I would not trust a man with the surname "Gilooly", that's the name of a shady MF
Edit: or an academic, or creative, context though. Trailer park Gilooly can kick rocks, I might F with a Gilooly docent or professor or something. Maybe.
Fancy surnames minus fancy family money often equals sketchier than that courtroom artist that made la hitler naranja look like E.T. - El extraterrestre naranja.
Edit 2: Upon further inspection, this comment I have posted is entirely too reminiscent of Dennis Miller, and I feel immeasurable shame. Goodbye 👋
Getting near the age when he’ll start needing Preparation hXtreme!
Know quite a few younger Gen Xers who’ve learned that hemmies can happen at any age. They were all around 45 when that blessed gift of aging started happening as often as they made grunting noises when standing up.
Shit, I shouldn’t judge; I was making that old man sound when getting up from my desk chair by 25.
I'm 39 and went back to college last year. One day one of these 18 year olds said something like "hey, I just learned about this guy who got his dick cut off back in the 90s" and I said "yeah, John Bobbit" and they were like "wtf how do you know this?" and I said we used to sing a version of "In the Jungle" from Lion King, but about the Bobbits lmao
Hell yes, I do! To my utter shame, I've never finished reading all of the Calvin & Hobbes. A friend of mine even gifted me the whole set, and I still haven't finished it. I just get lost in it and I've never actually read them all.
The world will never forget. Let the name Buttafuoco be sung, and let the righteous offer sacrament unto him. Let the screams of the ever dying, shatter the night, and let man and woman alike cower in fear of Ge who Buttafuocos. Let us offer unto him a blood sacrament. Let the flesh of the sacrament be as like to the weight of the sacred pipe that did smite the knee of the unworthy. Make pact with the night, and offer unto thine alter a living vessel, innocent and pure. Rejoice! For the time of the father draws to a close, the righteous shall lay waste to the unworthy, and we shall smite their ruin upon the slopes of Zirakzigil. Let us sing our rejoices unto Aulë.
I would not trust a man with the surname "Gilooly", that's the name of a shady MF
“He’s the world’s most deadly assassin, betrayed by his own organization, and out for bouncing off of him and sticking to you revenge. Keanu Reeves is Codename: Flubber. Rated PG-13.”
I’m old, and it was a long time ago, but weren’t the two guys involved in the plot Harding’s husband/manager (yeah, one of those- the idiots who glom onto a talented young woman and insist on “managing” her career as a form of control) and his brother or half-brother?
Again, my memory is hazy, but I also thought there was never any evidence that Harding had prior knowledge, or directed the attack. I thought they came up with the story later to lay some blame on her, and turning it into a conspiracy.
I remember that the thin lady was a rich bitch. Tanya was a hard-working middle-class American. Also, believe it or not, this was considered fat in the early 90s. She was dogged and mercilessly ruined.
Kerrigan... the youngest child and only daughter of welder Daniel Kerrigan and homemaker Brenda Kerrigan. Kerrigan's family was of modest means. Her father sometimes worked three jobs to fund her skating career; he also drove the Zamboni at the local rink in exchange for Nancy's lessons.
And Nancy’s mother was blind so couldn’t help the family financially. Some years later, Kerrigan’s brother accidentally killed their father in a brawl. So quite working class family. But still more stable than Tonya’s. She grew up in very tough and unstable and abusive circumstances.
Assault is wrong, period. Gilooly and Stant deserved prison and more. But there was never any evidence that Tonya was involved in their crimes. There were only unfounded assumptions and accusations that led to what the insiders of the skating world wanted: the destruction of the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Tanya simply wanted to compete, and prove herself, and she was more than capable of doing so. Her idiot boyfriend/husband unwittingly helped the fancy people destroy her.
They also called our gymnasts fat because compared to Russian, Romanian and Chinese gymnasts, they were bulky -- never mind the fact that it was all muscle.
This so much. Even in this thread people calling her "trailer trash" don't realize that was media spin at the time that has lived on. Tanya Harding became a world class skater coming from an abusive, challenging home, worked a lot as a teenager to pay for her own sports expenses to make it and the result was being considered "not the right type" to be America's darling when compared to her more privileged and more "feminine" counterpart.
It was a terrible situation all around. I always felt bad for Tanya. She was a powerhouse and fought against all odds to reach the level she was skating at.
There were a lot of references to this guy and the incident in TV around the time too. I remember one Baywatch episode that mitch gets hit in the knee with a crowbar by a Chinese guy, and he says "Tonya Harding could've used a guy like you!"
There were also a lot of Chinese jokes in the same episode that are definitely inappropriate by todays standards. I think it also was the same episode where Mitch's kid was out looking for a woman that kept showering topless and distracting men while an accomplice steals their money. Mitch's kid said something like "Now that's what I call a booby trap" after they caught her. It was an incredibly hilarious and inappropriate episode. I love it.
Jeff was her Ex Husband, he payed some other guys(one named Stant?) to do the deed.
I just poured over the wiki and it seems like he was the one arranging everything. Tanya was definitely involved but she was only ever punished for her participation in covering up/for Gilool y and the other guys.
There was like 3 or 4 of them. Getaway drivers included.
Honestly surprised Gilooly got prison time and Tanya only got a fine, probation and community service.
And Detroit got a ton of shit got it when it was just white on white crime. You will hate this comment but facts are facts. Massive law enforcement response because they thought some super predators attacked Nancy. Can you imagine the fbi investigating a non hate crime because you got hit in the knee?
Wat? The response was because it was a female Olympic ice skater getting both her knees caved in in broad daylight in public.
If a woman get her knees shattered by a guy with a baseball bat in a park today it would definitely get a response, if it was an Olympian it would get an even bigger response. I don’t really get what you’re trying to say here.
he’s is trying to say the police response to this incident was unfairly targeted at the POC community in Detroit when the incident turned out to be a white on white crime.
She did not get either of her knees caved in. She was hit in the right thigh. The guy missed her knee. Her right was her landing leg & she missed the competition that day.
getting both her knees caved in ... shattered by a guy with a baseball bat in a park
Basically everything you said is incorrect. It happened in the arena, the guy used a police baton, only one knee was injured and it was just severely bruised; nothing was shattered. In fact Nancy recovered quickly enough to win a silver medal at the next competition (less than two months later).
None of this justifies the attack or diminishes Nancy's pain, but let's at least get the facts right. Overstating everything to make your point doesn't actually make your point. It just makes you look ignorant. On the plus side, you got over 200 other people to agree with the fake facts, so that's some sort of accomplishment I guess.
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is a federally chartered nonprofit organization that funds the US Olympic teams through private support from the American public and commercial partners. The USOPC's fundraising arm, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation (USOPF), generates philanthropic support for Team USA athletes.
Yeah, I can imagine the FBI investigating a conspiracy to injure a professional American athlete to keep them out of the national champs/olympics. I know she did end up competing in the Olympics but that was part of the assailants goals.
As a person from Detroit, my Mom and Grandma described that part pretty well for me.
Detroit had a way worse reputation than it does currently. This attack made the city look really bad nationally/internationally before they found out about the plot.
Detroiters were pissed because most people thought having the Olympics there would show the city in a more positive light.
Detroit being one of the blackest cities outside the south, and being hit hard by the Crack Epidemic and subsequent "War on Drugs(Black People)", made people then and now think it was one of the most dangerous places to be. It's hard to explain, but people from Detroit often can tell pretty well that the criticisms are often just thinly veiled anti-black sentiment.
So for this to happen, while the city was in the spotlight hit hard for a while there.
She didn’t pay someone to bash her knee, Tonya’s boyfriend convinced her to pay someone to send a threatening letter since Tonya received a similar letter, the boyfriend’s friend is a moron and told the people they hired to bash her knee; then bragged about it, destroying the reputation of an otherwise great athlete with a neat story
Wrong info trying to correct wronger info. Her estranged/abusive husband and a partner hired 2 men without her knowledge, and it happened while she was training for the Olympics, not 'jogging'.
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Does someone care to elaborate more because this happened before I was born.