[HN Gopher] Chuck Norris has died
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Chuck Norris has died
Author : mp3il
Score : 669 points
Date : 2026-03-20 14:09 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| philipallstar wrote:
| An absolute class act of a human. Life well lived.
| bovermyer wrote:
| He had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud about,
| especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife at one
| point.
|
| However, so as not to speak (purely) ill of the dead, I will
| say that he was an accomplished martial artist with a prolific
| film career.
| sys32768 wrote:
| To be fair, you probably have some views some people think
| are pretty awful.
| bbkane wrote:
| Me 5 years ago did. I agree with all my views today. Who
| knows about me 5 years from now
| praptak wrote:
| I don't see how this matters. Whoever thinks I'm horrible
| is 100% allowed to say this after I'm dead.
| claytongulick wrote:
| Or, another option is that we could all give grace to
| others, even (especially) if they disagree with us.
| ericwood wrote:
| There's disagreement then there's being an outspoken
| supporter of systematically trying to strip rights away
| from others because of your religious beliefs. It's much
| deeper than having differing views on fiscal policy.
| ahhhhnoooo wrote:
| Disagree? I think it's safe to say that someone who
| campaigned to ban same sex marriage is more than just
| disagreeing. He's trying to ruin millions of lives.
|
| He was an Obama birther conspiracist.
|
| He thought gays shouldn't be allowed to join Boy Scouts.
|
| He was a big supporter of Netanyahu.
|
| This aren't things that are even remotely in the same
| ballpark as disagreement. If someone is using their
| celebrity status to cause harm to millions or tens of
| millions, I think we can say a few unkind words about
| them when they go.
| miltonlost wrote:
| Don't give grace to racists who spout birther conspiracy
| theories. Don't give grace to homophobes.
| ericjmorey wrote:
| Who are you granting grace to? Who are you denying it to?
|
| We know the answers to these questions for Norris.
| kelnos wrote:
| I'm fine with people disagreeing with me. I'm not fine
| when that disagreement results in campaigning for legally
| restricting the rights of others. There's a huge
| difference.
|
| If every racist, homophobe, and transphobe (and others)
| would stop trying to enshrine their views into law, I'd
| have much less of a problem with them. I wouldn't want to
| hang out with them, but I could safely ignore and not
| care one bit about their views.
| bovermyer wrote:
| Oh, for sure. MAGA types think some of my views are
| absolutely abhorrent. I'm pretty sure there are a few
| cultures that would kill me for my views.
|
| Just because they hate me, though, doesn't mean I can't
| disagree with their position.
| LightBug1 wrote:
| There's a solid difference between 'awful' and just plain
| 'dumb'.
| kelnos wrote:
| This is a tough thing. I do believe in moral relativism to
| a large extent, but I also think there are some things that
| are really just objectively morally and ethically "right"
| or "wrong".
|
| Hating on LGBT folks and trying to restrict their rights is
| one of those things that is wrong no matter how you dice
| it. People who believe otherwise are wrong, full stop.
|
| So it's not really so much about people thinking someone
| else's views are awful. It's about whether or not those
| views truly are awful. And I feel very safe in saying that
| if someone thinks my support of LGBT folks is pretty awful,
| they're in the wrong, not me. And I'm in the right to think
| their hateful views are awful.
|
| (Yes, I realize how arrogant that sounds, but I have to
| stand by it.)
|
| I think this is something that transcends politics or
| culture wars or anything like that. Having these sorts of
| hateful views are actively harmful to humanity's and
| society's future. That doesn't mean I think we should
| censor people (rampant censorship is _also_ actively
| harmful to our future), but it does mean we need to somehow
| fix people and shift the culture toward one that lets
| people live how they want in cases like this where doing so
| doesn 't actually hurt anyone else. I have no idea how to
| accomplish this, though.
| moscoe wrote:
| If I can quote Chael Sonnen, I'd like to say "you absolutely
| suck!"
| lich_king wrote:
| > He had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud
| about, especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife
| at one point.
|
| In 1961, in his early 20s. You get ~80 years on this planet
| to make mistakes and have views that some other people will
| dislike. If these are the worst things we can accuse him of,
| while acknowledging all his charitable work, I'd say he fared
| OK compared to many other role models we have.
| SilverElfin wrote:
| Apparently much more recently too:
|
| https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/13/chuck-norris-
| homophob...
|
| Turns out he was a MAGA Christian homophobe. That's ...
| disappointing. But I guess I was naive to expect something
| different.
| myvoiceismypass wrote:
| The Obama Birtherism nonsense was certainly not in this
| dude's 20s
| RIMR wrote:
| "Don't speak ill of the dead"?
|
| How about "Don't be a bad person when you're alive"?
| bovermyer wrote:
| Something I was brought up to believe was that you
| shouldn't speak ill of the recently deceased. A courtesy to
| those in mourning.
|
| I struggle with that rule sometimes.
| claytongulick wrote:
| Great advice. Do you follow it?
|
| Is there one way to be a good person?
|
| Does being a good person also mean agreeing with your
| politics?
| ahhhhnoooo wrote:
| There are good people whose politics I disagree with. If
| you are using your celebrity status to cause harm to
| millions on the international stage, systematically
| attempting to strip their rights, I think it's fair to
| say they weren't a good person.
| kelnos wrote:
| > _Does being a good person also mean agreeing with your
| politics?_
|
| Can we stop framing human rights as "politics"? People
| hating on others because they don't like that they're gay
| or trans or black or brown... that's just people being
| fundamentally awful people, and has nothing to do with
| politics.
|
| The fact that they are then taking their awfulness and
| engaging politically to enshrine their awful views into
| law just adds another dimension to it.
|
| I said this in another comment: if these people with
| awful views would stop trying to make those awful views
| laws, then I'd have much less of a problem with them; I
| could at least just ignore them.
|
| > _Is there one way to be a good person?_
|
| What a useless, one-dimensional take on the problem.
| taco_emoji wrote:
| Yeah, his support of the Obama "birther" conspiracy was super
| classy.
| Findecanor wrote:
| My dad was a film reporter in the late '70s/early '80s, and
| told me that Chuck Norris had been one of the friendliest
| celebrities he had ever met.
|
| My dad had some antiquated views himself too. People can
| have/be both, I suppose.
| kelnos wrote:
| That's the thing: you can be a perfectly pleasant person to
| interact with, and people can genuinely enjoy interacting
| with you.
|
| But then you can start actively using your celebrity status
| to advocate for legally restricting the rights of people you
| don't like. _That 's_ the real problem, and that's why I
| wouldn't want to look at people like Chuck Norris as role
| models.
|
| Being polite doesn't make you a good person. It just makes
| you tolerable, or even pleasant, in personal interactions.
|
| Sure, we can talk about things like your dad's experience.
| But there's more to it than that.
| gotofritz wrote:
| "Class act" is doing a lot of lifting there
| guywithahat wrote:
| As far as I can tell he was an incredible person in life,
| people only spoke well of him. Sad to see him go, although
| happy he lived a full life
| halcdev wrote:
| He finally defeated life
| freedomben wrote:
| While normally making jokes after a person's death would be
| socially questionable, in this case Chuck Norris himself loved
| the Chuck Norris jokes. For me at least, a good sense of humor
| is maybe the most endearing personality trait. RIP
| blueflow wrote:
| Giving people reason to laugh while you are old and dying is
| a superpower. I wish i will have it, too.
| mft_ wrote:
| Fundamentally, I'd argue that very little should ever be
| unreasonable or out of bounds to make jokes about; what is
| important is that it's _good_ humour.
|
| Case in point: https://theonion.com/hijackers-surprised-to-
| find-selves-in-h...
|
| And, as you say, in Chuck Norris' case, it's virtually
| obligatory.
| freedomben wrote:
| > _Fundamentally, I 'd argue that very little should ever
| be unreasonable or out of bounds to make jokes about; what
| is important is that it's good humour._
|
| On a personal level, I couldn't agree more. I do hope that
| culturally we get to that point at some time :-)
| Wololooo wrote:
| I mean, jokes are made to uplift, intent in joking is
| important and punching up is preferable to punching down,
| this being said this didn't apply to chuck Norris that
| would have already got to the punchline without throwing
| a single fist.
| rwoerz wrote:
| Death has Chucknorrised?
| breve wrote:
| Chuck Norris didn't have a near death experience, Death had an
| experience near him.
| WesolyKubeczek wrote:
| Commander Sam Vimes would like a word.
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| "We'd like to keep the circumstances private"
|
| Yes, but now I'm like, super suspicious.
| codingdave wrote:
| There is nothing suspicious about a celebrity's family just
| wanting to deal with death in private.
| bdcravens wrote:
| You're probably right, but that's not the usual wording you
| hear. Of course, when grieving, proper proofreading may not
| be (nor should it be) at the top of anyone's list.
| djeastm wrote:
| They usually don't put it like that, though. It's usually
| just "please respect our privacy during this difficult time",
| etc.
| bombcar wrote:
| He was defeated by Mr Rogers in a blood-stained sweater.
| Understandable they're keeping that quiet.
|
| (Ok, ok, technically it was Gandalf the Gray and White, and
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Knight)
| Rooster61 wrote:
| And Benito Musollini, and the Blue Meanie. And Cowboy Curtis
| and Jambi the Genie
| jcranmer wrote:
| And Robocop, Terminator, Captain Kirk and Darth Vader. Lo-
| Pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger.
| stego-tech wrote:
| And Bill S. Preston, Theodore Logan, Spock, The Rock, Doc
| Ock, and Hulk Hogan.
| WithinReason wrote:
| I'm sure he'll get better soon
| pixel_popping wrote:
| Chuck never dies.
| whizzter wrote:
| The Grim Reaper wished that Chuck Norris had only come to play
| chess with him!
| kyleee wrote:
| How did he die?
| hirako2000 wrote:
| Boredom, last enemy to defeat was life itself.
| volkercraig wrote:
| He was 86 years old
| ekropotin wrote:
| How do you know that? Scientists tried to measure Chuck
| Norris' age. The number refused to exist.
| huhkerrf wrote:
| Death had to take Chuck Norris sleeping, for if he had been
| awake, there would have been a fight.
| moralestapia wrote:
| Haha, good one.
|
| I will have to steal this one for my upcoming valedictorian
| speech.
|
| The crowd is going to love it.
| plasticsoprano wrote:
| Except is was said by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall upon
| Theodore Roosevelt's death and co-opted as a Chuck Norris
| joke.
| ohjeez wrote:
| It's a kickass obituary, no matter the subject!
| moralestapia wrote:
| I agree!
|
| It is funny because you usually think of Death as
| something inevitable and people just accept it but then
| ... some of these guys put up a fight. Mega-LMAO!
| chungy wrote:
| Teddy Roosevelt was the Chuck Norris of his day. It is
| appropriate.
| GolfPopper wrote:
| I think that comparison is quite unfair to Teddy, and
| overly flattering to Chuck Norris.
|
| Historian, sheriff, war hero, governor, explorer, and a
| successful President who reshaped America largely for the
| better. While Roosevelt was human, he led a life that
| very few have ever matched.
|
| That said, the line does fit them both.
| projektfu wrote:
| Literally saved Football.
| SebastianSosa wrote:
| All due respect, no comparison, teddy is a real legend
| not just cinema. Lets not conflate the two. Much love to
| chuck though.
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| I believe it's stolen from a quote said about Teddy Roosevelt
|
| https://markloveshistory.com/2018/01/06/death-had-to-take-
| ro...
| wnevets wrote:
| they were better when they were Vin Diesel jokes.
| fullshark wrote:
| The Vin Diesel jokes I remember had an absurd quality to them
| beyond "He's really tough." One I recall fondly was "Vin
| Diesel writes Donkey Kong Fan Fiction."
| huhtenberg wrote:
| Chuck Norris jokes were making rounds well before Vin Diesel
| was even born.
| wnevets wrote:
| Is this _a_ joke?
| cthalupa wrote:
| The Chuck Norris fact page that really kicked this all off
| started as a Vin Diesel fact page.
|
| Most of the original funny Chuck Norris facts were from the
| original Vin Diesel ones.
| wnevets wrote:
| The kids today don't know their internet lore. smh.
| thiagoharry wrote:
| And yet death was defeated. And with that, Chuck Norris took up
| its mantle.
| ndsipa_pomu wrote:
| Chuck Norris never slept, he just waited
| jm4 wrote:
| Chuck Norris doesn't sleep. He waits.
| seydor wrote:
| Chuck Norris let him win
| westurner wrote:
| Total Gym XLS has a 1-1.25" carriage bar for adding weight. 5gal
| bucket weights are the correct diameter to leave a gap between
| the weights and the floor.
|
| Chuck Norris facts:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts
| breve wrote:
| > _" Chuck Norris actually died 20 years ago, but Death hasn't
| built up the courage to tell him yet."_
|
| Death finally worked up the nerve.
| westurner wrote:
| "The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book" (2009) https://www.goog
| le.com/search?q=The+Official+Chuck+Norris+Fa... re: Official
| Chuck Norris Facts #1 - #101 w/ scripture:
|
| > #1: _" Chuck Norris was bitten by a cobra, and after five
| days of excruciating pain ... the cobra died."_
| westurner wrote:
| Of this list of martial arts films:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_martial_arts_films
|
| Which are similar in plot and character arc to
|
| "Man of Tai Chi"?
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Tai_Chi
|
| Which Chuck Norris films are also similar?
|
| > Forest Warrior, A Force of One, The Octagon, Forced
| Vengeance, Sidekicks,
|
| Which "hacker films" are also similar?
| ramesh31 wrote:
| Chuck Norris disagrees.
| neurocline wrote:
| Chuck Norris dominated WoW Barrens chat back in the day. It was
| kind of weird and amazing at the same time.
| sourcecodeplz wrote:
| RIP legend
| lhakedal wrote:
| Death becomes Chuck Norris.
| forinti wrote:
| He was supposed to die last year, but death took a while to
| muster the courage to call him.
| blitzar wrote:
| Death once had a near-Chuck experience
| jonplackett wrote:
| Chuck Norris doesn't die. Death gets Chuck Norris.
| looneysquash wrote:
| There's not a body inside Chuck Norris's casket, there's just a
| fist.
| booleandilemma wrote:
| I'm surprised Chuck Norris agreed to this.
| willio58 wrote:
| There was a period of like 2 years when I was a kid where chuck
| Norris jokes were all the rage on the playground and I made an
| iPhone app that listed them all.
|
| Jokes like "Chuck Norris is able to slam a revolving door."
|
| Anyway, I "built" this stupid app when I was like 13, copy-pasted
| like 300 jokes in there and a random one would show every time
| you tapped the screen.
|
| Chuck Norris's estate blocked the app from going live. I wish I
| had printed that rejection out and framed it.
| alias_neo wrote:
| I'm pretty sure they were all the rage when _I_ was at school,
| but that was long before the iPhone.
|
| I'm curious on what grounds they blocked the app.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| If you're curious, maybe you can look into Chuck's lawsuit
| against Penguin's book of Chuck Norris facts. He would
| eventually "co-author" his own book. The obvious guess here
| is trademark infringement (over use of Chuck's name/likeness)
| and/or copyright (if some of these facts were lifted from his
| book).
| alias_neo wrote:
| Interesting. I get the likeness thing, but surely one could
| publish jokes about anyone they wish and that would be
| satire or fair use or something?
|
| Facts and copyright is an interesting one, because I'm
| surprised a fact can be copyrighted, unless it's the
| wording specifically.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| For better or worse, in the US you can pretty much sue
| anyone for anything. A court certainly requires more
| evidence to declare liability than Apple would to remove
| an app.
|
| As far as copywriting facts, are you really under the
| impression that Chuck Norris is the only man who can
| _factually_ slam a revolving door? :)
| bananaflag wrote:
| (Not the parent poster) I found out about them in 2008-2009,
| and they were quite popular online and offline.
| PurpleRamen wrote:
| > I'm curious on what grounds they blocked the app.
|
| The app probably used his pictures or his name, which are
| easy candidates for copyright or trademark-claims.
| willio58 wrote:
| Mentioned below in a few comments but it was on the grounds
| of using his name/likeness.
| MBCook wrote:
| It was so funny how that whole thing happened.
|
| For the first time in over a decade he was suddenly relevant in
| a way. People remembered he existed, and they were playing off
| his tough guy image.
|
| And what did he do? Try and shut it down and start suing
| people. Stupid.
|
| It took him a couple of years to come around to it. If it
| wasn't for those jokes would he be remembered anywhere as well?
| Or would he be a much more obscure celebrity by now?
| petcat wrote:
| > would he be remembered anywhere as well?
|
| You underestimate how popular Walker, Texas Ranger was. It
| wasn't pulling ratings like Seinfeld, ER, or Friends, but it
| was a solid primetime staple for almost a decade.
|
| I never watched it myself, but the 50+ demo loved it.
| MBCook wrote:
| And he would be known by those people. I remember him being
| famous in the 90s.
|
| Would the people who grew up in the early 2000s, or
| especially 2010s, know much of anything about him?
|
| I mean how much do younger people know about Scott Baio or
| the Corys or Candice Bergen these days?
| spencerflem wrote:
| Haha haven't heard of either of those but I do know that
| when Chuck Norris does pushups he pushes the Earth down
| ben7799 wrote:
| You might be able to argue he was a bigger star than any
| of them.
|
| His career lasted far longer. He had big movie
| appearances for 30 years, none of those people
| accomplished that.
|
| Norris' first movie role was in 1968, first big credited
| appearance was 1972, Walker Texas Ranger finished in
| 2001.
| allturtles wrote:
| > You might be able to argue he was a bigger star than
| any of them.
|
| I think that's a hard argument to make.
|
| Candace Bergen's career was just as long. Her first movie
| role was 1966, she was nominated for an Oscar in 1979,
| and she was on a popular sitcom from 1988 to 1998 that
| won her five Emmies and attracted national commentary
| after criticism from the Vice President.
|
| I was a kid in the 80s and 90s and to me even then Chuck
| Norris was a B-movie self-parody joke character. He was
| not an A-list "action star" in the sense that
| Schwarzenegger, Stallone, or even Van Damme were.
| kakacik wrote:
| The dude was a badass, 6 time undefeated karate world
| champion (!!!), created his own variant of karate mixed
| with korean martial arts, was a good friend with Bruce
| Lee and that scene in Colloseum - probably the coolest
| thing I saw as a kid growing up behind iron curtain...
| not many actors can have such a resume on top of their
| acting career.
|
| Those who cared would/will know him regardless. But
| obviously those people would be relatively few and far
| apart.
| smartmic wrote:
| An immense amount of time, dedication and talent must
| have went into all those achievements. This requires
| mastery of body and mind at an exceptional level. Putting
| aside all jokes and acting roles, the martials arts is
| where he earned my full respect and that will also stick
| in my memory about him.
| beAbU wrote:
| He had is own line of denims, with extra stretchy
| crotches. Makes roundhouse kicking baddies in the face
| easier.
| rayiner wrote:
| I loved that show! I was a teenager. Peak 1990s.
| PoignardAzur wrote:
| Maybe for people in the US. Internationally? I haven't
| watched a single episode of WTR, I don't know anyone who
| has, but _everyone_ knows who Chuck Norris was.
| pingou wrote:
| It was quite popular in France.
| flagos10 wrote:
| In France, it was popular enough that everybody knew
| Texas ranger before the Chuck Norris jokes.
| johnisgood wrote:
| Same in Hungary.
| trizoza wrote:
| Same in Slovakia
| riffraff wrote:
| Same in Italy, it was prime time TV for a few years.
|
| Not overly popular, but many people already knew him from
| the Bruce Lee era, so it had a following by default.
| RajT88 wrote:
| Lots of fans in the Philippines, apparently.
| debo_ wrote:
| I watched it all the time in Canada.
| tadfisher wrote:
| Lies. Everyone knows _The Red Green Show_ is the only
| television program legally allowed in Canada.
| beAbU wrote:
| Huuuuuuuuge in South Africa.
| rmonvfer wrote:
| I loved WTR as a child in Spain! (This was like 15 years
| ago tho)
| davidw wrote:
| Seinfeld wasn't at all well known in Italy when I lived
| there, but WTR was.
| riffraff wrote:
| IIRC Seinfeld aired on Tele Montecarlo/La 7, while WTR
| aired on Italia 1, the difference in audience was
| massive.
| davidw wrote:
| I seem to recall it aired at some kind of weird time too.
| It didn't seem to be very widely known or watched.
| Anonyneko wrote:
| It was extremely popular in Russian-speaking areas in the
| late 90s.
| sharyphil wrote:
| Yes! Oldfagi remember. Also, he was just called "Cool
| Walker", which was appropriate.
| czbond wrote:
| As a gent born and raised in Texas, and has never seen
| the show - I am pleasantly surprised to see these
| comments about how popular WTR was internationally. If I
| had been asked to bet, I would have lost money on this
| one.
| pessimizer wrote:
| I've got the impression that the big US exports are ones
| that play into big American stereotypes, e.g WTR,
| Baywatch, Friends. Not even that they see these shows and
| get programmed with these stereotypes, but that they have
| these stereotypes (Texas, California, NYC) and shows like
| this feed their imaginations and give them detail.
|
| Exported media is weird. Like the huge proportion of
| British/BBC output (usually period, but also often
| detective in a way redolent of Christie) that is made
| primarily for export to foreign consumers who think of
| British upper-class culture as aspirational.
| VTimofeenko wrote:
| There is US exported media that just randomly becomes
| popular in a specific demographic. Case in point:
| Adventures of Ford Fairlane, a flick with Andrew Dice
| Clay that got a razzie the year it came out. IIRC it got
| a cult following in Norway because the voice over was
| done by a popular radio DJ.
| quickthrowman wrote:
| Walker, Texas Ranger and Baywatch were both created by
| non-network studios as syndicated shows, they weren't
| prime time network shows. The budgets for syndicated
| content is a lot lower than network produced content.
|
| The rights to air these sorts of shows are dirt cheap
| compared to Friends or Seinfeld, so it makes sense that
| cheap syndicated garbage like Walker, Texas Ranger and
| Baywatch were popular internationally, the rights were
| cheap.
| pafje wrote:
| As others have said, WTR is very well-known in France
| while most people have never heard of Seinfeld.
|
| Same with Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard.
| kelnos wrote:
| Assuming this sort of phenomenon extends further than
| France, this quite well explains many of the
| misconceptions Europeans have about the US.
|
| Thinking WTR, Dallas, or TDoH are representative of
| American culture is... hilarious.
|
| But I guess shows that hit the big American cultural
| stereotypes hard are maybe the ones that do better
| abroad?
| riffraff wrote:
| I think Hazard didn't sound stereotype at all, like,
| nobody had a clue why the car was called General Lee, or
| what the confederate flag meant.
|
| It was just a fun show. Magnum PI, Different Strokes,
| McGiver.. were just as popular.
| karel-3d wrote:
| From my memory from the 90s: Baywatch, X-Files, that
| speaking car one, Beverly Hills 90210, Ninja Turtles.
| Some dumb sitcom named Step by Step? edit: oh and ALF
|
| Oh and Married with Children, but it was always very late
| night and I was not allowed to watch it.
|
| And our teacher always played us ET on VHS. (and that dog
| playing basketball.)
|
| that's america for me when I was a kid
| zem wrote:
| dallas was _huge_ in dubai in the 80s. like to the extent
| that people would plan to sit home on the evening it was
| on.
|
| (I didn't watch it; my parents believed soap operas were
| unsuitable for kids)
| MBCook wrote:
| Yeah. As an American I would've absolutely never guessed
| it was that popular.
| quickthrowman wrote:
| It was a syndicated show, the goal is to license it to as
| many companies as possible. It was never a network TV
| show like Seinfeld, those syndication rights are way more
| expensive than created for syndication shows like WTR.
| harperlee wrote:
| In Spain it was on the TV also for like a decade, and
| everybody knows who he is. Also in France.
| chistev wrote:
| Haven't watched it and first time hearing about it too.
| But I knew who Chuck Norris was.
| buran77 wrote:
| > Maybe for people in the US. Internationally?
|
| It was big internationally. But the jokes made Norris
| known to a whole different generation than the one
| watching WTR.
| amarant wrote:
| I'm Swedish and I was only vaguely aware Chuck Norris
| even had a career outside the jokes.
| tmtvl wrote:
| Belgian here, only thing I ever watched that had Chuck in
| it was Way of the Dragon.
| sixtyj wrote:
| Czechs love Chuck Norris and WTR. It aired between 1995
| and 2012. The series is still occasionally rerun.
| karel-3d wrote:
| It was very popular here (Czech Republic). Not prime-time
| popular, but popular enough.
| CalChris wrote:
| So Chuck Norris is an Anna Kournikova, famous for having
| been moderately famous and monetized ad infinitum?
| zem wrote:
| I remember watching a few episodes on TV as a kid but I
| could not have told you who acted in it
| beAbU wrote:
| Any person from South Africa from that era will have a
| certain tv announcement permanently etched in their
| memories. It goes something like:
|
| "Friday night is action night with Walker Texas Ranger"
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| The only time I ever saw Walker,Texas Ranger was when I was
| living in Italy for a few months in the aughts. It was
| dubbed in Italian. Apparently it was popular there.
| calmbonsai wrote:
| Somehow, I don't think he'll be remembered for Karate
| Kommandos ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK6hb602588
| BrandoElFollito wrote:
| Never heard about this series in France. I discovered him
| through the jokes. I am 55
| TheGRS wrote:
| Personally I was at a prime age watching a lot of Conan
| O'Brien's Late Night show and one of his best skits was the
| Walker Texas Ranger Lever. They would pick the most
| ridiculous clips from the show and just run them out of
| context. IIRC Chuck Norris even showed up on the show one
| time to give him a "stern talking to".
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpIEyn9G6_8
|
| Also, he fought Bruce Lee! One of my favorite face-offs
| ever filmed, esp in the martial arts movie genre. Not many
| actors who could say that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
| NlTyJhbTxxo&pp=ygUZY2h1Y2sgb...
| jcmfernandes wrote:
| It was super popular in Portugal.
| agumonkey wrote:
| I can report that french reddit thread all mention Walker
| Texas ranger all along the page. These Sunday lunch shows
| hit different.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| Maybe not _as_ well, but between the "Walker gave me aids"
| clip and Conan's Walker Texas Ranger lever, he'd still have
| been known well enough.
| MBCook wrote:
| Oh good point.
| khazhoux wrote:
| The quote is "Walker says I have AIDS"
| seba_dos1 wrote:
| This post certainly wouldn't be here right now.
| romanhn wrote:
| Found out about his passing from my teenage kids. They knew
| him as some legendary tough guy based solely on the jokes,
| but had no idea who he actually was. To be fair, looking at
| some other comments here about his political and personal
| leanings, I didn't know who he actually was either.
| observationist wrote:
| His proximity to Bruce Lee earned him more or less permanent
| kung fu cinema fame. Walker,Texas Ranger and other work he
| did definitely boosted it, but the memes clinched it.
| beAbU wrote:
| Chuck Norris made a Chuck Norris joke in one of the
| Expendable movies, and for that I'm willing to forgive all
| his indiscretions.
| tracker1 wrote:
| That is hands down one of my ATF scenes in any movie.
| Expendables 2 was IMO just about the most "fun" movie I've
| ever seen as well. It wasn't great cinema, or a specific
| classic.. but it was fun. I have similar feelings about
| Gremlins 2 as well. We need more fun movies, but too many
| people seem to have not been issued a sense of humor these
| days.
| beAbU wrote:
| X1 is also great imo. Just the perfect blend of action,
| self awareness and cheese.
| tim333 wrote:
| Maybe https://youtu.be/OBGtINJmFto?t=79
| beAbU wrote:
| Yep, this is the one
| basisword wrote:
| >> If it wasn't for those jokes would he be remembered
| anywhere as well?
|
| You're assuming the jokes make people dive deeper. In reality
| I know the jokes and didn't have a clue who he was and never
| cared enough to find out. The reality is the probably didn't
| make much of a difference to how well he or his work was
| actually known.
| MBCook wrote:
| No, I didn't mean it that way. I meant they wouldn't even
| know the name.
|
| Not that they actually know about him past the tough guy
| persona of the jokes.
| amelius wrote:
| > And what did he do? Try and shut it down and start suing
| people. Stupid.
|
| Isn't that an obligation when you own a trademark? That you
| sue people, or else you may lose the trademark?
| fooqux wrote:
| > Isn't that an obligation when you own a trademark? That
| you sue people, or else you may lose the trademark?
|
| It's not quite as cut and dry as you suggest. Besides, in
| which way was a trademark being violated? Last I knew
| merely talking about and referencing a celebrity by name
| was not a trademark violation.
| chirau wrote:
| Chuck Norris was and is still an international sensation.
| Chuck Norris is right up there with Arnold Schwarzenegger and
| Jean Claude Van Damme.
|
| His round kick, Walker Texas Ranger and his fight with Bruce
| Lee. In Africa, to this day, some TV channels still play his
| stuff.
| block_dagger wrote:
| If it weren't...subjunctive mood. Sorry, it's Pedantic Friday
| in my small world.
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| Was this before or after Mike Huckabee started publicly
| offering Chuck Norris as his solution to "border security" on
| the campaign trail?
| dstroot wrote:
| John Wick wears Chuck Norris pajamas. RIP to a legend.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| I'm still enjoying the Nolan jokes / memes, but in a weird way
| because of course, via
| https://www.reddit.com/r/CroppedNorrisJokes/
| dilawar wrote:
| In India, we have Rajni (Rajnikanth) jokes that keep increasing
| in number and are still pretty popular...
|
| I remember reading 'The Vinci Code' in college which was very
| popular those days and getting a SMS from a friend almost the
| same day, "Rajnikanth gave Monalisa that smile!".
| make_it_sure wrote:
| i created a Facebook App that did something similar, it posted
| random jokes on your wall
|
| This was like 2005-2006
| beAbU wrote:
| I printed out all the jokes on my dad's home office printer and
| sold copies at school. This was pre smartphones.
| QuiEgo wrote:
| The expendables had a scene that was basically the meme in live
| action, highly recommend. It's all over YouTube.
| gljiva wrote:
| That scene makes the movie one of the few 10/10 movies in my
| opinion. It's perfect for the target audience.
|
| Seeing my dad, who grew up on these actors' action flicks,
| laugh himself to tears when Chuck Norris appears is one of my
| favourite memories.
| Cpoll wrote:
| Having been near the epicenter, I recall that Vin Diesel jokes
| (same format) pre-dated Chuck Norris ones. I always found it a
| shame that the Chuck Norris ones caught on; Vin Diesel is, imo,
| a better role model.
|
| I bet Vin wouldn't have blocked your app.
| tracker1 wrote:
| Only God could defeat Chuck Norris.
| ithkuil wrote:
| Well, that remains to be seen
| Lukas_Skywalker wrote:
| I did something similar when Microsoft gave away Windows Phones
| for every app published on the app store. I used the Chuck
| Norris API though. The one I used is sadly no longer available
| (I think it was called CNDB). But there's a new one:
| https://api.chucknorris.io
| mindslight wrote:
| > _Chuck Norris's estate blocked the app from going live. I
| wish I had printed that rejection out and framed it._
|
| Seeing the youthful spirit run headfirst into the corprocracy
| of locked down devices and app stores is depressing. Twenty
| years ago you would have made a webapp or flash animation, most
| likely avoided scrutiny and not even been shaken down. Thirty
| years ago you would have made a QBasic program and
| floppy/email/dcc it to your friends, completely illegible to
| the corprocracy. But these days simply trying to publish
| through the common channels, and you're immediately subject to
| restrictions made for businesses.
| psadauskas wrote:
| The Ruby gem "Faker" is used for generating fake data for
| testing, like legit-looking names, emails, phone numbers, lorum
| ipsum text, etc. About 10 years ago I was working on a
| messaging app, and wanted some real messages to see in the UI
| while I was developing it. One of the best engineering
| decisions I've made in my career was to pick the Chuck Norris
| Facts generator for the messages, so every time I re-seeded my
| local db or looked at a review app on staging, I was greeted by
| two fake people sending a half-dozen Chuck Norris facts to each
| other.
|
| https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker/blob/main/lib/locales/en...
| eddyzh wrote:
| In had one app like that from Cydia Loved it.
| HarHarVeryFunny wrote:
| Jeff Dean got his Chuck Norris app published by Chuck Norris.
| incanus77 wrote:
| I knew of "Walker, Texas Ranger" but the jokes definitely kept
| him relevant to my generation (age: 49) for a resurgent period
| of time.
|
| The only one I remember offhand:
|
| "Chuck Norris doesn't do pushups, he pushes the world down."
| fortran77 wrote:
| His _estate_? While he was still alive?
| kelnos wrote:
| The "slam a revolving door" one was absolutely one of my
| favorites. Also "Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups; he pushes
| the Earth down".
| zem wrote:
| I loved "chuck norris had a fight with superman. loser had to
| wear their underwear outside their pants."
| Noe2097 wrote:
| It's a trick; he will come back unscathed in the next episode.
| tchock23 wrote:
| First Wade Boggs and now this. Just awful.
| messe wrote:
| Wade Boggs is very much alive. He lives in Tampa Florida. He's
| in his late 60s.
| markus_zhang wrote:
| Oh this guy is a legend. Did he do anything with tech
| peripherally? I hope we can put up a dark top for him as an
| exception.
| krapp wrote:
| Not even every important influential person in tech gets the
| black bar. You think an actor who is mostly known for low-
| effort internet memes and pretending to be a cowboy on tv
| deserves it?
| kstrauser wrote:
| I guess it's a generational thing, because I shouldn't
| actually be surprised that someone would know so very little
| about Chuck Norris.
| markus_zhang wrote:
| nvm just a thought.
| reactordev wrote:
| Chuck Norris didn't die, we simply phased out of his reality.
| bnchrch wrote:
| I can only assume Chuck has decided to relieve the grim reaper of
| his duties, leaving us all here to meet our own end not with a
| scythe but a roundhouse kick.
| 5555624 wrote:
| Shades of Piers Anthony's "On a Pale Horse," Death showed up to
| take Chuck Norris and Chuck killed him, taking his place.
| ourmandave wrote:
| I loved that series, until the last book. Maybe the novelty
| had worn off.
|
| It's been a long time since I read it, but didn't the current
| Death decide to retire and pass the role on?
| bell-cot wrote:
| If you're referring to
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Velvet_Cloak - note
| that it was _written_ a couple decades after the prior
| books of the series, for a different publisher, to a
| different length. Those would be yellow flags with almost
| any author.
| 5555624 wrote:
| In "On A Pale Horse," Zane kills the current Death and
| assumes the role. I don't recall that he then steps down in
| a later book.
| npn wrote:
| A part of internet dies with him. RIP.
| endriju wrote:
| Wishing him speedy recovery! Legend
| Archit3ch wrote:
| He immediately asked the ferryman for a coin to get to the other
| side.
| vardump wrote:
| So I guess Chuck Norris has now keys for the Pearly Gates and is
| the one who gets to pick the heavenly club members. I'm sure
| roundhouse kicks are somehow part of the process.
|
| Why do I feel like an era has ended...
|
| Rest in peace.
| throwaway29303 wrote:
| Godspeed. ;~;7
| calebelac wrote:
| What a legend.
|
| I enjoyed reading the comments here. RIP.
| delichon wrote:
| I fear the crime wave as the thugs hear about this and take the
| streets back. Be careful out there people.
| Insanity wrote:
| Oh wow, coincidentally I watched a Chuck Norris film recently
| with my (90 year old) grandmother, which resulted in me diving
| down a bunch of Chuck Norris memes for the first time in more
| than a decade.
|
| RIP
| with_a_herring wrote:
| The headline is inaccurate. Chuck Norris is alive and kicking in
| another dimension.
| vladde wrote:
| one of my favorite stack overflow questions: Why does HTML think
| "chucknorris" is a color?
|
| https://stackoverflow.com/q/8318911
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Some recent discussion on that one a couple Advents ago:
|
| https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/20/
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42468318)
| bityard wrote:
| I came to the conclusion a long time ago that early browser
| developers must have really been on quite a lot of drugs.
| m463 wrote:
| _And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud
| of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and
| they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink
| until the end of days._ -- from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
| figassis wrote:
| This just means we're in a simulated universe. He's respawned
| elsewhere.
| raffael_de wrote:
| he has become death.
| rootusrootus wrote:
| Chuck Norris does not go to heaven, heaven comes to him.
| aimanbenbaha wrote:
| The Grim Reaper requested permissions from Chuck Norris to take
| his soul.
| simpaticoder wrote:
| Chuck Norris (and Michael Landon) were golden age role models for
| young men. Strong but thoughtful, firm but compassionate, and
| deeply principled but also practical. Yes, these were acting
| roles but they picked those roles for a reason. Rest in peace,
| Chuck.
| ceejayoz wrote:
| "Deeply principled" really doesn't describe Obama birther
| conspiracists.
| amjnsx wrote:
| He was openly maga and a homophobe and a transphobe. I wouldn't
| consider these qualities for a role model.
| sschueller wrote:
| Many like myself did not know this as a kid in the 80s-90s.
| Some of the movies he made like "sidekicks" left a positive
| impression at that age.
| nazgulsenpai wrote:
| In the 80s-90s his positions would have aligned fine with
| the center left.
| EnPissant wrote:
| Forget the 80s-90s - Even California passed prop 8 in
| 2008.
| rootusrootus wrote:
| Some of them, perhaps. I don't think the center left
| would ever have been into the birther conspiracy.
| nazgulsenpai wrote:
| There were conspiracy theories in the 80s and 90s too.
| sanktanglia wrote:
| There is a huge difference between general conspiracy
| theories and the birther lie which was more racist
| astroturfing than a legitimate conspiracy
| something765478 wrote:
| No, I'm pretty sure they would have. I remember during
| the primaries, Hillary tried to attack Obama by showing
| him in a "Muslim" garment.
| DennisP wrote:
| GP said "these were acting roles." They were talking about
| the characters, not the actors behind them.
| LetsGetTechnicl wrote:
| But then he said he "picked them for a reason" implying
| that he chose those characters based on the characteristics
| he shared with them
| DennisP wrote:
| Whatever the reason, it wasn't because his characters
| were "openly maga and a homophobe and a transphobe,"
| because they weren't. Bruce Lee movies and Texas Ranger
| didn't address those issues at all.
|
| And in spite of his flaws, it's possible that he had some
| good qualities as well, or at least aspired to them. So
| maybe those other qualities were what he looked for in
| the characters he played.
| LetsGetTechnicl wrote:
| Doesn't seem like he aspired all that hard, since instead
| of expressing empathy for people who weren't like him, he
| continued to be a bigot in nearly every aspect. But sure,
| if you were a white cis straight guy I'm sure he was
| perfectly kind.
| raw_anon_1111 wrote:
| I think you forget that Clinton signed the Defense of
| Marriage Act and put in the policy of "Don't ask don't tell"
| and Obama supported it originally.
|
| Of course they both had a change of heart- was it true change
| or they saw the direction of the political winds? Who knows?
|
| I don't know Chuck Norris's views on LGBT. But if he was a
| self proclaimed "born again Christian" and a rabid Trump
| supporter, I can only guess. But I no more expect people who
| were insulted by what he said (which I personally don't know)
| to give him more grace or reverence than I do is a Black man
| who couldn't give two shits about a dead racist podcaster.
|
| Other people no more need to "contextualize" homophobia than
| I feel a need to "contextualize" the racism of a dead
| podcaster.
| ceejayoz wrote:
| > put in the policy of "Don't ask don't tell"
|
| DADT was a significant improvement over the status quo of
| "we ask, you tell, and then you get dishonorably
| discharged". Considering it evidence of homophobia is
| revisionism. Did it go far enough? No. Was it a good step
| towards where we wanted to go? Yes.
| raw_anon_1111 wrote:
| And the Defense of Marriage Act?
| ceejayoz wrote:
| > It passed both houses of Congress by large, veto-proof
| majorities. Support was bipartisan, though about a third
| of the Democratic caucus in both the House and Senate
| opposed it. Clinton criticized DOMA as "divisive and
| unnecessary".
|
| Sure doesn't seem like a Clinton issue?
| raw_anon_1111 wrote:
| Again he still signed it. It's like Susan Collins who
| always has "serious misgivings" about things that her
| fellow Republicans do and then votes the party line
| anyway trying to stay in her party's good graces while at
| the same time not pissing off her liberal constituents
| ceejayoz wrote:
| > Again he still signed it.
|
| It was gonna be law either way; signing it removed a
| political weapon from the folks pushing its passage.
| Arguing this is something _Clinton_ did to gay people is
| counterfactual.
| raw_anon_1111 wrote:
| That's a really poor excuse to sign on to something that
| you disagree with. I would not sign a petition for making
| the "Confederacy Day" law if I lived in Mississippi just
| because it would become law anyway. You have to stand for
| something.
|
| Would you think it was okay if Tim Scott signed such a
| law just so his fellow Republicans couldn't hold it
| against him in the primary? Well actually I wouldn't be
| surprised if he did...
| ceejayoz wrote:
| > That's a really poor excuse to sign on to something
| that you disagree with.
|
| It's a pragmatic excuse.
|
| Not signing changes nothing; clear statements that it's
| bad law; avoid giving the assholes pushing it more
| likelihood of winning the next election.
| raw_anon_1111 wrote:
| A clear statement of it being a bad law is not signing
| it. Should he not do anything that would give assholes an
| excuse to argue with him?
|
| Am I suppose to be okay if he signed a law overturning
| "Brown vs Board of Education" because it would become law
| anyway?
|
| Was the fact that he signed off on executing a mentally
| retarded man because it would show he was "tough on
| crime" just him being "pragmatic"?
|
| https://jacobin.com/2016/11/bill-clinton-rickey-rector-
| death...
|
| Getting back on topic, I don't get to praise Chuck Norris
| because of his anti-racism stances but then dismiss his
| stances against non straight people.
| kelnos wrote:
| > _I don't get to praise Chuck Norris because of his
| anti-racism stances but then dismiss his stances against
| non straight people._
|
| Sure, but I think it's fair to praise people when they do
| good things, and criticize them for the bad that they do.
| That's true fir Chuck Norris, Bill Clinton, Barack
| Obama... anyone.
|
| Totally agree, though, that it's bullshit to think that
| having positive views on some issues wipes away the bad.
| kelnos wrote:
| My charitable interpretation is that it was political
| winds, but possibly not in the way you're implying.
|
| I do believe that Obama was 100% cool with gay marriage,
| but believed it was politically foolhardy to admit that
| publicly and in policy positions, but was able to advocate
| for his true feelings once the political climate changed.
| Still not awesome, but understandable from an electoral
| perspective.
|
| I'm not really sure about Clinton. I would guess he's
| personally in favor of gay marriage and gays in the
| military today, but hard to say what his views might have
| been in the 90s (as I was a teenager at the time who wasn't
| all that interested in politics).
|
| Also on supposedly-liberal people doing homophobic things:
| let's also not forget that California voters banned gay
| marriage statewide in 2008. 2008! And this was a ballot
| measure where all voters got a say, not something passed by
| the legislature.
| phishin wrote:
| Imagine basing your entire opinion on a man about how they
| feel about that other man.
| ryandrake wrote:
| Imagine having a lot of people you once admired and looked
| up to as role models, from actors all the way to even your
| parents, suddenly all within a decade or so take their
| masks off and reveal that they are actually villains.
| saintfire wrote:
| Is it revelatory that human beings having a quality you
| admire aren't the ideal person you projected them to be?
|
| I'd reckon you'd be hard pressed to find a single person
| that matches every quality/belief you imagined them to
| have.
| ryandrake wrote:
| I don't think this is about nit picking some small detail
| that causes them to fail a quality/belief checklist. It's
| not like finding out your hero picks his nose or doesn't
| like chocolate ice cream. When someone goes mask-off as
| MAGA, they are revealing fundamental core beliefs and
| values that totally flip the kind of person you might
| have thought they were.
|
| I have friends and family who I never thought had a
| hateful, cruel, or belligerent bone in their bodies,
| suddenly start acting like totally different people, in
| the span of a few years. This isn't me holding them to
| some purity checklist!
| mindslight wrote:
| Agreed. Additionally, when someone says something
| latently bigoted or hateful, it's easy to just let it
| slide because we all have our failings and societal
| progress is slow. Whereas maggotry is about _openly
| embracing_ those failings, taking on _additional types_
| of failings from other people, and then socially
| validating it all as a purported political movement. But
| the only real thing tying it together is frustration with
| the world culminating in lashing out, which is why when
| they get into power there are no actual constructive
| policies _in any_ political framework [0]. (apart from
| lining the preachers ' pockets of course, and now
| apparently a holy war)
|
| nit: I wouldn't call it "mask off" though, as if it's
| been there the whole time. I'd say it's more like there
| is tiny a kernel of that (and let's be honest, who
| doesn't have this in some form or another?), combined
| with a lack of willpower and critical thinking, that
| causes them into give in to the siren song of easy
| answers from mass-personalized propaganda.
|
| [0] ancap and religious fundamentalism are the only
| frameworks I've been able to find that fit the maggot
| movement, and they're not particularly constructive.
| parrellel wrote:
| "Good People" suddenly going all in on racist rants and
| hard-core misogyny is never going to stop being
| disturbing.
|
| Some of them taught me how to behave!? Did they just not
| believe any of those things?
|
| MAGA is a horrifying movement.
| Applejinx wrote:
| It's an object lesson on how certain historical things
| happened. We go, oh no how could those people have all
| been inhuman monsters? If only we understood what made
| them like that.
|
| And the monkey's paw curls...
| fhdkweig wrote:
| Fred Rogers was the same kind, thoughtful person in
| everyday life as he was when he acted on his show. You
| can watch the congressional tapes of him testifying on
| increased funding to PBS and also testifying on not
| making VCRs illegal.
| kelnos wrote:
| That's a little bit of a false dichotomy, though. I agree
| that it would be rare, even impossible, to find people
| who match every quality I imagined they had.
|
| But some of those failings are forgivable, others are
| not.
|
| Getting genuinely confused about pronouns sometimes:
| forgivable.
|
| Being a loud, public MAGA homophobe transphobe: not
| forgivable.
| cthalupa wrote:
| I stopped being a Chuck Norris fan when I learned he was a
| frequent contributor to WorldNetDaily, that he actively
| campaigned against gay marriage, and that he advocated for
| the theory that Obama was not born in America and saying
| shit like 'Electing Obama will plunge America into a
| thousand years of darkness.'
|
| Him liking Trump was a symptom of his regressive,
| homophobic, and racist beliefs.
| mindslight wrote:
| You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become a
| Faceboot psychosis villain. It's basically the politics
| version of "Why is everything so cold?"
| delabay wrote:
| Save it for reddit
| rishabhaiover wrote:
| A kind person with humility would never say this.
| encom wrote:
| Incomprehensible levels of based.
| canucker2016 wrote:
| from his instagram for his last birthday (
| https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtiSHbETbX/ ) I
| don't age. I level up. I'm 86 today! Nothing like some
| playful action on a sunny day to make you feel young. I'm
| grateful for another year, good health and the chance to keep
| doing what I love. Thank you all for being the best fans in the
| world. Your support through the years has meant more to me than
| you'll ever know. God Bless, Chuck Norris
| arkaic wrote:
| Literally 10 days ago
| fiftyacorn wrote:
| I grew up watching action films in the 80s and 90s. I always like
| Chuck Norris ones as they had a humour and ridiclousness about
| them
|
| Films like Missing in Action ,or delta force where the motorbike
| fires a rocket were just great at the time
|
| I get he had some funny views later in life - but the films were
| a laugh at the time
| boubacardiallo wrote:
| My condolences, he was one of my favorite childhood actor :(
| LetsGetTechnicl wrote:
| Honestly some of the most successful PR ever to paint a
| conservative religious bigoted homophobic freak as simply a meme
| of hyper-masculinity.
| rdiddly wrote:
| They're not that far apart, honestly.
| LetsGetTechnicl wrote:
| That's true. These days it seems the ideal conservative man
| is more like a caveman eating steak off the bone versus a
| thoughtful caring Atticus Finch type.
| Beijinger wrote:
| From Reddit: "I heard that the opening 27 minutes of Saving
| Private Ryan were loosely based on a game of dodgeball played by
| Chuck Norris in 2nd grade." ;-)
| wvlia5 wrote:
| Chuck Norris didn't die, Death chucknorried.
| lschueller wrote:
| Wouldn't be suprised, if he dies back and announces a film for
| next year.
|
| He made it that far in life, that even if you might disagree with
| him on all and everything, you would still like him.
| pcardoso wrote:
| Just like Val Kilmer?
|
| https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/18/val-kilmer-resu...
|
| RIP both...
| ekropotin wrote:
| Clickbait. He is not dead, he just decided to retire from the
| world of mortals.
| Goofy_Coyote wrote:
| Chuck Norris once slapped Pi so hard it became rational for a
| moment.
|
| RIP dude, we'd continue the jokes, may your soul laughs as hard
| as we do.
|
| Chuck Norris once bet 42 is a prime. He won.
| domador wrote:
| Sorry, but these Chuck Norris jokes are more like Bruce
| Schneier facts: https://www.schneierfacts.com/
| ndsipa_pomu wrote:
| I used to love the Schneierfacts, I mean I still do, but I
| used to as well.
|
| They were obviously a bit more niche, but that made them
| funnier to my mind.
|
| > For Bruce Schneier, all zeros of the Riemann zeta function
| are trivial.
| proxysna wrote:
| I remember having a "Chuck" plugin installed on our Jenkins back
| in mid 2010's. Gave me a Chuckle every time i forgot it was
| there.
| dnw wrote:
| Chuck Norris hasn't died, he summoned the death. RIP.
| polothesecond wrote:
| Very cool thread. Middle school jokes and culture wars. I'm so
| glad we don't allow political threads on here and can instead
| bask in the intellectual might of people talking about TV man the
| did/didn't like.
| snerc wrote:
| Walker told me I have AIDS https://youtu.be/pQZX0nzvMag
| Kye wrote:
| He kicked it, but the consequences of his long-standing support
| of the march toward hatred and division linger on.
|
| The section on his Wikipedia page is helpfully succinct if you
| want to understand the basis of my not joining in the japes and
| jokes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris#Political_views
| racl101 wrote:
| Chuck Norris decided to take the final sleep on his own. Death
| tried years ago, but Chuck didn't feel like it.
| u1hcw9nx wrote:
| Chuck Norris promising the USA will have 1,000 years of darkness
| if Obama wins in 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ae9b-B_EQ0
| zorobo wrote:
| Still 986 years to go!
| northlondoner wrote:
| He was a hero in tech and science as well. I recall during my PhD
| studies, we always create new memes on our field that Chuck can
| finish things in no time. In loving memory of Chuck Norris.
| northlondoner wrote:
| The only person that can train LLMs with his mind.
| monista wrote:
| Strange if you never heard about Bruce <s>Lee</s> Schneier.
| esher wrote:
| Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice.
| SeanDav wrote:
| The earth was too scared to have him on it anymore...
| k6hkUZtLUM wrote:
| I remember trade chat (/2) in wow on the Medivh server would
| often turn into Chuck Norris jokes. There were always about how
| bad ass Chuck was. How tough and impossibly manly.
|
| One of my favorites.
|
| Chuck Norris jumped into a lake. Chuck Norris didn't get wet. The
| lake got Chucked.
| encom wrote:
| Trade chat (like /b/) was never great, but one of the first WoW
| addons I developed was designed to filter out garbage like
| this, and make idling with your guildies in Ironforge
| tolerable.
|
| It's funny for a while, in measured amounts, and then it
| becomes tiresome.
| mewse-hn wrote:
| Anal [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]
| jiveturkey wrote:
| Chuck Norris doesn't die. He prepares himself for the next
| battle, with Jeff Dean.
| ferfumarma wrote:
| https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/13/chuck-norris-homophob...
| saltyoldman wrote:
| He'll be missed. I basically grew up on his movies.
| arduanika wrote:
| "Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and
| the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be
| immortal."
|
| -- Chuck Norris
| cwoolfe wrote:
| Chuck Norris died? I didn't think that was possible...
| dark-star wrote:
| Chuck Norris didn't die -- Death just became Chuck Norris
| theandrewbailey wrote:
| Death did not come for Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris came for
| Death.
| yawpitch wrote:
| He hasn't died, he's just moved on to an eternity of roundhouse
| kicking Satan.
| jongjong wrote:
| The headline is incorrect. Chuck Norris didn't die, he
| transcended.
|
| Also, the grim reaper hasn't yet gathered the courage to tell
| him.
| dbacar wrote:
| I even remember the times he was not vintage yet, but the real
| thing. Maybe even watched his famous fight scene with Bruce Lee
| on the cheap cinemas back in the day. Good days. RIP .
| uwemaurer wrote:
| 17 years ago we launched the first "Chuck Norris Facts" app for
| Android (March 2009). It was a big success until end of 2010 when
| Chuck Norris sent his lawyers after us to get the app removed
| from the Android market. Chuck Norris won, we took the app down
| NoSalt wrote:
| What in the Hell could possibly take down Chuck Norris??? We are
| all DOOMED!!!
| teeray wrote:
| Jokes aside, this octogenarian was living his golden years
| enviably. He was summiting peaks last fall, doing 500 lb barbell
| curls, and still sparring in his birthday video just 10 days ago.
| We've all gotta go sometime, but the way Chuck Norris went out
| was the way I'd want to go--able to do it all right up until the
| end. He was a lot of folks' childhood hero, but that title is
| freshly renewed in my eyes. I have new inspiration in my fitness
| endeavors going forward.
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| > 500 lb barbell curls
|
| ?
| teeray wrote:
| https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-2-oV5vk8q/?igsh=MWFtZmR5MHl.
| ..
|
| EDIT: acknowledged. fake.
| threetonesun wrote:
| Those are... very fake weights. Or AI. But probably just
| fake weights.
| pesus wrote:
| He forgot to actually curl it. Like someone else said, the
| weights are almost certainly not actually 500lbs. Even
| elite bodybuilders and strongmen in their prime don't come
| close to curling 500lbs, let alone an old man.
|
| Looking at the video, if it was legitimate, it would be
| 585lbs (6 45lb plates on each side plus a 45lb bar), which
| is even less believable.
| yunwal wrote:
| To be clear, this is 100% a joke.
|
| The world (at least as of a few years ago), was about half
| that weight.
|
| https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/pdklnx/l
| e...
| brailsafe wrote:
| Anyone remember barrens chat?
| Scotrix wrote:
| Chuck Norris doesn't die.
| nasaeclipse wrote:
| Chuck Norris didn't die. He simply moved to a parallel Earth that
| needed him.
| moron4hire wrote:
| My mother told me, "Chuck Norris passed today at 86" and my mind
| immediately went to, "I would never expect him to pass anyone on
| the sidewalk at any slower speed."
| donohoe wrote:
| Chuck Norris doesn't upvote on Hacker News. His presence alone
| sends posts to the front page. No more.
| ncrtower wrote:
| So many commenters here are, or choose to be, completely
| obvlivious to the fact that Chuck Norris was a racist little man
| who decried Obama becoming president, supported Trump through
| both campaigns, and openly hated muslims and gay people.
|
| Yeah, really tough guy.
| tmountain wrote:
| Yeah, I was pretty bummed with how Chuck Norris and Hulk Hogan
| turned out in the end.
| jstrebel wrote:
| Death will soon realize that he messed with the wrong man.
| monista wrote:
| Chuck Norris haven't died, he just went to carry out the Last
| Judgement of God (ant probably torture Satan on the way).
| kelnos wrote:
| I had no idea he was in his 80s (older than my parents would be),
| and that he did Walker, Texas Ranger when he was in his 50s. The
| final episodes aired when he was 61! That's nuts.
|
| Not a fan of him in real life (based on how he portrayed himself
| publicly), but I do find his level of physical fitness even more
| impressive back in the 1990s (and even up until his death), given
| his age.
| aanet wrote:
| From one of my friends:
|
| "Chuck Norris didn't die. Death had a near-Chuck Norris
| experience."
|
| RIP
| DDayMace wrote:
| he's not really dead, one of his morning push-ups just launched
| him into a new universe.
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