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nineveh_uk ([personal profile] nineveh_uk) wrote2015-05-16 04:35 pm

One is dead, and is mad, and I have quite forgotten

*Drum roll* BBC4 Saturday night once again brings us must-see Scandinavian programme, this time, costume drama.

1864! A year to echo down the ages. 1864! A year of blood and infamy, of heroism, of folly, of despair!

1864, the year of the Second Schleswig War!

*screeches to a halt*

Yes, it's an eight-part epic costume drama on the Schleswig-Holstein question, subject of about 15 minutes at A-level lo those many years ago. It stars the usual suspects of Danish TV, and has prompted dialect!fail wank on the internet. I can't wait.

[identity profile] auntyros.livejournal.com 2015-05-17 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
My brother, aged 5, already an expert on breeds of cow was asked by his primary school teacher, 'What animal is that?' His reply, disdainful as a small child could manage, 'It's a nothing cow.'

I think we can safely assume there will be 'wrong cow' wank.

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[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2015-05-17 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oops! So far I am not aware of chicken-wank in relation to this particular series. However I am hoping to see a recent Danish film "Men and Hens"*, which has no doubt sparked it.


*Seriously.

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2015-05-17 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
*applauds brother*

I decided that I had to look up whether there was cow-wank. Having had the Danish spelling of cow provided by Google translate*, I have come up with the glorious headline of "[Politican] angry over gang-rape of cow". Actually, I thought that the cow-scene didn't really work in the drama, but were I a politician that is not the angle I would have chosen!