On Monday, June 20, 2011, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Ryan Dunn posted photos of himself drinking on his Twitter feed. Not > too long after, he and his Porsche were engulfed in flames. What a > jackass. > > I have never seen Jackass, and never heard of Ryan Dunn before (somehow I > thought Ashton Kutcher did the Jackass show?). I can quite bring myself to > call a young man who just burned to death a jackass (though once the evidence > is all in I might not be able to refute the claim either). I am comfortable > using the term jackass (or maybe something stronger) for the people described > in the following excerpt from the linked story:
I hear you, and had a fraction of a second of internal debate before posting the title, but the series was called Jackass, he called himself a Jackass, and he died doing something a Jackass would do. Whatever moral issues my calling him a name might be are negligible compared to what he did. And he'll be hailed as a pop icon because he had a show that made teens and stoners giggle. One thing his family won't be able to say is that such reckless behavior was totally out of character, or any of the other platitudes that tend to get uttered at times like this. He lived and died as a jackass. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
