Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-11 (Tuesday) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:43:48 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 60 Message-ID: <1d8m6j1dcf3qdg0rkkbhfpt309ot0gr1o6@4ax.com> References: <4a1i6jd0sovo4dvufdrqjtp7ple2ifskco@4ax.com> <545898300.739948810.198308.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <33587528.739987573.577586.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:43:49 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3c071eee6af28afac9280f84b8f75b19"; logging-data="2488557"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/LDfGC36X3mAey5uKbS89imhdBCqD/3fM=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:sORPuPqyk/Fa04O5tot6kfdGEGM= Bytes: 3714 On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:08:45 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote: >shawn wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:40:39 -0700, anim8rfsk >> wrote: >> >>> shawn wrote: >>>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:44:59 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 6/12/24 9:26 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 6/11/2024 7:23 PM, shawn wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On this day I watched THE IMITATION GAME from 2014. A wonderful movie >>>>>>> about the sad life of Alan Turing. Someone who can truly be called the >>>>>>> father of modern computing. The story is mostly a bit of his child >>>>>>> hood at one the British boarding schools with the obligatory harsh >>>>>>> treatment of anyone seen as out of the ordinary and his work during >>>>>>> World War II in breaking the Enigma machine cryptography. Such poor >>>>>>> treatment of the man after all he did during the war and the lives he >>>>>>> helped saved that helped lead to his eventual suicide at a young age >>>>>>> (only in his early 40s.) All because he was homosexual and that was >>>>>>> very much against the law in the 40s/50s. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What did you watch? >>>>>> >>>>>> I watched: >>>>> >>>>> OK, this is weird - this time I see Ubi's original WDYW? post, but not >>>>> shawn's! >>>>> >>>>> Why are shawn's posts not showing up on ES?!! >>>>> >>>> >>>> Well that's strange if you don't see it because I do see it from ES. >>>> That's where I posted it and where I got the headers from. I didn't >>>> see Ubi's but that's because of my kill filter on him. >>>> >>> >>> So who did you reply to in the first place? >>> >>> And does your kill filter on Ubi keep you from seeing me reposting him? >> >> I replied to Ian. I see Ubi's posts when people like you respond to >> him. > >Thanks, just checking > > I'm just not going to see his original posts. At some point he >> went too far with posts that I didn't agree with so he dropped into >> the kill filter. I think I even took him out for a while but that >> didn't last long. I can't imagine using a filter that removed all >> posts including those that were in response to his posts. > >I reserve such draconian tactics for “people“ like Trotsky. I get that. I think Ubi got too much into politics for my taste so into the bin bucket his posts went.