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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Billy" wrote in message ... In article , "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Billy" wrote in message Instead of responding to Gunny's disingenuous prevarications, or his chronic cranial-rectal inversion, let me simply quote the following, Why bother Billy. I've found my killfile has an infinite capacity despite the efforts of the trolls to try to repeatedly escape. Oh, he's already in my KF, Fran. I only see his posts when someone else quotes him, and I usually ignore them. And that is still a sound policy IMO. Their posts soon give them away as trolls who feel needy for attention. Thanks for the address for SBS http://www.sbs.com.au/ The variety of news broadcasts in Australia makes me feel down right provincial. SBS has Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Spanish, Greek, French, German, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Italian, and Turkish news broadcasts, wow. But if you don't speak those languages, there's rather limited value to the mainstream in having them. I'm sure it's advantageous to the ethnic groups who speak those langusage, but my French isn't even up coping with the speed of the French news. French is spoken about 30% to 50% faster than English, but to be fair, TF 1, 2, and 3 speak more slowly and use simpler words in reporting the news (l'actualité) than than other programs do. The Journal (Deutsche Welle) is in English, and in languages that I don't speak, I can usually make out the location where video was taken, and a picture is worth a thousand words. Then again, in the "Romance" languages, there are the occasional words that come through, loud and clear, which helps with tuning my ear. Spanish, French, and Italian have many words that mean and sound the same, but are spelt differently. Then there are those damn false cognates. I do like the films though and the less mainstream sports. The Tour de France is on ATM and that is of course well worth watching. It's playing merry hell with our sleep patterns given that it concludes around 3 am - I haven't yet managed to watch one stage through to the line - maybe by the end of the 3 weeks if I build up to it. We'er 9 hours different from France, here on the "Left" (west) coast. Late dinner here is about the same time as early "petit déjeuner" there. Meanwhile back at the "cultural corner" of the garden, maybe the Montalbano programs were "touched up" to be less objectionable to a potential buyer (43 episodes at $10 AU/episode, or at Amazon $12 USian/episode). It didn't seem right that Australians would be prudes, I have no idea what they may have done, but as I said, there is lots of raunchy stuff to be seen on that channel. after all, we got both the criminals, AND the Calvinistic, Puritan, Taliban style, wacko fundamentalists. The main character in the TV's Montalbano is kinda a "hunk" type of persona, in a Sicilian working class setting. No gentrification here. It's all grit, and in need of repairs. Although a French friend of mine once told me that he liked seeing the "father stone" underneath the missing plaster on buildings. Lovey-poo, my wife, has read some of Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano books, and she was somewhat disappointed with the Salvo Montalbano character, because in the books he is more of a Georges Simenon's Maigret type. A 50 something, overweight cop, with a penchant for good wine, and food. That reminds me, I haven't had breakfast yet;O) I used to enjoy Maigret. Ask Lovey-poo if she's read any of Donna Leon's books. The cop hero is well worth getting to know - set in Venice so stylish in location, urbane in persona, well written and with corruption lurking like something nasty in the woodshed. (Apologies for mixing Cold Comfort allusions with vaporetto fumes) Hadn't heard of Donna Leon, but we appear to be the minority. There are 98 holds for "Drawing Conclusions", her latest. I ordered the one with no holds, "Through a Glass Darkly". Do you have a favorite? Thanks. -- - Billy Mad dog Republicans to the right. Democratic spider webs to the left. True conservatives, and liberals not to be found anywhere in the phantasmagoria of the American political landscape. America is not broke. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich. http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/.../michael-moore /michael-moore-says-400-americans-have-more-wealth-/ |
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