tirtefaa
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Post by tirtefaa on Sept 14, 2022 17:04:39 GMT -5
It's weird...
When this show became like Jerry Springer lite, I absolutely despised it.
Funnily enough, Springer was such a car wreck that it was entertaining, yet Maury always got me really annoyed to where I couldn't watch more than 2 minutes of it.
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Welfare Willis
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Post by Welfare Willis on Sept 14, 2022 17:45:15 GMT -5
Here's the thing. You both are kind of right. Maury uses lie detectors because it represents to his audience as some validity of truth. Ultimately, if someone went to court and presented as evidence? It would most likely not be allowed. Because Maury is there only there for entertainment. If the person lied, he's the father! If not, he dances on the stage and we all move on the next segment. Drama ensues. Maury's audience has their entertainment. Do you give a shit about the mother and father of the baby after that? I'm guessing it's a big fat no. Yet both the CIA and FBI do use it to screen potential hires.There's reasons they do this. One, most people believe they are lie detectors. So they're more likely to confess to crimes. But really a polygraph generates multiple tracings which, properly interpreted, provide signs of human physical stress reactions. That’s all it does, all it is designed to do, and it does it well. It's not a lie detector. It's based on the science that human physical reactions to stress can be detected and measured. People in the CIA and FBI can read the analysis to help provide further clues in investigations and possible confession of crimes. It's a tool, and should never be used as the tool into an investigation.
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Post by Chainsaw on Sept 14, 2022 20:58:25 GMT -5
29 years too late. Him and his ilk are exploitative carny bullshit artists.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Sept 14, 2022 21:20:03 GMT -5
29 years too late. Him and his ilk are exploitative carny bullshit artists. Anyone remember when Maury was kind of legitimate? He was more soft infotainment than straight up bad teenagers and who's the daddy trash. I remember seeing a clip of him interviewing Danny Devito where Michael Douglas pops out of something and scares Danny. My memory is hazy, but I think another episode was a Three's Company reunion (minus John Ritter who was still alive at the time) with Joyce DeWitt and Suzanne Somers.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 14, 2022 21:24:31 GMT -5
Maury was like, the best trash TV when I was home sick in high school. Or my roommate and I would watch it when we were off class in college.
We also used to watch it in telecom class in HS. There was this white trash teenager who denied a baby because he thought he looked like an alien. And he pronounced it "ullien." And it was his.
My other favorite part is where it's two white parents and the kid is obviously not white. And the dad still thinks there's a chance it's his. Bless you, sir.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Sept 14, 2022 22:01:02 GMT -5
Bill Maher had a great joke about how while being a parent is wonderful, no one looks happier than the guys that get told it's not their kid. And cue the backflip guy.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 14, 2022 22:33:47 GMT -5
Being a parent is wonderful, as long as it's not with some hoochie called "Fabulous" who also slept with six other guys.
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Sept 15, 2022 11:52:06 GMT -5
Did they ever reveal who the father is?
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Dr. T is an alien
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Sept 15, 2022 14:19:44 GMT -5
Did they ever reveal who the father is? There have been some mothers who came back 10+ times to keep testing yet another guy. Remember, just because a woman drags a guy in to get tested, that doesn’t even mean that the man even had intercourse with the woman. If you ever meet Stan Lane at any events, you could ask him about his cousin, the mother of Lauren Boebert (yes, THAT Lauren Boebert). Just be prepared for him to get angry at the question, though in that particular case I think he was the one to seek the order for the paternity test. Damn, the story behind that would have been right up Maury’s alley.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Oct 12, 2022 4:10:34 GMT -5
They should have cancelled the show after this, as something this awesome could have never been topped.
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Post by Sigma: Current SRW Champ! on Oct 12, 2022 21:37:02 GMT -5
So this makes Steve Wilkos the last man standing in regards to trashy TV talk shows from a bygone era. I don't know how long his show will go on, but it's gotta feel weird though.
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