[Teedub]

(12-01-2013 02:17 PM)Athlone McGinnis Wrote:  

He was also, however, the one speeding like an idiot.

[Excelsior]

(12-01-2013 02:30 PM)Teedub Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 02:17 PM)Athlone McGinnis Wrote:  

He was also, however, the one speeding like an idiot.

[Rutting Elephant]

(12-01-2013 06:55 AM)Teedub Wrote:  

The 'celeb' media are whores. Just a bit ago they were saying this about him.

Quote:

The D-list actor from The Fast and the Furious, Paul Walker, is finally getting married to his long-time girlfriend.
According to Star magazine, the 35-year old proposed to girlfriend Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell over the holidays.
Oh, and his fiance is just 19 years old!!!!!!!!
But the best part?
He actually started dating her when she was just 16 and he was 32!!!
How CREEPY is that?!?

He died before he could have a hot wife.
(She is surprisingly not hot.)

[Kingsley Davis]

(12-01-2013 02:54 PM)Rutting Elephant Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 06:55 AM)Teedub Wrote:  

The 'celeb' media are whores. Just a bit ago they were saying this about him.

Quote:

The D-list actor from The Fast and the Furious, Paul Walker, is finally getting married to his long-time girlfriend.
According to Star magazine, the 35-year old proposed to girlfriend Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell over the holidays.
Oh, and his fiance is just 19 years old!!!!!!!!
But the best part?
He actually started dating her when she was just 16 and he was 32!!!
How CREEPY is that?!?

He died before he could have a hot wife.
(She is surprisingly not hot.)

[Soma]

(12-01-2013 02:49 PM)Athlone McGinnis Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 02:30 PM)Teedub Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 02:17 PM)Athlone McGinnis Wrote:  

He was also, however, the one speeding like an idiot.

Not to mention the other 98 Americans (statistically) who died in car accidents the same day.

[Teedub]

(12-01-2013 02:49 PM)Athlone McGinnis Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 02:30 PM)Teedub Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 02:17 PM)Athlone McGinnis Wrote:  

He was also, however, the one speeding like an idiot.

Ha. On a serious, my brother had two friends die in a car accident due to speeding at 20 years of age, although alcohol and weed were also involved with the driver.

[thegmanifesto]

(12-01-2013 01:34 AM)bacon Wrote:  

Isnt it a little bit ironic an Actor famous for driving fast cars in the movies wraps his porsche around a tree and dies.

Didn't read the thread, but Walker is going to go down like James Dean.

Sad that he died.

But he just etched his name in Immortality.

Not a bad trick.

[scorpion]

I like all the faux-outrage over the fact that non-famous people aren't mourned or recognized when they die.

No shit? Maybe if you want to be remembered you should try to make a name for yourself.

It reminds me of that scene at the beginning of Troy, when Brad Pitt as Achilles is about to fight some giant dude in single combat. A messenger boy tells him that the giant is the biggest man he's ever seen and that he wouldn't want to fight him. Achilles looks at him and says coldly, "That's why no one will remember your name." Then he goes and takes care of business.

No one deserves to be remembered. You have to earn it. Distinguish yourself, or be unmourned and forgotten.

[Teedub]

(12-01-2013 03:34 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

Didn't read the thread, but Walker is going to go down like James Dean.

Haha, nice sentiment, but Paul Walker was hardly James Dean!

[thegmanifesto]

(12-01-2013 03:58 PM)Teedub Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 03:34 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

Didn't read the thread, but Walker is going to go down like James Dean.

Haha, nice sentiment, but Paul Walker was hardly James Dean!

Agreed 100%.

But he will still go down "like" James Dean in today's knock off society.

[Teedub]

^ Probably, and I think that's a bad thing. Not that I think any form of celebrity worship is particularly good either.

Then again, if De Niro was killed in the 80's, I might have felt a loss. That's due to his talent, rather than fame per se.

[jaakkeli]

(12-01-2013 03:42 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

No one deserves to be remembered. You have to earn it. Distinguish yourself, or be unmourned and forgotten.

Of course Paul Walker just distinguished himself.

A newspaper here had a headline saying "famous actor dies in car crash". Duhh. If an actually famous actor like Tom Cruise had died in a car crash the headline would have said "Tom Cruise dies in car crash".

But I guess Paul Walker really is famous now. So the moral of the story is, if you want to get mourned by the celebrity worshipers, you want to get your face on TV once and then crash your car as soon as possible.

[Pizdetz]

Sad to see him go.
And he was not even driving the car.
Crashed car was a Porsche Carrera GT. Nice, but nasty car to drive fast.
Original 930 Turbos were called "Widow makers" due to 4-speed tranny with wide-ratio gearbox and very peaky - on-off- turbo response, made worse when boost was crancked up.

RIP.

[michelin]

curious: a porsche doesn't resist a little tree?? (at least that's what it looks like on the pics) !

[Cattle Rustler]

(12-01-2013 05:57 PM)michelin Wrote:  

curious: a porsche doesn't resist a little tree?? (at least that's what it looks like on the pics) !

It's a very light car that has no traction controls and is nicknamed the widowmaker.

Driving fast + hitting a pole + gas tank = no bueno

[trainwreck]

(12-01-2013 06:21 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 05:57 PM)michelin Wrote:  

curious: a porsche doesn't resist a little tree?? (at least that's what it looks like on the pics) !

It's a very light car that has no traction controls and is nicknamed the widowmaker.

Driving fast + hitting a pole + gas tank = no bueno

the CGT does have traction control, but as with any other car, you can simply turn it off. I've had the pleasure to drive one for a few kilometers, the V10 is simply an amazing thing and will get you tempted to go crazy on it... It definitely has the widowmaker label. I wonder if the 918 will be the same.

Sad to hear this happened, but this guy at least died while doing what he loved after doing also what he loved for several years... Not many people can say that - so that's at least one good part.

[scorpion]

(12-01-2013 05:31 PM)jaakkeli Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 03:42 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

No one deserves to be remembered. You have to earn it. Distinguish yourself, or be unmourned and forgotten.

Of course Paul Walker just distinguished himself.

A newspaper here had a headline saying "famous actor dies in car crash". Duhh. If an actually famous actor like Tom Cruise had died in a car crash the headline would have said "Tom Cruise dies in car crash".

But I guess Paul Walker really is famous now. So the moral of the story is, if you want to get mourned by the celebrity worshipers, you want to get your face on TV once and then crash your car as soon as possible.

Way to miss the point. Obviously he wasn't a household name, but he was famous enough. He made much more of a name for himself than most people ever do.

Let me know when you read a headline in an international paper about Joe Schmoe who worked in a factory in Des Moines who died in a car crash.

[thegmanifesto]

(12-01-2013 06:59 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

Way to miss the point. Obviously he wasn't a household name, but he was famous enough. He made much more of a name for himself than most people ever do.

Let me know when you read a headline in an international paper about Joe Schmoe who worked in a factory in Zanesville who died in a car crash.

Fixed that for you.

[Screwston]

[Jaydublin]

[Pizdetz]

"the CGT does have traction control"

Incorrect.

Looking at video of aftermath, there looks like a kid's bike on the street. I wonder if they crashed trying to avoid running over a kid.

[Christian McQueen]

It's sad. I liked the guy in the limited roles he played. FnF franchise is fun for what it is.

Dude did his thing and I said the exact same thing to a buddy of mine, that G said: He's going down LIKE James Dean.

Better to go out like that, then a drug overdose.

Ironically, I found out about his death right before I was going out for the night last night. I was about to get in my Porsche and felt odd.

I called Uber instead.

[kosko]

(12-01-2013 03:42 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

I like all the faux-outrage over the fact that non-famous people aren't mourned or recognized when they die.

No shit? Maybe if you want to be remembered you should try to make a name for yourself.

It reminds me of that scene at the beginning of Troy, when Brad Pitt as Achilles is about to fight some giant dude in single combat. A messenger boy tells him that the giant is the biggest man he's ever seen and that he wouldn't want to fight him. Achilles looks at him and says coldly, "That's why no one will remember your name." Then he goes and takes care of business.

No one deserves to be remembered. You have to earn it. Distinguish yourself, or be unmourned and forgotten.

Paul Walker was a white guy with looks, his acting chops were sup par. Many other no-name actors could of been plugged into the series aside from him. This is all hamster driven because females lost a child hood crush. If Channing Tautum faced the same fate the out cry would be the same but if Oscar Award winner Jamie Foxx was met with the same untimely fate as Walker the outcry would not even be close to the same.

I have no issue if a man whom is a great talent passes and deserves mourning, he deserves it. In today's world meaningful men are forgotten until after they pass while dudes whom maybe were not as deserving get hyped up at the moment when it happens.

His a important fixture in pop culture but so are other guys like Johnny Depp or even Clooney, if this would of happend to them I wouldn't be talking like this. Their effort, craft, and skill warrant the admiration and respect in their passing.

This guy walked around green screens and did minimal acting. He was just a model for nice car in a trendy series of movies. In the big picture of film he dosn't move the needle.

RIP

But a rich C-list rich guy crashes his car. Like I really don't give two fucks. Call me heartless but It's all hamster hype I can't get with. It's all self-absorbed noise. People are bored and will use any chance, even at a mans death, to whine and attention whore on social media:

"whaaaaaa waaaaa MY crush is dead. ME I loved Paul Walker. MY favorite actor. ME. ME. Paul Walker is ME. Waaaaaah. Waaaaa"

Let's not get it twisted. It's all about them aka "Me".

But the take awy from this all is that as a man you are sadly admired more in your death then in your present. Your dick is measured when you passed. People will you in stone and declare holidays if you affected them in such a profound way. It's fuked up when you think about it deep like that.

[trainwreck]

(12-01-2013 08:20 PM)Pizdetz Wrote:  

"the CGT does have traction control"

Incorrect.

Looking at video of aftermath, there looks like a kid's bike on the street. I wonder if they crashed trying to avoid running over a kid.

it has no PSM, but it does have traction control.

[trainwreck]

(12-01-2013 08:50 PM)kosko Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 03:42 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

I like all the faux-outrage over the fact that non-famous people aren't mourned or recognized when they die.

No shit? Maybe if you want to be remembered you should try to make a name for yourself.

It reminds me of that scene at the beginning of Troy, when Brad Pitt as Achilles is about to fight some giant dude in single combat. A messenger boy tells him that the giant is the biggest man he's ever seen and that he wouldn't want to fight him. Achilles looks at him and says coldly, "That's why no one will remember your name." Then he goes and takes care of business.

No one deserves to be remembered. You have to earn it. Distinguish yourself, or be unmourned and forgotten.

Paul Walker was a white guy with looks, his acting chops were sup par. Many other no-name actors could of been plugged into the series aside from him. This is all hamster driven because females lost a child hood crush. If Channing Tautum faced the same fate the out cry would be the same but if Oscar Award winner Jamie Foxx was met with the same untimely fate as Walker the outcry would not even be close to the same.

I have no issue if a man whom is a great talent passes and deserves mourning, he deserves it. In today's world meaningful men are forgotten until after they pass while dudes whom maybe were not as deserving get hyped up at the moment when it happens.

His a important fixture in pop culture but so are other guys like Johnny Depp or even Clooney, if this would of happend to them I wouldn't be talking like this. Their effort, craft, and skill warrant the admiration and respect in their passing.

This guy walked around green screens and did minimal acting. He was just a model for nice car in a trendy series of movies. In the big picture of film he dosn't move the needle.

RIP

But a rich C-list rich guy crashes his car. Like I really don't give two fucks. Call me heartless but It's all hamster hype I can't get with. It's all self-absorbed noise. People are bored and will use any chance, even at a mans death, to whine and attention whore on social media:

"whaaaaaa waaaaa MY crush is dead. ME I loved Paul Walker. MY favorite actor. ME. ME. Paul Walker is ME. Waaaaaah. Waaaaa"

Let's not get it twisted. It's all about them aka "Me".

But the take awy from this all is that as a man you are sadly admired more in your death then in your present. Your dick is measured when you passed. People will you in stone and declare holidays if you affected them in such a profound way. It's fuked up when you think about it deep like that.

^^^^ this... let's see... look what I just found on my FB wall- random chick trying to get her dopamine boost for the day by posting a pic of her with the handsome rich guy who died