This is your reminder that Chuck Norris was a hateful, racist ghoul.

[populistensohn@climatejustice.social]

@FeloniousPunk @alda ️

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@AccordingtoWouter @alda I'm surprised people didn't already know about him. He has been a hateful, horrible person for a very very long time.

I do sort of wish that it wasn't like 99% of celebrities that people like who ultimately turn out to be absolute crap though. What ever happened to celebrities at least *pretending* to be good even if they weren't? These days they're just completely open and proud to be horrible.

[maxine@hachyderm.io]

@alda oh thanks, I hadn’t known the past tense applied to him yet. Good riddance.

[lara@metalhead.club]

@FeloniousPunk @alda @populistensohn

[feyter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@alda so it turned out, Chuck Norris was the Joke...

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@alda and quite a few other famous people. Perhaps we should stop making people famous.

[alda@topspicy.social]

@Netraven You are very intelligent.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@alda I'll take it.

[accordingtowouter@mastodon.world]

@nazokiyoubinbou @alda To be honest, I had to look him up (after seeing this thread) to find out who Chuck Norris was. Then I recognised his face. I must have seen him in a film or something. Other than that, he didn’t ring a bell.

[galbinuscaeli@spacey.space]

@alda And apparently alive yesterday. Who knew?

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@AccordingtoWouter @alda He was before my time — perhaps before the time of many here — but I'm surprised you hadn't run into him. Well, he was largely an American star in crappy beat-em-up shows and such, so you may have had less chance to run into him as directly. There are... a lot of Internet memes though. I'm surprised you haven't run into those. Or perhaps you have and just forgot? I guess it has been a while on most of them.

[alda@topspicy.social]

@nazokiyoubinbou @AccordingtoWouter If Wouter here is able to look him up, then let's leave it at that.

[accordingtowouter@mastodon.world]

@nazokiyoubinbou @alda Don’t laugh, but internet memes? Where on earth would I come across them?

That sort of film isn’t really my cup of tea. That’s probably why it didn’t look familiar to me.

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@alda i only know about him from boomer jokes

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@AccordingtoWouter @alda "Don’t laugh, but internet memes? Where on earth would I come across them?"

You're... literally *on* the Internet as you write that and as you see my response. There are memes all over the Fediverse. That said, I will concede that Chuck Norris memes are old and I'm not surprised if you didn't see them on Mastodon.

Those shows and movies aren't my thing either. I've never seen a single thing Chuck Norris was in I'm happy to say. I lost nothing finding out he was bad

[accordingtowouter@mastodon.world]

@nazokiyoubinbou @alda I decided to look up what internet memes are :). Pictures with text. But I don’t really come across them that often here on Mastodon. And certainly not with that Chuck.

In any case, it was another educational day today.

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@AccordingtoWouter Technically a meme is anything repetitive — generally done in a form of "you're supposed to laugh because you're supposed to laugh" (rather than you're supposed to laugh because it's funny.) It's most frequently presented in the form of pictures with text, but doesn't have to be. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch the American version of The Office, you'll know well what memes are from it...

A good example would be the "have you ever sat on" polls going around.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@alda like the people that got excited about him

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@alda and after some ask why we hate people like you.

didn't like him much for that, but i have the decency to not insult the dead.

seem people like you need to learn human decency before being allowed on internet.

[jscybersec@infosec.exchange]

@alda I'll miss the meme material, not much else.