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BiggerBoat 
"Pass me the harpoon"
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 Posted - 10/13/2008 : 13:53:19
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Beautiful.
I submitted a review for the George W Bush biopic, 'W'. I went with:
Must stand for 'wanker'.
Got a decline on the grounds that the review is 'not factually accurate'. It was more an opinion than a statement of fact, but, if we look at it that way, is the MERP declaring that Dubya doesn't whack off?
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 10/13/2008 : 13:59:37
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Maybe the MERP is saying that he probably does but needn't stand to do it.
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demonic 
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 10/13/2008 : 18:43:24
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That's a good one.  |
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Airbolt 
"teil mann, teil maschine"
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Posted - 10/13/2008 : 23:19:17
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 10/14/2008 : 05:17:07
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 10/14/2008 : 14:58:00
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Actually, the MERP is wrong. He's whacked off everything he's put his hand to throughout his presidency (and while I mean that figuratively, I can't believe it isn't literal as well), so I think you should resubmit your review.
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BiggerBoat
"Pass me the harpoon"
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Posted - 10/14/2008 : 16:36:03
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Actually, the MERP is wrong. He's whacked off everything he's put his hand to throughout his presidency (and while I mean that figuratively, I can't believe it isn't literal as well), so I think you should resubmit your review.
I'm not too worried to be honest, it was more of a cathartic bile-venting session than an object in review writing. Interestingly I submitted about ten and five of them were accepted in one go. However, the other five must have been encountered by a different (Bush loving) MERP because they were all rejected a day later with no reason given. This despite the fact they all say the same thing:
Accepted:'Arrogant dickwad elected. Twice!'
Rejected: 'America elects fucking idiot.'
Accepted: 'Ex-alcoholic starts illegal wars.'
Rejected: 'Retard spunks America's wealth.'
Accepted: Drunk coke-head gets elected
Rejected: American go thick
So from this we can ascertain that the MERPs believe that Bush is arrogant and is a dickwad but isn't a fucking idiot, and that he is an ex-alcoholic coke-head, but that he isn't a retard (I would argue that he is a 'retard' as it's no longer a medical term and is reserved purely for Farrelly-Brother-style-we're-laughing-at-the-idiot-character-not-the-words insults)and nor has he spunked America's wealth.
The question is, do I have to prove myself right or do the MERPs have to prove me wrong?  |
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 10/14/2008 : 18:01:30
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In all seriousness, or at least as much of it as I can muster at the moment, this is a film review site and our reviews are supposed to relate to the film, not simply a cathartic invective against the subject of a biopic, however sympathetic a MERP may be towards that invective.
Your reviews are dancing around the genuine review/invective line and I'm not surprised that some of them have been classified as on the wrong side. I can see why your reviews have given the MERPs a hard time in deciding whether to accept or not.
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 10/14/2008 : 22:26:46
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 10/14/2008 : 22:54:55
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
However, the other five must have been encountered by a different (Bush loving) MERP because they were all rejected a day later with no reason given.
Rejected: 'America elects fucking idiot.'
You've got every right to complain about this being declined without reason. It's clearly generic.
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 10/16/2008 : 00:59:31
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
Accepted: 'Arrogant dickwad elected. Twice!'
Yikes, the MERPs are really slacking! This one is clearly incorrect, he was only 'elected' once! |
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Salopian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 10/16/2008 : 01:33:39
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
retard (I would argue that he is a 'retard' as it's no longer a medical term and is reserved purely for Farrelly-Brother-style-we're-laughing-at-the-idiot-character-not-the-words insults)
Sorry to be serious but if I were a MERP (which obviously I am not), I would reject that review in that it's inaccurate and offensive. The fact that the term is less current amongst professional and reasonable people now (though it's more current in the U.S. than here) does not equate to its being O.K. to use as a joke. I know that some people here think that 'joking' magically negates everything else in life, but I don't. Thus I would use its inaccuracy as a basis to reject it. (I wouldn't want the term used in any accurate context either, but it would be less easy to disallow it then.)
On the general issue, I think the MERPs have a tendency to not allow all of a bunch of pretty similar reviews from the same person, and I think that's reasonable. So if I submit some related ones I make sure I put my favourite one first. (This does not really work so well now that reviews tend to be processed in reverse order, but it used to be more productive.)
On the subject matter, I recently saw Crawford and recommend it. |
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Salopian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 10/16/2008 : 01:39:12
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
Accepted: 'Arrogant dickwad elected. Twice!'
Yikes, the MERPs are really slacking! This one is clearly incorrect, he was only 'elected' once!
Indeed! And also, to be fair to Bush, for all his awful qualities arrogance is not really right up there. In fact, no less arrogant president springs to mind. It's a bit like the tabloids always describing suicide bombers as cowardly. That's the one negative thing that they are not, and it undermines the immorality of their deeds to distract from the truth in that way. |
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Wheelz 
"FWFR%u2019ing like it%u2019s 1999"
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Posted - 10/16/2008 : 19:00:30
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Originally posted by Salopian
And also, to be fair to Bush, for all his awful qualities arrogance is not really right up there. In fact, no less arrogant president springs to mind.
I realize we're getting off-topic here, but I did want to respond to this observation.
One of the dictionary definitions of arrogant is "making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights." I'd say that sums up the essence of the Bush administration in a nutshell, given his sudden assumption of powers the executive branch was never meant to have.
And, though it's more subjective, I would also argue that his general demeanor does indeed fit the broader definition of the word, as in "presumptuous, haughty, imperious, brazen." He may not be haughty, but he is definitely all those other things. He has that annoying way of summarily dismissing any point of view that disagrees with his own, with that squinty smirk and nervous laugh.
Yep, I say he's arrogant. |
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BiggerBoat
"Pass me the harpoon"
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Posted - 10/16/2008 : 22:51:03
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Originally posted by Salopian
Indeed! And also, to be fair to Bush, for all his awful qualities arrogance is not really right up there.
Of course it is, and the great thing is that it can precede the rest of the top five most awful qualities:
1. Arrogant
2. Murderer
3. Liar
4. Warmonger
5. Dickwad
Source: Gallup
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