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He should have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, not the jingle man Bob Dylan.

I totally agree with this although i like Bob Dylan too.

Leonard has also written books. When I was young I read "Beautiful Loosers" and intend to read the "Favourite game" sometime.

Leonard Cohen. So long Leonard. You will not be forgotten.

R.I.P. Majesty.

I'm arriving in Thailand on Wednesday so I hope everything isn't closed when I arrive.

A "U.S. citizen of Hungarian descent" ... with a Danish name?

It could just as well be Norwegian.

p.s. If you had a watch strapped to your wrist, wouldn't you feel anything if it was being removed?

A skilled pickpocket could probably remove it without you noticeing anything.

Looks like a trampoline.

I think it's the superbowl that many board members talk about once a year. It could hold an awful lot of nudel soup.

There still living in the dark ages.Similar to W. Europe 500 yrs ago.

Groups of significant size in Europe and esepecially in North Americe (USA) are still living in the dark ages. They are known as christian fundamentalists.

they are worried ( know for a fact) if their religion is questioned by intelligent persons, it would not survive to let them maintain their power over their "followers" ( regardless if their leaders believe the b.s. or not)

I have quite rcently read Richard Dawkins book "The God Delusion". He claims that Martin Luther wrote that "Knowledge is the biggest threat to religion and therefor must be faught". If this is true Martin Luther must have been a rather intelligent person. Not necessarily a nice person but definitively intelligent.

Hi,

 

What does it say about your religion if you feel you should not allow any opposing views?

 

Sanuk!

Read the bible somtime, especially the old testament. It was not writen by christians but is part of the christian bible. Do the names "Galileo Galilei" or "Giordano Bruno" ring a bell.

Silver streak (called Chicago Express in Sweden) was great movie.

Congratulations. I didn't join until the Delphi board but I sometimes read the earlier board.

Unfortunately not only she pays the price.

Now what happens? I'd bet on military force by the PRC. (Surely, China never expected anyone to believe their fairy tale.)

Why not?

Many believed fairy tales about WMD.

Loved the Trinity movies

Likwise.

This sucks. I was just looking at booking my next Thailand trip with Turkish airlines.

Unfortunately i can't contradict your claim of a subsidised agriculturl sector. It is very heavily subsidised. In my opinion mainly to protect a medieval french agriculture. Before Sweden joined the EU nearly all agriculture subsidiaries, now most farmers can't exist without payouts from the EU. An example from real life: Banana imports were restricted to protect some small(ish) banana plantations on the Canry islands. Now European country grows bananas (in Europe).

The UK was a strong suppoerter of free trade which is one reason why we hoped they would stay in the EU.

Oh so Television, Telephone, Internet, Steam Power, Automation and so forth just happened, Radar was a fluke etc now wonder us little Britons tell the rest of the world to fuck off, society can survive without Saunas Saab and Abba ,

Society will have to survive without Saab and ABBA as they are in effect gone already. Sauna is a Finnish word, Sweden is possibly the only country in the world where it isn't called suana. We call it bastu.

Hehe

 

NZ Lamb and butter is back on the menu

 

Plus I WANT MY PASSPORT BACK

Obviously NZ with a population of nearly half of Sweden (or Belgium) must be a much better trade partner than than the EU with more than 400 million people (after Brexit).

To be fair you did invent the Brittish empire. However that's gone out of fashion now,

From the Swedish point of view this is very bad. The UK is one of our major trade partners. Furthermore they have supported our views on free trade etc. I am sure that the EU will survive without an island in the North sea. The common market will remain and eventually everythong will be back to normal. I don't think that Holland will leave, and if they do, they're just another small country like Sweden, nobody will notice.

Warcraft, it wasn't very good.

I think that Gordie Howe was well over 50 when he played his last NHL match. Possibly the only player over 50 in the NHL. He was also my fathers favourite. My father was born and grew up in Canada.

Jonas (Anderson) is a Swedish singer. He moved to Thailand wiith his parents when he was young. He lived i n Isaan for a while and learned to speak Thai fluently and sing Thai songs. He is quite popular in Thailand where he aparently lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Anderson

"God is not great" with the subtitle "How religion poisons everything". Written by Christopher Hitchens.

Thus should be a mandatory read for religeous people but they will ofcourse not read it because they don't want to know about thoughts that diverge from their own.

The book is mainly about the monotheistic religions(christian, muslim and jewish) and explains and gives examples of how religion is behind much, although not all, of the evil in the world.

According to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet he has died.