Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand - Part 3

[Scotland]

Some say he was on roids.

Maybe he was, but that's not a criminal offence.

Getting a 13 year old girl pregnant...

 

[revo333]

Maybe he was, but that's not a criminal offence.

Getting a 13 year old girl pregnant...

This is a fact?

 

[Deliverance]

**** wit parents who allow their 13yo kids to have Instagram.

 

[Scotland]

This is a fact?

It is.

Karl Malone - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In 1998, the tabloid newspaper The Globe reported that Malone had been a defendant in paternity lawsuits, filed shortly after Malone began his professional basketball career in the late 1980s. The newspaper alleged that he was the father of three children: two by Bonita Ford, a woman approximately his age from his hometown of Summerfield, Louisiana, and one with Gloria Bell, who was 13 when she gave birth.

 

[emuboy]

I recently watched an interesting Youtube documentary on the Tania Head story. If you don't remember the Tania Head case, she was a woman who was a survivor of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on September 11 2001, and escaped the South Tower just before it collapsed, her fiancée dying in the North Tower. Head was active in the formation of the 911 survivor's network and became its president, several times showing dignitaries around the WTC memorial in New York, her story well known in American and internationally. But none of Head's story was true. She did not work at the Twin Towers. She was not from New York, or even America. There was no lost fiance. She had never even been to America at the time of September 11. On the day of the disaster, which took place in the early afternoon in Western European time, she was in a university class in her native Spain. The deception was unmasked in 2007, a full 6 years after the disaster, when inconsistencies in Head's story became apparent to journalists and genuine 911 survivors and the whole tangled web un-raveled.

I can fully understand why people may live out fantasies in their lives. Some may do so out of a medical condition such as Munchausen's syndrome, where they believe they have all sorts of medical conditions, these fantasies transferred to another person usually a child in the case of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy. Some may do so out of regret, for example an old man who was rejected for military service on medical grounds may pretend to be a WW2 veteran. Some people may do this out of dissatisfaction, such as a young man who is long term unemployed and puts on a tie, shirt and trousers and goes to the city each day, pretending that he has a job. People who have suffered some sort of trauma in their life may descend into a world of make believe, for example an old lady whose son and daughter both died early in life may make up a fantasy about how they grew up, were married and had families of their own to cope with her sadness and loneliness. Other people make things up to commit fraud and for material gain.

All of these make sense to me, but the Tania Head case I cannot make any sense of at all. There was never an attempt for her to profit financially from her stories. Her behavior doesn't fit Munchausen's syndrome. She had no connection to the WTC or New York, it wasn't like she did work in the Twin Towers, was absent from work on the day of 911 and was acting out of a case of survivor's guilt. She wasn't even American; Head didn't arrive in New York until 2003, two years after the terrorist attacks. And if she really did feel the need to pretend to be a 911 survivor, why make up such fantastic stories and take such a prominent role in the survivor's network, increasing the risk of the truth being uncovered? Why not hang around the edges, giving stories with limited detail and staying out of the limelight, where the deception would be less likely to be found out?

I just don't get this case at all.

 

[drd23]

Never heard of her before but what you posted sounds like a pathological need for attention (which is also the underlying reason for Munchausen's iirc)

 

[revo333]

It is.

Karl Malone - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

People don't tend to talk about him much instead it's always Jordan, Barkley and a few others from that era.

I thought the lack of respect might of been for the steroid use but add this and it's not hard to work out why.

 

[the_interloper]

I think the idea is that people are going to take drugs regardless of laws and so it is better to make sure they're safe.

Back in the day the website pillreports was the way,get your white Armani and check out reviews. If you were lucky someone would have used a testing kit on one and could tell what was in them. Of course there’d be different versions of pills sometimes so that would be problematic.

In short I agree with pill testing.

 

[Gough]

Smoke dope kiddos.

 

[Gough]

I dont get the whole music festival drug thing... If you decide to take drugs then you risk the consequences.

If you are unlucky enough to get bad drugs then thats a bit shit.

Peoples mates need to watch out for each other

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Dance music is terrible without drugs.

 

[Quivorir]

I argue its terrible even with drugs.

 

[Cuzz09]

Oh well just let them roll the dice themselves.

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[Cuzz09]

Toilet Duck ad on t.v. the duck is talking about the product and a voice over says "Oooh your lifes amazing"

Makes zero sense.

Also...

I used to think there was a place called "Hellenback" when people said "Ive been to hell and back"

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[Scotland]

People don't tend to talk about him much instead it's always Jordan, Barkley and a few others from that era.

I thought the lack of respect might of been for the steroid use but add this and it's not hard to work out why.

He was a fine player of the era. Member of the 1992 Dream Team and won two NBA MVPs. Pretty much had a mortgage on the All NBA first team power forward spot for a decade. I reckon he got plenty of cred in the 90s for his talents.

I also get the impression he was a dick of a person. Paternity suits, refusing to pay child support (when he was making millions per year), then when he moved to LA at the end of his career he clashed with Kobe Bryant (allegedly tried it on with Kobe's wife).

 

[Xtreme]

Why don't they make the "pink test" a pink ball test as well ?

 

[Deliverance]

People q-ing up for doughnuts.

 

[Hawk Dork]

People q-ing up for doughnuts.

Pretty sure they were paid to do it early on
Photograph Queue and post
People then queue for real


I queued up for a Raman in Tokyo
I hate queues but I was hungry it was close and the people in the queue were telling me it was the best

It was (over an hour later)

 

[drd23]

I imagine most people here would have no clue what this is about given I think the ad only airs in the US (I only see it when I'm watching NFL games), but I don't understand how people read so much into an ad

The Peloton Ad Woman Is Absolutely Not OK

Peloton released a 30-second tale of one woman’s desperate journey into wellness hell.

www.vice.com

Maybe I just never realised how hard the outrage brigade tries to find things to be outraged about? Or maybe I don't use social media enough...

Sure its kinda weird, and definitely a shit ad, but does this woman look like she's been traumatised, or being abused by being given an exercise bike?

 

[Shell]

I rarely queue up for anything- screw that. Get petrol first thing in the morning, no queue. Get to the footy at a decent time (but not too early either) no queue.

Ppl are fkd in the head who queue up for days for the latest iphone imo.

 

[PT Bar None]

I imagine most people here would have no clue what this is about given I think the ad only airs in the US (I only see it when I'm watching NFL games), but I don't understand how people read so much into an ad

The Peloton Ad Woman Is Absolutely Not OK

Peloton released a 30-second tale of one woman’s desperate journey into wellness hell.

www.vice.com

Maybe I just never realised how hard the outrage brigade tries to find things to be outraged about? Or maybe I don't use social media enough...

Sure its kinda weird, and definitely a shit ad, but does this woman look like she's been traumatised, or being abused by being given an exercise bike?

I'm guessing it's because she has naturally sad eyes and being an advertising grade actor, she's pretty poor at emoting through facial expression?

 

[drd23]

I'm guessing it's because she has naturally sad eyes and being an advertising grade actor, she's pretty poor at emoting through facial expression?

That (and her eyebrows) are what she has put it down to.

She also seems to have parlayed the apparent outrage into scoring a gig acting in an ad for Ryan Reynolds' gin, although that ad makes very little sense if you'd never known about the exercise bike outrage

 

[Hawk Dork]

The exercise bike is just the modern white good

The add guy was a clever clogs who knew it would trigger and generate sales off the anti trigger mob

 

[drd23]

Not sure USD $2200 + monthly subscription for an exercise bike would be an impulse buy just to stick it to the outrage brigade

 

[Hawk Dork]

Not sure USD $2200 + monthly subscription for an exercise bike would be an impulse buy just to stick it to the outrage brigade

you just have to hit a small %
Sales have gone through the roof

 

[GreyCrow]

I'm guessing it's because she has naturally sad eyes and being an advertising grade actor, she's pretty poor at emoting through facial expression?

I thought it was because she had pointy elbows