Will Smith at the Oscars
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Lol keyboard warriors the lot of ya if you’re going around saying it’s ok to slap people who slag off the mrs0
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The 'host' doesn't get free rein to insult and throw out cruel, bullying and unfunny jibes without some comeback at them.rick_chasey said:Lol guys. It’s an award ceremony.
It’s basically work. You don’t slap the host.
Wtf
Rock is lucky it was only a slap as many would have hit him properly. Sometimes you just need to use the 'anguage' the bully understands.1 -
Another reason why Smith should have just ignored the comment. Now he's the guy who slapped the host rather than the Best Actor.Pross said:
I'm not talking about on here (hence 'some quarters of the media'). I woke up to the BBC asking a Government minister for his view on it, look at some of those Twitter comments and that article in The Independent talking about a punch. The other award winners and studios must be well pleased that their achievements have been overshadowed by such a fuss about nothing.rjsterry said:
Oh for crying out loud.Pross said:
Wouldn't matter though, he did it in front of millions of TV viewers so if the authorities wanted to they could prosecute him anyway. Do you think they have let it go if Smith had beaten Rock to a pulp and he said he didn't want to press charges? The fact they aren't bothering reflects the severity of what happened despite the moral outrage in some quarters of the media.ddraver said:Because, luckily for him, Chris Rock has declined to press charges.
https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/chris-rock-declines-press-charges-will-smith-oscars-slap-1235050021/
"He should not have slapped him" ≠ moral outrage. Pointing out that Smith reacted like a pub drunk who was more worried about his hurt pride than his wife is also not "moral outrage".
At most it is mild disapproval.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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His acceptance speech rather suggests that he needed a metaphorical slap anyway...In this time in my life, in this moment, I am overwhelmed by what God is calling on me to do and be in this world.
I’m being called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people.
It’s like I want to be a vessel for love
We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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Yes, they do. I mean that pretty much exactly has been the gig for the last few years. You get paid to wear some designer's outfit like a show pony; receive gifts from assorted luxury brands that want to photograph you with their stuff; have a lot of free booze and food; and in return a comedian will take the piss out of you on international telly for a couple of hours.Dorset_Boy said:
The 'host' doesn't get free rein to insult and throw out cruel, bullying and unfunny jibes without some comeback at them.rick_chasey said:Lol guys. It’s an award ceremony.
It’s basically work. You don’t slap the host.
Wtf
Rock is lucky it was only a slap as many would have hit him properly. Sometimes you just need to use the 'anguage' the bully understands.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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God is rolling his eyes right now.ddraver said:His acceptance speech rather suggests that he needed a metaphorical slap anyway...
In this time in my life, in this moment, I am overwhelmed by what God is calling on me to do and be in this world.
I’m being called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people.
It’s like I want to be a vessel for love1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Rock deserved it but WS shouldn't have done it.
Looked incredibly staged to me
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And opened up an oil well of jokes that will follow him for ever...rjsterry said:
Another reason why Smith should have just ignored the comment. Now he's the guy who slapped the host rather than the Best Actor.Pross said:
I'm not talking about on here (hence 'some quarters of the media'). I woke up to the BBC asking a Government minister for his view on it, look at some of those Twitter comments and that article in The Independent talking about a punch. The other award winners and studios must be well pleased that their achievements have been overshadowed by such a fuss about nothing.rjsterry said:
Oh for crying out loud.Pross said:
Wouldn't matter though, he did it in front of millions of TV viewers so if the authorities wanted to they could prosecute him anyway. Do you think they have let it go if Smith had beaten Rock to a pulp and he said he didn't want to press charges? The fact they aren't bothering reflects the severity of what happened despite the moral outrage in some quarters of the media.ddraver said:Because, luckily for him, Chris Rock has declined to press charges.
https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/chris-rock-declines-press-charges-will-smith-oscars-slap-1235050021/
"He should not have slapped him" ≠ moral outrage. Pointing out that Smith reacted like a pub drunk who was more worried about his hurt pride than his wife is also not "moral outrage".
At most it is mild disapproval.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLH5vvtN/We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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Rather than annoyed that their achievements have been overshadowed by someone deciding to hit somebody? Sure.Pross said:
I'm not talking about on here (hence 'some quarters of the media'). I woke up to the BBC asking a Government minister for his view on it, look at some of those Twitter comments and that article in The Independent talking about a punch. The other award winners and studios must be well pleased that their achievements have been overshadowed by such a fuss about nothing.rjsterry said:
Oh for crying out loud.Pross said:
Wouldn't matter though, he did it in front of millions of TV viewers so if the authorities wanted to they could prosecute him anyway. Do you think they have let it go if Smith had beaten Rock to a pulp and he said he didn't want to press charges? The fact they aren't bothering reflects the severity of what happened despite the moral outrage in some quarters of the media.ddraver said:Because, luckily for him, Chris Rock has declined to press charges.
https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/chris-rock-declines-press-charges-will-smith-oscars-slap-1235050021/
"He should not have slapped him" ≠ moral outrage. Pointing out that Smith reacted like a pub drunk who was more worried about his hurt pride than his wife is also not "moral outrage".
At most it is mild disapproval.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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As someone who sees red far more than he should, the second you get angry you’ve already lost.
However bad what someone says to you is, once you go around hitting people you’re the baddun0 -
Agreed, it was very weird and there didn't seem to be much shock on Rock's face that you would get from a stinger like that.shirley_basso said:Rock deserved it but WS shouldn't have done it.
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We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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I find this so ironic coming from you.rick_chasey said:Lol keyboard warriors the lot of ya if you’re going around saying it’s ok to slap people who slag off the mrs
A comedian stands up on a stage somewhere and makes jokes about a minority. This immediately causes offence among people easily offended and he or she is immediately targeted for cancellation.
A comedian stands up on stage and targets an individual with a medical condition for ridicule, in front of millions and nobody can be bothered to censure the comedian, because there’s more virtue signalling to be gained from going after the offended for their response.
IMO the guilty party here is the academy for knowingly putting all the combustibles together."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.2 -
‘I‘ve fought all my life not to be a coward.' How Will Smith confessed that failing to step in when his father beat his mother was his 'violent trigger,' in revealing memoir written before he slapped Chris Rock for insulting Jada
I remember reading about this in the past and it explains his over-reaction to me, to stand up and protect his wife/memory of his Mother.0 -
Get real.ddraver said:If it was anyone other than an A* list actor he'd be in jail.
If the academy hadn't been about to give him a prize he'd have been thrown out.
If the locked up everybody for that level of aggression half the population would be in jail.
Besides if he wasn’t an A list actor we wouldn’t have heard about it.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.2 -
If your issue is with the joke and taking Rock to task for it, Smith slapping him in the face has really taken away from that.blazing_saddles said:
I find this so ironic coming from you.rick_chasey said:Lol keyboard warriors the lot of ya if you’re going around saying it’s ok to slap people who slag off the mrs
A comedian stands up on a stage somewhere and makes jokes about a minority. This immediately causes offence among people easily offended and he or she is immediately targeted for cancellation.
A comedian stands up on stage and targets an individual with a medical condition for ridicule, in front of millions and nobody can be bothered to censure the comedian, because there’s more virtue signalling to be gained from going after the offended for their response.
IMO the guilty party here is the academy for knowingly putting all the combustibles together.
It’s a bad joke. You don’t go hitting people, right?
You do get that, right?0 -
Mmmmmsmells like an excuse after the fact.focuszing723 said:‘I‘ve fought all my life not to be a coward.' How Will Smith confessed that failing to step in when his father beat his mother was his 'violent trigger,' in revealing memoir written before he slapped Chris Rock for insulting Jada
I remember reading about this in the past and it explains his over-reaction to me, to stand up and protect his wife/memory of his Mother.
Lad should take responsibility for losing his cool.
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Do 50% of the people you know act like that?blazing_saddles said:
Get real.ddraver said:If it was anyone other than an A* list actor he'd be in jail.
If the academy hadn't been about to give him a prize he'd have been thrown out.
If the locked up everybody for that level of aggression half the population would be in jail.
Besides if he wasn’t an A list actor we wouldn’t have heard about it.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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What's been forgotten is that it's actually another US remake.shirley_basso said:My sister who works in film and media PR says the huge shame is the deaf movie which won an Oscar is now forgotten in all this.
This one they pinched off the French: La famille Bélier (2014).
Still, at least with Coda, Apple got one over on Netflix. Theirs should have been called The Hair of the Dog, cos I felt like I was hungover watching it."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
No Rick, my point was why aren't you and those who have been preaching on here for months, that words can hurt as much, if not more so, than sticks and stones, have suddenly reevaluated this position.rick_chasey said:
If your issue is with the joke and taking Rock to task for it, Smith slapping him in the face has really taken away from that.blazing_saddles said:
I find this so ironic coming from you.rick_chasey said:Lol keyboard warriors the lot of ya if you’re going around saying it’s ok to slap people who slag off the mrs
A comedian stands up on a stage somewhere and makes jokes about a minority. This immediately causes offence among people easily offended and he or she is immediately targeted for cancellation.
A comedian stands up on stage and targets an individual with a medical condition for ridicule, in front of millions and nobody can be bothered to censure the comedian, because there’s more virtue signalling to be gained from going after the offended for their response.
IMO the guilty party here is the academy for knowingly putting all the combustibles together.
It’s a bad joke. You don’t go hitting people, right?
You do get that, right?"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Eh? Think all have been clear that Rock was wrong. But Smith was more wrong. Two wrongs, in fact. If people who were, say, offended by Nigel Farage and slapped him because of some xenophobic nonsense he'd uttered they would also be more in the wrong.blazing_saddles said:
I find this so ironic coming from you.rick_chasey said:Lol keyboard warriors the lot of ya if you’re going around saying it’s ok to slap people who slag off the mrs
A comedian stands up on a stage somewhere and makes jokes about a minority. This immediately causes offence among people easily offended and he or she is immediately targeted for cancellation.
A comedian stands up on stage and targets an individual with a medical condition for ridicule, in front of millions and nobody can be bothered to censure the comedian, because there’s more virtue signalling to be gained from going after the offended for their response.
IMO the guilty party here is the academy for knowingly putting all the combustibles together.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Half the population do not go around slapping people.blazing_saddles said:
Get real.ddraver said:If it was anyone other than an A* list actor he'd be in jail.
If the academy hadn't been about to give him a prize he'd have been thrown out.
If the locked up everybody for that level of aggression half the population would be in jail.
Besides if he wasn’t an A list actor we wouldn’t have heard about it.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
I am in favour of slapping Nigel Farage.1
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