Academy Awards - Will Smith Edition

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in Academy Awards:

I don’t know, I kind of think the world would be a little bit better if people had to weigh the very real odds of getting their ass kicked for running their mouth too far.

I don't. We have enough of that shit already.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Academy Awards:

An armed society is a polite society.

Is it, though?

Who's more polite, Canadians, the Japanese or Americans?

[Jolly]

Yes, it is. At least in terms of manners.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Academy Awards:

Yes, it is. At least in terms of manners.

I’m not convinced the evidence backs this up. It’s a nice idea, but I can think of a number of heavily armed societies that would not be described as particularly polite or well mannered.

[Larry]

A few years ago my wife and I were waiting to be seated at a Cracker Barrel. If you've ever been in a Cracker Barrel you know there's a store full of various merchandise for sale that you just naturally wander around in while waiting for a table, and there's not much room to move around. Two guys came in through the front doors, both obviously just a little drunk. They were being loud and obnoxious, but weren't really botheringvanyone.... until one of them decided he liked my wife's looks, hung his arm around her shoulders, and grabbed one of her boobs. He made some sort of snide comment, but before he could finish his sentence I had knocked the crap out of him. I could have cared less about being accused of assault.

[George K]

@Larry that's different. He assaulted your wife. You defended her.

[Larry]

@George-K said in Academy Awards:

@Larry that's different. He assaulted your wife. You defended her.

Given what he did he's lucky I didn't kill him.

[Doctor Phibes]

One of my engineers (a woman) was out shopping with her boyfriend a few years ago and two guys made comments about her. The boyfriend confronted them and they stabbed him. He died right there in the shopping mall. They went down for murder.

This stuff can get bad really quick.

[Horace]

Comedian hosts get to make jokes about Oscars attendees. Oscars attendees don’t get to assault them for it. This precedent set on a global stage by one of the most famous people in the world sucks, and the respectful reaction is stupid. Smith needs to be called a little bitch. Not respected.

[Larry]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Academy Awards:

One of my engineers (a woman) was out shopping with her boyfriend a few years ago and two guys made comments about her. The boyfriend confronted them and they stabbed him. He died right there in the shopping mall. They went down for murder.

This stuff can get bad really quick.

That's why you never confront - you knock them into next week. If he wants to talk we can do that later, in his hospital room.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Academy Awards:

Comedian hosts get to make jokes about Oscars attendees. Oscars attendees don’t get to assault them for it. This precedent set on a global stage by one of the most famous people in the world sucks, and the respectful reaction is stupid. Smith needs to be called a little bitch. Not respected.

+1

[jon-nyc]

Jussie Smollett says Will Smith hit him too.

[George K]

[Horace]

It’s very clear to most reasonable people that it wasn’t staged. You could see the emotion running through both of them after it happened. Both in Smith’s screaming about keeping his wife’s name out if Rock’s mouth, and in Rock as he stumbled over the rest of his lines. And in Smith’s later tearful acceptance speech.

[Horace]

Imagine the flopping if this happened at a soccer awards show.

[Doctor Phibes]

If they'd staged it, it would have looked more like the movies and less like a couple of knobheads in the pub.

[89th]

It wasn’t staged, for reasons Horace mentioned above. Rock probably thought a fake slap/punch was coming in good spirits, not the real deal.

Also Smith laughed at first prob because it was the normal thing to do on national television, and he also probably didn’t get the alopecia connection at first until he saw Jada’s face.

[Copper]

It was rehearsed for months.

The violence was fine, that is what men do, no big deal.

But there is no excuse for the vulgar language on television.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Academy Awards:

@George-K said in Academy Awards:

@89th said in Academy Awards:
If a comedian makes a joke about my wife's illness, I'd be seeing red.

Wouldn't we all?

All of us except for Ted Cruz.

[Horace]

What a great opportunity this event presents to announce one's political tribe.