In going with that chris brown thing

[TSD]

Why is it in the sports and entertainment world, people can commit the most ghastly acts, yet be accepted and continue on to have lucrative careers, critical acclaim and love from the community, when joe or jane schmoe can more than likely ruin the remainder of their life based on one mistake.



i.e. commit a felony, good luck ever making more than minimum wage again. There is a myriad of things someone can do that may not land them in long term trouble with the law, but can pretty much destroy any hope for making a good living for the remainder of their life.



Why are the powers that be so much more "forgiving" if that is the word to give people another chance in the aforementioned industries? Is it merely the pool of talent? i.e. he may lay a beating on women, be a closet nazi, or crashed 7 cars while drunk and high but he sure can sing, act, hit a baseball, shoot a puck etc etc.

 

[supraman]

Because critical thinking is dead.

 

[BigPete]

When in doubt, ask an ABBA song:



Money, money, money

Must be funny

In the rich man's world

Money, money, money

Always sunny

In the rich man's world

Aha-ahaa

All the things I could do

If I had a little money

It's a rich man's world

It's a rich man's world

 

[MassHavoc]

See Bookie's status update for all you need to know. And then we can merge this with the whitney houston thread.

 

[supraman]

I think all the women in bookie's link should have a week with a chris brown look a like that beats their asses. Then after the 7 days ask if it was all they could have dreamed of. Sometimes you just have to hit stupid people with a stick until they get smart.

 

[MassHavoc]

**** that week.. I think they should all be put in a room together with him or a look alike and let him just wear it out for hours. I know they were joking but that is the kind of shit that can bother me. It's insensitive to people who have been beaten not just the victims of Chris Brown, it demeans the entire fucking act of beating your wife. I'm sure we've all done it in one for or another but to have it be such a trend is disgusting. It's like saying i'd have let Sandusky piddle me a bit for a national championship... yet people don't say that huh... wonder why. Fucktards.



Yes I'm being over reactionary and too hard and do a lot of it myself, but meh whatever.

 

[TSD]

The movie industry even forgives pedophiles i.e. Roman Polanski. The US government may want to toss him in the slammer, but actors and actresses wont quit singin that tools praises.

 

[The Mule]

I would just like to say that as much as I love books, that is my status update about the Chris Brown tweets not hers. But it's true that we forgive these people because they're famous, because they hold some importance in our eyes and, as I mentioned in the Whitney Houston thread, are expected to be superhuman and not merely human like the rest of us. Therefore, we want them to reclaim their heroic status and rise to the top again, which is why there is forgiveness. And yes, critical thinking needs to be taught not just to those girls on Twitter, but all young people, and **** it, some old ones too.



There's something about seeing rich, famous people we admire fail and then rise up again that makes people think they too can achieve that dream. They're the mark by which many people measure themselves merely because they're in the public consciousness. I have so much to say about celebrity culture. I could fucking go on all day. I wrote a fucking book about it. Publisher pending.

 

[Variable]

The irony being of course that there are people exactly like that in the government that get shrugged off as well or, even more similar, hailed as icons.

 

[MassHavoc]

I would just like to say that as much as I love books, that is my status update about the Chris Brown tweets not hers. But it's true that we forgive these people because they're famous, because they hold some importance in our eyes and, as I mentioned in the Whitney Houston thread, are expected to be superhuman and not merely human like the rest of us. Therefore, we want them to reclaim their heroic status and rise to the top again, which is why there is forgiveness. And yes, critical thinking needs to be taught not just to those girls on Twitter, but all young people, and **** it, some old ones too.



There's something about seeing rich, famous people we admire fail and then rise up again that makes people think they too can achieve that dream. They're the mark by which many people measure themselves merely because they're in the public consciousness. I have so much to say about celebrity culture. I could fucking go on all day. I wrote a fucking book about it. Publisher pending.

Sorry, you know I can no longer tell BookMule apart...

 

[The Mule]

A smart person wrote this shit about Chris Brown and how there is something broken in our social system that allows this shit to continue.



http://therumpus.net/2012/02/dear-y...s-brown-so-much-they-would-let-him-beat-them/

 

[Bringmepie]

I couldn't help but think the same thing seeing the Honda commercial with Matthew Broderick during the Super Bowl. It's been so long that a lot of people either don't remember or were too young (or not born yet) but a year after the Ferris Bueller movie was a hit Broderick was behind the wheel of a car in Northern Ireland in the wrong lane, smashed into another car head on and two women were killed. He got off with a light fine for wreckless driving. I wouldn't say that he got off easy though because he's had to live with what had happened. If he'd been a party boy like some of his peers and reported either high or drunk at the time of the accident his career might never have recovered.

 

[supraman]

I would just like to say that as much as I love books, that is my status update about the Chris Brown tweets not hers. But it's true that we forgive these people because they're famous, because they hold some importance in our eyes and, as I mentioned in the Whitney Houston thread, are expected to be superhuman and not merely human like the rest of us. Therefore, we want them to reclaim their heroic status and rise to the top again, which is why there is forgiveness. And yes, critical thinking needs to be taught not just to those girls on Twitter, but all young people, and **** it, some old ones too.



There's something about seeing rich, famous people we admire fail and then rise up again that makes people think they too can achieve that dream. They're the mark by which many people measure themselves merely because they're in the public consciousness. I have so much to say about celebrity culture. I could fucking go on all day. I wrote a fucking book about it. Publisher pending.

You want to be a celebrity you get to be superhuman, dont want that? Don't do a job that makes you famous.

I couldn't help but think the same thing seeing the Honda commercial with Matthew Broderick during the Super Bowl. It's been so long that a lot of people either don't remember or were too young (or not born yet) but a year after the Ferris Bueller movie was a hit Broderick was behind the wheel of a car in Northern Ireland in the wrong lane, smashed into another car head on and two women were killed. He got off with a light fine for wreckless driving. I wouldn't say that he got off easy though because he's had to live with what had happened. If he'd been a party boy like some of his peers and reported either high or drunk at the time of the accident his career might never have recovered.

Ferris was doing some underage drinking?

 

[Bringmepie]

Ferris was doing some underage drinking?

Underage? No. Broderick was 23 when that movie was made and the car accident was a year later - plus this was in Northern Ireland where the wains are weened to the bottle at an early age. Broderick claimed to have no recollection after the accident why he was in the wrong lane. Maybe his faulty steering was due to Jennifer Grey giving him a BJ from the shotgun position, who knows? He may have been stone sober but just out for a vacation country joy ride speeding and possibly just forgot to stay on the correct side of the road. Whatever the reason it's taken 25 years before now being safe I guess to feature him in an automobile ad driving like a carefree goofball.

 

[winos5]

Serious question. Which lane is the correct side in Ireland? Left as in the UK? I can tell you that it took me awhile (several weeks) to adjust to that to the point I didnt have to constantly remind myself to stay in the left lane while I was stationed in the UK. Not an excuse, in any event.

 

[the canadian dream]

Its those who are involved in the pop scene that seem to get the most fucked up. Or maybe they are just the ones who get exploited most because with them a thousand other jobs and people benefit from their success. That's a lot of unrealistic pressures for one person to handle no wonder some go off the handle. And I think that is why some celebrities get a pass for their **** ups and character. Too much is ridding on them as they become part of the larger economical machine.



one of the problems

 

[Bringmepie]

Serious question. Which lane is the correct side in Ireland? Left as in the UK? I can tell you that it took me awhile (several weeks) to adjust to that to the point I didnt have to constantly remind myself to stay in the left lane while I was stationed in the UK. Not an excuse, in any event.

It's on the left in both the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland. You can see how it'd be so easy to screw up if you weren't paying attention though but at the same time not an excuse because you ought to be sooooo very much aware of it when getting behind the wheel.

 

[TSD]

Underage? No. Broderick was 23 when that movie was made and the car accident was a year later - plus this was in Northern Ireland where the wains are weened to the bottle at an early age. Broderick claimed to have no recollection after the accident why he was in the wrong lane. Maybe his faulty steering was due to Jennifer Grey giving him a BJ from the shotgun position, who knows? He may have been stone sober but just out for a vacation country joy ride speeding and possibly just forgot to stay on the correct side of the road. Whatever the reason it's taken 25 years before now being safe I guess to feature him in an automobile ad driving like a carefree goofball.

Way off topic but sometimes I am astonished by the actual age of some people that play highschool students in movies. i.e. Harold from Harold and Kumar, he was like 30 years old during his appearance as a highschool student in American pie. As was the black chick (Rachel True) from "the craft" in 1996 (which is weird considering she was born the same year as my dad and played someone my age in a movie).

 

[Larmer83]

I couldn't help but think the same thing seeing the Honda commercial with Matthew Broderick during the Super Bowl. It's been so long that a lot of people either don't remember or were too young (or not born yet) but a year after the Ferris Bueller movie was a hit Broderick was behind the wheel of a car in Northern Ireland in the wrong lane, smashed into another car head on and two women were killed. He got off with a light fine for wreckless driving. I wouldn't say that he got off easy though because he's had to live with what had happened. If he'd been a party boy like some of his peers and reported either high or drunk at the time of the accident his career might never have recovered.

Matthew Broderick paid the ultimate price- sentenced via marriage to Sarah Jessica Parker.

 

[Rex]

Matthew Broderick paid the ultimate price- sentenced via marriage to Sarah Jessica Parker.

what state is it legal to marry your horse?