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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 11:23 AM
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Is there any difference between Arnie and Mike Tyson?
Seems as if their technique with women is about the same.

How come one goes to prison and other to the governor's mansion?
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 11:42 AM
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1. GO -- I started a thread about this last night
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 11:50 AM
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3. Oops. Great minds think alike!
It's the body shape and the behavior that made me suddenly see the resemblance. One goes to jail and every person in the country would support lynching the guy and the other runs for governor! Tyson the felon can't even vote. Arnie the groper is treated as if he's a respectable man.

It's interesting to compare how the two have been treated for what seems pretty similar behavior.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 11:52 AM
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4. and for some reason, we have all the Arnold apologists
go figure :shrug:

BTW: :hi:
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 11:57 AM
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6. Arnie is Bluto not Popeye and Maria is Olive Oyl
Some people need to re-adjust their think caps.

Apologists for Arnie! Where's me spinach?
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 12:10 PM
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7. ROFL - I yam what I yam
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DoNotRefill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 03:45 PM
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15. Catwoman....
there's a BIG difference between saying you're wrong on this and being an Arnold apologist. I think that I've made it plain that I don't approve of Arnold, but comparing him to Tyson just isn't right.

Arnold's behavior is morally wrong. Tyson's behavior is criminal. There's a major difference between the two.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 04:07 PM
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17. 1. This isn't my thread.
2. Arnold's behavior is criminal too.

Last I look, assault is a criminal offense.
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DoNotRefill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 06:05 PM
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18. If you want to get technical....
assault is an attempt to touch. You're thinking assault and battery.

As a practical rule, for there to be an assault and battery, there has to be some kind of intent to harm, or something done by the victim to tell the attacker that the contact is unwelcome.

If I walk up to you, engage you in friendly conversation, and lightly place my hand on your shoulder in a friendly manner, technically it may be construed as assault and battery. In practice, however, there's little or no chance of getting a conviction.

If I come up to you, get too close to you (ie invade your personal space), you say "get the fuck away from me, you cretin!", and I then touch you, well, there's a chance I might be convicted.

If you go up to a person and punch them in the face, breaking their nose, there's an excellent chance of a conviction.

Arnold's conduct falls under the first category. If he was a no-name Joe Blow off the street with no criminal history, acted the way he did, and somebody tried to press charges, I'd put the chances of a conviction at 5% MAX. This is irregardless of his financial or social status.
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 11:46 AM
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2. Absolutely! Mike punches HARDER!
That's all.
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 11:52 AM
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5. the boxer and the beefcake are both brutish
I was really thinking of their treatment of women.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 12:11 PM
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8. Tyson isn't running for office.
kinda sums it up.
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 12:11 PM
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9. Mike is a convicted rapist
For one thing.

I'm not apologizing for either guy because I think they both have the same attitude toward women. I consider then both scum but that's just me.
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dfong63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 12:38 PM
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10. mike had enough integrity to refrain from running for public office
Mike never pretended to be more than what he was.
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 12:44 PM
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11. Mike has an excuse of sorts....
He is mentally ill, Bi-Polar and his promoters and managers find him more aggressive without medication. When he was in prison, he was placed with the juveniles due to his mental age.

Arnie is just a controlling, arrogant bully!
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maxanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 01:41 PM
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12. Arnie has better teeth?
Arnie is a pig - Tyson a sociopath.
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 01:55 PM
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13. Mike Tyson is talented.
The only thing Arnold is good for is playing emotionless robots.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 03:01 PM
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14. Mike has a real talent
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 03:47 PM
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16. The main thing is they both talk funny
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beanball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 08:59 PM
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19. The difference
Iron Mike is black,the Terminator is white nuf said.
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