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  1. - Doing The Lambert Walk

    - Doing The Lambert Walk Well-Known Member

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    Enjoy. <laugh>

    [video=youtube;h3-jlITgfu4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3-jlITgfu4&feature=youtu.be[/video]
     
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  2. Onionman

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    Six months ago.

    Anyways, if you're going to execute people at all (and I generally don't approve) the way to do it that's (a) guaranteed to work and (b) painless is to replace the air in a gas chamber with pure nitrogen. Extremely pleasant way to go and never fails. No human being, regardless of physiology, can survive it.

    Vin
     
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  3. MMJ

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    thom yorke has just released an album on bittorrent out of the blue, as you do
     
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  4. tomw24

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  6. Jose Fonte baby

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  7. Onionman

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    Possibly not. From that article: "Medical studies have not reported evidence of a substantial surge in cancer rates to those connected to 9/11"

    If thousands of people do something (e.g. respond to an emergency) then many of them will die of cancer many years later.

    I'm afraid that if the people who attend the QPR game tomorrow are a cross-section of the English population (heroic assumption, but working out the age distribution of Saints fans attending games is a bit tough), around 2600 of them will die over the next ten years. Doesn't make attending football matches a notable cause of death.

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  8. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    I'm sure supporting Saints is tough on the heart...will test this tomorrow :)
     
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  9. Cove

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  10. Qwerty

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    True story. I went to the 9/11 museum in the summer, if anyone's been you'll know there's a memorial section - big wall of 3000 faces, battered fire helmets, random pocket litter, that kind of stuff. I was interested to see a British driving licence and (old) £20 note in a case, then pretty amazed when he was from Southampton, I had no idea. There was a surreal moment where I held my driving licence next to his, both with SO15 post codes.

    Anyway, on the way out I was hanging around waiting for some of the rest of our group so I googled him. Some of his mates had put the tributes from his memorial online, in amongst the usual drinking stories and other shenanigans it turned out the guy and me had done the same degree at Soton uni (he got a distinction, I did not). Spent the rest of the weekend walking around with my jaw somewhere around the floor, felt a lot like he was the 10 years older version of me

    What's the point of this story? Mostly to get it off my chest. Seeing the twisted up bits of metal and folded fire trucks helped a lot, but I don't think I reeeeeally got it until right then.
     
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    Life can touch you sometimes Qwerty. It shows you're human and sound like a good one.
     
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  12. Onionman

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    Whenever I see or hear anything of those attacks I think of a friend of mine who was in New York having breakfast before going to a meeting high up in the North Tower. She heard a racket and went outside as debris started hitting the floor near them.

    I think it was the first time I'd ever really realised that news happens to ordinary people just like you and me. Your story reinforces that.

    Vin
     
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  13. Beef

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    Of course medical study won't report supporting evidence. People could end up sueing if they agreed the people dieing after 9/11 from cancer etx.
     
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  14. Onionman

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    You're right, if there's no conspiracy, invent one. Get the medical profession to work in league with ... erm ... someone vaguely identified who might be sued... in order to fake there being no unusual number of cancer victims.

    Occam's razor says that isn't happening, as, amongst many other things, you have to invent a conspiracy between people with no shared motivation.

    Vin
     
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  15. Beef

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    Yep governments have never covered up anything before have they. I'm just saying it is weird that so many people became ill after helping or trying to help out. Who knows what the World Trade Centers were made of. I'm not a conspiracy crazy, I can just not rule it out.

    Beefy
     
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    Sorry but it's too much of a coincidence that so many firefighters and others helping at the scene have become ill. The air was full of toxins.
     
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  17. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Some interesting stuff on Later with Jools tonight. Just in case anyone else was watching...
     
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  18. Sotonist

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    probably got ill from all the kittens they were petting as their sole occupation before and after 9/11
     
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  19. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Who featured..? Can always watch retrospectively on the iPlayer
     
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