Posted Monday 27th April 2009 21:40 GMT
A 36 year old with a 50 year old mother?
It's not out of the question, but a 14 year gap between mother and offspring is certainly unusual enough to raise some doubts about the rest of the story.
Posted Monday 27th April 2009 21:40 GMT
...if my face looked like that, I'd probably end up killing somebody too.
Posted Monday 27th April 2009 22:24 GMT
he's a killer.. He has those wild chest hairs creeping over his neckline.
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 00:01 GMT
"En 36 år gammel mann ringte selv politiet og opplyste at han hadde tatt livet av sin mor, en kvinne i 50-årene." -Dagbladet
As the Anonymous Coward at the top points out, 50 sounds a bit young. The correct translation would be:
"A 36 year old man called the police and informed them that he had killed his mother, a woman in her fifties."
The article further states that the mother was "pleietrengende" which you don't appear to have a word for in English, you must be a healthy people. My dictionary's feeble attempt is "in need of nursing", something that would have likely been done by her son when the word is applied in this context. I.e. the son was currently taking care of his sick mother. (I know, bad choice of word.)
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 09:37 GMT
Make one wrong move and instantly get purged from all historical documents and pictures. Stalin was really a very nice guy, you know. He just missed his mother.
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 09:37 GMT
This isn't to say that all the people who run Wikipedia are hairy men who live with their mothers, and nurse a deep rage against the world. It could be particular to Norway.
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 09:37 GMT
Typically you'd describe the son as her carer (in the UK at least) to convey the same sentiment.
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 09:37 GMT
It is associated with a crime, it MUST be bad. Close the Intartubes! Close everything! Juche forever!
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 10:05 GMT
In North America, the word "pleietrengende" would be refered to as "in need of home care" or just "in need of care". It could even be translated as "in need of nursing". We typically have nurses or (lower paid) people trained in home care to come to the home of elderly or disabled people. There is a wide range of needs possible outside of hospitalization and there is a whole industry built up around this sort of thing, so of course there is a name for it. It is of course possible that the son did the work, but professional workers would call themselves "home care worker", "home nurse", or "nurse". Yes, you have a feeble dictionary. :)
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 11:44 GMT
Since Wiki insists that the man no longer exists, presumably he cannot possibly be guilty of anything. In which case there is no need to cover up his association with that cult?
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 21:36 GMT
I believe the word you are looking for is invalid.
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 21:36 GMT
... I can't work out what the IT angle is here.
If a man entirely unconnected with Wikipedia killed his mother, would the Reg bother to report the story? Assuming the case didn't provide an opportunity to complain about the oppressive bully-boy tactics of the police, I suspect not.
So what, I wonder, is the connection here? Are we trying to imply that Wikipedia - evil sinister conspiracy-o'-doom though it may or may not be - had something to do with the killing? Or is grumpy's 'joke' comment above actually quite close to the mark?
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