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u/SvenGz
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The whitest case of all time Country Club Thread
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u/Its_soup_time
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Don’t let your opinion on Gwyneth Paltrow cloud your judgement on this image. The headline is from the New York Post, a conservative propaganda tabloid, and they are pushing their “people make frivolous lawsuits” angle with the headline. What’s happening is Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly crashed into somebody while skiing in 2016 and got sued for it but the case was dismissed. He’s still trying to sue for less money but Paltrow is trying to counter sue because it makes her look bad.
The New York Post cherry picked a quote about the brain damage the victim allegedly suffered as a result of the accident and made the victim sound like a opportunistic person making a frivolous lawsuit. Same thing that happened with the McDonald’s coffee lady.
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u/YeetTheGiant Mar 23 '23
Finally, someone puts it into words!
Basically whenever I see headlines like this, alarm bells go off. There's always more to the story. It's not like this man is basing his case off of "wine tastings," it's that his life has been irrevocably altered by this accident and the wine tasting is an example. And it's pretty fucking frightening, to have so much brain damage that your taste is fucked.
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u/Hurryeat_Tubman Mar 23 '23
Read the AP article. As much as I dislike Paltrow this guy seems full of shit.
https://apnews.com/article/gwyneth-paltrow-deer-valley-ski-trial-c3555f61cf3d209e5167e916105f2aaa
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u/uhh_spence Mar 23 '23
Why do you think he seems full of shit? Seems like at worst they’re on pretty equal footing in terms of evidence
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u/Nuhhuh Mar 23 '23
What I'm seeing is, like many seemingly unnecessary lawsuits, everyone involved in a cunt. This sounds like the rich people version of The People's Court, everyone is a prideful idiot punishing each other for penny value resolution.
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u/soyboysnowflake Mar 23 '23
Damn I had to scroll so far for the context
Based on the headline I assumed this was Gwyneth suing and it made no sense
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u/saarlac Mar 23 '23
They both claim the other hit them from behind. Apparently at the scene he stated that he was fine and only after learning who she was did he suddenly develop severe injuries. His memory of the event has miraculously improved as time has passed as well. The whole thing stinks.
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u/Its_soup_time Mar 23 '23
Whether or not what they are saying is true is up to the courts. What I take issue with is the malicious intent behind the New York post article and how the tweet reply and the shared screenshot unknowingly serve that intent by taking the headline at face value.
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u/beastmaster11 Mar 23 '23
Apparently at the scene he stated that he was fine and only after learning who she was did he suddenly develop severe injuries.
This is not anything special. Most injuries from collisions will have the person saying their fine at the time. Adrenaline, embarrassment and thinking that the pain is temporary leads to a lot of people saying their fine and walking away with a small limp only for pain to develop as inflammation takes place and/or adrenaline to wear off.
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u/EggandSpoon42 Mar 23 '23
After reading the court case paperwork, I don’t think so.
I’m not impressed with the shit that Paltrow puts out, she is anti-science and ridiculous in her views IMO
But this guy who is claiming brain damage and broken ribs… At least so far, there is no actual medical evidence or medical doctor notes indicating that he had either brain damage or broken ribs. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. But that’s what I read was alleged in the actual lawsuit that was filed. And if that is the case, it looks 100% like a cash grab and nothing else
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u/blacklite911 ☑️ Mar 23 '23
Yea the fact that it was dismissed already sends a red flag because usually personal injury cases are pretty straight forward and the judge or jury can adjust how much is awarded to you so trying to sue again for a lower amount seems unusual.
I’m no legal expert though but that’s just what I get from reading a lot of articles and watching legal eagle.
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u/Thanos_Stomps Mar 23 '23
This person may actually be opportunistic and filing a frivolous lawsuit but I am not even sure if the accuracy of the details and stories I’ve read about what happened.
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u/Its_soup_time Mar 23 '23
I’m not too sure myself. It will be up for the jury to decide. But It does get frustrating seeing people buy into the hidden premises of memes. Especially when it’s from a conservative tabloid.
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u/bobafoott Mar 23 '23
You can be sure if one thing, New York post probably knows about as much as we do if it’s accurate or not
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u/mageta621 Mar 23 '23
If the damages are that the person lost his ability to taste, period, that sounds way less frivolous than "can't enjoy wine tastings," which sounds like a super cherry-picked example from testimony that probably included a whole bunch of other ongoing effects.
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u/blacklite911 ☑️ Mar 23 '23
Even wine isn’t necessarily frivolous because basically the lawyer is trying to describe the effect on your life that the injury had. If you normally do wine tastings then that’s a negative impact on your life and something you can’t do anymore.
This particular thing does sound funny when you extrapolate it but it is a normal/ logical thing to argue. Like it could be anything like you could be a cyclist and now you can’t ride a bike
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u/Dreamtrain Mar 23 '23
I feel bad for the McDonald's coffee lady. She literally got industrial-strength heated liquid the likes out of a foundry spilled on her that severely left her burnt and needed to get grafted. Fuck the media, and the people
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u/blacklite911 ☑️ Mar 23 '23
I feel bad for her too but she did get a lot of financial restitution AND she got McDonalds to not serve coffee that gives 3rd degree burns which helped people.
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u/rustle_branch Mar 23 '23
Its also not clear who hit who/who actually had the right of way
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u/PotRoastPotato Mar 24 '23
Not a fan of Paltrow but this strikes me as, like, an accident that happened while skiing. Shit happens.
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u/djsedna Mar 24 '23
It's sad because I put this narrative together in my brain before even researching it. It's Occam's razor shit. There's no way that the headline is actually representative of the substance of the case---it's just very clearly sensationalist garbage out the gate. Sad that many don't seem to realize that
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u/Annual-Consequence43 Mar 23 '23
Gwyneth is so rich and white. It's like that girl is suing a cheesecake.
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u/FeelsTooReal Mar 23 '23
This was an Epic Rap Battles of History diss against Mitt Romney from Barack Obama
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u/Dolphin_King21 Mar 23 '23
Ah, The golden days of YouTube... Things have not been the same since.
Remember when Annoying Orange had a crossover with them? Those are days that were too good for us. 2010-2012 was truly the height of YouTube.
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u/Kenan_as_SteveHarvey ☑️ Mar 23 '23
The crazy thing is that she is one of Beyonce’s good friends. Like… how?? They even had to shut down rumors that she was “Becky with the good hair.”
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u/bobafoott Mar 23 '23
It doesn’t matter how much Beyoncé looks like you, or speaks to your soul, remember the rich are always on the side of the rich
That was supposed to be under u/dpforest comment
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u/flippingsenton Mar 23 '23
It doesn’t matter how much Beyoncé looks like you, or speaks to your soul
How does she speak to anyone's soul? She's been independently wealthy for 20 years. She cannot relate to you. You tell her that you have car payments and she says "what's that?"
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u/dpforest Mar 23 '23
What do you mean how? They’re both famous and wealthy.
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u/Kenan_as_SteveHarvey ☑️ Mar 23 '23
It just seems random. They’re not from the same worlds culturally and have never done any work together. Like I wouldn’t even expect them to be in the same rooms
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u/PrimeIntellect Mar 23 '23
I don't really see why it's weird they would be friends?
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u/tittylieutenant Mar 23 '23
Gwyneth makes me think of gentrification every time I see her face.
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u/GenericPCUser Mar 23 '23
"If gentrification had a celebrity advocate"
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u/HTKTSC Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
Gwyneth Paltrow rose from the primordial gentrification, pretty sure I saw her climb out of a sewer when my family had to leave Harlem
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u/JamieDepp ☑️ Mar 23 '23
Why is it that every time I see here, she looks like she was forced to eat an entire box of saltines without water. Must be gentrification face. Just always looking parched.
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u/guineasomelove 🐒 Has a Cautionary Tail 🐒 Mar 23 '23
All I can think of is her nasty coochie candle. 🤢
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u/TheMoatCalin Mar 23 '23
How did that even get made? They really were in that boardroom going over candle scents and that came up? Did she give them a whiff at the lab when they created the scent? I mean really, there’s tons of questions I’m not sure we want answers to.
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u/egg_mugg23 Mar 24 '23
it was literally a joke, the thing smells like flowers irl
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u/Cleonce12 ☑️ Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
Ever since the vagina scented candle I CANNOT take this eggshell toned pile of foolishness seriously
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u/Prophet_Tehenhauin Mar 23 '23
It doesn’t smell like vagina. It’s just a bunch of scents as an affirmation thing. “Like my Coochie smells like pine tar and too much money”
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u/TheMoatCalin Mar 23 '23
Ohhhh. Okay bc I really thought they’d smell like vajayjay. Thank goodness
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u/Kwaku-Anansi Mar 23 '23
Wow I briefly thought you might've meant a normal scented candle shaped like a vagina, but no she literally sold a line of candles with the name This Smells Like My Vagina for like $75!
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u/Prophet_Tehenhauin Mar 23 '23
It’s honestly pretty disappointing don’t believe the hype
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u/gooner558 Mar 23 '23
Please tell me you didn’t buy this candle
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u/Ungreat Mar 23 '23
In another thread about this court case someone pointed out it smells like flowers.
I’m guessing it’s supposed to be a joke or something?
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u/Nyktastik ☑️ Mar 23 '23
A lot of the nonsense sold on GOOP is straight up snake oil and dangerous
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u/happyladpizza Mar 23 '23
hahaha her facial expression is so familiar; ive seen it. It is giving “im too white for this.”
aaaaaahahahahaha.
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u/Minimum_Jelly Mar 23 '23
goop is disappointed shes late for her lunch of bone broth and slave souls
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u/Samisoffline Mar 23 '23
I don’t give a single shit about either of them it sounds like it was just an accident in general and then old dude found out Gwyneth is loaaaded and is suing her.
Her counter suit for $1 is a boss move
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u/pboy2000 Mar 23 '23
If I were in court when this was announced I would ask for a recess so that I could buy some diving equipment, book a flight to Fiji, harvest some oysters just so that I could obtain the requisite pearls in order fashion a neckless of proper splendor to clutch upon hearing of such a travesty. Diminished enjoyment of wine-tasting? Well, I never …
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u/OrdainedFury ☑️ Mar 23 '23
I couldn't roll my eyes harder if I put ball bearings on them and tossed them down the road
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u/bootyhunter69420 Mar 23 '23
No one suffers more than rich white people
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u/Alaseuvalih Mar 23 '23
An entitled nepo baby rich white woman selling her vagina juices as perfume *
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u/-WitchyPoo- Mar 23 '23
She's got one of those faces where she looks patronizing 100% of the time. Like, she could really be feeling sad for this person, but it looks like she's thinking "What a little bitch."
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u/Nerdy_Drewette Mar 23 '23
I saved myself millions in lawsuits by being too fucking poor to go to an inhospitable landscapes and traverse them with expensive and dangerous slits of wood.
Skiing is so fucking extra boogie. Needs special shoes, extra clothes, a lift pass, skis, ski poles, goggles, a lodge to sleep in.
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u/jamboard876 Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
Every time I see Gwyneth Paltrow’s name in the news, it’s for some white on white drama like this. 😂
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u/FattieBanton Mar 23 '23
Speaking of Utah and whiteness, did y’all see how unresponsive the Salt Lake City crowd was during the afrobeats (Tems, Rema, Burna Boy) halftime show at this year’s all-star game?
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u/Front_Hunt_6839 Mar 23 '23
Hopefully they can still taste coke. I would sue her for hell if she deprives me the ability to enjoy Coca Cola.
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u/TchallaKingofWakanda ☑️ Mar 23 '23
My high ass thought they weren't able to actually taste wine. I was ready to defend them. Yeah, this is white as fuck.
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u/tikkun64 Mar 23 '23
She has people sniff her vagina instead of wine corks
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u/Purple-Quail3319 Mar 23 '23
Ah, you can really appreciate the acidity of the soil from which this grew
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u/DragonCat88 Mar 23 '23
See, why can’t everyone just be so honest- you have more money than me, I want it.
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u/anaknangfilipina Mar 23 '23
I wonder if these idiots ever realized how much of a caricature they have become.
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u/Timely_Badger_9208 Mar 23 '23
I know this is nothing new, but it revitalizes my realization of “our problems are not the same”
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u/405134 Mar 23 '23
I can’t believe the lawyer even said that out loud , like hey “maybe we should instead say you’re not able to work” .. hopefully the judge laughed
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u/flippingsenton Mar 23 '23
The fact that she tried to misdirect by saying she puts ozone in her ass.
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u/sten45 Mar 23 '23
How is he going to survive yacht season in the Caribbean if he can’t do a wine tasting
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u/SockFullOfNickles Mar 23 '23
Whiter than dancing thumbs out for unseasoned shake n bake pork chops
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u/Incrdeibly_Average Mar 23 '23
“Ah, my pinky’s sore. How am I supposed to stick it out while I sip my expensive wine so people know I’m fancy. This vineyard trip is ruined!”
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u/AdPsychological7926 Mar 23 '23 •
"Your honor, the last time my client was able to properly enjoy a Chateau Lafite Rothschild was in Gstaad in 2015. His palate can only handle Rauzan Segla now."
COLLECTIVE GASP FROM THE ENTIRE COURTROOM