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  1. MMMD unaffiliated curmudgeonly absurdist & polyologist Jul 27, 2015

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  2. Drawarms Jul 27, 2015

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    LOL. ::popcorn::
     
  3. Wongo Jul 27, 2015

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    At least cornolio wasnt not trying to pass it off as a scam.... Still, stealing photos.... nothing new
     
  4. Nobel Prize Spell Master! Jul 27, 2015

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    Actually a lot of the photos we post here are stolen borrowed or whatever...for a time I though maybe that's why people kept insisting on posting photos, like it was a way to fund the site or something. I Google a search for a friend's watch and images I had posted here appeared everywhere from pinterrest to google...not the on sale posts which also end up in Google, but from the WRUW thread.
     
  5. shaun hk Fairy nuffer Jul 27, 2015

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    That's bizarre, rude and sad all at the same time. How desperate are they for content and contributors, I can picture the site owner crawling the Web to find threads to copy...
     
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  6. flyingout Jul 28, 2015

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    Yeah, I saw that thread borrowing on watchtalkforum a month or two back. Confused me at first. I figured it must have been well known to folks here. I think there is some real content as well but wasn't sure because there are so many threads stolen from a number of sources.

    There's some interesting stuff there as a result.
     
  7. oddboy Zero to Grail+2998 In Six Months Jul 28, 2015

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    Bizarre indeed, though I guess it is the internetz.

    Congrats to LouS and cornolio for owning such a great piece!
     
  8. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Jul 28, 2015

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    Yea it looks like they're just pulling in content from everywhere, there's some TRF, TZ, WUS, you name it they've imported it to make it look like a real site
     
  9. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Jul 28, 2015

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    Copy a post yeah but copy a thread and add names with post counts and all. How much work would that be. ( I don't know so am asking)
     
  10. MMMD unaffiliated curmudgeonly absurdist & polyologist Jul 28, 2015

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    I'm thinking of registering and engaging Cornolio in a discussion of the history of Yugoslavian military time pieces.
     
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  11. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Jul 28, 2015

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    Can you ask him where he got he's radiation counter for me?
     
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  12. Nobel Prize Spell Master! Jul 28, 2015

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    What if we just post and add a link to each stolen thread into the originals?
     
  13. ulackfocus Jul 28, 2015

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    Ask him if he needs tp for his bung hole.

    CORNHOLIO_NEED_HIS_TP.jpg
     
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  14. MMMD unaffiliated curmudgeonly absurdist & polyologist Jul 28, 2015

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    Do you threaten me?!!!

     
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  15. Baco Noir Jul 28, 2015

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    Damn, they even imported the replies to the initial post too - crazy!
     
  16. LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Jul 28, 2015

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    The interwebs are a wonderful place

    Wait, what? ::confused2::
     
  17. Darlinboy Pratts! Will I B******S!!! Jul 28, 2015

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    The interwebs are a wonderful place

    Wait, what? upload_2015-7-28_22-15-14.gif
     
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  18. LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Jul 28, 2015

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  19. Darlinboy Pratts! Will I B******S!!! Jul 28, 2015

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  20. ulackfocus Jul 28, 2015

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    Well played Farmer John! :p


    ..... or should we call you Cornolio?

     
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