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No, I have trained myself.
And it keeps me on my toes; sometimes it's a fun game to see if the surreality I witness is really happening or if it's just sleep deprivation.
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You are aware that people from those northerly climes have been known to hunt whales, so nuking might be the logical next step?
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On a different note, anyone else got Steel Division and would like to play some?
M'sire EURO, would you endeavor to continue the Convention, or do you believe it, much like Werewolf, to be dead?
So @Cliges on a scale from 0/10 how francophile/pretentious is the following: I just watched Deadline, which is a really serious news/analysis programme, and they talked about the French election and among other things showed part of todays debate. Only problem was that they didn't have the debate subtitled so they were airing French debate in French with no subtitles and when after the clip an expert on French politics was asked to give a rough idea about what was said he just kept laughing at what was said and couldn't stop laughing. Took quite a time before he finished laughing and was able to explain.
And then they proceeded to spend the last 66% of the programme discussing how on Saturday the 8th rerun of MATADOR will start and whether MATADOR still is relevant here 39 years after it aired the first time. They sure have their priorities straight.
Anyway a good point was made that Lise Nørgaard and Erik Balling actually predicted the development of fake news.
Also I think it's unfair to criticise the series for having Arnesen smash a record in rage when his wife won't stop playing it when he yells "stop playing that n word music!". Arnesen is supposed to be an unsympathic caveman, so what can you expect from him.
Also hadn't thought about it before, how Mr. Varnæs is an example of a man having all the liberal/egalitarian virtues with how despite being bank CEO and one of the richest in town, he treats everybody, high as low, equally and greets everybody he meets on the street no matter who they are. (Though he has flaws himself with how he has an affair with his assistant.)
(Also it was mentioned by the host that MATADOR once got 3.6 million viewers for a single episode, but as one of the guests rightly pointed out then that was during the monopoly and hence there wasn't anything else to view on TV (and the internet wasn't a thing yet). By the way that view count means that around 75% of the total population was watching that episode!)
@Rendap will you be watching? Also how many times have you seen the series? Our PM apparently has bragged about having viewed it over 20 times. I'm not that accomplished, but I think I've seen it something like 7 times.
Also what do you think about the restoration? Frankly I'm very skeptical about how good it will be, though I'll refrain from giving a verdict until Saturday. Especially the decision to change the format from 4:3 to 16:9, thereby cutting footage, is something I find rather sketchy.
With regard to whether it's still relevant then as was pointed out things like the gay debate is still a thing---especially in Worldwide. And liberal/egalitarian virtues too are still important.
And then they proceeded to spend the last 66% of the programme discussing how on Saturday the 8th rerun of MATADOR will start and whether MATADOR still is relevant here 39 years after it aired the first time. They sure have their priorities straight.
Anyway a good point was made that Lise Nørgaard and Erik Balling actually predicted the development of fake news.
Also I think it's unfair to criticise the series for having Arnesen smash a record in rage when his wife won't stop playing it when he yells "stop playing that n word music!". Arnesen is supposed to be an unsympathic caveman, so what can you expect from him.
Also hadn't thought about it before, how Mr. Varnæs is an example of a man having all the liberal/egalitarian virtues with how despite being bank CEO and one of the richest in town, he treats everybody, high as low, equally and greets everybody he meets on the street no matter who they are. (Though he has flaws himself with how he has an affair with his assistant.)
(Also it was mentioned by the host that MATADOR once got 3.6 million viewers for a single episode, but as one of the guests rightly pointed out then that was during the monopoly and hence there wasn't anything else to view on TV (and the internet wasn't a thing yet). By the way that view count means that around 75% of the total population was watching that episode!)
@Rendap will you be watching? Also how many times have you seen the series? Our PM apparently has bragged about having viewed it over 20 times. I'm not that accomplished, but I think I've seen it something like 7 times.
Also what do you think about the restoration? Frankly I'm very skeptical about how good it will be, though I'll refrain from giving a verdict until Saturday. Especially the decision to change the format from 4:3 to 16:9, thereby cutting footage, is something I find rather sketchy.
With regard to whether it's still relevant then as was pointed out things like the gay debate is still a thing---especially in Worldwide. And liberal/egalitarian virtues too are still important.
Almost forgot: Apparently saying that one is going to bed, because something got too absurd/vulgar/annoying is derived from Maude's going to bed.
I thought I'd heard similar expressions in English though. So to the non Danish posters would you then say that the expression going to bed is foreign or familiar to you?
I thought I'd heard similar expressions in English though. So to the non Danish posters would you then say that the expression going to bed is foreign or familiar to you?
One of the catch phrases from Laugh-In, the show I'm basing the big on, was "go to your room" said as an admonishment to someone who was being too absurd.
Nice to see you back, too, Arky.
Maybe you should learn it in order to reciprocate for that cuisine of the month award.
It's not hard. Even kids speak it, for example.
A convention requires people to convene. If people convene, the convention continues.
I'll convene, I haven't anything better to do than argue the proper course of the law with regard to villagers, werewolves, and robot Danes...
Speaking of MATADOR then it turns out that loads of characters from big Hollywood series are identical to characters from MATADOR. They don't live in the same place and aren't working in the same businesses/fields, but characterwise they are the same.
Walther White from Breaking Bad = Mads Skjern
Carrie Mathison from Homeland = Elizabeth Friis
Frank Underwood from House of Cards = Colonel Hackel (Colonel Hackel by the way is one of my favorite characters.)
Elliot Alderson from Mr. Robot = Laurits "Røde" Larsen
John Snow from Game of Thrones = Daniel Skjern
Tony Soprano from the Sopranos = Hans Christian Varnæs
One wonders whether there's a Danish writer in some of those series.
Walther White from Breaking Bad = Mads Skjern
Carrie Mathison from Homeland = Elizabeth Friis
Frank Underwood from House of Cards = Colonel Hackel (Colonel Hackel by the way is one of my favorite characters.)
Elliot Alderson from Mr. Robot = Laurits "Røde" Larsen
John Snow from Game of Thrones = Daniel Skjern
Tony Soprano from the Sopranos = Hans Christian Varnæs
One wonders whether there's a Danish writer in some of those series.
In other news, a Danish war hero, who among other things was personally thanked by Prince Charles for his outstanding service in the SAS and for his Distinguished Service Order, was revealed today to actually have been a nazi agent...
That's not good. The man's still alive and is 96 years old---he's admitted it and stated he's surprised it took this long to be found out.
That's not good. The man's still alive and is 96 years old---he's admitted it and stated he's surprised it took this long to be found out.