Thought only the lead singer / writer and bizarrely the biker / BDSM guy were the only straight members of the original line up?
Victor Willis (cop & song writer) was married to Bill Cosbys on screen wife on The Cosby Show.
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Victor Willis (cop & song writer) was married to Bill Cosbys on screen wife on The Cosby Show.
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I wonder what stories they both have about old sleeping pill bill.
Weird how much they don’t like Sir Sadiq , can’t put my finger on it but he’s very unpopular
It really a mystery. They seem to hate Eni aluko similarly - racking my brains as to their reasons
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Hawk Tuah’s at it now. She needs to get back to her roots spitting on dicks
Sad to see this. I didn’t particularly begrudge her wealth and fame. She got a chance and took it. Didn’t seem a toxic or nasty person. Just seems to have been totally poisoned. It’s not like she didn’t have enough revenue streams to make enough cash so she’s never have to work again.
Haven't watched the video but she was being advised by Jake Paul, I remember reading.
It feels like we’ve reached a point where people are brazenly celebrating blatant scamming.
Sounds about right. Gotta get that money. Look at the President elect and his history of scams.
You've got a fair chunk of Americans cheering on trump for dodging taxes, literally taking money out of them
Whilst for sure, I think it’s mad that people gave money, I think that things like this switches blame onto those that lost cash and gives the perps an out.
I worked with a guy who was a bi-polar ex fireman. He had a big pot of cash after being laid off and was on a high looking online for something to invest in. He must have put his details in somewhere or his email got tracked as he was quickly contacted by an investment firm and sunk all his cash into it. Needless to say he never got a penny back and was suicidal by the time I saw him as he felt so stupid.
Think it’s easy to say the victims are dumb but you don’t know what’s going on. They obviously trusted her for whatever reason and she has had no qualms in betraying that. Probably excuses it herself by thinking of them all as stupid.
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It’s a different world now, we grew up with people calling you about a great opportunity or some Nigerian Prince emailing you needing to use your account to store funds of which you’ll get a percentage. Kids these days have social media marketing campaigns of millionaires showing them the lifestyle they (fake) live and give them the opportunity to be part of it.
Sad lonely men that live in their Ma’s spare room see Andrew Tate driving Bugattis and talking to women like crap and think that’s how he got where his is. With some alpha mentality. They don’t connect the dots of him being involved in human trafficking
I agree that it is sad that desperate people do desperate things with their money, only to lose it to grifters. I just thought the comment was funny.
One other element that exists now is that these sorts of things are shared widely within online communities which creates a sort of self-perpetuating buzz that convinces more people to jump on board. I remember feeling something similar when 'investing' in a few Kickstarter campaigns some years ago. The comments sections would become all these mad fanboys desperately convincing each other to plough more cash in so more rewards get unlocked, and over the month or so you could find yourself starting to justify all these little extras to your initial pledge. Suddenly you're locked in for like £300 for something you won't get for 2 years.
So when something like this comes along and you've got these pre-primed communities full of gullible people desperate to make a "bitcoin billion" and who exist within closed off echo chambers like Telegram or whatever, it's a recipe for disaster. Someone notable comes along, gets them pumped to invest in something totally worthless and then they all tell each other what a great opportunity it is, because the more people on board the better it is for them (or at least if they're in early enough).
How much is she supposed to have made off them, anyway?
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