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Jawbone54 · Nov 12, 2008, 04:09 PM

Brad Garrett apparently snapped (again) and knocked the crap out of one of their cameras after they heckled him for a while about alleged racist comments, with one of the guys eventually calling him a "tall faggot," which is when he went off.

(video here)

I'm not the type to get into a physical altercation myself, but I can totally understand a celebrity who snaps and smacks the crap out of one of these people after constantly being followed, heckled, and irritated.

How do you feel about them?

Dakar V · Nov 12, 2008, 04:33 PM

If it weren't for nipple pics, I'd be 100% against them.

Jawbone54 · Nov 12, 2008, 04:38 PM

You mean like this?

Laminar · Nov 12, 2008, 06:36 PM

If every tabloid and celebrity-worship magazine suddenly disappeared, I believe this world would be a better place?

zro · Nov 12, 2008, 06:46 PM

I say they should be made to pay a percentage of what they make on a photo to the subject of the photo.

EndlessMac · Nov 12, 2008, 10:30 PM

It's not the taking pictures of celebrities that is the problem but the taunting and heckling to create a false picture that is the problem. For example if a paparazzi takes a picture of a celebrity doing something wrong on their own then that's photojournalism but a good number of them actually cause the problem in order to get a sellable picture. Sometimes this causes harm to other innocent people around them when celebrities swerve their cars to get out of the way for example.

I do think that celebrities have to live with people wanting to take pictures of them in public but I don't believe anyone deserves to be heckled and taunting until the paparazzis get a reaction especially if they are just trying to have a good time out with their family.

BasketofPuppies · Nov 13, 2008, 01:57 AM

I wonder if anyone at Us Weekly, TMZ or Gawker Media realizes just how shallow they are.

Probably not, otherwise they would know that they aren't as funny as they think they are.

sek929 · Nov 13, 2008, 01:54 PM

The paparazzi are just doing their jobs, it's the people who perpetuate this bullshit buy buying celeb magazines that are the truly sickening ones.

Laminar · Nov 13, 2008, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by sek929

The paparazzi are just doing their jobs, it's the people who perpetuate this bullshit buy buying celeb magazines that are the truly sickening ones.

Does the fault lie in the cigarette companies or the people that are addicted to their products and can't quit?

Dakar V · Nov 13, 2008, 01:57 PM

If I were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hrs to catch me picking my nose in my car, a la Seinfeld.

Laminar · Nov 13, 2008, 02:02 PM

If I were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours to get an upskirt shot of me.

Dakar V · Nov 13, 2008, 02:03 PM

If we were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours to catch me picking my nose while looking up your skirt.

Laminar · Nov 13, 2008, 02:04 PM

If we were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours to catch me picking my skirt while looking up your nose.

Dakar V · Nov 13, 2008, 02:11 PM

If we were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours to catch me picking your nose while you're looking up your skirt.

sek929 · Nov 13, 2008, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

Does the fault lie in the cigarette companies or the people that are addicted to their products and can't quit?

With few exceptions, people knew the risks when getting into smoking, I know I did. Maybe older people were tricked by a boatload of false information, but in this day and age you'd have to be an idiot to not know the dangers of smoking.

If they die of lung cancer they only have themselves to blame. Likewise if somebody dies of alcohol poisoning it's not the fault of José Cuervo.

Jawbone54 · Nov 13, 2008, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar V

If I were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hrs to catch me picking my nose in my car, a la Seinfeld.

Originally Posted by Laminar

If I were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours to get an upskirt shot of me.

Originally Posted by Dakar V

If we were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours to catch me picking my nose while looking up your skirt.

Originally Posted by Laminar

If we were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours to catch me picking my skirt while looking up your nose.

Originally Posted by Dakar V

If we were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours to catch me picking your nose while you're looking up your skirt.

If I were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 2 hours to get video footage of me driving away in a white Bronco from the house where you were both staying while multitudes of cops followed.

Railroader · Nov 13, 2008, 07:56 PM

If I were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 2 hours to get video footage of multitudes of cops driving away in a white Bronco from the house where you were both staying while I followed.

Laminar · Nov 14, 2008, 09:33 AM

I love you, MacNN.

Dakar V · Nov 14, 2008, 09:33 AM

It's been a while since we started an honest to goodness NN meme.

Dakar V · Nov 14, 2008, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by sek929

With few exceptions, people knew the risks when getting into smoking, I know I did. Maybe older people were tricked by a boatload of false information, but in this day and age you'd have to be an idiot to not know the dangers of smoking.

If they die of lung cancer they only have themselves to blame. Likewise if somebody dies of alcohol poisoning it's not the fault of José Cuervo.

You forgot to start your statement with: "If I were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours..."

Railroader · Nov 14, 2008, 09:45 AM

If I were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours to tell sek929 that he forgot to start his statement with: "If I were famous, it'd take the Paparazzi less than 48 hours..."

Laminar · Nov 14, 2008, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar V

It's been a while since we started an honest to goodness NN meme.

Ever since MacGeek left, times have been tough.

Jawbone54 · Nov 14, 2008, 11:28 AM

I set this poll up to be public, but...

Hmm...

Monique · Nov 14, 2008, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by sek929

With few exceptions, people knew the risks when getting into smoking, I know I did. Maybe older people were tricked by a boatload of false information, but in this day and age you'd have to be an idiot to not know the dangers of smoking.

If they die of lung cancer they only have themselves to blame. Likewise if somebody dies of alcohol poisoning it's not the fault of José Cuervo.

Now a days maybe, but they do not have to put an addictive agent when they make cigarettes and they did not have to deny the fact in front of a senate committee about that addictive agent.

Let me go even further with your heartless statement, do people deserve to get medical, on time treatment when they have lung cancer even if they smoke, treatment after they use their cell phone and get into a car crash, treatment after they ski in an avalanche prone area, treatment when they go scuba diving in a dangerous area, treatment when you are a child and jump from the roof of a garage thinking you would not get hurt, treatment when you are overweight (not necessarely morbid overweight), treatment if you are a woman wear a mini skirt and get raped, treatment if you are walking in a dangerous area and get shot, etc....

Monique · Nov 14, 2008, 11:47 AM

Now for the topic of the jour, paparazzi are scums and they do not deserve to live. Although Princess Diana was not my favorite person, they hunted her until she died and when she was hanging between life and death they still took pictures of her. They are truly dispicable.

sek929 · Nov 14, 2008, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by Monique

Now a days maybe, but they do not have to put an addictive agent when they make cigarettes and they did not have to deny the fact in front of a senate committee about that addictive agent.

Without Nicotine, nobody would smoke cigarettes. Yes they add extra, who cares? People STILL know the risks and STILL smoke until they die. It's their own ****ing fault. People drink and eat themselves to death and they have no one to blame but themselves.

Originally Posted by Monique

Let me go even further with your heartless statement

You know, I died a little inside once I saw that you replied to me. Once again you take a holier-than-thou approach and have the sack to call me heartless, well you're a bitch...now we're even.

Originally Posted by Monique

do people deserve to get medical, on time treatment when they have lung cancer even if they smoke, treatment after they use their cell phone and get into a car crash, treatment after they ski in an avalanche prone area, treatment when they go scuba diving in a dangerous area, treatment when you are a child and jump from the roof of a garage thinking you would not get hurt, treatment when you are overweight (not necessarely morbid overweight)

Assuming you have insurance then you'd be treated for all these things, and no, I don't think people should be denied care based upon mistakes made in their lives. But again IT'S THE FAULT OF THE INDIVIDUAL that any of those things happened. I broke my arm when I was drunk and I had insurance. Best medical care Mass has to offer.....but IT WAS MY DAMN FAULT FOR BEING A RETARD. Is it so hard for people to take personal responsibility for the decisions they've made?

Originally Posted by Monique

treatment if you are a woman wear a mini skirt and get raped, treatment if you are walking in a dangerous area and get shot, etc....

These two examples do not fit into your previous statements, and I'm personally baffled why you would include them, maybe to trip me up? Who knows...

Basically your stance seems to be companies that sell anything that is bad for you are at fault, so go picket Hershey's, your skills of knowing what's best for people cannot go unused.

</end of OT rant>

Railroader · Nov 14, 2008, 12:57 PM

Woah... I almost hit my head on the dashboard as this thread came to a near screeching halt.

I'm going to shave my head now.

linger · Nov 14, 2008, 01:33 PM

treatment if you are a woman wear a mini skirt and get raped, treatment if you are walking in a dangerous area and get shot, etc....

It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.