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Canadian Submariner (retired), Jays fan, long suffering Raiders/Leafs fan too lol!

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@LauraBabcock @nucksjaysnraps Willfull ignorance in behalf of the US

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@Hall_Thomas_ George swung at ball 4 a couple of times

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@BBGreatMoments Dave Stieb

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@JamesTate121 @ProudAFAmerican

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@JesseBarfield29 You blessed us with your play throughout the years. One of our greats and a personal favourite!

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris was born on March 10, 1940, in Ryan, Oklahoma. His father, Ray Norris, was a World War II veteran who drove trucks and drank heavily. His mother, Wilma, worked herself to exhaustion raising Chuck and his two younger brothers on almost nothing after Ray walked out.
Chuck was not the kid anyone noticed.
He was painfully shy. Quiet in class. Never athletic. He tried football in high school and spent most of his time warming the bench. No talent scouts. No big dreams. Just a boy from a broken home trying to disappear into the background.
Then the Air Force sent him to Korea in 1958.
He was 18 years old. Lost. Unsure of himself. Far from home in a country he had never heard of a year earlier. It was at Osan Air Base in South Korea that Chuck first watched local men train in Tang Soo Do. Something woke up inside him. Not just the discipline. Not just the fighting. Something deeper. A sense of who he could actually become.
He earned his black belt. Then another. Then another.
He came home in 1962 with a rank of Airman First Class and a purpose he had never had before. He applied to be a police officer in Torrance, California. While he waited to hear back, he opened a tiny martial arts school to pay the bills.
That tiny school changed everything.
Bruce Lee walked in. Steve McQueen followed. Hollywood came knocking.
But in 1970, life broke him in a way no fight ever could.
His younger brother Wieland was killed in Vietnam. Chuck was 30 years old. He rarely spoke about it publicly. He carried that grief quietly, the way men of his generation were taught to carry things. But people close to him said it never fully left. You could see it in the roles he kept choosing. The soldiers. The rescuers. The men fighting to bring someone home who everyone else had already given up on.
His faith held him through it.
Not the loud, performative kind. The quiet kind. The kind that gets you out of bed when you have no good reason to get up. Chuck spoke about his belief in God the same way he spoke about his brother. Carefully. Honestly. Without a trace of pretence.
By the late 1970s, he was starring in action films that made him a household name. Missing in Action. Delta Force. Walker, Texas Ranger ran for eight straight years and turned him into a global icon. Black Belt magazine awarded him a 10th degree black belt, the highest honour in the martial arts world. He founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do, and the United Fighting Arts Federation has awarded more than 3,300 black belts worldwide.
In 2005, the internet made him a myth.
Chuck Norris Facts spread across the world. He did not create them. But he embraced them with the same quiet grin he had carried since Korea. He wrote his own book of favourites. He appeared on talk shows laughing at himself. A man who had survived real tragedy somehow became the world's favourite joke about invincibility.
Ten days before he died, he posted a video of himself sparring with a trainer in Hawaii. He was 86 years old. Grinning. Punching. Living. He wrote: "I don't age. I level up."
On March 19, 2026, surrounded by his family and at peace, Chuck Norris passed away suddenly in Hawaii.
He is survived by five children. By a legacy that spans martial arts, film, faith, and the kind of quiet grief that only people who have truly loved and lost will ever understand.
From a fatherless, shy boy in Oklahoma to a global legend. From a bench-warmer nobody noticed to a name the entire world knew.
He didn't level up by accident. He levelled up because he never once stopped getting back up.

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@PascallPatrick @ByMHarrington Because his skate was kicked

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@Russ4king @ByMHarrington That is a bone jarring landing. Been through that myself and hope Dahlin is good

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@FrankGugs @mattyports Not totally, saw him slap his stick on the ice after his line gave up a Czechia goal

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

If you’re wondering what an arrogant, corrupt and lying piece of shit looks like.

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@bnicholsonsmith @ShiDavidi Sad, he earned a bump

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@nkinsocal @Feinsand @KeeganMatheson Pay the man, he earned it

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@courtlalonde @Paris__G Story of the leafs is asset mismanagement

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@johnpavlovitz @asmartbrunette1 I hope so, but your system has failed so spectacularly when pressed lately

[Sam ☽ @somegrlsam]

I’m just going to say something to MAGA real quick, and I’m not going to bother arguing with any of you any further. There simply is no point.

I fear that you don’t quite realize what is going on right now because you have a boot shoved so far down your throat that you can’t see what’s literally right in front of you. The government is infringing on your first amendment right, second amendment right, and fourth amendment right. You simply don’t care because you see it happening to people that you don’t like; people that you believe deserve it, and you think that it will never happen to you but you are sadly mistaken.

The government is turning against its citizens and violating the constitution. You are not exempt to that and you will find that out very soon. So, while you may not agree with the people damaging buildings or throwing ice snowballs at Federal agents, or “getting in the way,” you should be on the side of American citizens who are losing their freedoms because that includes YOU wether you believe that or not. The government is not going to spare you because you support them, they don’t know you and they don’t care about you.

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@gator_gum @TheBuckYouWill Bit of column A, bit of column B

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@TheCinesthetic Das Boot!

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@CommonS59577379 @suzamaroo Laughable

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@suzamaroo Agree 💯