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10 Aug 2007, 08:09
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Good Son
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More chauv rant
I'm still reading the trash and tabloids, I'm very sorry. I'll be brief.
A man was sentenced to fines and compensations for hugging a resigning worker. The boss, aged 56, had given his female worker, 30, a hug the day the resigned woman was leaving. The woman took the hug as sexual harrasment, brought it to court, and claimed the man obviously experienced erection while hugging and thus the hug was abusive at least. The man denied the accusations, but the court found the story reliable and decided to rule against the man. In total of court expenses, fines, and compensations, the man's now a little more than 6k e poorer. It's funny how you can throw fines on word-against-word cases with no evidence whatsoever besides a word by the victim of the alledged crime. I'm feeling a little American here in Finland now.
Furthermore, a female columnist was ranting about how crap summer theaters are nowadays. She mentioned the narrow production, and stated that while Väinö Linna's The Unknown Soldier is a great and touching act that makes men cough in order to prevent sobbing and women cry. What's her problem here, is that everyone's seen it already. So her clever idea was, to make a women-only act of it, "The Unknown Soldieress". Why? Because it sounds witty, and women can serve in the military today too. The thing is, a lot like Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi and Kalevala by Elias Lönnröt The Unknown Soldier is really more than a novel. It's something regarded on a similar respect as the national epic. The gender of the characters, the majority of which are men, is a part of the idea - it's a story of the war, of the archetypal Finnish men, of the Finnish culture. It's really something you don't need to mess with just for shits and giggles. Well. Needless to say, the woman really jumped into a landslide. There's already critisism about the "idea" printed.
Oh dear. Seven more hours, guys and girls. The lunch is going to be good, ox with mushrooms.
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10 Aug 2007, 09:04
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Rawr rawr
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Re: More chauv rant
I read this tabloid-like "news" website ( www.fok.nl (Dutch)) pretty often, but every once in a while I decide I should stop reading it because it is poisoning my mind; it's depressing to be bothered with insignificant negative news.
But, every time, after a while I come back to that website and read the "news" because I have nothing better to do.
Now, think about that, we have nothing better to do than read insignificant news stories that is poisoning our minds. What kind of petty lives are we leading then?
So my eyes have been opened; again. I closed the news website. Let's see how long I can go without this time.
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10 Aug 2007, 09:43
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Good Son
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Re: More chauv rant
I think it has to do with the boring state of my affairs at the moment. Once I'm done with work and back with university, I'll have more control over my own doings, and I won't be after trash mags as I can do something else. Like, sleep. Can't sleep at work, can sleep at uni. Hence, I'm blaming my pathetic spree of reading tabs on the strict and unflexible protestant work schedules.
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10 Aug 2007, 10:00
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Re: More chauv rant
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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
I'm still reading the trash and tabloids, I'm very sorry. I'll be brief.
A man was sentenced to fines and compensations for hugging a resigning worker. The boss, aged 56, had given his female worker, 30, a hug the day the resigned woman was leaving. The woman took the hug as sexual harrasment, brought it to court, and claimed the man obviously experienced erection while hugging and thus the hug was abusive at least. The man denied the accusations, but the court found the story reliable and decided to rule against the man. In total of court expenses, fines, and compensations, the man's now a little more than 6k e poorer. It's funny how you can throw fines on word-against-word cases with no evidence whatsoever besides a word by the victim of the alledged crime. I'm feeling a little American here in Finland now.
Furthermore, a female columnist was ranting about how crap summer theaters are nowadays. She mentioned the narrow production, and stated that while Väinö Linna's The Unknown Soldier is a great and touching act that makes men cough in order to prevent sobbing and women cry. What's her problem here, is that everyone's seen it already. So her clever idea was, to make a women-only act of it, "The Unknown Soldieress". Why? Because it sounds witty, and women can serve in the military today too. The thing is, a lot like Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi and Kalevala by Elias Lönnröt The Unknown Soldier is really more than a novel. It's something regarded on a similar respect as the national epic. The gender of the characters, the majority of which are men, is a part of the idea - it's a story of the war, of the archetypal Finnish men, of the Finnish culture. It's really something you don't need to mess with just for shits and giggles. Well. Needless to say, the woman really jumped into a landslide. There's already critisism about the "idea" printed.
Oh dear. Seven more hours, guys and girls. The lunch is going to be good, ox with mushrooms.
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It's pretty simple really. You want to have more sex with your mother.
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10 Aug 2007, 10:01
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Re: More chauv rant
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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
I think it has to do with the boring state of my affairs at the moment. Once I'm done with work and back with university, I'll have more control over my own doings, and I won't be after trash mags as I can do something else. Like, sleep. Can't sleep at work, can sleep at uni. Hence, I'm blaming my pathetic spree of reading tabs on the strict and unflexible protestant work schedules.
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Read a ****ing book.
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10 Aug 2007, 10:04
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Good Son
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Re: More chauv rant
I have. Well, I'm not much of a fan of trash novels, so I've been working on a Gujarati econometrics book and a De Grauwe on monetary unions. Those just get a little heavy on the occasion. Any good reads come in mind? No Harry Potters please.
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10 Aug 2007, 10:08
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Re: More chauv rant
Anything by George Orwell is thought-provoking AND entertaining, what more could you want? I would recommend specifically 1984.
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10 Aug 2007, 10:30
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Good Son
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Re: More chauv rant
Done that. Animal Farm too. Something along the lines of thought-provoking and entertaining would be nice, but the usual suspects have probably been done with by now.
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10 Aug 2007, 10:35
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: More chauv rant
Down and Out In Paris and London
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10 Aug 2007, 10:36
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Re: More chauv rant
George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying <--- overlooked but very good.
Robert Tressell -The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Anything by Oscar Wilde
All of the Red Dwarf books are fantastic.
Matthew Thomas - Before and After
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10 Aug 2007, 10:38
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Good Son
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Re: More chauv rant
The Philanthrophists -bit sounds a little too gay. Red Dwarf sounds like Lord of The Rings, so we'll pass that too. Should probably try some Oscar Wilde. Maybe I'll drop by at the library.
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10 Aug 2007, 10:45
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: More chauv rant
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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
The Philanthrophists -bit sounds a little too gay. Red Dwarf sounds like Lord of The Rings, so we'll pass that too.
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You're one crazy hipster.
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10 Aug 2007, 10:47
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Re: More chauv rant
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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
The Philanthrophists -bit sounds a little too gay.
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It's a book that expels he virutes of Socialism. It's not about generous homosexuals.
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Red Dwarf sounds like Lord of The Rings, so we'll pass that too.
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It's set aboard the minig ship Red Dwarf, which is 3 million years away from earth. After a radion leak wipes out the entire crew its only survivors are; Dave Lister, last (barely) human alive; Arnold J. Rimmer, a hologram of his dead bunkmate; The Cat, a humaniod creatured that evolved from Listers pet cat; Kryten, a mechanoid they found on an asteroid; and Holly, the ships senile computer.
It's about as far away from LotR as it is possible to get. It's also very funny. Plus, it's as TV show.
Oh yes, it's set in space.
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10 Aug 2007, 11:33
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Re: More chauv rant
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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
Done that. Animal Farm too. Something along the lines of thought-provoking and entertaining would be nice, but the usual suspects have probably been done with by now.
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Depends of your definition of "thought-provoking" but Douglas Adams is definattly entertaining while reading and even more entertaining when thinking about it afterwards due to the fact that it even makes sence in a very wired way.
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10 Aug 2007, 12:01
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Good Son
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Re: More chauv rant
Yeah. Dougie's done with, though, well, at least the hitch. The Red Dwarf is beginning to sound like Futurama. I'll stick to Wilde. Anything important of his I should touch?
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10 Aug 2007, 12:04
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Re: More chauv rant
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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
The Red Dwarf is beginning to sound like Futurama.
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You make that sound like a bad thing?
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I'll stick to Wilde. Anything important of his I should touch?
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest are the most prominant of his works.
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10 Aug 2007, 12:12
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Re: More chauv rant
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Read a ****ing book.
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10 Aug 2007, 12:26
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Good Son
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Re: More chauv rant
Dirty Star Wars quote on my trash thread. Shame on you, furball.
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10 Aug 2007, 14:22
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Re: More chauv rant
books are for nerds
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10 Aug 2007, 14:24
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Good Son
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Re: More chauv rant
True. The guys who really get chicks are the ones who talk about it on internet forums.
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