SNL roasts Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

As usual, the SNL sketch was on target! I think that the Will Smith many of us thought that we knew and the Will Smith that we saw at the awards were shockingly different people. There’s no walking back from what happened, and despite his apologies Smith’s career will likely be affected, and deserves to be…
 
This Will Smith guy sure has become a media darling. He is all over the media. It doesn't matter if watching the news in Canada, the USA or UK, it's Will Smith over and over and over. He is probably all over Australia and New Zealand. He must be truly a wonderful man because everyone seems to be in love with him; except me!

I think the big issues are the war in Ukraine, the increasing interest rates, the inflation, greenhouse gas, increasing gas prices, etc. For some reason Will Smith doesn't "turn me on." Apparently millions of people are crazy about and want to know what he is doing. Me, I couldn't care less about what this Will Smith guy is up to or doing right now. It's a funny world and it's funny what people do and what people watch!
 

I tutored a 15 year old kid who had already been convicted of manslaughter. He had a fistfight on a metal staircase. Connected with a punch. The other kid's head landed square on the metal edge of the stairs. One punch homicide. Kid's life had been on track to be a physician like his mom. That all ended with that one punch.

One of the many reasons that violence is a bad answer is that the public generally does not realize how easily violence can wind up in permanent injury or death.

Our friend Billy, died a year out of high school. Brain aneurysm. He had a bar fight. Got hit in the head. Did some brain damage. A year later a vessel burst...that was it and he died.

Public watches too much TV and movie violence. Gives them a distorted idea of the level of danger that violence can present. Life is not a cartoon. Bodies are fragile. Amount of force it takes to crack a skull, cause a concussion...much less than people might imagine.

Now a slap? No, a slap is not going to cause physical harm. But...then there is the counter. Or someone gets really upset and hires a goon to...and then the slap isn't a mild thing.
 
@JonSR77, you’re absolutely right about the damage one blow can do. A young relative with wife and kids was sucker punched by an athlete. He had severe brain damage and his life was destroyed. The puncher’s daddy got him off with probation. Two months later he was out partying. No one reported him.
 
JonSR77 said:
I tutored a 15 year old kid who had already been convicted of manslaughter. He had a fistfight on a metal staircase. Connected with a punch. The other kid's head landed square on the metal edge of the stairs. One punch homicide. Kid's life had been on track to be a physician like his mom. That all ended with that one punch.

One of the many reasons that violence is a bad answer is that the public generally does not realize how easily violence can wind up in permanent injury or death.

Our friend Billy, died a year out of high school. Brain aneurysm. He had a bar fight. Got hit in the head. Did some brain damage. A year later a vessel burst...that was it and he died.

Public watches too much TV and movie violence. Gives them a distorted idea of the level of danger that violence can present. Life is not a cartoon. Bodies are fragile. Amount of force it takes to crack a skull, cause a concussion...much less than people might imagine.

Now a slap? No, a slap is not going to cause physical harm. But...then there is the counter. Or someone gets really upset and hires a goon to...and then the slap isn't a mild thing.
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Right on; I couldn't put it better myself: "Public watches too much TV and movie violence"

Many people lost their sense of the real world and lost their sense of common sense (if they ever had it in the first place?)
 

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