chris henry involved in car wreck in charlotte

[Johnny Rockets]

It always bothers me how upset people get when some one famous that they never met dies.

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It should probably concern you more that you let something like that bother you.

[tarheelblue89]

Terrible news to wake up to, man. RIP Slim.

[Wither]

Just theorizing. I won't pretend to know what really happened.

It's sad, regardless.

I know; I should've clarified my post more as well as I wasn't bothered by your post nearly as much.

lol at everyone expressing false sympathies, especially unrepentant racists like akpantherfan

if this was just your run of the mill black guy who had failed every drug test ever given, assaulted someone through the window of their car, fathered illegitimate children, picked up underaged girls at a bar while wearing his name on his back, gotten them drunk in his hotel room then sexually assaulted one, this thread would be in the tinderbox, with people like Meat and all the other worthless pieces of poo making tons of jokes about black people not being able to drive

but nope he played football gotta pretend to be sincere here and make sure everyone knows i'm talking to my invisible sky monster to help him live for some reason

I am genuinely sympathetic. Am I saying he was a great person? No. I don't know him, just like I don't know you or anyone else outside of my family and friends. However, it is a tragic event regardless and seeing another person suffer makes me sympathetic.

I am just trying to determine if Fiz is just trying to be funny and get a rise out of people here....or, if he is truly a heartless dick in real life.

Never met him, so I guess the jury is still out.

I'd wager he's just trying to piss people off. He could care less if people thinks his jokes are funny. On the other hand, in some of his posts he actually tries to make points (some of his last few in this thread, for example).

It always bothers me how upset people get when some one famous that they never met dies.

It's because someone died. It being someone famous just means that more people know about them and know a little something about their history/character/etc. Well, I'm sort of speaking for everyone here, but at least with me it has more to do with the incident and him dying rather than him being famous or a football player.

[rayzor]

It should probably concern you more that you let something like that bother you.

yep.

[CharlotteBeer.com]

Some of you guys need a little John Donne in your lives.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls -- it tolls for thee.

[Cat]

This is sad

[Happy Panther]

lol at everyone expressing false sympathies, especially unrepentant racists like akpantherfan

if this was just your run of the mill black guy who had failed every drug test ever given, assaulted someone through the window of their car, fathered illegitimate children, picked up underaged girls at a bar while wearing his name on his back, gotten them drunk in his hotel room then sexually assaulted one, this thread would be in the tinderbox, with people like Meat and all the other worthless pieces of poo making tons of jokes about black people not being able to drive

but nope he played football gotta pretend to be sincere here and make sure everyone knows i'm talking to my invisible sky monster to help him live for some reason

tell his kids that

[niblet]

It's because someone died. It being someone famous just means that more people know about them and know a little something about their history/character/etc. Well, I'm sort of speaking for everyone here, but at least with me it has more to do with the incident and him dying rather than him being famous or a football player.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+many+people+die+every+day%3F

[CharlotteBeer.com]

lol at everyone expressing false sympathies, especially unrepentant racists like akpantherfan

if this was just your run of the mill black guy who had failed every drug test ever given, assaulted someone through the window of their car, fathered illegitimate children, picked up underaged girls at a bar while wearing his name on his back, gotten them drunk in his hotel room then sexually assaulted one, this thread would be in the tinderbox, with people like Meat and all the other worthless pieces of poo making tons of jokes about black people not being able to drive

but nope he played football gotta pretend to be sincere here and make sure everyone knows i'm talking to my invisible sky monster to help him live for some reason

It's not just a matter of false sympathies, though I'll concede that you find this anytime a celebrity dies.

It's a matter of extending your compassion. Fiz, we know you're the hardest most cynical Huddler in all the Internet. But surely there is someone out there -- family or friend -- whose death would elicit such feelings from you.

Now, why's it so wrong to be able to project similar feelings to someone you've never met? We're not bawling our eyes out as if our mothers have died, and with good reason -- Chris Henry hasn't been a mother to us.

Our commiseration is commensurate with our attachment to the person. I feel grief for nearly every death I hear on the news, even if I didn't know the person. I'm not devastated by this, nor am I insincere for feeling this way.

There's nothing wrong with having a little compassion for your fellow man, be they athlete or anonymous. Being able to feel sympathy in such a situation, I think, is one of humanity's few redeeming qualities.

[davos]

Chad Johnson's interview on espn was emotional. Ive never seen the guy like that before.

[MadHatter]

It's not just a matter of false sympathies, though I'll concede that you find this anytime a celebrity dies.

It's a matter of extending your compassion. Fiz, we know you're the hardest most cynical Huddler in all the Internet. But surely there is someone out there -- family or friend -- whose death would elicit such feelings from you.

Now, why's it so wrong to be able to project similar feelings to someone you've never met? We're not bawling our eyes out as if our mothers have died, and with good reason -- Chris Henry hasn't been a mother to us.

Our commiseration is commensurate with our attachment to the person. I feel grief for nearly every death I hear on the news, even if I didn't know the person. I'm not devastated by this, nor am insincere for feeling this way.

There's nothing wrong with having a little compassion for your fellow man, be they athlete or anonymous. Being able to feel sympathy in such a situation, I think, is one of humanity's few redeeming qualities.

Well said.

[Mr. Scot]

Well said.

Very.

[Shockatelly]

It's not just a matter of false sympathies, though I'll concede that you find this anytime a celebrity dies.

It's a matter of extending your compassion. Fiz, we know you're the hardest most cynical Huddler in all the Internet. But surely there is someone out there -- family or friend -- whose death would elicit such feelings from you.

Now, why's it so wrong to be able to project similar feelings to someone you've never met? We're not bawling our eyes out as if our mothers have died, and with good reason -- Chris Henry hasn't been a mother to us.

Our commiseration is commensurate with our attachment to the person. I feel grief for nearly every death I hear on the news, even if I didn't know the person. I'm not devastated by this, nor am I insincere for feeling this way.

There's nothing wrong with having a little compassion for your fellow man, be they athlete or anonymous. Being able to feel sympathy in such a situation, I think, is one of humanity's few redeeming qualities.

hear hear.

[CatMan72]

You know, guys like Fiz who make it a point to demonstrate how "hard" they are on the outside are usually compensating for being soft on the inside...

I also love the way Fiz finds a way to play the race card in almost every thread.