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Glinene noge su odlične, sve je dobro kad se pojavi Straža.

Neverovatno je kako je uspeo da ubaci rasizam u tako običnu priču hehe.

 

Odlichna je knjiga! Posle razocharavajuce Maskarade, ova me odushevila. I smeshna je, ali ubacio je i dosta ozbiljnih tema this time..

 

"sve je dobro kad se pojavi Straža." - ovo potpisujem :da: Genijalni likovi

 

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Uz Kamionce,Buldožerce i Krilce sam ekstra uživao pre 3-4 godine čini mi se,treba malo radnji da se zavrti,ali kao parodija zapadne (ili bilo koje druge) civilizacije rula baš yako.

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Teri je dao milion funti za istrazivanje Alchajmerove bolesti, fanovi worldwide pokushavaju da nadmashe donaciju, njemu u chast. Evo njegovog govora i linkova:

 

 

http://groups.myspace.com/DonateForPratchett

 

 

DONATE A POUND TODAY!

 

 

So the great Terry Pratchett has donated a million pounds to Alzheimer’s research. There are now a number of fans online trying to get enough people to donate their money so that we can match Terry’s donation.

 

 

 

We are asking for just a pound from each fan, however as your group leader I have decided to set a president and I personally have donated £10 and shall be donating more when I can.

 

 

 

So £1 or how ever much you can give, it’s such a little thing, but if we can get a million fans to do it then it won’t seem so little anymore.

 

 

 

Just visit the Alzheimer’s website where you can donate a £1 (or more) in a one off donation, or you can set up a direct debit.

 

 

 

http://www.alzheimers-research.org.uk/howtohelp/

 

 

 

If your not already convinced then here’s Terry’s speech, make sure you’ve got the tissues to hand!

 

 

 

’Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Terry Pratchett, author of a

series of inexplicably successful fantasy books and I have had

Alzheimer’s now for the past two years plus, in which time I

managed to write a couple of bestsellers. I have a rare variant. I

don’t understand very much about it, but apparently if you are

going to have Alzheimer’s it’s a good one to have. So, a stroke of

luck there then...

 

 

 

Interestingly enough, when I was diagnosed last December by

those nice people at Addenbrooke’s, I started a very different

journey through Dementia. This one had much better scenery,

interesting and often very attractive inhabitants, wonderful wildlife

and many opportunities for excitement and adventure.

 

 

 

Those of you who’s last experience with computer games was

looking at Lara Croft’s buttocks might not be aware of how good

they have become as audio and visual experiences, although I

would concede that Lara’s buttocks were a visual experience in

their own right. But in this case I was travelling through a country

that was part of the huge computer game called Oblivion, which is

so beautifully detailed that I have often ridden around it to enjoy

the scenery and weather and have hardly bothered to kill anything

at all.

 

 

 

At the same time as I began exploring the wonderful Kingdom of

Dementia, which is next door to the Kingdom of Mania, I was also

experiencing the slightly more realistic experience of being a 59

year old who finds they have early onset Alzheimer’s. Apparently I

reacted to this situation in a reasonably typical way, with a sense

of loss and abandonment with an incoherent, or perhaps I should

say, violently coherent fury that made the Miltonic Lucifer’s rage

against Heaven seem a bit miffed by comparison. That fire still

burns.

 

 

 

I want to go on writing! Admittedly, that means I have to stay alive.

You can’t write books when you are dead, unless your name is L.

Ron Hubbard. And so now I’m a game for real.

 

 

 

It’s a nasty disease, surrounded by shadows and small, largely

unseen tragedies. People don’t know what to say, unless they

have had it in the family

 

 

 

People ask me why I announced that I had Alzheimer’s. My

response was: why shouldn’t I? I remember when people died "of

a long illness" now we call cancer by its name, and as every

wizard knows, once you have a thing’s real name you have the first

step to its taming. We are at war with cancer, and we use that

vocabulary. We battle, we are brave, we survive. And we have a

large armaments industry.

 

 

 

For those of us with early onset in particular, it’s more of a series of

skirmishes. My GP is helpful and patient, but I don’t have a

specialist locally. The NHS kindly allows me to buy my own Aricept

because I’m too young to have Alzheimer’s for free, a situation I’m

okay with in a want-to-kick-a-politician-in-the-teeth-kind of way

But, on the whole, you try to be your own doctor. The internet

twangs night and day. I walk a lot and take more supplements

than the Sunday papers. We talk to one another and compare

regimes. Part of me lives in a world of new age remedies and

science, and some of the science is a little like voodoo. But

science was never an exact science, and personally I’d eat the

arse out of a dead mole if it offered a fighting chance.

 

 

 

Fortunately, I have the Greek Chorus to calm me down

 

 

 

Soon after I told the world my website fell over and my PA had to

spend the evening negotiating more bandwidth. I had more than

60,000 messages within the first few hours. Most of them were

readers and well-wishers. Some of them wanted to sell me snake

oil and I’m not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have

never found a rusty snake. But a large handful came from

’experienced’ sufferers, successfully fighting a holding action, and

various people in universities and research establishments who had,

despite all expectations, risen to high places in their various

professions even while being confirmed readers of my books. And

they said; can we help? They are the Greek Chorus. Only two of

them are known to each other and they give me their advice on

various options that I suggest. They include a Wiccan, too. It’s a

good idea to cover all the angles.

 

 

 

It was interesting when I asked about having my dental amalgam

fillings removed. There was a chorus of "Hrumph, no scientific

evidence, hrumph...., but if you can afford to have it done properly

then it certainly won’t do any harm and you never know."

 

 

 

And that is where I am, along with many others, scrabbling to stay

ahead long enough to be there when the Cure, which I suspect

may be more like a regime, comes along. Say it will be soon –

There’s nearly as many of us as there are cancer sufferers, and it

looks as if the number of people with the disease will double within

a generation. And in most cases you will find alongside the

sufferer you will find a spouse, suffering as much.

 

 

 

It’s a shock and a shame, then, to find out that funding for research

is three per cent of that which goes to find cancer cures. Perhaps

that is why, for example, that I know three people who have

successfully survived brain tumours but no-one who has beaten

Alzheimer’s...although among the Greek Chorus are some who

are giving it a hard time.

 

 

 

I’d like a chance to die like my father did—of Cancer, at 86.

(Remember, I’m speaking as a man with Alzheimer’s, which strips

away your living self a bit at a time). Before he went to spend his

last two weeks in a hospice he was bustling around the house,

fixing things. He talked to us right up to the last few days, knowing

who we were and who he was. Right now, I envy him. And there

are thousands like me, except that they don’t get heard.

 

 

 

So let’s shout something loud enough to hear. We need you and

you need money. I’m giving you a million dollars. Spend it wisely.’

 

 

 

http://www.alzheimers-research.org.uk/howtohelp/

 

 

 

 

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A bem ti govor, rasplakah se opet. " I’m speaking as a man with Alzheimer’s, which strips

away your living self a bit at a time" :cry: :cry: :cry:

Juce citav dan o njemu razmisljam, kako jedan veliki um mora da se muci sa takvim glupostima u 21. veku.

Trebali smo odavno da prevazidjemo sve te bolesti, koliko se samo ulaze u nauku a ne pomicemo se sa mrtve tacke :(

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@Tanya: mozda si proustila ovaj deo:

 

... The NHS kindly allows me to buy my own Aricept

because I’m too young to have Alzheimer’s for free, a situation I’m

okay with in a want-to-kick-a-politician-in-the-teeth-kind of way

Tj. zashto iskoreniti bolest kada mozesh zaradjivati na prodaji lekova...

 

U svetu kakvom zivimo, ne treba se uzdati u iskorenjivanje bolesti, vec ochekivati nove...

Jbg.

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Posle 4 dana skinulo mi se 33%, yupiiiiiiiii!!!

Napredujemo polako ali sigurno :)

Skinuo sam ja pre deset dana film za nekoliko sati sa torrenta, ali je dvd-rip.

Nisam ga jos gledao, trazim subtitle, ima li negde - bar na engleskom ?

Ima li neko link za The Making of The Colour of Magic?

 

Evo vam linkova za film:

http://drtvdown.blogspot.com/2008/03/colou...art-1-hdtv.html 1. deo

http://drtvdown.blogspot.com/search?q=the+colour+of+magic 2. deo

 

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Skinuo i odgledao.

Davno sam citao knjige ali ipak su mi zasmetala izostavljanja nekih stvari a i nije bas lako uraditi adaptaciju kad narator gotovo da mora da bude iskljucen a tu je Pracet najbolji.

 

Nisam siguran koliko bi se film svideo nekome ko nije citao knjige.

 

Inace, potrudite se da nadjete subtitilove jer ima dosta tesko razumljivog dijaloga (kako razumeti bezzubog Koena varvarina?)

Uspeo sam da nadjem samo transkript:

http://transcripts.subtitle.me.uk/showtoph...dd56b4bdb81bd28

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