Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Little Bump Above Belly Button In Babies

OPERATION PRICE

or

the Arcor comedy barn to guest in Berlin

ago now, almost half a year I decided to change my pitiful analog online existence. Clueless as I was, I settled for this project inspired by television.

But neither chicken nor Freenet Lycos Dalmatians were able to convince me. Finally, I wanted a DSL flat rate and not in the zoo. And so it was the company Arcor, which was awarded the contract. Their campaign with the catchy name SURGERY PRICE and their central aspect is a trusted surgeon who intervene on billboards and in TV ads, the price gap to guide the viewer the radical customer-friendly pricing policy in mind, which the company allegedly practiced. But dandelions. But more on that later. The role of this chrirurgischen impostor is no coincidence. The consumer is confronted with a seemingly studied medicine, which can make his life better by a long-practiced cut. Treacherous. And I was willing to give me my tonsils, my appendix and whatever was necessary to have it removed from him ...

guided me so directly to a Wegelagererstation Arcor, which had turned a busy nurse's aide in a Saturn Hansa branch. I would be critical and not from Dr. Brinkmann was dazzled, I would be all too clear parallel to the medieval charlatans noticed that, for fear they could repay them, including their alleged Wundertonikum bottle rectally, no place to travel twice. But I floated on a cloud generated multimedia confidence to the desk of the blue-red nurse's aide, to my cross at Arcor vielgepriesenem "carefree package" to make. seems completely carefree but where I come from something other than mean Arcor.

But when I left the digital Wundertinkturstand, I was still convinced that the right to have done. And when I went home, I said my part of the work done. The four to six weeks waiting time, which allowed the company to hatte, schienen mir ein kaum ernstzunehmendes Ärgernis. Aber auch unter vier bis sechs Wochen versteht man bei Arcor etwas anderes als im Rest der Welt.

Ich gehe inzwischen davon aus, dass man sich einfach verschrieben hat. Inzwischen ist nämlich ein halbes Jahr vergangen. ‚Vier mal sechs Wochen’ statt ‚vier bis sechs Wochen’. Diese Zeit aber verging nicht, ohne dass die Firma Arcor mich regelmäßig ihrer aufrichtigen Freundschaft versichert hätte. Jeden Monat bekomme ich einen kumpeligen Brief, dessen Text sich auf zweierlei reduzieren lässt:

1.) Ach Du, wir haben technische Probleme. Das tut uns furchtbar leid, aber wir melden uns, wenn is what changes. And

2) Hey, of course we are willing to compensate you for your additional costs. But only as long as it cost us nothing.

is because it is quite evident at this

- - These delicious jokers seriously offering me to take my first thirty euros Arcor account. In any event, more. A generosity me almost ashamed, especially since I could get inside safely through clever investment of € 30 within a few years back a few hundred euros, which the delay of the contemplated tariff has taken me until now.

One should incidentally not think that the company JURISDICTION Inkompetenzerklärungen a contact number. At most, a paid hotline. Yes, "Service" and "service" will be capitalized with Arcor and then crossed decided.

But if you otherwise has no friends, then one looks forward, at least on the regular mail. And I can not think seriously that every month Arcor Vertröstungsdepesche comfort a lonely individual hochsuizidales over three years and may be held by the last step. But even if I certainly appreciate these socio-psychological component, I must exclude me from it. I am that is just one of the Variety, will have what he ordered - what may come from where I am the way, is perfectly normal .

case did not appear to Arcor.

can evidently be a DSL flat rate rather win the shell games to give as with Arcor in order.

But if someone buys something, he does not have, which is nothing more than fraud. But perhaps Arcor says not all bad.

Perhaps the company is only for some backward hinterland state, where one is for the fulfillment of contracts and may be four years instead of paying with money and with potatoes.

My personal dilemma is detrimental to the, however.

lie And if I give the picture with the surgeon be faithful, I now in a figurative sense, for four months with a ruptured appendix on the Arcor operating table and wait, thereby OPERATION PRICE gets a facelift, surgery is worth it in usually only as long as the patient is still alive.

But that's where these people come here might be different ...

I will, however, deride no more foreign practices but would like to highlight for the inexperienced German-born consumers a few little guidance in dealing with the company Arcor:

- "Comprehensive Carefree means of Arcor "half a year trouble"

- "four to six weeks," said there "four times six weeks"

- if they want, they can pay for Arcor also potato

- if they really want to have no DSL Flatrate, it's best to go to Arcor. The

can be and are the best. These few points

should help avoid some misunderstandings.

Amazingly, the potato company has managed to act as a jersey sponsor of Hertha BSC Berlin. I know what it is in any case, if the association is a six months ... shoots a goal

Finally, I ask the gentle reader, leading to remember how many thousand people ripped the blue and red club in this way for how many months now. Hardly fact that this is done, then one is inclined to agree with the incisive finale of Arcorwerbespots:

head, so light makes your not to ...

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Pain In The Arch Of My Foot When Ice Skating

Recently at Thermopylae

or Asterchen, are you coming to the movies ...

"300". Voila. A film, which I am admittedly 've got a very long time. I am a friend of the graphic novels by Frank Miller, Sin City really enjoyed and wanted to have fun here in good faith. In this context, I confess, as much a weakness for well-staged graphic violence as well as to have sex. All in all, not bad conditions to make me 300 Spartans on their way to defy the Thermopylae pass an overwhelming Persian advance.

Which brings us to the plot.

the middle of the ancient nahert is an overwhelming Persian army under the Great King Xerxes perischen Greece in order to conquer it. Although it is unwilling to submit to him, the Greeks, especially the city of Athens, because of various political entanglements also unwilling to face the approaching army in their path. Even the people of Sparta have the opportunity to surrender to prove without a fight, however this as the wrong address. Leonidas, King of Sparta breaks, with 300 of his best soldiers to Xerxes at Thermopylae on the lapse, the narrowness of the Persian supremacy can be brave. It launched a few scattered but motivated Greeks to them, and then it goes off. The rest of the film is magnificent battle scenes, heroic song and a story of heroic failure.

The basis of the film is the eponymous comic strip by Frank Miller, in turn was inspired by real events. (The first battle of Thermopylae (480 BC.)).

The audience in this film that is, the implementation of an interpretation of an interpretation that makes any artistic freedom. The implementation of this interpretation is standard hammer. Visually and aesthetically smash the images are borrowed directly from Miller's comic, the audience in the chair.

But when you leave the cinema, the cinema is limited experience in retrospect to the feeling of having heard a metal song. To me personally this is not enough, however.

Other critics during the run at 300 like the adjective "Fascist" into the field that is unfortunately not entirely wrong. The film tries to be just as the glorification of his heroic protagonists as well as the degradation of his enemies. Where there are predominantly crippled mutants and small and grossly inferior representative of Middle Eastern cultures, so that the whole thing degenerates into a big cripple clapping. Friends of the movie cause like the aspect of historical accuracy in the field, which would have to be above that of the alleged political incorrectness. Yes, the Spartans were a nation of about soldiers who have no doubt in this ethos and actions shown and felt. The Battle of Thermopylae saw a little while anders aus, denn auf der Seite der Spartaner kämpften insgesamt 4.000 Griechen, aber das persische Mutantenstadl sollte den Historikern unter den Kritikern den Wind aus den Segeln nehmen. Obwohl dieser Aspekt ohnehin hinfällig ist, da es sich um eine Umsetzung einer Interpretation aus zweiter Hand handelt.

Eine solche hat gewöhnlich keinen moralischen Anspruch, was aber im Gegenwartskontext etwas problematisch ist.

Jede große Fantasy Saga, von Conan bis zum Herrn der Ringe hat moralische Aspekte. Und das zurecht. Selbst der etwas überpathetische „Kingdom of Heaven“ billigte den Gegnern seiner so rechtschaffenen Heere Qualitäten zu. „300“ nicht. Es ist eine Metzel Soap in der Gut und Evil must be distinguished so clearly that it hurts. It also does the little bit of tokenism Hanldung and historical limbo no harm.

I'm certainly not a moral person, but there are movies that leave me with a bitter aftertaste. Just like when others dismiss as mere entertainment. Nothing that reaches the masses is just entertainment. (Started by the way this knowledge at "The Devil's Rejects," which is actually a really well-made horror movie)

Ergo, the "300" ultimately expected to Spartan. In every respect, apart from the graphic.

who indulge in these Manowar widescreen excess möchte, dem sei er vergönnt, er soll aber eben nicht mehr als grandiose Bilder und unfehlbare Heldenstereotypen erwarten.

(Und ein paar wenige zugegebenermaßen großartige Dialoge, inmitten der heroischen Platitüden.)