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Post by Wolfgang on Nov 6, 2019 22:21:20 GMT -5
Fine, I’ll change my attitude on subtitles You should do whatever you want. I personally can't understand a lot of things uttered on TV/movies because of the mumbling. Also, it's good to have multiple sources of info (auditory, written). Aids in comprehension. A lot of people do fine without subtitles. Power to them. My biggest academic weakness is auditory stuff. As a kid, if I had to read out loud some reading material in class, I could do it fine but if anyone asked me what I just read, I couldn't do it. Something about uttering words out loud blocks my comprehension of those same words. Even in my 20s and 30s as an engineer, I dreaded meetings where any co-worker asked me to read something from a manual or report because if I did and someone asked me what I thought of the passage I just read out loud, I couldn't tell them. LOL! My parents have this theory that it's because they never read to me as a child. Most of my info processing was visual and written. My brother and sister are the same way, but they're better than me -- or better at masking it than me. That's just a theory. It could be something else. So, I could watch TV and movies without subtitles (because I'm not reading anything out loud), but it aids in my comprehension to have something to read while listening to the dialogue. Ironically, this may be one of the reasons why my wife fell in love with me during our courtship, because I was always asking her questions about what she just uttered. She thought I was really into her when in fact, I was just trying to understand what she said. LOL! I ask a lot of questions. In school, in real life, etc. I think people like that because it gives them the impression I'm paying attention to them and they think they're saying something interesting when in fact, I'm just trying to catch up. LOL!
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Post by Wolfgang on Nov 11, 2019 16:39:25 GMT -5
Here's an example of why subtitles help.
I was watching Archer, which is a very funny animated comedy series. The dialogue is very fast. In one scene, Archer says something so fast I missed it and had to go back to rewatch it several times.
What I heard: "Hey, Adam's cover is gold."
What was actually said: "Hey, a man's got to have a code."
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Post by azvb on Nov 11, 2019 23:29:18 GMT -5
I watched a couple documentaries over the weekend about the Berlin Wall. Man, I needed subtitles. Thick German accents are tough to understand.
On another note, I guess I never realized how hard it was on the East Germans after the unification. Jobs, houses, healthcare were provided by the Soviet Union. Granted, they weren’t great jobs, houses or healthcare, but they had no idea how to provide for themselves. Factories, plants were shut down. Yes, they were “free”, but they entered an entirely different way of living and I guess many longed to return to their old lives.
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Post by mikegarrison on Nov 12, 2019 2:23:31 GMT -5
I watched a couple documentaries over the weekend about the Berlin Wall. Man, I needed subtitles. Thick German accents are tough to understand. On another note, I guess I never realized how hard it was on the East Germans after the unification. Jobs, houses, healthcare were provided by the Soviet Union. Granted, they weren’t great jobs, houses or healthcare, but they had no idea how to provide for themselves. Factories, plants were shut down. Yes, they were “free”, but they entered an entirely different way of living and I guess many longed to return to their old lives. There was also a great shakeup that happened when the Stasi files become public record and it turned out that up to 2 million East Germans had been, at least occasionally, Stasi informants. People found out that their friends, husbands, wives, children, parents, etc. were in the records as informants. Almost 200,000 people were officially "IM"s, informal collaborators, although some dispute that the real number when discounting fake names and duplicate records was closer to 100,000.
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Post by mikegarrison on Nov 12, 2019 2:39:59 GMT -5
I saw an interesting play called I Am My Own Wife about Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (born Lothar Berfelde), who grew up as a boy with a Nazi father, started to identify as a woman, spent pretty much the entire Cold War as a transexual in East Germany running a museum of "everyday objects", and was later revealed to have been an IM for the Stasi.
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Post by azvb on Nov 12, 2019 10:58:31 GMT -5
Yes, one of the documentaries talked about the Stasi and informants. I also learned it was the East German President (or are they called chancellor?) idea for the wall. Not Stalin. The brightest, most educated, professionals were leaving the East and he wanted to keep them there.
The boards on front windows of houses took me back to our trip to Berlin last year. We went to this street where the front of the houses were in the West, back was in the East. There was a museum at the end of this street with pictures of the boarded up windows on the houses, people jumping out of their windows, etc. on that street. Still not quite sure why they didn’t walk out the front door.
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Post by Wolfgang on Dec 5, 2019 4:11:19 GMT -5
Succession. Best thing on HBO since Sopranos. In some ways, it may be a notch above the Sopranos. It takes a couple episodes to get in the groove. Season 1 very, very good. Season 2 off the charts. ... I just started watching Succession. Surprisingly good given that sometimes, when the show is about intra-family power struggles, it tends to get predictable and borderline soap opera-ish. I haven't seen much of the lead actors (the peeps who play Kendall, Roman, Shiv, and Connor) except for Brian Cox, who is just disgusting in every role he plays. (I mean, he's very good at playing disgusting.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2019 8:48:34 GMT -5
Keeps getting better, Succession does.
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Post by tomclen on Dec 5, 2019 8:57:40 GMT -5
Keeps getting better, Succession does. I remember we were thinking after the first episode we didn't like it much. Second, a little better. But then it just takes off. Give it time.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2019 11:16:28 GMT -5
I've talked to several people who were turned off by Fleabag's first episode or first couple. That is another terrific show.
And still highly recommend Russian Doll.
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Post by bbk on Dec 5, 2019 12:28:11 GMT -5
Succession. Best thing on HBO since Sopranos. In some ways, it may be a notch above the Sopranos. It takes a couple episodes to get in the groove. Season 1 very, very good. Season 2 off the charts. ... I just started watching Succession. Surprisingly good given that sometimes, when the show is about intra-family power struggles, it tends to get predictable and borderline soap opera-ish. I haven't seen much of the lead actors (the peeps who play Kendall, Roman, Shiv, and Connor) except for Brian Cox, who is just disgusting in every role he plays. (I mean, he's very good at playing disgusting.) Season 1 is good as they develop these characters. Cringe for sure and unintentionally funny at times. That episode where the therapy session in NM was funny.
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Post by Wolfgang on Dec 6, 2019 2:13:19 GMT -5
Succession (s1)
The 6th episode about the vote of no confidence was quite exciting. Just a frikkin' board meeting and a show of hands. It had the energy of a good action scene.
I'm not sure what to make of that Greg guy. He seems dumb and awkward and clueless but he manages to have the right instincts to hover around the center of power. In the 5th episode (the Thanksgiving episode), I'm also not sure why he made a copy of some of the documents before shredding the originals. Couldn't he have just kept the original documents he wanted to keep and shred the rest? Or was he smart enough to figure out that they might weigh all the shredded documents to confirm they had everything? That scene showed that Greg was either really smart in some ways, but dumb in others. Does anyone know why he did what he did; that is, make a copy of the originals before shredding the originals instead of just keeping the originals?
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Post by bbk on Dec 6, 2019 6:22:49 GMT -5
I feel Greg knows he did wrong and wants to cover his tracks. I do enjoy this show and I cannot wait to catch up to the current episodes
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Post by Wolfgang on Dec 7, 2019 3:21:45 GMT -5
Succession (s1)
The New Mexico therapy episode was just whack! Also, the bachelor party at the Rhomboid. Tom is a really insecure, creepy, and shameless butt-kissing jerkwad.
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Post by Wolfgang on Dec 7, 2019 20:07:49 GMT -5
Succession (s1)
Finished it. The ending was like Chappaquiddick. LOL! Anyway, very intense, very funny, stupid f****d up shiite that rich people do.
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