Denner (0)
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Originally Posted by Wittyguy:
[off topic post for Denner]
Noting that Denner appears to be the sole Danish Voice of Porn here caused to me think what other great things/people came out of Denmark. Off the top of my head I can only think of four:
1. Hans Christian Anderson (who is currently rolling in his grave after seeing his creations get morphed in commercial crap after being swallowed by the Disney juggernaut);
2. The existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (who coined the phrase "leap of faith" and still has the best philosophical treatise title ever: "The Sickness Unto Death");
3. Niels Bohr (nobel winning nuclear physicist ... apparently the Dane's got tired of constantly being overrun by the German's and finally got someone to help build the ultimate deterrent - nuclear weapons!)
4. Those awesome tasting butter cookies that come in the big blue can (by far the best thing from Denmark that I know of ;)
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Not many people know this, but Wittybuy is certainly right about the nucelar-scientist Niels Bohr - who was importent in the development of the A-bomb.
But it had reasons too: At that time - after/in the end of the 2.world war, little old Denmark was threatend by the Sovjetunion and communism - and the threat was kind of real in 1946.
So Denmark - of course - made a deal with the US-inteligent sevices at that time - one was a deal about giving US access to Greenland to place nuclear-stuff there (man, close to the Sovjet on that vast territory close to the the other demagog, dictator and cause of another genocide, Josef Stalin.
So after all, thanks to the USA - Denmark was a free place to be even at that time...
We are forever thankfull.
Maybe that why danish goverment send soldiers to Iraq and still keeping sending them to Afghanistan along with the US...
History of friendship among certain contries means a lot...
BTW: Regarding the vast majority of danish people, US-citizens will always be welcome in this country! "I don't drink anymore - I freeze it, and eat it like a popcicle" Edited on Dec 06, 2008, 11:29am |
