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Nooooooooooo! This just isn't right, unless this turns out to be the episode in which Robin is disemboweled by hordes of animatronic rodents which, due to an unfortunate programming error, tragically mistake the real "actor" for the stunt dummy they're meant to consume.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Nooooooooooo! This just isn't right, unless this turns out to be the episode in which Robin is disemboweled by hordes of animatronic rodents which, due to an unfortunate programming error exceptionally good bit of programming, tragically mistake the real "actor" for the stunt dummy they're meant to consume.
FIFY
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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why disturbing? it a defense mechanism by mayweather (he probably had a death threat)
to protect himself he got Bieber to walk next to him, no assassin would pass up the oppotunity to off Bieber giving Mayweather a chance to escape
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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It's the only explanation that makes any sense.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I gave up reading at the second line, when it became obvious that the author was smoking some serious crack:
Chris Matyszczyk wrote: And, hey, he can sing.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Why not? Ben Affleck is going to play Batman...If they are giving up on the franchise might as well go all out and toss everything out.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I remember being outraged (about as outraged as I can get anyway) that Michael Keaton was going to play Batman. That turned out OK.
Of course, there is always the counter example[^].
The people at Marvel must just be laughing their heads off. They can get two Thor movies (I'm assuming the second one will be a success) and a frigging Guardians of the Galaxy movie made, but DC can barely keep Batman and Superman going.
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The people at Marvel must just be laughing their heads off. They can get two
Thor movies (I'm assuming the second one will be a success) and a frigging
Guardians of the Galaxy movie made, but DC can barely keep Batman and Superman
going.
Putting it that way, makes you wonder what they are doing over there that no one will stay around? So now they are drawing from the bottom of the acting pool (at this point sounds more like they are in the toxic waste pool)
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I've done it so many times!
* This dude[^] however, definitely gets points for originality
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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The trick is to do it only once.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Indeed!
That's the reason for the selected Message Type in the post
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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Did you follow the links? £10 a pack for cigarettes in Oz! And I thought the UK £7:50 a pack was expensive...
Mind you, I gave up nine years ago, so it doesn't bother me, but still...
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For about 30 years now every govt in Oz has felt it is perfectly safe to whack a tax hike on smokes, and booze, although that one bites them when they get too greedy. Smokes have been fair game and the nanny state that Oz govt has become delights in "it is for your own good" and stump up the price again.
Like you I managed to give up a decade ago, I think once you get to a certain age and realise you are actually mortal you get the will power to give them up. Or maybe I'm just too miserable to pay the price!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I gave up because I got bored with being controlled by cigarettes and my need for them, instead of it being the other way round. I wasn't enjoying them, I needed them - so after twenty years I moved to the patches. Not saying it was easy - it wasn't, particularly - but I believe that unless you actually want to give up you won't succeed. And "These are getting ludicrously expensive" just isn't sufficient justification.
It was interesting to see that very little encourages people to stop: when my mother died of the Big C a few years later (after a lifetime of heavy smoking) as soon as people got outside the crematorium they lit up...
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Griff wrote: and my need for them ... instead of it being the other way round
So ... you had an aspiration that the cigarettes will need you in what way?
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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Without the smoker, cigarettes have no purpose in life.
This is quite likely to result in depression, and even cigacide...
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I know!
It happened to one of my best friends' cigarette
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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very true, gave up 30 years ago for 8 years then started back and this time i quit abot 4 years ago.
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"The only way to win is not to play." -- WOPR
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Canny Brisk wrote: I've done it so many times!
It was actually Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens that originally said
Quote: Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.
It was somewhat remarkable in that he died in 1910 and therefore said it decades before society figured out the dangers of smoking.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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This is from 1892;
Cigarettes have been analyzed, and most physicians and chemists were surprised to find how much opium is put into them. A tobacconist himself says that the extent to which drugs are used in cigarettes is appalling. Havana flavoring for this same purpose is sold everywhere by the thousand barrels. This flavoring is made from the tonkabean, which contains a deadly poison. The wrappers, warranted to be rice paper, are sometimes made of common paper, and sometimes of the filthy scrapings of rag pickers bleached white with arsenic. What a thing for human lungs.
The habit burns up good health, good resolutions, good manners, good memories, good faculties, and often honesty and truthfulness as well.
Cases of epilepsy, insanity and death are frequently reported as the result of smoking cigarettes, while such physicians as Dr. Lewis Sayre, Dr. Hammond, and Sir Morell Mackenzie of England, name heart trouble, blindness, cancer and other diseases as occasioned by it.
Leading physicians of America unanimously condemn cigarette smoking as one of the vilest and most destructive evils that ever befell the youth of any country, declaring that its direct tendency is a deterioration of the race.
Look at the pale, wilted complexion of a boy who indulges in excessive cigarette smoking. It takes no physician to diagnose his case, and death will surely mark for his own every boy and young man who will follow up the habit. It is no longer a matter of guess. It is a scientific fact which the microscope in every case verifies.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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That is one industrial strength marketing program, 120 YEARS later and they are still able to convince people to start smoking without being lynched for attempted murder.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Okay, but the major hazard identified here seems to be the opium, arsenic and other additives, and the tone of the info seems to be similar to various snake oil merchants of the time. I don't believe it was common knowledge in those days that cigarettes were as harmful as we now know.
There are many people nowadays claiming various things in all directions about global warming, gun ownership, national debt, and numerous other things that will require time to sort out the facts from the nonsense. We don't seem to have consensus on these issues that should be a fairly straightforward analysis.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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