After watching "Dog Soldiers" I always thought Sean Pertwee would make a good Vimes.
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I agree, he's better than all the people in the above poll at least I think.

I had to look him up, and I'm not quite sure. But somehow I, too, can't picture any of the actors listed above playing Vimes.

I can't see any human playing any of the charators from any of the books. Each of the Guards or Witches or any of the people are beings unto themselfs. Yes, Lord of the Rings had humans but they were not the most important. I don't like the idea of some actor being Vimes or Carrot and then in the next movie some one else being them. I have the cartoon version of one of the books and thats fun because they could stay whit the book terry wrote. Whit humans they would have to change to many things for the storys to makes sense. I really don't want any one to mess with any of Terrys books, they are perfect just the way they are.

Sean Pertwee looks to be a good possibility, but I'll have to see a movie he was in to be certain, to see if he's got the acting skills and, more importantly, the right voice.


Pmsurrey, please take your time in writing your posts. Most of our members are not from English-speaking countries, so your post would be a bit difficult to read. Use Word if you can. If you can't, then you can't, but please do your best in writing your posts.

I am sorry if someone is not able to understand what I wrote. So as not to cause any one else discomfort please cancel my application.

Erm, no one asked you to cancel any applications. I just asked you to try and write in a clearer manner if possible.

Roman - I think you might possibly be too eager to jump on some newbits for simple mis-spelling or typos - pmsurrey's post was intelligible and did not contain l33t-speak or similar - maybe a bit of paragraphing would have been nice, but not essential.

Let's not forget that since we have rules/guidelines to help members who are not native English speakers, or who have problems with the written word, by the same token we should be reasonably tolerant about their mistakes.

I agree, way too harsh. I'd have hardly noticed there was anything wrong with his post if Roman hadn't said anything. There's no shorthand or anything and it makes sense, let's not get too carried away with rules.

Her post, actually - I just hope she hasn't been frightened off.

It seems to be the default introduction rite. I also got someone telling me I'd written sub-standard English in my first post in the "Introduce yourselves" thread. ;-)

Oops, sorry about that. Anyway, I hope she comes back.

Heh.

Pmsurrey's English wasn't all that terrible, I admit, so my request looked more like a telling-off. Pmsurrey, you have my apologies. No one is overtly bothered or insulted by your English, and my post was little beyond a request to try and do better if you can. Stick around, you'll soon grow to like the place.

No one was telling you off, just curious Samps said:

I think if someone thats difficulty understanding a post the best way to deal with any misunderstanding is to explain the problem. It's not always rules or telling people off.

For me pmsurrys post is hard to read, the block of text blurs into one kinda so I'll go from one line to a jump to the other. I can read it but i have to consentrate and a few paragraphs would make it much easier.

I don't think roman expressed it the completely the right way, but his motives where fine. Perphaps a simple 'please try to break up your text a bit becuase blah, blah, blah'

For you guys the post might of been easy to read but you don't have learning difficulties (spazness) or english difficulties, other people here do.

I do think there is a fine line between being over harsh on the rules and the need to take into account the wide base of people we have here.

If pmsurry was 'scared' from here becuase she was asked to make a bit for effort to help acomodate foriegn or english challagened people thats her lost, not ours.

However, i'm sure shes just hasn't checked the boards and would be more that happy to such a slight alteration to her posting style to help the other members.

edit: spelling.

Apologies accepted. As I stated I am new here. And was not aware of the fact that for many of you English is a second language. I will try to keep my comments short.