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#1043601
Topic
Random Thoughts
Time

Lord Haseo said:

Bingowings said:

Lord Haseo said:

I haven’t smoked a cigarette since December of 2015 and alas I think my streak is at an end. I’ve been craving a cigarette for 2 solid months and after today I’m probably gonna give in.

There is a slight risk of popcorn lung…

Excuse me? What the fuck is popcorn lung?

EDIT:

Happy B-day Ray.

I excuse you http://letmegooglethat.com/?q=popcorn+lung

I hope you had a great day Ray

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#1043112
Topic
If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
Time

I just spent weeks assembling folders of notes, arranging a venue, arranging the catering etc for a training day for ten people and only 4 turned up.
Everyone who couldn’t come, including myself, had what sounds like the same cold strain that Ady has had.
I was sent home and my co-worker (also Bingowings) did the necessary.
I feel like crap.
All that wasted time makes it feel worse.
Brrrrrgggh!
However I have come up with a fun new name for Glasgow… Lululand.

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#1041424
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

RicOlie_2 said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/29/multiple-people-reported-shot-by-gunmen-at-quebec-city-mosque/?utm_term=.593ef8692916

Incidentally, I used to live only mile away from that mosque. No one I know was directly impacted by it, but friends of my old friends lost their father to that shooter. People can’t accuse Muslims of being the sole perpetrators of terrorist attacks anymore.

I grew up in the 70s in the UK so this is not a surprise.

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#1041044
Topic
Favorite Cliffhanger Endings in Films
Time

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars (1977)
The Omen (1976)
Damien Omen II (1978)
Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan (1982)

I though we were supposed to stay away from films where the cliffhanger is resolved in the next movie.

The chain of events for the first two Star Wars films continues to stretch on to this day and the events of Star Trek 2 continue to have ramifications for several films and television episodes over many decades and a number of universes. I agree that the Final Conflict is the last proper film but the story did continue in Omen IV even though I prefer to imagine that it didn’t.

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#1040948
Topic
Random Thoughts
Time

Lord Haseo said:

I haven’t smoked a cigarette since December of 2015 and alas I think my streak is at an end. I’ve been craving a cigarette for 2 solid months and after today I’m probably gonna give in.

If you really must get a nicotine hit use an E-cigarette.
There is a slight risk of popcorn lung but that’s nothing compared to the dangers to yourself and others from conventional smoking.

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#1040735
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

TV’s Frink said:

Has he called her President of England yet?

Presidents tend to get elected.
We have an unelected party leader as unelected Prime Minister to an hereditary monarch.

But I thought your Prime Minister was the leader of the party in the majority in the House of Commons? Isn’t that decided via elections?

Like Gordon Brown before her May wasn’t elected leader. She became leader because Cameron resigned and nobody stood against her. She wasn’t chosen to represent the UK in any context. She was elected as a member of parliament. But yep that’s how we do things.