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Russia Declares War on ‘Mediocre Actor’ George Clooney
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God dammit.......as someone who loves absurd comedy, and has had a grudge with clooney since 2001, don't make me watch fox news for what sounds like a hilarious feel good onion-esque "news" report. I don't know where we stand in life anymore. Life feels like satire, so a satire news report is just being presented as real news.
All I know is watching the squaking heads make up fabricated insanity about Clooney sounds like a hilarious watch. This coming from someone who's never watched any more of fox news than the little bytes they play on the daily show, or John Olivers show. Just clips used for context of their own show.
Alright, I'll bite. You mentioned it previously, what's your "personal" beef with George Clooney? Are you David O Russell or something?
I was 16, and got out of high school. I used to walk 30 streets, because I didn't want to ride the bus packed with kids.
So I'm almost at tower city, about 5 streets away, when everything is blocked off, and a crowd blocking everything. I'm trying to get through, but he's in the alley, that they've since renovated and made a trendy spot, but back then it was just a gross alley. He had his trailer in the alley, filming something on the other side.
I'm trying to get through, and it's just this mob of people, and everytime I say "excuse me" they're like "WHERE ARE YOU TRYING TO GO??? THATS GEORGE CLOONEY!!!" and I do not care. He had been a massive celebrity by this point.
The whole crowd is facing south where Clooney is, and I'm trying to go west. I get like 25% through this crowd, and Clooney points at me, and a minute later these two guards are now trying to get through the crowd trying to stop me. Difference is, I'm a 200lbs high schooler, and these guards are big buff dudes, like 300lbs. So they were having more difficulty getting through than I was.
I give Clooney the finger, because what the fuck, and he sarcastically waves like the queen of england.
Finally I get through to the other side (what should have been a 20 second walk if nobody was there took 15-20 minutes), and now I got Cleveland police on me. They question why I'm trying to attack Clooney, I tell them I don't give a fuck about him. I'm trying to get to tower city to catch the red line. They let me go.
But to think Clooney thinks he's so important that he can just block other people from their daily lives, and try to send cops on you if you're ignoring him.
And ever since then I've had a grudge against him. And yes, I AM attracted to Francine Smith in that 2006 episode of American Dad where she hates him for being (her words) "a self centered smug prick". I said "So THIS is what it's like having a boner for a cartoon character!"
That being said, I still don't see the appeal of those sites that draw cartoon mothers having sex with their cartoon kids......even if you draw them as adults, it's still weird.
That was a hell of a ride with a really weird destination.
Even I gave you an upvote for this one!