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A man is pulled from path of incoming train at Madrid metro station:

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The CCTV shows the 41-year-old, who was reportedly under the influence of alcohol, stumble backwards on the platform before falling onto the tracks.

As the Metro train approached the Puerta del Angel station in Madrid, passengers desperately waved and shouted to alert the driver to the man on the tracks.

The officer, who only graduated two months ago, jumped down onto the tracks and pulled the man out of the train's path to safety, with just seconds to spare.

The man suffered only minor injuries.​

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simulatorman, do you do anything other than repost links and videos from news stories, NASA websites and BP oil rig feeds? You don't even bother to add your opinion this time, just a straight copy! Great.. we can all read the BBC News website as well.
 
[TW]Fox;17934297 said:
simulatorman, do you do anything other than repost links and videos from news stories, NASA websites and BP oil rig feeds? You don't even bother to add your opinion this time, just a straight copy! Great.. we can all read the BBC News website as well.
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The thread title says it all. I thought you had enough intelligence to work that out. Maybe you should try posting something of interest one day. ;)
 
The thread title doesn't say it at all.I came in here expecting you to give us an interesting story of a lucky escape you'd had, or perhaps some insight into your opinion on something somebody else had experienced.

Instead, a straight copy and paste job from Yahoo news, but then I guess it was foolish of me to expecting anything else. Reposting other peoples content word for word is just fundamentally pointless unless you are doing so in order to add context to your text.
 
[TW]Fox;17934356 said:
The thread title doesn't say it at all.I came in here expecting you to give us an interesting story of a lucky escape you'd had, or perhaps some insight into your opinion on something somebody else had experienced.

Instead, a straight copy and paste job from Yahoo news, but then I guess it was foolish of me to expecting anything else. Reposting other peoples content word for word is just fundamentally pointless unless you are doing so in order to add context to your text.
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Can I start a thread entitled "The News" and say "Hey everybody, go to the BBC News website, it's full of cool stuff" and repost the thread on a daily basis? It would add just about as much value. I know some people will argue "yeah, but we pick the best stuff and regurgitate it for the masses" but it's boring and adds little, at least give your opinion on it or some basis for discussion.
 
Fox, maybe he wants to know the opinions that people have on different matters.

At least it is better than the "Does your postman delivery letter post when it been snowing" thread :rolleyes:
 
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Fox, maybe he wants to know the opinions that people have on different matters.
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If he did, it might have been a good idea for him to ask for peoples opinions. Mind you, that would have involved him adding some text of his own thinking to the OP which I guess ruled that out.

Is it that hard to expect people to add something to a post? If you've found a story interesting enough to share it then great - but tell us why! Tell us what you think. Tell us why you've decided its worth posting. Give us your opinion.

A post consisting of JUST a copy paste from a news site is totally worthless.

Mind you, I've just noticed he has a staggering 685 posts in the Youtube thread, the second most prolofic poster in that thread has only a hundred and something!

He truely is the master of simply reposting other peoples content :eek:
 
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[TW]Fox;17934414 said:
Mind you, I've just noticed he has a staggering 685 posts in the Youtube thread, the second most prolofic poster in that thread has only a hundred and something!

He truely is the master of simply reposting other peoples content :eek:
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By virtue of its nature the YouTube thread will always have other people's content. The purpose of the thread is to host videos that one has found interesting. I would have thought you could have worked that out. I’ll leave you to get on with your narrow minded nit-picking. After all, what else do you have to do on a Sunday morning.
 
[TW]Fox;17934414 said:
A post consisting of JUST a copy paste from a news site is totally worthless.
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No it's not. He's bring to peoples attention an interesting story that they might otherwise have missed - as indeed did I - which in itself is likely to spark conversation.

Your way of using forums isn't the only way you know...
 
simulatorman said:
By virtue of its nature the YouTube thread will always have other people's content.
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I was more getting at the fact it has 600+ of your posts in it :p

A bit like the BP oil rig thing. It amazed me how everyone seemed to think you were some sort of expert when in reality all you were doing was just re-posting other peoples content word for word in the thread over and over again - some days you had 6 posts in a row with none of your opinion or insight!

After all, what else do you have to do on a Sunday morning.
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Same thing as you - post rubbish on an internet forum. At least i word my own rubbish though ;)
 
I just don't like the posts where people paste a link to an article or something.
I don't mind this,where he embeds the video and posts a brief description with a link to more information if you want it.
No problems here at all.
 
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