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Amnesia10
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Not really. I thought that you had lost the plot. This is a stupid idea, and while a remake is possible making it an ethnic film will cut the potential audience considerably.
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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Remember the wizard of oz remake, with a wholey black cast...? OK then. 
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:47 am |
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Amnesia10
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Thank you for proving my point. 
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:21 am |
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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You're welcome  That was a dire film...
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:40 am |
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pcernie
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Fcuk, cheers 
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:40 pm |
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Amnesia10
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I never even bothered to see it. Reviews were bad enough. An all black film does not have to be bad if it is written about black culture. Roots the TV series is predominantly black but that is excellent. New Jack City is also almost completely black, but again an excellent film. The Blaxploitation films of the 70's were good in their own way. If it is relevant to the story then yes ethnic films can be good. The problem is that if you try and target a black audience do not treat them like idiots. The wizard of Oz is not about race so making a black version is stupid.
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:54 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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As far as I can tell, there is no legal minimum output for a rear fog light.
(I'm considering stepping down the brightness/wattage of my own, as the 20w bulbs in the housing are a touch warm, I feel, for any potential long term use.)
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EddArmitage
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The format of NIrish registration plates.
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Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:46 am |
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ProfessorF
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Today I Found Out the “Hip Hip” in “Hip Hip, Hooray” was once anti-Semitic.* This phrase is thought to have its origins in the middle-age Latin battle-cry “Hieroslyma est perdita’, which means “Jerusalem is fallen” or “Jerusalem is lost”. This was later shortened by Germanic tribes fighting Jews to “Hep Hep Hu-raj”, meaning loosely “Jerusalem is fallen and we are on the way to paradise.” This also found its way into a Hungarian battle cry “Huj Huj Hajrá”, which more or less just meant “faster, faster”. An alternative theory is that it comes from a Germanic shepherds cry or a hunter’s cry “hep hep”, which was used to rally their trained dogs. It is also possible that this shepherds cry was not the origin, but rather itself was from the proposed Germanic battle cry “Hep Hep Huraj”. Whether one of the above origins is true or not, “hep hep” was the rallying cry of the rioters in the “Hep Hep Riots” of the 19th century. These riots against the Jews began on August 2, 1819 in Würzburg, Germany. They subsequently spread across parts of Denmark, Poland, Latvia, and Bohemia. In many regions, troops had to be called in to prevent the mass massacre of the Jewish population in those areas. Most Jews quickly fled the cities at the start of the riots and camped out in remote regions until things calmed down, eventually returning to their often destroyed homes. As one Jew, Rahel Varnhagen, who had converted to Christianity and thus was relatively safe in the riots stated: “I am infinitely sad on account of the Jews, in a way I have never experienced before… What should this mass of people do, driven out of their homes? They want to keep them only to despise and torture them further… I know my country. Unfortunately. For the past three years I’ve said the Jews will be attacked. I have witnesses. The Germans wax bold with indignation, and why? Because they are the most civilized, peace-loving, and obedient people… Their newfound hypocritical love for Christianity (may God forgive my sin) and the Middle Ages, with its poetry, art, and atrocities, incites the people to commit the only atrocity they may still be provoked to: attacking the Jews!… Their hate does not stem from religious zeal: how can they hate other faiths when they don’t even love their own? At some point after these Hep Hep Riots, it’s not entirely known when, this now anti-Semitic rallying cry of “hep hep” became “hip hip” and the response cry of “hooray” became traditional.” Bonus Factoids: In English “hep” means “aware, up-to-date”, with the first recorded usage as an English word in a 1908 Saturday Evening Post article. The variant of “hep”, “hip” as meaning “informed”, also first appeared in English in the early 20th century and is more or less what “hep” meant as well in English; so it is possible the two words simply diverged due to accents of those speaking the word, which then made its way into print with different middle letters. The exact origins of “hooray” are also just as mysterious as “hep hep”. Some think it came from the 17th century sailor’s cheer, “huzzah”, which itself has unknown origins. Other’s think it’s from a Mongolian exclamation of a similar sound, which is meant to be a cry of bravado. Others think it is from the 10th century Hungarian “Hajrá”, as in the above “Huj Huj Hajrá”, which itself might be from the Germanic “Hep Hep Hu-raj”. “Hip Hip Hooray” was originally introduced to the Redskins American Football team by George Allen in the early 1970s. It was later unintentionally re-introduced by rookie head coach Jim Zorn, who initiated the cry after the Redskins pulled a major upset over the Dallas Cowboys; he did this mimicking something he learned from former head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Chuck Knox, who used to do it in the late 1970s. When the Redskins won again the next week, the players initiated the cry this time. This has since caught on and become somewhat of a tradition among Redskin fans and players. *From here.
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JJW009
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Awesome! I now know a Hungarian Battle Cry!
*files between Viking and Klingon*
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timark_uk
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There's a BMW car that I would actually like to drive! (8+0
Mark
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HeatherKay
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Heathen.
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timark_uk
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I know! I did consider long and hard before making the admission. Mark
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HeatherKay
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This is the only BMW I think I'd like to drive... Or maybe this.
_________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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timark_uk
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