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Where else to ask? The other online community I frequent, Diablo forum, is quite toxic! 
Reading IMDB's user review[^] of Vikings[^], on that second page I see many interesting negative reviews.
I am thrilled to know (really, no sarcasm!   ) that the movie depict Roman law more than (as it should) German law, or that there are no fjord in Denmark (the theoretical location of this movie's setting) and this is more like Norway (ok I knew that one, but didn't know Ragnar Lodbrok was a Dane), etc, etc...
But really.. if this is the reason they can't enjoy the show?!
I feel sorry for them!
What say you?!
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They only reason they cannot enjoy watching The Vikings is that the gods sent a raven to eat their eyes. Punished, no doubt, for snobbery.
Damn - even my Mrs. tolerates the violence to enjoy the show.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Hahaha.. I think you are onto something there! 
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You want to know about curmudgeonism? Ask away!
Rule #1 to being a curmudgeon: You can always find something to criticize. The measure of intelligence/quality in the person/thing being criticized is strictly a function of how hard one has to look. This simple rule makes it really easy to filter the wheat from the chaff.
Marc
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Complaining about curmudgeons?
A Recursive Death Spiral !
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Your insight knowledge about almost everything never cease to amaze me Marc!
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I'm surprised he had time to write that in between going to all the parties he obviously gets invited too.
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I say they're clucking morons!
If you want historical inaccuracy, watch the Kirk Douglas 1958 film Vikings. Great film, in my bloody good opinion, yet full of more holes Sean's mankini!
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: yet full of more holes Sean's mankini!
I really shouldn't read your posts whilst eating breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Well, hang on a minute. This is produced by the History Channel and was supposed to be docudrama so historical inaccuracies are kind of a big deal. If it was produced by SyFy and written by the guys that did "How To Train Your Dragon" that would be different.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: This is produced by the History Channel and was supposed to be docudrama
I'll let you in on a wee bit of a secret: History Channel, and their sister, The Discovery Channel, are the home of conspiracy theories and alien probing.
That they produced a show with the quality of The Vikings is enough for me.
Veracity? We don't need no stinking veracity!*
* Unlike the internet, not everything on TV is exactly true.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Probably written by the same guy who will say "the book was better", gets excessively mad if you ask "can Shiki kill servants", and hates the Star Wars prequels.
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Haha! this guy hey?!
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I was driving my car with this 4 years old kid , my cousin's little son. He kept on fiddling with the audio player, aircon buttons & whatever was there on the dashboard. Quite several times he jumped my arms to press the horn by himself. It was highly annoying, he was uncontrollable. Then he wanted to do something with the gear , when I stopped him , he swiftly moved to pull the handbrake. I just totally dislike kids hyperactive behaviors like these. I'm not sure if this is coming from their DNA or it's because of bad parenting. Anyway, when he tried to do these I told him. "Boy, if we are going to pull these two things (gear, Handbrake) we are sure to crash  "
He replied me , "Oh we are gonna crash, then we reach god ".
I think my idiotic cousin has equated "Death" to "reaching god". I think many people get tired of answering their kids and end up throwing some rubbish explanations to critical questions. How dangerous is this if the kid mistakes dying as reaching god, when the entire family spends so much time saying God is great, God saves us all, and blah blah & those stuff. The kid is so happy about death. 
What would be your answer when a kid asks what happens after we die. Or simply put, "What is death"?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: What would be your answer when a kid asks what happens after we die. Or simply put, "What is death"?
This is based on your religious and personal views of life in general, I would think. If my statement is true, then each of us would tell our children what "we" believe.
My answer, would be that dead is dead, game over, nothing more to see here.
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Vunic wrote: He kept on fiddling with the audio player,
Don't they have child seat laws where you live? A 4 year old should be in the back seat, strapped in to a booster chair or something similar.
Vunic wrote: He replied me , "Oh we are gonna crash, then we reach god ".
A Jihadist in the making. 
Marc
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OriginalGriff wrote: P*ss*s me right off, seeing people carrying kids in their lap
You must visit India once. lol
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Have, briefly, a long time ago.
Now imagine what happens to an unrestrained child (in the front or back) if you get hit by an oncoming car. They fly forward at 80 ~ 100 Km/h and weighs what? 18 ~ 20 kg?
That's some serious inertia: they will smash skulls or break necks if they hit them, and they will die or be seriously injured if they hit the windscreen instead.
If they are on your lap with your seatbelt round you both, you will crush them like a bug in the same accident.
You want that on your conscience?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yup I'm in complete agreement. I was just saying , if you come to India. You'll go mad, the moment you step out of your flight.  Things are sickening mad here. Whenever I travel out and come back in, it takes a week or so to get used to the BSs. It'll take a long time (like centuries) to sort out things in India.
And like I said, I was just driving between two streets.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
modified 19-May-16 8:42am.
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Watch this[^]
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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In India, in city traffic, it'd be rare if a car can accelerate to 30 mph Which is why car collisions are rarely fatal. Two wheelers on the other hand - typically instant death.
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India. Land of the wild beasts. It was a half a km drive between my home and my cousin's. He was held on lap by one my other friends. He had little control over the kid. I regret driving this way. Never going to keep him in the front seat again.
Safety regulations are given least importance in India. No laws around this ever in force. 5 people go in two wheeler, and nobody is booked. Guess what? 99% of the small family cars fail the crash test. And they "refuse" to accept the trails results. It's a total weird world. More the population, lesser the values for human lives.
Marc Clifton wrote: A Jihadist in the making
lol, no. Never on those lines. But it's a foolish answer, kids parents might have given.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Don't they have child seat traffic laws where you live?
You just pinched paining nerve (couldn't find the right idiom / saying in English)...
We have laws, but enforcing it is a problem. People with right connection gets driving license without even visiting test center ! Traffic sense is so poor that driving in most Indian cities is like some kind of war-game (or road-rage kind of game) !
That reminds me of a story: Once there was an American who never believed in God visits India and on returning back, he was staunch believer of God.. When someone asked, why the change? He replied "Man, in India, people drive on roads and come back home at night." 
Thanks,
Milind
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MT_ wrote: We have laws, but enforcing it is a problem.
Laws (and their enforcement) exist in many cases because people are stupid. Now, that's not intended to insult anyone, it's just a general statement that if people took more responsibility for their own behavior, we wouldn't need all these "common sense" laws. Here in the US, we now have signs on the highways reminding us that texting while driving is illegal (at least here in New York) as well as signs telling us that there is a "text stop" 5 miles ahead. WTF. An amazing waste of money because people are idiots - myself included!
Marc
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