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It was a very lame joke with a ridiculously dated punchline. The best way to handle it would have been for Will & Jada to have either a look of disgust or stoic boredom on their faces when the camera cut to them and let the joke land with the thud it deserved. Will can be mad, indignant, supportive…whatever he likes. What he can’t do is walk up onto the stage and smack someone. We are supposed to have learned the whole sticks and stones thing because otherwise each of us gets to judge the level of insult and mete out our own appropriate level of violence.

I posted a video of Will Smith making the same bad taste joke by body shaming someone for the same medical condition on page one of this thread. Should the guy have walked across the stage and smacked Will? Obviously we all agree he should not so it seems we are making a victim out of Jada. A women who is strong enough to talk about her condition on TikTok just days before the Oscars and say “I don’t give two craps what people think of this bald head of mine.Because guess what? I love it!” What Will did only undermined her statement of confidence and made it look like she should be pitied and needed to be protected by a man. She looks beautiful with or without hair and could have made Chris Rock look like the smaller man when asked for a response to the joke later. IMO Will stole that from her and upstaged her. Also leads to two other thoughts. - People would have had to wait hours in line to slap Don Rickles. - Who the hell would want to be on a roast for Will Smith? EDIT: 3 thoughts. - Do we really care about the Oscars anymore?

Will doesn’t think it’s right to make jokes about people with alopecia?

Do the Oscars count as World events? In any case I can’t find a thread for this so here it is. It may be deleted soon. NSFW for language

Many years ago we were in the early years of our first mortgage and interest rates were soaring. The job market was poor and my wife was transitioning to a job that she loved but was low pay for entry level. We spent a few years living very frugally from paycheque to paycheque and spent a lot of time worrying about our future. Eventually times got better and those hard years were left behind. Fast forward to a couple years ago when we turned sixty and retired early. First year of retirement was fantastic with lots of travel but the second everything came screeching to a halt with Covid. I went through a brief “woe is me” period of poor sleep and considerable reflection on the the good old days. I finally snapped out of it when I realized that when I was young I spent too much time worrying about the future and now too much time pining for my youth. I’m very happy and content now and, as you say try to enjoy each day for what it brings. Not to be overly melodramatic but I like to think of it like Tom Hanks in Castaway when he says “I knew then what I had to do. I had had to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise and who knows what the tide will bring in.” Sounds trite when I read it but still…

The numbers speak for themselves.

RIP Taylor Hawkins.

Zuc upset with the call. “WTF dude can’t you see I’m wearing green?”

Wow such a well thought out assessment! Oh wait, it’s Christine Anderson, one of the go-to people for right wing quotes for Ezra Levant and his rag. More anti-science and ‘my freedumb’ rantings. Yawn.

Trouble in paradise?

In my bracket I have Gandalf moving on after a tough victory over Moses.

Any player (or multiple players) that supposedly felt strongly enough to “reach out” to FS ought to be men enough to stand behind their quotes. Otherwise keep your mouths shut, and save it for your memoirs.

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From the wayback machine, with a little Stevie Nicks for good measure.

For me it’s not so much the extra $750-$1M for him but that takes that amount off the table for signing JT and others. The new group already has inherited some limitations and I’m glad they didn’t add to them. I’ll miss Motte and his motor but sometimes you have to find a way to make the best hand out of what you’re dealt. The marketplace will decide Motte’s value and who knows, maybe we sign him again.

They suggested on 650 today that Allvin wanted to re-sign Motte with a number that started with a 1 but his agent wouldn’t bite. So anyone that wanted the team to sign him for $2+M can complain if they like. Everyone who thinks that’s too high for the 4th line should be glad they got something for him. Today we moved the only UFA that mattered, we have a tiny bit more cap flexibility with the change from Hamonic to the kid with the cornrows, and we have the off-season to make actual hockey trades. No one even close to the calibre of JT moved today nor did any stud RHD. All in all I rated today a 5 for minor improvements and no costly mistakes. For me the jury is still out on the new management group until we see what the summer brings.

On a minimum contract expiring after this year picked up for free? No reason to get excited about this move either way. Good for Brad.