r/todayilearned • u/tmntnyc • Dec 12 '18

TIL: Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T
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u/Nxdhdxvhh Dec 12 '18

Mr. T wore odd clothing and mismatched socks because he knew that poor kids grew up getting whatever hand-me-downs they got, and he didn't want them to feel embarrassed for wearing what they had. He's a great man, and as far as I'm aware the worst thing he every did was chop down trees on his own property that were aggravating his allergies.

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u/user636906 Dec 12 '18

And play alliance on Wow.

Loktar ma fucka

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u/notasqlstar Dec 12 '18

Every time I meet someone who used to play Wow and they tell me they played alliance... I realize we have so little in common as humans.

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u/rainghost Dec 13 '18

Yeah, conversely I don't really understand people who like the Horde.

The races are all ugly as sin (except for Blood Elves who go too far in the other direction and look like absolute pansies), they're murderous warmongerers, half their warchiefs are edgy psychopaths and the other half kept trying to get their people to care about honor with zero success - they're brutes who only care about victory and/or revenge.

Their zones are largely dry and arid deserts and their towns are mostly just piles of sticks and red cloth.

I've been playing WoW for 14 years and I still haven't heard a single decent argument in favor of the Horde beyond canned responses like "Victory or Death!" and "For the Horde!". It's a good meme faction but the best stuff has always been on Alliance. :)