I'd hunt you first night if it helpsI'd join but I'd be pretty much zombie on weekend so I'd rather not do that. I'm sure the game will start before weekend is over.
Watch out what you wish; Danish is said to be one of the hardest languages to learn. Though to an English speaker it might not be so hard as to say a Romance speaker.If enough people join in the next hour, I'll learn Danish for theme purposes and to have the eternal gift of feeling Wagonlitz as a kindred spirit.
Watch out what you wish; Danish is said to be one of the hardest languages to learn. Though to an English speaker it might not be so hard as to say a Romance speaker.
You are always a valuable person on a roster, though if you don't have much time---which is how I interpret your post---I will wait and see if we get an additional 3 players soon before adding you.I guess if you really need me, I can join, now that my masters thesis is finally done. I hope I'll actually have cell phone service while on the road.
It is correct. Though 'Jeg er en mand, men/og ikke en LEGO.' would be more fluent. Use men if you mean 'I am a man, but not a LEGO' and og if you mean 'I am a man and not a LEGO'. Though the most correct would be 'Jeg er en mand; ikke en LEGO' (I am a man; not a LEGO.) Though there is many Danes who don't know the art of the semi colon and therefore wouldn't make that sentence.Such skills are among my few claims to being anything more than an utterly worthless and useless individual.
Jeg er en mand. Jeg er ikke en Lego.
How's my progress so far? I started 5 minutes ago. I'll be speaking Lego in no time. When does the licorice arrive in the mail?
This might ruin your theme, Wagon, but Merlin are a British company.
Doesn't ruin the theme; I apparently misremembered them as American from news articles. Though wiki claims Merlin are owned by an American company.This might ruin your theme, Wagon, but Merlin are a British company.
I have only edited part of the OP, since while I misremembered Merlin as British and not American it still is Americanisation.He can simply edit the 1st post to read:
"After the majority of Legoland was sold to British Merlin Group it has been heavily commersialised. They are shutting down rides which aren't too used and in general Britishising the park with shooting tents etc. The disability day has also been cancelled. You are long time park employees who are sad to see the special Danish Lego spirit be replaced with British commersialism; unfortunately for you Merlin Group has sent out agents to find out who to sack in order to turn an even higher profit. These agents are walking around like ordinary staff, but you try and find out who they are so that you can force to be such an embarrasment that Merlin Group is forced to sack the agents instead."
It's like the Opium Wars of the entertainment industry. Perhaps.
I have only edited part of the OP, since while I misremembered Merlin as British and not American it still is Americanisation.
If you by Sealand means Sjælland then you are correct. Mærsk---or Maersk for you non Nordics---is headquartered in Copenhagen. And it is still rather patriotic even though old Mærsk Mckinney Møller died a few years ago. He used to give large billion DKK gifts to Denmark. Like the new opera house in Copenhagen*. Or the Danish school in Flensburg built for the Danish minority through funding given by Mærsk. He was one of the richest men in the world although Forbes never had him high on their list since they couldn't understand the ownership structures allowed in Denmark. They had him at around 1--2 billion $ whereas he just before the crisis actually was worth something like 146 billion DKK which would equal 25--30 billion $ depending on what the conversion rate was in 2008.I've seen trucks marked "Maersk" riddling the highway. Used to assume they were from Sealand. Now my misconceptions have been corrected.
If you by Sealand means Sjælland then you are correct. Mærsk---or Maersk for you non Nordics---is headquartered in Copenhagen. And it is still rather patriotic even though old Mærsk Mckinney Møller died a few years ago. He used to give large billion DKK gifts to Denmark. Like the new opera house in Copenhagen*. Or the Danish school in Flensburg built for the Danish minority through funding given by Mærsk. He was one of the richest men in the world although Forbes never had him high on their list since they couldn't understand the ownership structures allowed in Denmark. They had him at around 1--2 billion $ whereas he just before the crisis actually was worth something like 146 billion DKK which would equal 25--30 billion $ depending on what the conversion rate was in 2008.
Heck even the inheritance tax which was paid by his heirs was so large---something like 500 million $---that a law was made so that the state and not the municipality grabbed it---though the government officially didn't make that particularly law with the intent to grab the Mærsk inheritance tax. And the municipality he lived in got a tax hole of something like 50 million $ a year due to his death.
*To be fair it is common opinion that he gave the state that multi billion DKK opera house so that the queen gave him the elephant. I.e. made him a member of the order of the elephant: The oldest and most prestigious order in Denmark and since it was founded in something like 1448 I believe it is one of the oldest in the world too. Very few civilians have received it since we became a democracy in 1849 and only 7 received it in the 20th century. Besides Mærsk, Niels Borh and two other Danes got it. Besides those four generals Eisenhower and Montgomery got it; and so did Churchill.
And if you get it you have to be called his/her excellency and is placed in the 1st class of the order of precedence---which is the highest class except if you belong to the royal family: I.e. you are for instance given very good seats during the royal dinners which you of course are invited to.
Ah. Those are old containers from ~2000--2005. These days Mærsk containers just say Maersk and are a darker grey and you practically never see the old Maersk Sealand containers anymore---I had completely forgotten about them.I think they are labelled "Maersk-Sealand":
Now you can understand the source of my confusion.
Ah. Those are old containers from ~2000--2005. These days Mærsk containers just say Maersk and are a darker grey and you practically never see the old Maersk Sealand containers anymore---I had completely forgotten about them.
The container shipping arm of Mærsk is called Mærsk Line these days, but before Mærsk bought P&O Nedlloyd in ~2005 it the container arm was called Maersk Sealand. That was because around 2000 Maersk had bought American shipping company Sealand; who according to wiki were the ones who shipped containers to Vietnam during the war there.