Adding to the “Mike Tyson has had a rough life” sympathy angle, don’t forget about his daughter’s death. His four year old kid gets tangled up in the power cord to a treadmill and chokes to death, corpse gets found by her seven year old brother. That’s....shit, how do you recover from that? I don’t think Tyson did,…

I’m not a boxing fan so I’m out of my depth here, but I’m not sure if it was “loved watching Tyson” fight as much as it was “were morbidly curious about what he was going to do, because anything could happen.” Knock somebody out in 80 seconds? Get knocked out by some lardass? Bite somebody’s ear off? Threaten to eat…

I always thought that people had some semblance of sympathy for Mike Tyson because it seems pretty apparent that he is suffering/has suffered from some number of mental illnesses. I dont think that absolves Tyson of anything, but Mayweather seems to be pretty lucid and coherent and is blissfully unaware of what a huge…

You’re right, of course. I know that there are some perfectly normal Skins fans, I just couldn’t let that low-hanging fruit hang there...

Dr. Dre is a guy who always sticks out for me as getting a pass. Not an athlete but similar question.

Yeah Tyson went to jail, had a 4 year old daughter die, and declared bankruptcy. The cosmic scales of karma or whatever, seem slightly more balanced for him vs Mayweather who has a hangar full of million dollar supercars, goes on Twitter frequently to brag about how rich he is, and how much money he bets, and in…

Mike Tyson is just so quotable!

Tyson is not held in the same low esteem as Mayweather because he’s charismatic. He’s not charismatic, he’s a freaken idiot. He’s not as loathed because he has been punished not only by the court but by his life. He’s a tragic failure.

It also helps that even casual observation of Mike Tyson makes it seem like he has deep mental/emotional issues. Not that those issues excuse the awful things he did/does, but the guy has seemed genuinely fucked up from the start and you know he wasn’t getting treatment when he was fighting.

Why isn’t Mike Tyson as reviled as Floyd Mayweather?

I really don’t know any details, but I thought Tyson was trying to turn his life around or something, while Mayweather seems to enjoy being a piece of shit.

There will come a day when kids are so poorly raised and porn becomes so ever-present that there will just be porn everywhere. Everyone will do porn. Everyone will stare at porn in public. Guys on the subway will openly jack off to porn on the Oculus Rift. It’s just gonna get pornier and pornier until everyone lets it…

It is not standard procedure and they did it to get nude pics of the dead girl.

Yet you think it’s better to assume the family is behaving irrationally and making false accusations? Interesting choice.

If she was DOA according to the arriving medical personnel I can’t come up with why you would re-position the body and strip it to take pictures. Images of the body when the medical people showed up makes total sense, because that is how it was found.

What the fuck? Crime scene photos are important but cops don’t touch and move dead bodies. They certainly don’t fucking undress them. The ME does that in the morgue. What the actual fuck happened here?

Tidal is a flop for the exact reason that Ben Gibbard said it would: because they completely made it look like a bunch of rich guys angry they don’t have their money, instead of what it really should be about: the upcoming and poor musicians getting their proper cut of the revenue. It’s hard to feel sympathy for that…

We have a pool, and none of our kids have a summer birthday. Seems like a big waste.

Here's a shocker for you. In Canada, about 90% of people I know are 9/11 Truthers. We aren't crackpots, just critical thinkers. Why isn't this sort of hateful rhetoric used on JFK Truthers.