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Post by nindalf »

t6jvcereio wrote: post #180
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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Flagged for racism. You can’t justify it by saying “oh it’s well known”. If we listed all the other “well known” facts about other races, things would get abominably racist real quick.

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Post by rurban »

worthless-trash wrote: post #181
rurban wrote: post #113

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Indian fake ratings are a big thing, but from my own experience collecting good ratings, I can attest that keeping fakes out if the system is a big effort, and it cannot be done manually. I implemented a complicated but fair statistical system to keep fake ratings out from my site. But I'm only doing the top 3 film festivals, not all the crap. The manual blacklist is still huge. In the west the biggest offender is A2…

> The top Indian movies are usually better than the best western movies. Is that because they are in your native tongue ? Or is there some kind of rating site.... oh wait ;)

I"m an Austrian film critic, who just watches most good movies.

Since Indian movies rarely make to to western festivals (mostly only Rome), there's not much to compare with. The ones which make it into Cannes are entirely different, and not as the good ones which make it into Rome or dominate the local markets. Berlin has nothing (but Dil Se won there ages ago, still the top Indian movie), Sundance had at least Gangs Of Wasseypur.

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Post by synu »

yunohn wrote: post #215
bigiain wrote: post #188

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I used to regularly do this by accident. I used to live and socialise in a place where a lot of my city's security guards and bouncers drank, and became if not friends, at least familiar with many of them. (Kings Cross in Sydney in the 80s/90s) I also used to pretty much exclusively wear black jeans, black t-shirts and when it was cold enough a black leather bike jacket. I would often show up to clubs or gigs, and ju…

> I used to regularly do this by accident. > I would often show up to clubs or gigs, and just get waved in I’m clearly missing the accidental nature of your actions.

It was the middle part between the two bits you quoted - he was just going to a show, was in a phase where he liked wearing all black, and would get waved in without even intentionally trying to trick anyone because they assumed he was arriving for work. Does that help?

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Post by leephillips »

amoghs wrote: post #208
leephillips wrote: post #40

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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

An important lesson, that many seem to have either forgotten or never absorbed.

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Post by heavenlyblue »

richbell wrote: post #146
Havoc wrote: post #144

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Guessing it’s a common Indian speech pattern that gets lost in translation cause I’ve heard similar at the office

Likewise. Another common expression that may seem strange is referring to questions as "doubts". e.g. "I have a doubt about installing Java"

“I am doubting installing Java” “I have doubts about Java” is valid English though

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Post by kuschku »

RC_ITR wrote: post #122
helsinkiandrew wrote: post #34

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There’s a thousand Welshman looking for your blood now. Cardiff is in Wales. Initially was called the Cardiff Internet Movie Database (it was hosted at the university of Cardiff)

I mean hot take, but the whole “United Kingdom” concept is sort of pointless. Either confirm to international norms, or accept that no one outside your borders cares. There’s a reason why the only major organization that respects the distinction is the governing body of the national sport.

Then we can start calling all of the US "California" as well?

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Post by yunohn »

synu wrote: post #224
yunohn wrote: post #215

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> I used to regularly do this by accident. > I would often show up to clubs or gigs, and just get waved in I’m clearly missing the accidental nature of your actions.

It was the middle part between the two bits you quoted - he was just going to a show, was in a phase where he liked wearing all black, and would get waved in without even intentionally trying to trick anyone because they assumed he was arriving for work. Does that help?

I didn’t interpret “show up” as having purchased tickets and planned to enter, rather unintentionally get let in as was their implication.

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Post by april_22 »

underlines wrote: post #167
walrus01 wrote: post #90

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

are you being sarcastig? This was the news a week ago: Guy got into front row at an open air concert, by wearing a security vest.

I remember a video where two guys snuck into Disneyland wearing these security vests
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