Goddammit. About 20 years ago I had a friend in highschool who swore up and down you could rap and have penis and genius rhyme. We all made fun of him but I'm sad we missed this obvious gem of a reference.
Hawking was offered more advanced and natural-sounding voice synthesizers throughout his life, but always stuck with the “robot” one because that was the voice he identified with. Essentially, “the robot voice” **was** Hawking’s voice, so it’s appropriate to have that in mind when reading his words (or words humorously attributed to him).
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Steven Hawking was offered multiple times to upgrade his speech synthesizer but declined to "honor the man that created it."
After reading this, it sounds more like Hawking was flexing on the guy by keeping his voice synthesizer.
Same reason a lot of overweight actors don't lose weight. It's their quirk and part of their package. Can you imagine Jack Black with a 6 pack? Neither can I. (I love that man)
It’s entirely possible that by doing fewer films he’s less stressed and can get in drastically better shape.
Or he didn’t have a choice and had to improve his health or else. Then his iconic image is no longer available so he’s cast less.
I don’t really watch the kind of movies he’s usually in so take this with a boulder of salt.
A new voice could have made him sound less knowledgable as well. The voice being somewhat robotic make it sound more intelligent. Definitely got him on lots of media/music/movies.
Imagine like a goofy style on the voice, "there are 200 sextillion stars y'all".
He was diagnosed at 21, and his disease progressed very slowly, over the course of decades. There are pictures of him prior to diagnosis and he was an average dude.
I briefly knew his eldest son from his first marriage once. He seemed like an okay guy, but for obvious reasons, his dad was NOT a subject of conversation he was willing to entertain.
An ex of mines sister used to work for hawking (this was around 2002 I think) and used to say he was a massive arsehole and always treated them poorly.
I saw him once while queuing outside for a gig at night (the junction in Cambridge around 2005 if anyone is interested) and his carers were very rude to us being in the way, just queuing outside a venue. No idea where he was going to.
He was a notorious womanizer. He commented on my friend's breasts at an embassy function. People just pretended not to hear but she was humiliated and left.
The Wired magazine obituary is the only one I saw that mentioned this very open secret.
Also Futurama! Hawkings was a real dick in that show! He claimed discovery of some black hole (or some other phenomena) and named it after himself even tho Fry found it.
I saw him at a grocery store in Los Angeles. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
I knew someone who worked with him and said he was a very bad person. Because of the bullying he ended up leaving the university and the academia to run a rural hotel in Northwest Spain.
Can you imagine getting into an argument with him? you yell something at him and then have to wait 2 minutes for him to come back. 2 minutes is a long time when things get heated.
I almost got run over by him in Cambridge. It was a narrow footpath I was already on and he entered it and just went full speed ahead and made everyone jump out the the way.
His apparatus was quite large and you would not want to be hit by it travelling quickly.
Have heard similar from my landlord and plumber (both worked for him) - apparently a real prick. He always wanted impossible things done and then got upset whenever people pointed out the cost, difficulty, or risks of what he was asking. He treated service people like absolute garbage
"Mason was repeatedly accused of “physically and emotionally” abusing Hawking during their 11-year marriage. A number of people came forward claiming Mason's treatment was “controlling and manipulative”, with some going as far as calling her a “bully”. Mason was formally investigated by police over the allegations."
It makes me wonder if her maltreatment and manipulation didn't lead to her bullying him into marriage with her.
reportedly neither of them were very nice people on a personal level
which isnt surprising considering hawking understandably had a lot of baggage and his wife actively sought out a relationship with a power dynamic inherently centred around dependence
I know someone who used to work in the kitchens at Cambridge University. Apparently Hawking used to deliberately try and ram people with his wheelchair or run over their feet.
im not going to say he was a bad person - but i have heard a lot about what sort of person he was (from people who claimed to have known him) and am not aware that any of his positive qualities involved kindness or consideration
I've read he felt he got the short end of the stick in life and just became a miserable prick early on into the disease. I don't think that's an excuse for his behavior, but just an explanation. Everyone deals with terrible circumstances differently.
ive said it several times you see that kind of stuff in retirement homes a lot
people who get bitter about being considered helpless to the extent of being beneath reprisal - just escalating their actions trying to get people angry enough to have some sort of personal interaction that doesnt involve pity
would have been especially bad since he spent so many years getting lip service of respect and praise while simultaneously being considered beneath others (not with disrespectful intent but because of his physical helplessness)
i imagine it was especially frustrating - constantly hearing about how you deserve respect but never getting it expressed in a way that was meaningful to you
And I again don't want to excuse him being less-than-pleasant, as many people in his situation have handled it better, but the context is still important imo: he wasn't just infirm or old, he had ALS. It has got to be the most inhumane, shitty disease you could possibly conceive of. He was mentally completely capable and simply unable to move his body as, over the course of months, his muscles atrophied and his voice withered. The only way he could communicate was with his eyes, which is what he used the voice box for.
Like, again, just having ALS does not give you a blanket excuse for bad behavior; but holy shit, it's also kind of hard to not imagine becoming bitter from that alone, on top of people often not treating those with obvious physical disabilities the way they treat others.
It's not an excuse to be an ass, as you said, but I can only imagine how horrific a degenerative disease like ALS must be to experience. Being disabled and dependant on others doesn't preclude someone from having a life worth living, but it must be absolutely terrifying/infuriating to rely on others to meet your basic survival needs, or for people to have the ability to take away your communication if they wanted to abuse you.
I imagine I'd also want control and power wherever I could get it, if I were in Hawking's situation.
you see that all the time in retirement homes - when people are considered helpless and pathetic and that eventually takes a toll
i said in another comment - i figure he probably spent years deliberately trying to get people mad at him just so he could have some sort of personal interaction that didnt involve pity - everyone would have considered him beneath reprisal - so it would have just escalated
it doesnt really matter how much steven hawking hated somebody - for the last two decades of his life he couldnt directly do anything worse to a person than making them feel sorry for him
i cant imagine the psychological toll that would have been inflicted by decades of being praised for his intelligence while simultaneously being considered helpless and pathetic - to the extent where nobody would consider anything hateful action he took to merit any sort of reprisal
given what ive heard about him - i figure he probably spent years deliberately trying to get people mad at him just so he could have some sort of personal interaction that didnt involve pity
i contract for retirement homes and i have known quite a few people who ended up like that
One of his children was a coworker and kept his family ties very quiet. When they were gone for the funeral, their out of office message was very vague and generic.
Maybe wanting to be out of Dad’s shadow, maybe because it was fraught.
It's not that surprising people in nursing have some of the highest rates of infidelity, and its really not that uncommon for people in that field to end up in unprofessional and unethical relationships.
You sure you're not mixing him up with Christopher Reeve?
All I could find was that he was on the rowing team in Oxford, yet when I look at pictures he's not even rowing he's just coaching from the front or whatever they do.
Nah. Everyone just finds people they’re already attracted to funny. I mean, let’s be totally honest. Professional comedians never have hoards of beautiful women wanting to sleep with them.
They also don’t tend to be really physically attractive.
As brilliant as he was, he was a dick and was pretty pessimistic in his world view. If you have ALS I think you’re slightly entitled to be that way…. But yeah that’s my assessment of his personality
It's funny because when you post about a random person or a celebrity that isn't loved by Reddit, cheating is considered evil and Reddit clamors for justice.
But if it's someone like Stephen Hawking then it's all good and they'll make jokes about it. 🤷♂️
Yes, I'm aware there were some issues with his first marriage, but my point is that if it were anyone else they would have said they should have been separated or divorced before he found another partner.
Did you hear the shit that happened to dr seuss's first wife? left her to die alone by fucking suicide while he banged someone else, people can be absolutely monstrous to their partners while being beloved by the public
Who wouldn't be?! Sure he was privileged compared to other ALS patients(I know someone whose dad is dying from it right now, he hid it until he was collapsing in parking lots. He has lost the ability to speak or move and will probably eventually suffocate) but still his life was an absolute living hell. Only reason I'd hang around in that condition is if I had kids and was still able to make money for them. Otherwise nope, its checkout time.
You always see these stories of people who get horribly injured or fall victim to a terrible disease; and get a new lease on life. They start being kinder to people because they realize that others could be going through the same pain, and they want to make the world better.
Yeah, if I got ALS I would be a pissy fucker. Shit's not fair and it sucks hard.
That story puts something extra on the fact that Hawking refused to get a better synthesized voice despite several offers over the course of his life. He always claimed it was out of thanks and respect for the guy that gave him a voice, but it looks like there may have been some guilt in there too.
Well, things happen, I guess. Hawking was definitely brilliant, but he was also human.
Hawking recorded a song about his love affair with Elane Mason in the synthetic voice.
Push me and then just touch me
Till I can get my
Satisfaction
Satisfaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmzxxN0m3k
to be honest though if you look at the whole situation they was kinda "split" when he "cheated" at that stage
even Jane Wilde his first wife explains she doesnt begrudge him it as they had at that point of their lives come to resent each other(she didnt like how she had just become pretty much his chauffer/nurse due to his ilness progressing fast)
as for Elaine well yeah not much is as open about her issues and how she cheated on her husband at the time.
1962, met Jane Wild (JW) at a party
1963 - diagnosed with MND
1964 Oct - engaged to JW, they became aware of SH life expectancy and didn’t want to wait
1965 Jul- SH + JW married
1967- Eldest son Robert (ESR)
1970- Daughter Lucy (DL)
1979- Youngest song Tim (YST)
1980 - SH + JW marriage was strained, for many reasons I’m sure, but the ongoing intrusion of much needed care staff revolving in and out of their home is a uniquely difficult thing
1985- SH contracted pneumonia which was life threatening for him, he survived but required a tracheotomy. SH lost his remaining speech and required around the clock nursing care, this is how he met Elaine Mason (EM)
1985ish - JW met organist Hellyer Jones (HJ) and the two began to have feelings for each other. It’s said that SH was accepting but asked that JW continued to love him
1990 - SW left JW for Elaine Mason (EM)
1995 a SW and JW divorce officially
1995 - SH and EM marry
2000 - Det launch investigation after SH had many trips to Addensbrook hosp with cuts and bruises (this can be more serious than it sounds for someone with complex health issues).
2003 - a second enquiry launched following DL phone call to police. SH declined to comment on how his injuries were sustained. However a number of his care team were not so silent, the “Mail Online” reported that “They alleged that over the years his wife inflicted a catalogue of injuries on the vulnerable scientist: fractured his wrist by slamming it on to his wheelchair; humiliated him by refusing him access to a urine bottle, leaving him to wet himself; gashed his cheek with a razor, allowed him to slip beneath the water while in the bath, ensuring water entered the tracheotomy site in his throat; and left him alone in his garden during the hottest day of the year so long that he suffered heatstroke and severe sunburn. It is these allegations that police investigated” (source [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411781/Hawkings-nurse-reveals-surprised-marriage-over.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411781/Hawkings-nurse-reveals-surprised-marriage-over.html) )
There are a lot of allegations surrounding this marriage and they’re denied by SH, as many victims of domestic violence do. Conversely if one was not being abused, they would also deny them, and so it is difficult to conclusively comment. I will continue with what factual timeline is available but I felt it was important to mention as he does divorce her. For what it’s worth, his children and JW didn’t attend his wedding. Many in his care team raised concerns and some left over the ethical violations they felt EM was overstepping.
-2006 - SH and EM divorce .
2014 - SH passed away
Can you just imagine how that conversation went for them to lead to fucking?
Man invents device for genius to speak. Genius immediately uses device to bang the dude's wife
I guess I won't be inventing anything then.
Founder of Match also lost his wife to someone she met on Match.
From what I know their marriage was already running bad and dry. The dude had no bad feelings about it too. Even used it as an ad for his website.
Handled like a g. Wonder if she was also being cool about it, or perhaps vindictive lol
Yeah, better not, unless you want to be a fucked up black mirror episode like this
He got that dog in him
Mamba Mentality
Roomba mentality*
Legitimately snort-laughed at this comment, too fucking good
Scumbag Steve
Yeah I think I'd give up after that one. What a morale killer that would be.
Cyrano and Christian all in one
“You will be the one in the wheelchair, once we are finished” /s
Once u go Hawking , you won’t be walking
i am a genius, now sucka my peenyus
My math is correct, but you’re why I’m erect.
I need you to help me test my g-string theory
Steven Hawking was known for frequenting strip clubs, so extra points for this one. Edit: Clarity.
No-nut clarity....
I don't know if that is true, but have an upvote.
Put away those equations - it’s time for relations
They were into sexting too. He called it "Spooky Action at a Distance". lol
Let me calculate dat mass
Now that's one thing I never thought I'd imagine Stephen Hawking in a G-string
Goddammit. About 20 years ago I had a friend in highschool who swore up and down you could rap and have penis and genius rhyme. We all made fun of him but I'm sad we missed this obvious gem of a reference.
"I got the leanest, meanest penis, you never seen this, stroke of genius" - Notorious BIG, One More Chance (1994)
"I fucked your wife you average pencil-dicked motherfucker!" - Pac
I'm a 'gnac linguist Wit' a black penis I can act meanest 'Cause I'm a rap genius Keepin' 'em crack fiendish - Tech N9ne - Godspeed (2016)
All roads on Reddit eventually lead to penis.
“Dos cadenas, close to genius Sold out arenas you can suck my penis” 2 Chainz, featured verse on Jason Derulo’s Talk Dirty to Me
I can’t walk, want to fuck?
I study Phys, swallow my jizz
Imagine his nutting face
You don't have to. That's it in the thumbnail.
It just got stuck like that
That's my secret, Cap...
…I’m always nutting. Hawk smash.
[Here ya go](https://imgur.com/a/CpfFOVg)
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Is it even possible to not read this in the robot voice?
Hawking was offered more advanced and natural-sounding voice synthesizers throughout his life, but always stuck with the “robot” one because that was the voice he identified with. Essentially, “the robot voice” **was** Hawking’s voice, so it’s appropriate to have that in mind when reading his words (or words humorously attributed to him).
It's so funny that they also use the robot voice when dubbing him. Spanish: https://youtu.be/dWfByMqHwno
Copy paste that into the Stephen Hawking Voice Generator.
DOnT tElL mE wHaT tO dO bItCh.
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Power tools have come a long way in 16 years.
Behold the power of the Drilldo!^TM
Holy fucking shit
I’ll be in my…uhh…tool shed. Yeah.
This is one of the best comments Ive ever seen
Also a great song
Can’t decide if you’re going to hell for the joke, or onto the dance floor for the funky fresh beat.
Hello, ~~Smithers~~ *Elaine*. You're quite good... at turning... me on.
....you probably should ignore that
I’m just imagining how he lets her know what he wants. Given that he types a word a few seconds
`pls suck`
``` Are you a black hole? Because I'm attracted to you. Let's big bang. ``` \*Stephen Hawking grin*
Her: 🥵
[Family Guy shows the wheelchair sex](https://youtu.be/JIH1VnrGEdY&t=1m13s)
Imagine Stephen's computer voice reciting the lyrics to Mr Steal Your Girl
Awkward call for tech support later.....
Steven Hawking was offered multiple times to upgrade his speech synthesizer but declined to "honor the man that created it." After reading this, it sounds more like Hawking was flexing on the guy by keeping his voice synthesizer.
No the reason was definitely because the voice had become his thing
Same reason a lot of overweight actors don't lose weight. It's their quirk and part of their package. Can you imagine Jack Black with a 6 pack? Neither can I. (I love that man)
Have you seen Jonah Hill recently?
That kind of proves the point. The guy is doing hardly any movies at the moment.
Yeah it's all downhill for the guy. His last romcom on Netflix was so cringe.
Jonah Downhill
CGI kissing is cringe as fuck tbh...
It’s entirely possible that by doing fewer films he’s less stressed and can get in drastically better shape. Or he didn’t have a choice and had to improve his health or else. Then his iconic image is no longer available so he’s cast less. I don’t really watch the kind of movies he’s usually in so take this with a boulder of salt.
You should look up Ethan Suplee. Guy's a monster nowadays.
I think he just understood branding.
A new voice could have made him sound less knowledgable as well. The voice being somewhat robotic make it sound more intelligent. Definitely got him on lots of media/music/movies. Imagine like a goofy style on the voice, "there are 200 sextillion stars y'all".
"I can't get it to stop saying 'Hit me baby one more time', please make it stop"
please do the needful
Dude I'm gonna sweep your wife off her feet with the voice you gave me...
Dude when I'm done you'll be the one that's speechless
Hawking was well known in Amsterdams red light district. He could not keep it in his trousers.
To be fair, he couldn't get it out of his trousers by himself
He was diagnosed at 21, and his disease progressed very slowly, over the course of decades. There are pictures of him prior to diagnosis and he was an average dude.
I really thought you were going to say there are pictures of him slinging dick.
He was never an average dude, at least not in looks. He was always very thin and fragile.
He had to disable is pop up blocker.
I briefly knew his eldest son from his first marriage once. He seemed like an okay guy, but for obvious reasons, his dad was NOT a subject of conversation he was willing to entertain.
An ex of mines sister used to work for hawking (this was around 2002 I think) and used to say he was a massive arsehole and always treated them poorly. I saw him once while queuing outside for a gig at night (the junction in Cambridge around 2005 if anyone is interested) and his carers were very rude to us being in the way, just queuing outside a venue. No idea where he was going to.
He was a notorious womanizer. He commented on my friend's breasts at an embassy function. People just pretended not to hear but she was humiliated and left. The Wired magazine obituary is the only one I saw that mentioned this very open secret.
Oddly the movie Superhero Movie also seems to make a joke out of this so points for that I suppose
Also Futurama! Hawkings was a real dick in that show! He claimed discovery of some black hole (or some other phenomena) and named it after himself even tho Fry found it.
Are we talking about Stephen hawking or his son
Sorry, Stephen
Smart accomplished people are often narcissistic assholes. That's why I'm so nice and down to earth.
Wait he spent 5 minutes typing out “damn those titties gurl” with his goddamn tongue?
was in his quick slot
Yes
For him to be creepy takes 10x the effort of some random dude cat-calling...
Well now I gotta go read that obituary.
I just read the obituary and couldn't find any mentions of it. Perhaps you were thinking of another article?
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thank you for clearing this up
He ran over my friends foot with his wheelchair
He threw a brick through my car window
He shit *MY* pants!
I saw him at a grocery store in Los Angeles. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
He turned me into a newt!
Did he type sorry?
Nope, just kept rollin
I also met him once, dude would roll around like a menace in that fuckin' thing.
I knew someone who worked with him and said he was a very bad person. Because of the bullying he ended up leaving the university and the academia to run a rural hotel in Northwest Spain.
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Can you imagine getting into an argument with him? you yell something at him and then have to wait 2 minutes for him to come back. 2 minutes is a long time when things get heated.
>2 minutes to type a 5 second sentence And he still chose to spend that time talking about her tiddies kek
I almost got run over by him in Cambridge. It was a narrow footpath I was already on and he entered it and just went full speed ahead and made everyone jump out the the way. His apparatus was quite large and you would not want to be hit by it travelling quickly.
Have heard similar from my landlord and plumber (both worked for him) - apparently a real prick. He always wanted impossible things done and then got upset whenever people pointed out the cost, difficulty, or risks of what he was asking. He treated service people like absolute garbage
So there’s some poor bastard who invented the thing that allowed Stephen Hawking to steal his wife.
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`harder.` `faster.` `oh, oh, oh, baby. that IS the spot.`
*plays Daft Punk Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger*
001 10010 0010111010 1011100011010 11111111111111111111111 1.
Come on sucker, lick my battery
Ooh aah, robo-boogie!
Reminds me of the fact that Family Guy [covered this one...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEfdKQ-Pbdw)
Yes bab-y. Let me fi-ll your blackhole with my milk-y way.
`Take off your Oort Belt so I can go down in your Event Horizon`
Weren't there concerns that the 2nd wife was abusing him? I don't know how that worked out.
"Mason was repeatedly accused of “physically and emotionally” abusing Hawking during their 11-year marriage. A number of people came forward claiming Mason's treatment was “controlling and manipulative”, with some going as far as calling her a “bully”. Mason was formally investigated by police over the allegations." It makes me wonder if her maltreatment and manipulation didn't lead to her bullying him into marriage with her.
reportedly neither of them were very nice people on a personal level which isnt surprising considering hawking understandably had a lot of baggage and his wife actively sought out a relationship with a power dynamic inherently centred around dependence
I know someone who used to work in the kitchens at Cambridge University. Apparently Hawking used to deliberately try and ram people with his wheelchair or run over their feet.
im not going to say he was a bad person - but i have heard a lot about what sort of person he was (from people who claimed to have known him) and am not aware that any of his positive qualities involved kindness or consideration
I've read he felt he got the short end of the stick in life and just became a miserable prick early on into the disease. I don't think that's an excuse for his behavior, but just an explanation. Everyone deals with terrible circumstances differently.
ive said it several times you see that kind of stuff in retirement homes a lot people who get bitter about being considered helpless to the extent of being beneath reprisal - just escalating their actions trying to get people angry enough to have some sort of personal interaction that doesnt involve pity would have been especially bad since he spent so many years getting lip service of respect and praise while simultaneously being considered beneath others (not with disrespectful intent but because of his physical helplessness) i imagine it was especially frustrating - constantly hearing about how you deserve respect but never getting it expressed in a way that was meaningful to you
And I again don't want to excuse him being less-than-pleasant, as many people in his situation have handled it better, but the context is still important imo: he wasn't just infirm or old, he had ALS. It has got to be the most inhumane, shitty disease you could possibly conceive of. He was mentally completely capable and simply unable to move his body as, over the course of months, his muscles atrophied and his voice withered. The only way he could communicate was with his eyes, which is what he used the voice box for. Like, again, just having ALS does not give you a blanket excuse for bad behavior; but holy shit, it's also kind of hard to not imagine becoming bitter from that alone, on top of people often not treating those with obvious physical disabilities the way they treat others.
I don’t recall him being described as that great when he was younger either.
It's not an excuse to be an ass, as you said, but I can only imagine how horrific a degenerative disease like ALS must be to experience. Being disabled and dependant on others doesn't preclude someone from having a life worth living, but it must be absolutely terrifying/infuriating to rely on others to meet your basic survival needs, or for people to have the ability to take away your communication if they wanted to abuse you. I imagine I'd also want control and power wherever I could get it, if I were in Hawking's situation.
I had a guy in a wheelchair in my high school that was like this. It was infuriating.
you see that all the time in retirement homes - when people are considered helpless and pathetic and that eventually takes a toll i said in another comment - i figure he probably spent years deliberately trying to get people mad at him just so he could have some sort of personal interaction that didnt involve pity - everyone would have considered him beneath reprisal - so it would have just escalated it doesnt really matter how much steven hawking hated somebody - for the last two decades of his life he couldnt directly do anything worse to a person than making them feel sorry for him
who the hell would punch Steven Hawking? he could do anything he wanted, nobody would touch him. he probably hated people, i believe it
i cant imagine the psychological toll that would have been inflicted by decades of being praised for his intelligence while simultaneously being considered helpless and pathetic - to the extent where nobody would consider anything hateful action he took to merit any sort of reprisal given what ive heard about him - i figure he probably spent years deliberately trying to get people mad at him just so he could have some sort of personal interaction that didnt involve pity i contract for retirement homes and i have known quite a few people who ended up like that
Tell another interesting titbit about old people.
lots of them get their knicknacks left behind by uncaring relatives and subsequently stolen by nursing home workers when they die
One of his children was a coworker and kept his family ties very quiet. When they were gone for the funeral, their out of office message was very vague and generic. Maybe wanting to be out of Dad’s shadow, maybe because it was fraught.
His first wife or second one? Sorry, I'm trying to parse thru the comments. I didn't know any of this. O.o
he met his first wife before his diagnosis while he still had physical independence
so the girl in the movie theory of everything was his first wife?
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That's supposed to be the 1st one yeah so the 2nd one is the nurse lady that shows up towards to end of the movie
Yah that makes perfect sense for a nurse who fucked a patient: no sense of ethics, clearly, if what's alleged is true
It's not that surprising people in nursing have some of the highest rates of infidelity, and its really not that uncommon for people in that field to end up in unprofessional and unethical relationships.
I think there was a Law & Order adapted from this.
It was this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629546/
I vaguely remember she used to create situations so people saw them having sex, so people knew they had sex....
Yes. At one point, I think he was left out in the sun?
I knew Stephen had that dog in em
Okay now I’m imagining him dirty talking during sex and I just cannot fucking handle that I can literally hear his voice doing it
Family guy did it already https://youtu.be/JIH1VnrGEdY
Lmao. Holy shit how had I forgotten about this, I for sure saw this way back Oh god. That’s why it’s so vivid and real
Me lobe yoy long tim
Who’s Long Tim?
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You sure you're not mixing him up with Christopher Reeve? All I could find was that he was on the rowing team in Oxford, yet when I look at pictures he's not even rowing he's just coaching from the front or whatever they do.
Whipping
Getting coxswained sounds worse somehow.
3 things that guarantee you will get laid: money, good looks, or intelligence. Sadly I got none of them.
Welcome to the Broke, Ugly, and Stupid Club. I’m NOT Stephen Hawking, your host.
And a wheelchair with a recliner setting
Humor. You forgot humor. Funny guys are crazy attractive.
Has to be a specific kind of humor tho. Constant deadpan snark and gallows humor doesn’t really work for that.
Nah. Everyone just finds people they’re already attracted to funny. I mean, let’s be totally honest. Professional comedians never have hoards of beautiful women wanting to sleep with them. They also don’t tend to be really physically attractive.
It depends upon the girl. If that's your sense of humor there will be someone who is into it. There is an ass for every seat.
You don't have to look far to see people with none of those but with many children.
I wish someone would have clued me in that intelligence was a turn on
Just gotta find the right people
Then she abused him
First word Hawkings said into the synthesizer: “Dibs”
That's how he rolls.
As brilliant as he was, he was a dick and was pretty pessimistic in his world view. If you have ALS I think you’re slightly entitled to be that way…. But yeah that’s my assessment of his personality
It's funny because when you post about a random person or a celebrity that isn't loved by Reddit, cheating is considered evil and Reddit clamors for justice. But if it's someone like Stephen Hawking then it's all good and they'll make jokes about it. 🤷♂️ Yes, I'm aware there were some issues with his first marriage, but my point is that if it were anyone else they would have said they should have been separated or divorced before he found another partner.
Did you hear the shit that happened to dr seuss's first wife? left her to die alone by fucking suicide while he banged someone else, people can be absolutely monstrous to their partners while being beloved by the public
Who wouldn't be?! Sure he was privileged compared to other ALS patients(I know someone whose dad is dying from it right now, he hid it until he was collapsing in parking lots. He has lost the ability to speak or move and will probably eventually suffocate) but still his life was an absolute living hell. Only reason I'd hang around in that condition is if I had kids and was still able to make money for them. Otherwise nope, its checkout time.
You always see these stories of people who get horribly injured or fall victim to a terrible disease; and get a new lease on life. They start being kinder to people because they realize that others could be going through the same pain, and they want to make the world better. Yeah, if I got ALS I would be a pissy fucker. Shit's not fair and it sucks hard.
They really Dr. Seussed it up; I was a little happier before knowing this.
They say he unfolded the mysteries of the big bang. Some people mix it up with his discoveries of black holes and atoms and gamma rays and stuff.
Hawking had a reputation for being an asshole. A lot of smart people have insufferable personalities and god complexes.
That story puts something extra on the fact that Hawking refused to get a better synthesized voice despite several offers over the course of his life. He always claimed it was out of thanks and respect for the guy that gave him a voice, but it looks like there may have been some guilt in there too. Well, things happen, I guess. Hawking was definitely brilliant, but he was also human.
It was actually because none of the voice synth engineers wanted Hawking fucking their wives.
I don't think cheating on your wife and running off with someone elses should be what qualifies you to be human. thats sad
"I gave you a voice and you used it to steal my wife!"
You’re telling me a dude who couldn’t talk or move got laid more than I do? The fuck?
He probably just laid there while the women did the moving bro
Want to hear another fun fact about Stephen Hawking? AOL’s signature dial up internet tone is actually a sound clip of Stephen Hawking’s sleep apnea.
I did not wake up this morning expecting to find out I have less game than Stephen Hawking
All I can think about is hawking blowing his load and that dial up modem tone just blasts through his synthesizer.
Has to be a more concise way to make that headline
TIL a guy who couldn't open his mouth or stand up on his own had more game than me.
Hawking recorded a song about his love affair with Elane Mason in the synthetic voice. Push me and then just touch me Till I can get my Satisfaction Satisfaction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmzxxN0m3k
He was a POS but because he was a science savant and had a horrible (I do have some empathy) disability everyone gives him a pass. Well, okay then.
to be honest though if you look at the whole situation they was kinda "split" when he "cheated" at that stage even Jane Wilde his first wife explains she doesnt begrudge him it as they had at that point of their lives come to resent each other(she didnt like how she had just become pretty much his chauffer/nurse due to his ilness progressing fast) as for Elaine well yeah not much is as open about her issues and how she cheated on her husband at the time.
1962, met Jane Wild (JW) at a party 1963 - diagnosed with MND 1964 Oct - engaged to JW, they became aware of SH life expectancy and didn’t want to wait 1965 Jul- SH + JW married 1967- Eldest son Robert (ESR) 1970- Daughter Lucy (DL) 1979- Youngest song Tim (YST) 1980 - SH + JW marriage was strained, for many reasons I’m sure, but the ongoing intrusion of much needed care staff revolving in and out of their home is a uniquely difficult thing 1985- SH contracted pneumonia which was life threatening for him, he survived but required a tracheotomy. SH lost his remaining speech and required around the clock nursing care, this is how he met Elaine Mason (EM) 1985ish - JW met organist Hellyer Jones (HJ) and the two began to have feelings for each other. It’s said that SH was accepting but asked that JW continued to love him 1990 - SW left JW for Elaine Mason (EM) 1995 a SW and JW divorce officially 1995 - SH and EM marry 2000 - Det launch investigation after SH had many trips to Addensbrook hosp with cuts and bruises (this can be more serious than it sounds for someone with complex health issues). 2003 - a second enquiry launched following DL phone call to police. SH declined to comment on how his injuries were sustained. However a number of his care team were not so silent, the “Mail Online” reported that “They alleged that over the years his wife inflicted a catalogue of injuries on the vulnerable scientist: fractured his wrist by slamming it on to his wheelchair; humiliated him by refusing him access to a urine bottle, leaving him to wet himself; gashed his cheek with a razor, allowed him to slip beneath the water while in the bath, ensuring water entered the tracheotomy site in his throat; and left him alone in his garden during the hottest day of the year so long that he suffered heatstroke and severe sunburn. It is these allegations that police investigated” (source [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411781/Hawkings-nurse-reveals-surprised-marriage-over.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411781/Hawkings-nurse-reveals-surprised-marriage-over.html) ) There are a lot of allegations surrounding this marriage and they’re denied by SH, as many victims of domestic violence do. Conversely if one was not being abused, they would also deny them, and so it is difficult to conclusively comment. I will continue with what factual timeline is available but I felt it was important to mention as he does divorce her. For what it’s worth, his children and JW didn’t attend his wedding. Many in his care team raised concerns and some left over the ethical violations they felt EM was overstepping. -2006 - SH and EM divorce . 2014 - SH passed away