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Re: Chuck Norris has died

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Post by latexr »

karel-3d wrote: post #415
kelnos wrote: post #401

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Assuming this sort of phenomenon extends further than France, this quite well explains many of the misconceptions Europeans have about the US. Thinking WTR, Dallas, or TDoH are representative of American culture is... hilarious. But I guess shows that hit the big American cultural stereotypes hard are maybe the ones that do better abroad?

From my memory from the 90s: Baywatch, X-Files, that speaking car one, Beverly Hills 90210, Ninja Turtles. Some dumb sitcom named Step by Step? edit: oh and ALF Oh and Married with Children, but it was always very late night and I was not allowed to watch it. And our teacher always played us ET on VHS. (and that dog playing basketball.) that's america for me when I was a kid

> that speaking car one

Knight Rider.

> that dog playing basketball

Air Bud.

Re: Chuck Norris has died

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Post by latexr »

kelnos wrote: post #401
pafje wrote: post #369

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As others have said, WTR is very well-known in France while most people have never heard of Seinfeld. Same with Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard.

Assuming this sort of phenomenon extends further than France, this quite well explains many of the misconceptions Europeans have about the US. Thinking WTR, Dallas, or TDoH are representative of American culture is... hilarious. But I guess shows that hit the big American cultural stereotypes hard are maybe the ones that do better abroad?

> Thinking WTR, Dallas, or TDoH are representative of American culture is... hilarious.

I’m not aware of a single person who thinks that, and neither was that the claim of your parent comment.

People understand TV shows are fiction.

Re: Chuck Norris has died

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Post by toyg »

ryandrake wrote: post #186
phishin wrote: post #168

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Imagine basing your entire opinion on a man about how they feel about that other man.

Imagine having a lot of people you once admired and looked up to as role models, from actors all the way to even your parents, suddenly all within a decade or so take their masks off and reveal that they are actually villains.

"Never meet your heroes."

This goes double when your heroes are actors, i.e. people who lie for a living.

Re: Chuck Norris has died

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Post by fzeroracer »

krapp wrote: post #460
simpaticoder wrote: post #459

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I am not a scholar in general, or of Chuck Norris specifically. I only have the impressions I have from the pop culture I've consumed. Like most people. And for us, Norris represents something wholesome. For others, those who've read something, or know more, or think they know more, that symbol, that myth, has been ruined. The illusion pierced, the ugly reality revealed. They then look with pity, disdain and contempt…

That's a lot of words to say "I prefer to ignore the evil that men do if I find them entertaining enough, and I think it's silly that anyone does otherwise." The Chuck Norris you admire is a figment of your imagination. He was a product created by capitalism. He never actually fought Bruce Lee. He was never really a Texas Ranger. He was never in the real Delta Force. Putting him on the same cultural level as actual l…

Reading this thread has definitely sheared off a few of my brain cells seeing people so collectively deluded about Chuck Norris. As you said he was a totality of capitalism, a product wrapped in human skin. He's only truly notable for the jokes people made (myself included) at the dawn of the early internet. As a person, what he actually accomplished is nothing at best and at worst actively damaging to multiple groups that didn't deserve the heat.

The only good thing out of this mess is that the universe felt cosmically aligned to have his death occur on the same day as Mr. Rogers birthday, someone who genuinely did fight for a better world.

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Post by mmmuhd »

flagos10 wrote: post #150
PoignardAzur wrote: post #139

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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.

We used to watch lot's of chuck Norris films back then here in Nigeria, I can't even remember the titles, but all we knew was chuck Norris alone can defeat a whole country's army. We used to think one American soldier can defeat a whole army.

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Post by leephillips »

spencerflem wrote: post #105
MBCook wrote: post #91

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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?

Haha haven’t heard of either of those but I do know that when Chuck Norris does pushups he pushes the Earth down

We all do. That’s the only way you can do a pushup.

It would be more impressive to say that when Chuck Norris does pushups, he violates conservation of momentum and the Earth does not move.

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Post by multidude »

willio58 wrote: post #31

There was a period of like 2 years when I was a kid where chuck Norris jokes were all the rage on the playground and I made an iPhone app that listed them all. Jokes like “Chuck Norris is able to slam a revolving door.” Anyway, I “built” this stupid app when I was like 13, copy-pasted like 300 jokes in there and a random one would show every time you tapped the screen. Chuck Norris’s estate blocked the app from going…

Chuck Norris did not die. He was just sick of death being too afraid to come for him, so he went to meet it. I just wonder... what if he killed it?

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Post by Goofy_Coyote »

domador wrote: post #188
Goofy_Coyote wrote: post #126

Chuck Norris once slapped Pi so hard it became rational for a moment. RIP dude, we’d continue the jokes, may your soul laughs as hard as we do. Chuck Norris once bet 42 is a prime. He won.

Sorry, but these Chuck Norris jokes are more like Bruce Schneier facts: https://www.schneierfacts.com/

Oh! I didn't know that was a thing! hahaha love it!

Re: Chuck Norris has died

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Post by angoragoats »

AlexeyBelov wrote: post #467
angoragoats wrote: post #161

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For a simple political disagreement? Absolutely; I completely agree. But to believe that a certain class of people shouldn’t exist is not a run of the mill political belief, and treating it that way normalizes the behavior and contributes to the problem.

Not sure why you're downvoted. The disagreement was not on tax policy or where to build what. I don't understand why both this and "some people shouldn't exist" are both labeled with the same word "political".

Thanks, but I’m used to being downvoted and flagged for speaking truthfully about fascism on this site.

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Post by angoragoats »

crims0n wrote: post #179
LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #174

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Suddenly I'm reminded of the decent (grown) people who yelled in six year-old Ruby Bridges' face when she was merely attending elementary school. So if that was 1960, I'm just wondering when those good ol' days you're referring to where.

It is an expression, you needn’t interpret it literally.

What, exactly, was the expression in your post that was not meant to be interpreted literally?
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