I met him several times in the Fresh Prince era (The Tip Sheet was heavily involved in turning BOOM into a global smash). He is incredibly nice, has massive charisma and remembers everybody's name and details. One time we walked around the CBS offices and he stopped to talk to everybody by name including one telephone girl who he asked after her kids BY NAME! I always said he'd be the first US black President. Lovely guy; I forgive him anything.

And the stupid always come up with platitudes - "I can never condone violence". Tell that to Ukraine.

He was asking for it.

They said he still felt able to rap at the party afterwards, so absolutely nothing positive at all came from this.

Smith was the aggressor

Ukraine was not

Ah thanks for explaining Barney; so violence is OK in defence. So pleased to have it explained. Could you explain it to those who say "I can never condone violence"? Thank you.

Mario wrote:
Smith was the aggressor

Ukraine was not

Rock was the aggressor. Aggression comes in many forms (including feeble jokes) not just a slap.

And stupid Barney misses the point; if he "doesn't condone violence" it means he doesn't condone Ukraine killing thousands of Russians. If he means "except in defence" he and the other stupids should say so instead of doing the 21st Century thing of simplifying statements and thought so they become not only meaningless but wrong.

...And VAR have invited the referee to come over to the monitor and assess the incident for himself...This doesn't look good for Smith...The ref's taking his time...So now he's seen it...And what's he given?...Oh my word, he's given a yellow card to Chris Rock for simulation and the boy Smith gets off with a warning! I have to say that's quite extraordinary!

Internet never forgets, people still have archives of home recordings on VHS in their attics espeically in the USA and Youtube is easy to upload to.

Ouch!

I've seen both Will Smith and Chris Rock at premiers.

Rock is minute maybe 5'6/7"..(although I notice he's got a bit plump) and Smith easily be 6.1".

This will do wonders for Cris Rock's career..publicity to die for

Green Man wrote:


Internet never forgets, people still have archives of home recordings on VHS in their attics espeically in the USA and Youtube is easy to upload to.

Ouch!

I'm never sure what this kind of thing is supposed to 'prove'. That many of us learn as we grow? That if we become more understanding, more aware, less sexist, less homophobic, less insensitive, the fact that our younger, less enlighted selves thought and said something contrary to our current position vitiates that position? Why not 'shame' a mathematics professor with evidence he or she couldn't do 'sums' at six? It's like when a footballer gets popular and some hack finds a dodgy tweet from when they were 13. So what?

Aren't we supposed to get wiser?