Exposing The Trolls

 

Will Maggie Wilson pursue a scorched earth strategy of running after her online bashers by teaching each one of them a lesson in court? After battling some custody battles with estranged partner Victor Consunji ... Maggie successfully unearthed the presence of online troll farms ... something other netizens have qualms about ... accepting their existence. And to Maggie's credit, she is on her way to bringing these Tiktok influencers in the open allegedly paid to smear her reputation. There were at least four scared souls - sweating profusely in their boots at the prospect of meeting Maggie "au natural" in the halls of justice.

Now the tide has turned, and it looks like the netizens are responding positively ... as they were alarmed by the persistence of these troll farms in doling out disinformation to besmirch somebody's good name and throw mud to tarnish their images.

What is also alarming... is that these bashers obviously don't know who the hell Maggie Wilson is (Maggie is Bb. Pilipinas World 2007) based on their demeanor and facial expressions. Some of them were not even born at the time Maggie won ... so how can you believe their pronouncements when they don't have an iota of knowledge of who they are talking about? Maggie suspects somebody is giving them a script ... as the content of the message is uniform, unvarying, and identical.

Her expose also brought up some painful truths that her critics don't know what they are saying ... they belong to the same age group and from the looks of it, they were unschooled - they were there for one thing and one thing alone - that they were being paid ... and P8000 ... was a good start.

The online attacks were carefully coordinated and orchestrated.  It is disturbing to note how money can buy their souls and their conscience. 

As one netizen has put it: "This issue with Maggie Wilson just highlights how easy it is to find content creators (?) who will willingly spread disinformation and destroy someone just to get money. And we know most are apologizing just because they got caught reading a script."

"I hope Maggie sues them all. They all deserve some jail time to reflect on their actions. Choosing easy money while destroying lives & apologizing when they get caught excuses no one. This is how low our moral compass has become."

TROLL ARMY: EXPOSED BY MAGGIE WILSON

Family Feud Second Coming

Family Feud is back in GMA! 

Before you jump to the conclusion that this is another soap opera in the making about a long-standing fight between two hostile families, reminiscent of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ... you are in for a big disappointment.

If game shows are not your cup of tea, you are clueless ... that we are referring to Dingdong Dantes and the ever-successful game show that provides good clean fun, and entertainment in GMA's pre-primetime slots.

After a successful installment in the first quarter of this year ... there is no stopping the show. But it was stopped temporarily ... and the brief rest gave way to Dingdong's comeback in an action-packed magnum opus - Royal Blood. How time flies ... and now that the series had its finale last month, Dingdong kept his promise that "He shall return" just as McArthur did.

Indeed there is bad blood between the show's feuding families ... but it is not the same as the Capulets and the Montagues in Romeo and Juliet.  The two families battle it out (or in Steve Harvey's lingo ... duke it out) by giving the top answers to surveyed questions.

Family Feud is the Philippines's answer to an American game show series with the same name. Originally hosted by Ogie Alcasid ... the game show aired on multiple networks since 2001.

Fremantle owns the format of Family Feud and is in syndication elsewhere around the world. Mark Goodson created it.

Abraham's One Liners

 

Oxymorons In Movie Titles Part 1

As promised ,,, I burned my midnight candle last night to add more examples of oxymorons in movie titles.

Hollywood productions make use of oxymorons to entice the movie-going public by placing congruent words side by side and extracting their differences, They sound improbable having two differing words or phrases being combined in one sentence.

When oxymorons are being offered to you and when you exert an effort to understand them... you will realize... it makes sense ... and will eventually bring the reader to a concealed but detectable truth.

Oxymorons can be FIGURATIVELY TRUE but not LITERALLY TRUE. Take these movie titles and see for yourself.

In the list, you see The Civil War - To be civil means you are polite, courteous, well-bred, well-mannered, or gentlemanly. And war is an uprising, a fight, and a battle. If you heard of a gentleman's fight ... that's an aberration. But they were able to combine two contrasting words and coin them to bring out a different meaning.

Then the movie Asphalt Jungle is not literally true. For one a jungle is a dense forest or wilderness with tangled vegetation. On the other hand, Asphalt is a black tarry substance used to pave roads. Normal thinking usually dictates a jungle is not a jungle if it is asphalt-paved. See what I mean? But here the story may mean a modern city - a concrete jungle that is harsh, highly competitive, and dangerous.

1. A I - Artificial Intelligence

2. The Asphalt Jungle

3. Begin Again

4. Best Worst Movie

5.  Big Doll House

6.  Bitter Sweet

7. Blast of Silence

8.  Blind Eye

9. Blue Blood

10. Brain Dead

11. The Civil War

12. Cold Heart

13. Man of Steel

14. Sexy Beast

15. Reality Bites

Oxymorons In Movie Titles 2

Oxymorons are addicting ... once I thought the list above is enough to prove my point ... then comes the torrent of movie titles cascading down my memory lane ... commanding me " Hey you ... don't exclude this title ...  or else ... "

Last night was an exhausting night as movie titles haunted and woke me up in my already disturbed sleep like it was a matter of life and death that I needed to include them. I was already cursing myself for starting this topic ... and after a bated breath ... here comes another string of movie titles nagging me: "I am an oxymoron too ... where is justice ... if you don't include us?

Just like the Fairy Tale: A True Story ... tales are usually fictitious or imaginary narratives or stories and flagging it as a true story is a stroke of genius.

At three o'clock in the morning, I was still pounding my keyboard like my life depended on them ... because missing one would be misconstrued as bias or prejudice ... or worse bigotry. So here we go ... if you have something to add to the list ... please do so in the comment section:

1. Buried Alive

2. Cold In July

3. Dark Light

4. Dead Again

5. The Dead Don't Die

6. The Death of Superman Lives

7. Fairy Tale - A True Story

8. The Fallen Idol

9.  Far Away ... So Close

10. A Fine Mess

11. Frozen Fever

12.  Giant Little Ones

13. Hell's Angels

14. Higher Ground

15. I know Who Killed Me

Oxymoron Trivia

The word oxymoron is actually an oxymoron (a literary device that presents two contrasting ideas.

Oxymoron stems out from two Greek words - Oksus (meaning sharp or keen) and moros (meaning stupid or a moron). The contrasting words are sharp and stupid.

So how on earth ... did you describe a stupid person as sharp or keen?