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In defense of Jesse james

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#1 · (Edited)
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/wayoflife/03/24/tf.defending.jesse.james/?hpt=Sbin

Ladies, gentlemen, and trolls of the jury, I stand before you to defend a humble motorcycle mechanic who made some very poor life choices. Jesse James allegedly committed adultery, betraying the trust of his betrothed, a wealthy woman who cares for his child from another marriage. The claims that such a union has been threatened, if not wholly wasted, is punishment enough. But no, this man must suffer death by a thousand bitchy little Internet comments.


Jesse James has enough troubles without having to absorb the paranoid rage of millions of women convinced that every man is a cheater. Whenever some rich, famous guy reportedly gets linked to a tacky sex scandal, the rest of the male gender pays a price. We're not all cheaters. We're not all threatened by women who are more successful than we are. We're also not all entitled to think that we're somehow exempt from basic moral choices.
Sometimes I think our entire society needs one big collective hobby. Just a group activity to calm our nerves. We're all so angry. Seriously, what do we have to be so angry about? My supermarket sells eight different kinds of salsa. Whatever.
I'm going to stand up for Jesse James. Here it goes: mind your own business. His alleged tacky affair has absolutely nothing to do with you. It's not about you. Your boyfriend is not going to run off with excessively tattooed succubus -- and if he does, then somebody is getting a better deal than the other.
Instead of working out your Post-Romantic Trauma Stress Disorder on a total stranger who happens to have 99 problems (and a lady is directly or indirectly every single one), give the universe a rest from your negative vibes. Pity the guy.


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As a guy who has been married for nearly 20 years, (mostly happily) I find it incrediblle that people judge this guy they never met. Isn't marriage a private arragement?
I honestly do not get it. Jesse is not a preacher , or a role model for kids. He's a motorcycle mechanic. And he used his penis in a way that was not sanctioned by a church? And people who have never met him are truly upset about this? Wow! Why? Isn't it completely absurd? Or is it just a way to get free publicity? I read somewhere that Sandra Bullock is right now negotiating on a movie deal and now her name is everywhere.

I mean its a good excuse to post some lascivious pictures, sure. Why not? But a scandal?
 
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#2 ·
Fiddling while Rome burns

Just another in the endless list of examples of the media keeping the idiot public occupied while the multinationals run our country into the ground and send young people to die for profits.

A disclaimer: I think Jesse makes the best chops and I have been following him since the first Motorcycle Mania. And in every interview or appearance, he seems reasonably articulate, down-to-earth, and intelligent, and he seems to share my sense of humor, and I think he'd be a great dude to have a beer with. I do not use him as a moral compass, but I thought it was really cool that he refused to use his friends or wife to bring money to all the events on the Celebrity Apprentice. Jesse is an entrepreneur--he doesn't need an apprenticeship. The guy started a motorcycle shop in his garage in high school and now he's a millionaire--how many of the Donald's business entities have gone bankrupt? Anyway, he's a welder, not a preacher.

That out of the way, let's pretend for a minute that it's everyone's business because they are celebrities--that they asked for it. Your recourse if you don't like Jesse's antics is to refuse to buy his products. Done.

And I'm sick of these US Magazine-reading housewives talking about how he's a neo-Nazi because of some ridiculous picture surely taken in a moment of jest (whether in good taste or not). If you handed me an SS hat, I would likely throw up the Heil sign, too. Is that in good taste? No. But I certainly hold no anti-Semetic beliefs. In the same situation, would everyone reading this immediately get a look of disgust on their face, suitable for photographs, and throw the hat (or whatever it was) on the ground? I even read a comment that said he "dresses like a skinhead". Are you kidding me? Ironically, he dresses like a Mexican in SoCal, not even close to a skinhead. Jesse said on Motorcycle Mania (long before all this and long before he was crazy rich) that his spread in Easyriders was the first to feature a model of color, and when he got all kinds of hate mail for it, he sent a subscription of the "urban" version of Playboy to all the haters. He also said if he was racist he would never have made it--look at his website--there are hardly any white people on it!

Dude may have cheated on his wife, no more, no less.

Hey, look, public, a shiny object!:shocked
 
#3 ·
I can honestly say that I'm not surprised that marriage falied. And not just because of it being in Hollywood.

I kind of scratched my head when they first got married because they truely are opposites. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. It seemed to me like the pretty, popular girl (Bullock) fell for the rebel (James) and then was shocked when the rebel dispalyed bad behavior. It's like the credits didn't stop at the end of the movie and they didn't live happily ever after.

Also, I don't really know about Jesse James. I think he has some talent but he also seems like a narcissistic d-bag. I'm just judging him from the few episodes of Monster Garage I watched like 8 years ago, so I could be wrong.
 
#4 ·
I have never thought Sandra Bullock was very attractive...

This chick he cheated on her with would be more attractive if she didnt have a huge tattoo on her forehead...




I have a thing for tattooed chicks...I think Kat Von D is hot and my wife has lots of ink...;):D

All that said...people that cheat suck...no matter who they are cheating on/with...why anyone would care if Sandra Bullock got cheated on escapes me...
 
#5 ·
I don't understand anyone's obsession with celebrity. I don't care what their beliefs, opinions or sexual desires are. That's between them and their friends and loved ones. I apply that to Jesse James, Tiger Woods, Valentino Rossi etc.
 
#6 ·
So What!

I could care less about the personal lives of two people that I don't even know. It's sad that we as a society feel that we need to live vicariously through the lives of people whom we have never met (and most likely never will). Turn off the television, read a book, go live your own life!
 
#7 ·
I personally could give a rats arse what happens to Mr. James....he was a dirt bag prior and after marrying Sandra. He was married two times already before marrying Sandra. I was surprised that she would stoop so low and marry the bum. The tatooed (woman) who he had the affair with just shows his poor judgement. She looks like a commercial for STDs. :D The best thing for Sandra is to run llike the wind and not look back.......
 
#8 ·
1. No one knows what there relationship was like, we don't know them personally at all, we don't know what they get up to privately, its up to them.
2. He married her for richer, for poorer, etc etc.
3. He shouldn't of shared his love around, if he'd truly loved her, he wouldn't of done it, no excuses, your in relationship, you love one another, talk.....
4. Your in the public eye, be discreet, or your arse will be kicked.
5. Do I care, No, I don't know them, its sad when any marrage fails..........I hope they can work it out.
 
#9 ·
Speaking of tats, I haven't got any, I've have been thinking about a couple though. I'm old enough that my skin has probably given up the ghost so anything I get done, isn't going to look like a puzzel in a few yrs. Just need to find a decent place in the UK now.
 
#26 ·
Tatts.



Ive got several tatts and its all down to good technical skills on the part of the tattooer,

I have some large Celtic type tattoo,s a cross and a griffin amongst others that are very involved and quite fine . There has been zero
blurring or fading as they are in traditional black and grey and
done by a girl that came highly reccomended.

To get your work done by an expert is very little dearer its just that you may have to wait for them. Try to get a time daytime midweek as saturdays and nights are usually peak hour.

Tattoos last best when maintained with specialist creams and
not exposed unduly to wind and sun.

I personally find some ( as opposed to lots of ) tattoos on women quite a turn on the same as some women like a hint of danger in there men.

Anybody that still sees tattoo,s as the province of crims and sailors needs to join the 21st century.
 
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While I don't mind tattoos on a woman, that looks ridiculous. I often wonder what all of these people with 1/3 of their body covered by tattoos will look like when they are 90-years-old and hooked up to an oxygen machine in an old age home. Weird is my guess.

Of course, I'll probably be yelling at my grandkids to get my Megadeth, Motorhead and Celtic Frost albums for me when I'm 90, so I guess that will be weird, too.
 
#14 ·
You really have to be a certain mentality for that to do anything...I just asked hubby would ya...........he said not a fecking chance........doesn't do a thing for him..........phew thank goodness!!
 
#16 ·
Rose I agree with your hubby....if my Mrs. scarred her body with that crap....the only thing it would do is have me make a lawyer appointment for divorce proceedings. She has a swatstika on her back as well. That is just plain disgusting......:ThumbsDown:Tongue2:ThrowUp
 
#15 ·
I guess I just wonder why everyone feels they understand other peoples marriages. I barely understand my own. for example, a few years ago, my buddy was cheating in his wife. I came down on him and I was the ONLY one of the guys to tell him to put family first. but he explained to me (and I found out from others) that his wife had basically gone crazy, alchoholic, abusive , all that. He told me he was losing his mind- being a young healthy guy and having no sex for months on end and wife totally blotto drunk. The actual divorce was just a formality, but they waited until the younger kid was ready to graduate high school before they split.

My point technically he cheated - but in fact the real situation was more complicated. Only a couple of close friends knew the real deal.


Who can judge other people's marriages? its too private to really know..

and no - the tatooed chik does nothing for me either...
 
#32 ·
We should all mind our own buisness and not worry about this kind of stuff. People love to see others involved in in this kind of tabloid garbage. We have generated a need for this type of news. Put more effort into the real issues at hand than to worry about Jesse James
 
#39 ·
leftarmlogan; said:
I often wonder what all of these people with 1/3 of their body covered by tattoos will look like when they are 90-years-old and hooked up to an oxygen machine in an old age home. Weird is my guess.
Honestly , Tattoos arent going to make a difference at 90 ! With all the sun spots, blemishes, wrinkles, scars, and saggy paper thin skin.
Just hope to hell you got people that love you near you; cause chances are your going to look weird to most anyway ! :eek:
 
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