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Comment on eldorado found or swedish newspapers dont check their stories by Garry

Garry — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:02:44 +0000

“operating bullshit detectors”… haha!
Cheers mate!

Comment on swedens energy crisis by Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:11:21 +0000

Maybe a mention of Celsius could be in place?

Comment on green nuclear power plants by swedens energy crisis | Chris ramblings

swedens energy crisis | Chris ramblings — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:04:31 +0000

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Comment on New British coins by Larry44

Larry44 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:20:35 +0000

£1.88….you fecking muppet!

Comment on trafficing and giant lizards by Gustav

Gustav — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:16:21 +0000

One of the most effective ways to combat the problems within prostitution and human trafficking for sex slavery (which are two different concepts that can overlap) would be to legalize and regulate prostitution for those who wish to enter into the world’s oldest profession of their own free will, with the dignity of being a legal worker, charging and paying taxes for your services, receiving close medical care and regular STD screenings. This would provide the customers of prostitutes a legal alternative that will take business away from the pimps and criminal groups that are involved in pressuring or forcing people into prostitution and make it less profitable for criminal groups to engage in human trafficking.

But your post wasn’t just about that, it was more about the outrageous and imprecise populist Swedish tabloid press… and I fully agree with that. The worst part about papers like Aftonbladet is that many Swedish people consider it real news. I don’t know how the situation is in the UK, but in USA there is a huge difference between tabloids and newspapers, but Sweden’s tabloids are like a mixture of US tabloids (which are totally and completely ‘far out there’, always stories and pictures about alien babies, bigfoot caught sunbathing in Hawai’i, etc.) and newspapers… This mixture of fact and fiction and sloppy journalism mixed with important issues causes Swedish readers to become stupid and reinforces many of the arbitrary prejudices that Swedish people have.

Comment on drug use or drug abuse by Gustav

Gustav — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:19:11 +0000

As a fluent speaker of Dutch I can confirm that ‘druggebruik’ is ‘drug use’, not ‘drug abuse. I think this blatant translation mistake should be considered unacceptable at this level of translation (and all translation really, this is both unprofessional AND an abuse of the scientific method).
I also noticed another mistranslation on the site that is just as infuriating as the first:
English: recreational drug use
becomes Swedish: fritidsknarkande
‘Knark’ is an unscientific slur for drugs, this phrase means something simiar to dope-junkies. Perhaps a more accurate translation would have been rekreationsbrukande or fritidsbrukande. Definitely not ‘fritidsknarkande’.
Even my Swedish friends who hate cannabis are surprised at this translation when I showed them, but they said that the translator was simply trying to adapt the original text to typical Swedish sensibilities about drugs. To sound neutral about drugs in Swedish can easily label you an evil drogliberal who wants to destroy society.
Very sad situation.

Comment on Howto run chrome on FreeBSD 7.0 by Chromium FreeBSD 移植始动 | x-Factor

Chromium FreeBSD 移植始动 | x-Factor — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:59:19 +0000

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Chromium FreeBSD 移植始动 | 谷奥——探寻谷歌的奥秘 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:17:40 +0000

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Comment on New British coins by tyler

tyler — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:34:51 +0000

i have got all of the coins, how much are they worth?

Comment on Baffling Medical Conditions by Erik

Erik — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:25:57 +0000

Yeah, really weird stuff. Heard about some of them before, but most were new to me. Kind of baffling what the human body is capable of, allthough, since we’ve fucked up natural selection we shouldn’t really be surprised, should we? =o)