User:Tommyt

Wikipedia Standards

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This user is a Grammar Nazi.

to
too
two

This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

Hobbies

I take photographs with Nikon equipment

This user is a bicyclist.

Music

This user sees the answers blowin’ in the wind.

Are You Experienced?

This user believes that freedom is just another word for nothing else to lose.

"People Are Strange."
- Jim Morrison, The Doors

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INISTRY

This user is a fan of Metallica

MM

This user loves Monster Magnet

MöH

This user is a fan of Motörhead.

N I И

This user is a Nine Inch Nails fan.

This user is one hard-core Pearl Jam fan.

This user is a Radiohead fan.

RATM

This user is a fan of
Rage Against the Machine.

STONES

This user knows it's all right now.
In fact, it's a gas!

Soundgarden

This user is outshined.

Travel

7

This user has visited 7 of the 208 countries in the world.

This user wants to live a Beat lifestyle in Paris, France.

This user has traveled throughout Perú.

This user has visited Perú.

Film Fanaticism

This user participates in
WikiProject Film.

This user participates in the
American cinema task force.

This user enjoys films.

"Well, that's just like, your opinion, man."

- The Dude, The Big Lebowski

This user enjoys Film, particularly Film Noir and Alfred Hitchcock.

Soderbergh

This user loves Steven Soderbergh movies.

id1

This user loves Sergio Leone movies.

id2

This user is a fan of Quentin Tarantino's films.

This user knows that Terry Gilliam
is enfant terrible, le grand auteur, and python magnifique. ^†

This user loves Martin Scorsese movies.

This user loves films by
Stanley Kubrick.

Kurosawa

This user loves Akira Kurosawa movies.

There Will Be Blood

This user wants you to know that
I drink your milkshake!

Blade Runner

This user thinks Blade Runner is one of the best science fiction films ever made.

This user ran into a bad streak of luck, in Chinatown.

The Road Warrior

Two days ago this user saw a vehicle that could haul that tanker. You want to get out of here?
You talk to me.

This user believes any answer I give will be wrong and the Senior Drill Instructor will only beat this user harder if I reverse myself.

This user likes their Martinis shaken, not stirred.

This user knows that East, West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other..

This user doesn’t expect you to talk. This user expects you to die!!

This user has been to Casino Royale.

This user thinks that Die Another Day is the worst James Bond film ever.

This user is a Nazi-fighting archaeologist in their spare time.

REPO MAN

This user thinks the Rodriguez brothers are Goddamn Dipshit Gypsy Dildo Punks.

This user needs two more kills to qualify for Double-0 status.

This user is rated 'NC-17' by the Motion Picture Association.

This user needs your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.

This user chases down 1968 Dodge Chargers in San Francisco.

This user watches Netflix

This user warns: If you mark that frame an 8, you're entering a world of pain.

This user's sister was bitten by a moose!

FC	This user is not a beautiful or unique snowflake.

FC

This user does not talk about Fight Club.

This user has a major malfunction.

This user believes any answer I give will be wrong and the Senior Drill Instructor will only beat this user harder if I reverse myself.

This user knows the Saw is Family.

ALIEN

In space no one can hear this user scream.

ST

This user prefers The Wrath of Khan over the other Star Trek films

STAR WARS

This user would shoot Greedo first.

Duff

This user drinks Duff Beer.

Television

BB

This user watches Breaking Bad

BrBa

This user stays out of Heisenberg's territory

BrBa

This user is the one who knocks!

This user is a fan of The Wire

GoT

This user is a fan of the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Free the Web!!!

This user uses the freeware AVG virus scanner.

This user contributes using Firefox.

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user uses Google Maps.

Music

This user sees the answers blowin’ in the wind.

This user enjoys Johann Sebastian Bach's music.

This user believes that mankind cannot progress unless
Country Music is eliminated.^†

Cream

This user has been in the white room with black curtains at the station.

This user is a fan of
Guns N' Roses.

Are You Experienced?

M	This user is a fan of Ministry.

N I И

This user is a Nine Inch Nails fan.

This user is a fan of
Pink Floyd.

This user enjoys the music of The Police.

This user is a Radiohead fan.

RS

This user is a fan of
The Rolling Stones

Soundgarden

This user is outshined.

VU

◄ PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE

WS

This user fell in love with The White Stripes

This user is a fan of
The Who.

Personal File

This user is of Italian ancestry.

This user is an Aries.

This user is a librarian - information scientist.

This user likes cats.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 5 months and 7 days.

Dream Car (*SIGH*)

This user loves the look of the Aston Martin DB9.

My strongest personal beliefs

This user finds censorship offensive.

This user is an advocate of democracy.

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User:UBX/Huge mistake

This user believes that former U.S. President Donald Trump steered the United States onto a dangerous course.

This user seeks to eradicate
Trumpism
wherever it slithers.

This user and the United States
endured 1461 days under former President Donald John Trump.

User:UBX/Trump misguided

This user is sick and tired of Religion's attempts to hijack government and wants stronger separation of church and state.

This user is not religious.

no fun

This user would argue that, despite its name, there is hardly any "fun" at all in fundamentalism...!

This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.

This user is a straight male.

This user is not gay, but supports gay people.

This user is interested in politics.

Dem

This user is a Democrat.

This user and the United States
endured 1461 days under former President Donald John Trump.

User:UBX/Huge mistake

This user actively opposed
the four-year reign of
Donald John Trump.

This user actively defied
the four-year reign of
Donald John Trump.

secular

This user supports the separation of religion and state.

This user wonders quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

LIBERAL

This user supports legalization of Drugs, Abortion, Gay Marriage, Immigration, and Gun control.

This user knows that there are
2,000,000 reasons why the
2003 invasion of Iraq was wrong.^†

This user knows that there are
654,965 reasons why the
2003 invasion of Iraq was wrong.^†

Food & Drink

This user drinks cider.

MEAD

This user drinks mead.

This user loves
Dim Sum

This user loves
Indian cuisine.

This user loves
Thai cuisine.

This user loves
Vietnamese food

Awards[edit]

		WP:FILM Tireless Contributor
		This is to acknowledge and thank you for your participation in tagging and assessing 1,000 articles in WP:FILMS' Tag & Assess Drive 2009-2010. You have helped to ensure our project has a better idea of the articles under our scope. I appreciate your efforts in further helping the project! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 21:35, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

My occupational hazard...[edit]

I'm a college reference librarian & I love facts. I also believe that Wikipedia has a long way to go before it's what librarians like me would consider a truly accepted & objective source of information - it's slowly getting there but there's much work to be done. An arrogant opinion? You betcha! But, there has got to be standards for information sources, how they're presented & where to find them.

My favorite leisure activity: Cinema[edit]

Perhaps the grandest form of entertainment - I'm a movie nut! I'm a Netflix junkie. I watch movies of all types & like to critique the good as well as the bad - I might just be the only outspoken critic of Braveheart which I don't think is as untouchable a film as it's fans want to believe. And I consider Armageddon (1998 film) to be the absolute worst popular film of the 1990s. I also pay close attention to the synopses of films in Wikipedia & constantly correct problems like grammar (more on that in a bit...), erroneous plot details, the elimination of gushing fancruft.

Side note: the iconic image from the tag at the left that says "This user enjoys film" is from George Méliès' film A Trip to the Moon. I've visited his grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery cemetery in Paris, France - quite a moving experience.

The tunes that define me...[edit]

Ok, that's a pretentious statement, I know! But I'm as inclined to listen to Bach or Brahms as I am to thrash out to Ministry (band). My latest obsessions are Radiohead (Thom York and Jonny Greenwood are 2 of the most talented musicians alive today. Period), Them Crooked Vultures (I wish they'd release a new album!!) and Sonic Youth. Other favorites are Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails. There's a lot of great music out there & a lot I have yet to discover.

There is NO excuse good enough for bad grammar!!![edit]

If you want to know how serious I am about proper grammar, consider this: "alot" is TWO WORDS!!! Seems that these days everyone is making a concerted effort to spell words wrongly, use "then" in place of "than", or "would of" in place of "would have". I OBJECT!!! If Wikipedia is to be an objective source of info, then these practices & others like them need to cease right now.

The way I think, the way I believe...[edit]

I'm a progressive person, which means that I don't like the GOP leadership or their attempts to turn the United States into a right-wing, Evangelical, fundamentalist society ruled by their interpretation of the beliefs of Jesus Christ. Christ was NOT a white protestant, he was not the type who would dislike gay folks or single mothers &, if he'd lived long enough, he would NOT have hated Muslims or anyone who worships god in a way differently from His followers. Their idea about what Christ said, did or believed in is a perversion that only serves to mask their own prejudices about others. If we're going to solve any societal problems, this type of thinking must be stopped.

Likewise, we need to stop major corporations from hijacking our economy & law making processes. I've always felt that the GOP has devolved into a tool of big business and that so-called Republican pushes for tax cuts are nothing more than the influence of big business on GOP members of Congress to lower the taxes of the rich to minuscule levels so they don't have to pay their fair share like the middle class does; in fact, I think, rather conspiratorially, that their sole purpose is to weaken the middle class, keep us complacent & worried about where our next buck is coming from so that we won't realize exactly how much we're being screwed.

Also likewise, there is NOTHING more important than the strength of education. Without education, a person is nothing; just look at George W. Bush, a man who slept through his education & wound up president w/out having any capacity for abstract or critical thought. You can put the economy, gay marriage, poverty, war and every other problem that seems to be more important behind education for one simple reason: educated people solve problems like these, no matter what background they come from.

Censorship?? Are you KIDDING me???[edit]

I've been a dedicated foe of censorship since I was a teenager, right about the time that Tipper Gore started her PMRC campaign against rock music. The idea that something can be removed from society because it offends a small group of people offends ME. It's pretty obvious that most people who would challenge or ban a book or an album or a film have not read, listened to or watched it in the first place. This gives them no frame of reference or a place to stand by their beliefs, which are hollow & empty.

Where I've been...[edit]

I've only recently become a "world" traveler, having been to Italy in May, 1999 & to Paris twice (March of 2007 & 2008) and to Bavaria, Germany and Prague in the Czech Republic in March 2014. Most recently I went to Peru & found it fascinating! Best thing I did there was fly over the Nazca Lines.

My journeys in the States are listed below as well. I think that if you really want to appreciate your own culture, you need to travel so you can appreciate others -- it's the only way to gain a truly solid perspective.

Userboxes[edit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tommyt/userboxes

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