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Post by salmon401 on Apr 11, 2024 21:12:47 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Apr 12, 2024 0:01:54 GMT -7
Hes not someone whose loss I'd exactly mourn. And yes I think he did it or his son did it under his order. As for his career, I loved the naked gun movies. you know he was a football player, right? |
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Post by SolarGarlic 🧀 on Apr 12, 2024 2:49:54 GMT -7
I was ten when all that went down so I remember it but obviously wasn’t hanging on every detail like the older folks.
The one thing I do remember is that they announced the verdict over the loudspeaker in school. I was in the cafeteria and it was weird.
Thinking about it now, it’s ridiculous.
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Post by bear on Apr 12, 2024 3:09:42 GMT -7
Yes it was weird. I also distinctly remember the teachers watching the trial verdict during class in elementary school
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Post by deadphishbiscuits on Apr 12, 2024 3:16:05 GMT -7
Yes it was weird. I also distinctly remember the teachers watching the trial verdict during class in elementary school This. 6th grade class, we had a BIG screen TV in the room, and boy howdy did we watch the verdict 9/11 they announced over the loud speakers, that was senior year and kind of weird |
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Post by Not your moms 🌮 on Apr 12, 2024 3:34:57 GMT -7
We were at at a friend house smoking weed and playing Foosball when the bronco chase was being televised. I don't really remember much of the case except for learning that paying for the right lawyer could get you out of anything.
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Post by Not your moms 🌮 on Apr 12, 2024 3:36:22 GMT -7
Hes not someone whose loss I'd exactly mourn. And yes I think he did it or his son did it under his order. As for his career, I loved the naked gun movies. you know he was a football player, right? Never seen it so maybe, maybe not. |
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Post by ferd on Apr 12, 2024 5:08:47 GMT -7
Yes it was weird. I also distinctly remember the teachers watching the trial verdict during class in elementary school Same. I was in junior high and classes just stopped so everyone could find out what happened |
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Post by GBK2point0 on Apr 12, 2024 5:09:06 GMT -7
Hes not someone whose loss I'd exactly mourn. And yes I think he did it or his son did it under his order. As for his career, I loved the naked gun movies. you know he was a football player, right? Yes an allstar running back for the Bills, I am very familiar but I wasn't even born when he stopped playing, I grew up on the naked gun movies |
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Post by hokiejoe on Apr 12, 2024 5:10:40 GMT -7
I stayed in Blacksburg that summer and took some classes. The chase happened on a Friday night during the NBA finals. I was at the bar and every TV went from the Knicks game to the Bronco chase. It was insane, every person was glued to the TV's, people were hooting and hollering, yelling the Juice is loose, etc. So insane.
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Post by ancientchad on Apr 12, 2024 5:23:45 GMT -7
Over 2,000 yards in 14 games. And back when defenders could stomp all over everyone.
Took awhile for those of us who grew up in WNY to accept the truth, regardless of race.
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Post by higs on Apr 12, 2024 5:26:43 GMT -7
The OJ trial was kind of a precursor to where our society is now.
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Post by frododoknobo on Apr 12, 2024 6:25:54 GMT -7
I am the only person I know that had no idea about the Bronco chase, and the murder.
I was living at the beach (poodolla) and I worked 6 days a week. At night, I was surf fishing and drinking/smoking on the beach until bed time. I wasn’t watching any TV, and we didn’t have a newspaper delivered to the house.
About a week after it happened, I was making a delivery in the work van and heard Howard Stern talking about how fucked OJ was, but didn’t say what happened. When I got back to work, I asked “did something happen to OJ?”
Everyone in the store, including the customers, turned to me in disbelief. Like, seriously? Living under a rock. And that’s how I found out.
I saw Blues Traveler the night of the acquittal. They opened up the show with the Star Spangled Banner and referenced “not guilty” at least three times, in a sad and “can you believe it?” manner.
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Post by hokiejoe on Apr 12, 2024 6:38:45 GMT -7
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Post by danimal on Apr 12, 2024 8:36:02 GMT -7
Hilarious OJ content at the end. I had never heard of this Jake Bryd guy. Phenomenal troll job.
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Post by Don Swifty on Apr 12, 2024 10:16:45 GMT -7
I am the only person I know that had no idea about the Bronco chase, and the murder. I was living at the beach (poodolla) and I worked 6 days a week. At night, I was surf fishing and drinking/smoking on the beach until bed time. I wasn’t watching any TV, and we didn’t have a newspaper delivered to the house. About a week after it happened, I was making a delivery in the work van and heard Howard Stern talking about how fucked OJ was, but didn’t say what happened. When I got back to work, I asked “did something happen to OJ?” Everyone in the store, including the customers, turned to me in disbelief. Like, seriously? Living under a rock. And that’s how I found out. I saw Blues Traveler the night of the acquittal. They opened up the show with the Star Spangled Banner and referenced “not guilty” at least three times, in a sad and “can you believe it?” manner. I miss those pre-Internet days when it was still fairly easy to check out from all the distractions and everything else going on and just live life. |
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Post by ferd on Apr 12, 2024 10:26:12 GMT -7
Nobody is forcing you to be connected
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Post by higs on Apr 12, 2024 10:27:57 GMT -7
I am the only person I know that had no idea about the Bronco chase, and the murder. I was living at the beach (poodolla) and I worked 6 days a week. At night, I was surf fishing and drinking/smoking on the beach until bed time. I wasn’t watching any TV, and we didn’t have a newspaper delivered to the house. About a week after it happened, I was making a delivery in the work van and heard Howard Stern talking about how fucked OJ was, but didn’t say what happened. When I got back to work, I asked “did something happen to OJ?” Everyone in the store, including the customers, turned to me in disbelief. Like, seriously? Living under a rock. And that’s how I found out. I saw Blues Traveler the night of the acquittal. They opened up the show with the Star Spangled Banner and referenced “not guilty” at least three times, in a sad and “can you believe it?” manner. I miss those pre-Internet days when it was still fairly easy to check out from all the distractions and everything else going on and just live life. I always tell people that I was checked out in the late 90s when they bring up an event or pop culture story. Hell, any story really. |
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Post by Don Swifty on Apr 12, 2024 11:44:14 GMT -7
I miss those pre-Internet days when it was still fairly easy to check out from all the distractions and everything else going on and just live life. I always tell people that I was checked out in the late 90s when they bring up an event or pop culture story. Hell, any story really. Same here. I'd be in some small town where there might be one bar with a satellite tv connection and if I didn't want to know what was going on in the rest of the world I could just avoid that one bar. I could go 6 months without knowing what was happening much outside of where I was. No tv, no internet, just local print, radio and tv - all of which were easier to avoid or tune out then than it is to avoid or tune out media now. People didn't have the same need/desire to be instantly up to date either. Now even the smallest of places are tapped in and nearly everyone carries the internet with them in their pocket where they get instant updates. And you can go without, but not without having to make sacrifices that will affect your abilities to function in society. There are more and more places that only offer menus by scanning a Q code, accept payments only through some phone app, allow access only by 'following' them on social media, etc. I guess it's possible to only use your phone for scanning codes and making payments and you can shut off any and all notifications and not surf the net or use social media, or go online but it's not practical. Where it used to be fairly easy to disconnect it now requires being more of a Luddite hermit to accomplish the same level of disconnection. Ironically, it's almost another form of being a hermit (or at least more anti-social) since people who gather mostly just stare at their phones. |
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Post by Don Swifty on Apr 12, 2024 11:53:11 GMT -7
Nobody is forcing you to be connected Obviously, but the adaptations and changes to society on both a technical and personal level make it more difficult to disconnect. Even when and where you can, it just makes one seem more anti-social for doing something that not long ago was seen as normal behaviour. Look at how cellphones have changed people's expectations. If you don't answer a call or a text or an email or an instant message or a tweet or other social media post at the moment or soon after some people will give you shit and act like you're in the wrong for not being instantly available to them. Why didn't you pick up my call? Why didn't you text me back? Why didn't you read my text?... Not that long ago no one gave you shit if you didn't answer a call. They figured you weren't home, were busy, or just not in the mood to take a call. |
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