drol 12,129 Posted 6 hours ago 6 hours ago, gcreptile said: Former Juventus player Simone Muratore has been forced to retire after an "aggressive brain tumor": https://www.footboom1.com/en/news/football/2187139-the-heartbreaking-letter-of-a-player-retiring-at-26-due-to-an-aggressive-brain-tumor You are quite omitting he made a complete recovery since, aren't you ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,061 Posted 4 hours ago 1 hour ago, drol said: You are quite omitting he made a complete recovery since, aren't you ? No, but my quotation marks are meant to slightly mock the usage of the word "aggressive". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,536 Posted 4 hours ago 28 minutes ago, gcreptile said: No, but my quotation marks are meant to slightly mock the usage of the word "aggressive". The Scott Thorson Gambit really wouldn't work in today's forum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,061 Posted 3 hours ago 23 minutes ago, msc said: The Scott Thorson Gambit really wouldn't work in today's forum. That's DDP hit Scott Thorson for you! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,536 Posted 3 hours ago 28 minutes ago, gcreptile said: That's DDP hit Scott Thorson for you! I think Lee Evans was a deadpool hit about a decade after the trap too? Yet Ryan Buell lives on with his Stage 6 pancreatic brain ALS. And whatever happened to that vegetarian drag act with Creutzfeldt-Jacob despite never touching beef? (A fatal illness I always remember the name of, thanks to that X-Files episode with the cannibals, which, Google tells me, I saw 30 years ago next year. We're all getting old.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,676 Posted 2 hours ago 20 minutes ago, msc said: I think Lee Evans was a deadpool hit about a decade after the trap too? Yet Ryan Buell lives on with his Stage 6 pancreatic brain ALS. And whatever happened to that vegetarian drag act with Creutzfeldt-Jacob despite never touching beef? (A fatal illness I always remember the name of, thanks to that X-Files episode with the cannibals, which, Google tells me, I saw 30 years ago next year. We're all getting old.) Aaahh you mean young Ritchii Kara, who is now middle-aged Ritchii Kara. Still living, and still loving life going by his SM posts!. Its over eleven years since he hit the headlines with only "months to live" (though to be fair, there was never a specific number of months mentioned). Actually scratch that last part, according to our local news reports, he was given 14 months in August 2012! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,626 Posted 2 hours ago From what I understand, Kara sort of got caught up in a media rush around a misunderstanding of his diagnosis, and never got around to correcting news stories (in fairness he only gave a couple of interviews, a lot of the Kara content out there is prime churn-era journalism "rewriting a story we saw elsewhere with no new content"). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,676 Posted 2 hours ago 4 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: From what I understand, Kara sort of got caught up in a media rush around a misunderstanding of his diagnosis, and never got around to correcting news stories (in fairness he only gave a couple of interviews, a lot of the Kara content out there is prime churn-era journalism "rewriting a story we saw elsewhere with no new content"). He did say at the time "my memory's bad..." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,215 Posted 1 hour ago 2 hours ago, msc said: The Scott Thorson Gambit really wouldn't work in today's forum. This is why, between December 1st and 31st, I ignore any suggestions from Mr Cooley esq. Which is dangerous as then he could be double bluffing but all adds to the fun! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 8,043 Posted 1 hour ago 1 minute ago, Octopus of Odstock said: This is why, between December 1st and 31st, I ignore any suggestions from Mr Cooley esq. Which is dangerous as then he could be double bluffing but all adds to the fun! Yeah, I assumed Spade's posts from late 2018 stating that Peter Tork was in bad shape were another Thorson gambit. Then two months later... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,626 Posted 1 hour ago Originally we had the Lee Evans gambiting, deliberately hyping up someone with a low-grade, treatable cancer in December. Then we did the reverse of that, which was going so gung-ho on a solid pick that people thought you were bluffing. Then it was just buck-shotting the board with a mix of good and bad info in December so nobody could work out what was viable data. The next great dark art of deadpooling is yet to be discovered, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
