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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] 79 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Texas ranger indeed

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Also the Texas Rangers have always been a gang of racist scum bags who have a history of atrocities. That tv show turned them into Heroes

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Came here to say this. Fuck the Chuck

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Yeah the cute Chuck Norris jokes wore out years ago, probably around 2016 when he went full Maga

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I remember at the height of the Chuck Norris memes, there was a small effort to change it to Vin Diesel.

Vin isn't a piece of shit, too, is he? 🤔 Cuz it might work now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are we 100% sure he isn't one of the guys from Right Said Fred?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

He wasn't on there when they played on Last Week Tonight

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Conan O'Brien got the Chuck Norris fad started with a sketch he'd do where he'd interrupt boring interviews with a lever that would play clips of Walker Texas Ranger.

After that the internet ran away with it, but yeah it's a meme as old as time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Other way around, it was Vin Diesel before it suddenly became Chuck Norris.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was actually Conan O'Brien who started the Chuck Norris craze and people online ran with it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Conan started a segment where he played a clip from the show Walker. Completely unrelated to the line of jokes.

The “facts” Jokes came from Something Awful and was about Vin Diesel, it got changed to Walker later on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, something awful writers are not surprisingly late night fans. They saw what Conan was doing with Walker, and they ran with it. Chuck Norris was already a forgotten nobody in 2005, it's not like he just popped back into the lexicon out of nowhere. Conan reminded people of Chuck's cheesy badass schtick, and after that the jokes rolled in. Vin diesel jokes were getting old so they replaced him with Chuck

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's so very internet for Chuck to become the coolest meme for a hot minute and then everyone realizes what a POS he is. Kinda surprised to see more of it going around!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He's got a new movie called Agent Recon. At age 84. Expect more memes to come soon.

https://www.firstshowing.net/2024/chuck-norris-fights-back-in-sci-fi-action-film-agent-recon-trailer/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've seen a lot of bad acting in my life. I have never seen anything that bad. Chucko is giving Seagal a run for his money, or is running for Seagal's money. Maybe both. Either way, the trailer was offensive. I can't imagine how much money it took to put the film together and how many children died of starvation that could have been fed instead of making that piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Damn. I didn't even bother watching the trailer, I just looked it up for a reference link.

Is it even worth wasting my time to watch the trailer?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's 50/50 for me.

A: I don't want to give the algorithm any reason to promote the film to others that may be interested in the other things that I am.

B: It's a train wreck. There is a morbid curiosity.

Weigh your options and make your choice. I'll usually try to find a way to bootleg truly awful movies, but I won't even bother with this one. It actually made me angry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ah, I'll take your word on it then. Option A it is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Too bad he turned out to be a maga-shithead. The meme lost every single last drop of potency.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now we need a Chick Norris, then the circle of life will be complete.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Gina Carano?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Same vein of conservative nutjobs. Perfect!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Eh, maybe, if she had a beard.. 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Maybe she IS a beard.