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Post by nipkowdisc on Jun 12, 2023 12:59:04 GMT
you have deleted my messages for the last time. this is my last post forever. I do you a favor and lend your barebones forum legitimacy with my matchless presence and I get stomped on with unnecessary authoritarianism. like bogey as queeg once said "unsatisfactory".  |
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Post by topbilled on Jun 12, 2023 13:14:28 GMT
you have deleted my messages for the last time. this is my last post forever. I do you a favor and lend your barebones forum legitimacy with my matchless presence and I get stomped on with unnecessary authoritarianism. like bogey as queeg once said "unsatisfactory". View Attachment
Your Michael J. Fox post, which seemed rather unkind, was edited slightly so that the part at the end would not offend anyone. But that post/thread still exists. Again, I have never deleted any of your posts.
The only posts I would ever delete are spam posts and posts where one member harasses another. You've never spammed the forum or harassed anyone. |
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Post by sepiatone on Jun 12, 2023 15:19:23 GMT
Except for now, TB. And I do notice that even here, Nip has tendencies to go over the top and often slip his antebellum attitudes into some of his commentary. And his attempts at euphemism often fall short to the point of being obvious. I really don't know why he blames you for deleting any of his posts. As we both know, I'VE given you more reason to delete some of MY posts in the past and as far as I know you've never done so. And it seems fitting he would quote Captain Queeg, a movie character long considered to be hyper neurotic.  Sepiatone |
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Post by NoShear on Jun 12, 2023 15:24:36 GMT
Re: "I do you a favor and lend your barebones forum..." I'd already thought of posting the following before reading this... I want to thank TopBilled for providing this post-TCM Message Boards site. I've been able to reconnect with TCM members such as BunnyWhit and Sepiatone - even if Sepiatone sometimes takes me to task for my Music posts , get a second chance at interacting more with Andrea Doria and sagebrush, discover Fading Fast and I Love Melvin, and offer a mea culpa to jamesjazzguitar whom I apologize to for letting my defensiveness leave a bad exit with from the TCM boards. As to this site's structure, I think of a Mellenthin neighborhood with it: Post WWII tract houses quickly assembled but sturdily built in the San Fernando Valley with plenty of interesting "rooms" to "visit".  |
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Post by topbilled on Jun 12, 2023 15:48:36 GMT
Thanks NoShear and Sepia.
As I said, the only time I would delete a post is if it is harassing in nature or spam.
Since we started over seven or eight months ago, I've only deleted about ten posts and I think all of those have been spam. I don't really enjoy moderating content, but yes, sometimes it is necessary to remove something.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jun 12, 2023 16:10:55 GMT
Re: "I do you a favor and lend your barebones forum..." I'd already thought of posting the following before reading this... I want to thank TopBilled for providing this post-TCM Message Boards site. I've been able to reconnect with TCM members such as BunnyWhit and Sepiatone - even if Sepiatone sometimes takes me to task for my Music posts , get a second chance at interacting more with Andrea Doria and sagebrush, discover Fading Fast and I Love Melvin, and offer a mea culpa to jamesjazzguitar whom I apologize to for letting my defensiveness leave a bad exit with from the TCM boards. Nice to see that any tension we had at the TCM board is behind us. While I appreciate the mea culpa, I don't think that was the case. I.e. it takes two to tango. |
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Post by NoShear on Jun 12, 2023 16:26:25 GMT
I'd already thought of posting the following before reading this... I want to thank TopBilled for providing this post-TCM Message Boards site. I've been able to reconnect with TCM members such as BunnyWhit and Sepiatone - even if Sepiatone sometimes takes me to task for my Music posts , get a second chance at interacting more with Andrea Doria and sagebrush, discover Fading Fast and I Love Melvin, and offer a mea culpa to jamesjazzguitar whom I apologize to for letting my defensiveness leave a bad exit with from the TCM boards. Nice to see that any tension we had at the TCM board is behind us. While I appreciate the mea culpa, I don't think that was the case. I.e. it takes two to tango. My wording notwithstanding, jamesjazzguitar, I sincerely regret my defensiveness... Hey: It was interesting first seeing yours and BunnyWhit's avatars "blown up" on The Silver Screen Oasis site!! |
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Post by nipkowdisc on Jun 13, 2023 3:06:58 GMT
I apologize, TB. read that most general subjects could be posted here now I know where to look. I made a false and erroneous assumption.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jun 13, 2023 12:01:07 GMT
If you want to change the direction of the thread, Nipkowdisc, we could talk about what I originally thought this was going to address:
TB in the movies!
"Camille," of course is the first one to come to mind. Tuberculosis must be considered the most romantic of all the diseases because the symptomatic flush of the cheeks and wasting of the body allows the sufferer to die beautifully.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jun 13, 2023 12:24:55 GMT
If you want to change the direction of the thread, Nipkowdisc, we could talk about what I originally thought this was going to address:
TB in the movies!
"Camille," of course is the first one to come to mind. Tuberculosis must be considered the most romantic of all the diseases because the symptomatic flush of the cheeks and wasting of the body allows the sufferer to die beautifully.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jun 13, 2023 13:14:30 GMT
Bette Davis broke the pattern a little bit when she got consumption, in "Of Human Bondage." Toward the end she was looking fairly ghastly, but by that time the audience probably hated her enough to take some satisfaction there. It was enough to finally break the hold she had on poor hapless Leslie Howard.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jun 13, 2023 13:36:49 GMT
![]() Barbara Stanwyck made the most of her TB in "The Other Love." She used her time in the sanitarium to keep both her doctor (David Niven) and a race car driver (Richard Conte) on the string.
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Post by sepiatone on Jun 13, 2023 15:46:04 GMT
But then, maybe it could be connected to the young GABRIEL DELL who played Dead End kid "TB" in the movie DEAD END.  Sepiatone |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jun 13, 2023 15:53:41 GMT
I apologize, TB. read that most general subjects could be posted here now I know where to look. I made a false and erroneous assumption. Great to see this. Now if you could just get your political hero to do the same,,,,, (sorry couldn't resist). Either way, good to see you're staying here. What would I do without your food and meal recommendations?. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jun 14, 2023 12:31:36 GMT
I apologize, TB. read that most general subjects could be posted here now I know where to look. I made a false and erroneous assumption. Great to see this. Now if you could just get your political hero to do the same,,,,, (sorry couldn't resist). Either way, good to see you're staying here. What would I do without your food and meal recommendations?. Well said, james. I suggested to Nip directly that a particular post belonged in Miscellaneous and not in Classic Films, though his defense that the heading for Classic Films says "You can talk about anything here" is valid. It's really a matter of reading the room. So, thanks, Nip, for sticking around and for making it right with TopBilled. I still probably won't respond to "political" posts but I hope you'll do more than that. I remember enjoying your posts in the sci-fi subforum on the old TCM site and I too am a fan of the-movie-which-must-not-be-named (Just kidding... Hot Spell.) |
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