was “civilized” and “christianized”… Sinterklaas is said to come _from_ Spain in a steamboat and Swarte Piet is no longer a daemon but Sint’s helper. In the German version the guy in red is a Saint, Sankt Niklaus, a catholic bishop who lived in Turkey… Just don’t ask why precisely this Turkish guy who had nothing to do with Germany: Religion has always be the greatest source of WTF moments, lol
Spain? That’s AWEsome.
They’d also get smacked though and they’d have to work.
If you say it like that, it sounds naughty.
Ah… Sinterklaas… Better than the corporate scheme called christmas.
screw leaving presents… santa needs something for himself this year
Now we know where Santa recruits all the elves in his workshop.
instead of telling my son Santa is going to leave him a bundle of switches i am so showing him this picture and telling him this is what Santa is going to do to you if your naughty this year.
Hey, and you’re going to save a lot of money in christmas presents!!!
The Santa ate ma’ baby.
St. Nick must have misplaced Krampus.
The global economy may be improving but at the North Pole another elf gets sacked.
Suppose Santa does this from time to time to raise morale?
Morals aren’t the only thing he’s trying to raise… Looks like Mrs. Claus just isn’t enough anymore.
Apparently, according to the lettering on the sack, if you’re naughty you get sent back to 1977. The horror.
Oh crap! The children will be dressed in clingy polyester and platform shoes, and forced to listen to disco music. Oh the humanity!
Holy crap!! This is the exact same ornament that terrified me when I was a kid!! Wow, this brings back memories. I remember “making it disappear” one year to make sure I didn’t have to set eyes upon it ever again.
We had this one on our tree, too. My mom still has it.
Bug Man! It’s Sinterklaas and I remember you tossing the ornament away! Bad boy. Coal and a trip to Spain for you!
I KNEW IT ! SANTAS A PEDIFILE!
Or he is outsourcing prodction for Adidas!
ROFLMAO
Yeah kids, where do you think Santa gets all the free ‘elf’ labor to run his toy factory? Those ‘wishes’ need to be paid back. A lobotomy, green tights and you’ll me a happy little worker in his sweat shop…Forever!
Oh god, Sinterklaus. This is actually one of the lesser offensive Dutch Christmas Traditions. There’s a town near me in Michigan that performs the rest of the Dutch Christmas Traditions which include dressing up a young woman as a jester and painting her face black and calling her “Svarta Piet” to help beat the back children, playfully of course, with a stick.
Literal translation: Black Peter. And yeah…full-on blackface. Racist traditions are racist. But I digress…
The more I learn about the Dutch, makes me all the more proud to be a Dutchie. Were completely bonkers & apparently, we don’t give a rat’s ass. Time to go drink a keg of Heineken & bang a maiden in a Tulip field!
Yup. And if the kid’s been really bad he gets spanked with a birch rod as well.
Most probably by Sinterklaas’ helpers, Black Pete’s. And FYI, they’re black because of all the soot from the chimneys they have to climb down.
That’s the politically correct explanation: “Three small Moorish boys were sentenced to death for a crime they did not commit. The bishop intervened, saving them. To show their gratitude, the boys remained with Sinterklaas to help him, tumbling and jumping on rooftops on Sinterklaas night to deliver presents.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas#Zwarte_Piet
i thought the windowless sleigh was a clue.
could be worse. instead of Spain, he could take horrible children to Portugal. and aren’t all children horrible?
And what is wrong with Portugal? The islands may be small and boring, but I don’t think Lisbon is much different than Spain which you apparently hold in a high regard.
Sinterklaus- filho da puta
Not to mention that without Portugal China wouldn’t have that gambling paradise known as Macau.
Did you REALLY think that Santa’s elves were volunteers? Come on, how else would that fat bastard get all that free labor!
You guys should look up krampus, its a Austrian tradition like this one.
All of a sudden Americans are offended by a cultural tradition in Europe that dates back hundreds of years, and has never been on the political agenda. I find this very amusing.
Really? Are a bunch Americans breaking your door down right now? I’m a proud born & bred American & I think this stuff is great. ‘Political Correctness’ is something jackasses on CNN go on about all night cause they need to keep people all worked up. You know, for ratings. Don’t assume we Americans are offended by everything “foreign” to us.
i have the feeling that this is the reason why kids fear santa. it’s almost as if they know
This is not Santa. This is Sinterklaas. We Dutch people celebrate Sinterklaas with presents instead of Christmas with presents. Children were scared with the idea of being taken to spain if they were naughty.
Poor American people (Northern that is),
With your huge slavery conscious being over criticizing and taking every chance to judge others.
I think I lost every hope that US citizens will ever read and learn about cultures before bashing them. Knowing the most and utter cultureless from Europe went there, there is little hope.
Do note that our beloved and integrated ‘not so white’ Surinam inhabitants just love the party and folklore feast (which is not Christmas but on December 5th). And many of them dress up themselves using also the black, not brown, make up. As indeed it is from the chimneys they use to bring presents.
Good luck reading about cultures, much older then your own
It amuses me to be judged by someone complaining about people judging others. ^^
Hehehee, welcome in Holland (and Belgium). This is Sinterklaas, if you are bad, he will put you in a bag and bring you to Spain. Btw, Santa is inspired by Sinterklaas. coca cola and the Dutch people bring Santa what it is now.
Greets from Holland.
Well that explains why we left out Coke and cookies for Santa when I was a child, instead of milk and cookies. My parents fell into the conspiracy!
@ ChiquitaEata: some Americans, instead of accepting the wrong things done by ancestors and moving on, go to the opposite extreme with false guilt and being overly politically correct. I don’t see anything wrong with such traditions in Holland, Belgium, and I’m sure others. I love to learn new things about other cultures. Some I find strange; some I find amusing. Either way, it’s a learning experience, and I like that.
Miss Rexia, you are correct. He assumes that Americans are all assholes (trust us, we know that part) & don’t care about other cultures. Umm, aren’t American traditions based (loosely) on EVERY culture? I doubt he has bothered to see how our traditions have come to be & understand that America is a melting pot.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, SANTA GIVE YOU!!!1!
So *thats* who Santa uses to make the toys… Child labor FTW!
santa got michael jackson’s letter.
too soon?
Nope. not soon enough.
oh papa nikol with his 6-8 black men instead of elves.. we love that he takes children away to spain if they are very bad and just beats them if they are bad.
so check out the story from author david sedaris called “6-8 black men”. tells the dutch christmas story. hilarity ensues.
Found an audio clip of Sedaris telling the story. Laughed my ass off! “Son, you might want to pack some of your things together. The former Bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight, along with 6-8 black men.”
youve got it all wrong. its one of pedobears footmen.
My aunt owns this ornament i’ve seen it since i was a kid its always been funny
I didn’t know Santa was a Catholic priest!
Santa Clause gathering gifts for Black Market workers.
We’ve had this ornament for years! It used to terrify me when I was little because I thought it was just Santa kidnapping children.
The Sinterklaas things make a lot of sense now
I am surprised how many doesnť understand this. In USA Santa Claus is St. Nicolas in fact. His celebration was moved from 5th or 6th December to Christmas time. In many other countries he is celebrated in 5th or 6th December as Sinterklaas, St. Nicolas or other similar names (it’s St. Mikulas in my country). He used to bring candies and gifts to good children, and naughty children was put in the bag. In my country they used to say, that he brings the naughty children to the hell.
So every kid tried to be as good as possible to be not taken to hell in St. Nicolases bag.
We learned all this in school, when we learned about other countries christmas traditions. I know I don’t remember all the details, but it suprise me that I even know it (and I am from Czech Republic), and people from USA, who moved the St. Nicolas tradition to Christmas time, don’t know this story!
In all the other countries the Christmas is celebration of Jesus Christ birth, only americans put St. Nicolas (Santa Claus) into it, and even don’t know the story.
I am sorry for my bad english…
Good show. I understood you just fine. I love learning other cultures ins & outs.
I’m from America and know the Sinterklaas story, and many other traditions like Father Christmas/Papa Noel/St. Nick/Swarte Piete/Krampus/Tomte/Percht/Bartl/Knecht Ruprecht/Rotsohler/Laubauf/and cant forget Belsnickle. It’s important to note that the American version of “St. Nicholas” is an evolution of the European Sinterklaas and St. Nick the same way these two are an evolution of many other earlier traditions. I’d bet most of the people that celebrate Sinterklaas don’t know much about the precursors of that myth either.
I think we should re-introduce the switch and kidnap bags personally.
Oh, I’m telling my kids all about this! “Be good or Santa will beat your ass!” That will keep them in line.
“Tonight, on a very Special Christmas episode of ‘To Catch a Predator’…”
“It wasn’t the first time Jimmy’s open mouth was shoved into Santa’s sack…”
Sandy Claws:”Hey you,….Get in there!..yeah…”.
Poor Child:”NOOoooooo!!……..”.
Russian Ded Moraz, South-Slavic Djed/Ded Mraz …
sinterklaus…he takes the bad children to christmas…. HAHAHAHAH
Wow, I really HAVE this ornament. It’s my dad’s favorite
OMG! I had this ornament! It was my absolute favorite! And somehow over the 35 years I’ve had the set of paper Victorian ornaments, this is the only one that went missing. My theory: someone stole it from the tree during one of my epic Yule/Jul/Joulu feasts.
I loved him as Joulupukki, the Finnish old man of winter. Or Sinterklaas, which in the US the Dutch settlers got in the 1600s from the Finns who brought Joulupukki to the mid-Atlantic colonies. Joulupukki, “yule goat,” is a reference to the ancient pre-Christian horned, or more accurately antlered gods. In Finno Ugrian culture, those would be tribal shamans whose seasonal duties included challenging people to face and admit the Dark, and confront it on her/his own. Instead of plastering over it with hysterical consumption and glare, then having various psychological-stress-related breakdowns.
I was raised in those traditions and was taught that Joulupukki took away bad children. But this was told in dark, Onion type humor. It didn’t scare me. Clowns, now those scared me. And people who were mean to animals. I always loved the story more than the totally saccharine Madison Avenue version of the winter lord. Who was pretty damn scary himself, if you ever got plopped in the lap of one of those phony department store Santas who reeked of bad teeth and Brylcreem and Polident and booze.
There are wonderful Krampus fests in today’s Europe. Even darker. Which is good, because people who repress the dark get far scarier than any of these images.
Haha! I guess the kid was bad… Reminds me of David Sedaris’ “Six to Eight Black Men” routine.
The whole thing is on Youtube:
Son’t piss Santa off or he will take you to the South Pole
You Wouldn’t think this would have happend to Madeleine McCann, she was a good girl.
I knew it!! Santa is a pedophile.
WOAH. I have this ornament at home.
this is how santa gets gary glitters present
That’s ridiculous! Santa’s no pedophile! A fat old man sneaking your house in the dead of night. Creeping around, not making a sound. Big ‘ol sack of toys and candy canes slung over his shoulder. Sees you when you’re sleeping, knows when you’re awake. O_O Never mind those first two sentences.
Ug – talk about an incentive for good behaviour! I’d HATE to be stuffed into a copyright sack! That’s scary!