Escape from boredom

Memorable quotes from Fawlty Towers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072500/quotes

Mrs. Richards: [standing next to the window] And another thing: I asked for a room with a view.
Basil Fawlty: [aside to Manuel] Deaf, mad, *and* blind.
[to Mrs. Richards as he makes a show of inspecting the view]
Basil Fawlty: This is the view as far as I can remember… Yes… Yes, this is it.
Mrs. Richards: When I pay for a view, I expect to see something more interesting than that.
Basil Fawlty: That is Torquay, madam.
Mrs. Richards: Well, that’s not good enough.
Basil Fawlty: Well, might I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The hanging gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically…
Mrs. Richards: Don’t be ridiculous. I expect to be able to see the sea.
Basil Fawlty: You *can* see the sea. It’s over there between the land and the sky.
Mrs. Richards: I’d need a telescope to see that.
Basil Fawlty: Well, might I suggest you move to a hotel closer to the sea.
[sotto voice]
Basil Fawlty: Or preferably in it.
Mrs. Richards: Now listen to me. I’m not satisfied, but I’ve decided to stay here. However, I shall expect a reduction.
Basil Fawlty: Why? Because Krakatoa’s not erupting at the moment, or…

At least I had a room with a view today when staying the night at Sognefjord hotel http://www.sognefjordhotel.no/

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I shed light on different issues in my blog, my last posting touches a very important issue – female discrimination in Iran and other Muslim countries. Todays issue is not as important on a global basis, but for me it certainly was important when back from Leikanger in Sogn og Fjordane wanted to have some food. I sliced my bread and prepared my eggs, all ready. Then I opened my Boston Gurka, just to realize that the taste was…different. Then I read the text printed in small letters on the glass. “Gurkmix with jalapeño”, this is cucumber mix with jalapeños. No wonder it did different, and I do not want “different” when eating Boston Gurka…doh, I think I must throw away all, and buy a new one…

• A female testimony is worth half of a mans
• Females get only half of what a man get paid after an accident (insurance) and when a female dies the insurance payment is only half of a mans
• A female will only inherit half of what a man does
• A female is not able to travel to another city or abroad without a man giving his ok
• Females are expelled from certain jobs
• Men can have up to four wifes (Muhammed had four wifes…)
• The fathers decide who their daughters can marry
• Females will almost certainly never get a divorce
• By few exceptions the man will always get the parents rights over the children-s

Found in the latest issue of Amnesty Magasinet. Just confirms what I’ve read in the book written by Hege Storhaug, sharia sucks! http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia

Can’t remember the last time I went to a museum when not at holiday and such, must have been a few years ago when at Teknisk Museum with my brother Jonas. Anyhow, due to the book King Leopolds Ghost which I read earlier this year …2007/07/05/king_leopold_s_ghost_adam_hochschild
I decided to go to the museum when I saw that they had an exhibition called “Kongospor – Norden i Kongo”. So today we went to see it, first surprise – free admission, why don’t we go to museums more often? We had a bit of luck since just 5 minutes after we came there a guided tour started. To much to read at the exhibition made that an excellent choice. At the end of the guided tour, the guide told us about a son of a Norwegian pilot who had been missing after a crash for 29 years had been there just a few weeks ago. When finished telling that an elderly man raised his voice and said “It was I who flew that plane to Kongo together with Martin”, so then we got 5 minutes more of his story from Kongo. The story about the plane, read it here http://www.tbve.no/nyheter/kongo-mysteriet-oppklart.html

The exhibition http://www.khm.uio.no/utstillinger/kongospor/

George Bush slip-ups http://www.slipups.com/tree/12.html

May 27, 2004—Nashville, Tenn.
“I want to thank my friend, Sen. Bill, first for joining us today. … He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. (Laughter.) Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me”

Due to the fact that I had no other book available I had to search the book shelf at home. Between all the books I have read before and other books with poems and such stuff I don’t read 🙂 I found this quite thin book http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkymisten Supposed to be one of the most read novels – anyhow, a simple and easy story, not so much more, but nothing less at least

Some months ago I bought a new cell phone, a Nokia 5500 Sport. I also bought a data cable to the phone, in that way I can update the phone software myself by using my pc. A good thing I thought, my guess was that since the phone uses a Symbian operative system there would be updates quite often…but nooooo. In fact, the software on my pc has been updated three times at least I believe, but my phone…never…

Floyd Landis, last years winner of Tour de France, the guy who was doped like h¤”#¤”#¤ is finally found guilty as charged http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/sport/tourdefrance/article2006231.ece and he looses the title as well – at least one good thing today 🙂

In my series of books I have bought to maybe get to understand Islam better I found this book. Some time ago I thought that I should read more about Islam to get a better understanding and then maybe respect the religion more than before. The paradox is that the more I read, the more I disagree with Islam. There are several issues with Islam that you don’t find in other religions, the most important thing is the Sharia, where the religion influences directly into the public life of the state – read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia.

There is also several other issues such as the way women are treated according to Sharia, female genital cutting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_cutting, marriage between relatives, family planned marriages where the female might be very young.

There is also a big issue regarding how well integrated non western inhabitants are here in Europe. There are ghettos like Rosengård in Malmø, Sweden http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article929662.ece, many unemployed leading to a big cost for the welfare system in each country.

The book has been criticized, found this article at Dagbladet. Quite funny though, the female interviewed have not read the book. Read, then disagree, before…shut up! http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2006/09/13/476655.html

An interview with Hege Storhaug http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/2006/10/30/481245.html

I won’t tell you all that is written in the book, read it…then we can discuss it. Whether or not if it correct what she writes, I agree with Harald Stanghelle’s words at the beginning of the book

Det (finnes) øyeblikk i historien da konfrontasjon er en nødvendig forutsetning for en ærlig dialog

Got two tickets to La Boheme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_boh%C3%A8me for the show tonight so I invited Elin. It was my first opera ever.

I must admit that it is a good thing that they have translated what they sing and showing it above the stage. Gave me the possibility to understand what was going on.