MrSMW Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 hours ago, User said: Hey man come on... the French are going to insulted if you don't reference them on this point as well. I am not French but live in France... A couple of weeks back, when we lived in a free sane world where we earned a living and toilet paper was not a topic of everyday discussion, I was at my chiro and he whilst he was twisting my neck at angles I would not myself, he said, “so what do you think of French men?” Not sure what he was asking or why, I gave some kind of non-commital response. ”Zey are arrogant!” he said in his thickly accented English, “yes, Frenchmen are like pigs, we think we are ze best...and I can say zis because I am a Frenchman!” So there you are, it is official. User 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 8 hours ago, IronFilm said: It is especially embarrassing for certain Americans when even little ol' New Zealand handily beats them on their precious freedom rankings 😉 or the americas cup, but we got there first 😉 noone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Ale82 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 9 hours ago, IronFilm said: It is especially embarrassing for certain Americans when even little ol' New Zealand handily beats them on their precious freedom rankings 😉 Well, hasn't been New Zealand the first country on the planet to have universal suffrage, rights to indigenous populations and a total ban on any military ship of any country, allies included, having nuclear propulsion or capable of using nuclear weapons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tupp Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 As a US citizen, I can assure you that it is embarrassing when a fellow countryman ignorantly gloats about the US. I don't encounter such folk very often in the wild, and I haven't noticed a lot of them here. However, there were a couple of recent posts that made me (and likely others from the US) cringe every time the forum member capitalized "AMERICAN." On the other hand, I must confess that I do idolise (BRITISH spelling) Trump: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinegain Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Speaking of TRUMP, why don't we see Richard 'Mr Dogschidt' Gale here anymore, anyways? Or an Andy Lee? Or KidzRevil? Matthias Burling? Or Jonpais? Over quibbles or just staying away, better things to do? Andrew Reid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Members BTM_Pix Posted March 25, 2020 Super Members Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Cinegain said: Speaking of TRUMP, why don't we see Richard 'Mr Dogschidt' Gale here anymore, anyways? Or an Andy Lee? Or KidzRevil? Matthias Burling? Or Jonpais? Over quibbles or just staying away, better things to do? This is bit like trying to remember the "divorced, beheaded, died" rhyme about the fate of Henry VIII's six wives ! I'll have a go at guessing in order with "absent, absent, banned, absent, banned". Although "self isolated" is probably the more appropriate term than "absent" in the present crisis Cinegain and Kisaha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kisaha Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 KidzRevil was banned? I missed that somehow, what he did? heart0less 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Members BTM_Pix Posted March 25, 2020 Super Members Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Kisaha said: KidzRevil was banned? I missed that somehow, what he did? It was a guess but on second thoughts I think he might be in the "absent" category now. Kisaha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kisaha Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said: It was a guess but on second thoughts I think he might be in the "absent" category now. Depending my work schedule, I am missing some things on the web, his disappearance was one of those! Just can't remember what exactly he was doing last. Hope everyone is well though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Members BTM_Pix Posted March 25, 2020 Super Members Share Posted March 25, 2020 6 minutes ago, Kisaha said: Depending my work schedule, I am missing some things on the web, his disappearance was one of those! Just can't remember what exactly he was doing last. Hope everyone is well though. If you click this link you can search user names and clicking on their profile will tell you when they last logged in. https://www.eoshd.com/comments/search/?&type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[4]=1&group[5]=1&group[10]=1&group[3]=1&group[7]=1&group[6]=1&group[9]=1&group[8]=1&group[1]=1 Kisaha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kisaha Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 30 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said: If you click this link you can search user names and clicking on their profile will tell you when they last logged in. https://www.eoshd.com/comments/search/?&type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[4]=1&group[5]=1&group[10]=1&group[3]=1&group[7]=1&group[6]=1&group[9]=1&group[8]=1&group[1]=1 Not missing them that much! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinegain Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Hum, which previous somewhat frequent visitors have not been here for a while, AaronChicago, JazzBox, Brother, DBounce, Ed_David, Liszon, John Brawley, jase, TheRenaissanceMan, webrunner5, Orangenz, Neumann Films, Jordan Drake, benymypony, Axel, Liam, aldolega, theSUBVERSIVE, bigfoot, Raafi Rivero, lucabutera, Snowbro, BrorSvensson, Julian, dahlfors, Justin Bacle, dhessel, Fredrik Lyhne, Zach Ashcraft, Michael Ma, j.f.r., Rudolf, Juxx989, Shell64, agolex, sudopera, Dean, SR, Policar, Shield3, johnnymossville, Kristoferman, Ivanhurba, jhnkng, leeys, bamigoreng, Volker Schmidt, TSV, John Emery, dafreaking, Dan Wake, Christina Ava, Luke Mason, sandro, tomekk, Brian Caldwell, jgharding... etc. Oh lol, and jcs, remember that guy? And maxotics. Dang that must've been like around the Ebrahim days. 😅 Well. That was some trip down memory lane. Back to more productive quarantine tasks. Well, productive... the weather is so nice, I'm head out for a 4hr walk down the beach! Andrew Reid, Snowbro and Orangenz 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted March 25, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted March 25, 2020 5 hours ago, Cinegain said: Speaking of TRUMP, why don't we see Richard 'Mr Dogschidt' Gale here anymore, anyways? Or an Andy Lee? Or KidzRevil? Matthias Burling? Or Jonpais? Over quibbles or just staying away, better things to do? Maybe you have better things to do Cinegain than make a list of my friends and imply everyone left because of a disagreement with me over politics. Many of those you mention are close friends of mine and still are. Just because they haven't got time to engage with idiots like you, doesn't mean to say they no longer read the blog. Ed David, Christina Ava, Volker, JB, Andy Lee, Neumann Films, JG Harding, Brian Caldwell, Luca Butera, all those are friends but they can't be around a forum every day for 5 years straight. Some of them will have other things going on in their lives. I'd be more than happy to see Mattias post more but he has a busy YouTube channel now that takes a lot of his time. The reason 99% of the good quality members leave is exactly because of the bullshit and Trump fanaticism. If I could leave myself at the moment I would! PS The exception was that Richard Gale was a massive Trump and Brexit fan.... tipping point for him was me being anti-Brexit on Facebook... Lost a friend there over Brexit.... He fell out with me and was never seen again here. Politics has never been more toxic online. But I can't help people when it comes to the bullshit they believe. It's up to them to overcome their delusions. Oh and by the way, the creep Jon Pais, moderator from the very early days, turned into a lunatic you may remember and his behaviour as mod was a turn off to 90% of the members of this forum. So I had to ease him out of the role and then he turned into this crazy bitter guy, a Sony fanboy, you may remember, who polluted every thread he posted on and then started posting nasty lunatic comments on his own blog about EOSHD. So he showed his true face in the end. I don't ban in a knee jerk way... This was a guy I trusted as a mod, for many years. But if someone crosses me in my own home, they are a deadman walking. You have to remember this is a community. If you want better people to join, and bigger names to engage, then we need to look at the quality of our own posts first. Is it useful? Is it interesting? Does it help people? If so, you get pros joining, talented artists joining, filmmakers and loyal people who stick around compelled to read what we say day in day out. PannySVHS and noone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinegain Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Fair play. Was just reminiscing the good days and thinking of all the contribitions that had been made and the people who made them, really. But good note to end things on there. Guess everyone's been a bit on edge these days, to calmer times then. PannySVHS, Orangenz and Snowbro 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Sports Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 I help run the largest photography/videography server on Discord. Political discussions almost always end in some kind of clusterfuck or cesspool of BS so we banned politics outright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fuzzynormal Posted March 25, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Mako Sports said: I help run the largest photography/videography server on Discord. Political discussions almost always end in some kind of clusterfuck or cesspool of BS so we banned politics outright. If the EOSHD site was solely about cameras, and that was it, full stop, then I say a ban on politics is fine. However, Andrew's site has always been a place that is non-corporate and "unsterile," if you will. He's not afraid to drop his opinion and that's why I stick around. If I want bland regurgitated information, there's plenty of on-line options for that. Crossing the line is something all of us but the most rhetorically disciplined have been close to doing, but erring on the side of staying respectable isn't too hard to do. And, ultimately, EOSHD is a site that prioritizes gear, but also exists as a refuge for aspiring filmmakers. Filmmakers should have passion. Otherwise, what are we? Just content creators? That's okay for some I guess, but standing for one's ideals with integrity and rationality should be a filmmaker's or artist's ethos. One of the most influential people in my life was a high school teacher that was willing to engage us students. He would talk about the world and encourage us to participate in it as productive citizens. His lectures were fascinating revelations about his value system and why it worked. Often times we would stray from that semester's syllabus and spend the whole hour just chatting about ideas. We were a room of equals simply by the way he behaved and respected us, a bunch of dumb high-schoolers that really didn't deserve such treatment... but there he was giving us agency when every one else in the system, it seemed, wanted to make sure we stayed in our place. Funny thing was, he was an auto-shop teacher. The other funny thing was that he was a staunch conservative. An 'all-in' Reaganite; can't even count how many times he went on about Thatcher either, to give you an idea. I thought his ideas about society we're complete and utter rubbish. Still do. But the fact that he didn't beat me down with ad-hominem attacks because I disagreed with him, and encouraged me to debate made him the best teacher I ever had. I still can't do a valve job properly and fix a timing chain, but he let me realize how important it was to have integrity, a slightly more important lesson. Meanwhile I had a liberal English teacher so far up her own ass you couldn't say one thing to her sideways without her feeling insulted. And she was teaching writing for god's sakes! So there you go. My anecdotal response. Whoopie-de-doo. Bottom line, conservatives ain't all bad, but some are. Liberals ain't all bad, but some are. Be kind and try to ignore the true jerks that just don't want to respect you. Orangenz, heart0less, User and 7 others 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Great post Fuzzy... thanks! 32 minutes ago, fuzzynormal said: However, Andrew's site has always been a place that is non-corporate and "unsterile," if you will. He's not afraid to drop his opinion and that's why I stick around. Same same but same. And although I don't have a lot to contribute these last few years with regards to camera gak (I'm working through a massive edit on a doc film), I certainly appreciate keeping in the loop via those that do. Onward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzynormal Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 30 minutes ago, User said: Same same but same. Ha! Fair enough for pointing out the redundancies in that sentence. Like I said, my English teacher was a jerk. 😉 PannySVHS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 hour ago, fuzzynormal said: Ha! Fair enough for pointing out the redundancies in that sentence. Like I said, my English teacher was a jerk. 😉 That was just my offhanded way off saying that I also come here for the way Andrew flys and governs the site (more specifically the lack of governance) - the other moderator (Larry David's brother?) once red flagged me for using a semi colon before finally disappearing into the flesh pots of Asia uttering 'So tender, so tasty.' I also agree and can totally relate to your academic experience. At the time, we can't possibly understand how we are being influenced and the perspective it can later bring. Not sure I can remember much of what was taught, but I certainly know which teachers I would now want to share a pint with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noone Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 19 hours ago, dgbarar said: Noone: You made the following statement in your last post: "The electoral college is a bit of a joke to me (and more so that not all states use the same method to allocate the college votes)." This statement is incorrect. Each state has an a number of electors equal to the number of members of the House of Representatives plus 2--the 2 represents the number of Senators. If a presidential candidate wins the state then he is awarded that states electors. It's that simple! The states cannot allocate electors in any way other than how it is specified in the Constitution. And Constitution says winner take all. I knew I could bring this back around to cameras. Don One last thing. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution. Under Article II, a state's electoral votes must be appointed "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct" When you make statements like this it important to get your facts correct. Regardless, I don't care. Just want to make sure that the history is correct. Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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