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Are all the clubs in the Greek "Super League" owned by Greeks? Like it or not, large football clubs these days are international businesses. There are lots of new "billionaires" in places like Russia and India who want to buy them! My local football club, Manchester United, is a truly world-wide "business" these days - wherever you go in the world, people know who they are.
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Harry Potter is bussiness, Manchester United is bussiness. I guess i dont like bussiness that much then
P.S Ehh...is that Nac Mac thing dangerous???....i have the Nac Windows version |
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Not read your Pratchett then ;-)
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![]() Read the start of "Ghost" - please. It's in the Baen "Free Library". After reading a few chapters of it you'll understand just what it is about it that's so horrific. Its protagonist is a psychopath. |
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It actually means "Saxon" - it was a word invented by Sir Walter Scott. Not that many English people are, in fact, of Saxon ancestry. I'm a "Celt", through and through, personally.
As you say, Scott used the word to mean anyone who wasn't a Highlander, NOT to mean the English. |
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Possibly started out that way, but in all the literature I've read (Rob Roy, Grassic Gibbon) it's used as a derogatory term to denote the English. Wiki seems to agree with me.
I trust everyone to take it in context and not take offence, as none was meant ![]() Random Scottish words are just so much fun. |
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I don't know why you all listen to stepanok, who's only obvious purpose for being here is to incite flame wars. Honestly, who turns a discussion about Harry Potter into a discussion about Iraq?
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We're talking about Scotland actually...(strange people these evangelical Americans..)
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Saying "I don't like it" is not enough. Why I didn't like? Because it is Sci-fi and I like detective stories? Because it was boring? Because it was crap? I must add an explanation. And saying it is crap is reasonable good explanation -> IMHO! Anyone who post on forum, in general IMHO!, state their personal opinion. Sure we could type IMHO after every sentence, but it would make posting a chore ![]() In my opinion if he said: HP's books are crap; you should read it as: HP's books are crap IMHO. Although I believe you are right, because he said it a bit differently: Quote:
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Quite simple. I am the last person who can be influenced by total strangers. This problem follows me through all my life, because when you are different from crowd, you have got a problem. People don't like someone who is different. I started to read HP1 4 months after HP7 was published. Never read HP before. Seen 2 or 3 movies and was not impressed and that's it. I didn't give a monkey's ...bottom whether most people around me read him and liked/disliked HP and closely followed his quest during all 7 or more years while Rowling was writing the books. In 20 minutes after I started to read HP, I knew I love it. I read all 7 books in a record time of 2.5 months, non-stop. I still believe it is one of the best fantasy series I have ever read. So, you might dislike HP and believe it is crap but your assumption that its success is only a business model is indeed a crap idea ![]() HF ![]() Last edited by astra; 08-20-2008 at 10:50 AM. |
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