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Post by westurner »

breve wrote: post #18
westurner wrote: post #13

Total Gym XLS has a 1-1.25" carriage bar for adding weight. 5gal bucket weights are the correct diameter to leave a gap between the weights and the floor. Chuck Norris facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts

> "Chuck Norris actually died 20 years ago, but Death hasn't built up the courage to tell him yet." Death finally worked up the nerve.

"The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book" (2009) https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Official+Chuck+Norris+Fa... re: Official Chuck Norris Facts #1 - #101 w/ scripture:

> #1: "Chuck Norris was bitten by a cobra, and after five days of excruciating pain ... the cobra died."

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Post by pingou »

PoignardAzur wrote: post #139
petcat wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> would he be remembered anywhere as well? You underestimate how popular Walker, Texas Ranger was. It wasn't pulling ratings like Seinfeld, ER, or Friends, but it was a solid primetime staple for almost a decade. I never watched it myself, but the 50+ demo loved it.

Maybe for people in the US. Internationally? I haven't watched a single episode of WTR, I don't know anyone who has, but everyone knows who Chuck Norris was.

It was quite popular in France.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

amjnsx wrote: post #102
simpaticoder wrote: post #76

Chuck Norris (and Michael Landon) were golden age role models for young men. Strong but thoughtful, firm but compassionate, and deeply principled but also practical. Yes, these were acting roles but they picked those roles for a reason. Rest in peace, Chuck.

He was openly maga and a homophobe and a transphobe. I wouldn’t consider these qualities for a role model.

I think you forget that Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act and put in the policy of “Don’t ask don’t tell” and Obama supported it originally.

Of course they both had a change of heart- was it true change or they saw the direction of the political winds? Who knows?

I don’t know Chuck Norris’s views on LGBT. But if he was a self proclaimed “born again Christian” and a rabid Trump supporter, I can only guess. But I no more expect people who were insulted by what he said (which I personally don’t know) to give him more grace or reverence than I do is a Black man who couldn’t give two shits about a dead racist podcaster.

Other people no more need to “contextualize” homophobia than I feel a need to “contextualize” the racism of a dead podcaster.

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Post by kakacik »

MBCook wrote: post #91
petcat wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> would he be remembered anywhere as well? You underestimate how popular Walker, Texas Ranger was. It wasn't pulling ratings like Seinfeld, ER, or Friends, but it was a solid primetime staple for almost a decade. I never watched it myself, but the 50+ demo loved it.

And he would be known by those people. I remember him being famous in the 90s. Would the people who grew up in the early 2000s, or especially 2010s, know much of anything about him? I mean how much do younger people know about Scott Baio or the Corys or Candice Bergen these days?

The dude was a badass, 6 time undefeated karate world champion (!!!), created his own variant of karate mixed with korean martial arts, was a good friend with Bruce Lee and that scene in Colloseum - probably the coolest thing I saw as a kid growing up behind iron curtain... not many actors can have such a resume on top of their acting career.

Those who cared would/will know him regardless. But obviously those people would be relatively few and far apart.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

jayGlow wrote: post #121
LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #95

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it's possible to disagree with someone politically and still acknowledge their positive aspects.

Sorry you don’t get to say “Well this person doesn’t think I have the right to exist and be respected as a person. But I’m sure glad he saved a puppy once.”

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Post by myvoiceismypass »

lich_king wrote: post #47
bovermyer wrote: post #17

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He had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud about, especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife at one point. However, so as not to speak (purely) ill of the dead, I will say that he was an accomplished martial artist with a prolific film career.

> He had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud about, especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife at one point. In 1961, in his early 20s. You get ~80 years on this planet to make mistakes and have views that some other people will dislike. If these are the worst things we can accuse him of, while acknowledging all his charitable work, I'd say he fared OK compared to many other role models we have…

The Obama Birtherism nonsense was certainly not in this dude's 20s

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Post by huhkerrf »

titzer wrote: post #134
RIMR wrote: post #48

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> Or was it when he said that a Black president would bring "1000 years of darkness"? I looked this one up. It's true. He's been going out of his way to be a political firebrand and claiming milquetoast Democrats are Satan for decades. It wasn't some offhand comment when cornered on stage. He's pushed white christian nationalism hard for quite some time. Sad, because it was so unnecessary, divisive, and crazy --a bla…

But it's not true the way GP phrased it. Norris did not say if a black man was elected then there would be 1000 years of darkness, he said it about a specific man who happens to be black. It's silly, but unless you're claiming that black politicians get special exemptions, his race is immaterial to this quote.

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Post by pcardoso »

lschueller wrote: post #115

Wouldn't be suprised, if he dies back and announces a film for next year. He made it that far in life, that even if you might disagree with him on all and everything, you would still like him.

Just like Val Kilmer?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/18/val-kilmer-resu...

RIP both...

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Post by flagos10 »

PoignardAzur wrote: post #139
petcat wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> would he be remembered anywhere as well? You underestimate how popular Walker, Texas Ranger was. It wasn't pulling ratings like Seinfeld, ER, or Friends, but it was a solid primetime staple for almost a decade. I never watched it myself, but the 50+ demo loved it.

Maybe for people in the US. Internationally? I haven't watched a single episode of WTR, I don't know anyone who has, but everyone knows who Chuck Norris was.

In France, it was popular enough that everybody knew Texas ranger before the Chuck Norris jokes.
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