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Just so everyone is clear, that disruptive piece of asswipe (on another forum) is not one of the three of us (Charlie, Matt or David).
We've got better things to do.
Why that person simply hasn't been banned is beyond me, it is clear they simply want to be disruptive and insulting - with all due respect to my American friends but your love of Freedom of Speech sometimes causes more trouble than it's worth.
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This guy is an assclown plain and simple. But he also knows what he is doing which makes him a troll dressed up like an assclown...
this has been the problem for many years on the poster forums and is not allowed on the comic book forums as I mentioned many times during a rancorous "debate" that took place for years.
when people say bullshit & garbage on the forums, the moderators and owners should have the fortitude to stand up & say "none of that"
when they don't, it eventually erupts as it had.
it's a great commentary on the "Libertarian political philosophy" that if yo get government out of the way and leave governance to local municipalities, that people will self govern themselves & it will be better.. what a crock. If people can't control themselves in small communities (like forums in this case) what makes people think allowing them to make the rules is going to work?
you clamp down on it or it doesn't stop
I said this is different threads during the past few weeks, but one day on APF they were welcoming pokerplayr and 3 days later the poster price police were demolishing him and while he may have returned, he hasn't posted since. The answer to why is obvious - if you let people rag on others for whatever reason.. it doesn't stop.. it doesn't stop..
Very laid back I am....but life is too short for idiots
And that leads me to my next question: why buy a bunch of posters you shove in a flat file and only pull out once or twice a year and then never see again as more posters pile on top of it? I don't understand that mentality at all. It's like watch collectors who put their Railway Prince Rolex in a safe and never wear it. What good is that? Are they simply content to luxuriate in the notion that they own it? To me that is the height of narcissism. Back to posters: I only buy posters I think are good enough to frame - and then I frame them. No tacky snap-frames or light boxes, I spend serious money on archival conservation materials and really nice frames. And UV resistant plexi really isn't that expensive. On another forum somebody complained about one sheet of plexi costing $12!!!
True, I have a large home and lots of wall space so I don't actually need to store any of my posters away. To me, what makes a home is plants in the corner, framed photos of loved ones and pictures hung on the wall. Personally, I feel displaying my posters in a permanent and tasteful way has enriched my collecting experience and allows me to easily enjoy them every day, with no risk of man-handling them the way people who pull them constantly out of map files must do.
Tell me, why do you have hundreds or thousands of posters stored away that you will never see? Is it for investment? The knowledge you have something others don't? How does storing a bunch of paper you can't display, enhance your movie poster collecting experience?
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Nonetheless, I know some collectors who think the contrary than you, they shall never frame nor linenback stuff... they like the idea of having it somewhere and being able to open it and touch/feel the paper. I have seen collectors also who have 5,000-10,000 euros poster hanged with paper clip for the same reason, to be able to touch it.
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I agree that to a 'serious collector', my collection is pretty crappy, but I collect for myself primarily and there are enough like minded collectors to enjoy sharing my crappy stuff with to make it fun. If it fulfils my desires, I get just as much pleasure from acquiring a £5 poster as I do from getting a £150 poster. What is significant to me is insignificant to others, this is life.
I have two framed posters up on the walls, the rest of my walls have non-film related art. I seem to spend a lot of time on-line learning about/hunting/admiring film posters, so I feel that's enough of my life devoted to the hobby...as much as I love film posters, I don't want to see them all the time.
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