> * Sai Emrys said on 2008-03-05 08:59:41 +0100
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
> wrote:
> > > Den 4. mar. 2008 kl. 10.41 skreiv taliesin the storyteller:
> > > > It might be pretty but you couldn't have tried to find somewhere
> > > > less central? :)
> > >
> > > It's not the right place to go if you feel for a visit to a cinema,
> > > restaurant, brothel or other urban facilities /../
> >
> > /me blinks
> >
> > Are you serious or joking?
> >
> > I figure I'm liberal enough (living in the CA Bay Area one nearly has
> > to be), but "brothel" in the same breath as other generic urban
> > activities is a tad weird to me.
>
> Now, now, you're an USian. That automatically places you, even if you are
> a card-carrying pinko commie etc. etc. way right of any European. Or so
> the cliche goes.
>
> Besides, we in Europe have really taken that "Make love, not war" (hm!
> translation excerise!) to heart, (still) cutting violence out of movies
> and keeping the carnal pleasures in.
>
> Though: the southern and westerly parts of Norway are still the most
> puritan areas; or as one of my schoolteahers put it: "In that valley
> here it's all black, no fun and praise the lord, while in the
> neighboring valley over there it's pass the moonshine and don't vomit on
> the threesome in the bushes when you leave." Me, I'm genetically from an
> area that, according to oral history, never got christened properly. We
> did kill that souhern upstart Olav the Fat (we still call him that,
> even) when he made noises to become king though, in honorable battle
> even (burning his house down with him in it or axing him in the head
> from behind were the other traditional methods of dispatching bothersome
> fellows), and then the southerners had the gall to make him a warrior
> saint... Nothing's new in politics and war...
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_II_of_Norway
>
>
> t.
>