Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: [Semi-OT] Being Human

Se non sbaglio qualcuno tempo fa segnalï¿œ su questi lidi il telefilm 
della BBC Being Human. Per gli interessati, ï¿œ iniziata da qualche 
giorno la seconda serie.

ci sono delle soprese, almeno per noi non Britons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons
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 >Giovanni

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons
The most incredible to me is an engineer at the 2nd place.
I'm glad to see that Tony Blair is #1 in the worst Britons list.
Ci sono elenchi di vari stati, ma manca l'Italia.
Forse perchï¿œ 100 ï¿œ numero troppo grande?
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"Les gens qui ont bonne conscience ont souvent mauvaise
mï¿œmoire."
                -- Jacques Brel

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons
col massimo rispetto, mettere ledi Daiana prima di (nel loro ordine) 
Darwin, Shakespeare, Newton, la Regina Elisabetta (I) e Lennon...
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Pâs gàr ho aitôn lambánei, kaì ho zetôn heurískei, kaì tô kroúonti 
anoigésetai
(Euaggélion katà Loûkan 11,10)

Darwin, Shakespeare, Newton, la Regina Elisabetta (I) e Lennon...
Given that the votes were from people phoning in or emailing , what's 
surprising is that
Shakespeare or Newton made it to the top hundred . But the list is , anyway 
, deeply suspect - not only because , in 2002 , TV polls like this were 
regularly manipulated , but because , e.g., Tyndale , translator of the 
Bible into English , is in 26th place ; the total vote from which the 
original nominations were drawn was 30,000 , yet if you walked the streets 
of the UK asking 30,000 people at random if they knew who Tyndale was and 
what he was famous for , you'd be lucky to find three people who could 
answer the question (let alone rate him the Greatest Briton) .
Mike 

 "FatherMcKenzie" <james.l...@MENOinfinito.it> wrote in
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Indeed in most of other nations' "the best 100" (Italy didn't
play that game) there are strong suspects of tricks and
manipulations.
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"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman."
                -- Maryon Pearson (1901-1989) 

 this were regularly manipulated , but because , e.g., Tyndale , 
proof.
does it imply that now are no longer manipulated, or does it mean that 
you have proof of the fact that back in 2002 tv polls were manipulated. 
by whom then?
sciao
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 >Giovanni

 manipulations.
noi non abbiamo per� la serie di trasmissioni con Carlo Conti? ....
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 >Giovanni

Giovanni "Darke", 02:45, domenica 17 gennaio 2010:
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Eh?
Sono anni che non guardo RAI-1.
Se vedessi CC cambierei canale.
Poi adesso non guardo pi� niente, sono senza televisore.
E sto meglio!
-- 
Women give to men the very gold of their lives. Possibly; but
they invariably want it back in such very small change.
    -- Wilde

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news:PYt4n.12158$Ua....@twister2.libero.it...
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About a couple of years ago there was a big fuss in the UK about tv polls 
which cheated people of millions by taking phone votes which were never 
counted , and the stories of abuse in the past came out , including polls 
whose result was decided by the tv show , not the voters .
They're not manipulated now (we think) , at least not by the programe makers 
, because since that fuss they're subject to much tighter scrutiny , and it 
would be very bad business to be caught doing that sort of thing again .
Mike 

 E sto meglio!
non ti rincoglionisci di blog e rss?
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 >Giovanni

Giovanni "Darke", 23:48, domenica 24 gennaio 2010:
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No, per rincoglionirmi vengo su Usenet.
:-)
-- 
"La politique, c'est pas compliqu�, il suffit d'avoir une bonne
conscience, et pour cela il faut juste avoir une mauvaise
m�moire!"
                -- Coluche (Michel Colucci)

 No, per rincoglionirmi vengo su Usenet.
il discorso non cambia...
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 >Giovanni

Giovanni "Darke", 13:37, sabato 30 gennaio 2010:
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Ma cosa c'� in TV, che non rincoglionisca di pi� e pi� presto?
 
-- 
"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading
newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the
second hand of a clock."
                -- Ben Hecht