# To the 100+ assholes who converged on Kobe hearing – You’re all fucking sheep **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 7, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612 "2003-08-07T16:22:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/21 "2003-08-07T20:20:17Z")
My stomach turned listening to the jersey-clad, star-struck idiots gathered around the courthouse, ready to blither to any media type that would give them their 15 minutes. “I know what happened here was bad and all but hey, it’s Kobe.” ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/22 "2003-08-07T20:23:17Z")
I don’t understand what type of vacuous life these people must lead to travel hundreds of miles to get _a fucking_ autograph :smack: from a guy headed inside for a criminal trial. These people can be not healthy for our society. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/23 "2003-08-07T20:23:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \* > \*\*What? So only people who agree with the OP should be allowed to post? Oh yeah, that makes sense. :rolleyes: \*\* You didn’t disagree; you simply made the stupid comment that the OP shouldn’t have posted his opinion. I find it deliciously ironic that you are now whining about being allowed to post your opinion after you just flamed someone else for doing the same. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/24 "2003-08-07T20:28:03Z")
And he isn’t. Unless these people are blocking traffic along a route he takes, or camping out on his fromt lawn or something, he’s _not_ personally affected. And since he mentioned no such effect on his personal life, I assume there was none. I stand by my “What’s it to you?” ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/25 "2003-08-07T20:34:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blowero \* > \*\*You didn’t disagree; you simply made the stupid comment that the OP shouldn’t have posted his opinion. I find it deliciously ironic that you are now whining about being allowed to post your opinion after you just flamed someone else for doing the same. \*\* Uh no. I didn’t say he shouldn’t have posted his opinion. I literally asked a question to which an answer was expected. And my dismissal of his OP constitutes disagreement with it. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/26 "2003-08-07T20:42:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \* > \*\*And he isn’t. Unless these people are blocking traffic along a route he takes, or camping out on his fromt lawn or something, he’s _not_ personally affected. And since he mentioned no such effect on his personal life, I assume there was none. I stand by my “What’s it to you?” \*\* And I stand by my “Your post was completely useless.” Why don’t you try directing your comment back at yourself. What’s it to YOU if the OP wants to rant about stupid people? > [@](#): > > Uh no. I didn’t say he shouldn’t have posted his opinion. I literally asked a question to which an answer was expected. And my dismissal of his OP constitutes disagreement with it. Utter bullshit… ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/27 "2003-08-07T21:11:08Z")
Your opinion. Whatever, I stated my opinion. I’m done here. ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/28 "2003-08-07T22:14:14Z")
It’s All Kobe, All The Time !!! No one is allowed to talk to me unless they abide by this rule. Thank you. deb the Clippers fan 2world Note: my officemate and I have a 1 minute a day time for Kobe talk, no more, no less. Some of you are taking this a little too serious, yes I am looking a couple of people in this thread. Let the justice system do it’s job. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/29 "2003-08-08T00:36:17Z")
Taking what serious? ---
**Author:** ![Keith\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@Keith\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith_Berry)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/30 "2003-08-08T00:39:59Z")
Reminds me of the turn-out for Mike Tyson’s assault trial in Maryland a couple of years ago. Bunch of dim-witted fuckheads who showed up outside the courthouse to show support for “the Champ”. Eh? I know general intelligence is on the decline, but weren’t these people aware that Tyson hasn’t been “Champ” in quite a long time? Also, what kind of situational ethics or relative morality do you you practice when you feel the need to leave your house to cheer on a man who was being charged with beating two older men senseless because of a fender-bender? ---
**Author:** ![davidw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/31 "2003-08-08T00:48:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by smiling bandit \* > \*\*The odd thing is, the worse the “celebrity”, the more some small group of fans defends them. I can’t imagine Tom Hanks inspiring such mindless devotion, and he is a genuine nice guy. \*\* That’s funny, that’s exactly how people would have described Kobe a few short weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/32 "2003-08-08T00:58:16Z")
**World Eater** this is a warning, you NEED to only talk to me about Kobe–All Kobe, All the Time. Next time I will have to give you a raspberry and a stern typing to cause it is All Kobe, All the Time This thread is not about the actual trial, but about the circus surround the trial (or at least that is how I read it). The circus is funny, although the clowns are scary. The trial itself is serious, but since the odds of any of us serving on the jury is slim to nil, we have no say in the outcome. I personally would like to skip to the end of the trial and not be subjected to All Kobe, All the Time on the radio and TV. It is especially worse since I am in L.A. county. But the circus is funny. Did you see the pics of the media area around the courthouse? It looked like Disneyland parade with Mickey Mouse ears sticking up all over. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/33 "2003-08-08T02:26:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bruce\_Daddy \* > \*\*From what I understand, this isn’t a big community, sort of like the town I grew up in, **UNION, SC.** \*\* [total hijack] I’m sorry. 😃 I grew up in Cross Anchor right off of Highway 56, just a jump and a holler from Union. Small world and it just keeps getting smaller, huh? This is starting to scare me. I bet we even know a few of the same people because in Union everybody knows/is related to everybody else. [/total hijack] Now that that’s out of the way…I think the media is just jumping on the Kobe thing because there is absolutely nothing else newsworthy to talk about. Besides, what else are they gonna break out their “Special Alert” graphics for? Fox was so hard up for news a few days ago, that they reported on yachts on fire in Seattle, I think, and their frequent updates amounted to nothing more than “Yep, they are still on fire.” It reminded me of “Buckwheat is STILL dead” from SNL. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/34 "2003-08-08T07:16:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by deb2world \* > \*\*deb the Clippers fan 2world > \*\* Oh, so _you’re_ the one! 😉 -Rav ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/35 "2003-08-08T07:18:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Greywolf73 \* > \*\*It reminded me of “Buckwheat is STILL dead” from SNL. \*\* Sorry to barge in, but wasn’t that \*Generalissimo Francisco Franco \* who was still valiantly holding on in his fight to remain dead? ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/36 "2003-08-08T14:02:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Greywolf73 \* > \*\*[total hijack] > I’m sorry. 😃 > I grew up in Cross Anchor right off of Highway 56 \*\* Sorry about that, but it’s better than Cross Keys. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/37 "2003-08-08T15:29:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dumbguy \* > \*\*I care, and I’ll tell you why. Because thousands of women who have been raped are watching them. \*\* what, was he found guilty already? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612/38 "2003-08-08T17:57:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*what, was he found guilty already? \*\* What the hell does that have to do with anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-100-assholes-who-converged-on-kobe-hearing-you-re-all-fucking-sheep/193612.md?page=1)