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RIP Kobe Bryant

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Driftwood, Jan 26, 2020.

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  1. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    That struck me -- that they would occasionally text but also how Shaq said the last time he saw Kobe was at the 60-point farewell game. Four years ago. Dammit, screw the phones. If it's physically possible to meet an old friend for lunch or coffee once a year, do it.
     
    playthrough, Jan 29, 2020
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  2. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    Common themes of professional reverence and personal distance.
     
    DanielSimpsonDay, Jan 29, 2020
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  3. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    I wonder what impact it will have on celebrities using helicopters. I have yet to see a story that discusses how common their usage is.
     
    CD Boogie, Jan 29, 2020
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  4. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Well, I was a senior that year. Yeah, we had class.
     
    swingline, Jan 29, 2020
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  5. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    If you had classes that mattered senior year, second semester you did it wrong. :D
     
    BitterYoungMatador2, Jan 29, 2020
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  6. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    My question is why someone worth a reported $600 million, and who would take helicopters to such things as a kid's basketball practice, was using a chopper built in 1991.

    If you're going to make this essentially your auto, it ought to be top of the line.
     
    3_Octave_Fart, Jan 29, 2020
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  7. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Yeah, well, at least I drank a lot of beer and smoked weed, so there was that.
     
    swingline, Jan 29, 2020
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  8. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Read a story yesterday that talked to a number of pilots about working for VIPs and the pressure to get them to a destination. "Gotta-get-there-itis," one of them called it. Like anyone in a gig, they feel pressure to get the job done or lose the work. There can also be pressure to fly solo and spare the expense of a co-pilot, if applicable. The story included one pilot who had flown Kobe several times, and he said Kobe was not a demanding client.
     
    playthrough, Jan 29, 2020
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  9. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    I took eight classes for 23 hours second semester senior year because I needed to graduate on time. Still partied my ass off and finished with a 1.2 for the semester with (IIRC) 5 Ds, 2 passes (in pass/fail classes) and one C-. I nearly had a nervous breakdown but I survived.
     
    CD Boogie, Jan 29, 2020
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  10. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Kobe's greatest feat ever is transforming himself from rapist to revered feminist in 13 short years. It is astounding.
     
    poindexter, Jan 29, 2020
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  11. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    And yet that's exactly what he did, thanks to feminists he lived with and feminists elsewhere.
     
    TigerVols, Jan 29, 2020
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  12. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Both of these posts are well put.

    The fact that they haven't met in person in 4 years does seem to raise the question that maybe they had reached more of an uneasy truce than a brotherhood?
     
    TigerVols, Jan 29, 2020
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