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Post by Doxin »

Strom wrote: post #107
walrus01 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now imagine where he could get to if he had a high-vis vest and a clipboard

A great strategy but has its limits. Just a few weeks ago some guys tried a rather good version of this strategy in Estonia to sneak into a Rammstein concert. Not only did they have high-vis vests, but one of them also had high-vis pants, both of them had working gloves and they were carrying a ladder. [1] It didn't work out though, they didn't get past security. I think one of the major flaws in their attempt was th…

Never mind that most stage hands wear exclusively black, not high-viz. A concert is probably one of the few places where seeing someone in a high-viz outfit stands out.

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underlines wrote: post #169

I'm a Swiss working in Bangkok (I'm fluent in Thai). So I'm quite a bit acustomed to people cheating in many situations of life. When we started hiring a couple of Indian coworkers for management level as well as data science roles, I became close friends to the whole group. Whenever we discussed frauds like that, I always said that we shouldn't think people (or Indians in particular) wanna game the systems and not e…

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Post by PakG1 »

riekus wrote: post #197
gernb wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got scammed 4 times in 24hrs when I was in Istanbul. I ranted about it on my Facebook. A Turkish friend claimed it was part of Turkish culture. If you can take advantage of someone it's their fault they got taken advantage of and your lauded skills that allowed you to. I have no idea if that's actually true but it that's what he told me.

Same here, in Istanbul we almost got in a huge fight because they tried charging us like couple hunderd dollars for a simple haircut. Also cab drivers fucked us over every single time.

With the way currency is managed in Turkey over the last few years, I imagine the incentive for such behaviour will increase, rather than decrease.

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Post by _trampeltier »

mitchdoogle wrote: post #151
leephillips wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So it's just a movie, all fiction?!? Well, yes.

I've seen several movies based on real events that have a section about the level of similarity to actual events

The german site has it too. That's why I was wondering.

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Post by butterNaN »

A bit of a tangent but the unemployment crisis in India has reached unprecedented levels. Expect a lot more of "hustle" coming from young enterprising Indians who have no other avenues to earn.

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Post by amoghs »

leephillips wrote: post #40
bragr wrote: post #11

There's a reason wikipedia classifies IMDB as an unreliable source. Apparently Michael Madsen has a real problem with people adding him to films in production in an effort to get financing. https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Michael-Madsen-Hates-IMD...

That’s hilarious. Wikipedia classifies IMDB as unreliable because...anyone can edit its pages.

Such a throwback to high school and every teacher talking about not trusting Wikipedia

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Post by jwilk »

mitchdoogle wrote: post #151
leephillips wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So it's just a movie, all fiction?!? Well, yes.

I've seen several movies based on real events that have a section about the level of similarity to actual events

Examples off the top of my head:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film)#Historical_in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Years_a_Slave_(film)#Histor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film)#Historical_ac...

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