Spyke
cecilkorikreply
lemmy.ca

And RIP Malcolm-Jamal Warner too. Been a rough week that we've lost three loved entertainers.

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AbidanYrereply
lemmy.world

At least he was old. Malcolm should have had a couple more decades.

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Well, I don’t know if he had the mental capacity to keep up with the goings-on in the world. He is very much known to be off his rocker from all the drugs.

“Ozzy is so confused by it all and just keeps asking me to explain why there is so much hatred of Jews,” Sharon said in an interview with Jewish News in 2023. “What do I say?”

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rabberreply
lemmy.ca

Dude fuck off. Ozzy loved everyone

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Horseyreply
lemmy.world

Wasn’t Ozzy a royalist? I know Sharon was.

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Followed him my entire life and I think he always tried to do the right thing but brain was fried

Sharon sucks

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In England and Wales, the leading cause of death in 2022 was dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to the Office for National Statistics. Specifically, they accounted for 65,967 deaths, or 11.5% of all deaths registered that year. This is a change from the previous years when COVID-19 was the leading cause of death. 

So fried brains?

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Horseyreply
lemmy.world

lol comparing Christmas to royalism. Christmas has completely detached from Christianity at this point. Being a royalist means you are okay with funneling money to people based on heredity rather than merit. Also, Christmas doesn't affect society in such a way that it costs anyone money that doesn't celebrate it.

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yeah but you missed the crucial part of the statement:

Christmas doesn’t affect society in such a way that it costs anyone money that doesn’t celebrate it

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lemmy.zip

Good.

He was a notoriously evil racist, was alleged to have commit almost ric flair levels of sexual assault over the years, and has an argument for singlehandedly killing the unionization of pro wrestling and leading to the modern "independent contractor" mess.

Might have go go chug some gatorade and visit his grave.

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Jo Miranreply
lemmy.ml

Might have go go chug some gatorade and visit his grave.

The high levels of sodium will make you retain the water. I suggest drinking lots of water, then chugging some coconut water and/or coffee. Let your feelings flow.

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dhorkreply
lemmy.world

He did get Gawker Media shut down, which should be a plus. But he used Peter Thiel's money to do it, which muddies the waters a bit....

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leminal.space

“Hard cases make bad laws”

Whatever one thinks of Gawker, its demise is a footnote next to the precedent it set in muzzling investigative journalism that discomfits the powerful.

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dhorkreply
lemmy.world

Haha, "investigative journalism that discomfits the powerful" doesn't include publishing a sex tape that was taken without a person's knowledge. Gawker got what was coming to it.

Here's a thought experiment: if it was Chyna who was secretly recorded having sex and had that published in 2012, would you be so dismissive of it?

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Optionalreply
lemmy.world

Gawker got shutdown because they called Peter Theil gay. The rest is just window-dressing.

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dhorkreply
lemmy.world

No, Gawker got shut down because they were awful people with no ethics, and eventually went too far. Peter Thiel funded the lawsuit to shut them down because they said he was gay. No side is the good side here.

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lemmy.zip

I don't remember if they published the ACTUAL sex tape and I assume I would have intentionally refused to look then like I do now.

Posting non-consensual media of sexual activity is wrong, full stop.

Posting the AUDIO of that? yeah, if Joanie were dropping n-bombs and being hateful I would be all for a tabloid rag to ruin her (already pretty ruined by WWE and Paul "HH Helmsely" Levesque) life over that.

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To quote the almighty dril:

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them.'

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60d
lemmy.ca

The craziest thing about HH is that Donald John Trump is in the Epstein files.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

You know you're in the right communities when Hulk Hogan dies and everyone says "fuck that guy".

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Cocopandareply
lemmy.world

Don’t forget. Fuck his son too. Piss doesn’t fall far from the urinal.

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Have you never actually been in a public bathroom?

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lemmy.today

on reddit too, they are going to town on him. only the right wing grifters are defending him.

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lemmy.world

Too bad you decided to be a shit bag in real life. Not gonna miss this dude one ounce.

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XeroxCoolreply
lemmy.world

I used to say all the same until, likely related, the relatively recent growth of John Cena's film career. We know wrestling is fake. We know Twoicide Squad is fake. That doesn't stop me from talking about the cool things Peacemaker does, so why should I police other people talking about wrestling events? Plus, after seeing live wrestling, it's genuinely entertaining to watch as a sports/dance event. Note: I have zero interest in mma/boxing/etc and really don't watch sports anyway.

People watch plays. People watch concerts. People watch sports. People watch wrestling. It's just entertainment

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lemmy.today

they had to legally do that actually, sports entertainment, so they wouldnt be subject to heavy regulation by a sports authority like with drug testing, its well known most of them are on peds, rock, cena(pretty obvious),,etc

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its well known most of them are on peds

Honestly had no idea, then again, wrestling is no where near my orbit. Even more reason to dislike "Professional" Wrestling.

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XeroxCoolreply
lemmy.world

I'm not talking about what the individuals go on to say from their personal capacities. I'm talking about a reality TV show where men pretend to beat each other up. Or am I out of the loop and wrestlemania is now part of the campaign trail?

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Not saying its the same, or that your wrong. I just couldn't help but think how that's how Fox News can do what it does and is (at least was from what I remember) the highest rated channel in the US because its clearly not the news, it's an entertainment program.

Sorry if my brief comment lead you to believe otherwise.

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lemmy.zip

Born late 90s, and always knew WWE wasn't "real". Did people really belive it was real or was that just some silly joke people used to make fun of the fans?

Like, have they never watched a stage play? It's basically just a televised version of that plus violence.

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It's just another form of theatre, and has been from the beginning. Suspension of disbelief is a part of the fun.

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lemmy.world

Ozzy Osbourne dies

Everyone: Oh, that sucks!

Hulk Hogan dies

Everyone: Oh well. Moving on.

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gonfreply
lemmy.world

It's almost like if you want to be remembered fondly, you have to not be a piece of shit while you're alive.

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I don't really know all too much about ozzy to be honest. His movie was a big part of my life and i saw him live 3 times. From his private life i only known from what i saw in the handful of episodes of his reality show i saw back in the day and some snippets and fun facts.

But it's so funny to me that ozzy osbourne, the king of darkness, the person that uptight americans feared like the anti christ himself turned put to be the nice wholesome guy that people are really bummed out that he died.

Meanwhile, mr. Say your prayers eat your vegetables, truth justice and the american way of life. Loved by every flag wearing brainwashed idiot, turned out to be a massive piece of shit, racist asshole and people just don't care and piss on his grave.

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lemmy.today

I've never been a fan of Ozzy or Black Sabbath, but I can acknowledge that for fans of metal, he was an absolute God. Most long-term musical acts have ups and downs in popularity, but Ozzy became a superstar with their first album, and his INTERNATIONAL popularity never waned one bit to this day. Very impressive service to his fan base.

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Zanathosreply
lemmy.world

My literal thought reading the headline - "Good fucking riddence"!

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Dozzi92reply
lemmy.world

Stupid, but you and the comment below you both spelled it wrong.

Maybe it's a dance, a dance of ridding shitty people. Good riddance!

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So a rain dance brings rain, and a riddance gets rid of things?

...I smell a sequel to Death Note.

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slrpnk.net

The only Hulk I'll mourn is who I thought he was when I was a kid. I already lost that Hulk years ago though.

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I hear ya buddy. I idolised the ground he walked on when I knew nothing about the world except pizza, wrestling and school.

It’s a real world heel turn young me never would have thought possible.

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"Funny how the actors who play villains are often the nicest people in real life—it's the ones who play the heroes you have to watch out for."

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The world lost a legendary entertainer, someone who played an integral part of my childhood and helped develop my taste in the arts.

God bless you, Ozzy Osbourne.

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Racist & *bootlicking Union buster. And dudepunk that spent millions to get his kid off for straight up murder.

Edit: coming back weeks later. Punks are so much cooler than hulk.

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I threw the trash over the ring and started eating garbage. Then I took the trashcan and bashed the guy in front of me

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It's hours til lunchtime here, but I'm meeting an old friend for brunch. I've been having to watch my cholesterol recently, but I've decided that eating out doesn't count - I am very much looking forward to it, sausages, bacon, and eggs will be involved.

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Oh shit, I missed this one. This is so sad. Seems he died trying to keep his daughter afloat after a rip current dragged them out to sea.

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ryan213reply
lemmy.ca

Oh, OK. Nothing of value was lost except for sullied childhood memories.

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Yep, back 35 plus years ago. When we still knew the wrestling was fake but you could pretend that Hogan may have been a decent human being.

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voxthefoxreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Not just a magat, he was truly a piece of shit in his life, he also snitched to prevent a union from forming for professional wrestlers. Cared about no one but himself his entire life.

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ventura tried to help, but half-assed it and ditched the wrestlers once they wernt going to unionize, because he had sag-aftra as a backup if dint fall through, the wrestlers dint have backup plan, so they were scared of vince

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He was at the RNC last year and ripped off his shirt to reveal a MAGA or Trump shirt (I think it was one of those but it was definitely pro Trump even if it wasn't directly MAGA or Trump text). So he was definitely an asshole. Even for more reasons than just being MAGA.

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hOrnireply
lemmy.world

What does MAGA have to do with it? He was an asshole. That's what he was mainly known for. The world is better without him.

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Someone being a MAGAt is a very clear way to tell someone is an absolute shithead. Good people don't subscribe to blind hatred and hurting others they don't like.

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ceenotereply
lemmy.world

It's a valid question, but you could be a bit more subtle

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The only thing I'm thankful for is that his last public appearance is getting Booed to high hell at WWE.

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lemmy.world

Dang everyone hating on him and for good reason, but still a little sad from just how much he was a part of my childhood

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Yeah, Hulk Hogan is a great “never meet your heroes” test case. The dude was a huge part of many kids’ formative years, but was actually a massive piece of shit if anyone ever bothered to dig. But before the internet was widespread, digging wasn’t even really possible; all you had to go off of was the public persona that they presented, and whatever you were able to dig up via library research.

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Yeah, unless you were subscribing to the Wrestling Observer or something, you wouldn't know what kind of a POS Hogan was IRL back in the day. When I first got online and discovered the nascent internet wrestling community back in the day, it was like the scales falling from my eyes.

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You can be sad about the character. Remember Hulk died along time ago when you stopped watching and forgot all about wrestling.

Now you're seeing what you once knew and sad that it's officially gone. It's OK to be sad about that memory and character perishing.

It's also OK to say good riddance to a piece of shit human that was this fuck.

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he was shit-head since the gawker incident, and then wwe erased him from the annuls of wwe history him for like a few years, because of his racist incident. they shouldve kept him erased. thats probably the best gift wwe has down, lol. considering he also helped VINCE union bust too.

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lemmy.world

Cardiac Arrest

Turns out all those times he was ripping his shirt off, it was just because of chest pains.

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Most people with heart problems have too big of a heart. Cardiac hypertrophy and dilated cardiomyopathy (too much overgrown muscle and stretched out floppy muscle, respectively) are common end points of poorly managed hypertension (high blood pressure).

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lemmy.world

The iron sheik is getting ready to travel to hell to put that son of a bitch hulk hogan in one more camel clutch.

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That’s what happens if you use your money on MAGA instead of a defibrillator.

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lemmy.world

I wanna say Macho Man Randy Savage would have something poignant to say, but I don't know what it'd be.

15

Oooooh yeah brudda! I don't even have to talk shit over your corpse, cause the Internet roasted you hotter than a old Christmas tree some old people put into their wood stove!

PSA; never put any pine in your wood stove!

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Hulkmania is dead brother, you're dead brother, now you'll finally shutup and we can forget about you brother. Hurray!

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With Ozzy, Malcom Jamal Warner, Julian Lefay, and now Hogan, somebody's teenage years got seriously destroyed this month

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lemmy.ml

12 year old me is having a rough week. Adult me is only upset about Ozzy.

15

Absolutely the same here.. I realise this dude was a waste of oxygen and that the world is better off now.. but the 12-year old me definitely has a special connection with him

8

One less racist on the earth. He did help make wrestling mainstream outside of that. He is a piece of trash. RIP Bozo.

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lemmy.world

Shame he's gonna get lumped in with the other amazing celebrities we lost this week. Even in death, he can't support solidarity and has to shit on other people's hard work.

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That's exactly what I thought when I read the news. He died just to try and steal attention from Ozzy, who actually deserved the attention.

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If anyone saw his last public appearance on wwe, the guy got booed out of the building. The wrestling fans turned on him, zapping away his powers of hulkamania. Sadly it was the only thing keeping him alive.

On a side note, Jesse Ventura must be laughing his ass off right now

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lemmy.zip

Malcom Jamal Warner was a brilliant soul trying to enlighten the world and create a more understanding discourse.

Ozzy Osbourne was a cultural icon whose loss will reverberate through generations. He has left an indelible mark on music, television, and the world.

Hulk Hogan was once a pretty popular WWF (yes back then) wrestler.

One of these is not like the others.

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One of these is not like the others

Wow that’s racist, you sound just like Hulk Hogan

/s

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Hey lets remember Macho Man Savage had his good points. Hulk did not.

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Rest in peace to the cultural face of WWE but not to the person behind it

7

I know they didn't try cpr because he would have kicked out.

They put him on life support and he said 'that don't work for me, brother'

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lemmy.world

Cardiac arrest just means your heart stopped beating, which is pretty much the textbook definition of death.

That's basically like saying they're dead because they died.

The interesting thing we want to know is what caused the cardiac arrest. Any time you see "cardiac arrest" in an article, it means that they either don't know or don't want to say the cause of death.

A heart attack can cause cardiac arrest, so could an overdose, or falling and hitting your head, or getting shot in the face.

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That, or numerous other health problems, his body was pretty much wrecked from years of wrestling and such even without the steroids, he's had drug and alcohol issues, and the dude was in his 70s, it's not exactly unheard of for even relatively healthy people his age to just kind of keel over.

I don't think there's anything particularly interesting to his death, he was an unhealthy old guy, it's not in the least bit surprising that he died. But "cardiac arrest" in articles is a personal pet peeve of mine. It says absolutely nothing about the cause of death, and people who don't understand what it means tend to automatically think "oh, he had a heart attack" when that's often not the case. It tells you basically nothing that a headline of something like "Joe Schmo, famous taxidermist, dead at 69" hasn't already told you, and can be kind of misleading.

I work in 911 dispatch, the codes and policies and such used by different agencies will vary from one agency to another, I've entered calls for a "cardiac arrest" for countless different causes

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I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Cardiac Arrest is just your heart stopped beating. Generally something else causes that. It's silly but I always find it frustrating when they say that too.

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lemmy.today

most likely a Heart attack, given his age, and roid use. and cardiac arrest, mos tpeople assume its a heart attack, which is the most common cause of it.

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If you don't mind getting into the weeds here a bit

A "heart attack" is normally understood to be a myocardial infarction, where blood flow in the coronary arteries is blocked leading to damage to the heart muscle.

And the most common cause of cardiac arrest is arrhythmia, and most specifically ventricular fibrilation (v-fib)

Now that damage to the heart from a heart attack can and frequently does cause v-fib and other arrhythmias, which can lead to a cardiac arrest, either relatively immediately, or further down the line from that heart attack.

But there's a whole host of other conditions, risk factors, and just plain bad luck that can also cause them.

Picking apart what percent of those arrhythmias are attributable to a heart attack vs those that were caused by other issues isn't something that I'm willing and maybe not even able to do as a layperson, so I won't begin to speculate on that.

But that's kind of the root of my issue here. A lot of people just kind of casually lump all sorts of heart issues together into the same basket. We all have hearts beating away in our chests, and they're pretty damn important if you want to go on living, so it's best if we all have some decent level of understanding of what these terms mean and how to treat, manage, recognize, and avoid these issues, and I think that just kind of casually throwing terms around like heart attack, heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, etc. like they're interchangeable does a lot of harm to people being able to properly understand what's going on with this weird pumpy muscle thing in our chests.

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He didn’t get him elected, that’s dumb, he just endorsed him. He didn’t win him any votes, if you were dumb enough to be swayed by a nazi then you were already voting trump.

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To all the down votes… it is a joke. But I knew it would ruffle some feathers.

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