OJ Simpson dead at 76

[muppy]

if any good can come from this thread and death it is to encourage men to get their prostate checkups as recommended by your Dr.

 

As far as cancers go I am told this one is very treatable if caught early.  

 

**** Cancer

[Warcodered]

9 minutes ago, muppy said:

if any good can come from this thread and death it is to encourage men to get their prostate checkups as recommended by your Dr.

 

As far as cancers go I am told this one is very treatable if caught early.  

 

**** Cancer

But how was OJ to ever expect his own body to kill him, he's the last person anyone would ever suspect.....

[BuffaloBill]

He provided memories at both ends of the fame spectrum … outstanding football player at one end and a sad broken human being at the other.

[buffaloaggie]

2 hours ago, Sweats said:

Think of him what you will, but the legal system found him innocent. That's not to say the legal system is not broken, however, he was judged by a jury of his peers and was found not guilty......i, however, think he's guilty as hell, but i was not on the jury panel, i only heard what the media expressed for the trial and did not have to make the decision of innocent or guilty. 

 

Now, OJ may have been found innocent in the eyes of the law, but he was definitely found guilty in public opinion. 

Then, there was the Civil suit. Families did not collect much. It will now become a hot topic for them again.

[Bill from NYC]

1 hour ago, muppy said:

if any good can come from this thread and death it is to encourage men to get their prostate checkups as recommended by your Dr.

 

As far as cancers go I am told this one is very treatable if caught early.  

 

**** Cancer

This is great advice. As horrible as it is to get sodomized by the urologist, it can save your life. 

 

On my last visit I asked the urologist if we were dating.  

[Gregg]

 

[nucci]

1 hour ago, Bill from NYC said:

This is great advice. As horrible as it is to get sodomized by the urologist, it can save your life. 

 

On my last visit I asked the urologist if we were dating.  

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

9 minutes ago, Gregg said:

 

That was a nice left/one handed catch by Joe Namath during warm-ups!!!

1 hour ago, Bill from NYC said:

This is great advice. As horrible as it is to get sodomized by the urologist, it can save your life. 

 

On my last visit I asked the urologist if we were dating.  

😆 

 

My father @ the VA turned around and asked the doctor if he should kiss him. They threatened to send him to the psych ward.  😆... Ah the good ole days! Try that humor today and one may take you up on the offer! 

[WotAGuy]

 

[Dr. K]

 

https://defector.com/o-j-simpson-was-always-more-than-polarizing

 

 

 

By Ray Ratto

 

. . . . That's where Simpson lives in America's head, as the obviously guilty man who was acquitted, the celebrity of celebrities whose lawyers made names for themselves by dismantling the Los Angeles police and legal establishment. He blew our own views of the legal system to smithereens and reminded any Americans who thought otherwise that race remains the foundation upon which all other things in this country are laid.

 

And then, because that wasn't sufficient, he capitalized on all of it for the final decades of his life, the embodiment of bulletproof celebrity, police incompetence and/or racism, a finger in the country's eye and a punchline all at once. We shed him of his surname so that he could become just plain O.J., The Guy Who Got Away With It.

 

He is among the most influential Americans of the last 75 years (we aren't getting into a quibble over Franklin Roosevelt or Steve Jobs) because of all of it. The football star with the warming smile and the electric running style who transformed into a game analyst and then a comedic movie star, and then in one night the avatar for all the unattended sins in our nation's subconscious.

 

Mostly, he laughed at us for our anger, and wore the overcoat of celebrity villainy with the same seeming ease that he had the cloak of national hero. He became the mirror for our sublimated cultural and political pathologies, and even if we didn't reference him in everyday conversations like we once did, he'd still pop up on this podcast or that from time to time to remind us who he was and what happened. He all but said why in a book entitled If I Did It, and owned the entire bizarre whirlwind of his work as though the new goal of his life was to agitate the nation. At that point nothing could come as a surprise, including spending nine years in prison after being convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas over sports memorabilia he claimed was his own.

 

He even framed how we go about handling celebrities' passages through the spotlight. Now no one exists as an unqualified hero in the way O.J. did before the trial, no matter how hard their handlers try. O.J. taught us things about ourselves we didn't want to know and yet now embrace because we can't pretend any longer. This is O.J. Simpson's legacy as the Most Outsized American Ever, whether we are willing to own it or not.

 

[major]

12 hours ago, Dr. K said:

 

https://defector.com/o-j-simpson-was-always-more-than-polarizing

 

 

 

By Ray Ratto

 

. . . . That's where Simpson lives in America's head, as the obviously guilty man who was acquitted, the celebrity of celebrities whose lawyers made names for themselves by dismantling the Los Angeles police and legal establishment. He blew our own views of the legal system to smithereens and reminded any Americans who thought otherwise that race remains the foundation upon which all other things in this country are laid.

 

And then, because that wasn't sufficient, he capitalized on all of it for the final decades of his life, the embodiment of bulletproof celebrity, police incompetence and/or racism, a finger in the country's eye and a punchline all at once. We shed him of his surname so that he could become just plain O.J., The Guy Who Got Away With It.

 

He is among the most influential Americans of the last 75 years (we aren't getting into a quibble over Franklin Roosevelt or Steve Jobs) because of all of it. The football star with the warming smile and the electric running style who transformed into a game analyst and then a comedic movie star, and then in one night the avatar for all the unattended sins in our nation's subconscious.

 

Mostly, he laughed at us for our anger, and wore the overcoat of celebrity villainy with the same seeming ease that he had the cloak of national hero. He became the mirror for our sublimated cultural and political pathologies, and even if we didn't reference him in everyday conversations like we once did, he'd still pop up on this podcast or that from time to time to remind us who he was and what happened. He all but said why in a book entitled If I Did It, and owned the entire bizarre whirlwind of his work as though the new goal of his life was to agitate the nation. At that point nothing could come as a surprise, including spending nine years in prison after being convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas over sports memorabilia he claimed was his own.

 

He even framed how we go about handling celebrities' passages through the spotlight. Now no one exists as an unqualified hero in the way O.J. did before the trial, no matter how hard their handlers try. O.J. taught us things about ourselves we didn't want to know and yet now embrace because we can't pretend any longer. This is O.J. Simpson's legacy as the Most Outsized American Ever, whether we are willing to own it or not.

 

 

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

Just a thought. What if OJ walked into an Andy Dufrasne situation? 😏 

 

 

How would they have ever defended that. Wouldn't it be easier to win his defense on the sloppy and racist cop work? 

 

 

 

Of course he still guilty in civil...

[WEATHER DOT COM]

Good - hope he rots in hell 

[ExiledInIllinois]

 

"Look... I was going to kill her, but I got the yips and stumbled into Nicole and Ron getting tuned-up by random.  You gotta believe me!"

 

😏 

 

So much vice signaling in this thread.  😆🤣 

[Jauronimo]

This surprised me. I thought he looked great for is age in all of his latest twitter videos.  He looked healthy enough to murder a cabana boy.  Cancer is cruel.

[ColoradoBills]

Being a one-time football great doesn't give him a pass with me.  I've washed my hands of him years ago.

 

People can think what they want.

[Mr. WEO]

On 4/11/2024 at 8:49 AM, boyst said:

Unlike criminal juries, which can find a defendant guilty only if the evidence is “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the standard for civil juries is a “preponderance of the evidence” – meaning that it is more likely than not that the plaintiff's claims have been proven to be true.

 

from like the gov, 'n stuff.

you got that one right yes.  
 

 

now look up “jury nullification”

 

get back to us

 

 

[boyst]

24 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:

you got that one right yes.  
 

 

now look up “jury nullification”

 

get back to us

 

 

So that's like double secret probation? Something that didn't happen? He was found not guilty, I didn't know there had to be stipulations on that.... But then again I haven't read the Bill of Rights in a long time nor the Constitution and what it limits the government to do ... Oh well have a great weekend

[US Egg]

O.J. tipped me $20 for serving him two drinks at a restaurant/nightclub I worked at in the late ‘70’s.

 

Seemed like a lot of money then.

[ControllerOfPlanetX]

7 hours ago, Bill from NYC said:

This is great advice. As horrible as it is to get sodomized by the urologist, it can save your life. 

 

On my last visit I asked the urologist if we were dating.