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What the hell kind of a name is 'Hurd', anyway?
Goofy European parents.
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Meh... A "like" is either just a "post" command, or a "submit" command. Not too much different from just sending the code to pull up a webpage, which can be done using an automated process.
Really? Anyone else here have spammers seeking out some of their posts and "liking" them?
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This is all over the net, we're just lucky its only gotten here now. People in third world countries getting paid pennies in boiler rooms to do just that. Spread spam. This is most likely one person who just makes new profiles to spread the spam.
Whatever you choose to post about it has no effect. Because they have someone paying them to do it and its probably money to live on. They need people to go to their sites (probably adult) and do whatever is there pure and simple.
Which sites are being advertised by this particular spam? Have you run it through a translator. I have - there's no sense to any of it whatsoever. There are no sites being drawn toward. There is no message. That anyone would pay a boiler room dweller anything to flood these forums with meaningless faux-Korean is a pretty strange way to spend money.
I think it's personal. Someone is messing with these forums for their own reasons.
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what makes you think it's personal?
There are a number of reasons. One of them is that there have been instances where a "member" that is planting the spam has visited some of my posts, in different threads, individually, and "liked" them.
That is not bot behavior.
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"Whatever" is more like it. Human beings do not spam like this- this is the work of bot programs. The internet is more bot programs than people. And to ask why seems like it would be trying to open a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
(actually, on another forum I used to visit we would have occasional marketing spammers, which I always assumed were bots, but on one occasion one of them took the opportunity to post a video on the music thread before he got banned. I thought that was funny- he must have been a big M. Ward fan.)
I've always found it hard to believe that TV commercials win customers- even harder to believe that pop-up ads win customers- and this... Maybe this is just how some people shop.
I believe you're wrong about this case being bot caused.
I believe it's personal this time.
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I wouldn't call that one exactly recent
It's relative. 1999 is pretty recent to people who mostly watch movies from 1948.
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This is so basic that I can't believe you can't grasp it, but I'll try again.
An individual's favorites are his/her favorites.
Another individual cannot say that others' lists of their favorites is incomplete.
It is their list!
You may have your favorites, but not including your favorites on their list of favorites cannot make their list of their favorites incomplete.
It is a complete list of their favorites.
I suspect you performed poorly on reading comprehension tests in junior high.
He got an A in -----disturbing, though.
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Thanks, moderator1. Excellent job cleaning up all that spam for us just now.
It's always disheartening to see a new attack begin.
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It made me sad to hear, that our fav program for some wonderful classic movies, will determine what movies will be shown based on a few, with their own special agenda. As if, not showing these movies, will somehow help believe that it never happened.
What in the world are you saying?
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What the heck does that mean?
Just a stupid contrarian remark if I ever heard one.
You should quote contrarian remarks when you reply to them. Some of us can't see them and are not aware of what provoked your response.
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Of course I'm talking about a lot of them, not just these two.
For example, I had to do some lip reading to find out how Ruby Lemarr paid her husband's lawyer in THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE, because the original dialogue had to be covered up by thunder before the film could be released. That took me about 15 minutes of going over phrase after phrase before I found the one that matched her lip movements. No one else here could figure it out, but they did notice that her original dialogue had been covered up by the thunder
Your intense interest in "vulgarity" (your word) is.......laudable?
Maybe peculiar is a better word.
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There is a lot of this kind of stuff in pre-code movies, and it took me about 65 years of going to movies to be able to figure it out.
Not exactly a quick study, are you?
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Oh yes -- people thought all sorts of people were fine fellows. But my comments are not the revisionist ramblings of a contemporary liberal; they've been expressed by people since Mencken's time. I'm not really comfortable cutting and pasting this Mencken quote (one of MANY), but just as part of this exchange, I will (but I'll erase it in a little while; it's revolting).
Mencken:
"I admit freely enough that, by careful breeding, supervision of environment and education, extending over many generations, it might be possible to make an appreciable improvement in the stock of the American negro, for example, but I must maintain that this enterprise would be a ridiculous waste of energy, for there is a high-caste white stock ready at hand, and it is inconceivable that the negro stock, however carefully it might be nurtured, could ever even remotely approach it."
I'm sure he was being very sincere and responsible at the time.
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And Mencken's "badness" was even worse than many others.
Says you. I'm sure there are many people who thought he was a fine fellow with a valuable mind.
Different times, different circumstances, different conventions, are easy to pass judgement upon in today's "enlightened" environment. Which is why people do it so much - it's easy.
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As enjoyable as Mencken may be to read, let's not overestimate him. He has been called a misogynist and a racist. Not just sporadically -- there seems to be justification.
Doesn't make him wrong about the American public. Flawed people can be right about some things.
And a good thing too, considering everyone is flawed to some degree at some time or other.
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It's the golden age of Hollywood because even with all that constrained, same-old, overly-theatrical, Conservative weak tea, the theaters did great business and the industry made tons of money.
TV wouldn't begin to really be a threat until the late 50's - and, not coincidentally, that's when push-back against a lot of the code's influence really began to make itself felt. By the late 60's the boomers were spending most of the entertainment dollars the industry saw, and we were pretty damned sick of all the censorship and demanded to see realness.
The "golden age of hollywood" was definitely not the golden age of good movies. That wouldn't begin until the Supreme Court tore away the power of the production code.
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He was 43.
My cousin drove a limousine in Toronto. He told me that John Candy was the nicest client he'd ever met.
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You're being kind of annoying today, aren't you?
Does the Pope ---- in the woods?
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Click on full screen to get the most out of this video. Maybe my favorite EJ song and perfect for a Halloween posting.
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From 'Walk Among Us', here's punk band The Misfits and 'Night of the Living Dead'.
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I do not object to someone chiming in with their opinion or starting a thread that has three others just like it on page one. Even you are free to comment. But to then keep posting the same old tired comments just for the sake of having the last word is - how can I put it - horrible behaviour.
Say your piece and move on for crying out loud. Must you rule every topic of conversation?
Come on, have a heart, Bogie. Some members are so grateful there's still a few who will acknowledge their existence that you can hardly blame them for not wanting any conversation they get to end.
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caution for language
If you cautioned that the clip the link leads to has "language" - why on earth would mod1 remove the link?
Are links going to be judged and censured now?
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Whatever. They're all the same, aren't they?
Good point.
We have been visited by the smartphone spam fairy!
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Could be Canadians, ay!