I just saw the newest trailer for "The Snowman", based on Jo Nesbø's novel. It looks very promising other than one thing:
The name of the main character (Harry Hole) is pronounced wrong. Michael Fassbeneder says "Harry Hol". "Hole" should have an sound at the end, sounding like the E in "best". X-(
I just saw the newest trailer for "The Snowman", based on Jo Nesbø's novel. It looks very promising other than one thing:
The name of the main character (Harry Hole) is pronounced wrong. Michael Fassbeneder says "Harry Hol". "Hole" should have an sound at the end, sounding like the E in "best". X-(
It's very understandable for the average reader, but less so for a major production filmed in Norway. I think the name Hole is discussed in the first novel, the one set in Australia. Harry Hole figures the English meaning of the word fits well with the way he feels about himself.
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It's very understandable for the average reader, but less so for a major production filmed in Norway. I think the name Hole is discussed in the first novel, the one set in Australia. Harry Hole figures the English meaning of the word fits well with the way he feels about himself.
The correct pronunciation of his name is mentioned in a couple of the novels...they are a good read -{
It's very understandable for the average reader, but less so for a major production filmed in Norway. I think the name Hole is discussed in the first novel, the one set in Australia. Harry Hole figures the English meaning of the word fits well with the way he feels about himself.
The correct pronunciation of his name is mentioned in a couple of the novels...they are a good read -{
I seem to remember that's correct. Has "Thirst" been publised in English yet? Has anyone read it?
I'm waiting until I can borrow it at the library.
I've seen it argued that people never really believed the world was flat, at least since the days of Greek philosophers. Terry Jones, who was a historian before he was a comedian, makes this argument in his documentrary Medieval Lives.
Certainly even throughout the so-called Dark Ages, people in positions of power, navigators, and merchants had some idea of the shape of the earth, although they underestimated its size
Normal folks who never travelled may not have known this, especially folks who lived their entire lives in one place without ever meeting anybody else who travelled. The church would have further confused the issue by representing the world symbolically in the shape of Mappae Mundi , instead of scientific cartography.
But anybody who sailed, or did business with sailors, would be familiar with the phenomenon of land disappearing over the horizon, due to curvature of the earth.
Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the planet circa 250BC, by determining the angle of the sun on the solstice from two different latitudes in Egypt (I presume in different years). He estimated 44,100 km, which was only a 10% error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
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Is this because usually only rich people can afford to stay in mental institutions in the US? We know rich people don't go insane (they are just eccentric), so very few are in mental institutions over there. )
Sir MilesThe Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,749Chief of Staff
It's very understandable for the average reader, but less so for a major production filmed in Norway. I think the name Hole is discussed in the first novel, the one set in Australia. Harry Hole figures the English meaning of the word fits well with the way he feels about himself.
The correct pronunciation of his name is mentioned in a couple of the novels...they are a good read -{
I seem to remember that's correct. Has "Thirst" been publised in English yet? Has anyone read it?
I'm waiting until I can borrow it at the library.
Is this because usually only rich people can afford to stay in mental institutions in the US? We know rich people don't go insane (they are just eccentric), so very few are in mental institutions over there. )
There's one such institution that has only one solitary patient, can't remember the name of the place, it's something obvious but my minds gone blank, I know it's at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC
I'm still thinking about proofs of the spherical shape of the earth...
Number24, you live pretty far north
what does the sun do on summer solstice where you live? do you get a 24 hour day?
We get many hours of sunlight in the summer where I live, but not 24 hours. But when I was in the army I was well north of the Arctic Circle and there we had sun day and night in the summer. I'm glad someone is finally taking the scientific aproach to this question after all these years, Caractacus Potts.
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Fecked off, hotels and onward flights booked and initial plans in ruins :v
The name of the main character (Harry Hole) is pronounced wrong. Michael Fassbeneder says "Harry Hol". "Hole" should have an sound at the end, sounding like the E in "best". X-(
The trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JepjuABZd_o
Does look interesting.
I guess Hole pronounced wrong on purpose for us lot
The correct pronunciation of his name is mentioned in a couple of the novels...they are a good read -{
'Flat earthers'
Don't think that rant needs an expansion really.
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The former.
At least I can understand the logic behind a flat battery.
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I seem to remember that's correct. Has "Thirst" been publised in English yet? Has anyone read it?
I'm waiting until I can borrow it at the library.
Sadly yes.
I suggest a world wide cull by sending them into the sun so they can see the errors of their misguided way before being vaporised.
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
www.cancerresearchuk.org
Certainly even throughout the so-called Dark Ages, people in positions of power, navigators, and merchants had some idea of the shape of the earth, although they underestimated its size
Normal folks who never travelled may not have known this, especially folks who lived their entire lives in one place without ever meeting anybody else who travelled. The church would have further confused the issue by representing the world symbolically in the shape of Mappae Mundi , instead of scientific cartography.
But anybody who sailed, or did business with sailors, would be familiar with the phenomenon of land disappearing over the horizon, due to curvature of the earth.
Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the planet circa 250BC, by determining the angle of the sun on the solstice from two different latitudes in Egypt (I presume in different years). He estimated 44,100 km, which was only a 10% error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
I blame the Internet, especially You Tube conspiracy theory videos! 8-)
It has...but I haven't read it yet either.
There's one such institution that has only one solitary patient, can't remember the name of the place, it's something obvious but my minds gone blank, I know it's at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
www.cancerresearchuk.org
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
www.cancerresearchuk.org
Number24, you live pretty far north
what does the sun do on summer solstice where you live? do you get a 24 hour day?
Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo's £100,000 compo claim for 'psychological scars' he suffered in scuffle with prison staff !!!!!
This story shows how stupid we as a country have become. We compensate terrorist killers 8-)
The killers of an Unarmed and outnumbered man hacked to death with machetes! X-(
.... A sharp drop with a rope would ease all his troubles.
He can claim all he wants - I think his chances of actually seeing any compensation are precisely zero.