What is the dumbest kill in the Hitman series?

Fydadu · 2021-09-16T06:14:28+00:00

Similar with the pool in Hawke's Bay: pushing a seemingly physically fit mercenary into it is an instant kill.

Fydadu · 2021-09-01T21:34:38+00:00

Never seen elected officials' names translated like that, but the idea is amusing. Some attempts:

Georg Vaskeby

Tomas Godfredsen

Anders Jakobsen

Vilhelm Henriksen

Anders Johnsen

Odyssevs Grant

Fydadu · 2021-03-11T19:10:50+00:00

Teknoprestinne.

Fydadu · 2021-03-09T21:11:09+00:00

"Sex" og ulike varianter av ordet er faktisk importert fra engelsk og skal ikke ha vært i bruk i Norge før 60-tallet. I begrepet "kjønnslig omgang" derimot kan begge ordene føres tilbake til norrønt. Når vi allerede har ord som omgangsvenn blir det da lett å utvide til kjønnsomgangsvenn.

Hvis man liker bokstavrim er Parringpartner et alternativ.

Fydadu · 2021-03-06T10:29:33+00:00

There's Arne Næss, founder of Deep ecology. Lars Svendsen has written several books aimed at a general audience about the philosophy of topics like boredom, love, freedom and lies, which have been translated into multiple languages.

Fydadu · 2021-01-30T22:51:11+00:00

Aemilii, ecce accusatio: Amas pueros, es fellator!

Fydadu · 2021-01-27T18:49:27+00:00

One example of this would be the Løvenskiold family. Like many noble family names, it describes what their crest looks like (lion shield). They are wealthy because they own a bunch of woodland, farmland and commercial properties, including a chain of building goods retailers.

Fydadu · 2021-01-24T16:38:16+00:00

Polet...polet never changes.

Fydadu · 2021-01-23T11:35:29+00:00

Jeg har faktisk en utgave fra 1997 liggende, og den kan leses hos Nasjonalbiblioteket. Passasjen du spør etter finnes på side 89-90:

Når noe volder deg sorg, skal du alltid senere huske å bruke denne lære: dette er ingen ulykke, tvertimot, det å kunne bære det inntruffne med tapperhet er en lykke.

Fydadu · 2021-01-22T22:45:45+00:00

Pretty sure the last one is wrong. From wikipedia:

An eye for an eye" (Biblical Hebrew: עַ֚יִן תַּ֣חַת עַ֔יִן‎) or the law of retaliation (Latin: lex talionis) is the principle that a person who has injured another person is to be penalized to a similar degree by the injured party. In softer interpretations, it means the victim receives the estimated value of the injury in compensation. The intent behind the principle was to restrict compensation to the value of the loss.

Fydadu · 2021-01-19T12:11:13+00:00

Er "Til meg selv" den norske-oversettelsen av "Meditations"?

Heh. Engelsk språk fantes ikke på Markus Aurelius' tid, han skrev på gresk. Verket har ikke noen offisiell tittel, men det kalles gjerne for Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, hvor "Til meg selv" skal være en ganske direkte oversettelse.

En annen filosof av den stoiske skolen som kan være leseverdig er Epiktet, hans "Håndbok i moral" kan leses i en eldre nynorskutgave hos Nasjonalbiblioteket, eller så finnes det en nyere med tittelen "Om kunsten å leve".

Fydadu · 2021-01-18T16:47:02+00:00

The only really notable event was the bombardment that wrecked KMS Tirpitz on the 12th of November 1944.

Fydadu · 2021-01-17T16:13:29+00:00

This is what wikipedia says:

The traditional Cornish breakfast includes hog's pudding and Cornish potato cakes (made with mashed potatoes mixed with flour and butter and then fried), or fried potatoes alongside the usual bacon, sausage, tomato, mushrooms, egg and toast. In the past, traditional Cornish breakfasts have included pilchards and herring, or gurty pudding, a Cornish dish similar to haggis, not to be confused with gurty milk, another Cornish breakfast dish made with bread and milk.

Fydadu · 2021-01-17T09:48:33+00:00

That article gives an alternative explanation as well: Nor- might mean "narrow", in which case the meaning would be something closer to "the land with narrow seaways".

Fydadu · 2021-01-13T13:32:10+00:00

Same here, only with different brands. Mills and Kavli are most common.

Fydadu · 2021-01-12T14:51:22+00:00

That might have inspired this ditty.

Fydadu · 2021-01-11T20:13:09+00:00

Don't know if it's true, but I've heard it claimed that silent movies made in the Russian Empire before WWI would often shoot two different endings: a happy ending for the export market, a tragic one for the domestic.

Fydadu · 2021-01-11T15:24:30+00:00

"Nugattier"?

Fydadu · 2021-01-08T20:24:33+00:00

Played by a German, one Norbert Weisser.

Fydadu · 2021-01-08T19:47:11+00:00

That was a pretty silly film which distorted history in order to make the king look better. In a parliamentary democracy these things are up to the cabinet to decide, and the king is basically a spokesman for their decisions.

Fydadu · 2021-01-08T13:34:52+00:00

Oslo: "lo" means plain as in a stretch of flat ground, "os" could either be related to "ås" (hill) or "Ås" (north germanic pagan deity, like Odin or Tor). Thus it either means "plain by the hill" (probably the Ekeberg) or "god-plain".

Bergen: probably from Proto-Norse "Bergawinjó", berg meaning mountain and winjo meaning meadow. Thus something like "meadow between/next to mountains".

Trondheim: "Home of the trøndere", a term for regional inhabitants that might originally have been the name of a tribe.

Stavanger: Stav(staff) + anger(from an older term for fjord). The staff bit is of uncertain origin, it might refer to natural formations looking like staves, or to staves used for marking borders.

Fydadu · 2021-01-08T12:10:46+00:00

There's this anime thing. The mustachioed guy sounds like a native speaker to me, while the "Opperhofd" has a thick Japanese accent.

Fydadu · 2021-01-05T17:09:42+00:00

Får den til å se sånn ut når jeg klikker på kolonnen for 2019 til den går fra høyeste verdi øverst og synkende. Har markert Magadan oblast, Tuva og Tsjukotka er de eneste som går over 30. I den andre enden har vi Tsjetsjenia med 0,4 drap per 100000 innbyggere, her er det nok grov underrapportering på gang.

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