Charlie Sheen may have HIV.

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Re: Charlie Sheen may have HIV.

Postby NathanLoiselle » Fri Nov 20, 2015 2:53 am

I'm surprised that he has it and Bree Olson doesn't. I mean, girl. You slept with Charlie Sheen AND you're a porn star. It just blows my mind.

Pun intended.
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Re: Charlie Sheen may have HIV.

Postby williamthallis » Fri Nov 20, 2015 2:55 am

Well, that was kind of cheesy.

Sorry, but Bree...
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Re: Charlie Sheen may have HIV.

Postby blehblah » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:08 pm

From what was said earlier in the thread, more folks in South Africa will recognize Charlie Sheen, today, than any other high-profile HIV-positive celebrity.

The guy was paid $1.8 million per episode. While basketball isn't a worldwide sport, shitty television entertainment is, by the numbers.

Unlike Liberace, Sheen is identifiable in places like South Africa. From what I see in the thread, Sheen's story - an extremely rich, virulent, heterosexual man who contracted HIV - will be used, with or without his permission because he is identifiable.

If a bunch of douchebags figure, "I can't get the AIDS", who better an example than a rich, internationally known, very rich douchebag to prove them wrong?

williamthallis wrote:As I said, when someone who is universally likeable gets it from a blood transfusion, that's when it will hit home.


That is a tall order. Is the pope universally likable? It would be interesting hearing the back-story. Britney Spears? The leaders of China and India admitting that on a particularly crazy coke-binge with Kim Jong-Un's entourage, some shit got real?

Babies, I've heard, are universally likable, and they are sometimes born with HIV, and have been for decades, so where's the hit-home'ing on that action?

Sheen, it seems, is making headlines enough. We don't have to like him, but we are allowed to accept that his announcement will have some good.
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Re: Charlie Sheen may have HIV.

Postby cmsellers » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:22 pm

blehblah wrote:Babies, I've heard, are universally likable, and they are sometimes born with HIV, and have been for decades, so where's the hit-home'ing on that action?

Babies are noisy, smelly, whiny, grotesque-looking miniature sociopaths with no impulse control.

I'd say "fuck babies," but ...

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Re: Charlie Sheen may have HIV.

Postby williamthallis » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:45 pm

blehblah wrote:From what was said earlier in the thread, more folks in South Africa will recognize Charlie Sheen, today, than any other high-profile HIV-positive celebrity.

The guy was paid $1.8 million per episode. While basketball isn't a worldwide sport, shitty television entertainment is, by the numbers.

Unlike Liberace, Sheen is identifiable in places like South Africa. From what I see in the thread, Sheen's story - an extremely rich, virulent, heterosexual man who contracted HIV - will be used, with or without his permission because he is identifiable.

If a bunch of douchebags figure, "I can't get the AIDS", who better an example than a rich, internationally known, very rich douchebag to prove them wrong?

williamthallis wrote:As I said, when someone who is universally likeable gets it from a blood transfusion, that's when it will hit home.


That is a tall order. Is the pope universally likable? It would be interesting hearing the back-story. Britney Spears? The leaders of China and India admitting that on a particularly crazy coke-binge with Kim Jong-Un's entourage, some shit got real?

Babies, I've heard, are universally likable, and they are sometimes born with HIV, and have been for decades, so where's the hit-home'ing on that action?

Sheen, it seems, is making headlines enough. We don't have to like him, but we are allowed to accept that his announcement will have some good.


Hmm, that quote from me is taken far out from its context. I was referring to this statement I had previously made (the 'As I said' wasn't there for a rhetorical flourish):

I'm only talking about the first world - I have no idea how it will change things in Africa, but here is the caveat:

I do not care how he got it, but we know who Charlie Sheen is, so really, it's kinda his fault isn't it?

When a white heterosexual male who courts no controversy and is a beloved celebrity, possibly one who has done some sort of UN work, gets it through a blood transfusion, then maybe, maybe it will hit home with the mass of people in the US (and then open their pocketbooks to help people in Africa) that it's a disease anyone can get, not something degenerates get. It's a disease, not something that's a consequence of immoral behavior, which is still how many people view it.


I think you misplaced your reductio ad absurdum.
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Re: Charlie Sheen may have HIV.

Postby blehblah » Tue Nov 24, 2015 1:30 pm

williamthallis wrote:
I think you misplaced your reductio ad absurdum.


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