I just did a quick Google. Bianca Censori is an Australian model and the significant other of Ye (Kanye West). She accompanied him to the Grammy Awards and wore a super sheer dress which was so sheer that she was effectively naked when she took off her coat. It caused a big stir apparently but I don’t see why it’s jerkish.
So, yesterday were the Grammy awards.
Censori is Kanye West’s wife, and she showed up to the awards naked (well, she had something on, but it was completely transparent),
The hand signal shown above is a sign that a person has been abducted. Lots of people claim that Censori is a victim of Kanye West.
Who is a very horrible person.
Thanks but why are we being told how to sign her last name? How is any of this relevant?
That’s a hand signal for being a victim of human trafficking,
So was I the only one mystified by @Slithy_Tove’s post? Is that hand signal widely known so whatever meaning was intended was clear to everyone else?
No, but I did realize that:
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Kanye West is a jerk, really to the point of having a mental disorder “I looooooove Hitler,” is a recent quote from him
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I was also vageuly aware people thought he kidnapped or controlled his wife(?)
But not that we use sign-language to call out to people.
it wasn’t clear to me and i know u.s. fingerspelling and some signs.
I had no idea what they meant or who Censari was until I Googled. I had read about the hand signal before but I didn’t remember it didn’t make the connection at all.
It’s not really ASL. It’s a distress signal which isn’t the sequence but the final hand signal at the end. I have heard stories where abducted kids have used it through a car windows and been saved. It’s similar to the international sign for “I’m choking” so someone will know to do the Heimlich on you.
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OK, saying that West is a jerk is certainly on-topic for this thread. Saying that Censori is a jerk probably also is, if anyone wishes to make that case. But the thing with the hand signal specifically is a hijack. Let’s drop that part here.
One assumes he is an agnostic.
A thought I shared with my many Twitter followers (three, maybe): If life had gone differently for me and I had become a celebrity of some stripe, even if my personality wasn’t that different from what it is now … I think the public would think I’m a dick. I mean, I don’t think I am, but I know I tend to keep to myself (ooh, he’s trying to be so enigmatic) until I know someone and then I’m insufferably clingy.
I’ve had so many situations in my life that I came away from feeling shitty about because of a misunderstanding of something I said, or did, or what someone else said or did - multiply that by the celebrity million and yep, I think I’d come off as a dick.
This story has been going around. Sarah Hyland from Modern Family got called out by comic Jeff Dye for being awful to everyone in a movie they were both in. She was the star, he had a minor role. It would just be one guy’s opinion but when it hit the internet there was a lot of corroborating stories posted about her.
I saw the clip on Instagram
He noted that she constantly smoked cigarettes (not really a bad trait, but interesting nonetheless) and complained when some of the extras took food off the craft services table. He then remarked on the social hierarchy of a cast, and how everybody had to pretend that she was super impressive (as when she was showing everybody the trailer to the live action Dumbo on her phone, during which she cried because she is such an emotive person).
Yeah, it pretty much is a bad trait, what with second hand smoke, killing more than 40000 americans a year. I mean, there are worse things, sure.
Eh, I watched that clip on TMZ and, quite frankly, I got a serious vibe that Jeff Dye is a little bit of a dick himself. I was expecting him to be complaining that Hyland screamed at people or was chronically late or belittled members of the crew for minor errors. OK, if she actually did complain about extras eating at the craft service table, that wasn’t really necessary, but it’s nothing to make a huge deal about.
He really lost me when he talked about describing the Dumbo trailer as “gay” meaning bad, just to be a jerk. 1996 called; it wants it’s casual homophobia disguised as comedy back.
She also has severe medical issues so I’m sure it’s an even worse idea for her to be smoking.
A recent episode of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me revealed that Diana Ross was riding in a limo, and phoned her manager from the back seat, asking him to call the driver to tell him to adjust the A/C. Apparently, she doesn’t speak to drivers.
I’d heard that same story about Kathleen Battle.