Academy Awards - Will Smith Edition
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 14:32 last edited by
@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.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 14:33 last edited by
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.
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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.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 14:37 last edited by
@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.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 14:39 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 14:41 last edited by
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.
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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.
wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 14:43 last edited by 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.
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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.
wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 14:47 last edited by 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
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 14:48 last edited by
Jussie Smollett says Will Smith hit him too.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 14:49 last edited by
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 15:00 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 15:01 last edited by
Imagine the flopping if this happened at a soccer awards show.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 15:05 last edited by
If they'd staged it, it would have looked more like the movies and less like a couple of knobheads in the pub.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 15:33 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 16:48 last edited by
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.
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@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.
(Rock declined to press charges, by the way)
It’s not his decision.
wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 16:48 last edited by@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.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2022, 16:57 last edited by
What a great opportunity this event presents to announce one's political tribe.
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@Copper said in Academy Awards:
cnn blames trump
The left has bent over backwards to give black culture room for its macho male culture to grow unabated, resulting in Chicago and Baltimore murder numbers. It would be easy to blame that culture for this, but that would be ridiculous, since Will Smith is more of a pampered privileged princess than nearly anybody else in the world.
