David Blaine in human aquarium for a week

I swear I called you up on this before - what is the point of posting links that are in Danish, when you're speaking in English to a vast majority of non-Danish speakers? Does it not occur to you that it's kind of pointless?

 

ALCHY we have been here before, and I must say to you, NO it is not pointles, just because the case is not known in other countries (well this case is , just FYI !).

But the thing is with you, is as follows, if the link isn´t in English then sadly you won´t believe it.

To me proof is something that is written in swahili, of all I know even though I can´t read it. As long the links in itself are not a link to a joke site. So stop that kind of answer to me. But well you will just do it next time, when I post a link in the Danish language, but what if I showed a link in Spanish, would you then shout again, that you didn´t understand it, and then it was pointless ?

Or do you have anything against Danes ?

 

...the issue isn't that I don't believe it, the issue is I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT.

You posted links without explaining the content, apparently assuming that we will know what it all means. Then you think I have something against everyone in Denmark when I ask why. I can't even begin to understand this logic. And I'm still no closer to knowing what this "Benjamin" case is, or what it has to do with David Blaine in a fishtank.

 

David Blaine can hold his breath for 9 minuttes, because he has trained , so his body can have so much oxygen in his lungs and etc. But then Paulo thought, "that is insane !?! because I thought that holding your breath for 3 minuttes can cause brain damage" (and in some cases it can, but I am not going into that right now).

But the brain damage thing has something to do with oxygen to the brain.

But the Benjamin case has something to do with brain damage and that was because the cops held him down in a forbidden way, that cut off all oxygen, and air to the body, and brain so he died, and then he got cpr and etc. And he became a vegetable, and etc.

So I was pointing out, how (in some cases) extreme you can come in before your brain goes bye bye.

I hope you now understand, that I am pointing out, that some times 3 minuttes holding your breath isn´t that extreme, and other times it is, under certain cercumstances (sp?)

the language barrier is something else, universal translator(a program) can give an "ok" translation from Danish to English , but there are other programs too.

 

I bet this coming from the mohammed cartoons?


Alchy has a point, a translated version of the articles would've helped a lot better in having us understand the point you were trying to make. What I see though is how you try to tie Denmark with a lot of things now, this being the current example. You keep trying to make us feel sorry for your country it seems.

Just because Alchy is trying to tell you he does not get the point does not mean he has something against danes. It is demented/close-minded thinking. Stop trying to make people feel sympathy over your country its not right, especially if it really, really has no relevance to the topic. Its like getting in on a conversation and then you interrupt us by saying stuff about a boy in denmark being choke to death and all you're expecting is sympathy of some sort from it, where actually you'll get a different reaction from it. Just chill out.

 

madhatter256: no I am not collecting sympathy points on that subject, anyway, I ask Alchy, and then he explains, and then I reply in a polite manner, and then I even explain in my reply, that some programs can be give an "ok" Danish to English translation.

 

You know as well as I do that automated translation is a waste of time - especially when you speak fluent English and Danish and are in the perfect position to give a much better translation, right there in the first post by the links.

In a more generally sense, what I see is you bringing socio-political content into threads where it really isn't relevant, and you do this on a weekly basis. When you combine this with whacked out logic,* we get to the point where I see you've posted and just wonder what I'm going to encounter this time. This isn't a language or racial issue, before you jump to conclusions: I just struggle to understand how a lot of the subject matter in your posts is even vaguely relevant.

*case in point here: if I'm reading you right, you say the mind can survive quite a long time without air, and then point out a boy who got suffocated, turned into a a vegetable, and eventually died? Is this not a direct contradiction?

 

Yes, it is a little contradiction, but it is the truth, Benjamin came out of his coma, and was a mental handicapped person, and then died when was "alive". but yes, I know sometimes my English is a bit , shall we say funky ? and a bit strange ?

And he was clinically dead in a period of more than 20 minuttes, that is why he became a vegetable, and so forth.

here the case is explained more throghly

http://www.datashopper.dk/~boo/benjamin.htm

the sad thing is, that even though my English is good, my translation skills are pathetic , or at least it will take time. But well every thing takes time, but I have just diffeculties writing long explanations, and essays in other languages, (heck even Danish, there I have problems explaining myself in the written language, even though I can spell good, in English. And Danish). I can´t write more than two pages , or perhaps I can, but it is hard for me to do. But I can tell it better in spoken English, and Danish, than I can in written form.

Maybe his death is my imagination, but I do think, that I am not incorrect, that he really died some years ago. But I could be wrong about that.

 

Look, your english is perfect, But stop linking to pages in danish, when only a few members of the forum can read them, as there really is no point. Perhaps instead of linking to pages, you can give a synopsis of the case, maybe on the English wikipedia - You say that the case isn't widely known outside of outside of denmark - this is your chance as someone with a good knowledge of the case, and with a good grasp of the english language to write it in english
Skol!

Back on topic, blaine is just a very odd bloke, who gets far too much attention...

 

Steadster: I understand, and will try to do that, in the future